Multiplex communications inventions 10/06

20060239176 - Method and apparatus for processing a return path signal: A method and apparatus for processing a return path signal transmitted from a user device is described. In one example, an apparatus receives, and subsequently decodes, a return path signal that is transmitted from a user device. From the decoded signal, the type of user device transmitting the return path...

20060239177 - Communication unit and method of channel estimation in an ofdm communication system: A method of channel estimation in a wireless orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a signal in the time domain and applying a Fourier transform to the received signal to obtain a frequency domain signal including a plurality of sub-carriers. Then, the method...

20060239179 - Initial parameter estimation in ofdm systems: A coarse estimate of a location of an information carrying part of a symbol in a received signal in a telecommunication system is generated. This involves generating correlation values by correlating the received signal with a delayed received signal. A maximum correlation value of the correlation values is identified, and...

20060239180 - Method and system for introducing frequency selectivity into transmissions in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing network: A method of introducing frequency selectivity into transmissions in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing network is provided. The method includes generating a symbol. A plurality of delayed symbols are generated based on the symbol. The delayed symbols are transmitted from multiple transmit antennas. The symbol delay values may be different...

20060239181 - Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system with superframe synchronization using correlation sequence: There is a superframe stored by a storage media in an OFDM communication system including an interleaver. The super frame includes a of an integer N+1 OFDM symbols. Each OFDM symbol in the superframe of OFDM symbols comprises a plurality of data points. Selected OFDM symbols in the superframe of...

20060239178 - Reduced complexity channel estimation in ofdm systems: A channel response estimate is generated from a received signal that comprises two or more different pilot carriers in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communications system. This involves, for each of the carriers, determining a rotation amount that is at least in part a function of a frequency separation...

20060239182 - Decoding using walsh space information: Methods and apparatus to improve the speed and reliability of decoders are presented herein. Namely, a priori knowledge of Walsh space information is used to increase the speed at which messages are decoded. In systems where control messages contain transmission parameters of concurrently transmitted packet data, a faster demodulation and...

20060239183 - Power over ethernet management devices and connection between ethernet devices: In one embodiment, a connection is maintained between a pair of ethernet ports that have circuitry connected in series with the ports and receiving power-over-ethernet (PoE) from one of the ports, by providing a controllable bypass circuit coupled to the pair of ethernet ports in parallel with the circuitry receiving...

20060239187 - Facilitating wireless spectrum migration: Migrating from a legacy spectrum allocation to a target spectrum allocation can be accomplished by adding new access points and, at a selected time, activating the new access points and deactivating the legacy access points with a remote network manager. Alternatively, the new access points can initially support legacy channels...

20060239185 - Method and apparatus for adaptive control of system parameters for admission control: Methods and apparatus are provided for improving an admission control system using feedback control techniques based on a system performance measure. Generally, one or more performance metrics, such as system output error measurements, are fed back into the admission control system to adjust one or more system parameters and thereby...

20060239184 - Method and apparatus for quality-of-service-based admission control: Methods and apparatus are provided for QoS-based admission control (QBAC). The disclosed QoS-based admission control techniques use QoS parameter measurements. An admission control request for a call on a path in a packet network is processed by obtaining performance data for the path; and predicting a performance of the call...

20060239188 - Providing a quality of service for various classes of service for transfer of electronic data packets: A quality of service for various classes of services for the transfer of electronic data packets is provided by establishing classes of packets for a customer and for assigning bandwidths to the classes for the customer. Accordingly, the amount of bandwidth for one type of service may vary from the...

20060239186 - System and method for providing hotline and preemption features in real-time communications using presence and preference information: A communications system for providing hotline and preemption features in real-time communication sessions includes a presence server for collecting presence and preference information for a presentity and a communications manager for handling requests for communication sessions with the presentity. The presence information includes availability of devices of the presentity, and...

20060239192 - Calculations for admission control: The present invention relates to on-line admission-control decisions. Specifically, the invention concerns general delay bounds for both deterministic and statistical cases for Differentiated Services (DiffServ) networks. More specifically, a detailed method of calculation in each case is followed by simpler methods of calculation that are more appropriate for on-line admission-control...

20060239189 - Call control: Described herein is a method of controlling call admission for packet switched networks, each network including at least two local area networks (50, 60) and a connecting network (70). The method comprises determining success rates of previous calls from a first local area network to a second local area network...

20060239191 - Method for sending and receiving data: A method for sending and receiving data is provided. The method for sending data comprises the following steps. Firstly, monitor a network connection that transmits data and then check whether the network connection has a bandwidth reservation request. If the network connection has no such request, use the remaining bandwidth...

20060239190 - Policy-based device/service discovery and dissemination of device profile and capability information for p2p networking: A discovery framework model includes policy information in the device/service discovery protocols. Service discovery protocols are enhanced by embedding policy information in the over all discovery framework. A method of performing policy-controlled device/service discovery includes modeling a device/service discovery protocol with a state machine either at a gateway or at...

20060239193 - Data traffic separation method for use in a packet-oriented mobile radio network: The invention relates to a data traffic separation method for use in a packet-oriented mobile radio network. According to said method, data traffic arising in an access node of the mobile radio network and consisting of a plurality of layer 2 connections comprising a plurality of data flows each is...

20060239195 - Method and apparatus for dual-mode application update protocol: A method of distributing a set of data, such as a software application update, to a plurality of nodes in a network. Also, devices, systems and networks for implementing the method. The nodes can be any computerized devices, but computerized medical devices used in nurse call systems are particularly relevant....

20060239194 - Monitoring a queue for a communication link: To monitor a queue for a communication link includes monitoring available space in a virtual channel (VC) queue for a communication link. A comparison of the available space in the VC queue relative to another VC queue for the communication link is made. The comparison is communicated to an arbiter...

20060239196 - System and method for performing load balancing across a plurality of servers: Various systems and method are disclosed for selecting a destination server from a plurality of servers, the method comprising: receiving an incoming packet; identifying a stream of bits from within the incoming packet; calculating a signature from the identified stream of bits; mapping the incoming packet to the destination server...

20060239197 - Flower-petal resolutions for pnrp: The claimed process and system provides a resolution process for a multi-level cache resolution protocol that involves a lookup procedure whereby the initiating node contacts each intermediate node directly using a communication link separate from any previous intermediate node. The resolution process may involve caching information from each contacted intermediate...

20060239198 - Simulating time-varying conditions in a wireless network: Time-varying conditions in a wireless network are simulated using an architecture that includes an enclosure for shielding a wireless device under test (“DUT”) from electromagnetic interference, including other wireless devices; and at least one of: (1) a communications traffic generating device operable to generate communications traffic having selected characteristics; and...

20060239199 - Active probe path management: A technique manages paths taken by probe packets sent from a source to a target of a computer network. The novel path management technique enables each probe packet i) to be transferred onto a path of the computer network via a specific exit at the source, ii) to be returned...

20060239201 - Active probe target management: A technique manages targets to which probe packets are sent from a source of a computer network. The novel target management technique dynamically selects an optimal set of valid targets for a particular (monitored) prefix of the computer network. Specifically, one or more targets are selected from a pool of...

20060239203 - Lightweight packet-drop detection for ad hoc networks: In packet-drop attacks in ad hoc networks, a malicious network node chooses to selectively drop packets that are supposed to be forwarded, which results in adverse impact on application good-put and network stability. A method and system for detection of packet-drop attacks in ad hoc networks requires network nodes to...

20060239202 - Method and apparatus for determining the location of a node in a wireless system: A location technique is utilized where channel-model parameters are originally estimated prior to location taking place. Location then takes place using a first set of known-located nodes, and the channel-model parameters are updated based on the distances resulting from the location estimate. Once the channel-model parameters have been updated, location...

20060239200 - Network presence status from network activity: A system for monitoring connectivity status includes network traffic transport entities and an aggregation server. The network traffic transport entities transport network traffic and are able to monitor a portion of the network traffic, access one or more network traffic alert rules, apply the network traffic alert rules to the...

20060239204 - Method and apparatus for measuring network data packet delay, jitter and loss: A device for measuring network performance in an Internet protocol (IP) network including a counter generating a send sequence number representing a relative send timing indicator for a data packet sent to a respondent network address. The counter generates a receive sequence number representing a relative receive timing indicator for...

20060239206 - Apparatus and method for network identification among multiple applications: A method of identification used for communication within a network includes generating a network identity associated with a user, modifying the network identity according to a user preference to create a modified network identity, identifying the user with the modified network identity within a first network communication for a first...

20060239207 - Combined load balancing for overlay and ad hoc networks: The present invention relates to a method and system for balancing load in a network environment comprising at least one ad hoc network and at least one overlay network, wherein at least one wireless mobile node of the ad hoc network is selected as a head node for collecting transmission...

20060239205 - Method of call routing: The invention is directed to methods and apparatus for call routing. The invention particularly relates to routing of calls, such as emergency calls, which are routed based on the location of a mobile subscriber in a cellular wireless network. The method comprises the steps of: at a first network node,...

20060239210 - Subsystem for cartographic analysis of analysis data with a view to optimizing a communications network: A subsystem for use in a system (OO) for optimizing and/or managing and/or supervising a communications network including network elements (C1-C3) with known geographical positions through which passes traffic defined locally by analysis data is dedicated to analyzing analysis data (D). The system comprises, firstly, an interface (I) adapted to...

20060239209 - System and method for achieving zero-configuration wireless computing and computing device incorporating same: A system and method for enabling a zero configuration nomadic wireless and wired computing environment presenting a just works experience is presented. The system examines predefined user preference or profile settings to determine to which of a competing number of wireless networks available it should connect, and what type of...

20060239208 - Wireless device discovery and configuration: A wireless device that desires to be connected to a wireless network broadcasts itself and its capabilities to a network using an information element. The information element is provided with frames, such as management frames, in a channel that is not protected or encrypted. The information element is forwarded to...

20060239211 - Method and apparatus for constructing a forwarding information structure: A method of constructing a forwarding information structure for forwarding data in a data communications network comprising as components and links therebetween comprises the step, performed at a constructing node, of detecting a component change. The method further comprises the step, performed at a constructing node, of assessing the extent...

20060239212 - Management of missing conference invitees: A system for managing an ongoing conference provides a conference management system that enables contact with missing conference invitees during a conference. The system can identify one or more missing conference invitees, identify communication addresses for the missing conference invitees, and contact the missing conference invitees during a conference....

20060239213 - Block ack protocols for wireless packet network: Circuits, methods, and apparatus that reduce overhead and channel bandwidth required for data reception acknowledgment. One such system uses an enhanced block acknowledgment that acknowledges frames received for different data streams. Another system sends an acknowledgment after the occurrence of a triggering event, such as the end of a duration,...

20060239214 - Assigning physical channels of a new user service in a hybrid time division multiple access/code division multiple access communication system: A method for assigning physical channels to time slots in a hybrid wireless time division multiple access/code division multiple access communication system begins by providing physical channels for assignment. A set of time slots is provided for potential assignment. The set of time slots is arranged into a sequence based...

20060239215 - Architecture optimized for application data sharing within a mobile communications device: The present disclosure discloses a scheme for sharing data among multiple applications within a mobile communications device. The scheme involves performing a remote database inquiry with respect to a remote database accessible via a wireless packet data service network, wherein the remote database inquiry is performed as part of a...

20060239216 - Cross-layer self-healing in a wireless ad-hoc network: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for improved self-healing in a mobile ad-hoc wireless network in which network communication functions are divided into a plurality of functional layers. The system utilizes cross-layer self-healing techniques. Network data from at least one of the functional layers is stored, for example in a...

20060239217 - Low power transmission provisioning for wireless network devices: A process for secure, safe, and easy provisioning of a wireless device with credentials to connect to a wireless network. A connecting wireless device and an established wireless device both utilize low power transmission at close proximity to exchange wireless connection setting information and/or a password. The connecting wireless device...

20060239218 - Clock-based replay protection: Nodes in a network include a pseudo-timestamp in messages or packets, derived from local pseudo-time clocks. When a packet is received, a first time is determined representing when the packet was sent and a second time is determined representing when the packet was received. If the difference between the second...

20060239219 - Application signature based traffic classification: A method for identifying traffic to an application including the steps of monitoring communication traffic in a network, identifying data from communication traffic content, and constructing a model for mapping the communication traffic for an application derived from data identified from the communication traffic content is described. A related system...

20060239222 - Method of providing cooperative diversity in a mimo wireless network: Disclosed is a method of providing cooperative diversity in a Multiple Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) wireless network including a source station, a relay station, and a destination station each for transmitting a plurality of streams through multiple antennas, the method including: decoding, by a relay station, a plurality of streams received...

20060239220 - Reducing beacon slot acquisition time in distributed media access control network: A first beacon slot is selected by a wireless communications device in a repeating time interval. Accordingly, beacons of the wireless communications device are transmitted during the first beacon slot. However, when an announcement of the first beacon slot selection of step is not received from a remote device within...

20060239221 - Storing, sending and receiving text message threads on a wireless communication device: A mobile communication device uses a condensed text message store wherein individual messages of a thread are stored in such a manner that the thread can later be reconstructed for display. By storing individual messages rather than thread objects including duplicative content, device memory is conserved. Network bandwidth can also...

20060239225 - Channel selecting method of wireless local area network using remote scanning and wireless local area network system thereof: A channel selecting method for a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) using remote scanning and a WLAN system thereof is disclosed in which a wireless environment is comprehensively discriminated to select an optimum channel by information. The information is obtained from stations of each node (STA) in a wireless network...

20060239223 - Method and system for bluetooth and wireless local area network coexistence: A method of transferring data between an access point and a station in a coexistent wireless local area network (WLAN) during a period that falls between successive Bluetooth (BT) slots, in which the access point response time may be relatively short or relatively long. A system for a coexistent WLAN...

20060239224 - Method of configuring a cell of a wireless communication system for improved resource utilization: At least one base station of a wireless network adjusts its access area so as to drive at least one measure of utilization of a resource or resources of that cell toward, but not to exceed, a specified maximum level. The adjustment is dynamic in that it responds in real...

20060239226 - System and method for channel estimation in a delay diversity wireless communication system: A method of controlling downlink transmissions to a subscriber station capable of communicating with a base station of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) network. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a first pilot signal from a first base station antenna; receiving a second pilot signal from a second...

20060239229 - Combined handover of the circuit-switched (cs) and packet-switched (ps) resources: The problem of synchronization of the handover of the CS and PS resources to the same target cell during DTM handover is solved without affecting the performance of the CS handover. The mechanism of synchronizing the handover of the PS and CS resources is supported by the following functions: (1)...

20060239228 - Handover function testing method and spectrum spread mobile communications system: At least a mobile terminal 10, base station radio apparatuses 20a and 20b that communicate with the mobile terminal 10, and a radio base station control apparatus 30 that controls the transmission powers of the base station radio apparatuses 20a and 20b are at least provided. When a handover function...

20060239230 - Load redistribution method and system for reducing interference in a wireless network: A wireless network in which wireless terminals associate with particular access points maintains information about the positions and associations of the terminals and calculates loads on access points. To provide increased bandwidth at a heavily loaded access point, terminals associated with adjacent access points are handed over to more distant...

20060239227 - Method and system for notifying 1xev-do system of switching from 1xev-do system to 1x system: The present invention comprises: a hybrid access terminal, operating in both a 1× mode for being provided with a low-rate data transmission service from a 1× system and a 1×EV-DO mode for being provided with a high-rate data transmission service from a 1×EV-Do system, periodically switching over to the 1×...

20060239231 - Method for enhancing voice call reception rate in mobile communication terminal: A method for enhancing a voice call reception rate in a mobile communication terminal is provided. Voice call reception is enhanced by selectively limiting idle handoff generation by setting idle handoff occurrence conditions to be more difficult if an idle handoff from the first base station to the second base...

20060239232 - Apparatus, and associated method, for selecting codes of a code set for coding data communicated during operation of multi-access communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for designing codes to be used to code data that is communicated in a multi-access communication system. A selected code is designed, based upon an initial code. The selected code that is designed is of characteristics that best optimize channel differentiation to minimize interference between...

20060239233 - Transmitter, transmitting method, receiver, and receiving method for mc-cdma communication system: A reception step receives a multicarrier signal containing subcarriers, at least one of which a synchronization signal is transmitted therein, multiplied only by a synchronization signal spreading code, a correlation detection step detects correlation values between the received multicarrier signal and replicas of the synchronization signal, and a timing detection...

20060239234 - Application programming interface for discovering endpoints in a serverless peer to peer network: Methods are described that facilitate presence publication which may include authorizing publication of presence at a first endpoint, if the publication is authorized, assembling a presence data structure, and broadcasting the presence data structure from the first endpoint. The method may also include the presence structure including a friendly name,...

20060239235 - Authorizing a mobile node for service: Authorizing a mobile node for a service includes receiving at an enforcement point a session initiation invitation from the mobile node. The session initiation invitation comprises an authorization token and a session initiation object. Whether the mobile node is authorized to access a service is determined in accordance with the...

20060239237 - Hybrid arq schemes with soft combining in variable rate packet data applications: A system and method for transmitting high speed data on fixed rate and for variable rate channels. The system and method provides the flexibility of adjusting the data rate, the coding rate, and the nature of individual retransmissions. Further, the system and method supports partial soft combining of retransmitted data...

20060239236 - Wireless communication apparatus, communication system and method of configuring wireless communication therein: It is made possible to designate erasure or updating of the communication parameters. If configuration information of a party has not been stored in a storage unit, then the configuration information of the communicating party apparatus is requested, the configuration information transmitted from the communicating party in response to the...

20060239239 - Random access method for wireless communication systems: A method is disclosed for establishing wireless random access communications between a base station and multiple mobile terminals. The base station first configures one or more uplink random access opportunities based on predetermined time and frequency variables, and then broadcasts the opportunities. The base station keeps monitoring the uplink random...

20060239238 - Techniques for facilitating communication handoffs: Various schemes are provided that facilitate a communication handoff from a current base station to a target base station. One feature provides for reducing the search space that a base station searches by providing it with the position/location and/or velocity of an access terminal with which it attempts to communicate....

20060239240 - Unique method for performing zoom-in and zoom-out operations with horizontal and vertical video decimation within a wireless device having a video display: A method of presenting a selected portion of graphical images within a wireless terminal that includes receiving an original graphical image, having a source resolution, to be presented on a display screen. The native pixel resolution of the display screen may differ from that of the original graphical image. A...

20060239241 - Apparatus and method for bandwidth requesting in wireless communication system: Provided are an apparatus and a method for bandwidth requesting apparatus in a subscriber station in a broadcasting wireless communication system. The method includes checking whether there is an incomplete bandwidth request process, checking whether ranging allocation message with respect to a previous bandwidth request is received if there is...

20060239242 - Connection of users in hybrid communication networks: Data for identifying users is detected by a Server, which is preferably connected to the Internet, in order to connect two users is provided. The server establishes a first signaling connection to user A and a second signaling connection, to user B by taking into account said data, whereupon the...

20060239249 - Managing media server resources in a voip network: Methods of managing media server resources that may be used for VoIP calls are disclosed. In an embodiment, a media server resource broker receives a request for a set of media server resources from an application server. The media server resource broker determines the service request should be handled by...

20060239247 - Method and session initiation protocol (sip) server with end-point capabilities check: A method and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) application server, the server comprising a SIP container supporting SIP communications and a SIP service running on the SIP server. When an SIP message is received at a SIP application server, the SIP container detects the message is destined to the local SIP...

20060239256 - Method for transmitting data in a telecommunications network and switch for implementing said method: A method for transferring data from a first switch to a second switch selectively by line-switching or by packet-switching as wellas to a switch for carrying out the method. Data packets are thereby first transferred packet-switched through a packet-switching network to the second switch. With the presence of a corresponding...

20060239255 - Methods and apparatus for controlling call admission to a network based on network resources: A session controller coupled to a database and configured to receive an indication associated with an ingress call is disclosed. The disclosed session controller is further configured to compare at least one of a network capacity, a call-peer bandwidth, or a number of active call-legs associated with the ingress call...

20060239244 - Methods and apparatus to self-configure a flexible residential gateway: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to self-configure a flexible residential gateway providing access to an external communications network, and providing communications with an in home network. An example flexible residential gateway may include at least one voice over Internet protocol (IP) (VoIP) processor, at least one VoIP coupler connecting VoIP...

20060239251 - Multi-user media client for communication devices: A SIP client for a communication device includes a user agent to communicate with a user application in the communication device. The user agent provides a high-level application interface to the user application and translates user commands into corresponding signaling and media operations. The same user agent may be shared...

20060239252 - Personal gateway for originating and terminating telephone calls: A system, method and software product connects a call from an internet protocol (IP) phone and a telephone apparatus connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) using a personal gateway configured within a network group. A call from a user of the IP phone is answered and the user...

20060239253 - Policy control and billing support for call transfer in a session initiation protocol (sip) network: A system includes a database configured to store account information relating to users of a telecommunications network. Additionally, a session initiation protocol (SIP) server receives first messages initiating call transfers. The server appends billing information and a digital signature to the first message based on account information of one of...

20060239246 - Structured voice interaction facilitated by data channel: A voice channel connection and a data channel connection are established with a structured voice interaction system. Navigation information for and provided by the structured voice interaction system is received over the data channel connection. The data channel navigation information is coordinated with navigation information provided by the structured voice...

20060239248 - System and method for displaying sticky notes on phone: A system and method for displaying sticky notes on a phone are provided. The system for displaying sticky notes on a phone includes a processing system and a controller. The processing system includes a processor that is coupled to a display icon and user input device, to enter and display...

20060239243 - System and method for load sharing among a plurality of resources: A media gateway comprises a non-packet switching matrix operable to switch non-packetized data, a packet switching matrix operable to switch packetized data, a plurality of processing resources coupled to the non-packet and packet switching matrices, each processing resource processing a substantially equal load of multimedia sessions processed by the media...

20060239254 - Systems and methods for providing dynamic network authorization, authentication and accounting: Systems and methods for selectably controlling and customizing source access to a network, where the source is associated with a source computer, and wherein the source computer has transparent access to the network via a gateway device and no configuration software need be installed on the source computer to access...

20060239245 - Techniques for creating a user-friendly computer-based fax experience: Techniques for creating a user-friendly computer-based fax experience are described. One technique provides a user-interface including a plurality of access points to a fax functionality. The technique also allows a user to select the fax functionality through activation of an individual access point....

20060239250 - Two-way voice and voice over ip receivers for alarm systems: Security systems typically communicate with alarm monitoring centers using a telephone connection. The present invention offers a system and technique for monitoring a security system connected using a Voice-over-IP connection, in real time, and alerting the owner of the security system, or the alarm-monitoring center, when the connection is broken....

20060239257 - Controlling media server resources in a voip network: Methods of controlling media server resources in a VoIP network are disclosed. In an embodiment, an IP node provides a service request. An application server receives the service request and sends a request for media server resources to a media server resource broker. The media server resource broker determines that...

20060239258 - Combined interface and non-interface specific associative memory lookup operations for processing of packets: Mechanisms for programming and performing combined interface and non-interface specific associative memory lookup operations for processing of packets are disclosed. One system includes multiple interfaces, a content-addressable memory, multiple memory entries and a lookup mechanism. The content-addressable memory includes multiple interface independent entries, multiple first interface dependent entries corresponding to...

20060239259 - Cell-based switch fabric with distributed arbitration: A switch fabric implemented on a chip includes an array of cells and an I/O interface in communication with the array of cells permitting exchange of data packets between the array of cells and components external to the array of cells. Each cell communicates with at least one other cell...

20060239262 - Connection memory for tributary time-space switches: A method of switching a plurality of tributaries disposed among a plurality of time slots in a frame is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) buffering the frame, (B) switching the tributaries among the time slots in response to a read address and (C) generating the read...

20060239260 - Method and system for dynamic stashing: A system, method, apparatus and machine-readable medium for stashing an information packet, received by a network interface device, are provided. The method includes i) extracting information from the received information packet; ii) determining the stashing size of the information packet; and iii) stashing the information packet, based on the determined...

20060239263 - Method for the establishing of connections in a communication system: The invention relates to the multiplexing of transport layer connections in a communication system comprising a front-end node and a number of server nodes. A first packet from the server node is routed to the front-end node, the first packet comprising destination information associated with an external node. A termination...

20060239261 - Selecting transport addresses to route streams between endpoints: Selecting a transport address for a call session between a first endpoint of a first region and a second endpoint of a second region includes determining that the call session is being initiated. A relationship between the first region and the second region is determined. One or more transport addresses...

20060239264 - Method for transmitting/receiving data in a communication system: Provided is a method for transmitting/receiving data in a communication system providing Multicast/Broadcast Service (MBS). The method includes, generating transmission data to be transmitted to a receiver; allocating the transmission data to a frame; setting a MAP message that includes information on a frame offset related to the frame; and...

20060239265 - System and method for providing broadcast service in a mobile communication system: Disclosed is a broadcast service connection setup method for receiving a Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS) by a mobile station (MS) in a mobile communication system supporting the MBS. The MS sends a connection setup request for a particular broadcast service to a base station (BS). The MS receives from...

20060239266 - Method and apparatus for supporting wireless data services on a te2 device using an ip-based interface: A wireless network assigns a single IP address to the wireless device, which assigns this IP address over to a TE2 device coupled to the wireless device. The wireless device derives a private IP address for communication with the TE2 device. The wireless device forwards packets exchanged between the TE2...

20060239267 - User equipment in an ims service network with a shortened ptt call setup time, ims service network, and ptt call setup method therein: A User Equipment (UE) in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) service network with a shortened Push-To-Talk (PTT) call setup time, an ISM service network, and a PTT call setup method therein are provided. In the UT, a transmitter requests from a Domain Name Server (DNS) an address of a...

20060239268 - Multiservice use of network connection capability under user-to-network interface signaling: Method and apparatus for a distributed switching system supporting a plurality of services. A service request is initiated by an initiating customer. The service request is then executed using, for example, a user-to-network interface setup. A terminating setup is then performed to either accept or reject the requested service. Multiple...

20060239272 - Defragmentation of communication channel allocations: Approaches scheduling and allocation of communication bandwidth across a communication channel provide the opportunity for improved network utilization. According to one embodiment, a method of allocating communication bandwidth among a plurality of network devices scheduling and conducting communication activities within the communication network in a communication network is provided. The...

20060239271 - Methods and systems for maintaining quality of service (qos) levels for data transmissions: A system is provided for maintaining Quality of Service (“QoS”) parameters of data transmissions. A packet-switched network framework is provided. The network framework includes at least one router for routing the data transmissions over the network framework. The network framework also includes multiple links, including a first link and a...

20060239273 - System and method for processing network packet flows: A system and method provides a broadband network node for a best effort network such as the Internet or intranets which supports the inexpensive and rapid deployment of services to the best efforts network. Separate data path and control path mechanisms allow high-speed data transfers with parallel processing flows for...

20060239269 - Bandwidth reduction within packet switched networks by not sending idle timeslots: The present invention describes a method in telecommunication networks where time division multiplexing traffic is transported over packet switched networks comprising one or a number of transmitting parties where the transmitting party will not send idle timeslot data on the transporting network. In one preferred embodiment will the transmitting party...

20060239270 - Communications routing systems and methods: Systems and methods for switching communications across different data link layer protocols are provided. A switch which supports a first data link layer protocol can support differentiated services for a second data link layer protocol without performing routing in the second data link layer protocol. The differentiated services are provided...

20060239274 - Mobile communication system, base station demodulator for said mobile communication system, and method for terminating plurality of atm lines in base station demodulator: In a method for terminating a plurality of ATM lines for a base station modulator/demodulator in a mobile communication system for data communication between upper stations and a base station by a transmission method wherein ATM cells are mapped utilizing an existing leased line as a physical medium sublayer, when...

20060239275 - Peer-to-peer multicasting using multiple transport protocols: Communication functionality is described for conducting communication among a plurality of participants in peer-to-peer fashion. The communication functionality comprises peer-to-peer overlay functionality configured to establish a peer-to-peer overlay network that includes a plurality of participants. The peer-to-peer overlay functionality relies on endpoint provider functionality for physically exchanging information among the...

20060239281 - Capacity management: Capacity management is described. In an implementation, a method includes executing a module on a computing device to monitor use of a product during a measurement interval to determine a maximum capacity of the product used during the measurement interval and whether a capacity failure point is reached during the...

20060239283 - Combined telephone pbx and computer data router with pooled resources: System resources are pooled and allocated in an optimal manner to handling telephone voice traffic or to handling computer data traffic. A combination of mechanisms is used to achieve higher statistical multiplexing on a network interface by dynamically adjusting the multiplexing. The system: 1) Provides homogeneous access to DS0 trunk...

20060239279 - Contact management in a serverless peer-to-peer system: Systems and methods are described that facilitate the management of contact information, at least some of the contact information related to entities in a serverless, peer-to-peer system. A contact store may store information regarding which other entities of a plurality of other entities are authorized to monitor presence of a...

20060239284 - Establishing calls using q.2630.1 aal2 signaling responsive to private network-network interface (pnni) signaling: Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, mechanisms, and means for establishing a call across a network. For example, the network may include a first edge switch, a second edge switch, and an ATM core network coupled to the first and the second edge switches and configured...

20060239280 - Method and apparatus to facilitate point-to-point protocol renegotiation: When a network element detects (100) Point-to-Point Protocol renegotiation as corresponds to a client node, that network element then automatically accesses (102) context information as pertains to a previous Point-to-Point Protocol session for that client node. The network element then facilitates (103) that Point-to-Point Protocol renegotiation and determines (104) freshly...

20060239278 - Methods and apparatus to self-configure a flexible residential gateway: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to self-configure a flexible residential gateway providing access to an external communications network, and providing communications with an in home network. An example flexible residential gateway may include an xDSL (“x” variety of Digital Subscriber Line) processor that processes xDSL signals communicated with the connected...

20060239282 - System, method and computer program product for providing an ip datalink multiplexer: A system, method and computer program product are disclosed for transmitting a datagram in a wireless multiplexing framework. A datagram destined to a destination in a network is received and a wireless connection is then selected from a set of wireless connections. The received datagram is then processed to associate...

20060239277 - Transmitting messages across telephony protocols: Call control and related messaging may be communicated between systems that operate using different protocols. In one version, a process is described that includes generating a message in a first telephony signaling protocol, wrapping the message in a message of a second telephony signaling protocol, and sending the wrapped message...

20060239276 - Wireless gateway server: A system for pushing data to a wireless data device receives an identifier for the wireless data device and determines a corresponding gateway server by querying a mapping of wireless data device identifiers to wireless gateway servers. The system then submits a request to push the data to the wireless...

20060239285 - Synchronizing method in optical access network, optical switching device, center device, and remote device: To provide synchronizing methods, optical switch modules, center devices, remote devices, optical access systems, optical access networks, programs, and recording media in the optical access network which can give the connection start time of the upstream optical switching element of the optical switch module. To the optical switch module, ranging...

20060239287 - Adding packet routing information without ecrc recalculation: Additional routing information is added to a transaction packet without recalculating an ECRC by inserting the additional routing information at predetermined bit positions in the transaction packet known to have predetermined bit values. The modified transaction packet can then be routed using the additional routing information. The predetermined bit values...

20060239286 - Method for commonly controlling the bandwidths of a group of individual information flows: The aim of the invention is to achieve a good utilization of the capacity of a transmission channel while ensuring guaranteed bandwidths for traffic flows transmitted over the transmission channel. To this end, the invention provides a method for transmitting traffic flows (1, 2, 3) over a common transmission channel...

20060239288 - System and method for packet classification: The present invention provides method for data packet processing in a telecommunications system. The method of the present invention can include the steps of (i) determining a set of classification parameters for a data packet at an ingress edge unit, wherein the classification parameters include a packet destination, (ii) communicating...

20060239289 - Method and apparatus for determining information associated with a particular multicast channel in a multicast network: A method and apparatus for determining information associated with a particular multicast channel in a multicast network are disclosed. In accordance with the method, a request message requesting information associated with the particular multicast channel is generated and sent to the multicast network. Further, the request message is propagated downstream...

20060239290 - Multicast/broadcast extension to a point-to-point unicast-only packet switch system: A method and system for routing a multicast packet through a unicast packet switch network of devices. A virtual destination group, which includes destination devices of the multicast packet, is defined, and then the virtual destination group is mapped to an unused unicast destination encoding in routing tables of the...

20060239292 - Dynamically controlling access methods in a wireless network: A system (100) that includes a device (120), such as an access point, which is configured for: obtaining (210) a status of a busy channel indicator; and dynamically selecting (220) an access scheme within a contention free period interval based on the status of the busy channel indicator....

20060239291 - Method and apparatus for determining a best route within an ad-hoc communication system: Signal-strength measurements are periodically made for all nodes within communication range of a node. The time-varying nature of the signal-strength measurements are taken into account prior to any node being used for routing purposes. More particularly, if the time-varying nature of a node's signal strength indicates that it is traveling...

20060239293 - Data transmission method for wireless network: Disclosed is a device and method that relates to radio engineering and especially to data transmission in a wireless local area network. The method improves the throughput of the wireless local area network, by selecting a transmission rate, data transmission mechanism and a fragment size which maximize the network throughput...

20060239295 - Application programming interface for inviting participants in a serverless peer to peer network: Methods and computer readable mediums are described that facilitate inviting user entities on a network. The method may include initiating a first application for sending an invitation by a first user entity on a first endpoint, selecting a second user entity to receive the invitation, and selecting an activity. The...

20060239294 - Capture node for use in an audiovisual signal routing and distribution system: An audiovisual signal is converted from a native format to a digital, packetized interchange format and transported between a capture node and a display node through a switch. The display node converts the audiovisual signal from the interchange format to a displayable format and causes display of the audiovisual signal....

20060239296 - Data communications system: A transmitting side relay device comprises additional information generation means for generating additional information about the characteristics of a data stream, packet generation means for generating a packet by attaching additional information to each transfer unit and transmitting means for transmitting the packet to the third network according to prescribed...

20060239297 - Transport abstraction for multiparty replication: The claimed method and system provides a method and interface for enabling an existing, single-transport P2P API to communicate with nodes of a P2P network using multiple different transport protocols....

20060239298 - Techniques for encapsulating point to point protocol (ppp) over ethernet frames: Techniques for negotiating Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) sessions over an Ethernet network include receiving configuration data that indicates a first node is connected to a second node thorough an Ethernet network that supports Ethernet frame payload sizes larger than 1500 octets. Request data is received at the first node from the...

20060239299 - Extra error correcting method for zapping stream ts packet: Although the capacity of a packet is reduced, a parity code generated by a shortened error correction code of RS (255,191) is inserted into a private data field of an adaptation field of a TS packet. In the adaptation field, as positions where the parity codes are inserted, two positions...

20060239300 - Hardware time stamping and processor synchronization: Hardware time stamping is disclosed. In a method, a transmit time stamp may be added to an outgoing data unit in hardware prior to transmitting the outgoing data unit over a communications medium. The outgoing data unit may be received from a processor and may be intended for a node....

20060239301 - Method for compensating for internal delays within each node and transmission delays between the nodes: A method for compensating for one or more transmission delays between a multiplexer, a first node and a second node. In one embodiment, the method includes synchronizing a first real time clock of the multiplexer as the real time clock of the first node and as the real time clock...

20060239302 - Transmission system: A transmission system includes a transmission apparatus and a receiving apparatus for repeatedly transmitting and receiving a frame with plural time slots at a constant frequency, in which digital audio data of plural channels and auxiliary data required to playback the digital audio data are transmitted using previously allocated time...

20060239303 - Method of performing periodical synchronization for ensuring start of super frame in residential ethernet system: Disclosed is a method of performing a periodical synchronization at a predetermined transmission link for ensuring a start of a super frame in a residential Ethernet system. The method includes the steps of ensuring a start of a first predetermined super frame at the predetermined transmission link, transmitting Sync frames...

20060233096 - Method and system for wireless digital multimedia transmission: Digital Visual Interface (DVI), or High Definition Multi-media Interface (HDMI), data is received from a source and sent to a transmitter chip that includes a transition minimized differential signaling (TMDS) receiver that outputs a 3-data and 1-clock physical signaling stream representing the DVI or HDMI data. This stream is rendered...

20060233097 - Time tracking for a communication system: A method for characterizing a communication channel is disclosed. A detection window is moved through a channel profile to accumulate tap energies in the channel profile within the detection window into an accumulated energy curve. A peak at a maximum in the accumulated energy curve is determined. A band relative...

20060233098 - Method for detecting object collisions in a computer-based game: The present invention is a method for detecting object collisions in a computing device-based game, which includes the steps of: calculating projected times of collision for each of a plurality of objects, the projected times of collision based on the speed and direction of travel of each object; storing the...

20060233099 - Method and apparatus for enabling dynamic increase in call and service processing capacity: A method and apparatus for enabling dynamic resource allocations in a packet network is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method allows for the activation of one or more hot standby components on a per network element basis when calling volume and/or service feature usage load increases approach or exceed a...

20060233100 - Application aware traffic shaping service node positioned between the access and core networks: A method and apparatus for an application aware traffic shaping service node positioned between the access and core networks is described. One embodiment of the invention enforces a per subscriber, per application traffic policy for network traffic between one or more subscribers communicatively connected through an access network and a...

20060233101 - Network element architecture for deep packet inspection: A method and apparatus for an application aware traffic shaping service node architecture is described. One embodiment of the invention, the service node architecture includes a set of one or more line cards, a set of one or more processor cards and a full mesh communication infrastructure coupling the sets...

20060233102 - System and method of avoiding cell disposal in buffer: A cell disposal avoidance system is provided that can avoid disposal of cells resided in the QoS buffer when a traffic of a specific QoS class in an ATM switch increases. The ATM switch includes a storage cell number monitor, a software data section 813, and a software controller 812....

20060233104 - Communication terminal, communication system, server apparatus, and communication connecting method: A communication terminal includes a communication unit configured to carry out communications with a communication terminal of an intended counterparty; a detector configured to detect information reflecting a status of a user of the own communication terminal; a condition checker configured to check whether a predetermined condition is satisfied by...

20060233103 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing logical and physical data models: 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; loading extracted content into one or more standardized data layout tables defined by the data control structure and based upon the meta-data...

20060233105 - Systems and methods for data processing in a service-oriented architecture: Systems and methods are provided for data processing. In one implementation, a data process system is provided having a service-oriented architecture. The service-oriented architecture may include a plurality of foundation business objects and a dependent business object for providing a confirmation service for the plurality of foundation business objects....

20060233108 - Adaptive bandwidth throttling for network services: The adaptive bandwidth throttling system implements a graceful diminution of services to the clients by delaying a first class of services provided by a network server in response to the effective bandwidth utilized by this network server exceeding a first threshold. If the demand for the bandwidth by this network...

20060233107 - Method and apparatus for monitoring surges in busy and no answer conditions in a communication network: A method and apparatus for enabling edge components, such as Border Element, to respond to access failures in a more intelligent manner by measuring the busy and/or no answer state conditions for attempted calls and generating alarms when these states reach a predetermined threshold is disclosed. In one embodiment, additionally...

20060233106 - Stateless, affinity-preserving load balancing: The invention relates to an architecture that facilitates load balancing among a plurality of hosts and preserve session affinity to a given host. An incoming stream of data packets that include packet sessions is input to one or more forwarding mechanisms for forwarding to one or more hosts. The forwarders...

20060233109 - Method for monitoring and reporting events by media gateways: A method for monitoring and reporting events by media gateways comprising presetting the events in the media gateways, monitoring the preset events by the media gateways and reporting the monitoring result to a media gateway controller during operation. The events can include: off-hook, on-hook, dialing, hook flash, network fault, quality...

20060233110 - Method for reverse link congestion overload control in wireless high speed data applications: The number of Reverse Activity Bits (RABs) equal to “1” per frame is a Congestion Overload (CO) metric used to determine whether the reverse link in a wireless communications system is in a congestion overload state due to a reverse link RF overload. When the value of the CO metric...

20060233111 - Latency measurment apparatus and method: A modular test chassis for use in testing wireless devices includes a backplane and a channel emulation module coupled to the backplane. The channel emulation module comprises circuitry for emulating the effects of a dynamic physical environment (including air, interfering signals, interfering structures, movement, etc.) on signals in the transmission...

20060233112 - Controllable frequency divider circuit, transmitter/receiver with a controllable frequency divider circuit, and a method for carrying out a loop-back test: A frequency divider circuit can be utilized for loop-back tests in a transmitter/receiver. In one embodiment, provision is made for a multiplexer to be connected downstream from a frequency divider, whose output side produces signal elements with different phases. The multiplexer is designed to periodically switch its inputs to its...

20060233116 - Information processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium: An information processing apparatus for performing communication with another information processing apparatus via a network includes an instruction section instructing a transmission of a first packet in order to obtain a response from the other information processing apparatus; a first generation section generating a first time stamp containing a time...

20060233115 - Intelligent communications network tap port aggregator: Intelligent network tap port aggregators for use in monitoring a network and methods for use therein are presented including: a number of device interface terminals for receiving network feeds; a tap structure coupled with device interface terminals, the tap structure configured to monitor the second network feeds and to aggregate...

20060233114 - Method and apparatus for performing wireless diagnsotics and troubleshooting: A wireless diagnostics framework that is non-intrusive and stays out of the way of a user is presented. In the case of a failure, prescriptive guidance is provided and/or the framework possibly automatically fixes the problem. The framework includes a wireless diagnostics module that interacts with the operating system's diagnostics...

20060233113 - Method for analyzing a system in a network: A method for analyzing a system having a known function in a network includes issuing instructions from the outside the system to modify the configuration of the system, and then issuing a command to the modified system to perform the known system function. Data resulting from performing the known system...

20060233117 - Method for providing a connection between two domains of contiguous hierarchy of a communication network, a dedicated peer, a program module and a communication network therefor: The invention concerns a method for providing a connection between two domains (GSPR, LSPR) of contiguous hierarchy of a communication network comprising peers (SP1-SP13, NP1-NP4) by means of at least one dedicated peer (PP1, PP2) whereby said at least one dedicated peer (PP1, PP2) connects said two domains (GSPR, LSPR),...

20060233118 - Apparatus and method for dynamic packet training: A packet control mechanism for a computer data system that dynamically adjusts packet training depending on the utilization load on the processor. The dynamic adjustment of packet training can be to enable and disable packet training, or adjust the number of packets in the packet train. In preferred embodiments, the...

20060233119 - Method for parameterizing a field device used in automation technology: In a method for parametering a field device of process automation technology, parametering data are exchanged by means of an on-site operating means VB of a second field device F2 via a fieldbus FB with a first field device F1 to be parametered....

20060233120 - Multi-site conferencing system and method: A system and method for cascading local conferences into a multi-site conference is disclosed. The local conferences are located in different sites where each site has endpoints served by a local multipoint control unit (MCU). An invitation to a multi-site conference is sent to participants at the different sites. The...

20060233121 - Performance motivation systems and methods for contact centers: An embodiment of a system for optimizing agent performance includes a data collector configured to receive data representative of contact center statistics from a contact center and to use the statistics to calculate performance metrics. The system also includes a presentation module configured to provide data representative of the performance...

20060233122 - Method and apparatus for improved data analysis: A method of locating a specified portion of a digital data stream in each of a plurality of visual representations of the data stream, the method comprising: determining the value of a first data stream location unit corresponding to the specified portion of the digital data stream for a first...

20060233123 - Inductive position sensor with common mode corrective winding and simplified signal conditioning: An inductive position sensor for rotary motion includes a transmitter coil and a receiver coil, the receiver coil generating a receiver signal when the transmitter coil is excited by an alternating current source. A moveable coupler element modifies the inductive coupling between the transmitter coil and the receiver coil so...

20060233124 - Frequency hopping design for single carrier fdma systems: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate frequency hopping in a single carrier FDMA wireless environment by dynamically altering user offsets with time to obtain interference diversity. A channel tree can be utilized with nodes that are assigned values. User devices can be assigned to such nodes, a path between...

20060233125 - Radio access scheme in cdma-based communication system: A solution for radio access in a code division multiple access (CDMA)-based telecommunication system, in which orthogonal spreading codes are used for separating data of a plurality of user entities, is provided. According to the solution, a different pilot symbol sequence is allocated to each user entity, and the pilot...

20060233130 - Apparatus and method for quality of service management in a wireless network: An apparatus and method for QoS management including a wireless network having a plurality of base stations capable of communicating with a plurality of mobile stations in a coverage area of the wireless network, and having a packet classification element, configured to classify packets to be delivered to a mobile...

20060233128 - Apparatus, system and method capable of pre-allocating and communicating ip address information during wireless communication: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of pre-allocating and communicating IP address information during wireless communication by an access point, comprising pre-caching by said AP a predetermined number of IP addresses from a backend Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server. An embodiment may further comprise providing by...

20060233131 - Channel quality reporting for adaptive sectorization: Apparatuses and methodologies are described that enhance performance in a wireless communication system using beamforming transmissions. According to one aspect, the channel quality is monitored. Channel quality indicators can be used to select a scheduling technique, such as space division multiplexing (SDM), multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) transmission and opportunistic beamforming...

20060233127 - Efficient harq control and channel quality feedback reporting for multicarrier systems: A method comprising receiving a plurality of data packets each associated with one of a plurality of carriers, deriving an input bit stream indicative of the receipt of the plurality of data packets, utilizing an output block code to convert the input bit stream into an output bit stream, and...

20060233126 - Managing midlet suites in osgi environment: The invention discloses deploying MIDlet suites in an Open Services Gateway Initiative environment. A MIDlet suite is re-packaged by adding to it an interface element to the Open Services Gateway Initiative environment. The invention allows using deployed MIDlet suites in an Open Services Gateway Initiative environment in a way that...

20060233129 - Method and system for encoding communications between wireless and other devices: A method for encoding a message communicated between devices, the message having at least one field, the method comprising: if the field is not optional and contains a value, writing the value to one or more data bytes in a byte buffer; and, if the field is optional and contains...

20060233132 - Time synchronization method in mobile station based on asynchronous scheme and system using the same: Disclosed is a system and a method for setting an internal time corresponding to a standard time at a current location in a mobile station of an asynchronous scheme. The mobile station of the asynchronous scheme uses a Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP), which is an application of a Network...

20060233133 - Mobile terminal and method for searching address and locating a correspondent node in a wlan: A method for addressing and locating WLAN communication node is disclosed in the present invention. The GSM or CDMA, which is characterized in broad coverage, the steadiest performance, and the most mature technology, is employed to confirm the subscribers' IP address. One of the communication parties sends data call to...

20060233134 - System and method for allowing an access point in a wireless network to operate at maximum speed: A system and method for allowing an access point in a wireless network to operate at maximum speed includes determining if there is at least one client within the network that is operating at less than the maximum speed. If there is, then instruct the at least one client to...

20060233136 - Traffic handover control device and method of multi-mode mobile communication terminal: Provided is a handover control device and method of a multi-mode mobile communication terminal. The device includes a first processing module; a second processing module connected in its inter-chip path with the first processing module; and an application processor for controlling the first processing module to transmit an IMSI (international...

20060233135 - Transferring context information to facilitate node mobility: Facilitating node mobility includes facilitating a communication session for a mobile node communicated along a first communication path. A first anchor point manages context information for the communication session, where the context information comprises information for supporting the communication session. A command to transfer the context information to a second...

20060233137 - Wireless router and method for processing traffic in a wireless communications network: A wireless communications network includes a wireless-specific router topology layer that connects cellular sites to a wireline topology. The wireless-specific router topology provides a distributed architecture in which call processing including call setup, resource preservation, air bandwidth allocation, switching, soft handoff, and micromobility is performed at the cell level. The...

20060233138 - Idle mode handoff in a mobile communications system: A method and apparatus for idle mode handoff in an overlapping area of a multi-channel cell is provided. By monitoring different frequencies serviced by neighboring base stations, when a mobile station is located in an overlapping region between cells and the frequency channel being serviced in a multi-channel region is...

20060233139 - System and method for transmission diversity status detection: A system and method for transmission diversity status detection is disclosed, which receives a synchronization channel (SCH) signal and a common pilot channel (CPICH) signal from a base station for detecting whether the base station uses the transmission diversity technique. The transmission diversity status detector detects the transmission diversity status...

20060233142 - Fixed network master: An exemplary method of operation of network devices with one device operating as a master device on a communication network involves the master device broadcasting a beacon during a communication session being carried out over the network; the master device determining that the communication session being carried out over the...

20060233141 - Method and system for providing virtual private network services through a mobile ip home agent: A method for providing a virtual private network by home agent in a mobile IP environment includes providing a home agent operable to receive a registration request from a foreign agent and negotiate conditions of attachment of a mobile node to the foreign agent and further operable to store an...

20060233140 - Method for transmitting data in a wlan network: The invention relates to a method for transmitting data in a WLAN network (WLAN=Wireless Local Area Network) during which WLAN messages are transmitted in the L2 protocol layer between a terminal and an access node of the WLAN network, whereby the access node can be connected to one or more...

20060233143 - Methods and apparatus for providing power efficient time management for mobile media: Methods and apparatus for providing power efficient time management for mobile media. In an aspect, a method is provided that operates to provide time management for mobile media that is distributed over a network. The method includes receiving the mobile media comprising source video frames that are associated with a...

20060233144 - Mobility support apparatus for mobile terminal: A home agent, when receiving a binding update message containing designation of a priority level in such a status that unauthorized binding is registered in a binding cache, judges which priority level, the priority level designated in this binding update message or a priority level related to the unauthorized binding,...

20060233145 - Method of controlling connection between nodes in digital interface: A method of controlling connection between nodes in a digital interface whereby a first node that is a master node determines a second node to be the master and controls a point-to-point connection or a broadcast connection to another node. The first node having the display device determines the second...

20060233147 - Broadband wireless communications systems and methods using multiple non-contiguous frequency bands/segments: Wireless communications transceivers include a transmitter that is configured to selectively frequency shift and transmit portions of broadband information over multiple non-contiguous narrowband frequency bands/segments, each of which is too narrow to carry the broadband information. A receiver also is configured to receive and selectively frequency shift portions of broadband...

20060233150 - Method and apparatus for providing control channel monitoring in a multi-carrier system: An approach is provided for providing control of multiple traffic channels using a single control channel in multi-carrier communication system. A terminal monitors, while connected to the multi-carrier communication system, a control channel supported over one of a plurality of carriers. The one carrier is pre-designated as a primary carrier...

20060233146 - Radio packet communication method and radio packet communication apparatus: In a wireless packet communication method for transmitting a plurality of wireless packets simultaneously by using multiple wireless channels determined to be idle by carrier sense, a wireless channel determined to be idle and MIMO, or the multiple wireless channel and the MIMO, a mandatory channel that is always used...

20060233149 - Secure conditional access and digital rights management in a multimedia processor: Methods and systems for processing video data are disclosed herein and may comprise receiving within a single mobile multimedia processor chip integrated within a mobile device, a secure key from an off-chip device integrated within the mobile device. The secure key may be decrypted within the single mobile multimedia processor...

20060233148 - System and method of voice transmission from mobile data networks: The present invention permits the real-time transmission of voice from a networked device via a mobile data network to a mobile phone handset, without the involvement of broadband wireless networks such as Bluetooth, WI-FI or WIMAX. Currently, much work has been done to enable VoIP communication via the WI-FI protocol....

20060233151 - Multiple access communication system and data transceiver: A multiple access communications system achieving an improvement in transmission efficiency is disclosed. A slave station receives data from variable speed data terminals and generates a plurality of data packets. The slave station then transmits a transmission request packet containing a total amount of data packets to be concatenated to...

20060233152 - Multiple access communication system and data transceiver: A multiple access communications system achieving an improvement in transmission efficiency is disclosed. A slave station receives data from variable speed data terminals and generates a plurality of data packets. The slave station then transmits a transmission request packet containing a total amount of data packets to be concatenated to...

20060233153 - Method and apparatus for automatic frequency correction: A technique is provided for automatic frequency offset correction in a wireless communication system. After demodulating and decoding a received signal in a receiver, channel estimation is also performed. The technique further includes re-encoding and re-modulating the decoded and demodulated signal with a coding and modulation scheme different from the...

20060233156 - Network routing apparatus: A network routing apparatus in which packet forwarding units for performing a packet forwarding process are arranged in parallel to one another, a packet distribution unit for distributing packets to the packet forwarding units arranged in parallel to one another, a packet rearrangement unit for rearranging outputs of the packet...

20060233155 - Server load balancing using ip option field approach to identify route to selected server: A router for routing data from a client through load-balancing nodes to a selected load-balanced server among a plurality of servers in a network involves: receiving, at a last load balancing node associated with a selected server among the plurality of servers, a first packet of a server reply to...

20060233154 - Server to network signaling method for rapid switching between anycast multicast sources: Described embodiments of the present invention use a simplified signaling mechanism in a server to signal the status of the individual multicast source streams....

20060233160 - Call system, proxy dial server apparatus and proxy dial method for use therewith, and program thereof: The present invention is intended to provide a call system which can authenticate a call initiation request from a proxy dial server apparatus with a caller number specified by the proxy dial server apparatus without adding special processing. In the configuration according to the present invention, proxy dial server apparatus...

20060233159 - Method and apparatus for enabling dynamic protocol interworking resolution with diverse endpoints: A method and apparatus for enabling an edge component, e.g., a Border Element (BE), on a packet network to be endpoint aware is disclosed. Information contained in the BE regarding the endpoint enables it to consult stored protocol configurations that facilitate the dynamic resolution of interworking issues and adjust for...

20060233158 - Method and apparatus for enabling peer-to-peer communication between endpoints on a per call basis: A method and apparatus for enabling a user to signal to the network that a call to be initiated or a call that is in progress needs to occur in a peer-to-peer relationship with the terminating endpoint. The network will then remove itself from the call signaling and media path...

20060233157 - System and method of voice transmission to mobile data networks: The present invention permits the real-time voice input of a mobile phone handset to be sent to a networked device via mobile data networks, without the involvement of broadband wireless networks such as Bluetooth, WI-FI or WIMAX. Currently, much work has been done to enable VoIP communication via the WI-FI...

20060233161 - Multi-level hierarchical radio-frequency communication system: Portable measuring devices which communicate by low power transceivers through a communication controller with a printer device collect weight and size data on articles to be shipped. The collected weight and size data are combined with origin and destination data, and labels are printed bearing pertinent shipping and routing information...

20060233162 - Network and method for universal voice over internet protocol telephonic communications: The protocol of a proprietary outgoing VOIP signal, developed by a first proprietary VOIP telephone, is changed so that this outgoing VOIP signal, in the new protocol, can be received by a second proprietary VOIP telephone, the operation of which is based on the new protocol. This mode of operation...

20060233163 - Real time transport protocol (rtp) processing component: A communication method can include the step of establishing a communication session between two endpoints based upon the real-time transport protocol (RTP). During the communication session, discrete packets containing digitally encoded audio can be exchanged between the two endpoints resulting in a continuous audio flow being established in real-time between...

20060233164 - Method to separate fibre channel switch core functions and fabric management in a storage area network: A method to separate fibre channel switch core functions and fabric management in a storage area network is disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, a method of separating fibre channel switch core functions and management of a fabric in an information handling system includes separating data oriented functions and fabric...

20060233165 - Managing data in a subtended switch: A technique for provisioning cross-connects in network switching environment includes receiving a portion of the an input data stream including having header data and the payload data, the payload data occurring at a first offset relative to the header data and generating a delayed version of the portion of the...

20060233167 - Negotiation of datapath treatment for end-to-end interworked network traffic: The invention provides a method for negotiating datapath treatment for traffic sourced from a first communications network over an end-to-end path in respect of a path segment provided for said traffic in a second communications network, the path segment being requested for a first node of the second communications network...

20060233166 - Public and private network service management systems and methods: Public and private network service management systems and methods are disclosed. Rules for accessing a private services network in which network services are available are enforced so as to restrict access to the services network through a public network in accordance with policies of the services network. Use of network...

20060233169 - Residential ethernet switching apparatus capable of performing time-slot switching and time-slot switching method thereof: A Residential Ethernet switching apparatus for performing time slot switching includes an input unit for receiving frames as input, and a parser for parsing the received frames into asynchronous Ethernet frames (AsyncE frames) and Residential Ethernet frames (ResE frames). An AsyncE switching processor performs a switching operation for an AsyncE...

20060233170 - Stream-oriented interconnect for networked computer storage: An apparatus and method for connecting a plurality of computing devices, e.g. web servers, database servers, etc., to a plurality of storage devices, such as disks, disk arrays, tapes, etc., by using a stream-oriented (circuit oriented) switch that has high throughput, but that requires non-negligible time for reconfiguration is disclosed....

20060233168 - Virtual bridge: A method and apparatus establish an address of a frame as being associated with a physical device or a virtual device. If the frame is associated with a virtual device, the address of the frame may be established as being associated with a local virtual device or a remote virtual...

20060233171 - Method and system for managing access to multicast groups: A method and system for managing the distribution of multicast content are provided. The method involves creating a list of multicast group addresses to be made available to user units supported by a group of nodes. The list is distributed to all of the nodes in the group of nodes....

20060233172 - Multiple data rates in programmable logic device serial interface: A serial interface for a programmable logic device can be operated according to various communications protocols and includes both a receiver portion and a transmitter portion. The receiver portion includes at least a word or byte alignment stage, a de-skew stage, a rate compensation or matching stage, a padded protocol...

20060233174 - Method and apparatus for distributing switch/router capability across heterogeneous compute groups: A computer system includes a network interface capable of receiving packets. The computer system includes a platform switch operating independently of an operating system. The operating system handles packets received for a local destination and the platform switch determines via a routing table, a next hop of a packet received...

20060233173 - Policy-based processing of packets: Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, and mechanisms, for policy-based processing of packets, including mechanisms for managing the policies. A user is authenticated and its user group identifier is identified. A packet is received and is associated with the user group identifier, and one or more...

20060233175 - Traffic balancing apparatus and method, and network forwarding apparatus and method using the same: The present invention reduces the burden of the network having heavier load, maintains the load balance among different networks, and improves the overall resource utilization efficiency and transmission qualities of the networks, by providing a network forwarding apparatus for selectively distributing the IP packets to be forwarded to the network...

20060233176 - Optimally interworking sip and qsig call diversion and transfer: Under the present invention, resources such as gateways which interconnect usually disparate networks are released for processes which, while originally being inter-network, become intra-network, and the resource (e.g., gateway) is no longer needed for the intra-network process to be completed. The present invention is useful to optimally interwork an IP...

20060233178 - Method and system for power efficient transmission of scalable video over wireless networks: A method and system for reducing power consumption in a wireless network by adjusting the transmit energy for each bit at the physical layer and the retry limit at the MAC layer. The method includes creating a look-up table containing optimal pairs of Nlim,Et for a plurality of different sets...

20060233177 - Systems and methods for weighted best effort scheduling: Systems and methods for scheduling data packets in a network processor are disclosed. Embodiments provide a network processor that comprises a best-effort scheduler with a minimal calendar structure for addressing schedule control blocks. In one embodiment, a three-entry calendar structure provides for weighted best effort scheduling. Each of a plurality...

20060233179 - Method and system using arp cache data to enhance accuracy of asset inventories: A method and system are provided for improving accuracy in an inventory containing assets associated with a network. In one embodiment, a method is provided for updating information pertaining to computer devices in a group of computer devices connected to a specified network. Each device sends packets through at least...

20060233184 - Ad-hoc peer-to-peer mobile radio access system interfaced to the pstn and cellular networks: An ad-hoc, peer-to-peer radio access system for cellular communications systems using time division duplex as a way of maximizing the bits/hz/km2 for cellular systems. The network architecture of the ad-hoc system allows the radio access to be integrated with the fixed components of a conventional cellular system, PSTN or ISP....

20060233182 - Bgp hitless upgrade approaches: A method is disclosed for upgrading network protocol software, comprising receiving a new version of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) software on a standby route processor that is coupled to an active route processor in a redundant arrangement; transferring, from the active route processor to the standby route processor, one or...

20060233181 - Method and apparatus for accelerating border gateway protocol convergence: A method and apparatus are disclosed for accelerating Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route convergence in an autonomous system. A virtual link identifier is assigned to each link of a set of communication links that are established between a BGP host and one or more network elements in one or more...

20060233183 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamic blocking and unblocking of media over packet resources: Methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamically blocking and unblocking media over packet resources includes, at a first media gateway controller that controls a first media over packet resource, determining whether establishment of calls involving a second media over packet resource managed by second media gateway controller would violate...

20060233180 - Systems and methods for managing network services between private networks: Systems and methods for managing network services between private networks are disclosed. Advertisement of network services which are available in a services network is controlled in accordance with a policy associated with each network service. Network service information is advertised to an external services network only for those network services...

20060233185 - Access line termination system, access line termination device and transmission control method: An access line termination device is provided which enables down transmission capacity to be expanded in a normal state without changing/modifying a transmission path interface. An up signal of an access line accommodated in a remote device is applied to an interface unit through a line termination unit and multiplexed....

20060233186 - Spanning tree loop guard: A system and method are provided to prevent the formation of loops in a network. The network device includes a plurality of ports for receiving and forwarding network messages and a spanning tree protocol engine. The spanning tree protocol engine, in one embodiment, implements the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)...

20060233187 - Method for handling communications over a non-permanent communication link: A method is disclosed for handling communications over a non-permanent communication link. The method comprising centrally receiving a message to transmit from a plurality of applications, checking the availability of the non-permanent communication link, if the non-permanent communication link is not-available, queuing the received message for future transmission, and providing...

20060233188 - Concurrent transmission of traffic from multiple communication interfaces: Line termination units having dual ports for accepting communication traffic of two different types facilitate the concurrent transmission of voice traffic, serial data traffic and packetized data traffic across a telecommunication transport system, such as a DSL (digital subscriber line) system. The bandwidth of the telecommunication transport system is allocated...

20060233189 - Communication resource scheduling among multiple links: In situations in which a given communication device may be a slave node on multiple communication sub-networks, a communication resource of the communication device may be allocated so as to serve the various sub-networks according to a device-centric control protocol....

20060233190 - Scheduling method for supporting quality of service (qos) in wireless local area network (wlan): A method for polling of stations in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), comprising the steps of: obtaining Quality of Service (QoS) information related to the stations; assigning two timers to each WLAN service requiring QoS guarantee, one for uplink transmission and the other for downlink transmission; starting a Controlled...

20060233192 - Display control method and information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, a display control method of software having a plurality of operation modes, the display control method includes switching a set operation mode to another operation mode, reading window location information associated with the another operation mode, from a plurality of window location information respectively prepared for...

20060233191 - Systems and methods for managing wireless communication: Systems and methods for managing wireless communication between information handling system/s and one or more peripherals or other external devices, and that may be implemented in one embodiment to provide a virtual wireless docking environment for a portable information handling system and associated wired and wireless attached devices and peripherals....

20060233193 - Time-triggered communication system and method for the synchronized start of a dual-channel network: A dual-channel network with in each case one communication controller (2, 6) for each of the two channels (A, B). In order to ensure that the two channels (A, B) operate on a temporally matched basis, an exchange of current states (“ready, “abort”) takes place via an external or an...

20060233194 - Ethernet encapsulation over optical transport network: A method and system for encapsulating a frame for transport over an optical transport network are disclosed. A method includes receiving a packet at a network device and encapsulating the packet. The packet is received from a network having a line frequency different than a payload frequency of the optical...

20060233195 - Transcoding apparatus, method and medium: In a video TS packet separator, a video TS packet VTSP is extracted from a TS (transport stream). In a PES packet analyzer through a TS packet generator, the video TS packet is decoded, re-encodes at a predetermined bit rate, TS-packetized and supplied to a switch input terminal. The switch...

20060233196 - Transcoding apparatus, method and medium: In a video TS packet separator, a video TS packet VTSP is extracted from a TS (transport stream). In a PES packet analyzer through a TS packet generator, the video TS packet is decoded, re-encodes at a predetermined bit rate, TS-packetized and supplied to a switch input terminal. The switch...

20060233197 - Method and grant scheduler for cyclically allocating time slots to optical network units: A grant scheduler and method for cyclically allocating time slots to traffic container (T-CONTs) included in one or more optical network units (ONUs) for transmitting respective data based on known respective service level agreements for each T-CONT. A first processing unit allocates fixed time slots in a current cycle to...

20060233199 - Communicating message request transaction types between agents in a computer system using multiple message groups: A general input/output communication port implements a communication stack that includes a physical layer, a data link layer and a transaction layer. The transaction layer includes assembling a packet header for a message request transaction to one or more logical devices. The packet header includes a format field to indicate...

20060233198 - Method of managing mobile station in broadband wireless access system: The primitives between an upper management layer and the MAC layer within a mobile station and a base station are defined in order to specify and clarify the operations within the protocol stack layers in a broadband wireless access system to allow management of a mobile station. Media Independent Handover...

20060233200 - Packet retransmission for mimo systems using multipath transmission: A protocol for forwarding data packets over a network. An originating transmitter sends a data packet over the network to a destination receiver. The packet is Transmit forwarded by one or more repeaters within the network. The repeaters assume responsibility for originating re-transmissions of the packet if the packet is...

20060233201 - Adaptive encoding of digital multimedia information: Adaptive encoding of digital multimedia information may be performed by measuring link parameters, such as a received signal strength, a bit error rate, or a rate of received acknowledgement signals, in order to determine an available transmission rate. A maximum encoding rate may then be determined based on the available...

20060233203 - Synchronized audio/video decoding for network devices: A method of synchronizing decoders within a network to a server includes receiving a set of timestamps and local clock signals upon receiving the beacon interrupt signal, computing differential timestamp and local clock values based on values of timestamp and local clock signals, respectively, within the sets of timestamp and...

20060233202 - Time stamp offset in data packet bundling: A system, method, and computer readable medium for time stamp offset in data packet bundling including filling a globally distributed time stamp based upon a globally distributed time, receiving a signal unit, resolving a difference in time between the globally distributed time stamp and the reception of the signal unit...

20060233204 - Redundant i/o interface management: A computer system has redundant I/O interface modules for managing communications between an incorporating computer system and an external system such as a network or multi-port disk array. A redundant I/O interface manager directs communications through one of the redundant I/O interface modules, and switches the communications through the other,...

20060227700 - Dsss and ofdm two-way waiting reception method and wireless lan apparatus: A DSSS and OFDM two-way waiting reception method is disclosed. The reception method includes the steps of (a) maintaining a two-way waiting state if none of an RSSI trigger, an OFDM search trigger, and a DSSS search trigger is generated; (b) switching to an RSSI-activated OFDM reception state if the...

20060227699 - System and method for modulation of non-data bearing carriers in a multi-carrier modulation system: For one aspect of the invention, a method is described for mitigating power spectral density irregularities in a multi-carrier modulation environment. The method involves identifying at least one carrier of a plurality of carriers that is in a non-data bearing state. Thereafter, that carrier is modulated with random data....

20060227701 - System for modeling digital pulses having specific fmop properties: A system samples data of a digital pulse. The system includes a processor, an integrator, and a converter. The processor computes a discrete Fourier transform of frequency data of the digital pulse. The discrete Fourier transform includes a first output. The integrator integrates the first output to produce phase data....

20060227702 - Apparatus, system, and method for data tracking: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for data tracking and, in particular, for facilitating failure management within an electronic data communication system. The apparatus includes a tracking module and an error analysis module. The tracking module stores an adapter identifier in a tracking array. The adapter identifier corresponds to...

20060227703 - Operating method for dynamic physical network layer monitoring: An operating method is disclosed for dynamic physical network layer monitoring. A plurality of built-in or extended network interface cards in a computer are to be merged or separated for multitasking operation, redundancy or any emergent application through continuously monitoring the network status. The network devices connected with the computer...

20060227704 - Special marker message for link aggregation marker protocol: A network element aggregates a number of its ports together to form a link aggregation group. To move communications from one of the aggregated ports in case that port fails or otherwise becomes inactive, the network element may use exchange a special marker message and response with a remote network...

20060227706 - System and method for delay-based congestion detection and connection admission control: Systems and methods for performing congestion detection and connection admission control for a communications network utilizing the observed one-way delay of packets transmitted through the network are described. Embodiments of the present invention provide endpoints on the network, which can anticipate congestion accurately enough to prevent packet loss and excess...

20060227705 - System and method for optimizing sessions and network resources in a loadbalancing environment: A method for loadbalancing in a network environment is provided that includes receiving a create request from an end user for a communications link provided by a network node and communicating a response to the end user in order to establish a communication session. The method further includes identifying a...

20060227707 - Transmission rate control method, transmission rate control system, and mobile station: A transmission rate control method for controlling a transmission rate of a channel to which the transmission rate control method is applied, include: notifying, at a radio network controller, at a timing of a call setup or the like, a primary allowable transmission rate of the channel to which the...

20060227708 - Compound transmission control protocol: Systems and methods for Compound TCP are described. In one aspect, a single TCP connection is opened for communication of data over a compound stream between first and second computing devices. The compound stream includes two or more logical data streams to emulate congestion control behavior of multiple separate network...

20060227709 - Data transfer control device and electronic instrument: A data transfer control device including: a link controller which analyzes a packet received through a serial bus and generates a packet to be transmitted through the serial bus; an interface circuit which performs interface processing between the data transfer control device and a display driver connected to the data...

20060227710 - Data transfer control device and electronic instrument: A data transfer control device includes: a link controller which analyzes a packet received through a serial bus; an interface circuit which generates interface signals and outputs the interface signals to an interface bus; and a reset signal output circuit which outputs a reset signal to the interface circuit. The...

20060227712 - Facilitating retransmission of data packets in a packet radio communication system by utilizing a feedback acknowledgment scheme: Apparatus, and an associated method, for a frame-formatted radio communication system. Coordination is provided between MAC and RLP layers of a sending station through use of apparatus embodied at the MAC layer of the sending station. Also, apparatus is provided at a receiving station to reduce the generation of RLP...

20060227711 - Purge mechanism in link aggregation group management: To enable quick movement of communications among links in a link aggregation group, network element use a purge mechanism. A network element implementing the purge mechanism may disable distribution of additional frames to output queues associated with aggregated ports and potentially drop some or all frames from the output queues...

20060227713 - Method and apparatus to determine whether a network is quality of service enabled: A method and apparatus to determine whether a network is quality of service enabled is disclosed. The method may send a variety of test packets through a network and depending on how the network handles the packets, a determination may be made whether the network does not support packets with...

20060227714 - Methods and systems for providing end-to-end testing of an ip-enabled network: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing network testing. The disclosed systems and methods may include connecting to at least one element within a network. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include performing a test on the network through at least one element. The test may be associated with...

20060227716 - Determining traffic flow characteristics in a storage area network: Methods and apparatus are provided for determining traffic characteristics and statistics for storage area network flows. An intelligent line card associated with a fibre channel switch is used to snoop selected flows in a storage area network. Flows are characterized using information such as initiator target pairs and initiator target...

20060227715 - Dynamic connectivity determination: A method and system for discovering interconnections between a plurality of network devices arranged in a stacked configuration is provided. A probe packet, including a tag indicating a transmit port from which the probe packet was transmitted and a receive port at which the probe packet was received, is sent...

20060227720 - High-capacity scalable integrated wireless backhaul for broadband access networks: The invention provides a method and system for adaptive point-to-point communication between a wireless communication system and a non-wireless backhaul communication system. The wireless physical layer and the wireless media-access-control layer collectively include a set of parameters, which are adaptively modified by base station controllers in multiple cells of the...

20060227717 - Real-time comparison of quality of interfaces: In some embodiments, a system and method for substantially real-time comparison of quality of interfaces by mobile devices over heterogeneous networks is disclosed. The method can be performed using a dynamic and rapid comparison by distributed hosts, using a minimal number of injected network packets, using minimal path quality metrics,...

20060227718 - Selective network switching in a wireless broadcast network: The disclosure is directed to a mobile communication device that may receive wireless broadcast signals from a number of different base stations or transmitters. As the location of the device moves relative to the transmitters, one transmitter will likely be identified as the transmitter broadcast the strongest, or highest quality,...

20060227719 - Third party recording of data transferred using the ip protocol: A method or apparatus for managing monitoring of packet data traffic of a packet switched telephony trunk connection, such as an IP trunk, wherein the data packets identify ports but monitoring is based on extension lines and the like. A mapping unit is used for obtaining mapping data that relates...

20060227724 - Arrangement for providing optimized connections between peer routers in a tree-based ad hoc mobile network: Mobile routers in a tree-based network topology with a single clusterhead in an ad hoc network establish connectivity based on each attached mobile router sending a neighbor advertisement message to an attachment mobile router via a corresponding egress interface. Any neighbor advertisement message received by a mobile router is used...

20060227721 - Content transmission device and content transmission method: An object of the present invention is to provide a content transmission device which allows playback of content on a content receiving device, the viewing and/or listening of which was interrupted on the content receiving device. A content transmission device is provided which is connected with a content receiving device...

20060227723 - Dynamic shared risk node group (srng) membership discovery: A technique is provided for dynamically discovering shared risk node group (SRNG) memberships of a plurality of interconnected edge devices in a computer network. According to the technique, each edge device “learns” the identities of its directly-attached peer devices situated in neighboring routing domains, e.g., by establishing an interior or...

20060227722 - Method and system which apply heuristics to identify signals accessible to subscribers in hybrid fiber coaxial (hfc) interactive networks: A system and method for identifying which signals provided by a head-end are accessible to CPE of a subscriber in an HFC network. The method includes obtaining a partial list of signals accessible to the CPE, and then applying heuristic rules on the partial list to generate a complete accessible...

20060227725 - Network availability status detection device and method: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a device configured to send and receive messages over a first network and a second network includes a network status detector unit and a network disabling unit. The network status detector unit is configured to detect the availability of the first network...

20060227726 - Self-configurable wireless local area network node: In a wireless local area network including an access controller (AC) and an access points (AP), the AC transmits a functionality inquiry to the AP. Upon receiving the inquiry, the AP transmits a query response including the functional capabilities of the AP. The AC then generates a map of the...

20060227727 - Versatile system for efficient version control messaging in a wireless radio access network: An efficient, non-redundant messaging system is disclosed that communicates version information only when an appropriate network entity (e.g., a PDSN or a PCF) is reset. The methods and constructs of the present disclosure provide a version information message for transmission between first and second entities in a network. A first...

20060227728 - Method software product and device for signalling bearer channel modifications by means of a sip protocol: A SIP protocol is extended with at least one protocol element which is used for displaying a cause for bearer channel modification, thereby eliminating the necessity for the deductive regeneration of the cause on the basis of the modification of a transmitted bearer channel....

20060227729 - Wireless communication system with collision avoidance protocol: A system of wireless infrastructure nodes are communicatively coupled to a number of internally powered leaf nodes. The leaf nodes may have sensors and/or actuators. A wireless leaf node transmits data to an infrastructure node at a time according to a duty cycle. When a collision occurs, the data is...

20060227730 - Variable interference cancellation technology for cdma systems: An interference canceller comprises a composite interference vector (CIV) generator configured to produce a CIV by combining soft and/or hard estimates of interference, an interference-cancelling operator configured for generating a soft-projection operator, and a soft-projection canceller configured for performing a soft projection of the received baseband signal to output an...

20060227733 - Efficient wireless transmission opportunity handoff: Circuits, methods, and apparatus that provide high-throughput control fields that, among other functions, provide efficient TXOP handoffs in wireless networks. A handoff may be made by setting one or more bits in a field in a QoS frame, such as the HT control or other appropriate field. Various conditions may...

20060227732 - Method and apparatus for providing multi-rate broadcast services: A method and apparatus for providing multi-rate broadcast services in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The present invention takes advantage of the higher capacity of better channels by providing a certain data rate common to all users, while sending additional information to users with better channel conditions. A base...

20060227731 - Method and apparatus for smooth disassociation of stations from access points in an 802.11: A plurality of methods, apparatus and computer program for providing warning to a station (STA) associated with an Access Point (AP) in a WLAN that a disassociation the AP is imminent. The steps include (a) selecting a station (STA) for disassociation from a particular Access Point (AP) of a WLAN;...

20060227734 - Using receive diversity to extend standby time in qpch mode: The standby time of a CDMA cell phone is extended by using two receive chains to monitor the Quick Paging Channel (QPCH) when the signal-to-noise ratio falls within a predetermined range. Monitoring the QPCH saves battery power by obviating the need to monitor the general paging message unless quick paging...

20060227735 - High speed autotrunking: A method and system for automatically trunking ports connecting network devices arranged in a stacked configuration is provided. The method includes sending a packet, from a sending network device to at least one other receiving network device, through each of a plurality of ports of the network device. The packet...

20060227738 - Communication system, network router and network connection method: A connection adapter is interposed between high-level equipment and a communication module. The connection adapter and a router perform a circuit control and an address conversion processing so that the high-level equipment and a management computer set for the network connection service giving a fixed IP address can use the...

20060227736 - Dynamic reallocation of bandwidth and modulation protocols: A communications system dynamically reconfigurable for RF bandwidth and modulation protocols is disclosed. A server comprises one or more radio head interface modules and a call processing software module adapted to communicate with each other. The call processing software is adapted to perform modulation and demodulation of voice and data...

20060227737 - Loss of page synchronization: Systems and methods for maintaining data stream synchronization are provided. A system comprises one or more radio head interface modules and a call processing software module each adapted to communicate with each other. The call processing software module performs modulation and demodulation of voice and data streams using one or...

20060227739 - 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....

20060227741 - Adaptive transmission channel allocation method and system for ism and unlicensed frequency bands: A method and system for establishing a non-frequency-hopping connection link between a slave device with another slave device in a communications network having a plurality of frequency channels within a radio frequency band known as the unlicensed ISM band, wherein the connection links between slave devices are capable of being...

20060227742 - Data transmission method and apparatus in relay transmission type radio network: To provide a data transmission method and an apparatus thereof in a relay transmission type radio network capable of selecting an appropriate down-link relay route according to a location of a terminal station. A first relay node having received an up-link ACK packet transmitted by the terminal station transmits to...

20060227740 - Method of operating a telecommunications network: A method of selecting one of a plurality of candidate devices (1-6) forming at least part of a wireless personal area network (WPAN) to be a controller of the WPAN. For each candidate device (1-6), distances between that candidate device and other devices of the WPAN are assessed. A centrally...

20060227745 - Method and system for station location based neighbor determination and handover probability estimation: The present invention is a method and system for station location based neighbor determination and handover probability estimation. A serving access point determines the location and movement measurements of a station (STA). Neighboring access points report coordinates of cell fringes of the neighboring access points. The STA sends a request...

20060227747 - Method of communication supporting media independent handover: The present invention relates to performing handover of a mobile terminal to a network. Preferably, the present invention generates a first heterogeneous protocol message from a heterogeneous network handover module to a medium access control (MAC) of the mobile terminal, wherein the heterogeneous network handover module is configured to provide...

20060227743 - Packet communication device and packet communication method: A packet communication apparatus and a packet communication method capable of suppressing decrease in overall system throughput and preventing communication from being reset or disconnected. An ACK generation section (130) generates an ACK/NACK to indicate whether or not data transmitted on the radio channel has been demodulated correctly. A channel...

20060227744 - Self-learning geographicaly aware handoff method and system: A self-learning geographically aware handoff method and system is disclosed. The system includes a handoff manager (108), which receives information about a position and movement of the mobile nodes (102a, 102b, 102c and 102d) present in the mobile network (100). The handoff manager learns the coverage capabilities of the access...

20060227746 - Wireless system for communicating heterogeneous network information for performing handover to a network: The present invention relates to communicating heterogeneous network information for performing a handover to a network. Preferably, the present invention generates a request message from a heterogeneous network handover module to a medium access control (MAC) of the mobile terminal, wherein the heterogeneous network handover module is configured to provide...

20060227748 - Selection of a thresholding parameter for channel estimation: Techniques for deriving a high quality channel estimate are described. A first channel impulse response estimate (CIRE) having multiple channel taps is derived, e.g., by filtering initial CIREs obtained from a received pilot. A threshold parameter value is selected based on at least one criterion, which may relate to channel...

20060227749 - Channel estimation for a cdma system using pilot symbols: The present invention provides a CDMA based communication system with improved channel estimation capability with respect to multiple pilots transmitted via channels dedicated to the system. In one embodiment of the invention, a CDMA based communication system compares the received multiple pilots to one another and selects a pilot with...

20060227750 - Method and apparatus for beacon discovery in a spread spectrum cellular radio communication system: An improved apparatus (and corresponding methodology) for discovering beacon signals in a spread spectrum radio communication system is provided, wherein the beacon signals comprise a plurality of different code sequences having index values assigned thereto and having portions that overlap one another. Correlation is performed over an extended search window....

20060227754 - Call tracking systems: This invention relates to the identification of messages relating to a particular communications session from a stream of messages, and more particularly to tracking voice and/or data call messages in packet data networks such as a UMTS mobile phone network. A method of identifying messages associated with a communications session...

20060227753 - Method and apparatus for operating a wireless pan network using an overlay protocol that enhances co-existence with a wireless lan network: A computing device is interfaced with other devices in a wireless personal area network (PAN) to enhance co-existence with a wireless local area network (WLAN), wherein the WLAN is characterized by a plurality of nodes intercommunicating for various network devices and the wireless PAN is characterized by lower power transmissions...

20060227752 - Packet transmission method and apparatus: When voice, video, and other communications requiring real-time processability are carried out using wireless packet communications in a wireless LAN etc., a technique is used, in which a plurality of packets are encapsulated in order to reduce the proportion occupied by the header relative to the entire frame. Because in...

20060227755 - Partner node migration control unit and method: Disclosed is a migration communication control device constructed to control a continuous communication between a mobile node and a node unaffected the mobile node's migration. The migration communication control device comprises a first migration control unit, a second migration control unit on the mobile node, and a third migration control...

20060227751 - Radio plan generator: A method, apparatus, and carrier medium carrying instructions to assign frequency channels and transmit powers for a plurality of access points of a wireless network. The method includes, until there are no more access points to which to assign a transmit power and frequency channel, selecting a next current access...

20060227756 - Method and system for securing media content in a multimedia processor: Methods and systems for processing video data are disclosed herein and may comprise receiving in a single mobile multimedia processor chip at least one indicator relating to how input multimedia data is processed. A further indicator may be generated within the single mobile multimedia processor chip, based on the at...

20060227757 - Electronic device and radio communication terminal: An electronic device includes a plurality of radio transmitting units, at least one radio receiving unit, and a wire communication member, the plurality of radio transmitting units and the radio receiving unit carry out radio communication with one another in the device, and the wire communication member communicates a synchronization...

20060227758 - Apparatus and method creating virtual routing domains in an internet protocol network: A method and apparatus is described that allow the creation of virtual routing domains in an IP network. These virtual routing domains allow individual networks to be configures so that it appears that its routing domain covers the entire IP address space. A network processing system is used to implement...

20060227759 - Peripheral sharing usb hub: In various embodiments, devices coupled to upstream ports may enumerate the USB switching hub according to the total number of downstream ports on the USB switching hub. In some embodiments, when a first upstream port is communicating with a first downstream port, status registers coupled to the second upstream port...

20060227764 - Fax passthrough for a system that includes super g3 fax machines: A method and system for fax passthrough that can detect fax calls and which can distinguish between fax calls and modem calls. Both V.21 flags and the CM fax signals are detected to determine if a call is a fax call. If a call is from a G3 fax machine,...

20060227763 - Method and apparatus for establishing a call in a packet network: Method and apparatus for establishing a call in a packet network is described. In one example, a first call is received to a virtual phone number. At least one voice command is received in response to the first call. A requested phone number is identified in response to the at...

20060227762 - Method and apparatus for handling calls in a packet network: Method and apparatus for handling calls in a packet network is described. In one example, call requests are received at a network element. For each call request of the call requests: A dialed number associated with the call request is identified. A current number of calls established by the packet...

20060227765 - Method and apparatus for providing optimal voip call routing in vrf environment: A method of providing VoIP call routing in a virtual private network is disclosed. A irst gatekeeper issues an information request to a gateway. The first gatekeeper receives from the gateway information organized in a string and based on the information in this string recommends to a second gatekeeper a...

20060227761 - Phone-based remote media system interaction: Phone-based remote media system interaction is described. A content distribution system provides a telephone-based voice menu system that enables a caller to select a media system control command. The content distribution system then causes the media system control command to be executed in association with a remote media system associated...

20060227760 - Telephone for pstn and internet: A dual telephone capable of performing and receiving calls via PSTN or via an IP based connection by using a single communication set. A user may select to call either via PSTN or IP from the communication set. In preferred embodiments the telephone has a base-station that is connected via...

20060227766 - methods and systems for routing telecommunications: Methods and systems of routing calls over a network are described herein. A latency measurement is performed for at least a plurality of portions of a plurality of network paths and storing latency measurement information in computer readable memory. A dropped packet measurement is performed for at least portions of...

20060227767 - Fault tolerant architecture for wireless base stations using ethernet backhaul: Base stations exchange information with users over first wireless communication links. A mobile switching center provides mobile telephone service. An Internet access system provides Internet access service. A data system provides a data service. An Ethernet backhaul system uses an Ethernet format to exchange the information between the base stations...

20060227768 - System and method for communicating between a computer cluster and a remote user interface: A system and method for communicating between a local computing resource and a remote user interface includes a segmented switch for sending Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIE) packets. The segmented switch includes a local switch segment that is associated with the local computing resource and a remote switch segment associated...

20060227780 - Address translation method: A translator includes a unit for communication with a DNS-ALG. The DNS-ALG detects a DNS query to a destination terminal, and performs once translation to IPv6. The DNS-ALG translates a destination temporary IPv6 address, in which a real address of IPv4 acquired from a DNS server of the destination terminal...

20060227773 - Authenticity of communications traffic: Provided are a techniques for storing information in a packet. A data integrity operation is performed over one portion of the packet to calculate an integrity check value using a secret key. The data transformation operation is performed over another selectable portion of the packet to store the integrity check...

20060227774 - Collective network routing: Disclosed are a unified method and apparatus to classify, route, and process injected data packets into a network so as to belong to a plurality of logical networks, each implementing a specific flow of data on top of a common physical network. The method allows to locally identify collectives of...

20060227771 - Dynamic service management for multicore processors: A system, apparatus, method and article to perform dynamic service management for multicore processors are described. The apparatus may include, for example, a processing device having multiple types of processors to process packets. A service manager may dynamically assign executable files for multiple services to the multiple types of processors...

20060227777 - Filtering frames at an input port of a switch: A switch includes multiple ports for transmitting and receiving frames and a switching core for switching frames between the ports. One or more of the ports locally store filtering information, allowing the ports to filter frames without accessing central elements of the switch. For example, a port's filtering information may...

20060227776 - Forwarding traffic flow information using an intelligent line card: Methods and apparatus are provided for monitoring traffic characteristics using intelligent line cards. Selected flows are configured for monitoring based on characteristics such as an initiator target pairing or an initiator target and logical unit (LUN) grouping. Frames such as command frames associated with selected flows are forwarded to both...

20060227772 - Method and system for packet data communication between networks: A system and method for packet data transmission is described, particularly in the case of dispersed networks that are at least occasionally in data communication with each other (such as in a wide area network), in which efficient packet transmission is provided while avoiding traffic bottlenecks and the like. In...

20060227769 - Method for data exchange between network elements in networks with different address ranges: The invention relates to a method for data exchange between network elements with a first network element, arranged in a first network domain with address valid in the first network domain, a second network element, arranged in a second network domain with an address valid in the first network domain...

20060227778 - Method of supporting multiple codes in a wireless mobile communication system: A method of supporting multiple code types in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. More specifically, a mobile station (MS) receives a channel descriptor from a base station (BS), wherein the channel descriptor includes at least one burst profile which includes a code type and an interval usage code....

20060227779 - Network based routing scheme: A network organization and routing scheme are provided. These techniques enable a network to control the paths that frames take through the network. A device transmitting a frame may add tags to the frame in order to define a particular path that the frame should take through the network. For...

20060227770 - Preventing duplicate sources from clients served by a network address port translator: Preventing duplicate sources on a protocol connection that uses network addresses, protocols and port numbers to identify connections that include port number translation. In response to an inbound IPsec packet from a remote source client, a determination is made as to whether or not a port number is available within...

20060227775 - System, method, and apparatus for embedding personal video recorder functions in transport packets: Described herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for embedding personal video recorder functions in transport packets. In one embodiment, there is described a method for commanding a video processor. The method comprises generating a transport packet; placing an indicator in the transport packet, said indicator indicating that the transport packet...

20060227782 - Method and apparatus for improved voice over internet protocol (voip) transmission in a digital network: Voice services are provided in a network node of a digital networking system. A service signal is provided to at least one user device. One or more voice packets are received from the at least one user device. The one or more voice packets are processed, and transmitted to one...

20060227783 - Method of dormant data session reactivation: A method for dormant data session reactivation may include a packet control function (118) in a radio access network (104) receiving a first data packet (150) having a source IP address (152), where the first data packet has a destination IP address (152) addressed to reactivate a dormant mobile station...

20060227784 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for selectively performing global title translation based on message type: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for selectively performing global title translation based on message type at an SS7 network node. A message is received indicating route-on-global-title. A message type of the received message is determined. Global title translation is selectively performed based on the determined message type....

20060227781 - Processing communication terminal addresses by integration and/or extraction of communication interface characteristics in the address: A device (D) installed in a source communication terminal (T1) of a packet-switched communication network (N) using a connectionless protocol is dedicated to processing addresses of destination communication terminals (T2). This device (D) comprises processing means (MT) responsible, when their source terminal (T1) must transmit a data packet to a...

20060227785 - Specific stream redirection of a multimedia telecommunication: It is proposed a method for establishing a IP-telecommunications between two participants with a specific control of data stream from that multimedia IP-telecommunications while maintaining the IP-telecommunications between the first and the second participant terminal originally targeted. This is achieved by setting up a connection for the transmission of packets...

20060227786 - System and method for interconnecting multiple virtual private networks: A system and method for interconnecting multiple VPNs, each using multiple service providers, while offering a minimum standard of end-to-end connection quality and reliability are described. The system and method utilizes an overseer that resolves end-to-end issues across multiple interconnected virtual private networks. When connecting multiple virtual private networks multiple...

20060227787 - Detection of signatures in disordered message segments: A method of detecting signatures in message segments comprises employing a state machine for the detection of character strings in the message segments. The state machine executes for each input character a transition determined by a current state of the machine and a current input character. The message segments conform...

20060227789 - Method for transmitting control data: Apparatuses and methods for transmitting control data on a physical channel between a mobile radio device and a base station in a cellular network. In particular, in a mobile radio network according to the UMTS standard (UMTS=Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) a packet-oriented data transmission between the mobile radio device and...

20060227790 - Csnp cache for efficient periodic csnp in a router: A networking device such as a router may include, in one embodiment, a database storing a plurality of link state entries, and a cache operatively coupled with the database, the cache storing entries relating to the link state entries of the database. The networking device may also include a module...

20060227788 - Managing queues of packets: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for managing queues of packets. Packets are received at a network interface, wherein the received packets are capable of being processed by a plurality of processors. The received packets are stored in memory. Tasks are scheduled corresponding to selected processors of...

20060227791 - System and method of defining a modified upsr sonet network including sub-tending rings: A method of providing a data file that defines a modified SONET ring network including at least one sub-tending ring is disclosed. The method comprises identifying a set of low data rate sub-tending ring candidate traffic handling elements within a SONET ring network to be modified. For a first candidate...

20060227792 - Access network clusterhead for providing local mobility management of a roaming ipv4 node: An IPv4 host is able to maintain connectivity within an access network while moving among access points of the access network, based on receiving a unique assigned IPv4 address from a clusterhead of the access network. Any DHCP request by the IPv4 host is sent via the connecting access point...

20060227793 - Parameter coordination in a vehicular communication network: A system and method for coordinating parameters in a switch fabric network (22) of a vehicle (20). The network (22) has a plurality of nodes (24) that are interconnected by communication links for the transmission of data packets there between. Events in the vehicle (20) may be handled in connection...

20060227794 - Private network link verification procedure in free space optical communication network: A system and method for verifying the integrity of a communication link in a wireless optical communication network. The system and method include monitoring the communication link on at least two levels and enabling or disabling signaling over the communication link appropriately depending on events reported through the system....

20060227796 - Method and apparatus to facilitate real-time packet scheduling in a wireless communications system: A method, apparatus and system for scheduling data packets in a wireless communications system. The invention includes determining a priority for at least one data packet, wherein determining the priority of the data packet is based at least on a plurality of quality of service factors, wherein each of the...

20060227795 - Optimized method of reading data packets communicated over a network: Techniques are described for reading a plurality of data packets, which can be communicated over a network, without sacrificing the efficiency of network operation, and for reading data packets communicated over a network without unnecessary memory copies. A receive buffer of a first size, which is at least twice a...

20060227798 - Configurable data port for i2c or single-wire broadcast interface: A device having a signal level different from a signal level of an external device includes an interface, such as an I2C interface, for providing communications with the external device. The interface is configurable to support communications with the external device either via multiple wires or via a single wire....

20060227797 - Network access device with restricted and unrestricted input ports: Access devices and methods according to the invention interconnect digital devices and a network. Setting a parameter associated with each input port of an access device specifies whether the device connected with that port is restricted or unrestricted. When a particular input port is restricted, packet detectors examine the packets...

20060227799 - Systems and methods for dynamically allocating memory for rdma data transfers: Apparatuses and methods for transferring data by dynamically allocating and deallocating data sink memory buffers for direct memory transfers are disclosed....

20060227800 - Rate determination for scheduling users on a time shared packet data channel: A scheduler at a base station uses a continuous function to determine achievable rates of mobile stations communicating with the base station over a shared packet data channel. The scheduler receives channel quality feedback from mobile stations using the shared channel and determines achievable rates for said mobile stations using...

20060227801 - Method and apparatus for an ad-hoc wireless communications system: An IBSS that allows token passing for round-robin service of QoS flows is disclosed (an RRBSS). The RRBSS permits low-latency, reduced contention, distributed scheduling useful in any ad hoc network, but particularly suitable for high data rates. Distributed scheduled access is provided for flows through a round-robin token passing service...

20060227802 - Method and apparatus for implementing medium access control in wireless distributed network: An embodiment of the present invention includes a medium access control method in a wireless distributed network which comprises the steps of: transmitting a CTS packet after delaying for an SIFS time interval, when a node in the network receives a RTS packet addressed to the node; detecting a channel...

20060227803 - Temporary contact alias system: A system for providing temporary contact aliases is provided. A representative system includes a database system operable to store at least one resource list comprising a plurality of contacts associated with at least one user. The plurality of contacts comprising at least one temporary contact at the instruction of said...

20060227804 - Method for enablement for offloading functions in a single lan adapter: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for offloading functions to improve processor performance. A single LAN adapter is provided that allows for predefined functions to be offloaded to other devices. Different methods are described for offloading functions. First, users and applications may pick and choose, on demand,...

20060227805 - Buffers handling multiple protocols: The present invention relates to buffers that handle multiple protocols in a communication system. In one embodiment, a plurality of communication channels is provide. There is a buffer for each communication channel. Moreover, each buffer is adapted to pass data samples in more than one protocol....

20060227806 - Multi-mode computer systems and operating methods thereof: Multi-mode computer systems and operating methods thereof. The computer system comprises a storage device and a boot program. The storage device includes a single disk partition comprising a first operating system corresponding to PC mode, and a second OS image and a file system image corresponding to media mode. If...

20060227808 - Internet protocol loopback wireless data protocol converter: An internet protocol loopback wireless data protocol converter for a mobile device comprising: at least one loopback interface; at least one internet protocol server operating on one or more ports of any of the at least one loopback interface; a wireless optimized data communications module to connect to a wireless...

20060227807 - Preventing duplicate sources from clients served by a network address port translator: Preventing duplicate sources on a protocol connection that uses network addresses, protocols and port numbers to identify source applications that are served by a NAPT. If an arriving packet encapsulates an encrypted packet and has passed through an NAPT en route to the destination host, the encapsulated packet is decrypted...

20060227809 - System and method for base band-directional communication protocol for time-division multiplexing graphic data applications: A system and method transmits graphic data received at varying frequencies at a fixed data rate. The frequency dependent data and associated data clock signal are received and the frequency dependent data is converted to frequency independent data. A ratio of a number of data clock cycles to a number...

20060227810 - Method, system and program product for outsourcing resources in a grid computing environment: A technique for efficiently processing resource allocation requests in an on-demand environment. When a user logs into a resource allocation request manager, various resource requirements entered are immediately sent to a remote resource manager to allow for dynamic, real-time feedback to the user who is entering the resource requirements as...

20060227811 - Tcp engine: A network transport layer accelerator accelerates processing of packets so that packets can be forwarded at wire-speed. To accelerate processing of packets, the accelerator performs pre-processing on a network transport layer header encapsulated in a packet for a connection and performs in-line network transport layer checksum insertion prior to transmitting...

20060227812 - Timing corrections in a multi carrier system and propagation to a channel estimation time filter: Systems and methods are provided for determining and applying timing corrections in a digital communications system. In an aspect, a timing correction method is provided for a multi-carrier system. This includes aligning two or more symbols with respect to each other from a symbol subset in order to account for...

20060227813 - Method and system for synchronized video recording/delivery: A method for synchronizing multiple video recordings comprises inserting a series of time stamps into a live video signal and forming a video data file. A series of time stamps is inserted into a second live video signal and a second video data file is formed. The video files are...

20060227814 - Method for alignment of analog and digital audio in a hybrid radio waveform: This invention provides a method of detecting time alignment of an analog audio signal and a digital audio signal in a hybrid radio system. The method comprises the steps of filtering the analog audio signal to produce a filtered analog audio signal, filtering the digital audio signal to produce a...

20060227815 - Parallel turbo decoders with multiplexed output: A system and method are provided for parallel path turbo decoding in a portable wireless communications user terminal (UT). The method accepts a coded stream having a first order of information packets, and demultiplexes the coded stream into first coded and second coded information streams. The first coded stream is...

20060221807 - Multi-carrier transmitter apparatus, multi-carrier receiver apparatus and multi-carrier communication method: Multicarrier transmission apparatus 100 receives channel quality information of subcarriers from multicarrier reception apparatus 200 and interleave pattern setting section 108 sets an interleave pattern according to channel quality of subcarriers. Interleaver 106 interleaves I components and/or Q components of symbols using the set interleave pattern. As a result, it...

20060221808 - Ofdm receiving method of ofdm receiver: OFDM signals each including a plurality of subcarriers (including data carriers and pilot carriers) orthogonal to each other are received by a plurality of receiver antennas. The received OFDM signals are each OFDM-demodulated into a plurality of receive subcarriers. Based on the plurality of receive subcarriers, the propagation coefficients of...

20060221809 - Method and apparatus for data and pilot structures supporting equalization: Techniques for transmitting data in a manner to facilitate equalization at a receiver are described. Guard intervals are appended to data blocks such that each data block has a guard interval at the beginning of the data block and a guard interval at the end of the data block. Each...

20060221810 - Fine timing acquisition: A method for synchronizing timing of a receiver to a received orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal is disclosed. A first timing acquisition is performed with a first received time division multiplexed (TDM) pilot to determine a course timing estimate of the received OFDM signal. A second timing acquisition is...

20060221812 - Brownout detection: An apparatus and automatic method for detecting brown-outs in a computer network includes determining normal rates of different types of traffic with respect to defined address prefixes. Thresholds are established based on the normal rates. The rates for the different traffic types are monitored, and when a threshold is exceeded...

20060221817 - Duplex system: A duplex system has duplicated processor devices. Each of the processor devices has a first copying section which writes data written in a memory of the processor device, into a same address of a memory of the other processor device, a second copying section which divides all data in the...

20060221815 - Failure-monitoring program and load-balancing device: In a method for monitoring servers including destination servers for failure: definition-for-monitoring information including servers to be monitored, a monitoring procedure including a definition of a monitoring packet used in diagnosis of the servers to be monitored, and a criterion for determining normality of the servers to be monitored is...

20060221814 - Line accommodation device and control method thereof: The present invention provides a line accommodation device comprising at least one first communication control unit for controlling information transmission/reception to/from a first communication system, at least one second communication control unit for controlling information transmission/reception to/from a second communication system using the first communication system as a communication medium...

20060221813 - Loop prevention techniques using encapsulation manipulation of ip/mpls field: A fast reroute (FRR) technique is implemented at the edge of a computer network. In accordance with the technique, if an edge device detects a node or link failure that prevents it from communicating with a neighboring routing domain, the edge device reroutes at least some data packets addressed to...

20060221811 - Method for providing extra-traffic paths with connection protection in a communication network, related network and computer program product therefor: Extra traffic paths are provided in a communication network including at least two protection channels associated to respective transmission channels. Each protection channel admits an active state for carrying, in the presence of a failure in the associated transmission channel, traffic to be carried by the associated transmission channel, and...

20060221816 - Transmission device and label allocation method: In a network having a main route and a protection route, a branch node reflects label limit information for the main route into the label limit information for the protection route, and allocates to the main route, a label related to the label for the protection route. On the other...

20060221818 - Method, system and storage medium for redundant input/output access: A system, method and storage medium for providing redundant I/O access between a plurality of interconnected processor nodes and I/O resources. The method includes determining whether a primary path between the interconnected processor nodes and the I/O resources is operational, where the primary path includes a first processor node and...

20060221823 - Assigning resources to items such as processing contexts for processing packets: Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, and mechanisms, for matching items with resources, such as, but not limited to packet processing contexts, output links, memory, storage, specialized hardware or software, compute cycles, or any other entity. One implementation includes means for maintaining distribution groups of items,...

20060221825 - Congestion control network relay device and method: A congestion control network relay device capable of preventing redundant retransmission of packets which are already delivered to a receiving-side device. When an acknowledgment packet is detected by an acknowledgment packet detector, a receive packet manager stores acknowledgment information in an acknowledgment information memory. If first and second data packets...

20060221821 - Method and apparatus for load balancing in a wireless network: A method and apparatus for load balancing in a wireless network is provided. For example, this invention is directed to a technique for balancing bearer load across a bank of traffic processors associated with a high-availability radio network controller (RNC). Instantaneous measures (e.g. processor occupancy) are used as one parameter...

20060221820 - Method and system for fairly adjusting bandwidth among distributed network elements: A method and system for fairly adjusting the bandwidth among distributed network elements (NEs). Load-balancing (LB) packets, carrying designated congestion values (CVs) are sent from each source NE to intermediate NEs along data flows routes. The intermediate NEs stamp each received LB packet with a segment CV, if the segment...

20060221826 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing traffic control services: A method, system, and computer program product for providing traffic control services is provided. The method includes detecting an occurrence of an activity and obtaining traffic management support information associated with a source of the activity. The method also includes subscribing to traffic messages provided by the source and implementing...

20060221822 - Provision of static qos control using dynamic service based policy mechanisms: An apparatus in one example may have: at least two endpoints operatively coupled to one another via an application function (AF) in a home network; a combined policy decision function (AAA-PDF) operatively coupled to the AF; a combined policy decision enforcement (PDE) operatively coupled to the one of the endpoints;...

20060221824 - Storage system and data processing method: Proposed is a storage system and data processing method capable of effectively preventing the transfer delay or loss of important data or data which should be processed in real time. The priorities respectively set to each packet transmitted from the host system are detected, each packet is processed, and these...

20060221819 - System and method for performing distributed policing: Various systems and methods that synchronize local copies of a variable used in a distributed algorithm, such as that used in distributed policing, are disclosed. For example, one system includes several distributed algorithm participants that are coupled to communicate with each other. Each of the each of the distributed algorithm...

20060221829 - Automatic qos configuration: A UE is described herein that has a defined QoS database which is used to organize and store various QoS parameter sets which are used to help establish media flows. In one embodiment, the QoS database includes a plurality of tables, where each table is associated with a particular application,...

20060221828 - Establishment of qos by applications in cellular networks using service based policy control mechanisms: An apparatus in one example may have: at least two endpoints operatively coupled to one another via an application function (AF) in a home network; a policy decision function operatively coupled to the AF; a policy decision enforcement (PDE) operatively coupled to the one of the endpoints; the PDF operatively...

20060221827 - Tcp implementation with message-count interface: A method for implementing TCP (transmission control protocol), the method including updating a number of pending requests received for data transmission via a TCP connection, the number of pending requests being called the message count, and making a decision regarding data transmission based on the message count regardless of a...

20060221830 - Method and apparatus for managing end-to-end quality of service policies in a communication system: A computer-readable storage medium (102) is provided for managing end-to-end QoS (Quality of Service) policies in a communication network (100). The storage medium includes computer instructions for establishing (302) a plurality of QoS domains (108) between a plurality of packet switching technologies (102, 106. 110) operating with disparate QoS policies,...

20060221833 - Method and related apparatus for reconfiguring size of a receiving window in a communications system: A method for reconfiguring size of a receiving window in a communications system avoiding duplicate packet delivery to an upper layer to keep ciphering parameters in synchronization when the communications system reconfigures a receiving window of a receiver includes receiving a command for reconfiguring a size of the receiving window,...

20060221831 - Packet flow control: A flow control method according to one embodiment may include transmitting a first plurality of packets from a transmitting node to a receiving node at an initial packet rate, and transmitting a second plurality packets from the transmitting node to the receiving node at a congested packet rate less than...

20060221832 - Virtualized partitionable shared network interface: A network system having a plurality of processing partitions which includes a network interface unit coupled to a plurality of processing entities is disclosed. The network interface unit includes a plurality of memory access channels. The plurality of memory access channels is virtualized. The network interface unit is shared among...

20060221834 - Method and network node for determining multi-path transmission paths in a packet- switched communication network: The invention relates to method wherein data packets are respectively transmitted between an input network node and a destination network node via various transmission paths which link network nodes in a packet-switching communication network consisting of various network nodes. Multipath transmission paths are determined by initially determining at least two...

20060221835 - Converting a network device from data rate traffic management to packet rate: A network device that manages the flow rate of a stream of packets traveling within a network is converted from managing based on data rate to managing based on packet rate. In one embodiment, an interface receives from the device an actual length of a packet and provides to the...

20060221836 - Method for classifying network connections and transmitting multimedia data: A data transmission method for classifying network connections and transmitting multimedia data is described. After distinguishing multimedia connections from non-multimedia connects, multimedia packets are classified and consolidated into packet groups and then the packet groups are transmitted. The method for transmitting multimedia data comprises the following steps. First, determine whether...

20060221837 - Method of sharing measurement data, system therefor and network node apparatus: Data are recorded relating to an event associated with a handover mechanism, the data being shared between a Home Agent and a Mobile Node by communicating the collected data using an extension header of a packet communicated between the Home Agent and the Mobile Node as part of the handover...

20060221840 - Communication device and logical link abnormality detection method: The present invention provides a communication device capable of providing a highly reliable service by detecting communication abnormality at a high speed. The communication device comprises a link configuring unit configuring a plurality of logical links between a opposite communication device, a segmenting unit segmenting transmission data as being associated...

20060221839 - Distributed redundancy capacity licensing in a telecommunication network element: A method for sharing a total licensed pool between network elements is disclosed. In the method, each of the network elements has a fixed available capacity. In a first step, an offered load capacity limit based on the total licensed pool and the available capacity is determined. Next, each of...

20060221841 - Method of monitoring link performance and diagnosing active link state in ethernet passive optical network: Provided is a method of monitoring link performance and diagnosing an active link state without interrupting traffic in an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) while the link is in the active state. The method of monitoring link performance and diagnosing an active link state without interrupting data flow to logic...

20060221838 - Sip maintenance unit: A method and system are provided for managing voice and multimedia sessions over a network. The method includes initializing a SIP maintenance unit, performing tests on SIP proxies, adjusting a value of a counter based on the results of the tests, and managing the voice and multimedia sessions based on...

20060221843 - Duplex mismatch testing: A method for testing a communication network includes transmitting at least one unidirectional flow over a path through the network, and measuring arrival characteristics of the least one unidirectional flow at a receiving end of the path. The arrival characteristics include at least one of a packet throughput characteristic, a...

20060221844 - Method and system for determining path maximum transfer unit for ip multicast: A method and system for determining path maximum transfer unit (PMTU) in an Internet Protocol (IP) multicast is described. If a packet of a size greater than the MTU of any link of a path, with its Don't Fragment (DF) bit set, is sent by the source, the packet is...

20060221842 - Systems and methods for testing system links: In one embodiment, a method for testing a link comprises identifying devices that are associated with a selected link, collecting information about the configuration of the identified devices, building test sequences for testing the selected link based upon the collected information, and controlling, via boundary-scan architecture, an internal test element...

20060221845 - Method and system for simulation multimedia packet loss and jitter: A Packet Loss and Jitter Simulator processes RTP packets coming through the MTA. Based on user input commands, the simulator drops or delays insertion of packets into the DSP portion of the MTA. Various modes that may be programmed include, but are not limited to, manual packet loss, fixed packet...

20060221846 - Dynamic media access control (mac) address assignment: According to the invention an embodiment, a network node for communicating using a MAC address is disclosed. The network node includes a point-to-point interface, a bridge and a MAC address register. The point-to-point interface uses a first protocol. The bridge is coupled to the point-to-point interface and provides a fixed...

20060221853 - Error handling in a wireless communications system: A method for detecting an erroneous sequence number in a status report in a wireless communications system includes receiving a status report sent from a receiver of the wireless communications system, detecting whether a negatively acknowledged sequence number is within a range that is larger than or equal to the...

20060221850 - Field content based packet classification: An ordered classification procedure includes receiving a packet including a plurality of packet fields having corresponding field values. At least some of the packet fields are parsed to extract at least some of the field values of the packet. The extracted field values are examined using the ordered classification procedure...

20060221847 - Method and apparatus for selecting transmission modulation rates in wireless devices for a/v streaming applications: A-priori performance measures of a wireless communication system, combined with channel signal to noise ratio and/or signal to interference and noise ratio (SNR/SINR) measurements, are used to determine transmission modulation rate to help optimize real-time streaming. The method and apparatus minimize packet error rates (PER) without actually measuring packet error...

20060221849 - Method of selecting a profile of a broadband communication line: The application discloses a system and a method of selecting a profile of a digital subscriber line. In a particular embodiment, the method includes setting a threshold for voice quality and determining a number of acceptable code violations that can occur without compromising the voice quality of the digital subscriber...

20060221848 - Method, system and program product for optimizing event monitoring filter settings and metric threshold: Under the present invention indications of an event are monitored based upon a comparison of a computer system metric to a corresponding metric threshold over time. It is then determined whether a predetermined probability is reached that the indications will persist at least as long as a minimum detection and...

20060221851 - System and method for measuring the roundtrip response time of network protocols utilizing a single agent on a non-origin node: A computer-based system and method for measuring the roundtrip response time of an original request on a network, utilizing a single response time monitor located on a non-origin node. The method starts the response time monitor on the non-origin node to detect a start time and end time of each...

20060221852 - System and method utilizing a single agent on a non-origin node for measuring the roundtrip response time over a public or private network with http/https network protocol: A computer-based system and method for measuring the roundtrip response time of a set of requests resulting from an original request on a public or private network, utilizing a single response time monitor located on a non-origin node. The method starts the response time monitor on the non-origin node to...

20060221855 - Method and system for real-time detection of hidden traffic patterns: A method for measuring flow is disclosed. The method includes receiving an IP packet; determining if another IP packet is stored in a register; if another IP packet is stored in the register, comparing the stored IP packet with the received IP packet; and determining the longest match between the...

20060221854 - Upstream data rate estimation: In one embodiment, a VoIP-integrated router operable to interface with analog telephones and digital devices is provided. The VoIP-integrated router is configured to perform a method of estimating the upstream data rate of a modem, comprising transmitting packets at a known rate from the VoIP-integrated router through an upstream path...

20060221859 - Method and apparatus for managing a multicast tree: The invention comprises a method and apparatus for managing a multicast tree. Specifically, the method comprises receiving at least one request for modifying the multicast tree where the at least one request is associated with at least one user device, determining at least one multicast tree change in response to...

20060221857 - Method and apparatus for providing enhanced features to multicast content services and multiplayer gaming services: A method and apparatus for providing enhanced features to multicast users is provided. More particularly, this invention describes a mechanism by which the online content or gaming services can invoke full feature VoIP services offered by a third party VoIP telephony service provider and/or initiate related packet communication services such...

20060221861 - Multicast routing over unidirectional links: Various systems and methods are disclosed for performing multicast routing over unidirectional links. For example, one method involves maintaining a multicast adjacency sate, which is associated with an interface that is coupled to receive messages from a network device via a unidirectional link. The multicast adjacency state identifies a network...

20060221862 - Network device management apparatus, network device management program, and network device management method: A network device management apparatus which generates distribution routes for transmitting distribution information via communication devices, in order to distribute information to plural communication devices connected to a network, and makes the distribution information be transmitted in accordance with the generated distribution routes. The apparatus comprises: a hierarchy structure creation...

20060221860 - Nodal pattern configuration: Nodal pattern configuration is described, including generating successive values at a source node, processing the successive values using a plurality of intermediate nodes, sending the processed values from a node in the plurality of intermediate nodes to a destination node, and configuring the plurality of intermediate nodes such that each...

20060221856 - System and method for managing master-slave relationships within a network: A system and method for managing the relationship between master devices and slave devices within a network such as a Bluetooth network. Each time that a master device connects to a slave device, the network topology is updated. This update is transmitted to each slave device, sending the node's properties...

20060221863 - Terminal device: A terminal device, which is to be connected to the network together with other terminal devices and a host device to operate the terminal device, includes an output device that outputs perceptually recognized information, a self-pattern storing system that stores information on an expression pattern for the terminal device, a...

20060221858 - User experience for collaborative ad-hoc networks: A system and method for creating an ad-hoc network is described. A user may navigate a number of options to create an ad-hoc network and/or join an ad-hoc network using the described system....

20060221867 - Building multipoint-to-multipoint label switch paths: Creating, maintaining, and using multipoint-to-multipoint label switch paths (LSP) in a provider network using a protocol such as multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) are presented. A multipoint-to-multipoint LSP, allowing bi-directional multicast-type transmission between routers in a core provider network, is provided, in part, by configuring routers within the core network to...

20060221866 - Data driven route advertisement: Various methods and systems for performing data-driven route advertisement are disclosed. One method involves inhibiting advertisement of a route that is associated with a data source. Advertisement of the route is then allowed in response to detecting data sent by the data source. For example, advertisement of the route can...

20060221864 - Method and apparatus for determining a best technique to use when locating a node: A method and apparatus for determining a best technique (algorithm and/or parameters) to use when locating a node (104) is provided herein. In particular, reference nodes (105) are provided that not only know their own locations, but also test various algorithms and parameters by estimating their locations as if they...

20060221865 - Method and system for autonomous link discovery and network management connectivity of remote access devices: Autonomous link discovery specifies a method and associated procedures that automatically discover various levels of transmission links and paths between transport network elements residing in the transport plane of communications networks. Unlike more traditional centralized polling techniques rooted in a management plane, autonomous link discovery procedures are rooted in and...

20060221868 - Methods and apparatus for realizing a configurable multi-bridge: A method and apparatus for adapting the switching process of a bridge to partition the bridge ports into a plurality of port subsets such that the bridge operates on each of the port subsets in an independent manner....

20060221870 - Image communication method and communication apparatus: According to one embodiment, an image communication method for transmitting image data between a first terminal and a second terminal via a network, the method includes performing a bidirectional image communication including a transmission of first image data from the first terminal to the second terminal and a transmission of...

20060221869 - System and method for audio multicast: A system and method for audio multicast includes a flexible number of active and passive conferencing endpoints in packet communication with a server. The server creates a mixed audio stream from the received audio packets from the active endpoints. The server multicasts the mixed audio to all the conferencing endpoints....

20060221871 - Method for transcoder optimization for group dispatch calls: A method for minimizing the number of transcoders needed to support group calls includes a first step of receiving a request from a call initiator to initiate a group call with a plurality of call targets. Next, a listing of call initiator vocoders supported by the call initiator is received....

20060221872 - Method, base station and mobile station for tdd operation in a communication system: A method, NodeB (320) and User Equipment (330) for TDD operation in a communication system operating in TDD mode in a frequency band allocated for FDD operation. Preferably, operation is in TDD uplink and downlink mode in a first frequency band designated or normally used for FDD uplink communication, and...

20060221873 - System and method for wireless multiple access: Described is a system which includes an access point and a plurality of wireless devices. The access point transmits a predetermined number of first signals using a first wireless communication mode (“FCM”). The predetermined number of the first signals corresponds to a number of transmitting antennas of the access point....

20060221874 - Versatile system for transceiver noise reduction in a time-division duplexing wireless network: A system for suppressing transmission channel noise in a signal transmission/reception device—particularly a time division duplex (TDD) wireless communications device—is provided. The system provides one or more shunt elements, instantiated at some point along the device's signal transmission channel. One or more attenuation elements are also instantiated at some point...

20060221875 - Network interface with transmit frame descriptor reuse: A network interface unit includes an interface memory coupled to a host memory of a network station, the network station also hosting the network interface unit. The host memory is operable to store a plurality of data frames and a plurality of transmit frame descriptors identifying the plurality of data...

20060221876 - Intellegent voice network monitoring using echo cancellation statistics: Monitoring voice quality passively using line echo cancellation data across a telecommunications network and reporting monitoring data to a central network management system. Network is monitored for potential voice quality issues for pro-active isolation of problems prior to customer complaints about the problems. Line echo cancellation related and non-related data...

20060221877 - Apparatus and method for inspecting containers: This invention relates to an integrated apparatus and method for inspection of a container adapted to hold a pressurized gas. The integrated apparatus comprises (i) an imaging device configured to obtain image data corresponding to the container and to transmit the image data to a central station, (ii) a sound...

20060221880 - Method, apparatus and computer program product providing slow associated control channel (sacch) repetition: Techniques are presented for repetition on both uplink and downlink Slow Associated Control Channel (SACCH) channels. For instance, an exemplary method is disclosed that is performed by a mobile node. The method includes receiving from a network node a first block of data over a downlink SACCH channel, and storing...

20060221878 - Radio communication apparatus performing tfc selection processing in w-cdma, and tfc selection method: The present invention provides a TFC (Transport Format Combination) selection method capable of performing appropriate TFC selection for a radio frame including a compressed frame. Both TFC state transition types based on the transmission power in a normal frame and the transmission power in a compressed frame are managed. At...

20060221879 - Radio communication system: A radio base station apparatus used in a radio communication system in which an initiator holds a transmission opportunity (TXOP) period in a frame exchange sequence and a responder responds to the initiator in the frame exchange sequence is disclosed. The apparatus includes a setting device which sets a ratio...

20060221881 - Information processing apparatus and power source control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes: a wireless communication part which performs wireless communication using a wireless signal of a predetermined frequency band; a detection part which detects intensity of the wireless signal; and a power source control part which supplies a power source to the detection...

20060221882 - File distribution method and apparatus in a mobile broadcast system: A system and method are provided for providing a broadcast service (BCAST) in a mobile broadcast system. The system and method include a file application function (FA) that provides a file attribute related to the broadcast service, receives at least one file to be provided to at least one terminal...

20060221883 - Method and apparatus for high rate data transmission in wireless communication: Techniques for utilizing multiple carriers to substantially improve transmission capacity are described. For multi-carrier operation, a terminal receives an assignment of multiple forward link (FL) carriers and at least one reverse link (RL) carrier. The carriers may be arranged in at least one group, with each group including at least...

20060221884 - Multiplex switching scheme for communications network: An earth station interface architecture provides full mesh connectivity for a relatively small number of network stations. A component of the architecture is a switch, which employs' a network interface standard to ‘define the multiplexing of multiple virtual ports across single physical communications port. Through address and control fields of...

20060221889 - Data communication system: Systems and methods for wireless communications are provided. In one implementation a communications system is provided. The communications system includes a wireless access point connected to a public switched telephone network “PSTN”. The wireless access point is configured to provide wireless communication allowing a wireless user access device to communicate...

20060221891 - Information distribution with improved reliability and efficiency for mobile ad hoc networks: Information is distributed to nodes of a mobile ad hoc network, wherein the nodes dispose of position sensing elements, wherein a predeterminable geographic target area is defined and every information is assigned a pre-determinable lifetime, and wherein an information is distributed during its lifetime to all of the nodes being...

20060221888 - Mbms feedback and neighboring cell measurement reporting: A method and equipment by which a mobile station receiving a point-to-multicast (p-t-m) transmission from a radio access network (RAN) of a wireless communication system communicates information to the RAN of use in the mobile changing to a neighboring cell for receiving the p-t-m transmission; in particular, the mobile station...

20060221890 - Method and apparatus for implementing voice group call service and data group call service by circuit switch or packet switch respectively in mobile network: The present invention provides a method and corresponding apparatus for multimedia group call service in mobile network. According to the present invention, voice group call is established by circuit switch while data group call is established by packet switch. Compared with the prior art, the solutions disclosed in the present...

20060221894 - Method and apparatus for management of multi-carrier communications in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus manages resources in a wireless communication system by transmitting a multi-carrier switch command message to an access terminal instructing the access terminal to switch between a diversity mode where each antenna module of a plurality antenna modules receives a single carrier signal transmitted at a single...

20060221886 - Method of detecting wireless network faults: A wireless communication system includes the ability to determine that a fault condition associated with at least a portion of a cell associated with a base station is likely. Disclosed examples include using information regarding call activity levels of various portions of a cell for determining an expected call activity...

20060221896 - Method, apparatus and computer program for terminating mobile station receipt of multimedia broadcast/multimedia service (mbms) service bearer: In one non-limiting aspect thereof the exemplary embodiments of this invention provide a method, a computer program product and a mobile station operable in accordance therewith to originate a request at the mobile station to terminate reception of a Multimedia Broadcast/Multimedia Service radio bearer; and to transmit the request to...

20060221887 - Methods for informing mobile stations of control channel architectures: A method for informing mobile stations of a control channel architecture for a wireless communications system is disclosed. At a controller in the wireless communications system, the controller sends a control channel architecture message on a broadcast channel. The control channel architecture message informs the mobile station of a control...

20060221885 - Power de-boosting on the control channel: A method for transmitting signaling information on reverse link control channels using less than full or de-boosted transmit power for re-transmissions, thereby increasing overall available power for reverse link packet data transmission. De-boosting is achieved through combining signaling information across multiple or all transmissions. The method comprises the steps of...

20060221893 - System, network entity, method, mobile device and computer program product for correlating device identifiers in mobile networks: A means by which a network-based presence source can ascertain the unique device ID for each device on the network based on the device's IP address is provided. In particular, a network-based Device ID database, along with a method of accessing and utilizing the database, which can be used in...

20060221892 - Transmission rate control method, mobile station, and radio base station: A transmission rate control method for controlling a transmission rate of uplink user data, includes: notifying, at a radio network controller, to a radio base station and a mobile station, an effective period to an Absolute Grant Channel which includes an absolute value for the transmission rate of the uplink...

20060221895 - Wireless network system: A wireless network system arranges a plurality of access points along the aisles in a vehicle having two or more aisles. The positions of the access points on the first aisle and the positions of the access points on the second aisle are arranged in a zigzag pattern. The distance...

20060221897 - Methods and apparatus for use in establishing session initiation protocol communications for virtual private networking: In one illustrative example, a mobile communication device includes a wireless transceiver, one or more processors coupled to the wireless transceiver, memory, and a communications application stored in the memory. The communications application may be a VoIP telephony application which involves communication in accordance with a session initiation protocol (SIP)....

20060221898 - Method and transmitter for transmitting data in a multi-carrier system via a number of transmitting antennas: A method transmits data by radio during which a frequency band is split into a plurality of subcarriers, and a plurality of antennas are used for transmitting. The data are split into a number of elements, which are to be respectively transmitted by each antenna, said number of elements corresponding...

20060221901 - Autonomous and heterogeneous network discovery and reuse: In some embodiments, a method is disclosed involving a mobile device discovery and use of target wireless networks which are at least partly within a coverage area of another wireless network which provides location information which includes: acquiring data from a plurality of said target wireless networks; acquiring location information...

20060221903 - Communication connection control mechanism in a core network ordered access change scenario: There is proposed a mechanism for controlling a communication connection of a user equipment in a communication network. The communication network comprises at least a core network subsystem having at least one core network control element, and a first access network subsystem and at least a second access network subsystem....

20060221902 - Method for changing frequency channels of wireless electronic medical apparatus: The present invention describes a method for changing frequency channels of a wireless electronic medical apparatus, which transmits or receives physiological signals produced by human bodies by means of a transmitter and its corresponding receiver of the wireless electronic medical apparatus, and such method includes a step of issuing an...

20060221900 - Silent proactive handoff: In some embodiments, a silent proactive handoff is performed wherein a mobile device that is using a current network to transport its application traffic uses its silent periods to connect to at least one target network temporarily and uses this temporary connectivity to perform actions needed for handoff into the...

20060221899 - Triggers for media independent handover: At least one trigger at a point-to-point protocol layer indicating a status of a point-to-point link is generated and sent to a media independent handover entity....

20060221904 - Access point and method for wireless multiple access: Described is an access point a plurality of antennas, a plurality of transceivers and a processor. Each of the antennas receives a first signal from each of a plurality of wireless devices. The first signal includes a first identifier of a corresponding wireless device. Each of the transceivers is coupled...

20060221906 - Base station apparatus: A base station apparatus is disclosed, which can efficiently process a reception signal from a user with a simpler constitution. The base station includes: a packet data user control unit that controls packet data for a user and transmits the packet data and notifies a user ID of a user...

20060221908 - Base transceiver station: On the basis of a spreading factor obtained by despreading a control channel of received data by a control channel despreading unit, a spreading factor determination unit determines a transmission rate of the received data. User data subjected to despreading processing at a user data despreading unit is demodulated by...

20060221905 - Master/slave oscillation production and distribution in a multiple rf transceiver system supporting mimo operations: A multiple input multiple output (MIMO) RF transceiver system includes a plurality of RF transceiver ICs, a crystal, and master oscillation coupling. Each of the plurality of RF transceiver ICs includes crystal oscillator circuitry. Crystal oscillator circuitry of the first RF transceiver IC and a crystal are operable to produce...

20060221907 - Method and apparatus for bit mapping enhanced-dedicated physical control channel (e-dpcch) information in umts wireless communication system: In a 3GPP standards Release 6 UMTS system, in order to avoid searching at NodeB for a maximum E-DPCCH-associated metric at discrete possible valid index values, or over disjoint possible valid index regions, at the UE the three different sources of information, the fixed number bits that comprise the RSN,...

20060221909 - Management of resource in a point-to-multipoint or multipoint-to-multipoint-type communication network, using two allocation levels: A point-to-multipoint or multipoint-to-multipoint communications network comprises remote traffic stations connected to a management center (CG) by radio links sharing resources. The management center (CG) comprises management means (13) for determining a primary distribution of the resources, including assignment margins, between the radio links that it manages and previously set...

20060221910 - Method and apparatus for managing paging related delays: A method and apparatus for managing paging related delays between a mobile station and a base station is provided, which includes the use of a fractional slot cycle index. A first value for the slot cycle index, which is equal to an integer value less than a desired fractional slot...

20060221917 - Access point provisioning and mapping in dual mode devices: A system and method are provided for provisioning and updating wireless local area network (LAN) access point and/or hotspot information on a wireless dual mode device by leveraging an out of band network. A system and method to map wireless LAN access points or hotspots are also provided....

20060221920 - Beamforming and distributed opportunistic scheduling in wireless networks: A system and method that addresses the issue of inducing and exploiting multi-user diversity in, e.g., a WLAN system in a fully distributed and opportunistic manner. In some embodiments, the system includes: an access point having a variable beamformer configured to fluctuate signal strength as perceived by stations within a...

20060221922 - Communication system with access point: A communication system includes a wireless network terminal (30), a wired network terminal (10), and a communication device (20). The communication device includes a Local Area Network (LAN) controller module (22), a process unit (24) and a transcoder (26). When the wired network terminal transmits a first kind of signal...

20060221913 - Integrated network management of a software defined radio system: A communications system is presented. One or more radio head units are adapted to receive radio signals through one or more radio antennas and adapted to communicate voice and data streams to one or more radio head interface modules. The one or more radio head interface modules are adapted to...

20060221911 - Mechanism for the hidden node problem in a wireless network: A method for improving the hidden-node problem in a wireless network comprises detecting a power back-off initiated at a data portion of a transmitted packet....

20060221924 - Mobile communications terminal for transmitting data frames in wireless lan and method thereof: A mobile communications terminal for transmitting data frames via a mobile communications terminal in a wireless LAN and a method thereof, the method including: storing data frames to be transmitted in a memory and determining transmission of the stored data frames based on the number of the stored data frames;...

20060221914 - Passive scanning apparatus, system, and methods: Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to maintain a wireless local area network (WLAN) association using a first receive chain in a multi-chain WLAN node, and to passively scan for one or more access point(s) while maintaining the association. The passive scan may be performed...

20060221912 - Radio gateway system and method for interfacing a radio system and an ip network: A radio gateway system and method for interfacing one or more radio systems and a packet network. The system comprises a plurality of gateways, each gateway including a radio interface port, a protocol converter and packet interface. The gateways convert audio and signalling from the radio system into packet signals...

20060221921 - Routing transformation, security, and authorization for delegated prefixes: A system is provided for prefix delegation with a pre-configured home agent, having a home address, and having a set of mobile router prefixes that are available to delegate to mobile routers. The transceiver of the home agent receives a prefix request option from a mobile router to request a...

20060221915 - Simplified creation and termination of an ad hoc wireless network with internet connection sharing: Methods and systems are described for simplified creation of, connection to, and termination from an ad hoc wireless network. Graphical user interfaces are used to guide users though creation and joining ad hoc network. The option to share one user's Internet connection with the entire ad hoc network is also...

20060221918 - System, method and computer program product for providing content to a remote device: Embodiments of a system, method and computer program product for providing content to a remote device are described. In one embodiment, a request to establish a link is received from a remote device via an access point in a set of access points that define a service area. A link...

20060221923 - Transmission rate control method, mobile station, radio base station, and radio network controller: A transmission rate control method for controlling transmission rate of layer-2 control information, including: notifying, at a radio network controller, a correspondence of a transmission data block size of the layer-2 control information to a transmission power ratio between an enhanced dedicated physical data channel and a dedicated physical control...

20060221919 - Wireless connection selection and setup: A method for facilitating communication between a wireless client and a network is disclosed. The method comprises communicating information between the wireless client and the network prior to associating the wireless client to the network. The information can be related to setup features or services....

20060221916 - Wireless virtual private network: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for securely extending a private network to include one or more remote access points (APs) comprises a first operation of establishing a secure communication path with a destination device. Then, the information received from a source device is prepared for transmission...

20060221925 - Token registration of managed devices: A communication system includes a controller for managing a number of communications devices. The controller receives registration requests from the devices and selectively registers the devices based on various factors. The controller may support a token registration process by which a device requests a token and, in response to the...

20060221926 - Communication apparatus preventing communication interference: A game apparatus according to a preferred embodiment includes a first wireless communication module and a second wireless communication module. The first wireless communication module performs communication utilizing Bluetooth protocols, whereas the second wireless communication module performs communication utilizing IEEE802.11 protocols. The first radio communication module and the second radio...

20060221927 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication system: A wireless communication apparatus capable of constructing an ad-hoc wireless network is disclosed to include a transmitting/receiving unit configured to transmit and receive a common broadcast signal; and a transmission interval control unit configured to change transmission interval of the common broadcast signal to be transmitted depending on the number...

20060221928 - Wireless device and method for wireless multiple access: Described is a wireless device which includes a plurality of antennas, a plurality of receivers, a transmitter and a processor. The antennas receive a first signal from each of a plurality of transmitting antennas of an access point. The first signal includes a first identifier which identifies a corresponding transmitting...

20060221929 - Description of packet in a packet communication network: The invention concerns a method for operating a packet communication network node, in particular an IP router, comprising the following steps: a) reception by the node of a packet (10) from the network; b) reception by the node of an information (13) independent of the protocols of the OSI layers...

20060221930 - Distributing a stream of packets across available output paths within a network: Methods and systems for distributing packets across all available output paths within a network is provided. A distribution key is extracted from each packet and is hashed to generate a hash value. An output path for each packet is selected by using all N bits of the hash value to...

20060221931 - On-chip inter-subsystem communication including concurrent data traffic routing: In an integrated circuit, a data traffic router includes a number of multiplexors coupled to each other, and to subsystems of the IC. The subsystems selectively output to each other. The data traffic router selectively provides paths for the outputs to reach their destinations, to facilitate concurrent communications between at...

20060221932 - Communication method: According to the present invention, the step of requesting of an associated information provision server KS for associated information about contents broadcast in a broadcast program being received is provided. The step of acquiring the associated information corresponding to the request from the associated information provision server KS and storing...

20060221940 - Generic provisioning of voice over internet protocol (voip): In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a provisioning method for establishing a telecommunications service including the operations of sending a resynchronization message to a user terminal unit, redirecting the resynchronization message to a customer premises equipment (CPE) unit, acquiring the configuration server network address from the resynchronization message,...

20060221937 - Internet protocol radio dispatch system and method: A method and system for dispatching calls using a packet network is disclosed. The use of distributed call management modules, enables various communication systems, such as RF and PSTN systems, to communicate with each other over the IP network. Audio devices from the various communication systems are each assigned an...

20060221934 - Local provisioning of bandwidth and other network resources: A system for local allocation or provisioning of resources in a network. Allocation rules are defined based on one or more factors of user identity, device identity and device location. A communication is given a priority level based on the rules. A device in the network performs local provisioning according...

20060221933 - Managing internet protocol based resources in a packet-based access network: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for performing resource management of one or more Internet Protocol based resources to route a plurality of packets. To ensure a relatively high end-to-end service quality, the method and apparatus defines one or more user-service specific metrics being utilized by Internet...

20060221935 - Method and apparatus for representing communication attributes: A method and apparatus for visually representing characteristics of communication processed by a communication device (100) having at least one sensor (104) and a display device (122) are disclosed. When a call is engaged (402), the communication is monitored (404) by the sensor to generate a sensor signal (610). The...

20060221939 - System and method for simultaneous voice and data call over wireless infrastructure: A system and method for enabling simultaneous voice and data communication over a communication channel having a single pair of allocated Walsh codes in a wireless telecommunication network. A converter server intercepts voice data coming from and going to from mobile telecommunication devices, such as mobile telephones, and converts the...

20060221936 - Timing recovery for modem transmission on ip networks: Retraining of modems communicating data signals as voice signals via gateways over a packet network, such as a VoIP network, that does not communicate the sample clock of the transmitter to the receiver is eliminated by monitoring the buffer level in a receiving gateway, and adjusting the local clock as...

20060221941 - Voice over internet protocol implemented call center: The present invention takes advantage of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology by introducing VoIP-based call center telephony equipment that is software-based and runs on inexpensive off-the-shelf personal computer (PC) systems. With the VoIP-based call center system of the present invention, the traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) is coupled...

20060221938 - Voice over ip auto-switching/backup for emergency calls: A VoIP adapter module for a VoIP phone system switches the phone connection from a broadband connection to a wired connection when a power outage or a broadband disconnection is detected. The switch is accomplished by establishing a connection from a telephone connected to an RJ11 port on the module...

20060221943 - Connecting a packet-based call to multiple devices: A call is received over a packet network, and multiple devices are notified of that call over the packet network. A response is received from a first of the devices and in response a first connection of the call is established to the first of the devices. A message is...

20060221942 - Intelligent voice network monitoring: Monitoring voice quality passively across a telecommunications network and report monitoring data to a central network management system. Network is monitored for potential voice quality issues for pro-active isolation of problems prior to customer complaints about the problems. A wide cross-section of voice quality related data for IP and other...

20060221944 - Differential delay compensation: In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a plurality of data frames representing at least one virtually concatenated data stream, storing the plurality of data frames in a memory; and recording, for each of a plurality of data frames, a physical write address that indicates a position in the memory...

20060221945 - Method and apparatus for shared multi-bank memory in a packet switching system: A method and apparatus are disclosed that store sequential data units of a data packet received at an input port in contiguous banks of a buffer in a shared memory. Buffer memory utilization can be improved by storing multiple packets in a single buffer. For each buffer, a buffer usage...

20060221946 - Connection establishment on a tcp offload engine: A method for performing connection establishment in TCP (transmission control protocol), the method including sending a SYN segment from a sender to a TCP offload engine (TOE), the SYN segment comprising a TCP packet adapted to synchronize sequence numbers on connecting computers, creating a connection context, acknowledging receipt of the...

20060221959 - Data compression device and method, and program for data compression: To perform effective compression while maintaining the quality of the data, there is provided a data compression device for compressing a prescribed data file, which comprises: a compression threshold value storage device for storing a compression threshold value indicating compression limit that is set in advance in accordance with a...

20060221957 - Data transmission device capable of transmitting data to a plurality of addresses by simple method: When an MFP determines that text data is transmitted to a plurality of addresses as destinations set by a user, an address group including set addresses is searched from a one-touch key registration and the transmission history of the user (or a group such as a department or a section...

20060221949 - Efficient detection and/or processing in multi-hop wireless networks: A multi-hop wireless network system is disclosed that includes a plurality of routing nodes configured to route packets transmitted from a source node to a destination node. In the preferred embodiments, the plurality of routing nodes are configured to perform capture and analysis by only a last routing node before...

20060221948 - Interconnecting network for switching data packets and method for switching data packets: The interconnecting network for switching data packets, having data and flow control information, comprises a local packet switch element (S1) with local input buffers (I(1,1) . . . I(1,y)) for buffering the incoming data packets, a remote packet switch element (S2) with remote input buffers (I(2,1) . . . I(2,y))...

20060221955 - Ip addressing in joined private networks: Systems and methods are disclosed for mitigating addressing conflicts in joined networks. For example, Internet Protocol (IP) addressing conflicts in a virtual private network (VPN) can be mitigated by automatically changing an address of a gateway of one network when another network is placed in communication therewith. A destination network...

20060221953 - Method and apparatus for blind checksum and correction for network transmissions: Method and apparatus for providing a checksum in a network transmission. In one aspect of the invention, a checksum for a packet to be transmitted on a network is determined by retrieving packet information from a storage device, the packet information to be included in the packet to be transmitted....

20060221950 - Method and system for vpls using ethernet bridges: A method for implementing Ethernet service, comprising configuring a bridged network to support virtual private LAN services (VPLS), is disclosed....

20060221954 - Methods for performing packet classification: Methods for performing packet classification. In one embodiment, packets are classified using a rule bit vector optimization scheme, wherein original rule bit vectors in recursive flow classification (RFC) chunks are optimized by removing useless bits that have no effect on the ultimate rule identified by an associated RFC lookup process....

20060221956 - Methods for performing packet classification via prefix pair bit vectors: Methods for performing packet classification via prefix pair bit vectors. Unique prefix pairs in an access control list (ACL) are identified, with each prefix pair comprising a unique combination of a source prefix and a destination prefix. Corresponding prefix pair bit vectors (PPBVs) are defined for each unique source prefix...

20060221947 - Multiple ip identities for end user telephony devices: An apparatus in one example comprises an Internet Protocol telephone set accommodating at least first and second Internet Protocol addresses, wherein at least first and second sets of configuration parameters associated with the first and second Internet Protocol addresses are stored in the telephone set, and one of the first...

20060221958 - Pim sparse-mode emulation over mpls lsp's: An apparatus and method for emulating a shared or source distribution tree within an MPLS network. In one embodiment of the method, a router receives a multicast data packet. The router transmits the multicast data packet to a first router via a first point-to-point label switched path (LSP). The router...

20060221951 - System and method for a method for reducing latency in a host ethernet adapter (hea): A system and method for reducing latency in a host Ethernet adapter (HEA) includes the following. First, the HEA receives a packet with an internet protocol (IP) header and data in the HEA. The HEA parses a connection identifier from the IP header and accesses a negative cache in the...

20060221952 - System and method for parsing, filtering, and computing the checksum in a host ethernet adapter (hea): A system and method for parsing, filtering, and computing the checksum in a host Ethernet adapter (HEA) that is coupled to a host. The method includes receiving a part of a frame, wherein a plurality of parts of a frame constitute a entire frame. Next, parse the part of a...

20060221964 - Data relay method and data relay apparatus: A data relay apparatus has a plurality of conversion process parts installed therein and the plurality of conversion process parts are prepared for respective types of data items transmitted from a first data processing apparatus used as a data transmission source. The conversion process parts are software parts which convert...

20060221963 - Information transmitting method and information transmitting system: A master station surely and quickly transmits identical information to plural terminals while controlling consumption of a transmission capacity. First, the master station determines the number of times of multicast transmission from the master station to slave stations. The master station notifies the slave stations of the number of times...

20060221962 - Multicast routing over unidirectional links: Various systems and methods are disclosed for performing multicast routing over unidirectional links. For example, one method involves maintaining a multicast adjacency state, which is associated with an interface that is coupled to receive messages from a network device via a unidirectional link. The multicast adjacency state identifies a network...

20060221961 - Network communications for operating system partitions: Providing communications between operating system partitions and a computer network. In one aspect, an apparatus for distributing network communications among multiple operating system partitions includes a physical port allowing communications between the network and the computer system, and logical ports associated with the physical port, where each logical port is...

20060221960 - Performing extended lookups on mac-based tables: A method, system, and computer program product are presented to optimize OSI Level 2 switch forwarding of frames comprising IP addresses, 802.1 QinQ VLAN identifiers, multi-protocol label switching labels, and any other usable information meaningful to derive an L2 forwarding result on frames. In one embodiment, a 16-bit key is...

20060221972 - Constant time signature methods for scalable and bandwidth-efficient multicast: A method, computer program product, system and apparatus are presented for reducing wasted bandwidth due to supercasting multicast cells through a router switch fabric. In one embodiment of the present invention, signatures of a switch fabric destination address are generated and compared. A signature is an information-rich representation of the...

20060221971 - Method and apparatus for automatically managing network routes: A method is disclosed for providing automatic management of network routes, such as MPLS Layer 3 VPN routes. In one aspect, a method comprises creating and storing, in association with first information identifying a network element and second information identifying a customer entity that uses the network element, a maximum...

20060221966 - Method and system for performing a packet header lookup: A method and system for performing a lookup for a packet in a computer network are disclosed. The packet includes a header. The method and system include providing a parser, providing a lookup engine coupled with the parser, and providing a processor coupled with the lookup engine. The parser is...

20060221965 - Method of transferring data packets in a communications network: In a method of communication, a first type of data packet is received. The first type of data packet is at least a portion of a second type of data packet. Based on the received first type of data packet, a determination is made as to whether to expect receipt...

20060221970 - Method of using a packet-switched network, a data processing system, a microphone system, and a speaker system: A method of using a packet-switched network can be used to deliver broadcast messages using a VoIP connection. Packets within the broadcast message can be intelligently routed to intended recipients based on one or more addresses for a logical segment of an organization (e.g., employees of a department), a physical...

20060221967 - Methods for performing packet classification: Methods for performing packet classification via partitioned bit vectors. Rules in an access control list (ACL) are partitioned into a plurality of partitions, wherein each partition is defined by a meta-rule comprising a set of filter dimension ranges and/or values covering the rules in that partition. Filter data structures comprising...

20060221969 - System and method for computing a blind checksum in a host ethernet adapter (hea): A system and method for computing a blind checksum includes a host Ethernet adapter (HEA) with a system for receiving a packet. The system determines whether or not the packet is in Internet protocol version four (IPv4). If the packet is not in IPv4, the system computes the checksum of...

20060221968 - System and method for distributing voip data packets in group communications among wireless telecommunication devices: In group wireless telecommunication, such as push-to-talk (PTT) calls, a voice communication is broadcast through Internet protocol data packets to other member devices of the PTT group. At least one communication server receives a single communication stream from a communicating wireless device, such as a PTT call, and creates a...

20060221973 - Traffic distribution device, traffic distribution method and packet relay method: Disclosed is a traffic distribution device, which is used in a way that connects to a 0-th network, a first network including one or more servers and to a second network connected to the first network and including M-pieces of high-order layer processing devices associated with 0 through M-1, capable...

20060221974 - Method and apparatus for dynamic load balancing over a network link bundle: Techniques for distributing data packets over a network link bundle include storing an output data packet in a data flow queue based on a flow identification associated with the output data packet. The flow identification indicates a set of one or more data packets, including the output data packet, which...

20060221977 - Method and apparatus for providing a network connection table: Method and apparatus for implementing use of a network connection table. In one aspect, searching for network connections includes receiving a packet, and zeroing particular fields of connection information from the packet if a new connection is to be established. The connection information is converted to an address for a...

20060221978 - Backlogged queue manager: A system, apparatus, method and article to manage backlogged queues are described. The apparatus may include a backlogged queue manager to manage one or more queues. The backlogged queue manager may include a backlogged queue list to store a list of one or more active queues, a scheduler block to...

20060221975 - Transporting multicast over mpls backbone using virtual interfaces to perform reverse-path forwarding checks: A mechanism is provided in which multicast reverse path forwarding can be performed at a provider network egress edge router wherein core routers of the provider network are not configured to support multicast protocols or point-to-multipoint LSPs. An embodiment of the present invention provides for the creation of virtual interfaces...

20060221979 - Method and apparatus for detecting a router that improperly responds to arp requests: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that detects a non-compliant router that incorrectly responds to all address-resolution-protocol (ARP) requests, including ARP requests for link-local IP addresses. This is accomplished by sending an ARP request asking for an Ethernet address associated with a link-local IP address, wherein the...

20060221976 - Apparatus and method for processing cells in a communications system: An apparatus for interfacing with a cell delay variation buffer and a re-assembly memory buffer includes a header and sequence number processing module that can interface with the cell delay variation buffer and a re-assembly processing module that can interface with the re-assembly memory buffer. The header and sequence number...

20060221980 - Method and apparatus for a high efficiency two-stage rotating priority arbiter with predictable arbitration latency: A scalable, two-stage rotating priority arbiter with re-circulation and bounded latency for use in multi-threaded, multi-processing devices. An apparatus implementing the two-stage arbiter includes a plurality of masters configured in a plurality of clusters, a plurality of targets, and an chassis interconnect that may be controlled to selectively connects a...

20060221981 - Virtual routers for gmpls networks: Virtual routers that abstract photonic sub-domains are provided for GMPLS networks. A virtual router uses a link viability matrix to keep track of the set of viable connections between inputs and outputs of a photonic sub-domains. A virtual router may receive RSVP-TE signaling messages and either allocate a working input...

20060221986 - An arrangement, a functional means and a method in a network supporting communication of packet data: The present invention relates to an arrangement, in a communications system supporting communication of packet data, for selection of a packet data gateway node or function for a mobile user station (MS; UE). It comprises a packet data gateway functional selection means, said gateway functional selection means is adapted to...

20060221983 - Communications backbone, a method of providing a communications backbone and a telecommunication network employing the backbone and the method: The present invention provides a communications backbone for connecting first and second telecommunication nodes. In one embodiment, the communications backbone includes a first time division multiplexed gateway associated with the first telecommunication node and configured to be directly connected to a packet-switched network. Additionally, the communications backbone also includes a...

20060221985 - Iscsi and fibre channel authentication: Methods and apparatus are provided for authenticating an iSCSI initiator connected to a fibre channel storage area network. An iSCSI initiator performs an authentication exchange with a fibre channel target such as a fibre channel host or disk array through one or more fibre channel switches. Authentication information such as...

20060221984 - Modular interconnect structure: Some embodiments of the invention include an interconnect structure to transfer data among a plurality of devices. The interconnect structure includes a crossbar and a number of interconnect branches coupled to the crossbar. Each of the interconnect branches includes a number of connector circuits coupled in series to transfer data...

20060221982 - Signalling gateway: A signalling gateway for connecting a first network to a second network, the signalling gateway being operable to, receive a signalling message from the first network, the message comprising destination information, read the destination information and, where the destination information corresponds to a predetermined value, forward the message to one...

20060221987 - Lan and wwan gateway: Methods, apparatuses, and articles of manufacture for transmitting data received from one or more devices of a local area network to a first gateway device of a first wireless wide area network, and selectively transmitting data received from the first gateway device of the first wireless wide area network to...

20060221990 - Hiding system latencies in a throughput networking system: A method for addressing system latency within a network system which includes providing a network interface and moving data within each of the plurality of memory access channels independently and in parallel to and from a memory system so that one or more of the plurality of memory access channels...

20060221989 - Method and system for accommodating several ethernet ports and a wrap transmitted flow handled by a simplifed frame-by-frame upper structure: A method and system for receiving packets in a computer network are disclosed. The method and system include providing at least one receive port, a buffer, a scheduler, and a wrap port. The buffer has an input coupled with the at least one receive port and an output. The scheduler...

20060221988 - Technique for managing messages: A technique for managing messages stored in a messaging system may include determining whether messages designated for deletion within a current data container exceed a predetermined threshold. If such a determination is made, thereafter, a first amount of time required to delete the messages designated for deletion is calculated. A...

20060221991 - Method and apparatus for increasing radio frequency efficiency for mixed voice over internet protocol and data traffic: In one aspect of the instant invention, a method is provided for controlling a communications system in which VoIP traffic and data traffic are both provided. The method comprises receiving voice over internet protocol packets, accumulating a plurality of the voice over internet protocol packets, and transmitting the accumulated plurality...

20060221992 - Methods and systems for channel sensing multiple acces communication with multipacket reception: Methods and Systems for communication using carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) with multipacket reception (MPR)....

20060221993 - High-density wireless local area network: A data communication system includes an access point and a plurality of stations each for exchanging wireless data communication messages with the access point. At least some of the messages are in a format that includes at least one message header and a plurality of data units. Each of the...

20060221994 - Method for allocating slot for synchronous ethernet service in residential ethernet system: A method for allocating slots for a synchronous Ethernet service in a Residential Ethernet system includes the steps of: receiving requests for synchronous Ethernet services from terminals requiring the synchronous Ethernet services; calculating a number of slots for each synchronous Ethernet service, and allocating slots for each terminal based on...

20060221996 - Method and system for peer-to-peer enforcement: The present invention concerns a method and a system for establishing a dynamic peer-to-peer communications channel between a first terminal and a second terminal. A first terminal and a second terminal are connectable over secured communications channels to a secured network. The first terminal sends a connection request for establishing...

20060221995 - Multi-function modem device: A communications device including a port that is capable of communicating with a user device, a controller connected to the port, a power line modem connected to the controller, and a network modem connected to the controller....

20060221997 - System and method for high-bandwidth serial bus data transfer: A serial bus data transfer system employs an interface circuit which includes a first FIFO which receives data from a serial bus and a second FIFO which outputs data to the bus. A first processor interfaces with the FIFOs and a dual-banked shared memory comprising first and second memory banks,...

20060221998 - Method and apparatus for performing dynamic link selection: A method and system for performing dynamic link selection (DLS) between transmit/receive units (TRUs). A first TRU determines whether a second TRU has multiple interfaces with a DLS capability. If the second TRU has multiple interfaces with the DLS capability, the first TRU sends a packet to the second TRU...

20060222001 - Apparatus, system and method capable of descreasing management frame size in wireless networks: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transceiver capable of transmitting decreased size management messages in a wireless network by transmitting only differences between subsequently sent management messages and previously sent management messages. The wireless network may be according to the Institute of Electronic and Electrical...

20060222002 - Configurable ports for a host ethernet adapter: A system and method in accordance with the present invention allows for an adapter to be utilized in a server environment that can accommodate both a 10 G and a 1 G source utilizing the same pins. This is accomplished through the use of a high speed serializer/deserializer (high speed...

20060222000 - Decoder architecture systems, apparatus and methods: An embodiment includes an apparatus that includes a decoder to receive a compressed bit stream that is based on a coding standard. The decoder includes a hardware accelerator to decode a part of the compressed bit stream that is based on an operation that is common across multiple coding standards...

20060221999 - Method and apparatus for adaptive network allocation: A method and apparatus for adaptive network allocation are described herein....

20060222003 - Htb gateway for healthcare transaction base: Techniques for communicating with a Healthcare Transaction Base, such as an HTB, without requiring the development of custom adapters are provided. A gateway is utilized that acts a transformation engine between various systems and the healthcare transaction base. One or more filters are utilized to transform a message from one...

20060222004 - Methods and apparatus for transferring data: In a first aspect, a first method is provided for transferring data using an Infiniband (IB) protocol. The first method includes the steps of (1) receiving a non-IB packet having header data and payload data at a first node of a computer system; and (2) modifying data in the non-IB...

20060222005 - Virtual concatenation of pdh signals: Asynchronous/plesiochronous digital hierarchy (PDH) signals, such as DS1 and E1, are transported using virtual concatenation. The packetized data signals are frame encapsulated and subsequently inverse multiplexed into a plurality of PDH frames. An overhead packet is inserted in the transmitted frames to enable the receiver to determine the status of...

20060222006 - Wireline to wireless converter: A wireline to wireless converter employs a wireless terminal printed circuit board serving as a wireless interface to a wireless network, and a wireless to wireline protocol converter serving as a wireline interface to a wireline infrastructure. In operation, the wireless to wireline protocol converter converts wireless signals received by...

20060222008 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing bandwidth control services: Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing bandwidth control services are provided. The method includes assigning a quality of service preference to a device. The method also includes associating a service session with the device. The method further includes executing a control action for at least one other simultaneously...

20060222007 - Rpr ring network system: Provided is an RPR ring network system including: a plurality of RPR station devices; and a ring for interconnecting the plurality of RPR station devices, in which a section between adjacent RPR station devices is defined as a section of the ring, a bandwidth different from bandwidths of other sections...

20060222011 - Apparatus and method for handling lost cells in a communications system: A method of processing cells in a communication system includes obtaining a cell, causing it to be stored, determined if it is associated with a loss event, and if so, causing it to be tagged with a lost cell indicator. An apparatus for processing cells includes a cell processing module...

20060222010 - Method of performing a layer operation in a communications network: In an embodiment of the present invention, a scheduling operation is performed at a lower layer based on upper layer information. In another embodiment of the present invention, an action is performed at an upper layer based on received lower layer information. Also, a scheduling operation may be performed on...

20060222009 - Umts ril extension: A UMTS extension to the GSM/GPRS RIL is disclosed. The UTMS RIL provides an API set interface for the support of UMTS features such as 3G QoS, secondary PDP contexts call, priority service, voice group call and voice broadcast services, etc. The API set is based on the UMTS AT...

20060222012 - Clustering methods for scalable and bandwidth-efficient multicast: A method, system, computer program product, and apparatus for reducing wasted bandwidth due to supercasting multicast cells through a router switch fabric is presented. A multicast destination address is compared to each destination address in a label-to-destination address table (LTDT) to determine the wasted bandwidth due to incorporating any additional...

20060222013 - Systems, methods, and media for improving security of a packet-switched network: Systems, methods and media for improving security of a packet-switched network are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and/or software for injecting noise into a network to deter code sniffers are disclosed. One embodiment provides a method for transmitting information over a network. Embodiments may include assembling by a sender computer system...

20060222014 - Method and system for formatting encoded video data: Described herein is a method and system for formatting encoded video data. The encoder core makes use of unit structures with types that are undefined. These units are inserted into the encoder core output to carry additional information to a transport module. The transport module interprets the units for packetizing...

20060222015 - Methods, systems, and devices for bandwidth conservation: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for conserving bandwidth. If a presence of a multimedia device is detected, then a stream of data is delivered to the multimedia device. If the presence of the multimedia device is not detected, then the stream of data is degraded to conserve bandwidth....

20060222017 - Methods and apparatus for synchronizing data transferred across a multi-pin asynchronous serial interface: Methods, devices and systems are provided for word synchronizing multiple serial data bitstreams (106) with a serial framing signal (106A). Offset values (420) are determined (512) from the relative locations of predetermined data correlation values (107) stored within the data buffers during a correlation mode to indicate the amount of...

20060222016 - Synchronization of time stamps of peer devices in a communication node: Networks and methods are disclosed for synchronizing time stamps of peer devices. In one embodiment, a first communication node comprised of peer devices is connected to a second communication node. The first and second communication nodes communicate according to a protocol that requires monotonically increasing time stamps. When in operation,...

20060222018 - Method and apparatus for determining delays of links between switches: The invention comprises a method and apparatus for determining a delay of a link between switches. Specifically, the method comprises determining a plurality of intra-switch router delays by determining an intra-switch router delay between a pair of routers for each pair of routers in a plurality of pairs of routers...

20060222019 - Time stamp in the reverse path: The synchronization of timing between devices in a communication system is presented. In one embodiment a method includes attaching a time stamp message to a page of data samples that indicates when a first one of the data samples was received by a receive engine in a host card. Passing...

20060222020 - Time start in the forward path: The synchronization of timing between devices in a communication system is presented. In particular, in one embodiment, a method of synchronizing timing of communications between a software module and a host card in a forward direction is presented. The method comprises reading a time start message in a header of...

20060222021 - Method and apparatus facilitating multi mode interfaces: A system comprises a pulse generator 615 configured to provide a control pulse a transmission gate 603 configured to interrupt a path between a communication device 307 and an auxiliary device 303 during the control pulse; and a pulse transmitter 607 responsive to the control pulse and configured to inject...

20060222022 - Method and apparatus for bi-directional communication between analog and digital devices: A bi-directional communications interface includes a source multiplexer for connecting to a video source. The source multiplexer includes a source multiplexer input port for receiving an analog video signal from the video source, a source multiplexer output port for driving the video source with an upstream data signal, and a...