Multiplex communications inventions 12/06

20060291372 - Apparatus and method for reducing pilot overhead in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for reducing pilot overhead in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. A data symbol mapper maps data symbols to be transmitted into subcarriers and detects values of the data symbols mapped into predefined subcarriers. A pilot generator determines masking codes for each pilot group by... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20060291373 - Radio apparatus: A control unit generates packet signals to be transmitted. The control unit uses either a first packet format, where a second known signal defined by a second radio communication system different from a first radio communication system is assigned anterior to a first known signal defined by the first radio... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060291371 - Softer and soft handoff in an orthogonal frequency division wireless communication system: Transmission patterns for pilot symbols transmitted from a mobile station or base station are provided. The patterns may be selected according to a location of the mobile station with respect to one or more antennas are provided. In some aspects, the pattern may be selected based upon the distance between... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20060291375 - Receiver for digital modulated signal and receiving method for the same: A receiver for a digital modulated signal which receives a multi-carrier modulated signal and demodulates a receiving signal by converting it from a time region into a frequency region by Fourier transform is provided. The receiver comprises a Fourier transformer which performs Fourier transform of the receiving signal and an... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060291374 - Transmitter apparatus, receiver apparatus , transmitting method, receiving method, and program: A serial-parallel converter 102 of a transmitter apparatus receives an input of a signal to be transmitted and serial-parallel-converts this to output m (m≧2) number of intermediate signals. A unitary matrix modulator 103 modulates the output m number of intermediate signals into a unitary matrix of m rows and m... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20060291376 - Continuous median failure control system and method: A redundant control system including at least three redundant signals is presented. The redundant control system includes a failure circuit associated with each of the redundant signals. The failure circuit generates a failure signal in response to an occurrence of a failure of a corresponding one of the redundant signals.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20060291377 - Radio communication apparatus, base station apparatus, communication terminal apparatus and transmission rate predicting method: A radio communication apparatus, base station apparatus and communication terminal apparatus capable of predicting an accurate transmission rate before starting data communications to know download time and the like. In the apparatus, a packet CH demodulation section (103) demodulates received packet data. A pilot CH demodulation section (104) demodulates a... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20060291378 - Communication path redundancy protection systems and methods: Communication path redundancy protection systems and methods are disclosed. Multiple communication interfaces having a common address support communications on respective communication paths. One of the interfaces or communication paths is selected as an active interface or path for transferring communication traffic. In the event of a fault associated with the... Agent: Arnold B. Silverman Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20060291380 - Nut table automatic updating system coupled with rpr establishment: A device, to which an RPR setting instruction is input by a network administrator, comprises an RPR controller and information (RPR information) that the RPR should be set is transmitted to all devices in the established network. In a SONET device at the gateway to a path where the RPR... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20060291379 - Resilient packet ring protection over a wavelength division multiplexing network: A method and system for provisioning a Resilient Packet Ring (“RPR”) over a Wavelength Division Multiplexing (“WDM”) network is disclosed. A plurality of stations send data packets to each other over a dual ring fiber optic link. The data packets travel over the dual ring fiber optic link at a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060291381 - Diverse routing for switched connections: A method and node is provided for setting up a diverse path of switched connections in a network. Results from a trace of a primary path are added to a setup signal for the diverse path. The results from the trace include connection identifications from the primary path, such as... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC.

20060291382 - End-to end aal2 connections in a switched aal2 network: Described is a method of providing an AAL2 end-to-end connection in an ATM transmission network using a first and a second AAL2 endpoint and at least an AAL2 switch, wherein a plurality of AAL2 paths is at least present between the first AAL2 endpoint and the at least one AAL2... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20060291385 - Environment dependent network connection switching setting system and method: An environment dependent network connection switching setting system and method thereof is provided, wherein the network connection is interrupted due to changes of the network environment of the user, the system is utilized to automatically detect a set of optimal current network setting parameters based on the network setting parameters... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060291383 - Methods for quality of service reverse link admission and overload control in a wireless system: At least one traffic flow belonging to one of a plurality of service classes may be admitted based on at least one admission condition and overload state associated with the service class to which the at least one traffic flow belongs.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060291384 - System and method for discarding packets: A call where a packet discard policy (132) should be applied is selectively identified based upon a received property associated with the call. The packet discard policy (132) is applied to the selected call in order to selectively discard packets (134) associated with the call when a triggering event (136)... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20060291387 - Communication device and communication method therefor: Encrypted communications are performed between private networks over a wide-area network (e.g., the Internet) by way of routers, each of which includes a management table for storing entries including identifiers and control parameters. Uplink control connections are established between routers so as to mutually communicate and update stored contents of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20060291389 - Method and system for a data transmission in a communication system: Methods and apparatus for a data transmission in a communication system are disclosed. Each of a subset of plural access terminals desiring to transmit user data in an interval transmits a request to transmit in the interval to an access network. The access network makes a decision to schedule at... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20060291388 - Method and system for scaling network traffic managers: A system for distributing network traffic to multiple traffic management devices. A distributor receives each packet from a network and may act as a layer 2 switch, a router, or distribute the packet to one of a group of traffic management devices. The distributor may receive packets from servers that... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20060291386 - Optimizing playback startup time of bursty real-time streams: Provided are apparatuses and methods in a digital broadcast transmission system for optimizing the buffering time of data streams prior to data consumption of playback. The optimal buffering time is calculated based on parameters from the server. The parameters may include the burst interval, buffering delay, the average size of... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20060291390 - Determination of a state of flow through or a cut of a parameterized network: Provided are techniques for determining a state of flow through, or a cut of, a network in which some the capacities of at least some of the conduits are dependent upon a specified parameter. Initially, a derived network is obtained by replacing capacities in the original network that depend upon... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060291394 - Method and apparatus for communications of data rate control information in a communication system: In a communication system, a method and an apparatus provide for efficient communications of data rate control information. A mobile station communicates a request on a data channel for reception of a data file on a traffic channel. In response to the request, a transmitter in mobile station starts communication... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20060291392 - Multi-path routing using intra-flow splitting: Multi-path routing techniques using intra-flow splitting are disclosed. For example, a technique for processing traffic flows at a node in a network comprises the following steps/operations. At least one traffic flow is obtained. The at least one traffic flow comprises multiple packets or bytes. The at least one flow is... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20060291393 - Resource allocation method in a communication system: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate resolving resource assignment conflicts between access terminals in a wireless communication environment. A first access terminal may receive a persistent, or “sticky” assignment of a set of resources, such as subcarriers. In the event that a second access terminal requires a brief resource... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20060291391 - System and method for dynamically responding to event-based traffic redirection: A technique dynamically resizes Traffic Engineering (TE) Label Switched Paths (LSPs) at a head-end node of the TE-LSPs in preparation to receive redirected traffic in response to an event in a computer network. The novel dynamic TE-LSP resizing technique is based on the detection of an event in the network... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20060291395 - Packet transmission control method and apparatus: A packet transmission control method and apparatus for packet transmissions between a transmitting side and a receiving side in a mobile communication system, wherein packets transmitted by the transmitting side are acknowledged by the receiving side, and unacknowledged packets are retransmitted to the receiving side, the method comprising at least... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20060291396 - Optimizing driving directions: A method to render optimized driving direction to users that specify destinations of interest. The method utilizes a direction engine to generate a route to the destinations specified by the users. The directions engine receives requests including a plurality of options from the users. The options allow the user to... Agent: Anthony Whittington And M. Hamilton

20060291397 - Method and device for determining and optionally for evaluatiing disturbances and/or interruptions in the communication with domestic appliances: The aim of the invention is to determine and optionally evaluate sporadic or constant disturbances and/or interruptions in the communication with domestic appliances (A1 . . . Am, An) that are connected to communication units (BCU1 . . . BCUm, BCUn) in order to transmit and/or receive communication signals by... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20060291399 - Signal routing error reporting: System and method for analyzing routing in a system. Routing information for the system, received, e.g., from a user and/or tool, is analyzed, where the routing information specifies a plurality of routes in the system, and where each route comprises one or more routing resources in the system. A routing... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20060291398 - System and method for testing software using data-driven test variations: The integrated test framework of the present invention includes a test framework runtime that executes test scripts and that also allows a script to identify a variation tool called a “data provider” that is responsible for providing data to the test framework runtime and controlling the iteration of the runtime... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20060291400 - Efficient load balancing and heartbeat mechanism for telecommunication endpoints: The present invention is directed to load balancing call signaling channels at the times that they are established, the use of variable frequency keep alive mechanisms depending on the state of the call signaling channel, and the establishment of a call signaling channel when resources are available or otherwise based... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20060291402 - Apparatus and method for providing enhanced wireless communications: An apparatus and method for providing enhanced wireless communications, in which predetermined parameters are obtained by using an experiment in a wireless network environment to decrease traffic backoffs in real-time or increase traffic throughputs in non real-time, and the obtained parameters are used for access points and each station. The... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060291401 - Co-channel congestion method and apparatus: A system and method for Access Point (AP) channel selection based upon a Channel Quality Index (CQI) is described. The Channel Quality Index (CQI) is a value which quantifies a transmission quality of a channel. The transmission quality is evaluated based on a combination of different types of measured interference... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20060291403 - Expanded signalling capability for network element, user equipment and system: Several mobile station identifiers are allocated to one mobile station, one for each of a plurality of possible signalling channel structures, parameters, or both. When receiving the signalling channels, the mobile station searches for all identifiers allocated for it in the received signalling channels. When it finds one that matches,... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20060291404 - Directed acyclic graph discovery and network prefix information distribution relative to a clusterhead in an ad hoc mobile network: Each mobile router in an ad hoc mobile network is configured for concurrently attaching to multiple parents advertising respective parent depths relative to a clusterhead of the ad hoc mobile network. The mobile router selects an advertised depth relative to the clusterhead based on adding a prescribed increment to a... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20060291405 - Communications system employing single-pair identity circuit for remotely powered device: A discovery technique employs a single-conductor-pair identity circuit for a remotely powered device. A communications system includes a first communications device (e.g. and IP telephony switch) capable of supplying power at an interface, and a second communications device coupled to the interface via a multiple-conductor-pair cable. The second communications device... Agent: David E. Huang, Esq. Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20060291406 - Device authentication method and system: A method and computer program product for selecting a secret value from a plurality of secret values, thus defining a chosen secret value. The chosen secret value is combined with a data value to generate a primary hybrid data value. The primary hybrid data value is processed to generate a... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20060291407 - Multiplexing system for time division duplex communication systems: A method and system is disclosed for passing a transmit/receive control signal and a power signal through a coax cable from a base transceiver station to a tower top device in a time division duplex communication system. After generating the transmit/receive control signal and a radio frequency signal for communications,... Agent: Howard Chen, Esq. Preston Gates & Ellis LLP

20060291408 - Low power operation for network nodes: In a wireless multi-hop network, in which data may pass from node to node through the network, a sleep/wake protocol may be used to reduce power consumption by placing various nodes into coordinated low power modes, and having the nodes wake up to maintain network connections and/or to pass data.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060291409 - Multiple return link: A system and method for improving efficiency of satellite communications is described. In one embodiment, multiple return links are associated with a single forward link to reduce communications costs.... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20060291412 - Associated device discovery in ims networks: A method of associating multiple user endpoints (UEs) with a single IMS session in an IMS network having a serving node for controlling at least one IMS session for a user and at least a first access network for providing access to UEs. The method involves associating a first UE... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20060291410 - Feedback signalling for multicast data transmission: Data transmission in a multicast fashion in which retransmissions are requested by recipients sending feedback to the one sender. Receiving stations are informed about the feedback of another receiving station. This is done by mirroring the feedback of receiving stations to other receiving stations. Due to this, in case, for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060291411 - Methods and systems for temporary additional telephone numbers: A temporary phone number system completes telephone calls only for non-expired telephone numbers. A user terminal makes a phone call to a subscriber terminal through a network having server. The subscriber terminal is associated with an IP address located at the server. A dynamic database of telephone numbers that ring... Agent: Matthew E. Burr Lake Austin Marina

20060291414 - Method and system for performing initial operation in a frequency overlay communication system: A method for performing an initial operation of a mobile station (MS) that uses a first frequency band, in a frequency overlay communication system having the first frequency band including a plurality of sub-frequency bands. The method includes performing correlation on a full frequency band in units of the first... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20060291413 - System for the dynamic allocation of carrier frequencies to a access points of a wireless local area network (wlan): A computer-based system for dynamic assignment of carrier frequencies to computerized access points of a wireless local area network (WLA) is connected to the access points via a communication connection. Present operational values, such as the present number of associated users and the present number of received faulty and errorless... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060291421 - Access point and method for delivering information on media independent handover protocol: An apparatus and method relates to transmission of media independent (MIH) handover protocol information, the access point includes a wired interface module to receive, through a wired network, indication information indicating whether an access point that manages a neighboring heterogeneous subnet supports a protocol to conduct a media independent handover... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060291424 - Apparatus and method for performing fast handover: An apparatus and a method to perform a fast handover, capable of determining whether to change an internet protocol (IP) using an identification (ID) of an access router included in media independent information service (MIIS) information when a mobile node performs a fast handover in a heterogeneous wireless network. The... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060291425 - Apparatus and method for performing fast handover: An apparatus and a method to perform a fast handover that is capable of determining whether to switch an internet protocol (IP) using a received, unique code of an access router when a mobile node performs a fast handover in a wireless network. The apparatus to perform a fast handover... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060291423 - Media independent handover for mobility: A media independent handover (MIH) device communicates with an 802 technology medium access control (MAC) layer and an 802 technology physical (PHY) layer utilizing an 802 technology management entity (ME) device. Handover information messages are produced by the MIH device. The handover information messages facilitate handover. The 802 technology ME... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20060291426 - Method and apparatus for performing fast handover in wireless network: A method and an apparatus of performing a fast handover in a wireless network are provided. The network device includes: a packet generating unit to generate a router solicitation (RS) message including fast handover instruction information, when the network device participates in a new subnet; a packet sending unit to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060291419 - Method and system for managing communication sessions during multi-mode mobile station handoff: A multi-mode mobile station includes a first interface for wireless communication with a wireless local area network (WLAN) and a second interface for wireless communication with a wireless wide area network (WWAN). The multi-mode mobile station may become engaged in one or more communication sessions via a first wireless network.... Agent: Sprint

20060291418 - Method and system for optimal call routing in gsm foreign mode for cdma to gsm roaming: The present invention allows for optimal late call forwarding between dissimilar cellular technologies. A call forwarding mapping function (“CFMap”) is performed to modify the call forward to number from a home cellular network, such as a CDMA and TDMA network to a call forward number for a visited cellular network.... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20060291417 - Method for controlling a handover between two network access devices: At least one quality parameter determined in a link layer based on signal transmission to a physical layer mobility-controlling mechanisms of a network layer is used to decide on the transfer in handover between two network access devices. At least one message received by a currently supplying network access device... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060291422 - Mobility management in a communication system of at least two communication networks: A method, network element, mobile node, system and computer program product for mobility management in a communication system comprising at least two communication networks, wherein a mobile node is associated with one of the at least two communication networks as a home network and is allocated a global home address,... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20060291420 - Network-initiated dormant handoffs: In a radio access network having a first mesh cluster and a second mesh cluster, techniques for enabling an access terminal in a coverage area of the first mesh cluster to maintain a session through a radio node of the first mesh cluster with at least one radio node controller... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20060291416 - Packet-switched handover: A packet-switched handover from a first cell to a second cell in a cellular network is discussed. Packet-switched services are provided for a mobile station in the first cell based on a set of information relating to provision of packet-switched services and a protocol for handling provision of packet-switched services... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20060291415 - The method for the mobile terminal hand-off between the cdma system and the wlan: A method for handing over a mobile station from wireless local area network to CDMA 20001X system, comprises the following steps of: when a mobile station detects that a signal of wireless local area network is fading, determining to hand over to CDMA 20001X system; first, initiating a call in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060291427 - Method for identifying home cell and apparatus thereof: A method for identifying a cell that provides a differentiated service in a mobile communication system. The method comprises searching for a plurality of pilots having strength greater than a minimum pilot strength; comparing strengths of the pilots, and designating a pilot having the greatest strength as an active pilot;... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060291428 - Adaptive multi-channel modem: An adaptive multi-channel (AMC) modem that can receive one or multiple spread spectrum signals simultaneously includes an adjustable filter, a ΔΣ ADC, and a digital processor. The adjustable filter filters an input signal with an adjustable bandwidth and provides an output signal comprised of a selected number of spread spectrum... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20060291429 - Dynamic umts transport block size adjustment: A transport format combination set (TFCS) in a universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) includes transport format combinations (TFCs) that specify transport formats (TFs) having various transport block (TB) sizes for a single channel.... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC

20060291430 - Mechanisms for speculatively allocated bandwidth in wireless networks: Embodiments of apparatuses, articles, methods, and systems for providing and/or using speculatively allocated bandwidth are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt

20060291431 - Novel pilot sequences and structures with low peak-to-average power ratio: Pilot signal sequences with a low Peak-to-average ratio are generated by a method comprising the steps of providing a first signal sequence consisting of a first number, m, of signal elements and known to have a frequency spectrum with either identical or nearly identical non-zero amplitude values in a first... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20060291432 - Methods and apparatus to perform dynamic channel management and dynamic bandwidth changes in wireless local area networks: Methods and apparatus to perform dynamic channel management and dynamic bandwidth changes in wireless local area networks are disclosed. A disclosed example method comprises deciding at an access point to initiate at least one of a bandwidth change or a channel assignment change; and sending a frame to initiate the... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20060291436 - Block acknowledgement in aggregated frame sequences: An initiator in a wireless network may transmit aggregated frames with or without block acknowledgement requests. The initiator and a responder may share responsibility for acknowledgement sequences or the responder may have full responsibility for acknowledgement sequences.... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC

20060291435 - Connection-oriented data transfer over wireless transmission paths: Providing a data transfer connection according to a connection-oriented data transfer protocol between a first communication entity and a second communication entity using a wireless transmission path, the first communication entity being capable of using at least two wireless transmission paths in data transfer. A data transfer connection is established... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20060291438 - Distributed process control system and method utilizing wireless communication of packet messages: A distributed control and/or monitoring system and method includes a local application and a remote application separated from the local application. The local application includes a host computer. The remote application includes a plurality of field devices and a communication bus connected to the plurality of field devices. Packet messages... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20060291434 - Dynamic self-configuration for ad hoc peer networking: A device control model provides an integrated set of addressing, naming, discovery and description processes that enables automatic, dynamic and ad-hoc self-setup by devices to interoperate with other devices on a network. This permits a computing device when introduced into a network to automatically configure so as to connect and... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20060291437 - System and method to provide dynamic call models for users in an ims network: Systems and methods for providing dynamic call models for users in an IMS network. A system and method provisions dynamic call models within an IMS network having a serving call state control function (S-CSCF) for providing session control for user endpoint (UE) devices. At least one user endpoint device (UE)... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20060291433 - Virtual device: A Virtual Device is described which is composed of at least one Open device, e.g. a PDA, laptop or mobile phone that can be programmed, at least one Closed device, e.g. a camcorder or digital camera with a closed inner structure, and a number of Primitive devices, e.g. a head-set... Agent: Thomas Schneck Schneck & Schneck

20060291439 - Wireless network interference mitigation: Wireless network interference is mitigated with client devices having wireless network interference mitigation logic and/or utilizing a usable bandwidth channel quality metric. In a described example implementation, a client device includes wireless network interference mitigation logic that monitors at least one channel condition of a wireless network and participates in... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060291440 - Communication relay apparatus and communication receiver: A communication relay apparatus for providing a network-encoded information unit sequence comprises a first channel decoder which is configured to supervise a first wireless channel, to receive a first channel-encoded sequence of information units from a first data source via the first wireless channel and to decode the first channel-encoded... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20060291441 - Receiving apparatus and receiving method: In a digital broadcasting receiving apparatus, channel selection that switches a physical channel requires a longer period of time than analog. To solve the above problem, for example, there are provided two systems each including a digital tuner and a decoder, wherein channel selection and decoding are carried out by... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20060291443 - Automatic reconfiguration of layer 3 device to layer 2 device upon detection of upstream nat/napt device: In one embodiment, a network device is provided that includes a DHCP server; a NAT/NAPT facility; and a logic engine configured to detect a presence of an upstream NAT/NAPT service, the logic engine being further configured to disable the DHCP server and the NAT/NAPT facility in response to detecting the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20060291444 - Method and apparatus for automatically selecting an rp: An apparatus or method for selecting a rendezvous point (RP) for a multicast group or a range of multicast groups. In one embodiment, the method includes an RP enabled device receiving a plurality of advertisements, wherein the plurality of advertisements comprise a plurality of IP addresses, respectively, for the RP... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20060291445 - Method for auto-routing of multi-hop pseudowires: A method and computer system for auto-routing of multi-hop pseudowires is presented. A first Provider Edge (PE) device receives an advertisement from a layer 2 (L2) capable network device, the advertisement including routing state for reaching the L2 device. A first Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) table is populated with the... Agent: Chapin & Huang L.L.C. Westborough Office Park

20060291446 - Systems, methods, and devices for managing routing: Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method comprising a plurality of activities, comprising: for each of the plurality of routing entities in an AS: obtaining IGP topology information; learning available BGP routes associated with the routing entity; utilizing the available BGP routes and the IGP topology information for all routing entities... Agent: At&t Corp.

20060291442 - Voice over internet protocol (voip) ready computer system and method: A VoIP ready computer system includes a housing having an integrated audio communications device holder adapted to receive an audio communications device. The housing includes a portion adapted to contain processing circuitry operable to execute programs and a storage device coupled to the processing circuitry. The storage device stores a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060291449 - Block-based assignment of quality of service precedence values: An ordered list of precedence values includes a number of blocks of precedence values. An operating system receives filters from an application. The operating system assigns a precedence value to each filter from the available block of precedence values that has the highest priority. Precedence values are assigned to maintain... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20060291453 - Facsimile server and method of controlling the same: When a request for an HTTP connection is made from a PC to a facsimile server, the facsimile server determines whether or not the login PC is located within the same segment as the facsimile server. When a determination is made that the login PC is located within the same... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20060291448 - Fixed access point for a terminal device: The invention allows providing a fixed access point for a terminal device. One of multiple access points is assigned to serve as a fixed access point for a terminal device based on a received identifier of the terminal device. A notification about the assignment of the fixed access point is... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20060291452 - Method and apparatus for providing reliable communications over an unreliable communications channel: A method and apparatus for providing reliable data communications over an unreliable voice dispatch communications channel is provided. A voice dispatch channel is established between an originating mobile station (102) and a target mobile station (104). The voice communications channel uses a Push-to-view reliability protocol that utilizes real time protocol... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20060291450 - Methods and apparatus for forwarding ip calls through a proxy interface: A session controller configured to be coupled to a communications network is disclosed. The session controller is configured to receive an indication of a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) registration request at a first time from an endpoint having a third-party registration, and to receive a signaling message from the... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20060291454 - Providing enterprise switching for peer-to-peer multimedia: The disclosure provides a system and method for internetworking IP and cellular networks. In one aspect, embedded wireless network intelligence may be used to service IP and/or IP connected communication devices. The communication devices may be session initiation protocol (SIP) devices. Thus, native SIP devices may be serviced by wireless... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060291451 - Time-zone-synchronized internet digital media management and distribution system: Internet and wireless network digital media management and distribution system, providing world-wide video viewing and/or audio listening automatically synchronized to the local time zone of the interconnected viewing or listening device, yielding a simultaneous viewing or listening experience within each time zone world-wide for video or audio programs and related... Agent: Donald J. Moore

20060291447 - Virtual circuits in packet networks: Systems and methods for provisioning a virtual circuit having a predetermined Quality of Service (QoS) in packet networks such as the Internet. A system for provisioning a virtual circuit having a predetermined QoS is provided for a packet network, consisting of (1) a circuit client (108) connected to the network... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20060291455 - Access to plmn networks for non-plmn devices, and to issues arising in interfaces in general between plmn and non-plmn networks: Interface device for interfacing between a PLMN network and a non-PLMN network, the PLMN network being configured to recognize cellular base stations as nodes thereof through which to mediate connections to cellular mobile devices, the non-PLMN networks each comprising a plurality of access points for mediating connections to network compatible... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi Inc.

20060291456 - Control interface selection: A software entity (101) e.g a web-browser, arranged to be run on a control computer (103) which can be networked with controllable devices (104a; 104b) e.g. PDAs and/or Mobile phones to transmit a signal from the control computer to the controllable devices as a result of processing a document (102)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060291457 - Cross-connected cable interconnection: A network system includes a cross-connected cable assembly interconnecting two or more network elements. The cross-connected cable assembly enables reduction in the effects of near-end crosstalk. Network elements may support separate gain adjustments for individual ports to further enhance the effectiveness of cross-connected ports.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20060291458 - Starvation free flow control in a shared memory switching device: A shared memory packet switching device includes: a shared memory providing a shared memory space; an input logic unit associated with at least one receive port, and being operative to determine whether the associated receive port is saturated by determining whether a number of packets received via the associated receive... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20060291461 - Apparatus, system and method capable of aggregate compression in a wireless lan: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transmitter capable of compressing header information in an aggregate of Media Access Control Service Data Units (MSDUs) by using one or more flags fields to describe which address fields are present in said aggregate.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060291463 - Communication apparatus, control method therefor, computer readable information recording medium and communication destination apparatus type registration data: A communication destination apparatus type registering part is configured to register an apparatus type of a destination communication apparatus, and a function corresponding to an apparatus type of a destination communication apparatus is provided with the use of apparatus type information of the destination communication apparatus registered by said communication... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060291464 - Data link/physical layer packet buffering and flushing: A buffering structure including at least a first FIFO storage structure to stage at least a selected one of undiverted egress packets and undiverted ingress packets is provided. The buffering structure further includes at least first associated packet drop logic to selectively effectuate head or tail flushes of the first... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20060291460 - Digital program mapping: Rather than utilizing fixed point-to-point remapping of PIDS, the present invention utilizes the type of stream that the PIDS are associated with and the related program services IDs to specify the associations between input and output programs. This permits mapping at the program level and, therefore, allows dynamic responses to... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20060291462 - Method and apparatus using multiple application cards to comprise multiple logical network entities: An apparatus (301) is comprised of a plurality of application cards (302-304) wherein at least a plurality of the application cards each comprise a part, but not all, of a plurality of logical network entities (307 and 308) such as a Packet Data Serving Node. A data packet session manager... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20060291459 - Scalable, highly available cluster membership architecture: The invention comprises a software-based communications architecture and associated software methods for establishing and maintaining a common membership among a cluster of multiple, cooperating computers (called hosts). The invention incorporates the use of nearest neighbor and overlapping heartbeat connections between clustered computers that are logically organized in a linear or... Agent: James L. Davison

20060291466 - Faster multimedia synchronization of broadcast streams using router caching of rtcp packets: Synchronization of a multimedia broadcast can be achieved by enabling network devices to re-send saved RTCP packets upon a client's join request.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20060291465 - Method for broadcasting extensive multicast information, system and corresponding software product: A method for broadcasting extensive multicast from a multicast exchange having a first address of a site of origin. A query of extensive multicast broadcasting containing the first address and an identification code of a mobile terminal is transmitted from the mobile terminal toward the site. A message offering access... Agent: Young & Thompson

20060291467 - System & method for fabric storage utilizing multicast with distributed intelligence: The present invention is a system utilizing multicast with distributed intelligence including an initiator device for transmitting a request, the request being addressed to a multicast group. The system also includes a switch for receiving the request from the initiator device. The switch is configured with multicast functionality for multicasting... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20060291469 - Computer-readable recording medium storing worm detection program, worm detection method and worm detection device: A computer-readable recording medium recording a worm detection program which is preferably usable for a large-scale network and is capable of detecting worm communication with little information. A worm detection device which runs this program has a switching hub function, and comprises five physical ports that are network interfaces, a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060291468 - Selective re-transmission of lost multi-media data packets: A method includes loading video data into packets and appending headers to the packets. Each of the headers includes a first field and a second field. The first field includes a data value to indicate an importance of a respective packet relative to other packets. The second field includes an... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff, Talwalkar LLC

20060291470 - Enhanced frequency division multiple access for wireless communication: Enhanced frequency division multiple access (EFDMA) is a multiplexing scheme that sends modulation symbols in the time domain and achieves a lower PAPR than OFDM. An EFDMA symbol occupies multiple subband groups that are spaced apart in a frequency band, with each subband group containing multiple adjacent subbands. To generate... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20060291475 - Selective forward error correction: A method for selective forward error correction of a data stream is disclosed. The method comprises: identifying data segments of different importance and assigning them with corresponding levels of priority; and generating forward error correction data corresponding to only to data segments assigned with levels of priority above a predetermined... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek, LLP Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20060291476 - Method and system for a two level scalable bundling solution: The present invention is a system and a method which enables implementing a scalable, carrier class bundling multiplexed data communication on low rate links. The proposed system and method, which comply with the data transference specifications of both CBR and statistical traffic, offer a data bundling solution with minimal overhead... Agent: Angenehm Law Firm, Ltd.

20060291472 - Method and apparatus for utilizing network services in a manner substantially transparent to service endpoints: The invention includes a method and apparatus for regenerative signaling. Specifically, the method includes receiving at least one base protocol message formatted in accordance with at least one base protocol, obtaining service information associated with at least one network service, and generating, in response to the at least one base... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20060291471 - Method terminal and server for transmission of service messages in fixed and/or mobile networks: According to the disclosure, various service messages, such as multimedia messages, short messages, Email messges, fax messages, “Voice Mail” messages, “Instant Messaging” messages etc., available or provided in a service center, or generated in a terminal are transmitted between the service center and a terminal, without the terminal having to... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLC

20060291473 - Systems, methods, and devices for monitoring networks: Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method comprising: for selected traffic that enters a backbone network via a predetermined ingress point and is addressed to a predetermined destination, via a dynamic tunnel, automatically diverting the selected traffic from the predetermined ingress point to a processing complex; and automatically forwarding the selected... Agent: At&t Corp.

20060291474 - User interface for smart wireless transfer: A source wireless device is capable of transmitting items over a wireless network using a number of different wireless transfer mechanism such as, for example, Infra-Red (IR) or Bluetooth. Several potential destination wireless devices may be capable of receiving the item using at least one of the different wireless transfer... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20060291477 - Method and apparatus for dynamically calculating the capacity of a packet network: A method and apparatus for calculating the engineered capacity of a packet network is described. In one example, subscriber usage data is collected from the packet network. The engineered capacity is then updated using the usage data on a periodic basis. In another example, the engineered capacity is subsequently compared... Agent: At&t Corp.

20060291478 - Audio/video synchronization using audio hashing: Audio and video frames are synchronized by hashing an audio frame at a sender and combining the resultant hash value with the video frame. The audio frame is transmitted over an audio network, such as a telephone network, and the video frame is transmitted over a digital network, such as... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20060291479 - System and method for high precision clock recovery over packet networks: An innovative system and method for achieving high precision clock recovery, i.e. reconstruction of the clock signal having the same frequency, over a packet switched network. The proposed method utilizes a minimum network delay approach, which overcomes the problems caused by delay variation of the network and filters out network... Agent: Edward Langer C/o Shiboleth Yisraeli Roberts Zisman & Co.

20060291480 - System and method for controlling network traffic: Disclosed are system and method for controlling a network traffic. According to the invention, all switches connected with the same VLAN are allowed to share an inherent ID of each switch, a port ID connecting the switches and information about a bandwidth so as to calculate an optimized path that... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20060291481 - Application session resumption in mobile environments: A session management system is provided for resumption of a previously interrupted session between an application client and an application server. The session management system includes: an application client and a session control agent residing on a mobile network device; and a session manager residing on a router of a... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20060291490 - Computer-readable recording medium having recorded worm determination program, worm determination method, and worm determination apparatus: A computer-readable recording medium having recorded a worm determination program capable of reliably determining a worm-infected communication. A worm determination apparatus for executing the program includes a plurality of physical ports functioning as network connection ports, a communication-information-acquisition unit, and a worm determination unit. The communication-information-acquisition unit acquires information about... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060291486 - Ims gateway systems and methods that validate routing to online charging systems: IMS gateway systems and methods are disclosed for providing online charging in an IMS network. A call control system of the IMS gateway system receives a message from a CSCF for a call session. The call control system identifies an OCS routing address from the message, and identifies a corresponding... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20060291487 - Ims networks with avs sessions with multiple access networks: IMS networks with AVS sessions with multiple access networks. Systems and methods associate multiple access network sessions with a given user endpoint (UE) device. A UE is managed in an IMS network to have multiple concurrent sessions to corresponding access networks. An application server in the IMS network creates a... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20060291485 - Link state advertisements specifying dynamic routing metrics and associated variation metrics and selective distribution thereof: Each router in a network is configured for executing a link state routing protocol based on outputting a corresponding first link state advertisement message describing a connected link of the router and that specifies a first dynamic routing metric identifying a first cost of the connected link, and a corresponding... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20060291482 - Method and apparatus for providing a metropolitan mesh network: The present disclosure provides for creating a metropolitan mesh network using vehicles as the framework. Mobile access points are installed on vehicles and configured to create ad-hoc, self-healing networks using mesh technology.... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20060291492 - Method and apparatus for publishing a community based directory and of offering associated community based services: This invention relates to a method or apparatus for publishing a community-based directory and profile using a tangible or a digital equivalent and an intangible publication. The intangible publication consists of using at least two different digital communication protocols or using a fixed and a mobile device. Selected members listed... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20060291484 - Method of avoiding or minimizing cost of stateful connections between application servers and s-cscf nodes in an ims network with multiple domains: Methods of avoiding or minimizing cost of stateful connections between application servers (ASs) and S-CSCF nodes in an IMS network with multiple domains. S-CSCF service logic is provided and connected to a co-located AS. The IMS includes a network operator administration domain and an MVNO service domain, and the S-CSCF... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20060291483 - Mobile telephone gateway apparatus, communication system, and gateway operating system: A mobile telephone gateway and communication routing device (MPG) (121) disclosed by the present invention is coupled through an electrical signaling transmission medium with a mobile telephone (100) operative on a first communication network in accordance with a first communication protocol, for adding communication capabilities through at least a second... Agent: Yossy Sela

20060291493 - Network interface device with a remote power source: Various methods, apparatuses, and systems in which a residential gateway is located at the network interface device and is powered with a remote power source inside the residence. In another embodiment, bi-directional data communication between the residential gateway and the remote power source is also enabled.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060291488 - System and method of interworking non-ims and ims networks to create new services utilizing both networks: Systems and methods of inter-working Non-IMS networks and IMS networks. An IMS network has at least one serving node and a non-IMS network has at least one MSC. The IMS and non-IMS networks inter-work so that network services may be provided to a user endpoint (UE) device, utilizing both the... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20060291489 - System and method to mediate delivery of legacy, non-ims services into an ims network: Systems and methods to mediate Non-IMS services on an IMS network. In a system having an IMS network, a non-IMS network, and a user endpoint (UE) device having at least one media renderer (MR) thereon, the IMS network invokes services provided by the non-IMS network. An application server receives a... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20060291491 - Wireless lan unit: A wireless LAN board includes a wired LAN connector connected to a wired LAN board, an antenna connecting terminal connected with an antenna for performing radio signal transmission/reception, a wired LAN section connected to the wired LAN connector to transmit/receive a data signal to/from the wired LAN board, a wireless... Agent: Christopher J. Fildes Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20060291494 - Compact medium access control (mac) layer: Electronic devices having compactly designed media access control (MAC) layers, that can be employed as nodes in a wireless network such as an Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers' (IEEE) 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN) are described herein.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt

20060291495 - Hardware self-sorting scheduling queue: The scheduling queue of the present invention is configured as a systolic array utilizing self-sorting scheduling cells to sort information packets based upon previously assigned priorities, while at the same time yielding a small constant latency independent of the length of the queue. The scheduling queue of the present invention... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20060291496 - Routing method in wireless network and communication device using the same: A routing method in a wireless network and a communication device using the same is provided. The routing method in the tree-based wireless network includes acquiring an optimal route using a table which is recorded based on received information on neighbor nodes and received information on lower nodes of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060291497 - Local area network of serial intelligent cells: A serial intelligent cell (SIC) and a connection topology for local area networks using Electrically-conducting media. A local area network can be configured from a plurality of SIC's interconnected so that all communications between two adjacent SIC's is both point-to-point and bidirectional. Each SIC can be connected to one or... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20060291498 - Contending for the medium with a mixture of backwards-compatible wireless devices: In a wireless network in which a central network device (e.g., an access point) communicates with multiple generations of mobile wireless devices that are backward compatible but not forward compatible, each generation of device may be selectively put into a mode that permits contending for the medium or a mode... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060291499 - Method and apparatus for efficient bandwidth utilization for subscriber unit initialization and synchronization in a time-synchronized communication system: A bandwidth efficient subscriber unit initialization and synchronization method and apparatus is described. The inventive subscriber unit initialization and synchronization method and apparatus uses a combination of an access burst format and a data transportation technique to efficiently use bandwidth when initializing and synchronizing subscriber units in a time-synchronized communication... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20060291500 - Non-intrusive transmit adjustment control: In one embodiment, a device for communicating over a digital-subscriber-line (DSL) link comprises a digital-subscriber-line transceiver to transmit and receive data over the DSL link and a controller coupled to the digital-subscriber-line transceiver. The controller controls a non-intrusive adjustment of a transmitter that communicates over the DSL link.... Agent: Fogg And Associates, LLC

20060291501 - Reconfigurable communications circuit operable with data channel and control channel: A communications circuit can operate with a data channel and a control channel. A changeable portion of the circuit can be reconfigurable between a first mode associated with activity on the control channel only and a second mode associated with activity on both the data channel and the control channel.... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20060291502 - System, terminal, method, and computer program product for establishing a transport-level connection with a server located behind a network address translator and/or firewall: A system, terminating node, method, and computer program product enable an originating node in a public network to communicate with a terminating node in a private network by sending a non-IP-based message from the originating node to the terminating node, thereby causing the terminating node to initiate IP-based communication with... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20060291503 - Apparatus and method to allow a frame check sequence to determine the updating of adaptive receiver parameters of a high speed communication device: A DSL device performs a frame check sequence operation in a digital signal processor (DSP), i.e., layer one of the OSI seven layer model, heretofore performed only in layer two of the OSI seven layer model. Performing the layer two framing and calculating the frame check sequence in the DSP... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20060291504 - Intelligent access within a document package: The invention features a method and apparatus for receiving a data package, the data package being digital data embedding a plurality of documents and a manifest that includes one or more pairs of identifiers. Each pair comprises an alias-source identifier and an alias-destination identifier, and each alias-destination identifier points to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060291505 - Method for extended transmission capabilities of short message service: A method to enhance a mobile device's ability to transmit short messages over a wireless communication network is provided. The method includes the steps for preprocessing a data according to it data type, fragmenting the data into a plurality of data segments if the data is larger than a predetermined... Agent: Carlton Fields, Pa

20060291506 - Process of providing content component displays with a digital video recorder: A process of providing a content display signal including display components may be performed by receiving input indicating display components and receiving input indicating content. A composite signal is generated including indicated display components and indicated content. The composite signal is provided to a display device.... Agent: David Cain Suite 143

20060291507 - Methods and apparatus for controlling display in a networked device: Methods and apparatus for controlling display elements within a networked device. In one embodiment, the network comprises a cable television network, and the device a digital set-top box (DSTB) with front panel display(s). A downloadable software module is provided that is adapted to discover the front panel display capabilities of... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20060291508 - Asynchronous data pipe for automatically managing asynchronous data transfers between an application and a bus structure: An asynchronous data pipe (ADP) automatically generates transactions necessary to complete asynchronous data transfer operations for an application over a bus structure. The ADP includes a register file which is programmed and initiated by the application. The register file includes the bus speed, transaction label, transaction code, destination node identifier,... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP Attn: Jonathan O. Owens

20060285478 - Apparatus and method for carrier frequency offset estimation and correction in a wireless communication system: A method is disclosed for correcting carrier frequency offset (CFO) in a received data packet that includes one or more M data streams. The data packet has a payload portion preceded by a preamble portion, the payload portion having a plurality of data symbols (L) each of which include a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20060285479 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving pilot signal using multiple antennas in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method are provided for transmitting and receiving a pilot signal using multiple antennas in an OFDM mobile communication system. In the pilot transmitting apparatus, at least one Walsh coverer Walsh-covers a pilot signal to be sent through each of transmit antennas. At least one transmitter allocates the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060285483 - Apparatus and method for multiplexing broadcast and unicast traffic in a multi-carrier wireless network: A base station for use in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) wireless network capable of communicating with a plurality of subscriber stations in a coverage area of the OFDM wireless network. The base station is capable of transmitting a first OFDM symbol in a first time slot, wherein the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20060285481 - Communications system, methods and apparatus: An OFDM wireless communications system includes terrestrial and satellite based base stations. Mobile nodes support two uplink modes of operation, multi-tone mode for terrestrial station interaction and single tone mode for satellite base station interaction. In single tone mode the peak to average power ratio is lower than in the... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20060285482 - Ofdm demodulation apparatus, method and computer readable medium: Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing demodulation apparatus includes: antenna to receive signal including holding period including part of period ranging from leading portion of delayed wave of maximum-delay time to trailing portion of preceding wave, unit estimating channel response of signal received by antenna, unit holding, based on channel response, first-signal... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060285484 - Pilot design and channel estimation: Embodiments of the invention provide method and apparatus for generating a structure in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication system having a transmitter with a least one transmitting antenna, said method comprising; composing a frame with a time domain and a frequency domain, wherein the frame has a transmission time... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20060285485 - Quick paging channel with reduced probability of missed page: A quick paging channel in a random access wireless communication system includes at least one bit in a quick paging frame identifying the presence of a paging message for an access terminal or group of access terminals. The quick paging bits identifying the presence of a paging message for a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20060285480 - Wireless local area network communications module and integrated chip package: A wireless radio-frequency (RF) module comprises an antenna to receive first RF signals, and to transmit second RF signals; a communication circuit comprising a receive circuit to produce first digital data based on the first RF signals, and a transmit circuit to produce the second RF signals based on second... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20060285487 - Apparatus and method for detecting network failure: The network failure detection apparatus is realized as a function of a terminal in a network. The network failure detection apparatus acquires packet reception statistic information on a port-by-port basis of a relay unit, and extracts a port having a large amount of packet reception per unit time. When there... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20060285486 - Multiple endpoint protection using spvcs: A system and method are provided for a multi-endpoint SPVC, the multi-endpoint SPVC providing redundancy. A primary SPVC is established through a first source node. An intermate communication channel (ICC) is established between the first source node and a second source node. If the primary SPVC fails, the second source... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20060285488 - Packet switching system and method: A packet switching system capable of ensuring the sequence and continuity of packets and further compensating for delays in transmission is disclosed. Each of two redundant switch sections has a high-priority queue and a low-priority queue for each of output ports. A high-priority output selector selects one of two high-priority... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20060285489 - Method and apparatus for providing end-to-end high quality services based on performance characterizations of network conditions: A method and apparatus enforcing and improving end-to-end service quality, based on end-to-end service performance characterization of network conditions, for a convergence enabled end-user device during a user session for service.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20060285491 - Call admission control method and system: A call admission control technique allowing flexible and reliable call admissions at an ATM switch in the case of an ATM network including both QoS-specified and QoS-unspecified virtual connections is disclosed. In the case where a QoS (Quality of Service) specified connection request occurs, an estimated bandwidth is calculated which... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20060285490 - Method and apparatus for quality-of-service based admission control using a virtual scheduler: In a wireless network or other communication system, admission of users to the system involves use of a first scheduler, which makes actual scheduling decisions for admitted users, and a second scheduler, which emulates the operation of the first scheduler. The first scheduler is configured to manage access to network... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20060285492 - Mobile voip phone communication system and method: A mobile Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) phone communication system and method allows users to make mobile communication via mobile VoIP phones. A local mobile VoIP server is established in at least one specific communication zone and at least a central mobile VoIP server for coordinating the local mobile VoIP server in each... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20060285493 - Controlling access to a host processor in a session border controller: Methods and systems for controlling access to a host processor is disclosed. One exemplary method comprises the steps of receiving a plurality of signaling packets and controlling access to a host processor, via a first and a second path, for at least a portion of the packets in accordance with... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20060285496 - Digital subscriber line user capacity estimation: In a particular embodiment, the present disclosure is directed to a data communications system. The data communication system includes a plurality of digital subscriber lines, a digital subscriber line multiplexer coupled to each of the plurality of digital subscriber lines, and a data switch coupled to the digital subscriber line... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20060285494 - Dynamic link speed control: Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to measure a network link throughput value, compare the throughput value to a threshold value, and dynamically regulate the link speed based on the measured throughput value.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20060285495 - Method and apparatus for aggregating network traffic flows: A method of aggregating network traffic flows for network traffic elements is described. The traffic elements are characterized by a plurality of characteristics having respective values, where a flow profile is formed by classifying each element into one of a plurality of flows dependent on its characteristic value. The method... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20060285497 - Method, apparatus and computer program product providing interoperable qos parameters and signaling thereof in a 3gpp2-3gpp and 3gpp2-3gpp2 conversational multimedia exchange: A method, electronic device and computer program product are provided to enable an initiator of a multimedia call to signal at least one QoS parameter to a called party. The method includes: obtaining at least one flow_profile_ID; performing calculations to convert the at least one flow_profile_ID to at least one... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20060285498 - Broadcast traceroute: One embodiment relates to a method by a switch of tracing a broadcast path from the switch through a group of switches. A broadcast traceroute packet is issued with a first hop entry from each port within the broadcast path. Trace hop packets are received from hop switches within the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060285499 - Loop detection for a network device: A loop detection apparatus and method for a dumb switch having a loop detection module is configured to broadcast loop detection frames to ports of the dumb switch to detect a particular port receiving a loop detection frame indicative of a loop condition occurrence at the port. An indicator is... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20060285500 - Method and apparatus for packet loss detection: Conventional network packet traffic loss/drop monitoring mechanisms, such as that employed for pseudowire, IP flow and tunnel traffic monitoring, do not process or diagnose the aggregate counts from both endpoints of a particular pseudowire. A packet loss and detection mechanism periodically exchanges traffic packet counts to maintain an accurate diagnosis... Agent: Chapin & Huang L.L.C. Westborough Office Park

20060285501 - Performance monitoring of frame transmission in data network oam protocols: Performance measurements for a network, such as delay, delay variation, and loss, are performed over layer-2. A PM frame is sent from a source MEP (Maintenance End Point) to a destination MEP. The PM frame is timestamped immediately prior to transmission, and the local clock at the destination MEP is... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20060285503 - Interference control in a wireless communication system: For interference control, a sector m estimates interference observed from terminals in neighbor sectors and obtains an interference estimate. Sector m may generate an over-the-air (OTA) other-sector interference (OSI) report and/or an inter-sector (IS)OSI report based on the interference estimate. Sector m may send the IS OSI report to the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20060285502 - Method for establishing a paired connection between media devices: A method for establishing a paired connection between first and second media devices across a network includes transmitting a first information message across the network including an identifier that includes a request to pair the first and second media devices. When a second information message is received from the second... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP

20060285505 - Routing apparatus and method in a multi-hop relay cellular network: Provided is a routing method in a multi-hop relay cellular network including a mobile station (MS), a base station (BS), and at least one relay station (RS). One of RSs neighboring the MS measures quality of a link to the BS, generates link quality information using the measured link quality,... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20060285504 - User separation in space division multiple access for a multi-carrier communication system: Apparatuses and methodologies are described that increase system capacity in a multi-access wireless communication system. Spatial dimensions may be utilized to distinguish between multiple signals utilizing the same channel and thereby increase system capacity. Signals may be separated by applying beamforming weights based upon the spatial signature of the user... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20060285506 - Delta transfers in distributed file systems: Disclosed are novel methods and apparatus for delta transfers in distributed file systems. In an embodiment, a communication system for transferring a delta of a file is disclosed. The communication system includes a sender site, a file transfer system, and a receiver site. The sender site includes a database with... Agent: Sun/blakely

20060285507 - Using mini-beacons in a wireless network: A method, apparatus, and software containing computer readable code to implement the method implemented in a first wireless device, e.g., an access point. The method includes, for a particular network identifier, e.g., BSSID, of at least one network identifier supported by the first wireless device that including a transmitter and... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20060285510 - Method and apparatus for transferring frames in extended wireless lan: A method and an apparatus to transfer a frame in an extended wireless local area network (LAN) environment into which wireless access points are introduced, the method including: grouping the wireless access points; receiving a frame; detecting destination address information from the frame; comparing the destination address information to address... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060285509 - Methods for measuring latency in a multicast environment: Measuring latency in computer systems, such as electronic trading systems, communicating with a plurality of clients by means of multicasting via a communication network. A sending host has a sending application adapted to distribute messages to a receiving application of a receiving host of a client. The method includes: providing... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20060285508 - Providing service selection and obtaining services: Plural service providers each provide services to one or more multicast service systems, which forward service sets formed by bundling received services to a respective multicast operator. The service sets are then multicast in IP datacasting bursts, and can be received by a mobile terminal. Each service includes one or... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20060285511 - Access method in communications systems with different service feature classes, and a corresponding communications system: Subscriber terminals of different service feature classes are accessed on access channels of a communication system with different service feature classes. At least two access channels (RACH1, RACH2) of a different service feature class are provided in the communication system.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060285513 - Method and apparatus for transmitting a frame synchronisation sequence and band extension information for a uwb multi-band cofdm wireless network: The present invention provides a mechanism for alleviating a latency problem of one of the proposals for a potential IEEE 802.15.3a standard. The invention places band extension information into the frame sync sequence, as per the evolving standard, but places channel estimation information together with that of the 3-band channel... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060285512 - Method for supporting backward compatibility of mbms: A method for supporting backward compatibility of Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service (hereinafter referred to as MBMS) in a mobile communication system of Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (hereinafter referred to as WCDMA) is proposed in the present invention. The present invention provides the method for the mapping relationship between... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060285515 - Methods and apparatus for efficient providing of scheduling information: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate efficiently providing scheduling information from an access terminal to a base station to enable effectuating scheduling decisions. Access terminals may transmit scheduling information in bifurcated requests. For instance, coarse scheduling information may be transferred utilizing a dedicated out-of-band channel, and fine scheduling information... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20060285514 - Wireless management system for control of remote devices: The present invention discloses a wireless remote device management system for wirelessly interfacing a plurality of remote devices (e.g., computers, servers, etc.) with one or more user workstations. Each remote device is coupled to a wireless transceiver. The user workstations may include a wireless user station coupled to a keyboard,... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20060285518 - Method and system of transmitting information from one to many terminals via wireless local area network: A method of transmitting information from one to many terminals via wireless local area network (WLAN) is implemented in a WLAN including a first electronic device, and a plurality of second electronic devices. The method includes steps of: the first electronic device searching for the plurality of second electronic devices;... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20060285516 - Method for an random accesses in a local network: Random accesses are regulated in a radio-assisted local network having at least one access point, a reachable radio station located in the radio coverage area of the at least one access point, at least one remote radio station located outside the radio coverage area of the at least one access... Agent: Staas & Halsey

20060285517 - Scheduling data transmissions to improve power efficiency in a wireless network: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to scheduling data transmissions to improve power efficiency in a wireless network. In an example embodiment, uplink transmissions may be scheduled after the downlink transmissions within the frame sequence. One or more nodes hav