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Multiplex communications January USPTO class patent listing 01/07

20070019536 - Allocation method, network element, module and user device: The invention is related to a network element, comprising: means for receiving feedback information from the user device; means for creating a first orthogonality measure by using the feedback information; means for creating a second orthogonality measure by comparing transmission resources; means for transmitting information to at least one user... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070019537 - Method and system reducing peak to average power ratio (papr) in a communication network: A method and system of transmitting a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple (OFDM) symbols in a block transmission system of a communication network is provided. The block transmission system is a frequency reuse system. The method includes encoding the plurality of OFDM symbols. The method further includes, modulating at... Agent: Beceem Communications Inc.

20070019535 - Sdma for wcdma: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate increasing system capacity in a code-limited WCDMA (e.g., TDD, FDD, . . . ) wireless communication environment. According to one aspect, a larger code space can be defined by introducing multiple code clusters within a sector, wherein each cluster has a unique scrambling... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070019538 - Symbol synchronization for ofdm systems: Symbol synchronization in a communication system is carried out as follows. A plurality of symbols corresponding to a transmitted signal is received, where the plurality of symbols include guard intervals. Peak correlation is obtained using the plurality of received symbols. The second derivative of the peak correlation is obtained, and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070019539 - Multiple input, multiple output channel, digital receiver tuner: The present invention teaches a compact and highly integrated multiple-channel digital tuner and receiver architecture, suitable for widespread field deployment, wherein each receiver demodulator channel may be remotely, automatically, dynamically, and economically configured for a particular cable, carrier frequency, and signaling baud-rate, from an option universe that includes a plurality... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070019540 - Mechanisms for providing connectivity in nat redundant/fail-over scenarios in unshared address-space: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for facilitating reliable session based communication with a local host via a subnet of redundant network devices that also implement network address translation (NAT) or the like. In general, embodiments of the present invention include mechanisms for reestablishing access to a local host after the... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20070019542 - Ethernet ring protection-resource usage optimisation methods: Reconfiguring a ring network having N nodes and S spans that prevents a maximum usage parameter to be exceeded. The network is configured by selecting a span as a protection span to remain idle. An effect of the configuration on the network that causes the network to exceed a maximum... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070019541 - Signaling system: A signaling system able to improve the efficiency of utilization of network resources and autonomously set a correct spare route, that is, a signaling system setting a path passing through two rings interconnected by a plurality of nodes by signaling wherein each node is provided with an inter-node connection information... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070019543 - Systems and methods for detecting and preventing flooding attacks in a network environment: A method for processing network traffic data includes receiving a packet, and determining whether the packet is a previously dropped packet that is being retransmitted. A method for processing network traffic content includes receiving a plurality of headers, the plurality of headers having respective first field values, and determining whether... Agent: Bingham, Mccutchen LLP

20070019547 - Jitter buffer for a circuit emulation service over an internal protocol network: A jitter buffer receives a plurality of data packets comprising a circuit emulation service over internet protocol (CESIP), buffers the plurality of data packets, and plays data from the plurality of data packets at a constant bit rate corresponding to the CESIP.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070019545 - Method and system for securing real-time media streams in support of interdomain traversal: An approach provides interdomain traversal packetized voice transmissions. A request is received from a first endpoint of a first domain for establishing a communication session with a second endpoint of a second domain. A tunnel is established by a TURN (Traversal Using Relay NAT (Network Address Translation)) server to support... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070019546 - Method and system for transmitting a message between two isolated locations based on limited range communication means: A system, method and computer program for ensuring a safe and efficient transmission of a datagram between two isolated points, the datagram being transmitted by a chain of couriers. Limited range communication means are used to pass the datagram from a courier to another, said limited range communication means being... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070019544 - Tandem call admission control by proxy for use with non-hop-by-hop volp signaling protocols: Described are a method and system for determining whether to establish a call over an internet protocol (IP)-based network. A network device inspects an IP packet to determine that the IP packet conveys a message to initiate a call. The network device determines a shortest path through a link-state network... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20070019549 - Communication quality monitoring system, communication quality monitoring device, communication quality degradation point specifying device, and method an program thereof: A probe device registers a passage history of the probe device itself with a packet, transfers the packet with which the passage history is registered and sends the same to a loss point judging device through a plurality of probe devices. The loss point judging device monitors at least one... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070019548 - Method and apparatus for data network sampling: Disclosed is an informed sampling technique for biasing a sample data set toward network data of interest for a particular application. Network data received at a network node (for example at a rate which is greater than a sampling rate for which the network node is configured) is chosen to... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070019551 - Apparatus and method for transmitting a multimedia data stream: An apparatus and method for transmitting a multimedia data stream are provided. The apparatus includes a data source unit to output the data stream; a frame dividing unit to divide the data stream according to a type of a video frame included in the data stream and to output the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070019552 - Method and system for packet scheduling: A method and system for packet scheduling are provided. The method includes: the step of receiving an incoming packet; extracting packet identification information associated with the incoming packet, and assessing a delay budget for the incoming packet in dependence upon its arrival time and the associated information. The system includes:... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson, LLP

20070019550 - Shaper control method, data communication system, network interface apparatus, and network delay apparatus: Upon controlling the operation of a shaper for performing the shaping of data communication that establishes a flow between data communication apparatuses via a network, the data communication apparatus identifies the flow and designates whether or not the shaping of the identified flow is performed, and the shaping on the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070019553 - Minimizing padding for voice over internet protocol-type traffic over radio link control: A radio access network node (24) comprises protocol data unit (PDU) formation logic (36); a PDU buffer (38); a concatenation timer (40); and a buffer readout mechanism (39). The protocol data unit (PDU) formation logic (36) serves, e.g., for segmenting incoming service data units (SDUs) to form protocol data unit... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070019555 - Dynamic system and method of establishing communication with objects: According to an embodiment of the invention, a method of dynamically creating a network of a plurality of nodes operable to communicate with objects in operating sectors comprises establishing a first communication link between a first node and a second node of the plurality of nodes. The first communication link... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20070019554 - Method and network nodes for path searching in a packet-oriented communication network: In a network node of a packet-based communication network, comprising several network nodes, at least two path searches to a target network node are carried out in at least one network node, in series or parallel and the result of at least one of the path search methods is stored... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070019556 - System and method for planning ports in dsl network elements: A system for automatically planning firmware card ports on multiplexors in a DSL network is disclosed. The system is operable to query element management systems (EMS's) in a DSL network to identify the multiplexor devices that each of the EMS's is dedicated to managing. Thereafter, the system queries the multiplexor... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070019557 - System and method for locating faults in a hybrid fiber coax (hfc) cable network: A fault location system (FLS) for a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) cable network. The FLS comprises an interactive map, a datastore, an object generator, and a display server. The datastore receives identifying information and status information of customer premises equipment (CPE) units connected to the HFC cable network. The object... Agent: Roberts, Mardula & Wertheim, LLC

20070019558 - Dynamic enforcement of mpls-te inter-domain policy and qos: A technique dynamically enforces inter-domain policy and quality of service (QoS) for Traffic Engineering (TE) Label Switched Paths (LSPs) between a local domain and a remote domain in a computer network. According to the enforcement technique, a Path Computation Element (PCE) of the local domain receives a path computation request... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070019559 - Voice over ip analysis system and method: A path diagnosis method and system for a VoIP network includes obtaining information on VoIP calls from the VoIP network using either Call Data Records (CDRs) or active testing, or both. A VoIP call that has a problem is determined between a source and a destination device on the VoIP... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070019562 - Format for providing traffic information and a method and apparatus for using the format: A method for identifying traffic information includes receiving traffic data including a first identifier, an amount of time currently taken to traverse a particular link, and information corresponding to a location associated with the particular link. The first identifier enables a determination of a type of the information that is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070019560 - Interface module with power over ethernet function: An interface module for use in a process monitoring and control system has an Ethernet port, a controller, and at least one segment I/O module. The Ethernet port is adapted to send and receive signals in an Ethernet protocol over a cable comprising a plurality of wires and to receive... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070019564 - Method and apparatus for discriminating type of packet loss: A method and apparatus for discriminating the type of packet loss occurring in wireless transmission are provided. The method includes calculating an average arrival interval of packets received during a time period and discriminating the type of packet loss for a lost packet among the packets based on a difference... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070019567 - Method and apparatus for high rate packet data transmission: In a data communication system capable of variable rate transmission, high rate packet data transmission improves utilization of the forward link and decreases the transmission delay. Data transmission on the forward link is time multiplexed and the base station transmits at the highest data rate supported by the forward link... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070019561 - Method and apparatus for monitoring and logging the operation of a distributed processing system: Method and apparatus for monitoring and logging the operation of a distributed processing system. A method for monitoring the operation of a distributed transaction system that is operable to process one or more transactions, each of which is comprised of a plurality of discrete processes, and which transaction as a... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070019563 - 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... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070019566 - Receiver apparatus and data distribution method: A receiver apparatus which receives streaming data transmitted from a distribution server via a network, includes: a comparison section configured to compare a time when a re-transmission process of the received streaming data is estimated to be completed with a time when an error correction process of the received streaming... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070019565 - System and method for identifying an efficient communication path in a network: A routing system, method, and apparatus for determining the best path for a router to transmit traffic to a specific destination on a network. As desired, the routing determination can be based, at least in part, on an analysis of the network load and an analysis of the availability of... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070019568 - Method of monitoring network elements supporting virtual private networks: A method of monitoring network elements configured to support a number of customer virtual private networks (VPNs) provided for a number of customers. The method comprising associating network addresses and extended community numbers (ECNs) with the network elements; associating the ECNs with a number of the customer VPNs; generating a... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070019569 - Methods for automatically selecting a cluster header in a wireless sensor network and for dynamically configuring secure wireless sensor network: Provided are methods for automatically selecting a cluster header to dynamically configure a wireless sensor network, and encoding and sending a packet between nodes in a wireless sensor network to secure communication. The method includes: broadcasting, at each normal node, cluster header selecting information including capability information of the normal... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070019570 - Reconfigurable circular bus: A system provides communication between a plurality of cores in an integrated circuit. The system comprises a circular segmented bus operatively connected to each of the cores for transferring data between the plurality of cores. An arbiter arbitrates which of the plurality of cores can transmit data at any given... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20070019571 - Apparatus and method for audio communications: An audio communication device is provided suitable for conducting audio communication including paired half duplex audio communications. The device includes a processor and associated memory with a codec connected to the processor. A TCP/IP operating system may be running on the processor. At least one audio transducer and audio circuit... Agent: Mark E. Ungerman Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070019572 - Sip server, terminal device, subscriber information management device, and communication control method: Radio resources for maintaining a communication channel can be used efficiently by synchronously controlling a communication channel establishment process and a Registration process by SIP. If a SIP server 1A obtains a request message by SIP from a calling terminal device in a state in which a communication channel has... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070019573 - Base apparatus, monitor terminal and repeater apparatus: A repeater for relaying communication between a base and a monitor which constitute a wireless LAN, includes a control means wherein, when reception quality of received data from the base by the monitor is lower than threshold in a direct communication mode in which the base and the monitor are... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070019575 - Method and system for supporting an evolved utran: A method and system for supporting an evolved universal mobile telecommunication systems (UMTS) terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) are disclosed. The system includes a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), a UTRAN and an E-UTRAN. The UTRAN sends to the WTRU a list of available radio access technologies in a coverage area... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070019576 - Network computer having power frequency carrier: The present invention transfers signals over a power line, where power signals run over the power line are modulated into network signals in a power supplier of a computer to be inputted into the computer; and, conversely, network signals from the computer are modulated into power signals in the power... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070019574 - Wireless access point and method for operating the same: A wireless access point and a method for operating the same are proposed, in which a virtual bridging control module carried out by software is used to bridge a plurality of RF modules, and a virtual mapping table is used to record information of incoming and outgoing transmission packets, thereby... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070019578 - Method for efficient energy consumption in battery powered handheld and mobile devices: A method of mitigating power consumption in a DVB-H receiver is provided. The method may include predicting reception error(s) associated with a data burst to be received by the receiver, and deciding, based on the prediction result, to process or to eschew processing of MPE-FEC redundancy section(s) associated with the... Agent: Tiajoloff & Kelly

20070019577 - Mobile terminal and data providing method thereof: A data service system, and more particularly, a mobile terminal and a data providing method thereof can provide a data service by replacing only an RF card when a mobile communication network is changed. The mobile terminal includes an RF module that is attached/detached to/from the mobile terminal according to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070019579 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data in a digital multimedia broadcasting system: An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving broadcasting data in a DMB system are provided to reduce power consumption and implement smooth and seamless service handover. In the transmitting method, a frame group is constructed, which includes one frame group header and at least one signal frame including broadcasting... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070019580 - Method for wireless network re-selection in a plurality of networks environment: The present invention discloses method for wireless network re-selection in a plurality of networks environment, comprising: when a user terminal changes from a current serving network to another network, sending a network re-selection request that includes a network information to a network side; establishing a connection of said another network... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20070019581 - Technique for transferring data from a time division multiplexing network onto a packet network: A technique for processing data carried by a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) channel in a TDM network. A data stream associated with a TDM channel is monitored to determine if it contains data frames. If so, the channel associated with the data stream enters a clear channel mode which causes... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070019582 - Method for transmitting data in a radio communication network: In a radio communication system, a common channel is provided which is allocated to a plurality of subscribers at the same time for data transmission between a base station and a subscriber station. Measurements regarding the transmission quality are carried out on the common channel and their results are available... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070019583 - In-band rate indicator methods and apparatus: Downlink traffic channel data rate options and methods of indicating to a wireless terminal a utilized downlink data rate option are described. The downlink traffic channel rate option for a segment is conveyed using an assignment signal and/or a block in the downlink traffic channel segment which is not used... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070019584 - Methods and apparatus for providing a roaming support system: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing a roaming support system are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070019585 - Apparatus for path selection and signal processing in wireless communications system: A method of path selection in a multi-path channel communications system that includes providing path information including at least path parameters and path statuses, setting a plurality of thresholds for the path parameters, comparing the path parameters to the thresholds corresponding to the path parameters, assigning a weighting to the... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP One Commerce Square

20070019586 - Method and apparatus for locating a wireless local area network in a wide area network: The disclosure is directed to a mobile communication device that measures characteristics or attributes of a first communications network that vary according to physical location within that first communications network to create a fingerprint, or signature, of a location within the first communications network. When the fingerprint of the current... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070019588 - Method and terminal for receiving a digital broadcast: A method and a digital broadcast receiving terminal are provided. The terminal includes a receiving unit, a decoder, a memory, and a controller. The receiving unit receives a digital multimedia broadcast transport stream and the decoder decodes data included in the transport stream. The memory stores system information obtained from... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070019587 - Mobile radio station and communication parameter control method thereof: There is provided a mobile radio station and a communication parameter control method thereof capable of shortening a time period required for speed detection and thereby controlling a communication parameter quickly and with little power. A mobile radio station performing communication based on a communication parameter preliminarily set includes a... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070019589 - Reverse link transmit power control in a wireless communication system: In one embodiment, the patent application comprises an apparatus, method and means for controlling power of an access terminal by adjusting a power of at least one secondary reverse link carrier by computing a forward link power differential, computing a reverse link power differential, and adding a power level of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070019590 - Single user detection base station: A transmitter site transmits a plurality of data signals over a shared spectrum in a code division multiple access communication system. Each transmitted data signal experiences a similar channel response. A combined signal of the transmitted data signals is received. The combined signal is sampled at a multiple of the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070019591 - Fair rate allocation on an ieee 802.11e communication medium: Wireless stations (108-1-108-N) contending for exclusive access for a predetermined period of time (S232) to transmit on a communication medium (112) are regulated by a common external controller (104) using a single timing parameter (S204). Attempts at transmission access are preceded by respective delays that are expired simultaneously and at... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070019598 - Apparatus and method for improved handover in mesh networks: forwarding to said members of said tree (A, A′, B) information about said second access point (AP2) and timing information to enable a coordinated handover of said nodes of said tree; switching said root node (B) and said further (A,A′) nodes from said first access point to said second access... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070019599 - Apparatus and method for scheduling transmission of data packets in a multichannel wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for scheduling the data packets transmitted to a plurality of mobile terminals supporting multiple quality of service (QoS) grades in a multichannel wireless communication system includes a storage device for storing queues and data packets of the mobile stations, the queue and data packets of each... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070019593 - Apparatus, system and method capable of signal strength based dynamic source routing in ad-hoc wireless networks: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a source node capable of dynamic source routing (SSDSR) to a destination node, wherein the dynamic source routing comprises: a route discovery process wherein route request packets are flooded in a network in an expanding ring search by the source... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070019597 - Information update method for access points, and handoff support apparatus and method using the same: If a hand-held terminal is connected to a single AP, the AP is provided from an administration server information of all the APs controlled by the administration server, transmits the information to the hand-held terminal, updates and stores it, and uses the updated and stored information of the APs to... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070019596 - Link assignment messages in lieu of assignment acknowledgement messages: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate communication by supplying an immediate re-send of an assignment, when such assignment is not decoded by an access node (“AN”). In one embodiment, the assignment to AT can be re-sent immediately, hence mitigating a requirement for the AT to indicate that “Yes” the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070019600 - Method for releasing a service tunnel in a wireless local area network: The present invention discloses a method for releasing a service tunnel in WLAN. This method comprises: an originating end point that desires to release a service tunnel in a WLAN sending a release tunnel request to a corresponding end point of the service tunnel; the corresponding end point returning a... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070019595 - Mobile communications terminal for controlling user's floor and method thereof: A mobile communications terminal, and method and system for controlling a floor during a PT session, are discussed. According to one aspect of the present invention, the terminal includes a PT client. The PT client includes a controller to request a user's confirmation of media burst for a PT session... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070019594 - Neighbor based tdma slot assignment: Non-overlapping time slots are allocated to a plurality of nodes in a network by a mobile agent that moves from node to node of the network. At a current node of the network, the mobile agent accesses neighbor information that includes time slot information relative to neighbor nodes of the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070019592 - Wireless packet communication method and wireless packet communication apparatus: A transmit-side STA transmits a wireless packet using a wireless channel which has been determined to be idle by both a physical carrier sense for determining based on received power whether the wireless channel is busy or idle and a virtual carrier sense for determining the wireless channel to be... Agent: Gregroy A Stobbs Harness Dickey & Pierce

20070019601 - Method and apparatus for controlling a function of a mobile phone in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method are provided for controlling a function of a mobile phone in a mobile communication system. The method includes the steps of receiving a pilot signal with a Pseudo Noise (PN) code; determining whether the received pilot signal has a predefined PN offset, setting a restriction of... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070019602 - Network connectivity system and method: A method of configuring an electronic device for communications with a communications network includes establishing a wireless communications link between a first electronic device and a second electronic device. The first electronic device has saved thereon a set of network parameters for enabling communications between the first electronic device and... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070019603 - Spectral reuse transceiver-based aggregation of disjoint, relatively narrow bandwidth (voice) channel segments of radio spectrum for wideband rf communication applications: A bandwidth usage control methodology uses the clear channel detection and frequency agile functionality of a spectral reuse transceiver to effectively ‘aggregate’ disjoint user channels into an overall bandwidth, the spectral extent of which is at least sufficient to meet a high bandwidth requirement (such as, but not limited to... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070019608 - Method and apparatus for high rate packet data transmission: In a data communication system capable of variable rate transmission, high rate packet data transmission improves utilization of the forward link and decreases the transmission delay. Data transmission on the forward link is time multiplexed and the base station transmits at the highest data rate supported by the forward link... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070019604 - Method for controlling media access in wireless sensor network: A media access control method of a wireless sensor network (WSN) is provided. The media access control method includes first sensor nodes, existing in a non-overlapping area where clusters do not overlap, media-accessing with a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) method and communicating with a Cluster head (CH) in a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070019607 - Radio communication system, radio communication apparatus and computer program: A radio communication system for carrying out communications among a plurality of radio communication apparatus pertaining to the radio communication system through a radio network connecting the radio communication apparatus with each other wherein, each of the radio communication apparatus includes an access setting unit configured to prescribe a super... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070019605 - Satellite modem with a dynamic bandwidth: The present invention provides for a method that could be advantageously implemented in a satellite local area network (LAN) in which an average number of sites share a TDMA link. The invention provides for both a dedicated bandwidth to all the sites and a shared bandwidth that is dynamically assigned... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070019606 - Wireless communication device and wireless communication method: A wireless communication device and a wireless communication method are provided to reduce the wasting of a battery by shortening a time-out interval defined when power is supplied from a battery to perform communication. The wireless communication device is adapted to make a request for predetermined information when the information... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070019609 - Dynamic temporary mac address generation in wireless networks: Unique temporary MAC addresses are calculated by mobile devices connected to wireless networks, using access point advertising information in combination with the permanent MAC address of the mobile device. The mobile devices use a hash function to construct a bit sequence from which a temporary MAC address can be extracted.... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLC

20070019610 - Maintaining an ip connection in a mobile network: A method for IP [=Internet Protocol] communication between a mobile terminal and its correspondent node in a mobile radio network. The method comprises establishing (2-2) an IP connection between the mobile terminal and its correspondent node. After detecting a period of inactivity in the IP connection, (2-4) keep-alive messages are... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070019611 - Network-initiated data transfer in a mobile network: A method for IP[=Internet Protocol] communication to/from a mobile terminal via a network element in a mobile network. The mobile terminal uses an in-band trigger for establishing an IP connection. The network element uses an out-band trigger (3-8) for initiating IP connection establishment. The mobile terminal responding to the out-band... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070019612 - 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... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP

20070019632 - Apparatus and method for computer controlled call processing and information provision: A method and apparatus are presented for transmitting, from an application computer in communication with a gatekeeper which is connected to a data network, messages indicative of telephone calls in progress at an endpoint of the data network, or indicative of such endpoint, and transmitting, from the gatekeeper to the... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070019631 - Apparatus and method for managing data transfer in voip gateway: A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateway is provided which upon an extension call between VoIP terminals, optimizes transfer routes of data between the terminals. In setting a session for the extension call, the VoIP gateway converts IP addresses and ports of the originator's and recipient's terminals included in an... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070019630 - Communication system, server apparatus and data terminal apparatus: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes an acquiring unit to acquire more than one items of data reception address information included in a data area of a message from each data terminal in connecting the data terminals with one another, a specifying unit to specify address information to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070019616 - Group formation using mobile computing devices: A computer-implemented method of joining an exclusive network communications group of data communications device users. A network location usable for requesting admission to the network communications group is advertised. A request message is sent from an invitee's communication device to the network location to request joining the network communications group.... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC Suite 125

20070019615 - Home network system: The present invention discloses a home network system (1) using a living network control protocol. The home network system (1) includes: at least two electric devices (41-49); and a network based on a predetermined protocol for connecting the electric devices (41-49), wherein a message transmitted between one electric device (41-49)... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070019622 - Method and system for providing secure communications between proxy servers in support of interdomain traversal: An approach provides interdomain traversal to support packetized voice transmissions. A request is received and specifies a directory number for establishing a communication session from a first endpoint to a second endpoint. The first endpoint is behind a first network address translator of a first domain, and the second endpoint... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070019623 - Method and system for providing secure media gateways to support interdomain traversal: An approach provides interdomain traversal to support packetized voice transmissions. A signaling message is received for establishing a voice call from a first endpoint associated with a first domain to a second endpoint associated with a second domain. The first endpoint queries a STUN (Simple Traversal of UDP (User Datagram... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070019614 - Method for providing a user interaction dialogue (uid) prior to connection acceptance by the called user: The invention relates to a method for the provision of a user interactive dialogue UID prior to connection acceptance service for telecommunication terminals in a communication network, wherein a media gateway controller forms a service switching point SSP. Parameters and signaling information necessary for controlling the UID prior to connection... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070019617 - Method, system and apparatus for maintaining ownership of service calls within an organization: A method, system and apparatus are provided for enabling service technicians to record information about service calls, and have that information available to other technicians who may handle the call at another time. In addition to providing a mechanism for tracking customer information (including product and problem details), the system,... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20070019625 - Methods and apparatus for controlling call admission to a network based on call peers: A session controller configured to be coupled to a database and configured to receive an indication associated with an ingress call is disclosed. The session controller is further configured to query the database for an ingress-call peer associated with the ingress call, and to query the database for a dynamic-peer-definition... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070019633 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for using signaling system 7 (ss7) subsystem numbers to route messages to session initiation protocol (sip) nodes: Methods, systems, and computer program products for using signaling system 7 (SS7) subsystem numbers to route message to session initiation protocol (SIP) nodes. According to one method, an SS7 message can be received. A SIP message can be generated based on the SS7 message. A subsystem number associated with the... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070019620 - Monitoring of coded data: The present invention relates to a gateway node (20) and a monitoring method of monitoring data exchange between at least two subscribers in a communication network. A coding information indicating at least one of a coding type and rate-adaptation mechanism applied by the at least two subscribers is stored at... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070019613 - Packet communication between a collecting unit and a plurality of control devices and over the power supply line: A communication method between a collecting unit (5) and a plurality of control devices (7i), each of which is associated with at least an electrical device (1i), via the power line. Messages are exchanged between the collecting unit (5) and the control devices (7i), each of which contains at least:... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20070019629 - Pushbutton telephone equipment, telephone switching equipment, and accommodating method thereof: According to one embodiment, a pushbutton telephone apparatus comprising a plurality of interface units for accommodating telephone terminals, wherein the pushbutton telephone apparatus is characterized in including an analyzing unit for analyzing an accommodating state in each of the plurality of interface units, a storing unit for storing, as accommodating... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070019618 - Supervisor intercept for teleagent voice over internet protocol communications: A system for transferring a call from one teleagent to another in response to a loss of voice quality in a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) communication system. Network parameters that affect voice quality over broadband connections are detected manually or automatically and an alert is generated. In response to... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070019619 - System and method for optimizing communications between session border controllers and enpoints in a network environment: An apparatus for optimizing communications between session border controllers in a network environment is provided that includes a session border controller (SBC) operable to communicate with a first endpoint and a second endpoint. The SBC is also operable to communicate with a data path border element (DBE) and a signaling... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070019626 - System, method, and apparatus for discovering a new server connected within an automated data center: A technique for automatically discovering a new server connected within an automated data center. In one example embodiment, this is performed by connecting and powering a new server to one or more data center resources of the automated data center. The new server is then booted-up by loading a temporary... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070019621 - Systems and methods for voice over multiprotocol label switching: A method, system, and computer-readable medium for transmitting voice over multiprotocol label switching is provided. A packet that includes layer 3 and layer 4 headers is received. A label that identifies a label switched path in the packet is inserted, and a stream identifier is generated. The stream identifier is... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070019628 - Telephone switchboard apparatus and method of controlling the same: A telephone switchboard apparatus including a communications control unit which exchanges IP audio data with IP telephone terminals, an MG resource which converts the IP audio data to non-IP audio data, and vice versa, and an MG resource managing unit which manages and controls the MG resource, wherein, when a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070019624 - Trunk and switch architecture for providing switched-circuit connections to on-line data services: A method and system for providing a network which routes telephone calls to the dial-up access line of on-line data services, such as an Internet Service Provider. The calls are routed over, over data trunks to a circuit-switch that consolidates access to on-line data services. The data trunks are separate... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070019627 - Virtual pbx based on sip and feature servers: A hierarchical internet telephony system includes a higher tier internet telephony feature server and a plurality of lower tier internet telephony feature servers. The higher tier internet telephony feature server fowrards telephone calls to the lower tier internet telephony feature servers, and each lower tier internet telephony feature server is... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070019634 - Voice over ip forwarding: A system for forwarding packed-based media in a network, the system comprising: a) at least one forwarder, configured to extract at least one packet of media from at least one media source accessible to the forwarder, and to forward the extracted packet of media to at least one capture device,... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070019635 - Method and system for call processing: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of processing calls includes configuring a gatekeeper to forward all dialed phone numbers to a call manager. The method also includes receiving a signal at the gatekeeper from a first endpoint requesting an IP address of a second endpoint corresponding to... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070019637 - Mechanism to virtualize all address spaces in shared i/o fabrics: A mechanism, method and computer usable medium is provided for each root node of a multiple root node system and its own independent address space. This mechanism also allows multiple system images within the same root node to have their own independent address spaces. A mechanism is also provided for... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070019636 - Multi-threaded transmit transport engine for storage devices: An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to process a plurality of I/O sequences associated with a storage device. A task context pre-fetch engine pre-fetches a task context from a task context memory based on a pre-fetch request. At least a multi-threaded transmit transport layer (T×TL) processes the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070019638 - Method of operating a scheduler of a crossbar switch and scheduler: The present invention relates to a method of operating a scheduler (100) of a crossbar switch (200), wherein said scheduler (100) comprises a tree structure comprising an input stage (IS) with a plurality of entry modules (E—1, E—2, . . . ) and at least one decider stage (DS—1, DS—2,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070019644 - Dmb system for reducing working load of dmb receiving terminal and method of transmitting psi/si version information and parsing psi/si: Provided are a DMB system for reducing a working load of a DMB receiving terminal, a method of transmitting PSI/SI version information, and a method of parsing PSI/SI. When PSI/SI is generated, a DMB station receives version information of the PSI/SI from each of PSI/SI generators, generates PSI/SI version information,... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070019641 - Execution of industrial automation applications on communication infrastructure devices: A communication infrastructure apparatus comprises an interface component that receives a data packet at the communication infrastructure apparatus. A processor component communicatively coupled to the interface component executes an industrial automation application based at least in part upon contents of the data packet. For example, the communication infrastructure apparatus can... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070019639 - Method for relaying ip-packets to an external control component of a network node: IP packets are received, identified, evaluated and processed at interfaces of a network node in a communications network, which comprises a number of network nodes and which transmits IP packets. An in-band IP signaling packet, which is received at an interface of the network node, is identified at the interface... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070019640 - Packet flow monitoring tool and method: A system and method for converting packet streams into session summaries. Session summaries are a group of packets each having a common source and destination internet protocol (IP) address, and, if present in the packets, common ports. The system first captures packets from a transport layer of a network of... Agent: Douglas E. Mckinley, Jr.

20070019642 - Virtual local area network configuration for multi-chassis network element: A system, apparatus, and method for providing a plurality of internal VLANs within a networking element/node are described. Internal VLAN topologies are provisioned so that a particular VLAN(S) communicate traffic to corresponding applications. This segregation of internal traffic across a VLAN topology reduces the amount of interference between the traffic.... Agent: Infinera Corporation

20070019643 - Wireless communication system and method of implementing an evolved system attachment procedure: A wireless communication system and method of implementing an evolved system attachment procedure are disclosed. The system includes a first core network and a second core network which is evolved from the first core network. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) sends an attach request message to the second core network.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070019646 - Method and apparatus for constructing a repair path for multicast data: A method is disclosed for constructing a repair path for multicast data around a non-available component in a data communications network having as components nodes and links therebetween. The method comprises the step performed at a repairing node, of receiving from a notifying node in a network, a notification identifying... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070019645 - Method and system for multicasting data in a communication network: A method and system for multicasting data in a communication network (100) to a specific group of user equipments (UEs) (120) that includes a source UE (102). The method provides for communicating (302) at least one FlowID to the specific group (120), the communicating including informing the specific group (120)... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070019649 - Data transfer apparatus and data transfer method therefor: A data transfer apparatus includes at least one data processing section and a header information judgment section. The data processing section includes a process execution section and a header information assignment section. The header information judgment section judges the header information assigned to the data transmitted from the data processing... Agent: Paul J. Esatto, Jr. Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070019648 - Synthesis of global transaction tags: A method for facilitating tracking of packets through a plurality of localized transaction-tagging domains comprises determining a local tag applied within a first localized transaction-tagging domain to an output packet of the first localized transaction-tagging domain and assigning a system-generated global transaction tag to the output packet dependent upon the... Agent: Raymond M. Galasso Galasso & Associates, Lp

20070019647 - Unsynchronized adjacencies in ospf: A method and apparatus for managing network communication that operate on the idea that if a new neighboring node is already reachable as represented in a shortest path data structure that the local node consults, there is no urgency in doing a full database synchronization between the local node and... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070019652 - Method and apparatus for updating label-switched paths: A method of updating a label-switched path for forwarding data in a data communications network in response to a change in a network comprises the step, performed at an updating node of receiving notification of a network change, of constructing a post-change label-switched path in the changed network. The method... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070019650 - Efficient message switching in a switching apparatus: A system and method of transferring packets/cells and messages within a switching apparatus that includes a plurality of input units, a packet/cell switch element, a message controller, and a plurality of output units. It is identified as to whether or not an item to be transferred from one of the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070019651 - Packet scheduling method and device in wireless communications: It is an object of the present invention to actualize a packet scheduling method and a device thereof that improve a throughput of packet data transmitted and received in a way that suppresses deterioration in communication quality due to interference between packet data signals. The packet scheduling method includes a... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070019653 - Transport of ethernet frames over an sdh network: The invention refers to a method of transmitting Ethernet data frames from a first local area network (LAN) to a second local area network (LAN) comprising mapping Ethernet frames from the first local area network onto Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy format via Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) and transmitting the mapped Ethernet... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070019654 - Home network system: The present invention discloses a home network system using a living network control protocol. The home network system includes: an electric device having at least two heterogeneous function means; a network based on a predetermined protocol; and a network manager for controlling and/or monitoring the electric device through the network,... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070019655 - Method for transmission of data packets through a network: The data packets with a maximum allowable delay and an average packet rate are aggregated in a node of the network of a burst and the burst is transmitted with a number of packets. The number of packets per burst is determined by the result of plus/minus twenty percent of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070019657 - Network apparatus and method of specifying network parameter: A network apparatus configured to communicate with a terminal using an IP address includes an information acquisition control unit configured to obtain a first IP address to be used by the terminal to specify a parameter in a network configuration; and a setting form generation unit configured to generate a... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070019656 - Systems and method for a dispatch communication router: Systems and methods for a dispatch communication router are provided. The dispatch communication router allows calls between two or more dispatch communication networks which operate using different dispatch communication protocols. The dispatch communication router includes a protocol interworking function, a media control stack and a transcoding function. The dispatch communication... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20070019658 - System for communicating call status information in an internet protocol network: A communication terminal includes a controller to, when a call set up between the communication terminal and a second communication terminal in an internet protocol network is released, encapsulate in a call release request message call status information relating to at least one status of the call and transmit the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070019659 - 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

20070019660 - 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

20070019661 - Packet output buffer for semantic processor: An embodiment of the invention is a processor comprising a direct execution parser configured to control the processing of digital data by semantically parsing data; a plurality of semantic processing units configured to perform data operations when prompted by the direct execution parser; and a plurality of output buffers for... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070019662 - Heuristic assignment of light-trails in an optical network: A method for assigning a light-trail in an optical network includes identifying unassigned traffic flows in the network that require assignment to a light-trail, where each traffic flow is communicated from an associated source node to an associated destination node. The method also includes identifying which unassigned traffic flow includes... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070019663 - Digital broadcast receiving apparatus: A digital broadcast receiving apparatus is provided with an operating portion, a selected channel table, and a buffer memory. The digital broadcast receiving apparatus is also provided with a packet ID acquisition portion that executes a packet ID acquisition mode when a channel has been selected with the operating portion,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070019664 - Tiered contention multiple access (tcma): a method for priority-based shared channel access: Quality of Service (QoS) support is provided by means of a Tiered Contention Multiple Access (TCMA) distributed medium access protocol that schedules transmission of different types of traffic based on their service quality specifications. In one embodiment, a wireless station is supplied with data from a source having a lower... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070019665 - Tiered contention multiple access(tcma): a method for priority-based shared channel access: Quality of Service (QoS) support is provided by means of a Tiered Contention Multiple Access (TCMA) distributed medium access protocol that schedules transmission of different types of traffic based on their service quality specifications. In one embodiment, a wireless station is supplied with data from a source having a lower... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070019666 - Radio communication method and radio communication device: The present invention discloses a technique for avoiding a signal collision in a wireless medium to improve communication throughput. According to this technique, in a radio communication system composed of a plurality of radio communication devices in such a manner that other radio communication devices exist within the communication area... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070019668 - System and method for scheduling uplink in a communication system: An uplink scheduling system and method in a wireless broadband internet communication system includes calculating priorities of mobile stations (MSs) taking into account headroom size indicating transmission power additionally available for each of the MSs; and determining a transmission format of an MS selected to be preferentially allocated a slot... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070019667 - Wireless telecommunication system including at least a base station intended to communicate with terminals: The present invention concerns a wireless telecommunication system including at least a base station intended to communicate with terminals over bidirectional communication channels, each channel supporting frames being divided into downlink timeslots and uplink timeslots, each downlink timeslot including a number of symbols intended to be transmitted to at least... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070019669 - Modular outlet: In conjunction with a wiring in a house carrying data network signal, a modular outlet comprising of a base module and interface module. The base module connects to the wiring and attached to a wall. The interface module provides a data unit connection. The interface module is mechanically attached to... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070019671 - Hardware device emulation: A solution for emulating a hardware device is provided. In particular, a communication device that includes a standard mode of operation and a mapping mode of operation is used together with a control program to emulate communication with the hardware device. The mapping mode of operation is used to implement... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070019670 - Mobile connectivity solution: A method and application for selecting a network from one or more candidate networks is disclosed. Information is gathered from one or more database relating to each of the one or more candidate networks and is harmonized in relation to an associated network type. The harmonized information is evaluated to... Agent: Russell J. Genet Jenkens & Gilchrist, A Professional Corporation

20070019674 - Compression of overhead in layered data communication links: An apparatus, system and method for converting data in a first packet format, having overhead data in the form of headers and/or trailer padding, into a second, variable-length packet format, in which some of the header and/or trailer overhead is removed during conversion in order to more efficiently utilize the... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070019672 - Method for operating a wireless network: A radio system employing at least one dual protocol equipped radio device is described. The system and devices form a piconet in which message transaction parameters such as amount of data or requests to join the piconet, are monitored (60). A dual protocol device is then selected (62) (or selects... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070019673 - Processing two-octet and four-octet values using border gateway protocol: A method of processing both two-octet and four-octet autonomous system (AS) identifier values in a first network node that communicates with peer network nodes using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), comprises receiving a first route message from a BGP peer node that is outside a local autonomous system that includes the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070019675 - System for rapid channel acquisition of broadcast digital media streams: The present channel acquisition system rapidly acquires and decodes digital media streams that are broadcast to customers, such as the digital media streams delivered by streaming media and traditional broadcast media services like cable, satellite, and broadcast television. When the decoding unit makes a channel change or initiates reception of... Agent: Patton Boggs

20070019676 - Transport networks supporting virtual private networks, and configuring such networks: A layer 2 transport network, and components thereof, supporting virtual network functionality among customer edge devices. Virtual private network configuration can be accomplished with merely local intervention by preprovisioning extra channel (or circuit) identifiers at each customer edge device and by advertising label base and range information corresponding to a... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070019677 - Data processing method and system based on a serial transmission interface: A data processing method based on a serial transmission interface applied to PCI Express data transmission. A data packet is received by a physical layer. The data packet is transmitted to a data link layer and a transaction layer simultaneously. The data packet is processed by the data link layer... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070019678 - Compander, and associated methodology, for a radio communication station operable pursuant to a coded squelch scheme: Apparatus, and an associated method, for companding communication data. Companding is provided for a two-way radio communication station operable pursuant to a coded squelch scheme, such as an MURS or FRS radio. A baseband processor invokes compression operations upon originating communication data that is originated at the communication station. And,... Agent: Scheef & Stone, L.L.P.

20070019679 - Mobile communications network with multiple radio units: A wireless communications system comprising: a plurality of radio units each comprising at least one antenna for receiving a radio frequency signal over a wireless interface, a converter for converting the radio frequency signal to a digital signal and a digital link for conveying the digital signal; a digital combiner... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070019680 - Apparatus and method for air traffic services voice signaling: A method for encoding ATS-QSIG standard-based content for transmission over a 56 kb/s clear channel. The method encodes each of the three 16 kb/s ATS-QSIG voice sub-channels on to corresponding 16 kb/s voice sub-channels in the 56 kb/s clear channel. The method encodes the 16 kb/s ATS-QSIG data sub-channel on... Agent: Osha - Liang, LLP / Vincent

20070019681 - Method and apparatus for application driven adaptive duplexing of digital subscriber loops: To improve the performance of DSL modems, a DSL duplexing ratio for a new communication is selected according to the communications needs of an application. A required upstream and downstream bit rate for application communications is determined. From the ratio of these bit rates, a desired duplexing ratio is calculated.... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20070019682 - Device control system, method, and apparatus for server-based or peer-to-peer network environments: In a device control system that provides a means for controlling a variety of device types via a unified interface, such as via a handheld controller, a synchronization protocol ensures synchronization between a plurality of such controllers in a peer-to-peer network environment, provides a means for transferring custom configurations between... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070019683 - Device control system, method, and apparatus for server-based or peer-to-peer network environments: In a device control system that provides a means for controlling a variety of device types via a unified interface, such as via a handheld controller, a synchronization protocol ensures synchronization between a plurality of such controllers in a peer-to-peer network environment, provides a means for transferring custom configurations between... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070019684 - System and method for effectively performing an audio/video synchronization procedure: A system and method for effectively performing an audio/video synchronization procedure in a receiver device may preferably include a demultiplexer configured to recover elementary bitstreams from a multiplexed bitstream. The demultiplexer may also preferably extract decode timestamps and output timestamps corresponding to the elementary bitstreams. One or more decoders may... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Redwood Patent Law

20070019686 - Circuit and method for service clock recovery: A method for controlling a local clock in a node coupled to a packet network is disclosed. The method involves generating a first control signal based on RTS values received during a first period of time and generating at least one additional control signal based on RTS values received during... Agent: Fogg And Associates, LLC

20070019685 - Method and circuit for de-skewing data in a communication system: Method and circuitry for de-skewing data in data communication networks such as a SONET. The data is sent from a system chip to a framer chip where the data is de-skewed. To detect data skew, the system chip sends a training sequence to the framer chip. The information bits sent... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070019687 - Technique for converting bit rates: A binary tree-like structure for converting bit rates in a telecommunication system, comprising at least one cyclic generator (CG) adapted to present a higher bit rate called R1 substantially as a sum of two lower bit rates called R2 and R3 by cyclically producing, per n clocks of the bit... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070014226 - Pulse shift modulation for reducing cross-talk of single ended i/o interconnects: A method and apparatus is described herein for pulse shift modulation of output waveforms for reducing crosstalk on interconnects. Based on input pulses/bits, an output waveform is selectively delayed by a shift value to ensure transitions in a first direction occur in a first half of a period and transitions... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070014227 - Radio apparatus: A modem unit inputs a plurality of combinations, of control signal and data signal, which are to use a plurality of subcarriers. In a plurality of combinations the modem unit adds a first known signal for data signals contained at least in a first combination, and in a plurality of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070014228 - Broadcast data receiver transmission: The invention relates to a method of allowing the transmission of data along a return transmission path from one or more broadcast data receivers to a remote location, typically a broadcast location. The digital data is transmitted in a differential QPSK form thereby allowing external memory means to be not... Agent: Head, Johnson & Kachigian

20070014229 - Protocol engine for processing data in a wireless transmit/receive unit: A protocol engine (PE) for processing data within a protocol stack in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is disclosed. The protocol stack executes decision and control operations. The data processing and re-formatting which was performed in a conventional protocol stack is removed from the protocol stack and performed by the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070014232 - Apparatus and method for detecting network failure: A network failure detection apparatus is realized as a function of a terminal in a network. The network failure detection apparatus transmits reachability confirmation packets to a terminal of search object. From a reachability condition decided on the basis of the receiving condition of response packets responding to the reachability... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070014230 - Automatically provisioning a network element: Provisioning a network element of a ring network includes accessing connection data of the network element. The network element includes components, and the connection data includes entries for connections between components. A connection initiation event initiating a change of the connection data is established to have occurred. A first connection... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070014233 - Fault management apparatus and method for identifying cause of fault in communication network: The communication availability information between a plurality of transmitters and a plurality of destinations before the communication state between a transmitter and a destinations in a communication network changes from available to unavailable is compared, layer by layer from an upper layer toward a lower layer, with the communication availability... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070014234 - Loop prevention system and method in a stackable ethernet switch system: A loop prevention system and method operable in a stackable Ethernet switch system (SESS). In one embodiment, logic is provided for monitoring control management traffic on a stacking port of a stack switch element of the SESS. Also included is logic, operable responsive to determining that there is a loss... Agent: Alcatel Internetworking, Inc.

20070014231 - Router and method for protocol process migration: A router and a method for migrating routing protocol processes or Virtual Routers (VRs) from one Route Processor (RP) to another using graceful restart procedures for maintaining packet flow to the router and assisting the router to obtain restart information. The router includes first and second RPs and a forwarding... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070014235 - Multiple-input network node with power-saving state: Embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and systems for providing a multiple-input network node with power-saving state are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt

20070014237 - Communication apparatus, communication system and communication control program: A communication apparatus generates a single physical frame including a plurality of MAC frames, and transmits the physical frame. The physical frame has variable-length bitmap information comprising bits corresponding to the plurality of MAC frames, respectively, and length information of the bitmap information.... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070014236 - Voice packet scheduling method for wireless local area network: A scheduling method includes classifying, by a PC, terminals into delay-sensitive terminals and delay-insensitive terminals according to their traffic types; setting an initial value and a maximum value of a poll failure counter of each of the delay-sensitive terminals; polling each of the delay-sensitive terminals; determining whether there exists a... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070014238 - Load equalization method for new connections in a wireless environment supporting shared access for multiple terminals in a qos controller manner: The present invention relates to a method of smoothing load over multiple bearers in a given spot-beam for a TDMA wireless personal communication system, offering packet data communication services to individual user terminals in shared mode. The present invention also relates to a method for the smoothing of load over... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070014239 - Response time detection in a network having shared interfaces: Embodiments of the present invention provide response time detection in a network having shared interfaces. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070014240 - Using locks to coordinate processing of packets in a flow: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method that includes accessing a first set of bits from data associated with a flow identifier of a packet and accessing flow data based on the first set of bits. The method also includes accessing a second set of bits from... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070014241 - Resolver caching of a shortest path to a multihomed server as determined by a router: A resolver queries a DNS server for any network addresses associated with the particular domain name. If the resolver detects a response for the DNS server with multiple network addresses for a particular domain name, then the resolver creates and sends a shortest path query to at least one router... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20070014242 - Access network with trusted real time feedback: A Method for providing a trusted feedback (8, 80) in an access network (1) is described, wherein a real time service monitor (7, 70) for real time monitoring the quality of service provided to at least one user (4, 40) by a server (3, 30) via the access network (1)... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070014243 - System and method for provisioning a user device: System and method for providing multiple entry points for connecting one or more user devices in a communication network are disclosed. The method includes providing a server for communicating with the one or more user devices, where the server includes a connected-data-set and the one or more user devices share... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070014244 - Alert mechanism for notifying multiple user devices sharing a connected-data-set: System and method for notifying a user status of communications between a server and the user having one or more user devices in a communication network are disclosed. The system includes a server for communicating with the user, where the server includes a connected-data-set and the one or more user... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070014245 - Method and system for transparent tcp offload with best effort direct placement of incoming traffic: Certain aspects of a method and system for transparent transmission control protocol (TCP) offload with best effort direct placement of incoming traffic are disclosed. Aspects of a method may include collecting TCP segments in a network interface card (NIC) processor without transferring state information to a host processor every time... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070014246 - Method and system for transparent tcp offload with per flow estimation of a far end transmit window: Certain aspects of a method and system for transparent transmission control protocol (TCP) offload with per flow estimation of far end transmit window are disclosed. Aspects of a method may include storing at a network interface card (NIC) processor state information for a received TCP segment and state information for... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070014249 - Logical connection method in network and information processor: A logical connection method in a network in which plural terminals are connected for intercommunication is provided. The method includes letting each of the terminals store a connection management table and plural connection tables, the connection management table indicating other end of a logical connection at present, and each of... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070014247 - Method of augmenting deployed networks: Method of augmenting a deployed network to include additional network elements. The method includes instructions for determining whether a deployed network is sufficient for supporting existing customer and future customer demands and generating an augmented network design if the deployed network is insufficient. The augmented network design includes new network... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070014248 - Network monitoring device: A network monitoring system monitors a data network and enables observation of the data network state in the present or any arbitrary previous time. The system maintains an object-oriented network model that mirrors the state of network devices. A network data repository stores and maintains the network model. The network... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070014250 - Modeling a ring network using a ring object: Modeling a ring network of a network system includes creating a ring object that models the ring network. The network system includes a network element that has components. The ring object includes provisioning properties, where a provisioning property describes configuring a component to become a member of the ring network.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070014251 - Fast session setup extensions to h.324: A method of initiating a set up process for a call between users with reduced set up times using one or more 3G telecommunication networks. The method is provided between at least a pair of H.324-like terminals coupled to the one or more 3G telecommunication networks. The method includes establishing... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070014252 - Method and apparatus for positioning portable subscriber station in wibro network, and repeater having the same: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for positioning a portable subscriber station (PSS) using a WiBro repeater, and a repeater having the apparatus. The method of positioning the portable subscriber station in a network having a radio access station (RAS) and a repeater, including the operations of: detecting a preamble... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070014253 - Wireless channel searching method, wireless transmitting/receiving system and wireless transmitting apparatus: The present invention relates to a method of searching a wireless channel by searching unused wireless channels. A list of the searched unused wireless channels is stored. A multimedia signal transmitted and received through one of the unused wireless channels. Thus, a wireless channel searching method, a wireless transmitting/receiving system... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070014254 - Method and apparatus for measuring uplink data throughput in wibro repeater: Disclosed is a method of measuring the throughput of uplink data in a WiBro repeater, the method including the operations of: (a) extracting a plurality of tiles from a predetermined number of symbols that are collected over a plurality of times by performing frequency conversion on the uplink data; (b)... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070014255 - Methods of multipath acquisition for dedicated traffic channels: In a method of multipath acquisition for a dedicated traffic channel, path positions of the traffic channel that have desired signal energy for processing in a base station receiver may be determined as a function of information contained in a data part of the traffic channel.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070014256 - Reserving network resources for a communication session: Requesting a network resource includes facilitating a communication session between a mobile node and an endpoint. A trigger event is received at a first anchor point associated with the mobile node. The trigger event indicates that reservation of a network resource is being requested for the communication session. A second... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070014257 - Self optimization of time division duplex (tdd) timing and adaptive modulation thresholds: A wireless broadband communication system that operates with high efficiency and reduced latency in long range point-to-point and point-to-multipoint applications. The system includes multiple transceivers and multiple antennas for transmitting and receiving wireless signals using TDD techniques over multiple channels, which include a control channel for setting both the size... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070014258 - Radio apparatus: A control unit estimates the time required from when signals are transmitted respectively to a plurality of terminal apparatuses to when responses from them are received. In a plurality of partial periods, partial periods for receiving signals continue after partial periods for transmitting the signals continue, and the order of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070014260 - Dual-mode mobile terminal and method for handover of packet service call between different communication networks: A dual-mode mobile terminal and method for performing PS call between different communication networks. In the mobile terminal, a second communication module which communicates with a second communication network, prepares for its operation and enters into a low power mode when it is requested for the PS call through a... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070014259 - Dynamic packet buffering system for mobile handoff: The present invention relates to the use of buffering packets for the mobile node at an access router or network node near the edge of the network that the mobile is moving away from or towards. The buffered packets are then forwarded to the mobile node once the handoff process... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLC

20070014262 - Method for handling over a call involving a mobile node in a macromobility situation in an ip communication network using hierarchical routing: A call handover method for an Internet Protocol (IP) communication network using hierarchical routing comprising first and second mobility anchor points (P1, P2) connected to respective first and second access routers (R1, R2) and a home agent (EA) of a mobile first node (T1) communicating with a second node (T2)... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070014261 - Method for performing roaming capable of minimizing ping-pong phenomenon and dual mode mobile terminal using the same: Disclosed is a method for performing roaming capable of minimizing a ping-pong phenomenon and a dual mode mobile terminal using the same. Functions for the method for performing roaming and the dual mode mobile terminal using the same are realized such that a ping-pong phenomenon occurring in a shadow area... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070014263 - Method for evaluating the performances of a mobile telephony network: A method of evaluating the performance of a mobile telephone network having at least a first and a second simulation of a first and a second network configuration, respectively, which are statistically independent of each other. Each simulation includes the following steps: specifying a total number of users to be... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070014264 - Reduced power time synchronization in wireless communication: Methods, devices, and systems for wireless communication in which one or more devices are scheduled to awake from a low power sleep state at a scheduled time for data transmission. An illustrative embodiment addresses difficulties that may arise as a result of clock errors that can occur when a device... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070014265 - Method and apparatus for managing uplink resource allocation in a communication system: A method and apparatus resolves conflicts and ambiguities of GSM standards arising in DTM by monitoring only selected downlink timeslots for uplink status flags (USFs). Downlink timeslots with a packet data channel (PDCH) are monitored for a USF from a lowest numbered time slot, B(0), to a maximum time slot... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070014266 - Wireless lan system making quality of communication improve and a communication method therefor: A wireless LAN system if formed by a base station, mobile stations and a controller. The controller receives a frame over wireless media, and a frame analyzer analyzes the received frame. A determination section determines whether or not the frame received at a predicted time based on the rule of... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070014269 - Apparatus for and method of synchronization and beaconing in a wlan mesh network: A novel and useful synchronization mechanism that functions to provide a uniform time base for mesh points in a WLAN mesh based network. The invention enables timing synchronization to a common reference clock base by advertising the common TSF within beacon transmissions. All MPs in a mesh share a common... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070014268 - Method for controlling data transmission in a wireless network system including a plurality of nodes, sensor network using the same and computer-readable medium having thereon a program performing function embodying the same: The present invention is related to a method for controlling data transmission in a wireless network system including a plurality of nodes. In accordance with the present invention, a duty cycle of a buffer of a node is configured to be adjusted according to a threshold value and a priority... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070014267 - Off-channel beacons in a wireless network: A method, apparatus, and software containing computer readable code to implement the method implemented in a first wireless device. The method includes, for a particular network identifier active in a wireless network, transmitting frames configured to advertise the infrastructure network of the particular network identifier. The transmitting of off-channel beacons... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070014270 - System and method for reliable communications over multiple packet rf networks: The invention is a method and system for mobile communications. A mobile communicator communicates with a network routing center. The communicator monitors each of two or more wireless carriers for a service characteristic. The communicator selects, based on the monitored service characteristic, one of the two or more wireless carriers.... Agent: Lincoln J. Unruh Building 200

20070014271 - Packet detection device: The present invention provides a packet detection device including a reception end for receiving signals; a matched filter coupled to the reception; a power meter coupled to the reception end and the matched filter for calculating power of signals received by the reception end; and a logic unit coupled to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070014272 - Pilot and data transmission in a quasi-orthogonal single-carrier frequency division multiple access system: In a single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system that utilizes interleaved FDMA (IFDMA) or localized FDMA, multiple transmitters may transmit their pilots using time division multiplexing (TDM), code division multiplexing (CDM), interleaved frequency division multiplexing (IFDM), or localized frequency division multiplexing (LFDM). The pilots from these transmitters are then... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070014273 - Method, device and computer readable medium for dynamically updating transmission charactaristics: A method for dynamically updating transmission characteristics, the method includes: evaluating at least one transmission characteristic in response to a reception of at least one information frame being transmitted over an ultra wideband wireless medium; and transmitting link feedback information and acknowledgement information in response to the reception of the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070014274 - Method for the transmission of data: A method, system and computer program product for the transmission of data from a transmitter to a receiver according to the standard universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS standard). The present invention is directed to improving data transmission according to the UMTS standard. To this end, the transmission of data is... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLC

20070014277 - Content router repository: A content router including a repository is provided for synchronizing information among a plurality of dissimilar content nodes, such as user devices and user accounts. Some content nodes may include similar content types but in incompatible forms. The content router may strip off or transform incompatible sections of an incoming... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070014278 - Counter router core variants: A method, apparatus, and system for routing changes to information between a plurality of content nodes and a command memory of a content router. Content nodes may be user devices (such as mobile phones) and user accounts (such as email accounts). Content nodes may hold one or more content types... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070014275 - Dynamically controlling the rate and internal priority of packets destined for the control plane of a routing device: Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, and mechanisms, for identifying admission control policies and enforcement of these admission control policies on packets destined for a route processor. A typical routing device includes: a route processor, a forwarding lookup mechanism for identifying packets destined for the route... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20070014279 - Residential ethernet switching device for sub frame-based switching: A residential Ethernet switching device for sub frame-based switching in a residential Ethernet system is provided. The device includes a plurality of reception data path processors for parsing a residential Ethernet frame inputted to the residential Ethernet switching device, as respective residential Ethernet sub frames, and outputting the parsed residential... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070014276 - Route processor adjusting of line card admission control parameters for packets destined for the route processor: Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, and mechanisms, for a route processor adjusting admission control policies for packets destined for the route processor and enforced on line cards. Individual line cards can identify offending packet flows that pass through them. However, for example, it is possible... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20070014280 - Customizability of event notification on telephony-enabled devices: A system and method of notifying a user of events in a customizable manner during and not during a voice call is provided. According to one aspect, the notifications are configurable to be dependant on whether or not there is an active voice call. Notifications may also be configured to... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20070014282 - Integrated services user part (isup) /session initiation protocol (sip) gateway for unlicensed mobile access (uma) emergency services call flow: An ISUP/SIP gateway is implemented to encapsulate SS7 location requests from a switched telephone network into an Internet protocol SIP message including one or more location objects. The ISUP/SIP gateway is implemented between a mobile switching center (MSC) and a VoIP positioning center (VPC) to provide support of unlicensed mobile... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20070014281 - Voice call continuity application server between ip-can and cs networks: A system and method for continuous voice calls when a user switches between packet data and circuit switched access networks. In one example embodiment, the present innovations include an interworking system that supports voice call continuity for a user that moves between IP-CAN and CS networks (e.g., PSTN or GSM).... Agent: Groover & Holmes

20070014283 - Apparatus and method for computer controlled call processing applications in packet switched telephone networks: A method is presented comprising transmitting, from an application computer communicably connected to a call controller which is connected to a data network, packetized messages indicative of telephone calls in progress at an endpoint of the data network, or indicative of such endpoint, and transmitting, from the call controller to... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevates

20070014288 - Apparatus and method for point-to-point emulation in a broadband wireless communication system: A point-to-point emulation apparatus and method in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. In a communication method in an RAS in a broadband wireless communication system, an ID of a source terminal and an ID of a destination terminal are registered in a database by mapping the ID of... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070014284 - Human-to-human collaborative session request queue processing: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to queued requests to establish human-to-human collaborative sessions and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for managing queued requests to establish human-to-human collaborative sessions. In one embodiment, a human-to-human collaborative data processing system... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070014287 - Method or apparatus for routing signaling messages in a network: A method for routing signaling messages between nodes in a network in which virtual addresses are used to route messages in a predetermined order to a set of network nodes.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070014286 - Packet detection system, packet detection device, and method for receiving packets: A packet detector for a multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system includes a plurality of packet detection units each corresponding to a time frequency code for detecting packets according to a spreading sequence of the time frequency code, a comparison unit for comparing correlation values provided by division units of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070014285 - Portable information terminal, ip address setting program, and ip address setting method: A portable information terminal 1 performs a communication using an IP address by connecting to a USB-LAN adapter 2. The potable information terminal 1 has a USB interface 15 that connects to the USB-LAN adapter 2 and a controller 11 that reads an IP address previously stored in the USB-LAN... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070014290 - Address resolution mechanism for ethernet maintenance endpoints: A method of operation for a node of an Ethernet access network includes issuing a multicast message on the Ethernet access network by a maintenance end point (MEP) of the node. The multicast message contains a name of a target MEP. The node is further operable to receive a unicast... Agent: Burgess & Bereznak LLP

20070014291 - Method for multimedia broadcast/multicast service registration: A method for Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) Registration. Once the Broadcast/Multicast Service Center (BM-SC) receives the MBMS Registration Request from a Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN), it adds an identifier of the GGSN to the BM-SC's MBMS Bearer Context, and responds with an MBMS Registration Response comprising information of the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070014289 - Systems and methods of multicast transport call session control for improving forward bandwidth utilization: Methods and systems of for multicast transport call session control for improving forward bandwidth utilization are disclosed. Forward channel bandwidth utilization is improved through pipelining and in-band token control of the multicast protocol when there exists a multiplicity of data objects for delivery from the server (202) to the clients... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20070014293 - Automatic protection of an sp infrastructure against exterior traffic: A method and system for protecting valuable resources within an autonomous system network. Address prefixes within the system are designated as valuable and a flag bit is associated with the address within routing tables of routers of the network. Interfaces to border routers are identified and when packets are received... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070014294 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for reducing signaling link congestion: Methods, systems, and computer program products for reducing the likelihood of signaling link congestion on a failing or recovering signaling linkset are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for reducing or eliminating congestion on a recovered link in a previously failed linkset due to the routing of post-global title... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070014292 - Protocol optimization for wireless networks: A system for improving the performance of on-demand mobile communications services includes a wireless network having a plurality of mobile devices and an application server. A relay node receives data from a first mobile device, the data having a destination address associated with the application server. The relay node is... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070014295 - Handle passing using an inter-process communication: Sharing access to resources using an inter-process communication (“IPC”) provides a connection in which references to resources may be passed from a sender to a receiver in a trusted third party environment. A sender in possession of a reference to a resource, such as a handle to an object, may... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070014296 - Clock recovery method and apparatus for constant bit rate (cbr) traffic: Disclosed is a clock recovery method and apparatus for CBR traffic in the packet switching network so as to recover the clock of the CBR traffic upon transmission by inserting a small amount of random packets to the CBR traffic stream which has arrived in a receiver. According to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070014297 - Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal: In one embodiment, a channel in a frame of the audio signal is subdivided into a plurality of blocks according to a subdivision hierarchy. The subdivision hierarchy has more than one level, and each level is associated with a different block length. At least two of the blocks have different... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070014298 - Providing quick response to events in interactive audio: A method providing quick and appropriate audio response to events such as mouse movements on a web page in a network like the Internet. In the known art audio responses, such as vocal descriptions are annoying and confusing because they take several seconds before being heard. The described method overcomes... Agent: Richard W. Bloomstein

20070014299 - Enhanced virtual circuit allocation methods and systems for multi-stage switching elements: A system and method for routing data, which includes a switching node, including a plurality of switching elements and plurality of links coupled to the switching elements for providing a routing path for the data; and a virtual circuit identification algorithm in communication with the switching node for providing an... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070014300 - Content router notification: An apparatus, method and computer program product for communicating an outgoing command from a command memory of a content router to a content node using a notification signal to a gateway.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070014301 - Method and apparatus for providing static addressing: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for improved static address translation. Certain embodiments include a method for address translation in a network, wherein the network includes a device associated with an identifier and assigned a dynamic address. The method includes matching the identifier for the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070014302 - Scalable resource discovery and reconfiguration for distributed computer networks: A method is provided for discovering resources in a network of user nodes. According to the method, a resource request to be published is received at a first user node of the network, and it is determined (e.g., randomly) whether or not to send the resource request to a server... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070014303 - Content router: A method, apparatus and system for routing changes to information between a plurality of content nodes and a command memory of a content router. Content nodes may be user devices (such as mobile phones) and user accounts (such as email accounts). Content nodes may hold one or more content types... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070014304 - Ethernet adapter: An Ethernet adapter is electrically connected between a power line and an Internet apparatus. The Ethernet adapter includes a power converter and a data transmission processor. The power converter is electrically connected to the power line for converting power provided by the power line and outputting a converted result to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070014305 - A system and method for formatted inter-node communications over a computer network.: A system and method for formatted inter-node communications over a computer network comprises a transmitting node transmitting a message in a format acceptable to the receiving node. Message templates are created by the receiving node and then stored in a repository accessible by both the transmitting node and the receiving... Agent: J. Gordon Thomson

20070014306 - Remote digital subscriber line access multiplexer: The present invention relates to a remote digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM), and to DSL systems providing data network services to customers. The remote DSLAM has at least two high data rate connections, from which one of the high data rate connections is an optical connection and another one... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070014310 - Communications system for monitoring a modem: A communications system and method for monitoring modems on a communications network includes at least one modem that is configured to have at least a first and a second state. A media protocol device is also included that is configured to determine whether the modem is in the first state... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070014307 - Content router forwarding: A method and apparatus are provided for removing an attachment from content and/or metadata before routing a command including the attachment through a command memory of a content router and for reattaching the attachment to an associated command after receiving the command from the command memory.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070014308 - Method to extend the physical reach of an infiniband network: A system for an apparatus for extending the physical reach of an InfiniBand network. Methods and apparatus can connect an InfiniBand network to a long distance connection (e.g. WAN) while maintaining full 10 Gbit InfiniBand speeds and retaining the semantics specified by the InfiniBand Architecture (IBTA). A system can include... Agent: Sean W. Goodwin

20070014309 - System for transporting ethernet frames over very high speed digital subscriber lines: An apparatus for and method of encapsulating Ethernet frames over a Very high speed Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL) transport facility. The VDSL frames are transmitted over a point to point VDSL link where they are subsequently extracted and forwarded as standard Ethernet frames. The VDSL facility transport system comprises an... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070014311 - Method and apparatus for grouping messages across a point to multipoint network: A method and apparatus for grouping signaling messages across a point to multipoint network. The signaling messages across a point to multipoint network are correlated into a session based on respective call information of the signaling messages and the signaling messages including summarized traffic information in relation thereto are displayed... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070014312 - Receiving apparatus: The invention aims at providing a receiving apparatus with which a user can see and listen to a part of a program which he/she wants to enjoy without imposing a burden on him/her. A CPU generates a list picture (130) having information, on a musical name and a channel number,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070014313 - Automated precision alignment of data in a utility monitoring system: A data alignment algorithm that automatically aligns data from multiple monitoring devices to the same zero-crossings at the same point in time. Cycle-by-cycle frequency data is received from each monitoring device and a cross-correlation algorithm is performed to determine a correlation coefficient between a reference monitoring device and another monitoring... Agent: Square D Company Legal Department - I.p. Group

20070014314 - Peer-to-peer synchronization of data between devices: An automatic synchronization method and apparatus that synchronizes data on a peer-to-peer basis across multiple devices. Automatic synchronization occurs on one or more similar user devices from one device to another and does not require synchronization with a central server. No single device acts as a central synchronization server, but... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070014315 - Sub-frame synchronized signaling: A communication system is provided. In one embodiment, a communication system includes communicant nodes. Each node includes a local clock, a transmitter/receiver circuit and a control circuit. The local clock is adapted to clock operations of the communication node. The transmitter/receiver circuit is adapted to selectively transmit and receive communication... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070014316 - Method of and apparatus for transmitting residential ethernet stream: Residential Ethernet stream transmitting method and apparatus are provided. The residential Ethernet stream transmitting method includes transmitting a data frame comprising multi-cycle traffic information and receiving the data frame within an admission control condition based on the multi-cycle traffic information.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070008873 - Method and apparatus for improving reception in wireless networks subjected to neighboring cells' interferences: A method and devices are provided for estimating a signal received at a wireless communication cell along a communication channel where the transmission/reception frequency used for conveying traffic along that communication channel is substantially equal to transmission/reception frequency used for conveying traffic along at least one other communication channel extending... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070008874 - User equipment for detecting short codes: A receiver employing CDMA techniques estimates background noise based on a periodically updated code. The transmitted signal includes a periodically updated code of a predetermined type and wherein the received signal has CW interference in addition to the transmitted signal. The decision circuit determines if a value representing the likelihood... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070008875 - Smart frequency-hopping control mechanism for mitigating against triggering silent radio squelch circuits by sub-channel transmissions from spectral reuse transceiver: A ‘smart’ sub-channel hopping control mechanism executes one or more sub-channel selection discriminators to enable the communications controller of a spectral reuse transceiver to delineate on which of a plurality sub-channels the spectral reuse transceiver may transmit, so as to substantially reduce the likelihood of triggering squelch circuits of silent... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070008876 - Method for preventing reporting of duplicate pilots within a communication system: A method within a communication device (105) for preventing reporting of duplicate pilots within a communication system (100) is disclosed. The method includes communicating with one or more base stations (110); monitoring and maintaining a pilot set (200); allocating one or more pilots not found in the active set (205),... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070008877 - Method for transporting a signal in a radio network: m

20070008879 - Binary class based control: The invention allows binary class based control of a communications network and its services. A fault table and a state table are generated. The state table is compared with the state table in response to detecting a change in a state table entry. If the changed state table entry equals... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070008878 - Method and apparatus for providing faster convergence for redundant sites: A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing convergence for a dual-homed site in a network is presented. An occurrence of a failure between a first Provider Edge (PE) device and a first Customer Edge (CE) device in communication with a dual-homed site is detected. A determination is made... Agent: Chapin & Huang L.L.C. Westborough Office Park

20070008880 - Router redundancy in data communication networks: A method of providing router redundancy within a distributed network of routers, wherein messages are routed within the network based on virtual router identifiers, involves organizing the routers into one or more redundancy groups; assigning a physical identifier to each router in each of the redundancy groups; assigning one or... Agent: Marks & Clerk

20070008882 - Method and apparatus for network-based admission control using path-coupled quality of service signaling: A Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) proxy is used in combination with a signaling proxy to provide improved admission control, Quality of Service (QoS) reservation, and media path routing. This avoids entangling call signaling with media plane functions as required with Session Border Controllers (SBCs). A QoS access network control scheme,... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070008881 - Method in a transceiver for allocating transmission capacity between the two directions of transmission in wire line data communication: A method performed in one single transceiver for allocating transmission capacity between the two directions of transmission in wire line data communication. The method includes the step of allocating from the single transceiver different parts of the available bandwidth to different duplex methods simultaneously.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070008888 - Direct lookup tables and extensions thereto for packet classification: Packets may be classified into flows using direct lookup tables. The classification includes receiving a packet including a packet field having a corresponding field value. A direct lookup table (“DLT”) is indexed into at a DLT offset matching the field value to determine whether one or more of classification rules... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070008885 - Dynamic dual-mode service access control, location-based billing, and e911 mechanisms: Architecture that facilitates the validation and authentication of the physical location of the dual-mode handset in a VoWLAN solution (e.g., UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access)) system and a cellular wireless service, thereby restricting the handset from gaining access from unauthorized locations. Thus, access to dual-mode service (e.g., UMA), for example, at... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070008884 - Immediate ready implementation of virtually congestion free guarantedd service capable network: Various techniques including simple TCP/IP protocol modifications are presented for immediate ready implementations of virtually congestion free guaranteed service capable network, without requiring use of existing QoS/MPLS techniques nor requiring any of the switches/routers softwares within the network to be modified or contribute to achieving the end-to-end performance results nor... Agent: Bob Tang Flat 1 Barkat House

20070008887 - Platform power management of a computing device using quality of service requirements of software tasks: Embodiments of the current invention describe a method of receiving quality of service (QoS) requirements for a software task of a computing device from an operating system QoS infrastructure and configuring a power management policy for a computing device using the QoS requirements for the software task of the computing... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070008886 - Transmission apparatus for reducing delay variance and related method: A transmission apparatus and related method for reducing the delay variance of a plurality of data transmitted from a sender to a receiver in a communication system are disclosed. The method includes: assigning a permission probability to the sender; and before a data is to be sent to the receiver... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070008883 - Transport layer relay method, transport layer relay device, and program: Relay units (1002-1-1002-n) terminate a plurality of transport layer connections from terminals in a transport layer and relay each of these connections to other transport layer connections (relay connections). A transmission rate control unit (1003) determines the total transmission rate of the relay connections according to the number of connections... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070008889 - Wireless distribution system (wds) repeater in wireless local area network (wlan) and its control method: A Wireless Distribution System (WDS) repeater in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), the WDS repeater includes: a controller adapted to compare a wireless link rate of a WLAN signal received from an Access Point (AP) of the WLAN to a wireless link rate threshold registered in a wireless link... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070008891 - Communications network having transport diversity: A system includes nodes and a path selection mechanism. The nodes are interconnected with one another as a mesh network. At least one of the nodes is connected to at least another of the nodes by different transport technologies. The path selection mechanism, in at least one of the nodes,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070008890 - Method and apparatus for non-stop multi-node system synchronization: A communication system (50) can include a source node (31) coupled to a peer node (41), a source database (38) and a target database (48) at the peer node, and a logical unit (32 or 42). The logical unit can be programmed to forward data changes from source to peer... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070008892 - Method and system for testing branch execution and state transition logic in session initiation protocol application modular components: A system for testing branch execution and state transition logic in session initiation protocol application modular components. A test harness constructs, sends, and initializes an artificial session initiation protocol runtime environment in order to test session initiation protocol application modular components. The artificial session initiation protocol runtime environment simulates session... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070008893 - Voice over internet protocol remote upgrading: An application destined for a client VoIP device is available at a service provider 20 and is loaded first to a client-side device over an unsecure public network, using a secure protocol. The VoIP device is not able to receive the application directly using the secure protocol and the client... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070008895 - Method and apparatus for improving centralized management of customer network sites: A network management center (100) has a controller (102) coupled to an MPLS (Multi-protocol Label Switching) network (108) coupled to groups of customer network sites (104). The controller is programmed to provision (202) MPLS network elements to logically link the network management center with all customer network sites. Said elements... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070008894 - Telecommunications-based link monitoring system: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a first automated system monitors at least one call characteristic (e.g., frequency of abnormally short calls) to determine whether quality of service standards are being met by the various carriers being utilized by the system. Such an at least one call characteristic... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070008896 - Techniques for high definition audio modems: A system, apparatus, method and article for high definition audio modems are described. The apparatus may include a communications path comprising a communications bus and buffers, a codec to couple to the communications bus, and a processor to couple to the communications bus. The processor may be arranged to execute... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070008897 - Method and apparatus for programmable generation of traffic streams: Methods and apparatus provide single or multi-port, flexible, cost-effective, built-in self-test capabilities for network communications equipment, such as for example switches, and programmably generate, and subsequently analyze, one or more sequences of test packets, wherein the test packets simulate at least two flows of traffic. Such test packets can have... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070008904 - Controller area network performance parameters measurement: A method for measuring bus traffic on a controller area network (CAN) is described. Accordingly, in one embodiment, a digital oscilloscope acquires the CAN bus signal in form of a waveform in real-time. The waveform is converted into a bit stream and the bit steam analyzed to carry out various... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20070008902 - Managing negotiations of quality of service parameters in wireless networks: During an initial sending and receiving of QoS parameters between a QoS-based application and a data stack controller of a mobile terminal, the parameters are stored to a data stack of the mobile terminal. The parameters are used in an initial negotiation between the data stack controller and a base... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070008900 - Method and apparatus for enabling mobility in mobile ip based wireless communication systems: A method is provided for providing secured mobile IP services to a mobile terminal which is currently associated with an access network different from its own home access network. The method is characterized by creating a virtual mobile node at an access network server of the current access network, which... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070008901 - Method for controlling memory consumption in router-based virtual private networks: A method to determine the maximum number of VPNs assignable to plurality of routers in a VPN network. The first step in the method can be specifying a tolerance which is a probability that consumed router memory will exceed available router memory for each router in a plurality of routers.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070008898 - Point-to-point link negotiation method and apparatus: Point-to-point links between devices are brought up at a slowest available speed, and a faster link speed is negotiated after reaching an operational state.... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC

20070008899 - System and method for monitoring voip call quality: The invention relates to a system and method for monitoring VoIP call quality. In one respect, embodiments of the invention take into account the effect of bursty packet loss on perceived call quality. In another respect, embodiments of the invention take into account the effect of the recency of packet... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070008903 - Verifying liveness with fast roaming: In a re-association communications sequence between a mobile wireless device and an access point, a substantially unique may be derived and transmitted to the mobile wireless device in one of the re-association messages. The mobile wireless device may then transmit the value back to the e access point to verify... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070008906 - Apparatus for fast reactive handover in ipv6-based mobile system: An apparatus for a fast reactive handover in an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) mobile system is provided, in which a message receiver receives a new connection notification message from a point of attachment when the point of attachment makes a new connection with a mobile unit, and a message... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070008905 - Device and method for clustering a plurality of users in a mobile network: A method clusters a plurality of users in a mobile network, according to a specific profile. Data regarding the user is allocated to each user. Data is immediately exchanged between at least two users as soon as said users are located in a predefined communication range in order to spot... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070008907 - Reconfigurable lsi: A reconfigurable LSI which can actualize a plurality of functions by reconfiguration based on configuration information, comprises at least a plurality of arithmetic processing modules, has state information for indicating the transition of the function from a previous state to a next state, transition condition information for indicating the condition... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070008908 - Unit of the transmission of data in a serial bidirectional bus: A system is described for transmitting data in a serial bidirectional bus with a control device (1) comprising a send and receiving unit (34) for data fields (7, 8 and 9) combined into a data frame (6), and with bus subscribers (2, 3 and 4) which comprise an evaluation circuit... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070008909 - Contents storage system, home server apparatus, information supply apparatus, integrated circuit, and program: The home server 41 includes a contents storage unit 104 for storing contents, a control unit 108 for acquiring first section information from an information supply apparatus, a generating unit 109 for generating second section information, and a section information storage unit 111 for storing therein pieces of first and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070008911 - Communication device with capability for handling conditional acceptance of meeting requests: Interacting digitally communicating devices cooperate to schedule future meetings include a capability to handle conditional acceptance of meeting requests. For example, a conditional acceptance may be subject to Boolean logic functions of the acceptance status(es) of other meeting invitees (e.g., the condition that another specific one or more invitees also... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070008913 - Method and system for provisioning ims networks with virtual service organizations having distinct service logic: Methods and systems for provisioning IMS networks with Virtual Service Organizations (VSOs) or Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) that have distinct service logic, enabling VSOs and MVNOs to provide distinctive service experiences. Call models are provisioned so that different users can have distinct IMS service experiences. The IMS network includes... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070008912 - Method for establishing telephone communication with a wireless web phone in a wireless communication system: A method for establishing telephone communication with a wireless web phone capable of establishing a wireless local area network connection in a wireless communication system includes receiving network information of the wireless web phone when the wireless web phone calls a destination, transmitting the network information of the wireless web... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070008910 - Multicasting apparatus: IP data is multicast from one or more servers (4) in sessions through a network (N) comprising a plurality of routers (R) in a multicast tree to transmission sites (S) of a DVB-T network, where the data is encapsulated by IPEs 28 and transmitted uni-directionally to mobile user equipment (UE).... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070008914 - Telecommunication system and method for generating and sending a telecommunication session message: In the course of a half-duplex telecommunication session, a message has a message validity information item added to it and, if appropriate, a check is performed to determine whether or not the message is valid.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070008915 - Power saving method of portable communication device: A power saving method of a terminal in a wireless communication system including an access point for transmitting a beacon frame and a paging frame, and a terminal for compensating for timing offset with the access point using the beacon frame and detecting a position thereof using the paging frame.... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070008916 - Wireless packet data distributed communications system: A two-way satellite communications system includes an Earth station communicating with a plurality of remote terminals using a network access protocol that facilitates low power consumption by the terminals. The earth station generates forward link TDM packet data transmissions on one or more satellite channels, and detects, despreads and decodes... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070008918 - Application layer presentation of routing and link quality data adapted for use in controlling movement of moveable devices: A wireless movable device, a system comprising the movable device, and a method for operating the movable device, wherein the movable device determines the link and channel quality of a link between itself and an ad-hoc device, such that the movable device is adapted to determine when it has traveled... Agent: Gardner Carton & Douglas LLP (meshnetworks/motorola) Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070008920 - Method of creating a split terminal between a base terminal and equipments connected in series: System and method for creating a split terminal (T+ΣEn) for accessing a service (S). The system comprises a base terminal (T), equipped with a management device (PA0) for executing a split terminal procedure (UES), and a plurality of equipments (En) connected in series to said base terminal (T), said equipments... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20070008917 - Radiotelephony network with multi-careier packet data transmission: A radio telephony network supports at least one link of a radio channel for a packet data transmission service. The radio telephony network has a plurality of network controllers. Each network controller is connected, via an interface to at least one base radio station supervising at least one macrocell. The... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070008919 - Value added services system of wireless local area network and method for providing the same: A Value Added Services (VAS) system of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and a method for providing the same which are applied in a wireless mobile communication device are proposed for allowing a user to use a plurality of VAS provided by a wireless mobile communication provider through the wireless... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070008921 - Wire/wireles communication system and method for providing multimedia service therein: Provided are a wire/wireless communication system, and a method for providing multimedia service therein. The system includes a multimedia service server connecting with a mobile communication network and a wire network, and providing contents data through the wire network in response to a request for contents through the mobile communication... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070008922 - Direct wireless client to client communication: A wireless station is connected to a wireless network through an access point and can establish a direct client-to-client connection to a second wireless station. The wireless station can communicate directly with the second wireless station without involving the access point. The wireless station communicates with the wired network and... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070008923 - Method and system for allocating transmit power among a plurality of channels in a wireless communication system: A system for allocating transmit power among a plurality of channels in a wireless communication network includes a hub. The hub is for receiving reception quality information for the plurality of channels, and for adjusting the transmit power for the plurality of channels based on the reception quality information.... Agent: L. Howard Chen Preston Gates & Ellis LLP

20070008926 - framework of media-independent pre-authentication support for pana: According to some of the preferred embodiments, a method for proactively establishing a security association between a mobile node in a visiting network and an authentication agent in another network to which the mobile node can move includes: negotiating pre-authentication using a flag in a message header that indicates whether... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLC

20070008929 - Apparatus and method for deciding on vertical handoff: An apparatus and method for determining a vertical handoff for a node supporting a WLAN and an IEEE 802.16 communication system are provided. Reception of a handoff request message from the node is monitored, an expected change in the total throughput of the WLAN in the case where the node... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070008927 - Autoband: Autoband's distributed networking intelligence provides a novel architecture capable of dynamically reconfiguring communications pathways consisting of links whose transmission media are opportunistically and dynamically selectable. At least one constituent node in such automatically configurable transient pathways is mobile, for example, information (source) server, intervening router node(s), gateway server and/or client... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070008924 - Device to facilitate the deployment of mobile virtual private networks for medium/large corporate networks: A mobile agent device in a Mobile Virtual Private Network, said device comprising: termination of Mobile IP tunnel (6) from a remotely connecting Mobile Node (1); termination of an IPSec VPN tunnel (7) from the remotely connecting Mobile Node; dynamic Selection of Internal Mobile IP Home Agent based on user... Agent: Powell Goldstein LLP

20070008930 - Fast handover method for ipv6 over 802.16 network: A handover method of a mobile station (MS) in a mobile communication system having MSs and radio access stations (RASs), each of which includes an IEEE 802.16 standard-based medium access control (MAC) layer and an Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6)-based IP layer. The handover method includes the step of gathering... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070008931 - Handover processing system in mobile communication system: A handover processing system in mobile communication system, implemented in gateway connected to subscriber network including base station in the mobile communication system, public network and IP network and accompanied by movement of radio terminal in the mobile communication system, wherein the gateway comprises line exchanger performing line exchange processing,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070008925 - Methods and devices for interworking of wireless wide area networks and wireless local area networks or wireless personal area networks: Embodiments describe utilizing time-based information to improve communication in a wireless network. A method can include receiving beacon information from at least one access point and utilizing time-stamp information associated with the beacon information to determine whether to hand off communication with a second access point. According to other embodiments... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070008928 - Voice synchronization during call handoff: A method, mobile electronic device and system for synchronizing hand-off of a voice media session between a WAN/cellular network and a WLAN network. When a hand-off occurs, the connection with both networks is temporarily maintained and the voice data on both connections compared to determine differences in the delays experienced... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20070008933 - Base station and method for allocating hs-dsch channelisation codes in a wireless communication system: A method for allocating HS-DSCH channelisation codes in WCDMA based wireless communication system using HSDPA in which a total number of N HS-DSCH channelisation codes are available. M<N HS-DSCH channelisation codes are allocated upon request by a RNC such that a node B can service UE's. The node B identifies... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070008932 - Method and apparatus for configuring transport format combination set in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for configuring a TFCS in a mobile communication system are provided. TrCH configuration information and TFCS configuration information are received in a TrCH establishment message from an RNC. A CTFC set including all possible combinations of TFs of different transport channels is calculated according to the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070008934 - Multicarrier cdma system: In a multicarrier CDMA system, a data stream is divided into two or more substreams and each substream is assigned to a different carrier. An RLP context is created for each carrier and the substreams are transmitted within a corresponding RLP context over a designated carrier. If a carrier is... Agent: Coats & Bennett/ericsson Wireless Comm's., Inc.

20070008935 - Radio communication system and base station employing cdma: A base station controller selects codes corresponding to rate information included in a new starting call message from a mobile station, and further selects codes assignable to the mobile station out of the selected codes as candidate codes. Then, the base station controller detects codes which meet both the characteristics... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070008936 - Radio base station and frame configuration method using tdma scheme and sdma scheme: In a radio base station, a plurality of time division multiplexed frames are transmitted through a plurality of space dividing beams such that it becomes possible for the radio base station to realize the radio communications with different radio terminals at the same time using the same frequency, by using... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070008940 - Instrumentation network data system: An instrumentation network data system that transmits periodically measured instrument parameters or data to work stations residing on a computer network interconnected with the instruments. A processor residing on the network periodically collects and processes data from the instruments at predetermined collection-time intervals. The processor includes a buffering data file... Agent: James M. Deimen

20070008937 - Method and apparatus for controlling credit based access (prepaid) to a wireless network: A method for de-authenticating a client device from a network based on a credit based access control is disclosed. The method comprises receiving by an access point (AP) in the network a user request for user access from the client device according to an authentication protocol and transmitting by the... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070008941 - Method and system for adjusting inter-scan period of a mobile station: A method and system for adjusting the inter-scan period of a mobile station (102) is provided. The method includes storing (404) the location information of a first wireless node, which is in a service area of a wireless access point of a first wireless network that is servicing a second... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070008939 - Providing wireless coverage into substantially closed environments: A communication system is provided. The communication system includes a master host unit that is adapted to communicate analog wireless signals with a plurality of service provider interfaces and that is adapted to send and receive digitized spectrum over a plurality of communication links. The master host unit includes circuitry... Agent: Fogg And Associates, LLC

20070008942 - Security apparatus and method for local area networks: The present invention includes a method and apparatus for controlling data link layer access to protected servers on a computer network by a client device. Address resolution requests broadcast on the network by the client device seeking access to any network device are received and then processed to determine whether... Agent: Koestner Bertani LLP

20070008938 - Virtual network system: A virtual wireless computer network allows communication between a number of regions (F, G, H), which may be beyond normal wireless communication range, by carrying information between regions using mobile stations (5) which travel between regions. Each mobile station transmits and/or receives information by wireless communication to other stations within... Agent: Miller, Matthias & Hull

20070008943 - Method and apparatus for signal quality loss compensation in multiplexing transmission systems: A wireless communication receiver receiving a multiplexed signal comprising two or more signal streams calculates a received signal quality for the multiplexed signal as a function of stream-specific received signal qualities, determines one or more loss parameters indicative of variations in the stream-specific received signal qualities, and generates quality feedback... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070008944 - Method and system for spreading and scrambling downlike physical channels: A method is disclosed for reducing the number of channels required in a transmission system that employs a plurality channels for communicating with multiple receiver stations. The method includes the steps of partitioning the plurality of channels into a plurality of groups with each group including a set of channels,... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070008945 - Apparatus and method for iip3 control for a wireless transceiver: Disclosed is an apparatus for controlling the input 3rd order Intercept Point (IIP3) in a multi-mode multi-band wireless transceiver. The apparatus includes: a mixer for down-converting an incoming wireless signal which is received through each frequency band and is then low noise-amplified; a baseband chip for providing mixer IIP3 control... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070008946 - Multiple stream cyclic-shifted delay transmitter: A multiple stream cyclic-shifted delay transmitter including a baseband processing module and a plurality of RF transmit sections. The baseband processing module is operably coupled to convert outbound data into a plurality of transmit baseband signal streams and cyclic-shift delay at least one of the plurality of transmit baseband signal... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070008948 - Apparatus and method for providing subscriber information during wait time in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for providing subscriber information in a mobile communication system are provided. A database stores registered information containing subscriber information, a scope of persons to view the subscriber information, and an open level for the subscriber information. A wait time information management server stores the subscriber information... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070008947 - Method and system for implementing the time division multiple access method to ad-hoc multihopping wireless networks: A system and method for synchronizing a wireless network comprising a first node operable pursuant to a first time-division multiple access (TDMA) scheme and a second node operable pursuant to a second TDMA scheme, wherein the first TDMA scheme and the second TDMA scheme each comprise a plurality of ticks,... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070008949 - Method for automatic route aggregation in a communication system: The invention relates to a method for automatic route aggregation in a communication system. Routes are aggregated in area boundary or equivalently in edge routers. The edge routers calculate most specific route aggregation solutions based on route information received from subordinate routers. The route aggregation solutions are provided to a... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070008956 - Device and method for monitoring, rating and/or tuning to an audio content channel: Devices, methods and computer-readable code for simultaneously monitoring the content of at least two streaming audio content channels are disclosed. In some embodiments, the monitored content is analyzed, and one or more features of the monitored content channels are computed, including but not limited to music classification features, content genre... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20070008952 - Internet telephone network system: An Internet telephone network system is cooperated with a plurality of terminal devices, each of which has a local number and an IP address. The Internet telephone network system comprises at least two office-code serving units, and at least one area-code serving unit. In addition, the system may further comprise... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070008950 - Ip telephone: An IP telephone determines, in making a telephone call, whether a called party's telephone is an IP telephone or not (S17). If determination result is affirmative, a flag 2 is turned on (S19). Then, a marker indicating that the called party is an IP telephone is added to telephone control... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070008958 - Managing packet voice networks using a virtual switch approach: A method for managing packet voice networks using a virtual switch approach and abstract information model approach is disclosed. A virtual switch object represents a virtual switch having a media gateway controller and one or more associated media gateways. User input specifies a configuration operation on the virtual switch and... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070008951 - Mediation system and method for hybrid network including an ims network: Mediation systems and methods for hybrid networks including an IMS network. A system and method mediates an IMS network having a serving call state control function (S-CSCF) for providing session control for user endpoint (UE) devices with an alternative network to create a hybrid network. A service and corresponding service... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070008957 - Method and system for a traditional terminal user to access an ims domain: Provided are an implementing method and a communication system for a traditional terminal user accessing an IMS domain. The method allocates an IMS domain user identification including a public identification and a private identification to a traditional terminal user on an AGF entity controlled by an AGCF entity, and establishes... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070008954 - Method for transmitting audiovisual data using a mobile conversion device: A mobile audiovisual data transmitting method is described. Thereof a mobile audiovisual data conversion device based on the communication between digital signals of IP packet is used. In the mobile audiovisual data conversion device, a signal conversion module is used, so that the computer on the transmission end or the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070008955 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for triggering sip nodes to include ss7 routing information in response messages including information requested by ss7 nodes: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for triggering SIP nodes to include SS7 routing information in response messages including information requested by SS7 nodes. A message having SS7 routing information is received from a remote SS7 node. A corresponding SIP message is generated that includes the SS7 routing... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070008953 - Route convergence monitoring system and method: A route convergence monitoring system and method provide for determining routing changes or affected devices that may cause detrimental or other quality conditions to occur in an endpoint device. In one embodiment, ongoing endpoint quality monitoring of quality conditions and convergence occurrence monitoring of successive route changes that may occur... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070008959 - Electronic circuit with processing units coupled via a communication network: In an electronic circuit data is transmitted between data processing circuits across a network (12). A two-way network interface is provided for both sending transmission messages and receiving reception messages between a pair of processors through the network. The network interface uses transmission messages to transmit both data and information... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070008961 - Internet protocol based 911 system: The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for initiating and handling an emergency IP request using an IP enabled device having GPS capability. The IP enabled device is monitored for one or more emergency criteria. If the emergency criteria are satisfied, global positioning data is obtained using the... Agent: Rg & Associates

20070008960 - Method and system for implementing a push-to-talk service in a mobile radio communication network of the gsm-type: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting user data via a dialled connection in a radio communication network, characterized in that the user data are transmitted as dedicated data packets upon controlled release. A dedicated push-to-talk domain is provided which is hosting push-to-talk service network nodes (PTT SNN)... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20070008963 - Method to protect against manipulated charging signaling data in ims networks: Method to protect against manipulated charging signaling data in IMS networks In the prior art CDR tickets are exchanged between devices/functionalities of an IMS system. This can result in manipulations. The invention reduces the likelihood of manipulation, in that the BGCF function of the IMS system is enhanced such that... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070008962 - Packet classification using encoded addresses: Techniques that may be utilized in a multiprocessor computing system are described. In one embodiment, one or more addresses (such as source and/or destination addresses) of a received packet are encoded to reduce the size of the addresses and the encoded one or more addresses are utilized to classifying the... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Portfolioip

20070008965 - Programmable sonet framing: A synchronous optical network (SONET) framer includes a frame dimension unit and a programming interface. The frame dimension unit can be programmed with a frame dimension through the programming interface. The SONET framer converts a data stream to and/or from a frame format based on the frame dimension programmed into... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070008964 - Ring rapid spanning tree protocol: In a method for enabling facilitation of re-convergence, designation information for a first port of each one of a plurality of bridges in a multi-bridge ring is received and designation information for a second port of each one of a plurality of bridges in a multi-bridge ring is received. The... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070008968 - Apparatus and method for segmenting a communication network: A gateway is used to segment a network, such as a Fault Tolerant Ethernet (FTE) network, into islands. The gateway receives traffic from a first island, forwards part of the traffic to a second island, and blocks another part of the traffic from being forwarded to the second island. The... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070008969 - Apparatuses and methods for delivering data stream content to consumer devices: In a broadband communication network, a method (400) for delivering content to a consumer network device. The method includes: managing (402) an original data stream carrying the content, the original data stream having original recurring access units (“RAUs”) usable by the consumer network device to acquire the content; replicating (404)... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070008966 - Method and system for sending a multimedia stream in an ip multicast network: A method and system for sending a multimedia stream in IP multicast networks are provided. IGMP report data is collected by a plurality of routers. The routers report the IGMP report data to a netflow collection server. The netflow collection server collates the IGMP report data. The collated IGMP report... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070008967 - System and method for admission control of multicast downstream traffic in a wireless network: Embodiments of System and Method for Admission Control of Multicast Downstream Traffic in a Wireless Network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, an access point may be restrained from over-reserving bandwidth for multicast streams.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070008972 - Address-transparent device and method: An address-transparent device is disclosed that couples between two network interfaces in a semiconductor fab for communicating packets between a host coupled to a first network interface and a tool coupled to a second network interface. Alternatively, the address-transparent device couples between two networks in a semiconductor fab for communicating... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070008976 - Local protocol server: Communicating data packets between a client device and a host system generally includes using a protocol server module, located on the client device, that terminates a communication session that uses a first protocol and that is intended to enable communications between a source and a destination, in which the source... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070008974 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for network services: Network services are routed responsive to receiving a datagram. The datagram requests a certain network-delivered service and includes a virtual address for the service. An apparatus selects a physical address for a certain server from among a number of a physical addresses of respective servers associated by the apparatus with... Agent: Anthony England

20070008970 - Packet data router apparatus and method: A packet data router (300) comprises a central node (200) that is configured and arranged to provide data packet forwarding services but not data packet routing services and a plurality of physically discrete application nodes (301, 302, and 303) that are each operably coupled to the central node wherein each... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070008975 - S-flow in a network device: A network device for providing statistical sampling of packet at a port. The network device includes an ingress module for randomly selecting a packet at one of a plurality of ports for statistical sampling and an egress module for randomly selecting a packet at one of a plurality of ports... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070008971 - Systems and methods for passing network traffic data: A method for processing network traffic data includes receiving network traffic data, and passing the network traffic data to one of a plurality of worker modules for processing the network traffic data, wherein the step of passing is performed based at least in part on a quantity of the worker... Agent: Bingham, Mccutchen LLP

20070008973 - Thin client server: A thin client server 32 is adapted for communicating over a network with a thin client 31 configurable for operating with a terminal server 33. The thin client server comprises a database 321 for storing and retrieving thin client MAC addresses, user or group names and associated thin client configuration... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20070008977 - Secure atm-based distributed virtual tandem switching system and method: Narrowband signaling from a transfer node for a call originating at an end office is received at a centralized control and signaling interworking function device in an asynchronous transfer mode switching network. The received narrowband signaling is converted to broadband signaling. The broadband signaling is provided to a plurality of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070008978 - Network optimization based on traffic prioritization: Systems and methods for providing a deterministic process for implementing network traffic prioritization, particularly for implementing bandwidth latency sensitive applications are described herein. In one embodiment, multiple network interfaces are provided within a system. Network communication traffic through the system may be prioritized between different network interfaces based upon the... Agent: Richard D. Egan O'keefe, Egan & Peterman, LLP

20070008979 - Facilitating ip-based multicasting control connections: One embodiment of the disclosures made herein is an Internet Protocol (IP) multicast control system. In accordance with such IP multicast control system, the IP multicast control system includes a first module capable of facilitating IP multicast control connections between a first apparatus and a second apparatus and a second... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070008980 - Methods and apparatus for optimizing mobile vpn communications: Methods and apparatus for optimizing Mobile VPN communications are disclosed. When a data packet is transmitted between a Mobile Node that is a member of a VPN and a Correspondent Node, the data packet is transmitted between the Mobile Node and a Home Agent via a Mobile IP tunnel without... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20070008981 - Communication device client update system and method: A system and method that facilitates client address updating in a communication network is presented. Client address lists are maintained and updated with a single mechanism deployed flexibly across different communication environment boundaries. Network devices update address lists for clients deployed across boundaries of wireless communication environments (e.g., an IEEE... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070008982 - Redundant pseudowires between ethernet access domains: A computer network includes first and second Ethernet access domain networks, each of Ethernet access domain networks including a user-facing provider edge (u-PE) device, and a stack group of network-facing provider edge (n-PE) devices coupled with the u-PE device, the n-PE devices running a bidding protocol to select one of... Agent: Burgess & Bereznak LLP

20070008984 - Buffer management system, digital audio receiver, headphones, loudspeaker, method of buffer management: The buffer management system (100) is arranged to control in a data communication system an end to end delay (Δ) of a data unit (150) from input to output. Blocks (104, 106) of data units (150, 152) are written in a buffer (102) with a block write rate (Rw), and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070008985 - Method and apparatus to support efficient check-point and role-back operations for flow-controlled queues in network devices: Method and apparatus to support efficient check-point and role-back operations for flow-controlled queues in network devices. The method and apparatus employ queue descriptors to manage transfer of data from corresponding queues in memory into a switch fabric. In one embodiment, each queue descriptor includes an enqueue pointer identifying a tail... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070008986 - Method and system for configuring a queue profile: A method and system is disclosed for configuring a queue profile based on an input values received from a user. According to an exemplary embodiment, a series of threshold queue sizes are generated based in part on the input values and a corresponding series of drop priority values. A lookup... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070008983 - Threshold on unblocking a processing node that is blocked due to data packet passing: A threshold mechanism is provided so that a producer and a corresponding consumer, executing on the same resource (e.g., CPU) are able to switch context between them in a manner that reduces the total number of such context switches. The threshold mechanism is associated with a buffer into which the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070008987 - Capturing contacts via people near me: Users on a peer-to-peer network, particularly a local subnet or ad hoc wireless network, may publish first contact information to a graph or data store on the network. The first contact information may include a certificate with a public-key and a user identification, such as a peer name. Other users... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070008988 - Enhanced network direct attached storage controller: An apparatus and method for providing a storage medium accessible across a network to a host. The storage medium's operation is generally controlled by a network disk controller. The network disk controller may receive a packet from a remote host, decapsulate the packet, and act on the packet to either... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070008989 - Packet processing: In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a data packet into a multi-layer communication protocol processor. In at least one protocol layer, the data context data associated with a subsequent protocol layer is prefetched while the data packet is processed in accordance with the current protocol layer. A portion of... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Portfolioip

20070008990 - Method and system for retransmission: The present invention relates to retransmissions in a communications system. A method and system of reducing uplink retransmission delay of a radio communications system by introducing an uplink MAC ARQ layer of Node B is disclosed. Further, a MAC PDU data indicator for soft combining control in Node B and... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070008991 - Data transfer protocol for 6.25 gbps serializer/deserializer (serdes): A method and a system for communicating data packets over a data bus is provided. The method includes sending one or more delimiter lines, a delimiter line comprising ‘N’ number of characters, the characters being sent for clock recovery; scrambling the data packets; sending the scrambled data packets after the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070008992 - Method of encoding and synchronizing a serial interface: The present disclosure is generally directed to a method of communicating data between two or more semiconductor devices. Serial interfaces using the method have a reduction in latency compared to conventional serial interfaces. The method enables features needed for a serial interface, such as limited run lengths and recognizable data... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070008993 - Method for time synchronization in residential ethernet system: Disclosed is a time synchronization method for selecting a predetermined timing master and according Times of Day of a plurality of nodes with a Time of Day of the predetermined timing master in a Residential Ethernet system, which includes the nodes, the method comprising the steps of receiving, by a... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC