Multiplex communications inventions 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 -