Multiplex communications inventions 02/07

20070041310 - Interference cancellation method and receiver: The invention relates to an interference cancellation method and a receiver including interference canceller for suppressing a narrow-band interference signal from a received signal, converter for performing an orthonormal conversion of the signal into subspace components of a desired subspace, a decoder connected operationally to the output of the interference... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070041311 - Method and apparatus for pilot signal transmission: A method and apparatus for pilot signal transmission is disclosed herein. In particular, a pilot transmission scheme is utilized where pilot sub-carrier bandwidth differs from data sub-carrier bandwidth. Because some user's data sub-carriers will no longer have the user's pilot sub-carriers adjacent to them, the set, or pattern of sub-carriers... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070041312 - Sampling frequency offset tracking method and ofdm system using the same: A sampling frequency offset tracking method in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system includes determining a search direction of maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) using a carrier frequency offset estimated using pilot subcarriers of a received signal; calculating a size of a MLE search region using a maximum sampling frequency... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070041314 - Apparatus and method for auto-negotiation in a communcation system: A communication system comprising: a first device; a second device; and communication cabling comprising four twisted wire pairs arranged to enable communication between the first device and the second device; the first and the second devices being operable to perform auto-negotiation on a communication path comprising a first two of... Agent: Powerdsine Ltd.

20070041313 - Apparatus and methods for managing nodes on a fault tolerant network: Devices, systems and methods for managing communications traffic on a fault tolerant network are disclosed. The exemplary system may include a fault tolerant network with at least two nodes and at least two channels of communication. Each channel of communication is in communication with each of the two nodes. Each... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070041315 - Backuo logical port service: Backup logical port service is provided by associating permanent virtual circuit (PVC) descriptions of a primary management information base (MIB) for a primary physical circuit with a service name that is also associated with a backup management information base and corresponding backup physical circuit. Switching from primary to backup service... Agent: Attention Michael T. Lukon, Esq. Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070041316 - Method and apparatus for restoring a network: A method and apparatus for restoring communications in a network. The network includes a plurality of nodes, with each pair of nodes connected by a link, and with each link having information channels and restoration channels. An idle signal is sent on each restoration channel for each link. The failure... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070041318 - Compilation of access control lists: An improvement in the compilation of classification tables from across control lists increases the efficiency of memory utilization by fragments in the lower level tables and using the classification ID's from a pair of higher-level tables as pointers to the fragments and as indicators of the depth of the entries... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070041317 - Method and system for generating an annotated network topology: A method of generating an annotated network topology of a network is described. The method includes determining available bandwidth “B” of a network on a network path connecting a pair of endpoints by performing Transfer Control Protocol (TCP) flows between the pair of endpoints, the network having a plurality of... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20070041324 - Adaptive play-out buffers and adaptive clock operation in packet networks: Methods and apparatus are described for a play-out buffer. A method includes writing a data packet into a jitter buffer at a write address specified by a write address generator; incrementing the write address generator; generating the difference between the write address and a current read address specified by a... Agent: John Bruckner, P.C.

20070041325 - Communication method and apparatus using forward differential drc in a multi-frequency mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting a forward differential DRC in an MS which transmits and receives packets in a multi-frequency mobile communication system are provided. The MS transmits full DRCs for allocated forward channels in a division multiplexing scheme and transmits differential DRCs supportable for the forward channels in... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070041319 - Data packet rate control: A method that includes determining a pending data packet count for one or more data packets associated with data to be forwarded from a node to another node on a communication link and then comparing the pending data packet count to a threshold data packet count value. The method further... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070041320 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for supporting transcoder-free operation in media gateway: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing transcoder-free operation in a media gateway are disclosed. In one method, first and second lists of media encoding rates and corresponding indices used by first and second media endpoints of a media stream connection are received. It is determined whether transcoder-free operation... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070041321 - Network switch apparatus that avoids congestion at link-aggregated physical port: A network switch apparatus which receives data at physical input ports and outputs the data from a plurality of link-aggregated physical output ports includes a distribution processing unit configured to receive data input at one of the physical input ports and to assign the input data to one of the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070041322 - Rate adaptation using semi-open loop technique: In a semi-open loop rate adaptation scheme for a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, a transmitter can advantageously use one or more quality metrics of an uplink as well as knowledge of device characteristics of both ends to perform fast and accurate rate adaptation.... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20070041323 - Traffic control system, traffic control method, communication device and computer program: The invention is directed to a traffic control system. The traffic control system comprises a communication device. The communication device includes a traffic type differentiation unit for differentiating a traffic type of an application that generates traffic to be processed on a communication network, a traffic control execution unit for... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070041326 - Route optimization using measured congestion: A flow based routing method and apparatus selects a path from a plurality of different paths for assignment to a flow. The path is selected based on a traffic performance measurements which identify relative congestion and performance of the different paths, so that traffic flows can be diverted away from... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070041327 - Multicast heartbeat signaling: A mechanism that provides for communication of heartbeat signals from servers (call agents) to clients (gateways) in a packet telephony network environment. Clients listen for receipt of multicast heartbeats from any of the servers that may be part of a multicast group. A client assigned to a particular server for... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070041328 - Devices and methods of using link status to determine node availability: An inter-networking device comprises a plurality of ports. Each port is operable to communicatively couple the inter-networking device to a respective ETHERNET segment. The inter-networking device further comprises ETHERNET link-integrity test functionality to determine a link status of a first port included in the plurality of ports. The inter-networking device... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070041329 - System and method for monitoring a switched metro ethernet network: A method for monitoring a network includes determining at least one of a jitter value or a delay value of a network connection between a source switch and a destination switch of the network. The method further includes determining a packet delivery rate value for each network segment of a... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070041331 - Approach for managing the consumption of resources using adaptive random sampling: An approach for managing the consumption of resources uses adaptive random sampling to decrease the collection of flow statistical data as the consumption of resources increases. When a packet is received from a network, a determination is made whether the packet belongs to an existing flow, for which flow statistical... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070041332 - Mirroring of a random subset of network traffic: One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of mirroring network traffic. A data packet is received by a network device, and an algorithm including randomization is applied to determine whether the data packet is selected to be mirrored. The packet is sent to a destination port, and if the data... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070041330 - Quality of service monitoring architecture, related method, network and computer program product: An architecture for monitoring quality of service in a telecommunication network having a set of terminals provides for the terminals of the set of terminals to house measuring agents able to be configured to interface with processes selected among processes for managing the application sessions of the network and processes... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070041333 - Sensor networks for monitoring pipelines and power lines: A sensor network for monitoring utility power lines comprises a sensor disposed for monitoring utility power lines, the sensor capable of acquiring data related to the utility power lines and communicating sensor data; a first remote sensor interface (RSI) comprising a data communications device capable of receiving the sensor data... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20070041335 - Automatic estimation of node location based on trace information: The locations of nodes in a network are determined relative to the location of monitoring devices that collect trace information on the network. By appropriate sorting, filtering, and characterizing the trace information, nodes are identified as being local to or remote from each monitoring device that detects traffic to or... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070041334 - Transmitting frames in wireless local area network (wlan): A method and apparatus for transmitting frames in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), each station in the WLAN determines whether there is another station in a hidden state. The station transmits a frame to an Access Point (AP) without performing an Request To Send/Clear To Send (RTS/CTS) mechanism when... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070041336 - Distributed tempero-spatial query service: A distributed tempero-spatial query service uses a plurality of service agents each having an assigned area of responsibility. The service agents are organized into a spatial hierarchy based upon each service agent's area of responsibility. The spatial hierarchy is distributed and hosted on each of the service agents. The spatial... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20070041337 - Method of transmitting image data in video telephone mode of a wireless terminal: Disclosed is a method of communicating image data to a second communications device from a first communications device while the first communications device is in an image communications mode of operation. The method includes the steps of checking the codecs of the second communications device when receiving an image communication;... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070041338 - Aggregated audio/video crossbar connections: Disparate devices in an audio/video ecosystem may be connected and managed by having multiple crossbar connections at nodes in a node and leaf network. The leaves of the network may be various audio and video devices, with receivers, personal computers, and other devices comprising the nodes, which have at least... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070041340 - 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

20070041339 - 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

20070041341 - Methods for transmitting data packets and supporting apparatus: In embodiments described herein, responsive to a request to communicate with a target mobile station, recording of streaming content is initiated (506) and recorded (510) to provide recorded streaming content. An initial data packet with the recorded streaming content is generated (518) after a maximum duration of streaming content has... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070041343 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing simultaneous radio resource and service requests: A method includes, at a user equipment, combining a message requesting the radio resource connection and a message requesting at least one service into a single message. The single message is transmitted from the user equipment to a network element in a wireless network. Another method includes receiving, from a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070041342 - Transmission rate control method, mobile station, radio base station, and radio network controller: A transmission rate control method for controlling, at a mobile station, a transmission rate of uplink user data, in a radio communication system capable of controlling a transmission rate of uplink user data based on an absolute transmission rate transmitted via an E-AGCH and a relative transmission rate transmitted via... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070041344 - Ip network information database in mobile devices for use with media independent information server: A mobile device receives wireless network information from a MIIS (Media Independent Information Server), and builds its own database of existing networks with their associated characteristics, appropriately mapped with GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) coordinates or other appropriate form of geographical location identifying information. Consequently, the mobile device becomes “smart” over... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLC

20070041346 - Method and apparatus for performing handover between core network entities in a packet-switched network: A method and apparatus for performing an inter-RAN L2 handover and an inter-CN L3 handover in a packet-switched network are provided. When a UE connected to an old CN through the old RAN moves to a new RAN belonging to a new CN, an old RAN sends a handover required... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070041345 - Methods and apparatus for providing an integrated multi-hop routing and cooperative diversity system: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing an integrated multi-hop routing and cooperative diversity system are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070041347 - Duplex operation in a cellular communication system: A cellular communication system comprises a first base station serving at least a first user equipment. The base station comprises functionality for transmitting a base station duplex capability message to user equipments using a transmission format which is common to a plurality of duplex modes. A first user equipment comprises... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070041349 - Method and apparatus for controlling reliability of feedback signal in a mobile communication system supporting harq: A method and apparatus for controlling reliability of a feedback signal in a mobile communication system supporting HARQ are provided. A transmitter determines reliability indication information indicating a required reliability for a feedback signal for a user data packet to be transmitted, and sends the user data packet and the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070041348 - Transmitting/receiving apparatus and method for cell search in a broadband wireless communications system: Disclosed is transmitting/receiving apparatus and method for efficient cell search in a broadband wireless communication system using multiple carriers. The apparatus includes a BS generating an SCH signal by mapping predetermined symbols to predetermined subcarriers according to a code group to which the BS belongs, code-multiplexing a TCH signal and... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070041352 - Elevator calling mechanism and method: A system calls elevator cars using a wireless network of nodes. A mobile node at an unknown location broadcasts a request packet. The request packet includes an identification of the mobile node and an elevator call command. One or more fixed nodes at known locations measure a signal strength of... Agent: Patent Department Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070041351 - Method and system effecting communications in a wireless communication network: Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a method effecting communications in a wireless communication network including mobile stations and a base station comprising: (a) in no particular order: (1) operating a first mobile to effect a first evaluation of a first communication link between the first mobile... Agent: Law Office Of Donald D. Mondul C/o Intellevate

20070041350 - Seamless mobility for a multiple interface device in a co-located wireless environment: Data packets are transmitted from a first access network to a first interface of a multiple interface device (MID), and identical data packets are transmitted concurrently from a second access network to a second interface of the MID. Some of the data packets that are transmitted to the MID from... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLC

20070041353 - Time management in a wireless access point: Indications of one or more future unavailability time intervals are transmitted in a management frame by an access point to one or more wireless client devices associated therewith. During the unavailability time intervals, the access point is not available to receive unsolicited communication from the wireless client devices.... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20070041354 - Method of auditing alarms in a cdma2000 system: The present invention relates to a method for auditing alarms between a base station manager (BSM) and subsystems in a CDMA-2000 1x system that allows a reduction in the total amount of signals by having both systems exchange their own information instead of having lower systems report to upper systems... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070041355 - Network physical connection inference for ip tunnels: The physical connection corresponding to IP tunnels in a network are found by tracing through the device configuration and routing tables at the routers in the network to determine the outbound interface associated with each tunnel endpoint, and then inferring a likely return interface associated with the opposite tunnel endpoint.... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070041361 - Apparatus and methods for implementing an in-call voice user interface using context information: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for performing voice-controlled actions during an ongoing voice telephony session. In particular, the methods and apparatus of the present invention provide a voice-operated user interface to perform actions during an ongoing voice telephony session. Many of the actions that can be performed during... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070041367 - Circuit-switched and multimedia subsystem voice continuity with bearer path interruption: The present invention maintains calls during transfers between different types of subsystems, even when there is a bearer path interruption at the user element due to the original connection from the transferring-out subsystem being dropped before the new connection in the transferring-in subsystem is established. The call signaling leg toward... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070041366 - Distributed conference bridge: A method for communication includes specifying a group of packet telephony terminals that are to participate in a telephone conference. Based on the list, a conference topology is defined in which at least two of the terminals serve as bridge nodes, which are associated respectively with mutually-disjoint sets of the... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070041365 - Ebay and google voip telephone: A network telephone device allows the user to make VoIP telephone calls and to access eBay or Google. The device includes a corded or cordless handset, a telephony processor for making the VoIP telephone calls and for accessing eBay or Google, a dial-up modem for making a narrowband connection to... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070041364 - Integrated packet latency aware qos scheduling using proportional fairness and weighted fair queuing for wireless integrated multimedia packet services: Packet communication networks for transmission to wireless subscriber devices utilize both wireline and wireless packet routing components. The routing elements of these two different types often implement different packet scheduling algorithms, typically a form of Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ) in the wireline portion of the network and Proportional Fairness (PF)... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070041357 - Interworking of hybrid protocol multimedia networks: According to the invention, on carrying out the configuration of connections in a hybrid network, comprising PSTN and IN networks, messages generated in the PSTN network are transformed into IN network messages before a decentralised interruption of the connections in the IN network occurs by deactivation of the unidirectional transmitter... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070041360 - Mechanisms to extend uma or gan to inter-work with umts core network: Mechanisms to extend UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) or GAN (General Access Network) to inter-work with a UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) core network. A UMA network controller (UNC) is provided to interface between a UMA network and a UMTS core network using the standard Iu-CS and Iu-PS interfaces. From the... Agent: Stattler, Johansen, And Adeli LLP

20070041359 - Method for transmitting messages in a network: The invention relates to a method for transmitting messages in a network via data terminals connected thereto. This method comprises the following steps: sending a message to be relayed from a sender data terminal to an assigned first mail processing device assigning a unique identifier to the message which indicates... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070041371 - Mobile phone, communication terminal, phone call method and phone call program: A mobile phone connected to a telephone network which uses a telecommunication line by way of a communication terminal including: a wireless communication unit; a sound input unit and a sound output unit; a transmission interface unit; a user information memory unit; a memory unit; a detection unit; and control... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070041356 - Navigating audio books using auditory cues: The invention provides a record carrier containing an audio file (1). It is an object of the invention the provide an audio file (1) that can be navigated quickly and managed easily. This object is achieved by a record carrier containing an audio file (1) with audio data (2) being... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070041363 - Search and navigation method within voice over internet protocol (voip) advertisements player: Provided is a telecommunications system for searching for at least one informational message on a data processing system. The telecommunications system comprises a computer readable storage medium, a display device, and a VOIP dialer having a dialog box. The computer readable storage medium operates on the data processing system. The... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20070041362 - Security gatekeeper for a packetized voice communication network: Admission control means for controlling admission of traffic into a voice communication network, the admission control means comprises means for examining a call control message of a call control dialogue when admission of said traffic into said voice communication network is requested, the admission control means admit a traffic into... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070041370 - System for translating electronic communications: A messaging application having a language translation feature has a user interface for addressing the message to one or more recipients and for creating or supplying the body of the message, a first interactive list of supported language types, the list entries individually selectable via interactive method, and a second... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070041358 - Telephony system: A system for and a method of providing a telephony service is disclosed. Supplying power to a node in a telecommunications network from a subscriber's premises conflicts with the plain old telephone service POTS. Until the advent of the present invention it was thought that supplying power in this way... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070041369 - Transforming call control and dialog elements for telephony service applications from an intermediate language into a target language: Described are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for transforming call control and dialog elements for telephony service applications from an intermediate language into a target language. A module that includes a plurality of elements is generated. At least a first element of the plurality of elements is... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070041368 - Voice over internet protocol (voip) e911 metro street address guide (msag) validation: An overlay list of MSAG-valid addresses is created for use in lieu of (or in addition to) the lat/lon or postal address which otherwise would go with an E911 VoIP 911 call. This overlays the nation with a series of MSAG-addressed polygons, with center points identified in those polygons, and... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20070041373 - Intelligent switching for secure and reliable voice-over-ip pbx service: A switching apparatus for switching packetized voice traffic between a plurality of communication devices, the switching apparatus comprises a multi-layer switch, a plurality of communication ports, control means and ingress processing means, said packetized voice traffic comprises call control packets and medium packets which are exchanged between the communication devices... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070041372 - Method and system for deterring spam over internet protocol telephony and spam instant messaging: Methods and systems for deterring spam on a communication medium are disclosed. Call traffic on the communication medium includes IP telephone calls, IM™ messages and other IP calls. The method includes detecting a call with a user device for accessing the communication medium, such as an IP telephone, a computer,... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070041374 - Reset to a default state on a switch fabric: In a node coupled to a switch fabric a method that includes generating a data packet including content to indicate a reset request to reset a node coupled to the switch fabric to a default state. Broadcasting the data packet to at least one other node coupled to the switch... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070041376 - Method and apparatus for performing tunnel signaling over ip tunneling path: A method and apparatus for performing tunnel signaling over an IP tunneling path connected to an end-to-end path of an IP network where an end-to-end signaling flow from one of a sender and a receiver of the end-to-end path is received, a tunnel signaling flow associated with the IP tunneling... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070041377 - Method and apparatus for providing notification message in a broadcasting system: Provided is a broadcasting system based on a network using an Internet protocol (IP). In the broadcasting system, a broadcast transmitter previously transmits first access information including a first network address for transmitting a general notification message and second access information associated with management of the broadcasting system, to a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070041378 - Method of transmitting feedback information using an extended subheader: A method of transmitting feedback information is disclosed. More specifically, a mobile station (MS) receives a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) which includes a Medium Access Channel (MAC) header from a base station (BS). Thereafter, the MS determines from the received MAC header whether an extended subheader group appears after the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070041375 - System and method for implementing suppression for asynchronous transfer mode (atm) adaptation layer 5 (aal5) traffic in a communications environment: A method for communicating data is provided that includes receiving a plurality of cells associated with a communications flow and determining whether one or more of the cells included in the flow should be suppressed. In specific embodiments, the method further includes suppressing a selected one or more of the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070041381 - Information processing apparatus and grouping method: In an information processing apparatus for identifying a plurality of communication devices, grouping and managing the identified communication devices, communication devices that are in a state of communication among devices forbidden are grouped and managed. Then, it acts for obtaining data of another communication device when the data is obtained... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070041379 - Method and apparatus for advertising repair capability: A method of advertising repair capability in a network repair scheme using network repair addresses for repairing around a repairable network component in a data communications network having, as components, nodes and links therebetween, comprises establishing whether an alternate repair path is available around a repairable component. If such a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070041380 - Method of forwarding signaling information within a communication network: A method of forwarding signaling information within a communication network is described. The signaling information is based on a signaling protocol (e.g SIP). A message is generated by encapsulating the signaling information (e.g. I′) according to given definitions (e.g. D). Furthermore, non-signaling information (e.g. R) is added to the message.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070041382 - Method and apparatus for ciphering and re-ordering packets in a wireless communication system: Techniques for performing ciphering and re-ordering using a single full sequence number are described. A transmitter ciphers input packets to obtain ciphered packets, with each input packet being ciphered with a full sequence number. The transmitter generates output packets for the ciphered packets, with each output packet including a partial... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070041385 - Prioritization techniques for quality of service packet transmission over ev-do network: This disclosure is directed to packet scheduling techniques for prioritizing packets in the first generation (1X) evolution data optimized (EV-DO) network or similar networks that do not provide quality of service (QoS) support at the media access control (MAC) level. The techniques make use of a plurality of prioritized queues... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070041383 - Third party node initiated remote direct memory access: The present invention introduces a third party node initiated remote direct memory access scheme for transferring data from a source node to destination node. The third party node is a different node than the source node and the destination node and the data transfer is configured to occur without involvement... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20070041384 - Intelligent bandwidth allocation for ethernet passive optical networks: A method and integrated hardware system for dynamic bandwidth allocation in EPONs which—in sharp contrast to the prior art—provides superior upstream transmission characteristics including QoS considerations consistent with any Service Level Agreement that exists between a customer and a service provider. Advantageously, our inventive method and system for dynamic bandwidth... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC.

20070041387 - Dynamic power management in a power over ethernet system: A network system comprises dynamic power management controllers respectively configured for usage in a Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) and a Powered Device (PD) coupled by a network cable in a configuration that transfers power and communication signals from the PSE to the PD. The dynamic power management controllers are configured... Agent: Koestner Bertani LLP

20070041386 - Plug and play cluster deployment: In a method of configuring a plurality of computer systems coupled through a network, each computer system comprises a bootable hard disk partition and the method comprises the steps of: automatically assigning an IP node address to each computer system coupled with the network; establishing a master node and creating... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20070041388 - Device having an embedded ethernet networking automated link for facilitating configuration of the device and connection of the device to a network: The systems and methods of the present invention provide Ethernet devices having various embodiments for embedding in a network device. The Ethernet device is used to configure and operate the network device in a networked environment. The Ethernet device, depending on the embodiment includes at least one of the following... Agent: The Boc Group, Inc.

20070041389 - Device and method for interfacing to advanced switching platform: A device and method for interfacing with an advanced switching (AS) platform is provided. In the uplink direction the device includes: a line side interface processing module, which receives SDH/SONET frames and conducts frame header searching and descrambling; a de-framing processing module, which de-frames the descrambled frames to obtain the... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070041392 - Adaptive message buffering: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method that includes accessing at least one statistic descriptive of message operations performed on multiple-buffer messages, where the buffers have a predetermined, different buffer sizes. The method also includes changing the predetermined sizes of the buffers for subsequently created messages based... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070041391 - Method and apparatus for controlling imager output data rate: A real-time application, such as e.g., an imager, that dynamically adjusts the output rate of an encoder and output rate of a buffer memory based on the fullness level of the buffer. Further, the slew rate of the clock and data signals input into output buffer drivers from the output... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070041390 - Shaper-scheduling method and system to implement prioritized policing: A scheduling method and system for a multi-level class hierarchy are disclosed. The hierarchy includes a root node linked to at least two groups. One of the groups has priority over the other of the groups and comprises at least one high priority queue and at least one low priority... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20070041393 - Branch office dns storage and resolution: Maintaining DNS records. A computing network system includes a local Domain Name Service (DNS) server connected to one or more local clients or resources at a local branch office in an enterprise network. The local DNS server advertises to the local clients or resources at the local branch office that... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070041394 - Method and system for handling data based on the acknowledgement and extraction of data packets: The invention relates to a method for handling, namely forwarding and extracting, data, especially messages, in a system comprising at least one data source and a plurality of data receivers. The invention also relates to a corresponding system comprising at least one data source and at least one data receiver.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070041395 - Data transmission method: According to the invention, connection data (port-id) representing at least one subscriber's connection located in at least one communication network are transmitted to the at least one communication network. The transmitted connection data are used to authenticate the data transmitted via the at least one subscriber's connection. Preferably, additional connection... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070041396 - System and method of optimizing the bandwidth of a time triggered communication protocol with homogeneous slot sizes: An improved communications system adapted for use in a network, and configured to optimize the static slot size for transmitting a plurality of time-triggered messages. A preferred embodiment of the system includes a removable controller configured to determine the amount of overhead bits incurred within a slot, the amount of... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070041397 - Apparatus and method for using wireless resources in wireless local area network system: In an apparatus and method for managing wireless resources in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, stations in the same network are allowed to exchange random back-off information with each other, and thus the probability of data transfer collision is reduced. Therefore, it is possible to efficiently use the... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070041398 - 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.

20070041399 - Processing a data stream format for mobile audiovisual reception: The invention relates to a method for reception of a data stream, transmitted in segment in one or several broadcast channels, comprising a reception step for the data in a segment of data stream transmitted by an active broadcast channel. A step for changing reception channel allows switching from the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070041400 - Dynamic translational topology layer for enabling connectivity for protocol aware applications: A method for enabling connectivity for protocol aware applications across different network topologies can include receiving frames passing between a first network having a first network topology and a second network having a second network topology; inspecting an incoming one of the frames to identify a remote resource in the... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070041401 - Priority control system and priority control method: A priority control system 10 is comprised of a priority control server 12, a base station 14, and a terminal 16. The priority control server 12 is provided with a priority issue history storage 18, a priority control determiner 20, a scheduler 22, and a priority transmitter 24. The priority... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070041402 - Handling protocol non-compliant messages: A method and system for handling otherwise rejectable messages (e.g., out-of-order messages) sent using a communication protocol (e.g., SIP) is provided. When a message is received at a protocol layer of a client system, the message (or at least its information) is passed to a higher layer (e.g., an application... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070041403 - System and method for communicating instructions and data between a processor and external devices: A system and method for communicating instructions and data between a processor and external devices are provided. The system and method make use of a channel interface as the primary mechanism for communicating between the processor and a memory flow controller. The channel interface provides channels for communicating with processor... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070041404 - Code division multiplexing in a 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 (LFDMA), a transmitter generates modulation symbols for different types of data (e.g., traffic data, signaling, and pilot) and performs code division multiplexing (CDM) on at least one data type. For example, the transmitter... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070041405 - Method and system for response determinism by synchronization: A discussion of improving integrated device deterministic response to test vectors. For example, limiting the transmission delay for an integrated device's response within known bounds by synchronizing an initialization training sequence to a reset deassertion. Specifically, the proposal facilitates response determinism from the DUT by synchronizing training sequences and subsequently... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070041406 - Method for approval of time-dependent stream in residential ethernet system: Disclosed is a method for approval of a time-dependent stream input to a predetermined node in a residential Ethernet system, the method including the steps of receiving a transmission request of the time-dependent stream by the predetermined node, extracting a pacing parameter and a cycle number, which are a delay... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070041407 - Method and system for transmission and reception, method and apparatus for transmission, and method and apparatus for reception, and program: A transmission and reception system includes a transmitter for transmitting stream data into which first metadata and second metadata are multiplexed, and a receiver for receiving the stream data transmitted by the transmitter and extracting the first metadata and the second metadata from the stream data. The transmitter includes a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070041408 - Router for supporting ima function in a mobile communication network: The present invention relates to a router supporting an Inverse Multiplexing over ATM (IMA) function in a mobile communication network. The router in accordance with the present invention comprises a CPU for converting a plurality of Ethernet packets inputted from network processors connected to subscribers into ATM cells and outputting... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070036064 - Apparatus and method for estimating cinr in an ofdm communication system: A method and an apparatus are provided for estimating a carrier-to-interference and noise ratio (CINR) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication system. The apparatus and method include a receiver for receiving a signal carried by a transmission sub-carrier including a guard band allocated to a region. Further, an... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070036065 - Method and apparatus for communicating network identifiers in a communication system: Method and apparatus for progressive preamble transmission in a communication system, such as a wireless system, is disclosed. In particular, a first symbol is utilized to communicate first timing information for coarse timing acquisition. A second symbol communicates first information including network identification information concerning a first network for fine... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070036069 - Adaptive time diversity and spatial diversity for ofdm: An adaptable orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing system (OFDM) that uses a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) to having OFDM signals transmitted either in accordance with time diversity to reducing signal fading or in accordance with spatial diversity to increase the data rate. Sub-carriers are classified for spatial diversity transmission or for... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky And Popeo P.C. 24th Floor

20070036066 - Method and apparatus for pilot signal transmission: A pilot transmission scheme is presented where during a first OFDM symbol period a first pilot sequence is transmitted over a first multiple sub-carriers on a first group of antennas. During a second OFDM symbol period, a second pilot sequence is transmitted over a second multiple sub-carriers on a second... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070036067 - Method and apparatus for sending downlink control information in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access system: A method and apparatus for sending downlink control information in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system are disclosed. A Node-B allocates at least one subcarrier block to each of a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) for transmission of downlink user data via an OFDMA downlink data channel... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070036068 - Two-dimensional spreading method for an ofdm-cdm system: A transmission apparatus and method for a communication system based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing-Code Division Multiplexing (OFDM-CDM). A frequency spreader multiplies symbols to be transmitted by a frequency spreading factor and outputs frequency spread symbols whose number corresponds to the frequency spreading factor. Buffers whose number corresponds to the... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070036070 - System and method of increasing the data throughput of the pdch channel in a wireless communication system: A wireless communication system is disclosed, including a network; and a plurality of base transceiver stations (BTS) coupled to the network, wherein at least one of the base transceiver station (BTS) is adapted to receive a request to communicate with a mobile communication unit (MU) from the network; determine whether... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20070036071 - Method for relaying information received via a first channel to a second channel and relay apparatus: A method for relaying information received via a first channel to a second channel, in which the first channel has a first subcarrier at the first frequency and having assigned a block of information including a plurality of information units and in which the second channel has a first subcarrier... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070036073 - Connection-oriented network node: A connection-oriented network node capable of becoming an originating node of a protection path serving as a bypath of a protection segment included in a working path in a network system in which data is transferred via a path previously set up between nodes, comprises a usage bandwidth determining unit... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070036072 - Method and apparatus using multiprotocol label switching (mpls) label distribution protocol (ldp) to establish label switching paths (lsps) for directed forwarding: A method and apparatus method for providing fast rerouting in a network is presented. The method and apparatus assign a first local label for a prefix, and assign a second local label for the prefix. The first local label is advertised to an upstream peer and the second local label... Agent: David E. Huang, Esq. Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20070036074 - Packet transmission method for wlan: A packet transmission method for WLAN, a controlling method for data transmitting node of WLAN and a controlling method for data receiving node of WLAN are provided. In the packet transmission method, the data transmitting node sends a transmitting request signal. When the receiving node receives the transmitting request signal... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070036075 - Method and apparatus for controlling data propagation: A filter driver or other control logic automatically monitors user input events and outbound network packets in a processing system. According to one embodiment, in response to detecting an outbound network packet, the filter driver automatically determines whether the outbound network packet corresponds to a recent user input event. If... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070036076 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatic creation of data tables and elements: A method for implementing standardized enterprise warehouse system processes, including: extracting content from one or more source systems that provide a feed for the content; loading extracted content into one or more standardized data layout tables of a data control structure based upon meta-data and rules that define the data... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070036077 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing data transformation processes: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing data transformation processes is provided. The method includes receiving a request for content including data transformation rules for processing the content. The content is collected by a source system at a first interval. The method also includes accessing a source table... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070036078 - Quality of service update procedure: Methods and systems are provided for updating the quality of service (QoS) of an IP flow in a wireless communications system. More particularly, the methods and systems provide the ability to update a QoS grant from any level of QoS to any other level of QoS, from no QoS to... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070036079 - System and method for congestion control signaling: Systems and methods for controlling congestion on a packet data network are provided. The congestion control may be implemented between any two network nodes where a regulation of a data flow is desired to prevent a device overload from occurring. In order to provide regulation of a data flow, congestion... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070036080 - Method of monitoring a tandem connection in a mpls telecommunication network: It is disclosed a method of monitoring, a Multi-Protocol Label Switching network, a tandem connection of a Label Switched Path. The tandem connection to be monitored has an input node and an output node. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a first Operation Administration Management packet at the input... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070036081 - Method and device for detecting defects of electromagnetic protection for electric harnesses: A method and device for detecting defects of an electromagnetic protection for an electric harness (H). The device (D) includes elements (M1) for generating stimulating electric signals, elements (M2) for bringing the signals up to a predetermined power level, elements (M3) for applying the signals to the harness (H) and... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070036082 - Method and system for testing network device logic: Method and system for testing a network device is provided. The system includes, a test program running on a host system that communicates with the network device through a bus functional module; and a test module that includes a packet counter that counts test packets that are received from a... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070036083 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing outage information for a network: Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, systems, user devices and computer program products for providing network status information. Methods include receiving alarm data for an event from a plurality of sources. The alarm data includes a plurality of alarm records each including a site identifier. The alarm data is processed to... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070036084 - Testing of receivers with separate linear o/e module and host used in communication links: A reciever for a communications link includes a receiver module and a host receiver. These two components can be tested independently. In one embodiment, the receiver module is characterized with respect to noiseand distortion. The noise performance can be determined by comparing input and output signals of the reciever module,... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070036085 - Method and system for performing ranging functions in an ultrawide bandwidth system: A process is provided for determining the distance between two devices by sending ranging packets between them. The local device sends a first ranging packet, which the remote device sends holds for a first hold time before sending a second ranging packet in return. The local device also sends a... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070036087 - Method and systems for optimization analysis in networks: Methods and systems for providing optimization information for networks.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070036086 - System and method of providing communications based on a predetermined device status: A system and method are disclosed for a presence and availability management configuration. The system and method can include a system that pings multiple communication devices associated with a targeted party prior to sending a communication. The system can transmit a target device identifier with a status request (a ping)... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070036088 - Wireless mac and link-layer simulation modeling: Simulation models of media access control and physical layer characteristics facilitate the simulation/emulation of a variety of phenomena that affect transmissions via a wireless media. Such phenomena include media access contention delays, packet drops, and retransmissions that are generally dependent upon changes in transmitter/receiver locations. Each wireless environment is characterized... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070036091 - Detecting a hidden node in a wireless local area network: A method and system for detecting a hidden node in a wireless local area network having a first station, a second station, and an access point. The first station can send a message, where the message can be sent as a data frame. After receiving the message, the access point... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070036089 - Method and system for data transmission in a wireless network: A method and system for data transmission by computational devices in a wireless network (100) are disclosed. A computational device (102) organizes the wireless network in a hierarchical topology having at least one root node and updates a list of interferers and a list of descendents. Then, the computational device... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070036090 - Structured addressing method for wireless networks: A method assigns addresses to nodes in a wireless network. An address space is defined as an n-dimensional grid, each grid intersection having coordinates of a corresponding possible node of a wireless network, a number of components of each coordinate being equal to a dimensionality of the grid, and the... Agent: Patent Department Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070036092 - Spanning tree bpdu processing method and system facilitating integration of different native vlan configurations: Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to enhancing the interoperability of network devices with static native virtual LAN (VLAN) configurations with other network devices where the native VLAN is a configurable parameter. In some implementations, the network devices having configurable native VLANs conditionally add VLAN tags to common Spanning Tree Protocol... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070036093 - Method and apparatus for floor control in a communication system: Methods for enabling floor control are performed in an endpoint terminal (140, 142, 146) and a session controller (106). The session controller: receives (410) a message requesting a session that includes an SDP packet with a requested floor control profile having a requested set of floor control parameters or a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070036094 - Remote control method and remote control system using the same: A method of remotely controlling similar types of devices, one or more of which is a controlled device having the same mode as that of a control device set in one of a plurality of modes, the method including receiving an input of mode information in order to convert a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070036095 - Error detection and suppression in a tdma-based network node: A network node (1) with a communication unit (2), which is provided for the implementation of a communication protocol for the purpose of communication with other network nodes via a communication medium (5), and with a bus monitor (3), which, mutually independently, each implement an access time schedule contained in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070036096 - Adaptive power save mode for short-range wireless terminals: The invention relates to a method for controlling power consumption in a short-range wireless terminal. In order that the power save mode could be adapted to the traffic pattern of the terminal, the data traffic of the terminal is monitored and at least one parameter describing the data traffic is... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070036097 - Method for controlling the communication with mobile stations in a network: A method for controlling the communication with mobile stations in a network, preferably in a WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) according to the IEEE 802.11 standard, wherein the network comprises access points through which the mobile stations are associated with the network and wherein the mobile stations can be set... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070036099 - Automated provisioning, maintenance, and information logging of custom access point names in packet-based mobile cellular networks: Systems, methods, and computer readable media are provided for automating the process of provisioning and maintaining Access Point Names (“APNs”) for use in digital networks, such as GPRS networks. A plurality of network elements including but not limited to GGSN tables, router tables, firewall systems, VPN tunnels, and Home Location... Agent: Woodcock & Washburn LLP

20070036101 - Distributed node b module: The present invention discloses a distributed Node B module which is used for containing a remote radio unit of a distributed Node B. Said module includes a roughly cuboid module body, an outlet chamber arranged at one lateral side of the module body, and a plurality of outlet connectors arranged... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070036102 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving access information of broadcast service in a broadcasting system, and system thereof: A broadcasting system for providing access information of a broadcast service, wherein a transmission apparatus generates the access information for at least one of a broadcast network and an interaction network, from which the broadcast service is transmitted, and transmits the access information to a terminal via a specific communication... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070036100 - Method and system for communicating media based on location of media source: A method for communicating media based on location of media source includes receiving communications from a plurality of endpoints. Each communication comprises a media message and location information identifying a location of its transmitting endpoint. The method includes receiving a selection of a geographical area and comparing the location information... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070036103 - Protocol and control signal termination in a communication system: In a mobile communication network comprised of a plurality of switching devices and a plurality of base stations connected to the switching devices, while a mobile terminal to wirelessly communicate with the base stations is in a communication by a soft handover, a terminal endpoint of a protocol for control... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070036098 - System and method for converged network services: Systems and methods for providing services for stations supported by a residential gateway are provided. The residential gateway can support one or more fixed-line station and/one or more mobile stations. The mobile stations can be supported by a wireless macro network and/or the residential gateway. Services such as simultaneous ringing,... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20070036105 - Apparatus and method for providing inter-piconet data communication in wireless personal area network: Provided is an apparatus and method for providing inter-piconet data communication in a wireless personal area network. The apparatus includes a piconet association unit, a superframe synchronization unit, a superframe synchronization unit, a DSPS (device synchronized power save) set creation unit, a piconet information announcement unit, a transfer data storage... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070036104 - Dedicated control channel detection for enhanced dedicated channel: In a method of detecting a signal, a control channel associated with a physical channel may be decoded to produce at least one decoding metric. A control channel signal on the control channel may then be detected based on the decoding metric.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070036110 - Access control of mobile equipment to an ip communication network with dynamic modification of the access policies: Access equipment (EA) to a communication network (N), equipped with a radio-communication interface (IR) capable of transmitting packets to mobile hosts (H1, H2, H3) located in a geographical zone (Z) linked to the interface, negotiation means intended to set up an exchange of data packets with a host of this... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070036108 - Apparatus, method and computer program product to maintain user equipment serving grant at cell change: A method includes storing a first Serving Grant (SG) value for use in a first serving cell, entering a second serving cell, receiving an information element from a higher layer, maintaining the first SG value if the information element does not include a second SG value, and changing the first... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070036109 - Handover method and apparatus between different systems: A method and apparatus performs handover from an OFDM-based E-UMTS system to a CDMA-based UMTS system. A UE in communication with a PDN via the E-UMTS system, measures signal strength of the UMTS system, and sends a measurement report message indicating the measured signal strength to the E-UMTS system. A... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070036106 - Method and wirelessly connectable communications device for packet-oriented data transmission: In order to transmit data packets between a wirelessly connectable communications device and a communications partner, particularly during a handover process, the invention provides that when a first wireless transmission path is available, an availability of at least one additional wireless transmission path is detected. Based on the detection, a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Departement

20070036107 - Method of selective need-based control message augmentation: A method of selective need-based control message augmentation may include a network unit of a mobile communication system (100) generating a control message (250) for communication to a mobile unit (202), determining a handoff state transition of the mobile unit, and determining a set of signal conditions for one or... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070036114 - Dynamic radio link adaptation for interference in cellular systems: A method for performing dynamic link adaptation by a user equipment (UE) in a cellular system, the UE having two coded composite transport channels (CCTrCHs) in an uplink time slot begins by estimating a transmit power for a first transport format combination (TFC) and a second TFC, each TFC corresponding... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070036113 - Method for assigning uplink and/or downlink capacities based on available capacity: The present invention provides a method for use in communication involving first and second parties. The method includes determining a first capacity associated with a first channel of a communication link between the first and second parties. The method also includes assigning a second capacity to a second channel of... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070036111 - Method for operating a base station of a mobile radio system, signaling unit, control unit, mobile station and computer program: The reception of a first base station of a first mobile radio system in a first frequency range can be influenced by transmissions, associated with a connection, of at least one subscriber station of a second mobile radio system in a second frequency range adjacent to the first frequency range.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070036112 - Method of determining next transport format combination for being utilized in next transmission time interval: A method of determining a next TFC for being utilized by a UE in a next TTI is disclosed. The method includes: determining whether conditions for omitting a TFC selection procedure are met, applying a currently utilized TFC as the next TFC without performing the TFC selection procedure if the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070036116 - Latency-aware service opportunity window-based (laso) scheduling: Traffic flows of data packets from respective packet queues in wireless stations to a shared transmission medium of a wireless network are scheduled in accordance with Hybrid Controlled Channel Access (HCCA) and Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA). HCCA is applied by eliminating from consideration for HCCA access flows for which... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLC

20070036118 - Method and system for automatic configuration of virtual talk groups based on location of media sources: A method for automatic configuration of virtual talk groups based on location of media source includes monitoring communications from a plurality of mobile endpoints. Each communication comprises a media message and location information identifying a location of its transmitting endpoint. The method includes selecting a first group of mobile endpoints... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070036117 - Method and system for delivering information to a user: A system and method for delivering information to a user (e.g., a worker) comprises equipping a user with a data processing device associated with a portable display. A particular location or context of the user is determined. A display automatically displays information to the user based on at least one... Agent: Darin E. Bartholomew Patent Department

20070036120 - Method and system for wlan user equipment accessing new operation network: The present invention discloses an interactive method for a WLAN UE accessing a new operation network, which comprises: when the WLAN UE which has accessed a first Visited Mobile Communication Network needs to re-select a second Visited Mobile Communication Network to access, the WLAN UE sending authentication information to a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070036115 - Mobile communication system and apparatus used for same, and control program: An object of the present invention is to provide technology in which an HA is capable of efficiently maintaining registration information of an MR, and communication efficiency in registration/update processing between the HA and the MR is improved. A mobile node has a representative home address, a subsidiary home address,... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070036119 - Routing advertisement authentication in fast router discovery: A method and a Mobile Node are provided for authenticating an Advertisement message received from an Access Router through an Access Point. The Advertisement message comprises a Hashed Nonce Value and a Nonce Index corresponding to a Nonce Value held in the Access Router. Upon receiving the Advertisement message from... Agent: Alex Nicolaescu Ericsson Canada Inc.

20070036122 - Joint space-time optimum filters (jstof) for interference cancellation: A wireless communications device may include a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver. The wireless receiver may include a filter for reducing co-channel interference within a communications receiver. The filter may include a multi-channel, space-time filter circuit that filters n signal parts that have been split from a communications signal... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070036121 - Method and apparatus for providing reverse activity information in a multi-carrier communication system: An approach is provided for signaling in multi-carrier system. Multiple reverse activity channels are dynamically assigned to one or more carriers of a forward link, wherein the reverse activity channels transport information about a corresponding plurality of carriers of a reverse link. A message is generated for specifying information about... Agent: Ditthavong & Mori, P.C.

20070036124 - Method and apparatus for compressing and transmitting ultra high speed data: Voiceband compression techniques are employed in order to enable an RF telecommunications base station to accommodate data signals of high speed voiceband modems and FAX machines. An Ultra-High Speed Codec supports voiceband modem and FAX transmissions up to 14.4 kb/s and operates using four 16-phase RF slots. Because these codecs... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070036123 - Wireless communications system: A communication network comprises at least a first region serviced by a base station. This region also comprises a plurality of bridging stations deployed around the base station, so defining a circumference around it. Each bridging station comprises one or more directional antennas operable to generate a coverage area lying... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070036125 - Wireless communication system using channel access based on a contention approach and method thereof: A wireless communication system using channel access based on a contention approach and method thereof is disclosed, which allocates plural sets of time slots in a predetermined contention interval, wherein each set of time slots further includes plural adjacent overlapped time slots. A channel requester transmits a contention message to... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070036126 - Laser position measurement system: A system having a laser position measurement system is provided including providing a system, such as an imaging system, attaching a light source and a receiver, and connecting electronic circuits to the receiver for position information.... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070036146 - Analyzing and resolving internet service problems: Methods, systems, and computer program products analyze and resolve Internet service problems. A method involves receiving via a user interface consumer data associated with a request for Internet service problem analysis and resolution, triggering a query to retrieve additional data, and querying one or more systems to fulfill the request.... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070036144 - Associating a telephone call with a dialog based on a computer protocol such as sip: Providing non-voice capabilities relating to a phone call at a computing device includes receiving a request to begin a telephone call from a first telephone to a second telephone, wherein the requesting is performed using messaging between computing devices connected via a computer network, and wherein the messaging is part... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070036148 - Communication device and method of operating the same: A communication device comprises a first transmitter configured to transmit a telephone signal via a broadband-communication link to an IP network, and a second transmitter configured to transmit a telephone signal via an alternative communication link to a telephone network. The telephone signal is transferred from a first telephone number... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck Suite 3250

20070036135 - Communication identification system: A system and method of handling communication information associated with a communication request is disclosed. The system includes a computer readable memory that includes a data file that represents one or more documents that may be viewed by a plurality of users associated with the document, and a computer system... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070036128 - Communication terminal and communication method: The present invention provides a communications terminal in which feelings which arise spontaneously can be actively communicated to a partner. Communications terminals (30a) and (30b) communicate with a partner terminal via a transmission line (90), and include: an input unit (31), which receives a finger operation including tapping; a packet... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070036152 - Configurable network appliance: An Internet appliance accesses an HTML page on a Web site containing configuration information for the appliance, such as an Internet compatible telephone. Data from the HTML page are downloaded to the appliance to modify its options or settings automatically upon accessing the HTML page, or as directed by the... Agent: Cisco - Thelen Reid & Priest LLP Thelen Reid & Prie LLP

20070036141 - Fax messaging for new users: Send and receive services are operated that send and receive fax messages, respectively, via fax protocols. Each new customer is offered a predetermined amount of the receive service, and a more limited amount of the send service, both free of charge to the customer, as part of a group of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070036137 - Indicating presence of a contact on a communication device: The present invention provides a method for indicating presence of a contact on a communication device. Aspects the preferred embodiment include associating an identifier of the contact with a speed dial control on the communication device; using the identifier to obtain presence information associated with the contact during operation of... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070036127 - Ip-based call establishment: There is disclosed a communication system adapted to establishing a communication between at least two end-points, comprising: a control server for receiving a request including an identifier of a calling number of one end-point and an identifier of an action, and adapted to transmit said request in XML format in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070036129 - Method and system for encoding packet interdependency in a packet data transmission system: Method and system for encoding packet interdependency in a packet data stream. In one embodiment, the scheme comprises providing, for each packet in the packet data stream, a dependency relationship field associated therewith; and representing dependency of a first packet on a second packet of the packet data stream by... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070036131 - Method and system for handling calls at an automatic call distributor: A method for handling calls at an automatic call distributor includes receiving from a first caller a first call for distribution to one of a plurality of agents and receiving from the first caller a first request associated with the first call. The method includes linking the first request to... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070036143 - Method and system for providing voice over ip managed services utilizing a centralized data store: An approach provides interdomain traversal to support packetized voice transmissions. A centralized data store, maintained by a service provider, stores one or more user identifiers and an associated directory number. The centralized data store also stores routing information including one or more communication paths corresponding to the user identifier, wherein... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070036132 - Method and system for remotely detecting parasite software: An Internet Protocol (IP) usage pattern of a first computer system is monitored by a second computer system remotely located from the first computer system. Based on the monitoring, it is determined if the IP usage pattern is abnormal for the first computer system. If the IP usage pattern is... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070036136 - Network support for caller id verification: Caller ID information provided coincident to a Voice over IP (VoIP) call is validated by one or more network devices. An originating router detects an offered IP address associated with a calling party node, for example, upon receiving a SIP Invite message initiated by the calling party node. The originating... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20070036142 - Performance enhancement protocol, systems, methods and devices: A method, operative in a framework which uses a packet-based voice communications scheme and in which at least some of the communication takes place via a satellite link. The method includes establishing a first session between a calling party and proxy using a first protocol, wherein the calling party communicates... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070036145 - Policy-based network-initiated secondary datalink flows with quality-of-service in cellular packet data networks: A method of creating a network-initiated secondary packet data service instance includes sending a content request for application data from a mobile station to an application function through an access network. The method further includes sending a request for a secondary packet data service instance from the application function to... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070036134 - Portable internet phone: A portable Internet phone uses a portable memory media with storage function and connected to a computer system. The portable memory media is linked to a network server through the computer system and network communication software stored in the portable memory media is performed to display a dialing number keypad... Agent: Hdsl

20070036130 - System and apparatus for network telephone switch: The present invention is inputted with a telephone number to detect a status of connection at a telephone device corresponding to the telephone number so that a proper telephone interconnection is established according to the status detected.... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC Suite 1404

20070036139 - System and method for authenticating internetwork resource requests: A method for use in diverse networks that authenticates inter-network resource requests. A router in a first network receives a request for a resource from a second network. The router sends a query to an element in the second network to determine whether the request actually originated there. If the... Agent: Michele Zarinelli C/o West Corporation

20070036150 - Systems and methods for tdm/packet communications using telephony station cards including voltage generators: Systems and methods by which voice/data communications may occur in multiple modes/protocols are disclosed. In particular, systems and methods are provided for multiple native mode/protocol voice and data transmissions and receptions with a computing system having a multi-bus structure, including, for example, a TDM bus and a packet bus, and... Agent: Alan R. Loudermilk Loudermilk & Associates

20070036149 - Telephone conversation isolation and enhancement systems: Telephone conversation isolation and enhancement systems for a caller using a telephone for a telephone call. The systems include a housing comprising an edge that circumferentially bounds an opening. The edge may contact a caller's head to create a substantially circumferentially continuous interface between the edge and the caller's head.... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20070036133 - User interface for call history: Techniques for using call history for voice data over a packet-switched network includes receiving call history data that indicates a redirected network identity that served as a target of a particular voice data session from a particular calling party. The redirected network identity is different from both a caller network... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20070036151 - Voice over ip network architecture: A network architecture for a next generation network which contains at least two domains and a method of transmitting a call using voice over IP technique over at least two network domains are presented, wherein instead of point-to-point connections between the two network domains, an interconnection domain is provided which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070036140 - Voice-over-ip telephone devices and systems: A method for a service provider to provide telephone service between a first telephone and a second telephone includes connecting to tHe first telephone, receiving a request from the first telephone to make a call to the second telephone using a VoIP number, mapping the VoIP number to a PSTN... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070036147 - Voice-over-ip telephone devices and systems: A method is provided for operating a network telephone device coupled to a PSTN. When an emergency telephone number is dialed or when power fails, the network telephone device makes a telephone call through the PSTN instead of through a modem dial-up connection to a network telephone service.... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070036138 - Voip communication module: A VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) communication module is provided for establishing a communication connection over a network, including a network connection module, a command translator, and a processing module, wherein the command translator receives and translates AT commands from external application programs or modules, thereby providing services such as... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070036153 - Method of controlling a communication control entity: A method of controlling a communication control entity in a mobile communication network and a corresponding communication control entity are described. The communication control entity is a part of a pool of communication control entities. In accordance of the invention, when acting as a primary communication control entity and receiving... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070036155 - Bridge apparatus for internet telephone exchange and internet phone system: A bridge apparatus for Internet telephone exchange and an Internet phone system. The bridge apparatus is connected with a telephone exchange to form an Internet telephone exchange. An ordinary phone can make phone call through the Internet telephone exchange, a router and Internet to a remote Internet phone after the... Agent: Hdsl

20070036154 - Mobile phone charging base and wireless server: A mobile phone charging base includes a mobile phone charging device. The mobile phone is configured for Voice over Internet Protocol communications. The base also includes a wireless communications module with an Internet Protocol (IP) access connection and a Voice over Internet Protocol connection.... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP

20070036159 - Checking data integrity: A network interface device for connection to a data processing device and to a data network so as to provide an interface between the data processing device and the network for supporting the network of packets of a transport protocol, the network interface device being configured to: identify within the... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20070036156 - High speed packet capture: Packets can be read from a network interface into an application using a single kernel copy. In one embodiment, the invention includes a receiver packet memory to store captured packets, and a network interface driver operating in a kernel of a device to read packets captured by network interface hardware... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070036158 - Media sink device and method for controlling the same: A Media sink device and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. A Media sink device for receiving media data from at least two media source devices includes: at least two interfaces for receiving the media data from the at least two media source devices; and a controller for... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070036157 - Medium recording connection switching program, electronic conference system and connection switching method: A connection switching program to perform a function of a first information communication terminal included in an electronic conference system includes the first and a second information communication terminal; a first mobile communication terminal; a second mobile communication terminal that has identification information to be held by the first mobile... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070036160 - Method and apparatus for securing a layer ii bridging switch/switch of subscriber aggregation: A method and apparatus for securing a layer II bridging switch for subscriber aggregation is described. The method includes receiving packets from a circuit on the layer II bridging switch and making a forwarding decision for the packet based on at least one of the addresses of the packet being... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070036162 - Source identifier for mac address learning: A header value or label, referred to herein as a source station identification (SSID), is added to an encapsulated packet header, such as by adding the SSID as a label to the bottom of a stack of MPLS labels. The SSID comprises a unique identifier that identifies the PE that... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070036161 - System and method of routing ethernet mac frames using layer-2 mac addresses: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for routing information in a communication network. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving frames, and routing the frames in a network using Layer-2.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070036163 - Resource sharing among multiple rsvp sessions: In one embodiment, a technique is provided to share resources among data flows. An apparatus receives a request for a new data flow where the new data flow is associated with a session group (ID). The apparatus determines that the session group ID of the new data flow matches a... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070036164 - Digital gateway for education systems: A communications and IP network gateway interface unit is provided for use with educational systems in a classroom environment. The gateway interface is configured to communicate with an IP network, and includes a digital signal processing unit storing programs for processing encoded data signals received from the IP network to... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070036165 - Method and network element configured for limiting the number of virtual local area networks creatable by gvrp: A Layer 2 device configured for providing at least one of bridging and switching functionality in a local area network comprising computer readable instructions for providing GVRP functionality and computer-readable instructions for limiting the number of dynamic VLANs that the GVRP functionality creates on a Layer 2 device of a... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070036166 - Method, device and program for receiving a data stream: This invention concerns a method for receiving a data stream comprising data sections spread on data packets. An error correction code is associated with and transmitted with every data section. The method comprises the steps of receiving the packets of the data stream by an interface module and transmitting the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070036167 - Method, device, and system, for terminating a user session in a multicast service: The present invention provides a method for terminating a user session in a multicast service. Specifically, the method includes: initiating a request for terminating a user session by a multicast service device, the request containing a session ID for identifying a user session to be terminated, and releasing the network... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070036168 - Controller and method for per-flow rate: A per-flow rate controller is disclosed. The controller includes a queue classifying unit, a queue memory unit and a queue selecting unit. The queue classifying unit receives a plurality of per-flows and then classifies them by the source port address of each per-flow group. The queue memory unit includes a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070036169 - Telecommunication system, method and subscriber unit for use therein: A telecommunication system includes a digital switch, a local loop coupling the digital switch to a subscriber location, wherein a segment of the local loop includes copper twisted pair and wherein an asymmetrical digital subscriber line is carried by the local loop, the asymmetrical digital subscriber line including a plurality... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070036170 - Collision avoidance in multiple protocol communication networks using a shared communication medium: A method for collision avoidance in multiple protocol networks using a shared communication medium begins by determining a first protocol probable active time period. The method continues by determining a first protocol probable inactive time period. The method continues by generating a transmit blocking indication based on the first protocol... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070036171 - Bridging coaxial cable networks: An apparatus includes a first signal interface configured to couple a signal to and from a coaxial cable, a second signal interface configured to couple a signal to and from a power line, and signal coupling circuitry configured to pass a communication signal between the first signal interface and the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070036173 - Bus interface for transfer of multiple sonet/sdh rates over a serial backplane: A bus interface for transfer of SONET/SDH data that supports a plurality of SONET/SDH flows. The invention supports two line coding schemes: 8B/10B encoding of STS-12, and SONET scrambled coding for STS-12, STS-48, and STS-51. The invention additionally supports two modes of line testing: entire links can be tested by... Agent: Vermette & Co.

20070036172 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for provisioning a digital subscriber line in which an incumbent local exchange carrier activates a line number port on behalf of a competitive local exchange carrier: A digital subscriber line (DSL) is provisioned by porting a telephone number from an Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC) to a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) that provides Central Office Voice over Network (CO-VoN) service. The DSL is provisioned to use a shadow line telephone number with hotline service to... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070036174 - Distributed digital subscriber line access multiplexer: A distributed DSLAM, which comprises a head end subsystem located within a switching facility and a remote subsystem located outside of the switching facility. The head end subsystem is operative for routing streams of data from a data network to the remote subsystem over a communication link, while the remote... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070036175 - Audio chat system based on peer-to-peer architecture: A peer to peer audio communication screen in system with adaptive bandwidth control. The peer-to-peer system can be used, for example, in classroom applications. More interactive peers are moved to a position where they will receive lower latency from the peer-to-peer system. This may be done by maintaining a score... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070036176 - Methods to compensate for noise in a wireless communication system: A number of features for enhancing the performance of a communication system, in which data is transmitted between a base station and a plurality of subscriber stations located different distances from the base station, are presented. The power transmission level, slot timing, and equalization of the subscriber stations are set... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070036178 - Layer 2 virtual switching environment: A Virtual Communication Environment to support virtual switching engines for layer 2 switches is described. The virtual layer 2 switching engines allow many virtual switches to be created in a CPU or across multiple CPUs in switching hardware. The virtual switch engines reduce the inter-communication costs in memory, CPU, inter-process... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070036177 - Method and apparatus for managing delivery of video over a digital subscriber line: A method and apparatus for managing delivery of video over a digital-subscriber line is provided. The method includes and the apparatus is adapted for receiving at a multiplexer information indicative of an upstream volume of video traffic for termination to the multiplexer, and for controlling the multiplexer in response to... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20070036179 - Channel and interference estimation in single-carrier and multi-carrier frequency division multiple access systems: In a single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system, a receiver receives transmission symbols from a transmitter, determines a set of subbands used by the transmitter, processes the received transmission symbols for the set of subbands, obtains received pilot values for a transmitted pilot, and obtains received data values for... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070036180 - Adaptive play-out buffers and clock operation in packet networks: Methods and apparatus are described for a play-out buffer. A method includes writing a data packet into a jitter buffer at a write address specified by a write address generator; incrementing the write address generator; generating the difference between the write address and a current read address specified by a... Agent: John Bruckner, P.C.

20070036181 - Transmission device, network management method, and computer product: A plurality of physically different physical paths is used as virtually one virtual path. A transmission device, which is a sender of a main signal, monitors transmission status of a main signal and changes currently used physical path to another physical path based on the transmission status. When the physical... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070036182 - Data multiplexing method and data multiplexer, and data transmitting method and data transmitter: An effective data multiplexing method wherein an error correction ability is exerted at the maximum so that data transmission quality is improved and a data transmitting method in which an interleaving process applicable to data transmission using interpolation pilot signal is performed are provided. The data multiplexing method includes the... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070030798 - Doppler frequency calculating apparatus and method and ofdm demodulating apparatus: A Doppler frequency calculating apparatus that calculates a Doppler frequency, which is the magnitude of a time-dependent fluctuation of a characteristic of the transmission path through which an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signal is transmitted, includes a received signal point memory operable to store a received signal point of a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070030797 - Method of receiving of ofdm signal having repetitive preamble signal: A method of receiving an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal. The method includes receiving sample signals from the OFDM signal, providing reference sample signals, calculating a first value representing a first correlation between the sample signals and different sample signals, calculating a second value representing a second correlation between... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070030796 - Multicarrier modulation with enhanced frequency coding: This invention relates to a method, a computer program, a computer program product, a transmitter and a receiver for a multicarrier modulation, wherein symbols are assigned to carriers of a set of N carriers, said method comprising assigning at least one of said symbols to a first carrier of said... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070030799 - Communication method and system using two or more coding schemes: A communication method includes causing a transmitter to apply error correcting or detecting code systems to multiple frames or packets and to transmit the multiple frames or packets in succession, causing a receiver to receive the transmitted frames or packets and to decode each of the frames or packets received,... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070030800 - Reflector communications channel for automatic protection switching: An apparatus and method for a communications network including at least one interface circuit reads frame data received from the communications network and writes frame data to be transmitted over the communications network, the frame data including a plurality of transport overhead fields. The apparatus includes signature logic coupled to... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070030801 - Dynamically controlling rate connections to sample buffers in a mult-mode wireless processing system: A method of dynamically controlling rate connections to sample buffers in a multi-mode processing system. The method can include receiving an instruction for communication in a multi-mode wireless processing system, and determining a rate at which a plurality of buffers are serially connected to elements external to the multi-mode wireless... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070030802 - Enabling non real-time communication enabled devices to participate in real time communication scenarios: A system and method for allowing non-real time communication protocol enabled devices to participate in real-time communication protocol scenarios, comprising: discovering at least one non-real time communication protocol enabled device; logging on to at least one real-time communication server; assigning a unique real-time communication protocol identity to the at least... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070030803 - Prioritization of network traffic sent to a processor by using packet importance: In one embodiment of the invention, a method for prioritizing network packets, includes: comparing a packet with at least one copy rule; and if the packet matches the copy rule, then buffering the packet in a queue. The method further includes: processing the packet after buffering the packet in the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070030805 - Hardware filtering of unsolicited grant service extended headers: A system and method is presented that uses hardware at a central node to determine if bandwidth being provided to a remote node in accordance with an unsolicited grant service (UGS) flow requires adjustment. In one embodiment, the hardware performs this function by comparing information in two consecutively-received UGS extended... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070030806 - Hardware filtering of unsolicited grant service extended headers: A system and method is presented that uses hardware at a central node to determine if bandwidth being provided to a remote node in accordance with an unsolicited grant service (UGS) flow requires adjustment. In one embodiment, the hardware performs this function by comparing information in two consecutively-received UGS extended... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070030804 - Method and apparatus for automatic load-balancing on a multi-segment network: Automatic load-balancing provides a decision-making process that includes intelligent automatic detection of when a given load-balancing activation currently would not be beneficial, thereby keeping the user's network from being unnecessarily disturbed when no real benefit would be gained; a process to undo a prior load-balancing that can be activated when... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20070030807 - System and method for combining requests for data bandwidth by a data source for transmission of data over a wireless communication medium: A method and system for combining requests for data bandwidth by a data source for transmission of data over a wireless communication medium is provided. A central node receives one or more bandwidths requests from one or more data sources via wireless communication. A scheduler then combines one or more... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070030808 - Method and apparatus for rerouting a teleconference call setup message in a packet network: A method and apparatus for redirecting at least one call to avoid at least one congested link of a switch in a packet network is described. In one embodiment, the at least one call setup message is intended to be routed via a first link to the switch in communication... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070030809 - System and method for multiple access and backhaul of a base station: There is provided a system and method for multiple access and backhaul of a base station. More specifically, there is provided a method comprising detecting a decrease in throughput over a current backhaul, determining whether there is an alternate backhaul available, and accessing the alternate backhaul. There is also provided... Agent: Michael G. Fletcher Fletcher Yoder

20070030811 - Method and apparatus for maximizing data transmission capacity of a mesh network: A mesh network routing protocol for optimizing network data transmission capacity using a cost analysis based upon a links proximity to the gateway or other bandwidth constrained node. Specifically, the protocol computes a plurality of routing costs associated with each data path, compares the routing costs, and then selects the... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20070030810 - Monitoring a network path: The present invention relates to the monitoring of paths along which signals are carried in a telecommunications network, in particular to determine if a path has been altered. Each path has a transit time associated therewith for data transport along that path. The method comprises the steps of: monitoring the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070030814 - Memory module and method thereof: A memory module and method thereof are provided. In the example method, a test signal may be applied to a plurality of memory chips included in the memory module. Output data from the plurality of memory chips may be received in response to the applied test signal. The received, output... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070030813 - Monitoring a problem condition in a communications protocol implementation: A solution for monitoring one or more problem conditions in a communications protocol implementation is provided. The communications protocol implementation includes an internal monitor thread that monitors one or more resources for problem condition(s). The internal monitor thread sets a problem flag based on a problem condition being present. A... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070030812 - Protocol designer: A protocol designer uses an integrated development environment that integrates the editing of protocols and stacks along with the ability to compile the edited protocols. A protocol stack window is opened on a display for creating a new protocol stack or for retrieving and modifying an existing protocol stack. A... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20070030816 - Data compression and abnormal situation detection in a wireless sensor network: Wireless communication systems adapted for compressing data prior to certain communications. Data compression may be limited or skipped when it is determined that the data compression may cause an unacceptable amount of data to be lost. Abnormal situation detection as part of data compression is included. Methods associated with such... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070030815 - Method and system for analysing data quality measurements in wireless data communication networks: Measurement system and method for determining a quality indicator for end-to-end data transfer in a wireless data network (1). A data network analysis system (10) is connected to the wireless data network (1) for measuring at least one system performance indicator using a predefined data transfer specimen. The measurement system... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070030817 - Constraining multicast traffic between a layer 2 network device and a router: A method, system, computer program product and apparatus are presented to enable a L2 network device, such as a bridge or switch, to control the flow of a multicast data stream to a connected router in response to control messages received from the router by the L2 network device. By... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070030818 - Ip multicast management and service provision system and method: A system (10), method (90) and apparatus (14) are provided for provisioning a multicast stream, such as an IP multicast stream, in a network. The system includes a first tier (12), such as a national backbone, with a first Multicast Address Discovery (MCAD) directory (34), and at least one second... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070030820 - Modified power control for hybrid arq on the reverse link: A method for power control in a wireless communication system. An initial transmission of a data frame in the reverse link is received, and a first energy level of the data frame is measured. An energy deficit in the first energy level is then measured if the first energy level... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070030819 - Prioritizing udp over tcp traffic by slowing down the tcp transmission rate: A method for controlling bandwidth allocation of first and second data packet types (e.g. TCP traffic, real time traffic, VOIP traffic) in a single rate network by determining, by a device, a throughput rate of the first data packet type (e.g. TCP traffic, non-real time traffic, . . . )... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070030822 - Delayed mobile node registration with home agent: Mobile node registration with the home network of the mobile node is delayed when the mobile node moves to a foreign network. The mobile node has a home network in which the mobile node has a home address. In response to the mobile node moving to a foreign network (such... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20070030824 - System and method for providing communication services to mobile device users incorporating proximity determination: In certain embodiments, a method for proximity determination includes receiving one or more network identifiers, each associated with a corresponding network, from a first mobile device. The method further includes receiving one or more network identifiers, each associated with a corresponding network, from a second mobile device. The method further... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070030821 - Transmission parameter control device: An object of the present invention is to provide a transmission parameter control apparatus that can improve transmission quality of real-time media in a transmission route that includes a wireless section in at least a part of the transmission route. According to the present invention, a transmission parameter control apparatus... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070030823 - Wireless routing mechanism for same group and inter-group operations covering both wire network and wireless network: The present invention is to provide a wireless routing mechanism by applying a management frame defined in IEEE 802.11 standard to different access points (AP) in a wireless distribution system (WDS) and adding an information element (IE) to the management frame, enabling any AP to be capable of maintaining the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070030825 - Apparatus, and associated method, for allocating data for communication upon communication channels in a multiple input communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for allocating data to communication channels of a multiple-input communication system and to select power levels at which the data is caused to be communicated upon the communication channels. Data allocation is made responsive to communication quality indications that identify communication conditions on the different... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070030826 - Seamless network interface selection, handoff and management in multi-ip network interface mobile devices: A Multi-Interface Mobility Management (MIMM) client is provided on a mobile Multi-Interface Device (MID) to support seamless network connectivity and switching of the MID. The MIMM client communicates with a MIMM Server. The MIMM Server collects information from MIMM Clients and provides information to the MIMM Clients pertaining to the... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLC

20070030827 - Channel estimation in cdma communications systems using both lower power pilot channel and higher power date channel: An iterative arrangement of channel estimator (12), a Kalman filter unit (14), and a soft demodulator (16) is provided for producing an estimate of complex gain of a CDMA communications channel carrying data and pilot channels, and demodulated data of the data channel. An initial channel estimate is produced by... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070030828 - Coordinating uplink control channel gating with channel quality indicator reporting: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for coordinating gating of an uplink (UL) control channel, e.g., a dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH), with UL reporting in regard to a downlink channel using, e.g., high speed uplink packet access (HSDPA) channel quality indicator (CQI)... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070030829 - Preamble length for discontinuous control channel transmission: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for defining a preamble length of a preamble (e.g., a power control preamble) for a discontinuous control channel transmission using, e.g., a dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH) for transmitting the preamble. The preamble length can be optimized... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070030830 - Method and apparatus for performing inter-frequency and inter-rat handover measurements in mbms: Disclosed are systems and methods that allow the a mobile communications device to perform inter-frequency and inter-RAT measurements while receiving MBMS data. As disclosed, control of measurement occasions are decided on by the UE using Discontinuous Reception during Forward Access Channel reception. Using aspects of the disclosed embodiments, each UE... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070030831 - Mobile communication system mobile communication method base station and mobile station: An effective random access control can be performed with a high throughput. A base station (11) communicates with mobile stations (12) by use of slotted ALOHA system. An offset time of 1.5 frames is established between upstream and downstream communication frames. If any of the upstream communication frames is available,... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070030836 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving signal using differentiated multilevel modulation/demodulation in a wireless mobile communication system: A method is provided for transmitting a packet data unit (PDU) by a transmitter in a wireless mobile communication system. The method includes determining at least one desired transmission PDU, determining a modulation scheme corresponding to the number of PDUs, and transmitting a first indicator value indicating the number of... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070030832 - Integrated infrastructure supporting multiple wireless devices: Methods and devices for operating a wireless network including redundant communication. Methods involving redundantly connected nodes are discussed including addressing methods and/or methods of creating groups for such redundant communication. The use of primary and secondary redundant connections is discussed. The inclusion of a redundant network in association with a... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070030833 - Method for managing network content delivery using client application workload patterns and related systems: Methods and systems are disclosed for managing network content delivery using client application workload patterns. In addition to network link analysis done by prior systems, application level performance of the end user device is analyzed in order to adjust parameters of the delivered content data stream and to thereby improve... Agent: Brian W. Peterman O'keefe, Egan & Peterman, LLP

20070030834 - Systems and methods for facilitating communications over a shared channel: A node may include a receiver configured to receive signals transmitted from a gateway and a logic device coupled to the receiver. The node may also include a memory configured to store label information identifying a data packet stored in the node. The logic device may be configured to receive... Agent: Harrity & Snyder, L.L.P.

20070030835 - Terminal apparatus, control method of terminal apparatus, control program for terminal apparatus, and computer readable recording medium for storing control program for terminal apparatus: A terminal apparatus which stores secret information includes: available area information storage means; current position information generating means for generating current position information which indicates a current position of the terminal apparatus when the terminal apparatus is activated; available area inside/outside determining means; available area outside power supply disconnecting means;... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070030839 - Dynamic uplink control channel gating to increase capacity: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for dynamic gating of an uplink (UL) control channel, e.g., dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH) for increasing capacity of communications, e.g., wireless communications, wherein said gating is defined, using a predetermined criterion, by instructions provided by a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070030837 - Method and device for multimedia multicast transmission over a wireless network: A system and a method for multimedia multicast transmission in a mobile wireless network are proposed, which can be applied in a multiple-antenna system as well as a single antenna system. The basic message and additional message are transmitted at the same time. Receivers with different capability also with different... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070030838 - Power control for gated uplink control channel: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for communications, e.g., wireless communications, for defining a power in a discontinuous control signal after a transmission gap for an uplink control channel, e.g., dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH), wherein the power in the discontinuous control signal... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070030840 - Method for selecting a channel coding scheme for use in initiating communications based on channel coding schemes used for communications in the cell, and corresponding instructions stored on a storage medium and apparatus: The present invention relates to the selection of a channel coding scheme for communications in a wireless communication system. In the described arrangement, a cell-based channel coding scheme is selected from a plurality of available channel coding schemes based on the channel coding schemes used in the cell. The stored... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070030841 - System and methods for ip and voip device location determination: A method and system for precise position determination of general Internet Protocol (IP) network-connected devices. A method enables use of remote intelligence located at strategic network points to distribute relevant assistance data to IP devices with embedded receivers. Assistance is tailored to provide physical timing, frequency and real time signal... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070030842 - System for the analysis and monitoring of ip communications: A system is claimed that deploys a multi-layer neural network for analyzing, categorizing and organizing conversations and video conferencing on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), The parallel architecture of this implementation is an artificial neural network which allows it to process very large amounts of voice data very efficiently, both... Agent: Dennis M. Carleton, Esquire Buchanan Ingersoll PC

20070030843 - Voice over ip architecture: A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network is described in which session state is maintained in access switches, but not signaling gateways which maintain transaction state only during pendency of a related transaction. The signaling gateway further provides transparent inter-operation between the VoIP network and non-IP networks, such as the... Agent: Volentine Francos, & Whitt PLLC

20070030844 - Vehicle communicaton method and system, function identifying system, and electronic control unit: In a vehicle communication system, a first identifier is uniquely assigned to at least one function for vehicle control, the at least one function is installed in at least one of a plurality of control units. An identifying unit identifies that a target function uniquely assigned with a target identifier... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070030845 - Channel assignment process: A channel assignment process for a multi-stage switch arrangement having a plurality of inputs arranged in a plurality of logical associations and a plurality of outputs, wherein time-slotted traffic is received by each logical association of inputs is operated on by one or more switching stages arranged to operate only... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070030846 - Method and apparatus for enabling routing of label switched data packets: A method of enabling routing of label switched data packets in a data communications network comprising a plurality of nodes and supporting multiple topologies, comprises processing a label value advertisement comprising an association between a label value and a corresponding forwarding class and topology and carrying out a routing enabling... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070030847 - Method and apparatus for providing network communicatiions: A method and apparatus for admitting an additional node into a communications network that uses a scheduled communications protocol. Specifically, the node detects the presence of a network, establishes a communication link with a node already present on the network using a unicast messaging protocol, and then communicates pre-admission information... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20070030848 - Network communication system: A network communication system includes a ZigBee network being defined based on IEEE 802.15.4, a plurality of IP (Internet Protocol) networks being defined based on IP, and a plurality of gateways available for protocols of the ZigBee network and the IP networks, wherein the plurality of IP networks is connected... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070030849 - Voice over internet protocol (voip) terminal and information management method thereof: A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) terminal and an information management method thereof, in which when any terminal requests receiving terminal information from any receiving terminal in order to communicate with the receiving terminal, a request message for receiving terminal information is transmitted to at least one terminal of a... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070030850 - Method and apparatus for defending against denial of service attacks in ip networks based on specified source/destination ip address pairs: A method and apparatus for defending against a Denial of Service attack wherein a target victim of an attack has recognized the existence of an attack and identified its source. The carrier network which provides service to the victim automatically receives one or more IP (Internet Protocol) source/destination IP address... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20070030852 - Method and apparatus for enabling routing of label switched data packets: A method of enabling routing of label switched data packets in a data communications network comprising a plurality of nodes and supporting multiple topologies, is performed at an enabling node and comprises constructing a per-topology label forwarding table.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070030851 - Method and arrangement for routing pseudo-wire encapsulated packets: A destination router label is added to Pseudo Wire encapsulated data packets for crossing a Multiple Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. Data arrives at a PW function, which performs PW encapsulation, further adding a PWE control word and a PWE label. The PW function also adds a destination router label... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070030853 - Sampling techniques: Embodiments of sampling techniques for server farms are described herein. In an implementation, the sampling techniques may be performed to find a range of values, in which, a quality of service measurement belongs. Each range is thought of as a “bucket” and may include a corresponding counter that is incremented... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070030855 - Default gateway router supplying ip address prefixes ordered for source address selection by host device: A default gateway router of a multi-homed site is configured for supplying, to a host device, a plurality of address prefixes having been advertised by respective exit routers providing respective connecting links for the multi-homed site to a wide area network. The default gateway router sends the address prefixes to... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20070030854 - Method and apparatus for exchanging signals with a computer system through wired and wireless communication in an input device of the computer system: A method for exchanging signals with a computer system through a wired and wireless communication in an input device of the computer system includes determining whether the input device connects to the computer system through a wire or not, and exchanging signals with the computer system through wireless communication when... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070030857 - Mobile router device: A wireless mobile router (140) includes wireless network interfaces (202) and (218) attached to a network controller (142). The wireless network interface (202) communicates with a cellular network (110) to access cellular network services. The wireless network interface (218) and the network controller (142) comprise a WLAN (170) or PAN... Agent: Edward L. Kelley Dba Invention Management Associates

20070030856 - Shared dsl network and deployment method: A DSL network topology is provided for the interconnections between a telecom carrier and households. Each household is provided with an HCC (Home Communications Centre) for facilitating digital communication. The digital communication includes DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) communication. A method of forming a DSL network such that existing copper pair... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20070030858 - Broadband access device and method thereof: A broadband access device comprises a subscriber interface board, a master control board and a backboard, wherein the backboard is configured with a uniform serial bus; the subscriber interface board is configured with an interface unit; and the interface unit is connected to the master control board via the serial... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070030859 - Dual-driver interface: A network interface device capable of communication with a data processing system supporting an operating system and at least one application, the network interface device supporting communication with the operating system by means of: two or more data channels, each data channel being individually addressable by the network interface device... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20070030860 - Methods and systems for providing switched broadband: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing switched broadband. The disclosed systems and methods may include creating a traffic signature corresponding to a network element connected to a network, the network element having a network element ID and being addressable on the network by the network element ID. Furthermore, the... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070030861 - System, method, and computer program product for an offload engine with dma capabilities: An offload system, method, and computer program product are provided. Included is a host with a processor and memory for receiving data from a network. In addition, a network interface is utilized for transferring the data to the memory via direct memory access (DMA).... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070030862 - Request processing between failure windows: An apparatus and method are provided including a point-to-point cluster link configured to receive a data packet and determines a cyclic redundancy code check for the data packet. The point-to-point cluster link is configured to add a cyclic redundancy code check bit to the data packet transmitted to the point-to-point... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070030863 - Digital data receiving apparatus: The invention relates to the provision of apparatus and a method for use in the selective distribution of selected data streams from a plurality of data streams that have been received at a particular location. The data is transmitted typically via a satellite transmission system and is received at each... Agent: Head, Johnson & Kachigian

20070030864 - Method and system for synchronization of link layer windows: A method and system for synchronization of link layer windows in a wireless communications system is disclosed. At a transmitter in the wireless communications system, the transmitter transmits a plurality of frames in a transmitter's link layer window, wherein each frame comprises segments and sends a request for an acknowledgement... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070025236 - Method and system for performing synchronization in ofdm systems: A method and apparatus are provided for performing acquisition, synchronization and cell selection within an MIMO-OFDM communication system. A coarse synchronization is performed to determine a searching window. A fine synchronization is then performed by measuring correlations between subsets of signal samples, whose first signal sample lies within the searching... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20070025235 - Phase mapping for qpsk/qbl-msk waveform: A method is described of pulse shaping a modulated sequence spread signal having serially formatted in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) waveforms, each waveform includes a predetermined number of chips per symbol. The method includes (a) examining adjacent chips of the I and Q waveforms at a symbol boundary; (b) determining... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070025238 - Maintaining services of a network element: A communication network (100) has a network element (102), and a remote controller (104). The network element exchanges data packets with other network elements, and is programmed to store (202) telephony configuration information as updates are made thereto, transmit (210) an operational status to a remote controller monitoring operations of... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070025237 - Packet communication terminal apparatus and communication system: That is, when the mark M3 has a smiling face, a state in which the packet loss is not occurring is indicated, when the mark M3 has a normal face, a state in which the packet loss has occurred but has substantially no practical problems as the packet is compensated... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070025240 - Bypass switch for an ethernet device and method of bypassing devices in an ethernet network: A network comprises a plurality of network devices, including a first network device coupled to a second network device and a third network in a daisy chain topology configuration. The first network device has a first device port connected to a first network port and a second device port connected... Agent: Wallenstein & Wagner, Ltd.

20070025239 - Method, system, and machine-readable medium for securely maintaining communications network connection data: A method, system, and machine-readable medium for securely maintaining communications network connection data is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method is disclosed according to which a user is prompted for network element address substitution data which specifies a substitute network element address for a network element address associated with... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070025244 - Coexistance of access provider and in-home networks: Embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and devices that coordinate access to a common medium between two networks. Typically, a gateway is employed that requests resources from a home central coordinator and/or access coordinator. If resources are not available from the home central coordinator and the access coordinator, a... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, PC

20070025242 - Dynamic allocation of aggregate buffer: A dynamic congestion control apparatus and method are provided to receive data packets from source endpoints and outputting the data packets to destination endpoints. The dynamic congestion control apparatus and method include a congestion controller configured to determine and allocate additional buffer space for active channels based on total buffer... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070025245 - Method and apparatus for identifying wireless transmitters: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for identifying wireless transmitters. In one embodiment, a method for identifying a transmitter in a wireless computing network includes extracting one or more radio frequency signal characteristics from a communication from the transmitter and generating a fingerprint of the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Sri International

20070025243 - Method for automatically providing quality of service: The embodiments of the present invention provide methods, devices, and systems that automatically provide quality of service to one or more packets, typically by determining whether packets are connection-worthy and accordingly providing connection specifications.... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, PC

20070025241 - System and methods for sending trace messages: A traceroute mechanism enables responses to the traceroute to reach the originating router (originator) along a multihop pseudowire (PW). A traceroute message includes an accumulator operable to count hops along a MH-PW, implemented as a time-to-live (TTL) field, as is known in the art. An originator router employs multiple TTL... Agent: Chapin & Huang L.L.C. Westborough Office Park

20070025249 - Bandwidth management system and method for guaranteeing quality of service in voice over internet protocol network: In a bandwidth management system and method for guaranteeing quality of service (QoS) in a Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) network, bandwidth use information used to establish or terminate a call is provided, a bandwidth is reset when the bandwidth use information is provided, and available bandwidth information which is... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070025248 - Method of admission control for inelastic applications traffic on communication networks: A state-based admission control method for networks carrying inelastic applications traffic such as exemplary VoIP traffic. The method analyzes the history of real-time VoIP activities in a network to determine a corresponding control state and applies performance measurement techniques to form the admit/reject decisions for placed VoIP calls.... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070025246 - Systems and methods for distribution of wireless network access: Systems and methods for distribution of wireless network access using a common media access control (MAC) architecture. In one embodiment, a platform architecture may be provided for high speed Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) service termination using a common MAC architecture and router functionality, e.g., an integrated router and firewall service... Agent: O'keefe, Egan & Peterman, L.L.P.

20070025247 - Time spread multicarrier burst maps: In a multicarrier communication network, specific subcarriers are dedicated for use in carrying burst descriptor information. A subscriber station in the network may monitor the dedicated subcarriers to determine when a burst involving the station is to occur. By using dedicated subcarriers for burst information, scheduling decisions can be made... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Intellevele

20070025250 - Session relay device and relay method: Bandwidth control unit (123-1) controls data transfer from reception buffer (122-1) to transmission buffer (124-1). Transmission resumption ACK generation unit (126-1) generates an ACK packet instructing a transmission terminal to resume transmission while duplicate ACK generation unit (127-1) generates a duplicate ACK instructing the transmission terminal to reduce the transmission... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070025251 - Method for down-speeding in an ip communication network: The present invention discloses a method for providing a packet loss detection and down speeding mechanism for maintaining acceptable quality during a video call. Different scenarios of packet loss requiring different down speeding degrees are accommodated by a two-parted method combined by a low-part and a high-part decision and down... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070025255 - Method and apparatus for non contiguous sliding window: A method that limits data flow between two network nodes to an amount within a window where a first portion of data within a first segment of the window is separated from a second portion of data within a second segment of the window by a third portion of data... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070025252 - Network resource teaming combining receive load-balancing with redundant network connections: A computer system teams its network resources by apportioning each of the one or more network resources into one of two or more groups. The resources of each of the groups have links that are operative to be coupled in parallel to a different one of two or more network... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070025253 - Network resource teaming providing resource redundancy and transmit/receive load-balancing through a plurality of redundant port trunks: A computer system teams its network resources by apportioning each of the resources into one of two or more groups. One or more resources make up each of the groups having a link operative to be coupled together as a port trunk to a different one of two or more... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070025254 - Routing under heavy loading: According to the invention, a delivery network for assisting delivery of content objects over an Internet is disclosed. The delivery network includes a network outlet, an interface and a routing function. The network outlet is coupled to a plurality of full-route networks, where each of the plurality of full-route networks... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070025256 - Broadband access node with a virtual maintenance end point: A broadband access node includes a port for connection with a Digital Subscriber Line and a processor to run code that implements a virtual maintenance end point (vMEP). The vMEP translates an IEEE 802.1ag Loopback Message (LBM) received from a device on an Ethernet access network into a legacy operations... Agent: Burgess & Bereznak LLP

20070025259 - Communication protocol testing system: A method includes representing a communication endpoint as a protocol stack having a plurality of protocol software modules, each of the plurality of protocol software modules providing associated protocol services for a packet flowing through the protocol software module, and enabling a test application to access internal state information of... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20070025257 - Efficient switching architecture with reduced stub lengths: A switching topology for communicating signals in an automatic test system includes a plurality of switching circuits each for selectively passing signals or crossing signals. Switching circuits are connected together such that each node of any switching circuit connects to no more than one node of any other switching circuit.... Agent: Teradyne, Inc

20070025258 - Method and apparatus for diagnosing faults in a hybrid internet protocol network: An Ethernet switch (112) has a communications interface (122), and a controller (124). The controller is programmed to receive (202) an IP query packet generated by a receiver for collecting telemetry data between a source and the receiver in a multicast network, translate (206) the IP query packet to an... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070025260 - 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

20070025261 - Generating traffic for testing a system under test: Methods and apparatus for testing performance of an system under test are disclosed. The system under test is loaded with simulated traffic which may be generated from a single test port. The performance of the system under test under load may be tested.... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070025263 - Bandwidth estimation algorithm using internet control message protocol (icmp) echo request: Methods and systems for estimating available bandwidth on an internet access network are presented. A method includes: (a) transmitting one or more Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request packets to a device residing on the network at a first bit rate; (b) receiving one or more ICMP echo reply... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070025266 - Communicating schedule and network information in a powerline network: There is provided a powerline network that includes a number of stations including a central coordinator for coordinating transmissions of each of the stations. The central coordinator includes a system clock and a network timer and is configurable to transmit a number of network timer values. Each of the network... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20070025264 - Controlling service quality of voice over internet protocol on a downlink channel in high-speed wireless data networks: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for controlling service quality of data communications in a wireless network in which quality of service control for voice over internet protocol packets is provided on a downlink shared channel. A method is provided for a wireless communications between at least... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070025267 - 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

20070025268 - 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

20070025269 - 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

20070025262 - Method and apparatus for power line communication: The variation cycle L of the characteristics of a transmission line is divided into a plurality of sections (n sections), a procedure is repeated in which transmission line estimation is performed for only one section among n sections in one beacon period, and thus transmission line estimation is performed for... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070025265 - Method and apparatus for wireless network security: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for wireless network security. In one embodiment, a method for securing a wireless computing network includes receiving a communication from an unidentified transmitter, identifying the transmitter in accordance with a fingerprint generated from one or more radio frequency signal... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Sri International

20070025271 - Data center with mobile data cabinets and method of mobilizing and connecting data processing devices in a data center using consolidated data communications and power connections: Data processing devices in a data center are more easily relocated by consolidating the data and power connections to the data processing devices within a mobile data cabinet. The mobile data cabinet includes an access switch to consolidate communications and connections among computing devices in the mobile cabinet and to... Agent: John R Ley, LLC

20070025274 - Hybrid distance vector protocol for wireless mesh networks: A method of hybrid route discovery in a mesh network is described. The method comprises the optional designation of a root node of the mesh network and formatting a route request message at an originating mesh point, where the route request messages include a hop limit parameter. If a root... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070025273 - Methods and systems for detecting video signals and sources: A list of most recently utilized ports is maintained in memory. The video display system checks each port in the recently utilized ports list to determine if any video sources are connected to the recently utilized ports. If no sources are connected to the recently utilized ports, the video display... Agent: Min, Hsieh & Hack, LLP

20070025272 - Reduced order model node location method for multi-hop networks: A method for locating nodes in a multi-hop sensor network forms a rigid body (RB1, RB2, RB3) and, from the nodes, utilizes the rigid body to decide if a node is locatable. The method obtains a reduced order model (ROM) of the network by categorizing all of the nodes by... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070025270 - Using reachability information to facilitate peer-to-peer communications: The present invention allows originating endpoints to obtain reachability information from a directory service, which collects contact and related information from available users. When initiating a peer-to-peer communication session to an endpoint of a destination user, the originating endpoint will access the directory service to obtain reachability information for the... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070025275 - System and method for assuring the operation of network devices in bridged networks: A system and method assures the proper and continued operation of intermediate network devices, such as bridges, in a computer network. The bridge includes a spanning tree protocol (STP) engine, which is configured to have a bridge assurance (BA) sub-engine. The STP engine assigns the bridge's ports to one of... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070025276 - Congruent forwarding paths for unicast and multicast traffic: A mechanism that provides congruent forwarding paths for unicast and multicast data traffic over a service provider core network includes issuing, by a receiver edge node, a request to join a multicast tree structure. A unicast path from the receiver edge node to a source node of the provider network... Agent: Burgess & Bereznak LLP

20070025277 - Optimal bridging over mpls / ip through alignment of multicast and unicast paths: A provider edge (PE) node of a network operates to send a trace path message over the network to a receiver PE node, the trace path message recording a list of intermediate nodes of a unicast path from the PE node to the receiver PE node; and receive a join... Agent: Burgess & Bereznak LLP

20070025279 - Apparatus and method for providing voip service based on ip multimedia subsystem: Provided are an apparatus and method for providing VoIP service based on an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS). When a MS is located indoors, it accesses the IMS through a VoIP gateway. When the MS is located outdoors, it accesses the IMS through an IEEE 802.16 system. Therefore, the VoIP service... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070025278 - Voice over ip device with programmable buttons: A VoIP device has at least one programmable button to enable the user to initiate a VoIP or SIP call to another device. The button can be programmed by the device user, the device manufacturer, and/or a VoIP service provider. The VoIP device does not have a dial pad, visual... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070025280 - Bidirectional data transmission for low-speed and high-speed communications: A bidirectional data transmission apparatus includes a shared channel, a client device, and a host device. The host device includes a host link interface for preparing and transmitting a check packet via the shared channel to the client device according to a high-speed communication protocol. The client device includes a... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20070025281 - Network dependent signal processing: A system processes signals exchanged between a near end terminal and a far end terminal over a communication path. The system selects the processing characteristics of a near end terminal based on characteristics of the communication path. The communication path may include the near and the far end terminal and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070025282 - Path change detector for echo cancellation: A path change is detected by multiplying the energy of a signal on the output of a summation circuit in one channel of a telephone by a constant to produce a product. The product is compared with the energy of a signal on the input of the summation circuit. A... Agent: Paul F. Willie

20070025283 - Repetition coding in a satellite-based communications system: A satellite communications system comprises a transmitter, a satellite transponder and a receiver. The transmitter transmits an uplink multi-level modulated signal (hierarchical modulation or layered modulation) to the satellite transponder, which broadcasts the multi-level modulated signal downlink to one, or more, receivers. The transmitter includes a repetition coder for repetition... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070025284 - Method and apparatus for transmitting messages in a wireless communication system: Techniques to reduce transmit power required for transmission of messages from an access terminal to reduce interference to transmissions from other access terminals. In one aspect, messages to be transmitted are defined and/or coded such that they may be detected at different received signal qualities. The codewords may be defined... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070025285 - Access burst and normal burst mix-mode support for gsm/gprs compliant handsets: An access burst and normal burst mix-mode support for GSM/GPRS compliant handsets is provided and may comprise transmitting bursts of different data types within a single GSM frame by a single GSM device, wherein the data types may comprise access burst and normal burst. Transmit power may be ramped up... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070025286 - Indirect asset inventory management: Described is a method for receiving, on a first device connected to a network, a communication including information corresponding to a second device which is not connected to the network. The information is stored on the first device and transmitted to an enterprise management system for the network, wherein the... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070025287 - Method and system for determining existence of a predetermined wireless network coverage condition in a wireless network: Described is a method for determining an existence of a predetermined wireless network coverage condition. A wireless coverage map of a wireless network is generated as a function of a location of at least one access point and a first signal data collected at a plurality of locations within the... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070025288 - Communication method, radio terminal and base station: A communication method for a CSMA network including a radio terminal and a base station supporting RTS/CTS, includes: the base station transmitting and RTS frame to the radio terminal during a transmission-suspend-period in which the radio terminal suspends transmission to prevent a collision of packets; the radio terminal transmitting an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070025289 - Method and apparatus to provide air time fairness in multiple physical transmission rate wireless systems: A method for providing bandwidth fairness in a wireless network includes determining bandwidth requirement for a particular service interval for each of a plurality wireless stations in a network. The method also includes determining an allocated transmission time for each of the plurality of wireless stations based on a minimum... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070025290 - Systems and methods for communicating between base stations and wireless stations: Systems and methods for communicating between a wireless station and a base station are provided. A base station can allocate both a TDD channel and an FDD channel pair for communicating with a wireless station. The base station can transmit and receive unicast messages using the time slots of the... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20070025291 - Systems and methods for increasing base station capacity: Systems and methods for enhancing the capacity of base stations are provided. A base station can operate in a time division duplex mode within a first frequency band. When a second frequency band is acquired for the base station's geographic region, a duplexer can be added to the base station.... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20070025297 - Apparatus and method for processing vertical handoff in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for processing a vertical handoff between a WLAN and a broadband wireless communication network are provided. In a method of processing a vertical handoff in a handoff processor having a mapping table in which QoS information for the broadband wireless communication network is mapped to QoS... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070025293 - Method and mobile device for performing fast hand-over in wlan and method of switching services using gps information: A fast hand-over method of a mobile device roaming in a wireless LAN environment includes: receiving GPS information; based on the received location information of the mobile device, searching one or more APs; by scanning the searched APs, detecting an AP to reassociate with; and reassociating with the detected AP.... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070025298 - Method and system for providing roaming service in mobile communication system: A method and system for a roaming service in a mobile communication system are provided. The system includes an access terminal for transmitting an NAI (network access identifier) to a packet data serving node of the visited network and an AAA (authentication authorization accounting) of the home network, for transmitting... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070025294 - Method of supporting media independent handover with resource management function in a mobile communication system: A method of performing handover with at least one homogeneous and heterogeneous network is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes mobile station (MS) which establishes a heterogeneous network handover module for converging information from the at least one network interface module associated with the at least one of a homogeneous... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070025295 - Radio communication terminal, base station, handoff control method, and base station control method: A radio communication terminal (AT) includes a communication section for performing a radio communication with a base station, and a controller. Before performing a handoff from a first base station to another peripheral base station while receiving service information delivered by the first base station, the controller checks a progress... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070025296 - System and method for handoff using hybrid network: In a system and method for handoff using a hybrid network, a wireless local area network (WLAN) terminal determines its own position information through communication with a code division multiple access (CDMA) base station and a global positioning system (GPS) satellite, and a cell mapping server obtains information about a... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070025292 - Systems and methods increased mobility among mobile nodes in a wireless network: Embodiments of systems and methods to provide for increased mobility amongst mobile nodes in a wireless network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070025299 - Interference cancellation within wireless transceivers: The receiver includes a Rake receiver for separating a received signal into multipath components, an interference selector for selecting interference symbols corresponding to interfering paths and subchannels, a synthesizer for synthesizing an interference signal from selected paths and estimated subchannel symbols, and a canceller for constructing a projection operator or... Agent: Tensorcomm, Inc.

20070025300 - Method and apparatus for control of enhanced dedicated channel transmissions: A method and apparatus for controlling enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) transmissions are disclosed. An enhanced uplink medium access control (MAC-e/es) entity processes a received scheduling grant to calculate a serving grant. The MAC-e/es entity determines whether both a hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) process for scheduled data and scheduled data... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070025310 - Access point and method for selecting a wireless channel: An access point (100) for selecting a wireless channel from a plurality of wireless channels to establish a wireless link includes a wireless channel scanning module (110), a wireless channel selecting module (150) and a wireless channel appointing module (170). The wireless channel scanning module is used for obtaining working... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070025303 - Applications of electronic and paper signs: A method and system for creating, updating, and displaying content on a plurality of paper and electronic signs is disclosed. A server receives and transmits content information that is associated with particular merchandise for the signs. The server transmits data for new signs and updates old signs automatically, either by... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070025309 - Home agent apparatus and communication system: If security cannot be ensured between a mobile node and a corresponding node for the communication utilizing Mobile IPv6, communication is exposed to a threat such as tapping of communication content at the moving destination when the mobile node makes the route-optimized communication. In the case where the route-optimized communication... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070025306 - Method and system for dynamic assignment of wireless lan access point identity: In a wireless LAN (WLAN) a method and system for dynamically assigning a configuration identity to a device being connected to the WLAN is provided. An access point (AP) or other device is plugged into a switch port of an Ethernet switch, and discovers its location and the location of... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070025313 - Method and system for monitoring a selected region of an airspace associated with local area networks of computing devices: A method for monitoring a selected region of an airspace associated with local area networks of computing devices is provided. The method includes providing one or more segments of a legacy local area network to be protected in a selected geographic region. The legacy local area network is characterized by... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070025301 - Method and system for rate control service in a network: A system and method has been disclosed for controlling the transmission flow rate of data bits in a data bit transfer session from a serving entity to a client, the session involving bit transfer over a wireless communications link, the method comprising: setting up the session, included establishing the addressing,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070025307 - Mixed wireless and cabled data acquisition network: A data acquisition network includes an assembly of nodes including at least one wireless network of nodes in which two neighboring nodes transmit data between each other by radio waves. The assembly of nodes also includes at least one other network of nodes in which two neighboring nodes transmit data... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070025311 - Mobile communication terminal and control method thereof: A mobile communication terminal including a display unit, and a controller configured to display on the display unit both a first list including tasks that can be simultaneously executed and a second list listing currently executing tasks.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070025305 - Optimized ip address use in a mobile ip environment: Methods and apparatus for initiating the release of an IP address allocated for use by a Mobile Node supporting Mobile IP are disclosed. The IP address may be a collocated care-of address or a dynamically assigned home address. The release of the IP address may be initiated by the Home... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20070025312 - Separation of packet registration from mobile devices: A communications system includes an internet protocol (IP) enabled mobile unit having a home network. The system also includes a foreign network that can provide the mobile unit access to IP data services. To allow the mobile unit to receive IP services in the foreign network without an awareness of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070025304 - System and method for prioritizing transmission legs for precaching data: At least one transmission condition associated with making a transmission of pre-cache data over a transmission leg (112 or 114) of a network is obtained. A priority for transmitting the pre-cache data is determined using the transmission condition.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070025302 - Techniques for offering seamless accesses in enterprise hot spots for both guest users and local users: A wireless Local Area Network (LAN 11) capable of providing “enterprise guest” hosting includes at least one an e-open wireless LAN access point (15) that provides access to both guests and local users. Upon receipt of a request for access, the access point forwards the request to an authentication proxy.... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070025308 - Wireless data acquisition network: The invention relates to a device, a method and an apparatus for acquiring data, the device comprising a wireless network including a set of nodes (100), each node (100) including a sender (140) and a receiver (150) for sending and/or receiving and/or relaying data and/or commands, and a satellite positioning... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070025314 - Method of controlling access to an area accessible by persons, particularly to a space closed by a door: A method of controlling access to an area accessible by persons, particularly to a space closed by a door, utilizes a first mobile communications unit on which at least one access code is filed and a receiver unit for receiving the access code. In a first variant of the method,... Agent: Butzel Long

20070025315 - Method of controlling access to an area accessible by persons, particularly to a space closed by a door: A method of controlling access to an area accessible by persons, particularly to a space closed by a door, utilizes at least two communications units for transmitting and receiving an identification code and an access code. The identification code is transmitted at a predetermined first transmission power from a first... Agent: Butzel Long

20070025316 - Inter-station transmission method, radio base station monitoring method, and device using the method: There is provided a new inter-station transmission method capable of extending, as compared with a conventional method, a time to be allocated for a transmission path delay of an inter-station transmission path within a predetermined turnaround time, and increasing an inter-station transmission distance as much as possible. A radio base... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070025318 - Broadcast/multicast data in a wireless network: A method, apparatus and computer program product for transmitting broadcast/multicast data in a wireless network, is presented. The network includes either a plurality of multi-radio nodes, or a plurality of single-radio nodes, or a mix of multi-radio and single-radio nodes and the network further includes a control channel and at... Agent: Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070025319 - 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

20070025320 - 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

20070025321 - 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

20070025317 - Signaling for bit allocation in a wireless lan: The invention provides that, in the event of a decentrally or centrally organized access to the transmission medium, preferably an IEEE 802.11 system, pilot signals are transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver, and the allocation table is subsequently calculated by the receiver on the basis of the received pilot... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLC

20070025324 - Method and apparatus for controlling rate of voice service in a mobile communication system supporting voice service via packet network: A method for controlling a rate of a voice service in a mobile communication system supporting the voice service via a packet network. The method includes the steps of receiving a control message at a terminal from a radio network controller (RNC); if the control message indicates control of a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070025322 - Method for improving the quality of voice transmission via a radio interface: After a predetermined period of time has lapsed after transmission of a voice data packet representing a first voice section a second voice data packet representing the same voice section is transmitted. On the receiving end, a value for the transmission quality is determined for the first and for the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070025323 - Methods for handing over, by double transmission of data, a call involving a mobile node in a micromobility or macromobility situation in an ip communication network using hierarchical mobility management: A call handover method for an Internet Protocol communication network using hierarchical mobility management comprising a mobility anchor point connected to first and second access routers and to a home agent of a mobile node having first local and regional care-of addresses and communicating with another node consists in, if... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070025326 - Adaptive transmission timing control method, wireless communication system and wireless communication device: In a method for adaptive transmission timing control, the overlooking of a base path at the side of the base station that occurs when the transmission timing offset amount changes to the extent of falling outside the current delay-profile calculation range, and the side of the mobile station fails to... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070025325 - Method and system for media synchronization in qos-enabled wireless networks: A method and system directed to negotiating and triggering media stream synchronization at the link layer in a QoS-enabled 802.11 WLAN, or other wireless, network. In one implementation, the present invention allows for improved performance of streaming network applications, such as video conferencing, over wireless links. In one implementation, the... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070025327 - Heavy load packet-switched routing: According to the invention, a content delivery network (CDN) for delivering content objects over the Internet is disclosed. The CDN includes a point of presence (POP), a content object request interface, and a routing function. At least one POP is coupled to a plurality of full-route networks. The content object... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070025328 - Tracing routing differences: A routing validation method and system identifies routers that are likely to be the cause of differences in forwarding tables associated with two versions of a network. Each destination sub-network prefix is processed to identify all the routers that exhibit differences in their forwarding table for this prefix. Each router... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070025339 - Acquiring information in a communication network relative to a location: A technique for providing information relative to an entity's location to an entity in a communication network. A request for information is generated by a first entity wherein the request contains a location of the first entity. The request is then forwarded to a second entity which illustratively is a... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070025340 - Application message: A mailbox system that has a distributed architecture is disclosed. The system includes an application server, a media server, and message storage system having subscriber mailboxes. Application messages may be stored in a subscriber's mailbox. When the subscriber accesses an application message, the application server uses the application message to... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070025333 - Calling non-pstn numbers via a mobile terminal: The present invention allows mobile terminals to initiate calls to either PSTN or non-PSTN addresses through a cellular interface. In operation, the mobile terminal will determine a terminating address to which a call is to be initiated based on user input or selection. The mobile terminal will then determine whether... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070025332 - Collocated router and voip: The invention relates to a system and method regarding a switch or router (22) in a broadband network standard such as the Ethernet network standard. The switch or router (22) comprises an interface to for instance a category 3 or 5 infrastructure (12, 16) for distribution of data to flats... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070025341 - Device, system and/or method for provisioning a device in a packet network: A provisioning mechanism installed at a customer premise equipment (CPE) device capable of Voice over Packet (VoP) communication permits provisioning of the CPE device by an auto configuration server (ACS). The provisioning mechanism includes a Capabilities object associated with the CPE device, the Capabilities object including one or more of... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070025343 - Internet telephony arrangement and method: An arrangement which includes a telephone and an interface unit, which interfaces the telephone to both a standard switched telephone communications network and an Internet communications network, is disclosed. The interface unit includes an input coupled to the telephone to receive audio information and two output ports configured to be... Agent: Att: Robert J. Crawford Crawford Maunu PLLC

20070025330 - Method for remote playing of computer audio content with pda-assisted navigation: Audio signal produced by a computer while playing computer audio content (such as audio files, real-time streaming audio, internet radio stations, etc.) is transmitted to remote location in the home and reproduced by a home audio system. The method is provided for remote navigation through such audio content and for... Agent: Kirill Levin

20070025342 - 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

20070025334 - Rogue ap roaming prevention: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates enhancing security in a wireless network for a mobile device that can connect to an access point. A mobile device can utilize a wireless connection with at least one access point. A security component can utilize an association... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070025335 - Selective mute / unmute control over applications running on a pc: A computer includes a sound card and a processor that runs one or more applications that cause the processor to generate audio signals coupled to the sound card. The processor is operable to execute code that provides a graphical user interface which allows a user to selectively mute the audio... Agent: Burgess & Bereznak LLP

20070025338 - Software-based solutions for telephone network bridging: A computer-implemented method for communication includes coupling a computer to communicate over a circuit-switched telephone network via voice-band analog modem hardware. A communication terminal is coupled to exchange digital voice samples with the computer via a digital interface. A telephone call is established via the computer between the communication terminal... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070025331 - Systems and methods to send and receive encrypted dtmf digits in a data flow: Systems and methods provide for embedding white noise signals representing DTMF digits into a voice data stream.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070025337 - Technique for providing ancillary information to an entity in a communications network: A technique for providing ancillary information relative to an entity's location to the entity using a host configuration protocol. An entity generates a request containing an option that specifies the ancillary information relative to the entity's location that is sought. The request is forwarded to a server in accordance with... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070025329 - Telecommunications: The present invention relates to apparatus for and methods of performing a binding procedure in respect of a mobile node in a foreign packet data network, the mobile node having roamed from a an home packet data network and having a home packet data protocol address, the method comprising the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070025336 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for scheduling prioritized data for a plurality of mobile station users: A wireless communication method and apparatus for scheduling data having different priorities for a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs), (i.e., users) is disclosed. The normalized average active throughput for each of the WTRUs is computed. Then, the normalized channel quality for each of the WTRUs is computed based on... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070025344 - Connectivity enhancement: Digital data may be communicated by a central processing node to and from at least one digital telephone node of an internal network that includes the central processing node, and digital data may be communicated by the central processing node to and from at least one telephone node coupled to... Agent: Venable LLP

20070025347 - Communication protocol: One aspect relates to a communication protocol for communicating between one or more entities, such as devices, hosts or any other system capable of communicating over a network. A protocol is provided that allows communication between entities without a priori knowledge of the communication protocol. In such a protocol, for... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070025349 - Distributed mac architecture for wireless repeater: A method and apparatus for communicating between devices is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises running two or more instances of a switch MAC sublayer on a switch and managing the two or more instances of the switch MAC sublayer as multiple logical access points inside the switch.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070025345 - Method of increasing the capacity of enhanced data channel on uplink in a wireless communications systems: In a UMTS wireless communication system, when the packet size on the enhanced dedicated physical data channel (E-DPDCH) on the uplink from a UE to a NodeB reaches a converged default packet size, the corresponding dedicated physical control channel (E-DPCCH) is turned off. The NodeB uses the default packet size... Agent: Docket Administrator Lucent Technologies Inc.

20070025348 - Network device and network system: In a network device and a network system structuring a VLAN at the layer 2 level, a starting network device transmits a structuring packet including a port number corresponding to an address of a terminating network device and a single VLAN after having added thereto an address of the starting... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070025346 - System and method for creating a routing table: A method for retrieving a first entity description for a first entity, the first entity description including a pointer to a second entity description for a second entity, wherein the first entity is connected to the second entity; retrieving the second entity description using the pointer of the first entity... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070025350 - Method of generating plcm for broadcast/multicast service and apparatus thereof: A method of generating a public long code mask for a broadcast/multicast service and apparatus thereof are provided, by which, upon performing the broadcast/multicast service, an overhead of a base station or a mobile terminal can be reduced and a delay occurring in the base station or mobile terminal can... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070025352 - Optical access network system and multicast communication method thereof: The present invention realizes an OLT (Optical Line Terminal) in an optical access network system for implementing the multicast services without having a deleterious effect on the communication band and the communication quality for unicast data packets. The OLT comprises a multicast control unit, which controls connections dedicated for the... Agent: Paul J. Esatto, Jr. Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070025351 - System and method for low latency market data: A method for low latency data comprises receiving a data stream comprising data from a data source, receiving the data via one or more queues, where each of the one or more queues is associated with one or more filters adapted to filter the data based at least upon a... Agent: Thelen Reid & Priest, LLP

20070025354 - Method and apparatus for shared i/o in a load/store fabric: An apparatus and method is provided for allowing I/O devices to be shared and/or partitioned among a plurality of processing complexes within the load/store fabric of each of the processing complexes without requiring modification to the operating system or driver software of the processing complexes. The apparatus and method includes... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070025353 - Method and system for providing location-based addressing: A system for identifying an optimal route in a network is disclosed. The system includes a destination node having an associated node address, a source node having an associated node address, and a number of intermediate nodes each having an associated node address. The intermediate nodes include a number of... Agent: Patent Law Professionals

20070025355 - Routing validation: A simulator simulates routing system protocols to build routing tables corresponding to a modeled network, and a comparator compares the routing tables in the actual network to these simulator-created routing tables. Because the modeled system represents a fault-free version of the actual system, and assuming that the modeled routing system... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070025359 - Dynamically providing a quality of service for a mobile node: Providing a quality of service for a mobile node includes facilitating a communication session for the mobile node. A quality of service decision factor of a context of the communication session is established. A quality of service associated with the quality of service decision factor is identified. Whether to provide... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070025358 - Method for the establishment of a communication link, and communication system: The disclosure relates to a method for establishing a communication link between a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal. According to the inventive method, the communication link is achieved by means of interconnected network elements, selected network elements being authorized to trigger releasing of the communication link.... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLC

20070025356 - Methods and apparatus for minimizing sequence identifier difference of simultaneously transmitted cells: A method of minimizing SID difference of simultaneously transmitted cells in two or more data communication lines is provided. A data transmission speed of each of the two or more data communication lines is identified. A fullness threshold of at least one buffer of two or more buffers in a... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070025357 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for detecting and scheduling urgent data: Urgent data is scheduled in a wireless communication system including at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and at least one Node-B. The WTRU includes a re-ordering release timer. The Node-B includes a buffer, a lifespan (or maximum allowed delay) timer and a high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) scheduler.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070025360 - Secure distributed system for management of local community representation within network devices: A new system for creating and updating a secure community of devices in digital networks is disclosed. A device adapted to belong to a community of networked devices contains; a provable identity and/or means for generating and/or obtaining a provable identity; means adapted to store information about devices of the... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070025361 - Systems for transferring various data types across an atm network: Methods, systems, processing units, and signals for transferring data of various data types across a common data path interface are disclosed. A representative method for transferring data between a master processing unit and at least a first slave processing unit via a common data path interface, the master processing unit... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070025364 - Characterizing achievable flow rates in multi-hop mesh networks with orthogonal channels: A method of routing data from a source node to a destination node in a multi-hop network of nodes interconnected by links comprises: (a) determining that a link-flow vector satisfies one or more necessary scheduling conditions for achievability, wherein the link-flow vector represents a set of flows to be routed... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20070025365 - Device and method for connection to a wireless network: The invention relates to a device and a method, data acquisition device consisting of a wireless network comprising a first assembly of nodes, termed active nodes (100) of the network, and a second assembly of nodes, termed peripheral nodes (110) of the network, network for which one wishes to perform... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070025363 - Distributed system for delivery of information via a digital network: A system for delivering streamed content over a large digital network such as the Internet. Distributed functionality executes on nodes in the network to achieve functions such as assigning partner nodes for transfer of content to or from a target node, scheduling transfer operations among nodes, adding or removing nodes... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070025362 - Method and apparatus for multiple connections to group of switches: One embodiment relates to a method of a single network device outside of a group of switches connecting via multiple connections to the group of switches. Multiple ports of the single network device are connected with ports of at least one switch within the group, and the connected ports on... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070025366 - Method and system for a low-overhead mobility management protocol in the internet protocol layer: A system and method for supporting mobile Internet communication is provided which employs a plurality of Routers and a plurality of Mobile Nodes (MNs). Each Router has a unique communication address. Each MN is associated with a home Router. Each Router has an associated Mobile Node Location List identifying each... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070025370 - Cable gateway for interfacing packet cable networks with ip multimedia subsystems: The present invention provides a Cable Gateway for interfacing packet cable networks with Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystems (IMS). The Cable Gateway includes an Embedded Multimedia Terminal Adaptor (E-MTA) Normalization function that includes translation software that normalizes E-MTA interfaces to appear to IMS as SIP user equipment and performs initialization,... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20070025368 - Home network system: The present invention discloses a home network system using a living network control protocol. The home network system includes: at least one electric device; first and second networks based on a predetermined living network control protocol (LnCP); an LnCP access device connected to the electric device through the second network;... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070025373 - Method for secure reliable point to multi-point bi-directional communications: Systems and methods for sending secure reliable point to multi-point communication on any communication infrastructure. The infrastructure is not required to conform to any specifications of this inventions other that be capable point to point communications. The system consists of a protocol that allows for Secure Reliable point to multi-point... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070025369 - Method for transmitting data in a data network: Data are transmitted in a data network modelled by layers that include a transport layer, a plurality of upper layers above the transport layer and a plurality of lower layers below the transport layer, where the transport layer contains data from the upper layers.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070025367 - Mobile communications device and method for condition-dependent resuming of a delayed data transfer over a different network: A portable communications device (2) and method is disclosed wherein data can be transferred between the portable communications device (2) and another portable communications device (4) through a first network (12) using a first network address. It is determined whether a condition related to the operation of the portable communications... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070025372 - Remote management of a bridge device: A method and system for remotely managing a bridge device, such as a modem, are disclosed. Management traffic from a service provider can be communicated to a bridge device which lacks a public IP address by sending the management traffic through the bridge device to a router of a LAN.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070025374 - Tcp normalization engine: The present invention relates to network security systems and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus for maintaining a TCP connection when the payload data of a TCP segment transmitted from source to destination is modified. The present invention allows the payload data of a TCP segment to be modified... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20070025371 - Transmitting a communication from a wireless access point indicating available networks and their capabilities: A wireless access point may be configured to advertise, to mobile user devices, multiple wireless networks available through the wireless access point. For example, service set identifiers (SSIDs) may be specified within an information element (IE) of a communication such as, for example, an 802.11 beacon, broadcasted to mobile user... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070025375 - Bus architecture and method for exchanging data: A bus architecture has a central processing unit, a data line and bus users. The central processing unit and the bus users are connected to the data line via a bus interface. The data line is constructed as a ring and the central processing unit has two transceiver units which... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070025376 - System and method for virtual sector provisioning and network configuration: The present invention provides systems and methods wherein communication link redundancy may be provided which is optimized to the primary links. Specifically, a redundant link portion of a communication system may be deployed to provide redundant links for a primary link portion of the communication system having substantially greater information... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070025377 - Method and system for automatic generation of route distinguishers for virtual private networks: A method and system for automatically generating a route distinguisher for a virtual private network are disclosed. The method includes receiving a virtual private network name and rejecting the virtual private network name if the name comprises a number of bytes greater than a predefined limit. If the virtual private... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20070025378 - Centrally situated voip: The invention relates to a switch or router (10) connected to and centrally situated adjacent to a voice over Internet protocol box (22) in a premise connected in a broadband network standard. It comprises an interface (14) to a category infrastructure for distribution of data to flats and offices in... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070025379 - Method of providing a medium access protocol: A method of providing a medium access control protocol using a listen before-talk scheme within a wireless network having a plurality of stations communicating over a channel, wherein a valid route from a source station to a destination station via at least one more station is determined, said method comprising:... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070025380 - Packet processing apparatus, packet processing method, and packet exchange: A packet processing method for exchanging packet data through a plurality of layers is disclosed, that comprises the steps of storing the entire packet to a packet memory; and storing part of each packet of the packet data used in processes of a layer 2 processing portion and a layer... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070025381 - Method and apparatus for allocating processing in a network: In a method and apparatus for allocating processing in a network, a processing request is received. It is determined if a first processing node in the network is capable of handling the processing request. If the first processing node is incapable of handling the processing request alone, one or more... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070025382 - System of virtual data channels in an integrated circuit: This disclosure relates to a system of communicating, data within an integrated circuit. Multiple components, or channels, can share common physical communication lines between elements within the system. In some aspect, only one component can access the physical lines at a given time and a selection device chooses which component... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070025383 - Managing contention-free time allocations in a network: A method and corresponding system for communicating between stations in a network are presented. The method includes providing repeated beacon transmissions from a coordinator station for coordinating transmissions among a plurality of the stations; transmitting from a first station to a second station during a time slot assigned to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070025386 - Bandwidth management in a powerline network: There is provided a powerline network that includes a number of stations including a central coordinator for coordinating transmissions of each of the stations. Each of the stations is configurable to generate one or more tone maps for communicating with each of the other stations in the powerline network. Each... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20070025385 - Residential ethernet node device for transmitting synchronous data using counter and synchronous data transmitting method thereof: A residential Ethernet node device for transmitting synchronous data uses a counter in a residential Ethernet system. The device includes a parser for receiving residential Ethernet data from external other node devices, and parsing the received Ethernet data as synchronous data and asynchronous data. An asynchronous switch switches and transmits... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070025384 - Synchronizing channel sharing with neighboring networks: The embodiments of the present invention provide a mechanism to synchronize centralized networks. Each centralized network includes a central coordinator controlling and managing network activities. The embodiments provide a way of allocating beacon slots, such that one of the beacon slots is synchronized to the alternating current line cycle and... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, PC

20070025387 - Efficient encoding of out of order data packets in a network: An apparatus and system for encoding out of order data packets in a network are described. At a source unit, an out-of-order parameter is selected as the maximum out of order range value of data packets to be encoded with a minimum header size. A shifting parameter is then calculated... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070025388 - Range extension between two wireless devices: A mechanism is provided to extend the range of wireless devices beyond the range limit that results from timing restrictions imposed by the IEEE 802.11 standard. The mechanism, which operates at the upper level of the 802.11 MAC, determines whether the wireless devices are far apart or not far apart.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070025389 - Abnormality indicator of a desired group of resource elements: A monitoring system provided according to an aspect of the present invention enables a user to specify one or more resource elements as a group, and compute an Abnormality Index that represents the deviation from a baseline operation of these selected resource elements. In an embodiment, the Abnormality Index is... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20070025391 - Communicating in a network that includes a medium having varying transmission characteristics: A method and corresponding system for operating in a network in which stations communicate over a shared medium are presented. The shared medium has at least one varying channel characteristic that varies approximately periodically. The method includes providing repeated beacon transmissions from a coordinator station for coordinating transmissions among a... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070025390 - System and method for multiprotocol wireless communication: Described is a method which compares a plurality of wireless protocols utilized on a radio frequency channel. Each wireless protocol utilizes a corresponding predetermined number of subcarrier frequencies on the channel. A number is generated as a function of a comparison of the corresponding predetermined numbers. The frequency channel is... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070025392 - Modulation-type discrimination in a wireless local area network: Discriminating a modulation type based upon a predetermined portion of symbols for a received encoded signal. While receiving the encoded signal, at least a first and a second cumulative soft metrics are generated using the plurality of symbols over a predetermined portion of the received encoded signal. The first cumulative... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070025393 - Dmb package and mobile terminal for receiving dmb data and method of receiving dmb data: Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for receiving and playing Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) data using a DMB package and a mobile terminal. The DMB package is separable from the mobile terminal and can be interfaced with the mobile terminal. The apparatus includes DMB package for receiving DMB data,... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070025394 - Layer one control architecture: A layer 1 control (L1C) architecture which processes radio link (RL) requests received from a layer 3 (L3) radio resource control (RRC), and physical data requests received from a layer 2 (L2) medium access control (MAC). The L1C architecture includes a mode connection controller (MCC) unit, a transmit/receive unit, a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070025396 - Packet processing device, and recording medium recording a packet processing program: A packet processing device for effectively assembling packets. A packet accumulator stores received packets. A packet analyzer extracts, from the packets, analysis information about flows to which the packets belong. A frequency predictor calculates a frequency prediction value based on the reception interval of packets belonging to an identical flow,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070025395 - System load based dynamic segmentation for network interface cards: The present invention provides a computer implemented method, system, and computer program product of dynamic segmentation based on processor load using various steps. If a network interface card is enabled for segmentation, a determination is made as to whether a processor utilization value is greater than a threshold. If processor... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070025397 - Method and apparatus for generating virtual clock signals: The invention includes a method and apparatus for generating virtual clock signals for differing hierarchies in a communication system conveying data frames of differing hierarchies. Specifically, a method according to one embodiment of the invention includes receiving data frames of a first hierarchy, receiving at least one input clock signal,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070025398 - Time synchronization in a network: A method and corresponding system for communicating between stations in a network is presented. The method includes providing repeated beacon transmissions from a coordinator station for coordinating transmissions among the stations; transmitting a signal from a first station and receiving the signal at a second station; and performing one or... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070025399 - Method and apparatus for frequency and timing distribution through a packet-based network: A reference frequency is distributed through a packet-based network to remote elements in a system. Timing packets are sent from a master timing element, to be received by at least one peripheral timing element. Echo messages are sent to the master timing element by each peripheral timing element after a... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070025400 - Data transmission in an sdh network: A method for the transmission of data in a synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) network comprising the steps of transmitting to a node of the network a form of data signal from outside the network, converting the signal into a virtually concatenated information structure and transporting the signal through the network... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.C.