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

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