Multiplex communications inventions 03/07

20070070881 - Apparatus and method for simultaneous testing of multiple orthogonal frequency division multiplexed transmitters with single vector signal analyzer: A signal analyzer and method for measuring signal compression levels of one or more individual orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signals among a plurality of OFDM signals within a composite signal.... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20070070880 - Method and apparatus for notification of a subgroup within a multiplexed message: A method and apparatus for notifying a communication device (108, 110) of an allocation of data within a multiplexed message (200) is provided. The method includes grouping the data of an at least one wireless communication device (108, 110) into the multiplexed message, dividing the multiplexed message into at least... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070070876 - Method and apparatus for ovsf code generation: Methods and apparatuses for generating an OVSF code are disclosed. A proposed method for generating a current code chip of an OVSF code includes: determining a correlation factor between the current code chip and a preceding code chip of the OVSF code; and generating the current code chip according to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070070877 - Modulation type determination for evaluation of transmitter performance: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate monitoring transmitter performance in a wireless communication environment. If the received modulation symbols are unknown during transmitter monitoring, it may be necessary to determine the modulation symbols for each subcarrier. The modulation types can be evaluated over a subset of subcarriers having a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070070879 - Multi-user receiving apparatus converting sc-fdma received signals of all users to signals in a frequency domain commonly: A multi-user receiving apparatus is provided for achieving a reduction in the amount of processing for single-carrier FDMA signals and an improvement in reception characteristics. A DFT unit converts single-carrier FDMA received signals of all users to signals in a frequency domain commonly. A demapping unit selects part of sub-carriers... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070070878 - Reconfigurable notched spectrum for wireless data transmission: Systems and methods for communication are disclosed. A system in accordance with the present invention comprises a communications system, comprising at least one transmitter station and at least one receiver station, the transmitter station and receiver station communicating using an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) schema, wherein OFDM signals are... Agent: The Directv Group Inc

20070070882 - Ofdm demodulating apparatus and method: An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) demodulating apparatus includes a delay profile creating section, a Fourier converting section, a pilot signal extracting section, a transmission path characteristic estimating section, an inverse Fourier converting section, and a window control section. In this case, the window control section creates a delay profile... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070070883 - Resilient routing systems and methods: A network comprises nodes and links. In addition to a default topology there are backup configurations. Each node is inhibited from transferring data between nodes in at least one backup configuration. When a node detects a fault in the reception of data transmitted to a neighbouring node, it switches to... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070070884 - Signal transmission method and device: In a signal transmission method and device which perform squelch processing in order to support a BLSR switchover when a single fault has occurred and when a plurality of faults have occurred over a ring network, NUT information set in a squelch information overhead for a predetermined channel within a... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070070885 - Methods and structure for detecting sas link errors with minimal impact on sas initiator and link bandwidth: Methods and structures within a SAS expander for detecting link level errors in PHYs of a SAS expander to reduce overhead bandwidth utilization of SAS links between SAS initiators and SAS expanders. In one aspect hereof, a SAS expander self monitors the error status registers of its own PHYs over... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070070886 - Modifying an endpoint node connection associated with a destination: In an endpoint node coupled to a network, a method that includes detecting a trigger indicating data transmitted using a connection associated with the destination is undeliverable, the connection to include an egress port to transmit the data from the endpoint node and a network address for the destination. The... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070070887 - Redundant storage virtualization subsystem having data path branching functionality: Disclosed is a redundant storage virtualization subsystem (SVS) having branching functionality. The SVS comprises a first and a second storage virtualization controller (SVC) and a physical storage device (PSD) array. A first and a second data path are provided between the first SVC and the PSD array passing through a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070070890 - Dynamic bandwidth manager: A dynamic bandwidth manager for determining the bandwidth available to an IP connected client device, the IP connected client device requesting access to multimedia resources from a service provider, the dynamic bandwidth manager comprising: a receiving component for receiving an IP address of an IP connected client requesting access to... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070070888 - Method and apparatus to facilitate wireless access gateway selection: A wireless access gateway (70) obtains (11) substantially current information regarding its own performance capacity. That information is communicated to a network element (90). In a preferred approach, the wireless access gateway integrally combines (12) the substantially current information with at least one call management message to provide a composite... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070070892 - Method of controlling transmission rate and communication device using the same: A method of controlling a transmission rate and a communication device using the same are disclosed. A method of controlling a transmission rate includes changing a path for packet transmission/reception from a first path to a second path, setting a congestion window and a slow-start threshold to be used in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070070889 - Method of selective dormant data session reactivation: A method of selective dormant data session reactivation in a radio access network includes calculating an activation rate threshold as a function of a first plurality of packets received over a first time interval, where the first plurality of packets are coupled to reactivate at least one dormant mobile station.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070070891 - Resource revoking method based on resource admission control subsystem and network device: A resource admission control subsystem based resource revoking method is provided. The method includes: receiving by a service-based policy decision function a Revoke Reservation notification; and when determining service resources have been allocated by border gateway function for the session, notifying, by the service-based policy decision function, the border gateway... Agent: Mr. Richard J. Streit Ladas & Parry LLP

20070070898 - Channel resource allocation based upon call blocking probabilities: A channel resource (50) allocation technique includes maintaining a probability of blocking a call for a call class within desired limits. A channel resource allocation module (38) determines a current probability of blocking a call of at least one class based upon current traffic for at least that class and... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070070893 - Method and network node for self-regulating, autonomous and decentralized traffic distribution in a multipath network: According to one embodiment, traffic load is redirected in reaction to traffic overload or a link failure in a packet-based network that is formed by nodes and links, packets being distributed along multiple paths to other links of an associated array of paths. The redistribution is performed autonomously by the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070070900 - Method and processor for classifying data packet units: In a method for classifying data packet units, each comprising a group of data packet parameters which comprises a plurality of data packet parameters, a subgroup of data packet parameters for configuring a classification key is selected, the data packet units are divided into data packet classes on the basis... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070070901 - Method and system for quality of service and congestion management for converged network interface devices: Certain aspects of a method and system for quality of service and congestion management for converged network interface devices are disclosed. Aspects of a method may include processing at least one of: input/output (I/O) requests and network packets in a converged network interface card (CNIC) based on a class associated... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070070899 - Method for increasing/reducing band data rate of ring-based network and node apparatus of the ring-based network: The present invention discloses a method including the steps of a) confirming the status of a path corresponding to each node apparatus in the ring network by using a predetermined control information that includes a function of adding/deleting a predetermined path on a physical layer, b) instructing each node apparatus... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070070894 - Method to determine a scheduling priority value for a user data connection based on a quality of service requirement: A method to provide a nominal best effort data rate based on a Quality of Service (QoS) requirement of a user data connection, the method comprising assigning (105) a service priority based on the QoS requirement, and assigning (110) the nominal best effort data rate for the service priority using... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070070897 - Quality of service (qos) based planning in web services aggregation: Embodiment of the present invention include a method, system and computer program product for a data processing system for QoS based planning in a Web services aggregation. The system can include Web service aggregation and coordination logic configured to identify accessible Web services in a registry and to arrange an... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070070895 - Scaleable channel scheduler system and method: A data flow egress scheduler and shaper provides multiple levels of scheduling for data packets exiting communications devices. A classifier separates data from multiple sources by data flow and by priority within a data flow. An output controller requests a data packet for transmission and the scheduler selects a next... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070070896 - System and method for selecting a medium access technique for transmitting packets over a network: A system and method for transmitting packets in a network (100). A node (102, 106, 107) in the network (100) accesses uses one of a plurality of medium access techniques for transmitting packets on the network (100). The node (102, 106, 107) separates packets to be transmitted into classes based... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070070902 - An admission control for contention-based access to a wireless communication medium: An access point station responds to a request from a user station for contention-based access of a new traffic flow to a wireless transmission medium by applying a model of the wireless local area network to estimate delay that data packets will experience when delivered through the wireless network, in... Agent: Watchstone P + D

20070070903 - Data distribution to nodes of a telecommunication network: Disclosed is a method of distributing data in a telecommunication network, the network comprising a central node, a first target node and a second target node. The method comprises: a) providing a first file comprising at least a first compressed data set addressed to the first target node and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070070905 - Adaptive bin-packing for wireless communications: Methods and systems for communicating in a wireless network include determining an average size (M) of packets allocated for a particular subscriber station in an air frame, and adjusting a size of packets for that particular subscriber station to be packed into one or more subsequent air frames to be... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070070906 - Cumulative tcp congestion control: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, providing cumulative TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) congestion control. One method includes establishing multiple TCP connections between a transmitting host and a receiving host for sending data from the transmitting host to the receiving host; and using one congestion window on the transmitting host... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070070904 - Feedback mechanism for flexible load balancing in a flow-based processor affinity scheme: In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides directing one or more packets to a first processor of a plurality of processors based, at least in part, on a flow associated with the one or more packets; and receiving from one of the plurality of... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070070907 - Method and apparatus to implement a very efficient random early detection algorithm in the forwarding path: A method and apparatus for implementing a very efficient random early detection algorithm in the forwarding path of a network device. Under one embodiment of the method flows are associated with corresponding Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED) drop profile parameters, and a flow queue is allocated to each of multiple... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070070908 - Method and apparatus for carrier allocation and management in multi-carrier communication systems: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to carrier allocation and management in multi-carrier communication systems. In some embodiments, the number of carriers assigned to an access terminal on a forward link may be determined by an access network, and the number of carriers assigned to the access terminal on a reverse link... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070070909 - Resilient network: A network resilient to at least two points of failure comprises a plurality of nodes. A first path between a source node and a destination node is determined and a second path between a source node and a destination node is determined. The first and second paths are node-disjoint.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070070910 - Managing oam packets in a communications network: Managament of an Operation and Maintenance (OAM) packet in a communications network is provided. According to one embodiment, a network device in a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network for providing a uniform distribution of OAM is provided. The network device comprises of a memory unit and a hardware unit. The... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070070911 - Method for testing links in a wireless network: A method for testing links in a adhoc wireless network 100 is disclosed. The adhoc wireless network 100 comprises a plurality of nodes 305,310,315,320 linked together using a communication route 345. The method comprising the steps of triggering a link test requirement of a link 340 between a first node... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070070915 - Apparatus and method for correlating quality information on different layers of a network and a medium thereof: An apparatus, method and medium thereof to automatically correlate quality information of different layers of a network based on a layered stack model and to perform root cause analysis on the network in accordance with the correlated quality information. The correlated quality information is displayed on a graphical display.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070070913 - Data transmission method for wireless packet data based data transmission: The invention relates to data transmission method which includes transmitting information over a wireless transmission link in the form of data packets. The method includes utilising a first protocol layer that adapts data packets according to a second, higher protocol layer to a form suitable for wireless data transmission, transmitting... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070070914 - Equalized network latency for multi-player gaming: A method is provided for equalizing latency among a group of connections that are being used by the same latency-sensitive application, such as for multi-player network gaming. Delay is added to the packet flow in each connection as necessary at the provider edge router connecting the application server to the... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070070912 - Method for notifying at least one application of changes of state in network resources, a computer program and a change-of-state notification system for implementing the method: This method for notifying changes of state in the resources of a network to at least one application adapted to execute on the network, comprises the following steps: extracting routing information, using change-of-state notification means with which the application has previously been register; and forwarding said routing information extracted by... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070070916 - Real time monitoring of tcp flows: A method for real time monitoring of at least one TCP flow involves monitoring TCP packets flowing past a particular point in a TCP network. A flow trace including at least source and destination addresses for each TCP packet is determined and a packet record for each monitored TCP packet... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070070919 - Device and method for network configuration and computer product: In a network, a controller controls a physical-interconnection selection switch and middle switches so as to dynamically change a network topology according to the state of the network. A traffic analyzer detects how the traffic in the network changes. If there is a change in traffic, the controller controls the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070070922 - Method and apparatus for coordinating adjacent channel transmissions on multiple radio nodes: A method, apparatus and computer program product for coordinating adjacent channel transmissions on multiple-radio nodes is presented. A Maximum Channel Occupancy Duration (MCOD) limit for a length of an overall transmit period is defined. A set of timers (NNAV) for each neighbor node is maintained, each of said NNAV including... Agent: Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070070917 - Method for installing a backup power source in a service access interface: A system and method are disclosed for installing a backup power source (200) in a service access interface, also known as a cross-connect interface (CCI) (110). A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method having the steps of searching (306) for topology information... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070070921 - Method of determining network addresses of senders of electronic mail messages: In one embodiment, a method comprises computer-implemented steps of receiving a plurality of electronic mail messages containing sender address information that is non-trusted; for each particular one of the electronic mail messages: storing information about the particular message in a database record; creating one or more receiving node identifiers in... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070070918 - Multiple-transceiver distributed dynamic channel selection in a communication network: In certain embodiments, a first node among a plurality of distributed nodes capable of forming or reforming a communication network between the nodes, each of the nodes including one or more transceivers, includes a memory for storing values for variables for the first node and includes a plurality of transceivers.... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20070070920 - Transmission apparatus: A transmission apparatus that automatically makes area division on the basis of a predetermined condition to lessen the labor of a maintainer. Transmission apparatus 1a, . . . , 1m, . . . make up one area. Each of the transmission apparatus 1a, . . . , 1m, . .... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070070923 - Bandwidth controlling method and node apparatus for a ring-based network: The present invention discloses a method for controlling a physical bandwidth of a ring-based network by employing a ring application of a data link layer that operates in a physical layer. The method includes the steps of a) requesting each of a plurality of node apparatuses included in the ring-based... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070070924 - Method, system and device for reducing co-channel interference: A device, system and method for applying a whitening transformation to a plurality of samples of a sampled symbol to reduce both temporal correlation between the sampled symbol and a pre-determined number of previous symbols, and a spatial correlation between a plurality of samples.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070070925 - Scalable system to adaptively transmit and receive including front-end and adaptive antenna signal processors: An adaptive baseband processing system having a scalable architecture to allow scaling to support adaptive transmission and receive, at different granularity, channel vs. subchannel, for different number of antennas and/or users, including their components, are described herein. In various embodiments, the components include a front-end processor, an AAS processor and... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070070929 - Apparatus and method for negotiating relay station capability in a multi-hop relay broadband wireless access communication system: An apparatus and method for negotiating RS capability in a multi-hop relay cellular communication system are provided. In the RS capability negotiating method, a node configures a first message including first relay capability information indicating if the node supports an RS capability and sends the first message to a BS.... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070070928 - Auxiliary fl mimo pilot transmission in 1xev-do: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate providing auxiliary multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) pilot signals to MIMO user devices in a wireless communication environment. According to some aspects, a portion of data transmission power may be reallocated for auxiliary MIMO pilot transmission during a data segment in a time slot, in... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070070926 - Method of increasing the capacity of enhanced data channel on uplink in a wireless communications system: In a UMTS wireless communication system, the enhanced dedicated physical control channel (E-DPCCH) that is usually always transmitted together with the enhanced dedicated physical data channel (E-DPDCH) on the uplink from a UE to a NodeB is instead only transmitted when a predetermined “start criterion” is met and is turned... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20070070927 - Radio communication apparatus with antennas, radio communication system and method: A radio communication system includes a plurality of radio communication terminals each of which includes a plurality of first antennas, and a radio communication apparatus including a plurality of second antennas, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of channel response values between the first antennas and the second... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070070930 - Method for distributing values for networks with mobile nodes: A method (100, 200, 300, 400, 600) for sharing values among nodes (processors) (900, 1004, 1006, 1008, 1010) in a network (1000) that includes mobile nodes that is resistant to corruption by faulty nodes. Movement of nodes triggers special messages forwarding processor values to and from nodes that have moved.... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070070931 - Adaptive data delivery: A system and a method for a wireless communication system (700) for adaptively delivering data to a wireless mobile communication device (702) based upon an availability status of the mobile device (702) in the wireless communication system (700) are disclosed. The wireless communication system (700) includes a host service (704)... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070070940 - Communications event scheduler: Scheduling communications events on an electronic communications device, including (i) storing information about a future communications event, the stored information including stored address information identifying an address of the target recipient and stored time information identifying a scheduled time for the future communications event; (ii) displaying on a display of... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20070070941 - Communications system having enhanced fault tolerance: The invention relates to communications systems, and particularly to enhancing tolerance to failures in network elements and transmission systems. The fault tolerance is achieved by providing two or more active ATM permanent virtual channel (PVC) connections between a core network element and an access network element, and providing a separate... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070070939 - Data transmission in communication system: A transmitter for a communication system, the transmitter being configured to transmit a signal including symbols to a receiver using at least two transmit radiation patterns so that information content of a symbol of temporal length T is transmitted using at least two transmit radiation patterns, realize that the receiver,... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070070934 - Method and system for a reconfigurable ofdm radio supporting diversity: Aspects of a method and system for a reconfigurable OFDM radio supporting diversity are presented. Aspects of the method may include reconfiguring a single OFDM chip to process DVB-H video broadcast signals and IEEE 802.11 WLAN signals, IEEE 802.16 MAN signals and/or cellular signals. Aspects of the system may include... Agent: Christopher C. Winslade Mcandrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.

20070070933 - Methods and systems for providing highly resilient ip-rans: Estimates are provided for the number of links needed in a Internet Protocol-Radio Access Network (IP-RAN) to ensure the IP-RAN is resilient to base station and radio network controller type failures.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070070937 - Multi-radio mesh network channel selection and load balancing: A channel list indicates a preference order for multiple channels of a wireless mesh network. A mesh point can configure its wireless communication resources with channel assignments based at least in part on the channel list. The mesh point may assign channels of a preference indicated in the channel list... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070070936 - Reducing collision probability for voip packets: A mobile communications device is described that includes a processor configured to establish a network connection with a server in a network and a data generator under the control of the processor that is configured to periodically generate a data unit at a rate having a fixed period. The mobile... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070070935 - System and method for distributing wireless network access parameters: A system and method are provided for distributing wireless network access parameters in a multi-mode communications user terminal (UT). The method includes: establishing a link between a UT and a first communications network (i.e., a cellular network); accessing a parameters server via the first network; downloading access parameters for a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070070932 - System, method and device of interference mitigation in wireless communication: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and system of interference mitigation in wireless communication. In some demonstrative embodiments the method may include determining one or more factors to be applied to one or more likelihood ratio values of one or more current symbols received by a station... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070070938 - Wireless communication terminal for selecting optimal base station from among plural base stations: A wireless communication terminal includes: a base station list that stores information on a plurality of base stations, the information indicating whether each of the base stations accepts a call request from the wireless terminal; a selecting unit that selects one of the base stations that accepts the call request... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070070945 - Method and apparatus for channel estimation: A method of determining at least one channel for channel response in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises receiving a plurality of signals from a transmitting end, wherein the signals comprise a plurality of pilot symbols and a plurality of data symbols, determining weight value... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070070943 - Method and apparatus for sharing slot allocation schedule information amongst nodes of a wireless mesh network: A method and apparatus for communicating slot allocations of nodes in a wireless mesh network that has data exchanges between the nodes occurring during slots. Each node maintains internal tracking of its slot allocation. A node may request a slot allocation of another node, and each node is enabled to... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070070944 - Pilot structure for multicarrier transmissions: A method, device, computer program product, integrated circuit, and system are described to dispose pilot sequences (for aiding a receiver in estimating a channel) in a frame structure that has subframes of sub-carriers and symbol positions. Locations of common pilot sequences are predetermined, and includes 1) in each subframe, a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070070942 - Semiactive state for reducing channel establishment delay: A method and apparatus for creating a semi-active state that reduces channel establishment delay. A communication channel between a mobile station (402) and a radio access network (RAN) (404). The communication channel has a semi-active state between the mobile station and the RAN by preassigning at least one resource to... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070070948 - Conferencing pstn gateway methods and apparatus to facilitate heterogeneous wireless network handovers for mobile communication devices: In one illustrative example, a mobile communication device operating in a wireless local area network (WLAN) of a communication network maintains an inter-enterprise voice call via its WLAN interface (e.g. 802.11/VoIP/SIP) with another communication device in the communication network. Communications of the voice call are maintained solely within the communication... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070070946 - Method and apparatus for providing seamless mobility across multicast domains: A mobile station (303) provides seamless mobility across multicast domains for communicating with a multicast group (109) in a telecommunication system (300) that includes a home domain (102) and a visited domain (302). The mobile station (303) includes a local source address (324) and a home address (322). The mobile... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070070947 - Method for set maintainance by mobile station in mobile communication system, and pilot channel searcher block using the same: A method for maintaining a set by a mobile station in a mobile communication system, and a pilot channel searcher block using the same are provided. The method includes receiving a pilot signal from a base station of at least one active set, checking a variation of a path position... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070070949 - Method, device, system and software product for providing system information to enable packet switched handover: A method, mobile device, network device, system, and software product are presented for providing an indication whether a source radio network controller requests to receive system information from a handover target, and for receiving the system information in a target to source transparent container, if the indication requests to receive... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070070950 - Apparatus and method for selecting two neighboring cells in cellular environments: Apparatus and method for simultaneously selecting two cells in a broadband cellular communication system with a frequency reuse factor of N. Adjacent cells are searched and the RX power strengths of the adjacent cells are measured. Cells with RX power strengths greater than a predetermined value are selected among the... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070070951 - Circuit and method for contact-less transmission: A system includes a first and second circuit electromagnetically coupled to establish a contact-less transmission, for example, between a vehicle body and a removable seat of the vehicle body. The first circuit includes a first inductor and the second circuit includes a second inductor. In order to detect in the... Agent: Barley Snyder, LLC

20070070953 - Method of cooperatively relaying data in cellular networks for a broadcast multicast services: A method of transmitting subpackets in a mobile communication system using at least one frequency carrier is disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises receiving a first broadcast subpacket from a base station (BS) at a first time slot on a first frequency carrier, and receiving at least one subsequent broadcast... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070070952 - Method of enabling a combined data rate control lock channel in a wireless communication system: A method of assigning feedback information in a portion of a Medium Access Control (MAC) channel in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes receiving at least two pilot signal from an access network (AN) on at least two forward traffic channel, transmitting at least two... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070070954 - Method of transmitting data in cellular networks using cooperative relaying: A method of transmitting data packets in a mobile communication system using at least one relay station (RS) and using at least two frequency carriers is disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises transmitting at least one subpacket of a first data packet to a mobile station (MS) on a first... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070070956 - Data transmission system and method: A data transmission system capable of mitigating the load on an uplink (feedback channel). A transmitting station of the data transmission system includes a controller for controlling packet communication quality in accordance with a CQI derived based on a packet so that the packet communication quality may become highest, a... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070070957 - Multiple beam antenna base station: Systems, devices and method are provided in association with a multiple beam antenna base station. One system embodiment includes a multiple beam antenna base station configured to communicate data to a number of subscriber stations using a number of multiple antenna beams. The multiple beam antenna base station is implemented... Agent: Brooks & Cameron, PLLC

20070070955 - Reverse data rate controlling method in mobile communication system: The present invention provides a method of controlling a reverse data rate in a mobile communication system. In controlling a reverse data rate by a mobile station of a mobile communication system supporting a H-ARQ system, the present invention includes the steps of receiving a grant message including reverse data... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070070962 - Communication networks for establishing communication sessions between a registered internet protocol (ip) device and one or more subscribing ip devices and methods and computer program products for operating the same: A communication network is operated by registering an Internet protocol (IP) device as a content provider. The registration of the IP device as a content provider is detected at least one subscriber IP device. A communication session is established between the IP device registered as a content provider and the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070070960 - Device, system, and method of multi-entity wireless communication adapter having a multi-channel mode: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for a multi-entity wireless communication adapter, including at least a first connection module to communicate a first signal traffic corresponding to a basic service set station entity, a second connection module to communicate a second signal traffic corresponding to an... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070070959 - Infrastructure mesh networks: The mesh network, according to at least one embodiment, includes a relay associated with each access point in the mesh network. Each relay is configured to support access interfaces and relay interfaces. The access interfaces are configured to communicate with mobile nodes, and the relay interfaces are configured to communicate... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070070961 - Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for adapting a transmission setting: Method, wireless communication apparatus, and computer program products are provided for adapting at least one transmission setting to be applied by a first transceiver, which is adapted to be operative in a predetermined frequency band, in response to communication by a second transceiver, which is adapted to be operative in... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070070964 - Network communication system and control method thereof: A network communication system and a method of controlling the network communication system are provided. The network communication system includes: a member reading at least one piece of data stored in an access point (AP); a member giving priority to the data; a member re-transmitting the data having the priority... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070070963 - Rf channel switching in broadcast ofdm systems: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate monitoring RF channels in a wireless communication environment to determine whether one or more channels comprise a forward-link-only (FLO) signal. A receiver can receive a first RF channel with a FLO signal and can monitor other RF channels for FLO signals. Upon a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070070958 - Transfer of packet data in system comprising mobile terminal, wireless local network and mobile network: The present invention relates to a method of arranging the transmission of packet data in a system comprising a mobile terminal, a wireless local network and a mobile network. End-to-end service related parameters are signalled via a separate signalling element. A resource authorization identifier is transmitted to the mobile network... Agent: Perman & Green

20070070965 - Wireless terminal and wireless lan system: A wireless terminal includes a roaming detecting unit which detects roaming representing that a connected wireless LAN access point is changed and units which transmit a call control packet for authentication to the VoIP server by the detection of roaming by the roaming detecting unit. The roaming detecting unit compares... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070070966 - Wireless usb host, wireless usb device, method of providing function of dual role device host, and method of performing function of dual role device host: A wireless USB host, a wireless USB device, a method of providing the function of a dual role device host, and a method of performing the function of the dual role device host are provided. The wireless USB host includes a searching unit which determines whether a wireless USB device... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070070967 - Apparatus and method for detecting feedback information in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for determining feedback information detection in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. In the detection determining apparatus, a demodulator correlates each of tiles carrying received feedback information with an orthogonal vector including a pilot symbol in each possible codeword, each tile being a predetermined number... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070070968 - Frequency-division multiplexing transceive apparatus and method: In a frequency-division multiplexing transmitting apparatus for transmitting data at a frequency specific to a mobile station, a symbol compression and repetition unit compresses the time domain of each symbol of a transmit symbol sequence, repeats the symbol a prescribed number of times (L times) and rearranges the symbols of... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070070969 - Performance management of cellular mobile packet data networks: A method in a cellular mobile packet data network is provided composed of four main steps. These are capturing raw traffic traces over standardized interfaces of an operational cellular mobile data network, parsing through the traces in order to extract and correlate all the information, which is needed to build... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070070972 - Recounting method in multimedia broadcast/multicast service: The present invention discloses a method for recounting the number of the UE in a multimedia broadcast/multicast service. When a radio access network prepares to initiate a recounting procedure, perform the steps of: the RAN sending recounting indication information for an MBMS service to User Equipment (UE) or UEs; the... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20070070971 - System and method for a forward link only physical layer: Systems and methods are provided for processing forward link only (FLO) signals. A device receives a FLO signal, processes a TDM pilot comprising a TDM Pilot 1, a TDM Pilot 2, a WIC, a LIC, a Transition Pilot Channel, and a Positioning Pilot, from the FLO signal, processes an overhead... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070070970 - System and method for forward link only messages: Systems and methods are provided for processing forward link only (FLO) messages. A device for processing forward link only (FLO) wireless messages comprises receiving a FLO message and processing the FLO message including a header, an 8-bit FLO information block field, a 7-bit FLO count, an RF channel identifier, a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070070973 - Method and system for achieving alignment between a centralized base station controller (cbsc) and a base transceiver site (bts) in a network: A method and system for achieving timeframe alignment between a Centralized Base Station Controller (CBSC) (106) and a Base Transceiver Site (BTS) (102) in a network is disclosed. The BTS returns a Forward Sequence Number (FSN) contained in a forward frame and a Packet Arrival Time Error (PATE) to the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070070974 - Event delivery in switched fabric networks: In a switched fabric network that handles communication between a first event-generating device, a second event-generating device, and an event-processing device, and in which the first and second event-generating devices are coupled by a link of the fabric, methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for providing a... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070070977 - Method for delivering data resources: A mobile terminal system transmits a request message to a delivering source system. The request message specifies resources to be delivered, and a relay system for receiving the resources. The delivering source system delivers the specified resources to the specified relay system according to the request message. The relay system... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070070976 - Mobile and packet-based call control: A telecommunication approach provides telephone service to subscribers on terminals registered on a mobile network that are consistent with the services provided to those subscribers at terminals on a fixed communication network. For instance, the subscriber on the terminals on the mobile network may have access to mid-call features and... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070070975 - Storage system and storage device: A storage system includes a host having an iSCSI initiator function, a storage having an iSCSI target function and plural storage ports and communicable with the host through an IP network, and a management server communicable with the storage. The management server includes a load information collecting unit for collecting... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070070978 - Accessing content at a geographical location: A method for accessing content according to a location within a defined geographical area. The area is defined (104) by those areas covered by selected nodes of one or more networks. Data representing the identities of the selected nodes or of the defined geographical area is then provided (110) to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070070979 - Context-sensitive multimedia message service response: An apparatus and a method for context-sensitive multimedia message service (MMS) response. The provision of a response to a MMS UA originated MMS message (e.g. requesting to send a multimedia message (MM)) that is context-sensitive allows the network operator/service provider to provide value-added and potentially revenue generating content in the... Agent: Osha - Liang, LLP / Vincent

20070070986 - Delay reduction method for telephony systems with multiple packet generators: A telephony system and method is provided that reduces delay and provides better utilization of upstream bandwidth in delivering packet telephony services to a plurality of subscriber lines via a cable modem system. An exemplary system includes a plurality of voice processing modules, a host processor, and a buffer. Each... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070070981 - Method and apparatus for dynamically establishing links between ip private branch exchanges: A method and apparatus for enabling a packet network provider, e.g., a VoIP network provider to provide virtual tie lines that give enterprise users of IP PBXs dedicated bandwidth on an as-need basis are disclosed. The present method defines a structure for creating signaling messages from the IP PBX to... Agent: Mr. S.h. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20070070982 - Method and apparatus for tagging customer specific signaling packets: A method and apparatus for enabling a network provider to tag calls originating from distinct customer segments and process these tagged calls according to rules associated with their tagged identities are disclosed. For example, calls from a business or enterprise customer may be routed to a carrier who ensures 99.999%... Agent: Mr. S.h. Dworetsky

20070070980 - Method and system for providing network-based call processing of packetized voice calls: An approach provides network-based call processing. A packetized voice call is received from a first station. The packetized voice call is queued at a pre-designated queue maintained within a network of a service provider. Further, the packetized voice call is selectively forwarded to a second station.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070070984 - Method for dynamically handling the data path of a wireless ip phone: A method for dynamically handling the data path of a wireless IP phone is provided. The method comprises establishing a first communication link between the wireless IP phone and a wireless local area network (WLAN), establishing a second communication link between the wireless IP phone and a general packet radio... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070070988 - Method for transmitting deferred messages: A method for transmitting deferred messages, applicable in an instant message system based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)/SIP Instant Message and Presence Leveraging Extensions (SIMPLE). After a client registers to the IM system and an IM server detects there are deferred messages to be sent to the client stored in... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070070983 - Methods and apparatus for improved efficiency communication: The invention relates to methods, apparatus, and software for disseminating link state information in an ad hoc network. The methods, apparatus, and software include an energy conserving processing based on a combination of a multipoint relaying and hazy scoping.... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070070985 - System and method for integrating internet phone to ordinary phone: An Internet phone dials a server through Internet and the sever analyzes an incoming call of the Internet phone for identifying a network system for the Internet phone. The server distributes corresponding application program to personal computer at user site through LAN. The user site receives phone call through personal... Agent: Hdsl

20070070987 - Wireless communication terminal and wireless communicaiton method: A wireless communication terminal has a function of performing data communication with a server connected to a network, and includes a communication controller which selects a predetermined port number from among a plurality of port numbers allocated for data communication with the server, and using this communication port number to... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070070990 - Method and apparatus for detecting subscriber service address change: A method and apparatus for allowing VoIP service providers to detect service address changes of IP service subscribers are disclosed. Specifically, when a power cycle, e.g., powering off and on, of a particular VoIP endpoint device, such as a Terminal Adaptor (TA) or a soft phone client, is detected, a... Agent: Mr. S.h. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20070070991 - Method and apparatus for voice over ip telephone: A voice over IP telephone apparatus for carrying out voice communication adapted to an Internet Protocol (IP) through Internet is made to include a transmission/additional information generating and analyzing unit 12 for generating, at a transmitting side, additional information of service content to be added to transmission information related to... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070070989 - Overload call control in a voip network: The invention provides a system, method and apparatus for controlling a mass calling event in a VoIP network. The invention provides for monitoring port traffic information on a network edge device and detecting the occurrence of a mass calling event in conjunction with a call control module. Control instructions or... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070070992 - System and method for providing voice over internet protocol service using cellular phone: In a system and method of providing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service, when a wireless terminal and a VoIP service terminal are connected on a VoIP service dedicated line, and the wireless terminal transmits to the VoIP service terminal a message requesting call connection to a destination Internet Protocol... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070070993 - Butterfly network with switches set for two node disjoint paths and method for forming the paths: In a butterfly network, a number of switches are set to provide two paths that are independent of each other, from a first switch to a second switch, and from the first switch to a third switch respectively. Identification of switches to be set from among all switches in the... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070070994 - Sas expansion topology for raid data storage system: A data storage system includes a first chassis that has a pair of storage processors, a pair of SAS expanders having a bidirectional front end port and a plurality of bidirectional backend ports, and an expansion port, a pair of SAS controller each one being coupled between a corresponding one... Agent: Emc Corporation Office Of The General Counsel

20070071003 - Apparatus and method for inserting synchronization headers into serial data communication streams: An apparatus for transmitting synchronization headers into multiple high-speed serial data communications streams comprising an input channel receiving B symbols, a first output channel outputting A symbols, a second output channel outputting B symbols, a header sequence generator generating H symbols, one multiplexer per output channel, a temporary storage unit... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: BoxIPDept.

20070070995 - Broadcast/multicast services with unidirectional header compression: A network node (60), upon receiving a request (62, 92) indicating that the remote unit (40) seeks access to a multicast/broadcast multimedia service, generates the trigger signal (64) which is applied to the compressor (25) to trigger a lowest compression state of the header compression logic. The trigger signal is... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070071000 - Distributed protocol over a wireless connection: The disclosure is directed to an access point in a wireless access network and methods for using an access point. The access point includes a transceiver function and a network function. The network function is configured to route packets between a packet-based network and the transceiver function. The transceiver function... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070070997 - Enhanced passive optical network (pon) processor: An enhanced passive optical network (PON) processor adapted to serve a plurality of PON applications is disclosed. The PON processor is a highly integrated communications processor that can operate in different PON modes including, but not limited to, a gigabit PON (GPON), a broadband PON (BPON), an Ethernet PON (EPON),... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070071002 - Method and apparatus for verifying encryption of sip signalling: A SIP communication session can be set up between at least two client SIP nodes over at least one proxy SIP node. A proxy SIP node is located based on a destination client name and domain and a secure signal connection is set up between a calling client SIP node... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070071001 - Method for identifying internet users: Method for identifying Internet users, comprising: identifying or authenticating an Internet user at the Internet access point in the course of an access check when using the Internet access service of an Internet Service Provider with whom the Internet user maintains a business relation; and after the Internet user successfully... Agent: NeifeldIPLaw, PC

20070070996 - Port hopping scheme for peer-to-peer connections: A port hopping scheme pseudo-randomly spreads a peer-to-peer connection across a port space. The pseudo-random port hopping scheme varies port address values in a manner that is unknown to intermediary devices but known by the two endpoints or peers. Flow-identification and control schemes depend on the stability of the flow... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070070999 - Synchronization of historical data without retransmission: In one embodiment of the present invention, a first node receives acknowledgement indications from a second node describing which previously processed and transmitted data have been successfully received and processed by the second node. In response to these indications, the first node makes the corresponding data in its history buffer... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070070998 - System and method for delivering the magic packet to wake up a node in remote subnet: A system and method for delivering the magic packet to wake up a node in a remote subnet are disclosed. A method includes receiving a message generated by a source node located on a first subnet at a switching device located on a second subnet, where the message includes an... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20070071004 - Communication device, and communication method and program thereof: In a communication device (1) which realizes communication with data distributed to a plurality of connections, a data division restoration processing unit (1-2), when transmitting data, receives data from an application processing unit (1-1), divides the data into an arbitrary number of blocks, stores information for restoring the block to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070071007 - Decoupled header and packet processing in ipsec: An IPsec processor for performing IPsec processing of traffic packets is disclosed. The IPsec processor comprises a network processing module (500) and a hardware co-processing module (502) coupled to the network processing module (500) via an interface, the co-processing module (500) comprising a policy check processor (525), and a packet... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070071006 - Delivery of communications services in developing regions: A technique for delivering communications services to a large number of users employing relatively inexpensive, widely available handsets. More particularly, the technique utilizes a network apparatus that supports individual access to a community of users and supports access to a wireless communications system (e.g., any well-known Code Division Multiple Access... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20070071005 - System and method for implementing asi over long distances: The present invention provides a system and method for utilizing the Advanced Switching network protocol to communicate over long distances, such as multiple kilometers. The present invention utilizes an existing status bit, referred to as the Perishable Bit, within the AS packet header, to reduce the number of packets which... Agent: Nields & Lemack

20070071008 - Method and apparatus for initiating a storage window in a wireless communication system: A method for initiating a storage window of a receiving end in a wireless communications system, which periodically retransmits previously transmitted data packets in an unacknowledged mode, includes receiving a first PDU after a receiving entity of the receiving end is established, re-established, or after a timer expires, and initiating... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070071009 - System for early detection of decoding errors: System for early detection of decoding errors. A method is provided for detecting a decode failure. The method includes receiving an initial amount of code packets, detecting a trigger event that indicates a decode failure associated with the initial amount of code packets, and receiving one or more additional code... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070071012 - Home network connection management system using upnp and vlan multicast: Provided is a home network connection management system using UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) and VLAN (Virtual LAN) multicast. The home network connection management system includes a UPnP-VLAN interfacing section for receiving requests of registration of VLAN and multicast addresses from a UPnP device in response to connection establishment commands... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070071011 - Load balancing network using ethernet bridges: Ethernet hardware is configured to realize a load balancing network by using Ethernet bridging hardware that is VLAN-aware.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070071010 - Vlan pooling: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for forming groups of network device within a network comprises (i) obtaining a source media access control (MAC) address for a network device and (ii) assigning the network device to a virtual local area network based on the source MAC address... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070071013 - Method and system for increasing capacity of dvb-h downlink communication channel: Certain aspects of a method and system for processing signals in a communication system may include receiving a plurality of spatially multiplexed communication signals for a plurality of channels via a digital video broadcast (DVB) communication path. A plurality of channel weights may be applied to at least a portion... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070071014 - Switching system with distributed switching fabric: A switch encapsulates incoming information using a header, and removes the header upon egress. The header is used by both distributed ingress nodes and within a distributed core to facilitate switching. The ingress and egress elements preferably support Ethernet or other protocol providing connectionless media with a stateful connection. Preferred... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP Robert D. Fish

20070071016 - Communicating station-originated data to a target access point via a distribution system: A method and an apparatus are disclosed that mitigate congestion in a backbone network that is associated with a wireless network. The illustrative embodiment of the present invention mitigates the congestion by reducing the occurrences of a bridge data-processing system flooding out pre-authentication-related packets, as well as some other types... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20070071020 - Gateway digital loop carrier device: A gateway digital loop carrier device accommodates an integrated access device accommodating as a subscriber at least one of a telephone, a modem and ISDN and implementing a TR-008 interface, executes an interface conversion between TR-008 and TR/GR-303, and connects the subscriber to a switch implementing a TR-303 or GR-303... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070071017 - Mechanism for automatically detecting, creating and configuring virtual lans: According to one embodiment, a virtual local area network (VLAN) detector is disclosed. The VLAN detector includes a reporter that stores VLAN IDs in a file, and an interface that is coupled to the reporter to check the file for information for creating a new VLAN and to transmit the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070071018 - Method of filtering a plurality of data packets: A method of filtering a plurality of data packets may include a radio access network (RAN) receiving the plurality of data packets and determining if a mobile station coupled to the RAN is in a dormant state and a reactivation request is not pending for the mobile station. If the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070071019 - Transmitting apparatus and frame transfer method: A transmitting apparatus includes a network interface for connecting between networks; an information embedding unit that embeds, in a frame output from the network interface, first port information for identifying a first port through which the frame is received; and a path deciding unit that decides, when second port information... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070071015 - Using crc-15 as hash function for mac bridge filter design: A hash function for a MAC bridge filter that improves bridge performance by reducing overflow of the MAC bridge database and which reduces cost of the device by using relatively few hardware resources. A CRC hash function is used to randomize the search string in the MAC bridge filter so... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070071021 - Method for transmitting messages: A method for transmitting messages of at least one entity that creates messages to a target entity, wherein the messages sent by the creating entity are signed, wherein the individual entities are interconnected over a network, and wherein at least one aggregation entity, which combines several messages to an aggregated... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070071022 - Mechanism for imposing a consistent delay on information sets received from a variable rate information stream: A mechanism is disclosed for imposing a delay on a variable rate information stream. A stream of information sets is received, where the stream has a variable information rate that can change from time period to time period. In a first time period, information sets are stored into a first... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070071023 - Packet forwarding apparatus and method thereof: A packet forwarding device is disclosed. The packet forwarding device includes: a transmission interface, coupled to a second network device; a processing unit, coupled to a first network device; a forwarding unit, coupled between the transmission interface and the processing unit; and an interface loop-back, coupled between the forwarding unit... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070071024 - Method and apparatus for prioritizing access in a communication network: A selective call radio (SCR) (100) is provided for exchanging messages with a base station (150) on inbound and outbound channels. The SCR has a wireless transceiver (102), and a processor (104). The processor is programmed to determine (204) a priority setting for the SCR, and upon detecting an appropriate... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070071025 - Mbms acknowledgements on rach: The present invention relates to multicast communication systems and in particular to the implementation of a random access uplink channel, which can be used, e.g., for transmission of acknowledgement messages for received data. In order to prevent frequent collisions on said channel, the transmission of acknowledgement messages is spread at... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070071026 - Compressed video packet scheduling system: A method of transmitting compressed video packets over a network includes steps of partitioning transmission interval into discrete time slots; sending scheduling packets over the network from the transmitting node to the receiving node; evaluating the response of the receiving node to determine reliability of the network at different time... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070071027 - Inter-node connection method and apparatus: An inter-node connection method and apparatus for at least a first and second nodes respectively connected to private IP address network ends of at least a first and second address translation devices, which translate a private IP address into a global IP address, through global IP address network ends of... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070071029 - Interworking circuit emulation service over packet and ip/mpls packet processing: A system and method are provided for implementing CESOP inexpensively yet effectively implemented across an MPLS or an IP network. A Zarlink chip provides CESOP functionality, providing a TDM pseudowire by converting TDM streams into Ethernet packets. These Ethernet packets can be processed by a Marvell chip, which has the... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070071028 - Tcp/ip tunneling protocol for link 16: A method and system are provided for executing a protocol for tunneling of transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) packets over a tactical link. The tunneling protocol includes interfacing to a host software on a node of a tactical network using a TAP interface; breaking up ethernet packets from the TAP... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070071032 - Adaptive-allocation of i/o bandwidth using a configurable interconnect topology: Apparatus and methods allocate I/O bandwidth of an electrical component, such as an IC, by configuring an I/O interface into various types of interfaces. In an embodiment of the present invention, an I/O interface is configured into either a bidirectional contact, unidirectional contact (including either a dedicated transmit or dedicated... Agent: Deniro/rambus

20070071031 - Bandwidth allocation device for guaranteeing qos in ethernet passive optical access network: An apparatus and method for allocating a bandwidth for up-stream data transmission to a plurality of Optical Network Units (ONUs) in an Ethernet Passive Optical Access Network (EPON) in which the ONUs are connected to a single Optical Line Terminal (OLT) are disclosed. The bandwidth allocation method for guaranteeing a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070071030 - Video packet shaping for video telephony: The disclosure relates to techniques for video packet shaping for video telephony (VT). The techniques can be used to prioritize audio packets to reduce audio delay. Channel conditions, excessive video content, or both can cause delays in audio transmission. When reverse link (RL) throughput is reduced, video packet size can... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070071035 - Lac-based lfi support for tunneled ppp sessions: An embodiment may provide for link fragmentation and interleaving at an access device located between a point to point link and a tunneled connection. An embodiment may include a method of receiving frames through a tunnel from a network server, fragmenting at least some of the frames from the network... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070071034 - Mechanisms for data rate improvement in a wireless network: A wireless network arrangement includes a host device in communication with a wireless network module (e.g., an ultrawideband (UWB) module, etc.) through a universal serial bus (USB). A protocol is provided to support communication over the USB between the host and the module. In at least one embodiment, the host... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Portfolioip

20070071033 - Telecommunications transport methods and systems for the transparent mapping/demapping of client data signals: The present invention provides telecommunications transport methods and systems for the transparent mapping/demapping of client data signals without the insertion/deletion of idle characters for client data signal rate adaptation. These methods and systems include mapping an incoming client data signal to and demapping an outgoing client data signal from a... Agent: Clements Walker

20070071036 - Method and apparatus for preamble synchronization in wireless radio frequency identification (rfid) systems: The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for detection of a preamble portion of a data packet. A plurality of samples are received in an input signal. Samples that occur between consecutive sign changes in the received plurality of samples are counted. The counting of samples is performed a number... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070071037 - Synchronization watermarking in multimedia streams: Synchronization of related packet data network streams is provided. Synchronization is achieved by inserting synchronization packets into data streams that are to be aligned with one another after transmission of those data streams across a network. More particularly, corresponding synchronization packets are inserted into the corresponding data streams at the... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20070071038 - Serial transceiver and method of transmitting package: A serial transceiver transmits at least one package of a data link layer and includes at least one channel including at least one transmitting module and at least one receiving module, a generating module and a controlling module. The channel is for transmitting the corresponding package. The transmitting module transmits... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070071039 - Time-division multiplexing/demultiplexing system and method: Provided are a time-division data multiplexing/demultiplexing system and method capable of preventing errors in processing data signals which occur due to a phase difference between data signals and a multiplexing reference clock in a multiplexing process or a phase difference between a multiplexed data signal and a demultiplexing reference clock... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070064586 - Method and system for performing cell selection for ofdm communications: 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

20070064587 - Frequency offset differential pulse position modulation: The present invention provides such a need by utilizing a frequency offset differential pulse position modulation scheme to transmit data between computing devices within a wireless network system. The differential pulse position modulation component of the scheme enables the present invention to provide relative immunity to interference for the system.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070064590 - Buffer-based generation of ovsf code sequences: A method of generating a code sequence comprises populating at least one buffer with initial values based on a received spreading factor and desired code index; receiving a timing strobe; changing the values in the at least one buffer upon receipt of the timing strobe based on an algorithm that... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20070064589 - Method for transmitting data by means of a carrier current: The invention relates to a method for transmitting data over a carrier current using a frequency band. According to said method: the frequency band is divided into N sub-bands, N being a whole number higher than, or equal to, two; an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) technique is carried out... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20070064588 - Ofdm signal transmission method, transmission apparatus, and reception apparatus: A transmission method of a digital broadcast which is compatible with the DVB-T terrestrial digital broadcast system in Europe and saves a battery in a mobile terminal is provided. Superframes in DVB-T are divided into units each including plural symbols so that an integer number of TS packets can be... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070064591 - Radio apparatus: A control unit assigns a plurality of data signals in a manner that, of the plurality of data signals, data signals of higher data rate are assigned anteriorly. Of terminal apparatuses to which the plurality of data signals are to be transmitted respectively, the control unit specifies a terminal apparatus... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070064592 - Radio apparatus: A control unit adjusts the number of streams for each of a plurality of packet signals and specifies a packet signal whose number of streams is the maximum among the packet signals whose number of streams has been adjusted. The control unit assigns a known signal and a data signal... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070064593 - Method and system for automatically resetting a cable access module upon detection of a lock-up: A Cable Access Module is periodically monitored to detect lock-up condition on an upstream channel. Traffic activity on an upstream channel of the CAM is compared to predetermined criteria to determine lock-up. If CMs are detected being coupled to the CAM, a PING message is sent to a group of... Agent: Arris International, Inc

20070064594 - Providing multiple communication protocol failover and remote diagnostics via a customer premise apparatus: Computer-implemented methods, computer program products and customer premise equipment (CPE) apparatuses provide multiple communications protocol failover and remote diagnostic functionality in facilitating communication services to and from a user's premise. A method involves configuring a CPE apparatus for a primary data path and a secondary data path, receiving communications traffic... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070064595 - Method for activation of preplanned circuits in telecommunications networks: A method for activation of circuits in telecommunications networks comprises a first step in which circuits are preplanned in the network and local definition data are distributed to network members (NE) for connection of sections of the preplanned circuits. In a second step, when it is desired to activate a... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070064597 - Globally fair polling for packet switched routers using dynamically biased arbitration: Techniques for routing data packets in a networked system. Specifically, a network system and methods of arbitrating data packets in a network system are provided. Switching devices are configured to receive one or more data packets, wherein each of the one or more data packets is received at a respective... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070064599 - Method and apparatus fo handling timers during reestablishing transmitting sides in wireless communications systems: A communications device utilized in a wireless communications system has an RLC entity with a transmitting side and a receiving side. Handling timers during reestablishment of the transmitting side includes only reestablishing the transmitting side in the RLC entity of the communications device, stopping a first timer corresponding to the... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070064600 - Method and apparatus for handling control pdus during re-establishing receiving sides in a wireless communications system: A wireless communications system has a communications device, which has an RLC entity having a transmitting side and a receiving side. When re-establishing the receiving side, to handle control PDUs, only the receiving side in the RLC entity of the communications device is re-established, a first control PDU corresponding to... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070064601 - Method and apparatus for handling control pdus during re-establishment of transmitting sides in wireless communications systems: A wireless communications system has a communications device, which has an RLC entity having a transmitting side and a receiving side. When re-establishing the transmitting side, to handle control PDUs, only the transmitting side in the RLC entity of the communications device is re-established, a first control PDU corresponding to... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070064602 - Method and apparatus for handling timers during re-establishing receiving sides in a wireless communications system: A communications device utilized in a wireless communications system has an RLC entity with a transmitting side and a receiving side. Handling timers during re-establishment of the receiving side includes only re-establishing the receiving side in the RLC entity of the communications device, stopping a first timer corresponding to the... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070064598 - Systems and methods for flow signature formation and use: An em