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 embodiment of a method for use in performing interoperability testing between two network architectures includes forming multiple transaction signatures that each characterizes a communication transaction conducted over the two networks and analyzing each of the transaction signatures to determine if the transaction signature matches a previously classified pattern. The... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070064596 - Wireless network apparatus and method for controlling transmission rate using the same: A wireless network apparatus and a method for controlling the transmission rate of the same, whereby a receiver side is capable of constantly maintaining the full transmission rate by coordinating the maximum number of packets to be sent to the network from a sender side. Further, a wireless network apparatus... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070064604 - Adaptive quality of service policy for dynamic networks: A close-loop quality of service system is provided that collects real-time network performance indicators at the physical, data link and network layers. Using those indicators, the system dynamically controls the network traffic in order to achieve improved performance according to the priority and policy defined by a data user or... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070064608 - Apparatus, method and computer program product to configure a radio link protocol for internet protocol flow: A radio link service profile is defined as a set of parameters for upper layer transport of an IP packet, and may be associated with a logical channel flow identifier. A data packet is sent over a wireless logical channel that is identified by the LCID between a base station... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070064609 - Communication processing apparatus, communication control method and computer program: A communication processing apparatus that performs processing of transmitting streaming data includes a communication control portion examining the state of data communication and performing processing of changing priority information to be defined for send data based on the result of the examination, and a network interface performing processing of outputting... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070064603 - Method of provisioning network elements to perform a service: A method of provisioning a network element to perform a service. The method comprising determining a number of service elements associated with provisioning the network element to perform the service, associating a number of forwardly configurable files with the service elements, and generating provisioning instructions for use in configuring the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070064606 - Multiple network system and service providing method: A multiple network system and service providing method, wherein the multiple network system comprises a service server for providing at least one service; at least one terminal for accessing at least one network; and a manager server for recognizing a bandwidth of each service provided by the service server, a... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070064605 - Network load balancing apparatus, systems, and methods: Apparatus, systems, methods, and articles described generally herein may receive a first packet marked with a congestion indicator (CI). Upon receipt of the CI, a load-balancing operation may be performed among a plurality of physical links upstream from a point of congestion to alleviate the congestion. Other embodiments may be... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070064607 - Network operator brokering system and telephone system for providing optimal routing path for voice call using the same and providing method thereof: A system and method for selecting a path for a voice call over an access network from a plurality of access networks. The system includes a call negotiation agent configured to store price information associated with the voice call in which the price information is provided through at least one... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070064610 - Detection of nonconforming network traffic flow aggregates for mitigating distributed denial of service attacks: An estimate of a portion of network traffic that is nonconforming to a communication transmission control protocol is used to signal that a distributed denial of service attack may be occurring. Traffic flows are aggregated and packets are intentionally dropped from the flow aggregate in accordance with an assigned perturbation... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070064611 - Method for monitoring packet loss ratio: A method of monitoring the packet loss ratio in a label switching network is disclosed, in which an OAM frame carrying packet statistical information used for monitoring the packet loss ratio is sent by the source node to the destination node of an LSP such that the current packet loss... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20070064612 - Method and apparatus for selecting an optimal path from a path-starting node of a network to a path-ending node of the network: In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a method provides a circuit from a first customer location to a second customer location. The method includes selecting a path-starting node from a network of nodes, and selecting a path-ending node from the network of nodes. The path-starting node is... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070064613 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for load balanced and symmetric path computations for voip traffic engineering: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer program products for load balanced and symmetric SPF path computations for VoIP traffic engineering. One method includes advertising an output interface cost in a first direction over a first network segment between a source IP device and a destination IP... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070064616 - Determining quality of voice calls over a packet network: The present invention provides a method for managing a voice call over a packet switched network, in which the voice call is rerouted when voice quality is below a predetermined level. In particular, the voice quality is determined by calculating a parameter representing the voice quality based on information regarding... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070064615 - Methods and systems for observing digital signal output: Methods and systems for digital to analog conversion are provided. In one embodiment, a system for observing data of interest communicated within a data stream is provided. The system comprises means for monitoring a stream of data packets, wherein one or more data packets of the stream of data packets... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070064614 - Transmission path latency measurement method: The invention provides a transmission latency measurement method which measures a transmission latency between a first data transmitting device and a second data transmitting device interfacing to each other by using three kind of signal patterns A, B, and C. When the signal pattern A is received, a transmitting signal... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070064620 - Method for network analysis and network analyser module: A method for network analysis in an access network (1) in connection with a data transmission network, in particular an xDSL network, with a plurality of subscriber lines (4.1-4.3). The method comprising the step of collecting data on physical layer operational parameters ({φci}) of at least one subscriber line (4.1-4.3)... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070064618 - Method of forming protocol data units, protocol data units and protocol data unit generation apparatus: A source host comprising a processing resource that supports a kernel space and a user space. A socket layer is supported by the kernel space and allows a measurement application residing in the user space to instruct a protocol layer to form a plurality of UDP test packets for transmission,... Agent: Paul D. Greeley, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070064617 - Traffic anomaly analysis for the detection of aberrant network code: A method for detecting nodes in an enterprise network infected with aberrant code is presented in which traffic conversation information representative of traffic conversation in the enterprise network over an analysis period is obtained. Analysis of the obtained traffic conversation information identifies suspected infected nodes in the enterprise network that... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070064619 - Video mail and content playback control with cellular handset: The playback of video content delivered over a wireless network can be controlled by the provision of various control functions that can be actuated by the user. The controlled playback can be implemented on a system level, in which the delivery of the video content is controlled in response to... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070064622 - Interactive voice response based troubleshooting of customer premise equipment installation: Troubleshooting of customer premise equipment installation includes sending information over a communications network to attempt to activate customer premise equipment. A request is received to activate an interactive voice response based troubleshooting component of the customer premise equipment. Information relating to the attempt to activate the customer premise equipment is... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070064621 - Method and system for testing network configurations: A method for testing network configurations. Specifically, a plurality of source requirements is determined for a network configuration, wherein the plurality of source requirements describe physical and functional characteristics of the network configuration. Each of the plurality of source requirements is linked to at least one of a plurality of... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070064625 - Method of processing emergent data in wireless sensor network: A method of processing emergent data in a wireless sensor network is provided in which the latest information is collected from each sensor node and stored, newly-received sensing data are determined as emergent data if an error is over a certain value compared to the latest information from each node,... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070064623 - Method to encapsulate snmp over serial attached scsi for network management operations to manage external storage subsystems: According to various illustrative embodiments of the present invention, a method to encapsulate a simple network management protocol (SNMP) over a serial attached small computer system interface (SCSI) system (SAS) for network management operations to manage external storage subsystems includes encapsulating a simple network management protocol (SNMP) message having a... Agent: Randall C. Furlong Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070064626 - Recommendation network: A recommendation network is described. The recommendation network may include, but is not limited to, users or entities (“recommendation sources,”) that explicitly or implicitly recommend, rate or refer items and users or entities that receive recommendations or referrals (“recommendation receivers,”). Users who make recommendations can create multiple recommendation sources, using... Agent: Daniel L. Salgado, Esq.

20070064624 - System and method for floating port configuration: A system and method automatically configures the interfaces of an intermediate network device. A discovery process operating at the device detects the identity or type of network entities actually coupled to the device's interfaces. Utilizing the identity or type of detected entities, a look-up is performed to obtain a configuration... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070064627 - Fast vector quantization with topology learning: A new process called a vector approximation graph (VA-graph) leverages a tree based vector quantizer to quickly learn the topological structure of the data. It then uses the learned topology to enhance the performance of the vector quantizer. A method for analyzing data comprises receiving data, partitioning the data and... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070064628 - System and method for generating symmetrical spanning trees: A system and method creates multiple, symmetric spanning trees within a network. Bridges within the network generate, send and process Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) control messages that are updated as they are propagated across the network to reflect the paths followed by the messages. The bridges, moreover, utilize the path... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070064629 - High speed ring/bus: A data communication bus and method of operation thereof, including a plurality of nodes connected to a respective plurality of media segments. A typical node includes an output port coupled to a media segment that it exclusively controls. And an input port coupled to a media segment that is exclusively... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070064631 - Method and apparatus for transmitting signaling data messages in a wireless communications system: A wireless communications system operates in Acknowledged Mode. The wireless communications system has a control circuit, a central processing unit, and a memory storing a program code. When transmitting signaling messages, the wireless communications system transmits a data packet a predetermined number of times greater than 1 to ensure that... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070064630 - Radio interoperability system and method: A method, system and memory are provided for enabling interoperability. A communication session between different communication systems, such as radio systems, operating using different protocols is initiated by receiving a scenario identifier from one of the user devices. An interoperability server receives the scenario identifier and accesses interoperability data to... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070064632 - Method and system for an improved user group selection scheme with finite-rate channel state information feedback for fdd multiuser mimo downlink transmission: Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for an improved user group selection scheme with finite-rate channel state information feedback for frequency division duplex (FDD) multiuser multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) downlink transmission. Aspects of the method may include selecting, from a plurality of users in a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070064633 - Method, systems and comuter program products for data logging: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for transferring log data to a server over a wireless network from a plurality of remote devices. The server is configured to receive data from the plurality of remote devices. A transfer period is scheduled for transferring log data from a remote... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley Sajovec P.A.

20070064635 - Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method: To provide a radio communication apparatus and a radio communication method in which change in the transmission rate is taken into consideration at the time of making transmission reservation. The present invention provides a radio communication apparatus for receiving the transmission reservation request with a radio transmitting/receiving unit and transmitting... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070064634 - Smart wireless station: Systems and methods for connecting a wireless station to a wireless network are provided. The method may include: receiving a pre-connection management signal from each of a plurality of wireless access points, each of the access points connecting an upstream network to a downstream wireless network; retrieving from each of... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070064636 - Remotely alerting a wireless device: A wireless device may be alerted. For example, a message may be received from an invoking party and parsed for request data. Then a determination may be made as to whether identification data in the received message matches identification data resident in the wireless device. Next, the wireless device may... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070064637 - Method and apparatus for providing additional information on digital broadcasting program to iptv in home network: A method and an apparatus for transmitting additional information on digital broadcasting to an IPTV by using a home gateway are provided. The additional information on a digital broadcast program is received through an IP based home network, and a DVBSTP packet is created by using the received additional information,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070064638 - Radio access system with extended service coverage: A method for extending the service coverage of a radio access system comprising a main base station (MBS) serving a plurality of subscriber units (SU1 to SU4) in a service coverage area (CA), in which at least one hybrid intermediate unit (HIU) acts as a wireless relay station for transmission... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070064639 - Method and apparatus in a cdma communication system: A novel and improved method and apparatus, in a WCDMA communication system (100), for informing a mobile station (101) of a downlink data frame time offset by determining the downlink data frame time offset, and transmitting the downlink data frame time offset via an Active Set Update message transmitted from... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070064640 - Method and system for performing handoff in wireless communication systems: The structure of a time-multiplexed physical channel is used to time inter-frequency or inter-system search excursions. A mobile station that receives an instruction to perform a search excursion prepares for the search excursion by detecting the first radio frame of a message frame. Transport format combination indicator bits are extracted... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070064641 - Methods and apparatus of enhancing performance in wireless communication systems: Methods and apparatus for supporting and using multiple communications channels corresponding to different transmit technologies and/or access technologies in parallel within a cell of a wireless communications system are described. Mobile nodes support multiple technologies and can switch between the technology being used at a particular point in time, e.g.,... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo Bldg. B, 2nd Floor

20070064642 - Cell search of time-overlapping cells in a mobile communication system: A cell search in a spread spectrum telecommunication system is performed by determining a spreading code of an undetected neighbor cell; and de-spreading a received signal using the scrambling code of the undetected neighbor cell at a path delay position of an already-detected cell. The undetected neighbor cell may be... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070064644 - Geographical web browser, methods, apparatus and systems: A geographical web browser allows a user to navigate a network application such as the Word Wide Web by physically navigating in geographical coordinates. For example, a geographical web browser is implemented in a mobile unit such as a dashboard computer. The mobile unit includes one or more transducers such... Agent: Eric M. Dowling

20070064643 - System and method for communication mode selection in wireless local area networks: A system selects a communication mode in a wireless local area network. The system comprises a mode evaluator for evaluating a first attribute of an access point communication mode between a source device and a sink device, evaluating a second attribute of a direct access communication mode between the source... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p

20070064646 - Method and apparatus for fast closed-loop rate adaptation in a high rate packet data transmission: In a high data rate communication system capable of variable rate transmission, an open loop rate control can be adjusted with a closed loop rate control to maximize throughput. An access point generates interleaved multi-slot packets that allow an access terminal to transmit indicator messages to the access point in... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070064645 - Radio apparatus and communication system using the same: A control unit aggregates packets which are to be sent to one or more terminal apparatuses, and produces aggregated packets. When the packets to be sent to a plurality of terminal apparatuses are combined together into an aggregated packet, the control unit divides a certain period into a plurality of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070064651 - Apparatus and method for performing handoff in cellular environments: Provided are an apparatus and a method for performing a handoff in a broadband cellular communication system with a frequency reuse factor of N by using both of two neighboring frequency allocations. The method includes determining, if a mobile station receives a signal from a second base station during communication... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070064652 - Handover method and apparatus in digital multimedia broadcasting system: A handover method and apparatus in a digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) system that transmits/receives broadcast data through a frame group using different frequencies. A handover method includes receiving a first frame group header at a serving frequency, and receiving a burst of the desired service at the serving frequency according... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070064653 - Method and system for configuring ip address in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for providing a seamless communication service in a mobile communication system. The method includes transmitting a first message to a base station when an IP subnet has been changed due to movement of the portable terminal, the first message including a Medium Access Control (MAC) address... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070064648 - Method and system for hand-over from wideband code division multiple access network to code division multiple access network by using dummy pilot signal: Disclosed are a method and a system for handover from a WCDMA network to a CDMA-2000 network by using a dummy pilot signal. The method comprises the steps of: a) a multimode terminal receiving a WCDMA signal level measurement message, turning on a CDMA-2000 modem mounted on the multimode terminal... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070064654 - Proxy mobile node capability for mobile ip: A method and system are provided for transmitting information in a Mobile Internet Protocol (IP) environment, which includes a home network, a home agent (HA) provided at the home network, a base station (BS) broadcasting a pilot signal, a foreign agent (FA) provided at or associated with the BS, a... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070064647 - Secure intra-and inter-domain handover: To achieve a secure and fast handover in a distributed mobile communication environment (10), the control functionality is lying at the borderline between wireless and wire-bound communication network elements, and it is proposed to, firstly, execute a mutual authentication between a mobile device (26) and a new access point (14)... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070064650 - Sending an identifier of a wireless local area network to enable handoff of a mobile station to the wireless local area network: In a wireless communications network, the presence of a wireless local area network in a cell segment is determined. An identifier of the wireless local area network in the cell segment is sent to at least one mobile station in the cell segment to enable the at least one mobile... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070064649 - Two-layer network identification: A method, apparatus, system, and software product are presented for managing data flow via connections between a mobile terminal and a destination internet protocol network. A plurality of sets of connection parameters are accessed by a mobile terminal, each of the sets including at least one parameter for an access... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070064655 - Techniques to provide measurement pilot transmission information in wireless networks: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to techniques to provide neighbor information in wireless networks and/or techniques to provide measurement pilot transmission information in wireless networks. According to an example embodiment, a neighbor report may be received from a first wireless node, the neighbor report including at least measurement pilot transmission... Agent: Brake Hughes PLC C/o Portfolioip

20070064658 - Flexible and monolithic rake receiver: A flexible and monolithic rake receiver apparatus, method, or computer-readable medium to decode a multi-path spread-spectrum signal to produce symbols. The rake receiver includes an input data double buffer, an interpolator, a correlation engine and a coherent accumulator. The input data double buffer collects input data during a current time-share... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070064656 - Physical random access channel frame structure and realization: New PRACH frame structures and methods for implementing such structures for use in mobile communication systems are disclosed. The PRACH frame structures can include a lengthened message portion. A system can broadcast the PRACH message portion length N in individual cells from a based station. If access condition is satisfied,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070064657 - Variable length physical random access channel frame structure and realization: New PRACH frame structures and methods for implementing such structures for use in mobile communication systems are disclosed. The PRACH frame structures can include a variable-length message portion.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070064659 - Multi-carrier communication with time division multiplexing and carrier-selective loading: A method for subcarrier allocation and loading for a multi-carrier, multi-subscriber system is described. At least one cluster in a first and second set of clusters of subcarriers is associated for use in communication with a first and second subscriber, respectively. Then, for each cluster associated for use in communication... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070064663 - Front-end module for wire-free communication means: A front-end module (101) has an input (6) for reception of transmission signals from an apparatus (3) for production of transmission signals, and an output (15) for outputting the transmission signals to an antenna (5). The module has further an amplifier stage (11) which is connected in the signal path... Agent: Baker Botts, L.L.P.

20070064662 - Method and apparatus for managing power during a discontinuous reception mode: A method and apparatus for managing power during discontinuous reception (DRX) mode are disclosed. A DRX mode is defined for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for reducing power consumption of the WTRU. During the DRX mode, the WTRU enters into a sleep state and periodically wakes up for processing paging... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070064661 - Method, apparatus and system for maintaining mobility resistant ip tunnels using a mobile router: A method, apparatus and system enable a mobile device to roam while maintaining a persistent IP tunnel. Specifically, a mobile router may be utilized to enable a mobile device to maintain a persistent IP tunnel while the device roams. In one embodiment, the mobile device is a virtual host and... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070064660 - Techniques for enhanced transition from access point to access point by a mobile wireless device: Before a transition from a current access point (AP) to a new AP, a mobile wireless station (STA) may determine mobility capabilities, network infrastructure and resource information that may be used to select a transition mechanism to use via information acquired by the current AP regarding the new AP.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070064664 - Adaptive data multiplexing method in ofdma system and transmission/reception apparatus thereof: A transmission/reception method and apparatus in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)-based wireless communication system are provided, in which a data transmitter adaptively selects a multiplexing scheme according to a code rate of the transmission packet or an effective SNR of a wireless channel for a corresponding terminal, when transmitting... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070064665 - Method and apparatus for accessing an uplink random access channel in a single carrier frequency division multiple access system: A method and apparatus for accessing a contention-based uplink random access channel (RACH) in a single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) randomly selects a RACH subchannel and a signature among a plurality of available RACH subchannels and signatures. The WTRU transmits... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070064666 - Method of allocating resources and method of receiving the allocated resources in a communication system: A method of allocating resources to control information transmitted from a base station (BS) to a subscriber terminal in a downlink (DL) frame and the subscriber terminal for receiving the control information are provided. A preamble and a common control channel in a DL frame from a particular BS are... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070064668 - Method and apparatus for improving transmission delay of status report in a wireless communications system: A method for improving transmission delay of a status report in a wireless communications system operating in an Acknowledged Mode includes triggering a status report transfer procedure and transmitting a status report packet a predetermined number of times that is more than one. A related wireless communications apparatus has a... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070064667 - Method and system for polling mobile stations in a wireless network: A method of wireless communication is provided. The method comprises adaptively polling a plurality of subscriber stations to provide channel quality indications for a plurality of channels associated with at least a portion of an orthogonal frequency division multiple access wireless network and adjusting the at least a portion of... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070064669 - Method and apparatus for reducing round trip latency and overhead within a communication system: During operation radio frames are divided into a plurality of subframes. Data is transmitted over the radio frames within a plurality of subframes, and having a frame duration selected from two or more possible frame durations.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070064670 - Method and system for selective silencing in a wlan mesh network: A method and system for selective silencing in a WLAN mesh network are provided. In the selective silencing method, a node being silenced is distinguished from a node being activated. The mechanism for selectively silencing is activated by altering the setting of a bit (or bits) in the frame control... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070064671 - Method for transmitting and receiving beacon information in wireless lan mesh network: Provided is a method for transmitting beacon timing information from a transmission node in a wireless Local Area Network (LAN) mesh network. In the method, each of a plurality of nodes transmits a beacon signal with its unique offset within a beacon signal transmission time period and the transmission node... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070064672 - Controlling or monitoring pbx phone from multiple pc endpoints: A method for controlling or monitoring a common PBX phone line from a plurality of personal computer endpoints with multiple instances of application of a SIP soft phone application.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070064673 - Flexible, scalable, wireless data forwarding and mobility for secure wireless networks: Systems and methods are described to allow secure undisrupted communication from wireless clients that roam a wide area network. System architectures and communication protocols are provided to ensure that wireless clients can seamlessly associate and reassociate with controllers on the network, without disruption to ongoing secure communications.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070064674 - System for passive alarm propagation and suppression for packet based networks: A system for passive alarm propagation and suppression in a communication network is disclosed. The system includes a packet based network including one subset of network providing connectivity to other set(s) of network. The network includes a first edge node and a second edge node; a first customer node connecting... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

20070064676 - Bearer setup for a multimedia service: A method of controlling the establishment of a packet switched bearer or bearers for carrying multimedia information between two or more user terminals during a circuit switched voice call, the method comprising at setup of or during the voice call, predicting at one of the user terminals the likelihood that... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20070064683 - Communication apparatus and computer usable medium: A communication apparatus operates to realize multiple communication functions in accordance with multiple client applications. The multiple functions include a step of causing the communication apparatus to function as a client that obtains data from an external server device through the networks and processes the obtained data or to process... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070064675 - Confinement of a data transfer to within a local area network: The present invention provides a system for enforcing a confinement of a data transfer to devices within a private-use local area network (1) with steps of identifying the source network address of a device providing the data on occasion of a data request, verifying (S1-1) that the source network address... Agent: William S Frommer Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070064679 - Jitter buffer management in a packet-based network: A method, system and computer program product for handling a session in a packed-based network is provided. The method involves the transmission of packets representing the session. A minimum and a maximum jitter delay value are set for the session. The minimum jitter delay value is based on the time... Agent: Evalueserve C/o Portfolioip

20070064681 - Method and system for monitoring a data channel for discontinuous transmission activity: A system (100) and method (400) for monitoring a data channel for discontinuous transmission activity can include a monitoring unit (210), in which the monitoring unit can identify a source of modifying the discontinuous transmission activity based on receipt of an identifier packet, and an equalizer (214) coupled to the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070064678 - Method and system for monitoring communications of an individual in a packet network: A system and method are disclosed for monitoring communications of an individual in a packet network. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network monitor (100) having a communications interface (110) coupled to a packet network (101), and a controller (102). The controller... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070064682 - Methods and computer program products for managing a plurality of voice-over internet protocol phone lines in customer premises equipment: A method of managing a plurality of Voice-Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone lines assigned to a VoIP Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). A VoIP call window is displayed on a display device of the VoIP CPE. A different one of a plurality of sub-windows are assigned to each of the different... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070064677 - Packet media gateway with a secondary pstn connection and method for time slot switching: A media gateway for coupling to both an Internet service provider frame switched network and a PSTN provider circuit switched network comprises an FXS port to which a telephony device may be coupled to initiate a connection to a destination. A programmable DSP includes a time-division multiplexing bus coupled to... Agent: Timothy P. O'hagan

20070064680 - Web services message processing runtime framework: A method is described that involves processing a Web services message within an object oriented runtime environment. The processing involves executing a plurality of protocols to support a Web service that the message pertains to. Each one of the protocols perform one or more operations that contribute to a different... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070064684 - Interleaving voip/vip transmission in multiple sessions to increase quality of service in mobile devices having multiple interfaces: A first mobile device has two air interfaces. The first mobile device uses its first interface to transmit VoIP/VIP packets to a second device in a first session. If a quality of service decreases, then the first device causes a second session to be set up where the second session... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070064686 - Method and apparatus for performing handover between core network entities in a packet-switched network: A method and apparatus for performing a L3handover between CNs in a packet-switched network are provided. When a UE moves from an old RAN to a new RAN, the UE sends a measurement report message including cell information to the old RAN. The old or new RAN determines whether to... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070064685 - Methods and apparatus for providing toll-free telephone services: Methods and apparatus for providing toll-free telephone services are disclosed. A disclosed system comprises a telephone network to route a telephone call placed to a toll-free telephone number to one of a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) endpoint, a Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) endpoint or a dedicated trunk endpoint... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070064687 - Radio apparatus: A control unit produces a packet signal composed of a plurality of streams, based on a plurality of inputted data signals. For each of a plurality of data signals, a baseband processing unit multiples the produced packet signal by a weight vector. The control unit appends a common known signal... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070064688 - Switching network: A switching network forms part of a digital cross-connect for connecting data frames between requested inputs and outputs, and includes an input stage, an intermediate stage, and an output stage, each of which consists of a plurality of switching matrices. Each input stage switching matrix has a link to each... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.C.

20070064693 - Access multiplexer: In access multiplexers (1) for multiplexing Internet Protocol packets to be exchanged between network devices (2) and subscriber devices (3-5), the Internet Protocol packets are encapsulated at each side of the access multiplexers (1). By providing the access multiplexers (1) with Internet Protocol routers (6-8) for routing the Internet Protocol... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070064691 - Arp relay: The present invention relates to an access unit comprising: at least one user port for coupling to a user device, at least one network port for coupling to an edge router, a local repository wherein user network addresses are held in one-to-one relationship with user port identifiers, a forwarding unit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070064692 - Method and apparatus for providing addressing in a multi-carrier communication system: An approach is provided for addressing in a multiple carrier communication system. In one embodiment, a group index is assigned to a group of terminals of a communication network. The group index permits sharing of addressing indices supported by the communication network for transmission of data to the group of... Agent: Dithavong & Mori, P.C.

20070064690 - Method and system for routing protocol outbound route control: A method and apparatus in a system for exchanging routing information with a peer router in another system, in which the apparatus and peer router are in data communication. The apparatus has a network interface for receiving and transmitting the routing information and a central processing unit in operative communication... Agent: Alan M. Weisberg Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070064689 - Method of controlling communication between devices in a network and apparatus for the same: Disclosed is a technology by which rules on communication permission or control are enforced to network internal devices such that an environment which looks as if to have a virtual firewall existing between network internal devices can be established. A communication control apparatus for this is located on the same... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070064694 - System and method for connecting a logic circuit simulation to a network: A system and method for connecting a running logic circuit simulation to a network running at a higher speed that includes a computer for receiving data packets from the network and storing the received data packets in a first buffer. The computer next transmits the received data packets to an... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070064695 - Method of multicast source filtering: A method for filtering multicast sources, so that when the multicast routing protocol is based on the Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) model, resource consumption of inquiry routers can be reduced and the multicast packet forwarding efficiency can be improved. In the present invention, the inquiry router determines whether it is the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070064703 - Autonomous routing of network messages: Messages from a network are processed so that each received message is received in one of a plurality of message formats, the content of each message is determined, and a network destination to which the message will be directed is selected, based on the determined message content. The message can... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20070064699 - Method and apparatus for arbitrating data packets in a network system: 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 includes a respective source identification.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070064698 - Method and apparatus for transferring bgp state information during asynchronous startup: A method of transferring application layer network information comprises the computer-implemented steps of electronically transferring, from a first electronic digital data processor to a second electronic digital data processor, one or more transport layer connections associated with one or more application layer sessions; creating and sending, to the second processor,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070064700 - Method and system for achieving spatial reuse over a resilient packet ring: A system, method and/or station that provides for spatial reuse over a resilient packet ring (RPR) network. A sublayer in a station on an RPR network tracks associations between MAC addresses of bridges on the RPR network and remote addresses in an association database. Frames addressed to a remote destination... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20070064696 - Method for automatically setting network: Disclosed is a method for automatically setting a network so that UPnP devices connected to a network composed of different IP segments can be communicated one another. The method comprises: receiving an event message transmitted from a device connected to a network; requesting a routing table to all devices connected... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070064704 - Methods and systems for a distributed provider edge: Methods and Systems are provided for a distributed Provider Edge (PE). A single Virtual Routing and Forwarding device (VRF) is associated with a single customer site. The VRF includes a single routing table (RIB) and a single forwarding table (FIB). The VRF also includes a plurality of Virtual Private Network... Agent: Michael A. De Sanctis

20070064702 - Modifying operation of peer-to-peer networks based on integrating network routing information: A data processing method comprising establishing a first node in a peer-to-peer data communications network, wherein the node is configured as a supernode in conformance with a peer-to-peer communications protocol, wherein the first node is configured as an active listener to one or more network routing protocols executing at a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070064697 - System, method and program for identifying source of malicious network messages: System, method and program for identifying a subset of a multiplicity of source networks. The subset including one or more source networks which have sent messages to one of a plurality of destination locations having a same IP address. For each of the multiplicity of source networks, a determination is... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070064701 - Wlan data reception method and device: A method and device receiving a WLAN signal in a receiver. The receiver comprises a receiving module and a controller module. The receiving module receives first data. The controller module coupled to the receiving module determines second data from the first data, and disables the receiving module if the second... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070064705 - Communications system, communications device, and data retransmission control method: The transmitter 1 comprises: a data transmission unit 11 which transmits data packets 50 comprising data, a data sequence number indicating the order of the data, and a transmission sequence number indicating the transmission order, and which receives acknowledgement packets 60 comprising the next data sequence number, a bit string... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070064707 - Method for transmission of digital information packets in a data network: The invention relates to a method for transmitting digital information packets in a data network from an emitter to a receiver, the information packets being transported by means of a transport layer. Said method is characterized by the following steps: the information packets to be transmitted are divided into at... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070064706 - Method of communication in a wireless communication network, corresponding station and network: The invention pertains to a method of communication in respect of transmitting/receiving stations in a wireless communication network, in which method first multi-receiver frames are exchanged between a station and a plurality of other stations and second mono-receiver frames are exchanged between a transmitting station and a receiving station, the... Agent: Joseph J Laks Patent Operations

20070064708 - Transmission control method, mobile station, radio base station, and radio network controller: A transmission control method for uplink user data in a mobile communication system in which a plurality of HARQ processes is applied to the uplink user data, includes: classifying, at the radio network controller, each HARQ process into any of a scheduled transmission process, a non-scheduled transmission process, or a... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070064710 - Minimized setup time for ims multimedia telephony using pre provisioned resources reserve according to most demanding codec: Several different methods are described herein for reducing the setup time needed to establish a media flow (e.g., packet-based voice communications) between two devices (e.g., two GPRS UEs, GPRS UE/server, GPRS UE/WLAN UE). In one embodiment, the method minimizes the setup time for establishing IMS telephony using pre-provisioned resources—reserve at... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070064709 - Minimized setup time for ims multimedia telephony using pre provisioned resources reserve at invite: Several different methods are described herein for reducing the setup time needed to establish a media flow (e.g., packet-based voice communications) between two devices (e.g., two GPRS UEs, GPRS UE/server, GPRS UE/WLAN UE). In one embodiment, the method minimizes the setup time for establishing IMS telephony using pre-provisioned resources—reserve at... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070064711 - System and method for providing, by a plurality of schedulers, differentiated service to consumers of distributed resources: v

20070064713 - Method to reduce or eliminate audio interference from computer components: The present invention provides a system and method that mitigates audio interference before and/or during an audio session, and in particular, when a high quality audio session is desired. The system includes an audio component that determines whether an audio session is to commence and a control component that interfaces... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070064712 - Method and apparatus for transmitting additional information on digital broadcast through home network: A method and apparatus that provide additional information on a digital broadcast to home network devices in a home network, the method including receiving the additional information on a digital broadcast from an external network; determining at least one device among the home network devices as a receiving device of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070064715 - Method and apparatus for the assessment and optimization of network traffic: A system for the assessment of network performance criteria, and applying this criteria to the classification of network addresses into appropriate ranges, using these ranges to consolidate performance measurements for the associated addresses, and applying these metrics toward the optimization of the network towards performance or policy objectives.... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP Attn: Thomas B. Haverstock

20070064714 - Wireless based troubleshooting of customer premise equipment installation: Troubleshooting of customer premise equipment installation includes receiving a request for troubleshooting information over a wireless link. The troubleshooting also includes providing information relating to an attempt to activate the customer premise equipment over the wireless link in response to receiving the request for troubleshooting information over the wireless link.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070064717 - Automatic framing selection: Network traffic is monitored and an optimal framing heuristic is automatically determined and applied. Framing heuristics specify different rules for framing network traffic. While a framing heuristic is applied to the network traffic, alternative framing heuristics are speculatively evaluated for the network traffic. The results of these evaluations are used... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070064716 - Methods and devices for controlling data unit handling: It is proposed to modify data unit handling on the side of a sender (e.g. a sending end-point or a proxy) by introducing congestion notification prevention information into data units, such that a queue buffer that implements a procedure for performing congestion notification with respect to one or more queued... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070064718 - Method of reliable multicasting: Disclosed is a method for reliable multicasting. The method comprises receiving a multicast packet, sending a first acknowledgement for having received the multicast packet, and receiving a second acknowledgement in response to having sent the first acknowledgement.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070064719 - Optical access network apparatus and data signal sending method therefor: The present invention realizes an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) in an optical access network and a data signal sending method for the optical access network in which the reliability of the network can be assured without increasing the cost of facility investment. The OLT comprises a multiplex control unit for... Agent: Paul J. Esatto, Jr. Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070064720 - Collision avoidance media access method for shared networks: A method includes scheduling a grid of sub-burst slots in a media access plan, each sub-burst slot having a shorter duration than a minimal transmission burst duration and representing an opportunity for the initiation of a data transmission by a network device. A network device includes a sub-burst slot scheduler... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20070064721 - System and method for transmission scheduling using network membership information and neighborhood information: Admitting a new node into a network without collisions and providing collision-free transmission of packets into a channel, such that: an upper bound can be enforced for the time elapsed between two consecutive time slots assigned to the same node; no collision-avoidance handshake is required for each packet transmission, and... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070064722 - Apparatus and method for facilitating data packet transportation: Embodiments of the present invention described and shown in the specification and drawings facilitate data packet transportation. One aspect of the invention multiplexes time-sensitive TDM (Time Division Multiplexed) and other synchronous data, and asynchronous data traffic, onto a communication channel in a manner that minimizes jitter in the delivery of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070064724 - Offload system, method, and computer program product for processing network communications associated with a plurality of ports: An offload system, method, and computer program product are provided for handling transport layer processing of a connection between a local host and a remote host via at least one network. A network interface associated with the local host is utilized for such purpose. A plurality of ports allow communication... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070064723 - Optimizing bandwidth of dsl connections: An arrangement is provided for optimizing the bandwidth of DSL connections. A DSL connection is established via a customer premise equipment, a copper line connecting to the customer premise equipment, and a DSL access multiplexer connecting to the copper line. The DSL connection is operated at a transmission rate that... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070064725 - System, method, and computer program product for multi-mode network interface operation: An offload system, method, and computer program product are provided. Based on an identified data structure, it is determined whether a hardware network interface is operating in a first mode or a second mode. The hardware network interface is coupled between a network and a processor. If it is determined... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070064726 - Endpoint transparent independent messaging scheme system and method: A software based system and method for facilitating connection-oriented data communication over a plurality of communication channels between endpoint software modules. Communication connection modules facilitate communication in at least one protocol between endpoint software modules via the plurality of communication channels, whereby the addressing data requirements on the software modules... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070064728 - Radio communication terminal, radio base transceiver station, method of controlling communication and program product for controlling communication: A radio communication terminal including first transmission/reception means for transmitting and receiving first communication data which can be communicated by a first communication protocol, and communication data input/output means for inputting and outputting the first communication data, comprising second transmission/reception means for transmitting and receiving second communication data which can... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070064727 - Transport network multiplexer: A system for multiplexing a transport packet and an Ethernet packet comprises a transport interface for receiving a transport stream comprising the transport packet and a network interface for receiving a network stream comprising the Ethernet packet. The system comprises a packet identifier coupled to the transport interface for filtering... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070064734 - Cable broadcast receiving apparatus and composing method of channel map thereof: A cable broadcast receiving apparatus and composing method thereof are provided where a cable broadcast receiver receives a cable broadcast signal, a POD cable card processes out-of-band data received from the cable broadcast receiver, an INB processor processes in-band data received from the cable broadcast receiver, and a controller composes... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070064729 - Method for transmission of data packets through a network: A method for transmission of data packets through a network is provided. The data packets with a maximum allowable delay are aggregated in a node of the network according to an aggregation strategy with timeout to a burst, wherein on arrival and buffering of a first packet a timer is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070064732 - Methods for allocating transmission bandwidths of a network: Methods for allocating transmission bandwidths of a network are provided. The allocation ratio of anticipation bandwidths is adjusted according to the loading of the network to calculate the requested bandwidths, thereby effectively reducing an average delay and enhancing the utility rate of the network. Further, remaining bandwidth of the network... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070064733 - Receiving device, electronic apparatus, communication method, communication program and recording medium: A receiving device receives, using wireless communication, (i) a connect packet for establishing a communication connection (9,600 bps) and (ii) a data packet which contains transfer data and whose communication speed (for example, 4 Mbps) is higher than that of the connect packet. The receiving device includes: an error status... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070064735 - Robust high-throughput frame for low-quality wireless channel conditions: A transceiver device for processing a frame in a wireless local area network, where the frame is one of several frame formats, which include a high throughput frame format. The transceiver device receives a frame having a training sequence, a signal field and a data payload, and processes the training... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070064730 - Tone hopping methods and apparatus: Methods and apparatus for allocating and hopping tones for uplink communications purposes in adjacent sectors and neighboring cells of an OFDM system are described. Physical tones used in each sector and cell are allocated to tone hopping sequences according to a tone to tone hopping sequence allocation function which uses... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070064731 - Transmission apparatus with function of multi-step bandwidth assignment to other communication apparatuses: A transmission apparatus for use in fixed bandwidth communications and variable bandwidth communications. The transmission apparatus has a memory unit, which stores information contained in a frame and indicating the amount of data to be transmitted from a terminal device, a computing unit, which calculates a bandwidth amount to be... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070064736 - Zero suppressed performance management data interpretation and same value suppression and interpretation: Inaccurate interpretation of historical performance management data of a network element and storage of redundant performance management data of a network element is prevented. A network element is polled for current performance management data, and if the current performance management data is determined to be the same as the performance... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070064738 - Communication apparatus, communication method, and communication system: A physical frame is constructed, the physical frame including a medium access control super-frame payload which in turn includes a plurality of medium access control frames. With respect to the constructed physical frame, virtual carrier sense information is set in the plurality of medium access control frame so that a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070064737 - Receive coalescing and automatic acknowledge in network interface controller: An apparatus and method is disclosed for reducing the computational overhead incurred by a host processor during packet processing and improving network performance by adding additional functionality to a Network Interface Controller (NIC). Under certain circumstances the NIC coalesces multiple receive packets into a single coalesced packet stored within a... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070064739 - Methods and systems for signal insertion: Methods and systems that support downstream media signal insertion into a digital signal without affecting digital signal quality is presented here. The methods and systems can utilize pre-defined bitrate values assigned to media signals and allocate that bitrate to a portion of a digital signal that will be replaced by... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20070064740 - Device, system and method of clock synchronization: Some embodiments of the invention provide devices, systems and methods of clock synchronization. For example, a system in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes a wireless access point to transmit a signal instructing a plurality of wireless communication stations to substantially simultaneously transmit wireless signals at a pre-defined... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070064741 - Method for real-time change of slot duration within a wireless network: A supervisory communications device, such as a base station within a wireless network, monitors and controls communications with a plurality of remote communications devices, such as mobile nodes, throughout a widely distributed network, including the Internet. The supervisory device establishes the upstream slot structure and allocates upstream bandwidth by sending... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070064744 - Frame synchronization: Frame synchronization methods and systems suited for packet communications systems, and particularly time frequency hopping packet communication systems, are disclosed. Frame synchronization is performed by performing a first correlation on information of received symbols and performing a second correlation on results of the first correlation. In systems with repeating synchronization... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070064742 - Method of synchronizing a wireless device using an external clock: A method is provided for operating a dual-use wireless device. The method includes: receiving an external timing signal (460) at a first wireless circuit (480) in the device (605); synchronizing a first clock in the first wireless circuit with the external timing signal (610); sending a first internal timing signal... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070064743 - Provision of messaging services from a video messaging system based on ani and clid: A telecommunications system that supports the provision of video messaging to certain user devices, based on the calling line identifier or ANI associated with the user devices. Based on the CLID or the ANI, as well as user selected options, network configurations and status, and class-of-service characteristics, the telecommunications systems... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070064745 - Dynamic preamble detection: A system and method are disclosed for dynamic preamble detection. A subset of the bits comprising the synchronization portion of the preamble are decoded, de-scrambled, and analyzed to determine dynamically which preamble format is being used. The source data values for the synchronization bits for a first preamble format are... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070058521 - Method and apparatus for frame synchronization in a distributed mimo ofdm system: The present invention relates to technique for frame synchronization in a distributed MIMO-OFDM system, and the method thereof comprises: generating step: generating preambles for synchronization at respective transmitting antennas using PN sequences with different lengths which have one-to-one correspondence to the respective transmitting antennas by a transmitter; locating step: performing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070058523 - Method for generating a frame in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access communication system: Disclosed is a method for generating a frame in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access communication system. The method includes generating a frame having a global information zone and a local information zone, wherein the global information zone includes information that is necessary to be received commonly in all of... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070058524 - Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access (ofdma) ranging: A method for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Access (OFDMA) ranging is provided. The method includes receiving a signal having OFDMA symbols. An FFT is performed on this signal. Matching ranging codes are found. The power for a given hypothesized ranging code is determined and compared to a power threshold to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070058522 - Radio apparatus: A control unit, in cooperation with an interface (IF) unit, a modulation unit and a baseband processing unit, produces a packet signal composed of a plurality of streams. While using as a reference a first known signal assigned to one of the plurality of streams and performing a cyclic timing... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070058525 - Monitoring a problem condition in a communications system: A solution for monitoring a problem condition in a communications system is provided. A communications protocol implementation monitors the communications system for the problem condition. The communications protocol implementation can initiate a response based on the problem condition being present. In this manner, the communications protocol implementation provides an effective... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070058527 - Peripheral setting apparatus and method: A peripheral setting apparatus and method. The peripheral setting apparatus includes a setting information acquiring unit which acquires setting information of a master peripheral that is provided on a network, and a setting unit which sets a new peripheral that is newly provided on the network using the acquired setting... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070058526 - Protocol definition for software bridge failover: A method, data processing system, and computer usable code are provided for protocol definition for software bridge failover. In a first aspect of the present invention, a first software bridge determines the proper working operation of a physical adapter. Limbo packets are sent to a second software bridge alerting the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070058528 - Fault-tolerant communications in routed networks: A method for providing fault-tolerant network communications between a plurality of nodes for an application, including providing a plurality of initial communications pathways over a plurality of networks coupled between the plurality of nodes, receiving a data packet on a sending node from the application, the sending node being one... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070058530 - Apparatus, computer readable medium and method for redundant data stream control: An apparatus, computer readable medium, and method for redundant data stream control. The computer readable medium may include a first evaluation code segment for determining a first status of a first redundant data stream based at least in part on a first parameter and a predetermined policy, a second evaluation... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070058529 - Method for synchronized trunk failover and failback in a fc-al switching environment: The synchronization of trunk failover between two FC-AL switches when a primary trunk failure occurs is disclosed. If primary trunk T1 should fail, S1 bypasses the cascade port and sends a MaRK (MRK) ordered set out over duplicate trunk T2 to switch S2. In response, S2 sends an acknowledgement MRK... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070058531 - Method and apparatus for improved data transmission through a data connection: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable code for receiving data from a sender across a network connection for the data transfer. An expected size for a congestion window for the sender is identified. An amount of the data received from the sender is tracked. An acknowledgment is sent... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070058532 - System and method for managing network congestion: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method comprises measuring traffic congestion experienced by a message transmitted from a source device, and if the measured traffic congestion exceeds a threshold limit, altering at least one bit within a Layer 2 (L2) header of the message. This bit alteration is... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070058540 - Apparatus and method for facilitating network security: An apparatus is described that facilitates network security and network traffic monitoring through processing of network traffic in accordance with provisioned rules and policies. The apparatus includes a set of microcode controlled state machines, each of which applies one or more rules to input network traffic. A distribution circuit routes... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070058544 - Apparatus and method for scheduling data in a communication system: A method and apparatus for scheduling data in a communication system. Data is classified into at least one Quality of Service (QoS) class having a series of priorities according to QoS of the data. The classified data is scheduled according to the series of priorities of the at least one... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070058543 - Atm over ethernet scheduler: A method and apparatus is described for encapsulating data from a cell and packet based network utilizing a virtual circuit type implementation mechanism and an asynchronous transfer format such as ATM in a frame of a frame based protocol such as Ethernet. At least two policies are provided for scheduling... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070058542 - Automated load balancing of receivers in a network: A spare receiver in a CMTS is used to determine the RF connectivity status of the receivers of a Load Balancing Group or Spectrum Group in the CMTS in the network. The spare receiver is connected to a receiver of the Load Balancing Group or Spectrum Group which does not... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070058541 - Communication traffic management systems and methods: Communication traffic management systems and methods are disclosed. One or more traffic managers may be provided for managing communication traffic to be sent toward respective groups of one or more destinations. A determination is made as to whether one traffic manager or more than one traffic manager is provided. If... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC.

20070058537 - Handling of early media ii: To efficiently select early media data, useful data is selected that is transmitted during the initiation of a call between a calling subscriber and at least one called subscriber via at least one telecommunications network. Recipient-address data for the called subscriber and transmission-address data for the calling subscriber is extracted... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070058533 - Method and apparatus for load-balancing in a distributed processing system: According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of routing a message to one of a plurality of available processing systems, comprising the steps of detecting the presence of a destination identifier in the message, and where the presence of the destination identifier is detected,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070058536 - Method and equipment for controlling the congestion management and scheduling of transmission-link capacity in packet-switched telecommunications: The invention relates to a method and equipment for controlling the congestion management and transmission-link-capacity scheduling in packet-switched telecommunications, in such a way that 1) it is possible to define what share of the capacity of the transmission link will be reserved for traffic representing a specific service level class,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070058538 - Method of setting up a wireless router: A method of detecting and configuring an internet connection of a router includes verifying that the router is connected to a physical internet connection, transmitting a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) request through the physical internet connection, configuring the router to use a DHCP internet connection if a response is... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070058535 - Quality of service control in a wireless local area network: The Quality of Service (QoS) level/service level within a wired network associated with a wireless Local Area Network (LAN) is controlled by assigning to each incoming information frame a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) number in accordance with the QoS level/service level determined for that frame. The frame is then... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070058534 - Session relay apparatus and relaying method: A session identification unit (11) determines a session to which an incoming packet belongs, while a session relay unit (12-1-12-N) relays between a session with a transmission terminal and a session with a reception terminal. A packet scheduler (13) instructs and controls the delivery of packets from each session relay... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070058539 - System and method for implementing suppression for asynchronous transfer mode (atm) adaptation layer 2 (aal2) 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.

20070058545 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for quality of service processing: A method of signal transmission according to one embodiment includes requesting a packet data serving node to filter a specified traffic flow from among a stream of packets. The method also includes requesting a radio access network to provide an indicated quality-of-service (QoS) treatment for the flow over a wireless... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070058546 - Voip terminal having qos monitoring function and qos monitoring method: A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) terminal has a Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring function and uses a QoS monitoring method. In a VoIP system performing real-time voice communication over an IP network, a packet loss value and a time-axis index value are detected, and are calculated from a real-time... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell Suite 300

20070058547 - Method and apparatus for a grid network throttle and load collector: A method and apparatus for a grid project throttle control for controlling the rate at which a grid job utilizes processor and network resources at the grid node. This throttling mechanism controls the rate of network and processor utilization based on a determination of the expected network and processor availability... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070058548 - Method and device for controlling data packet traffic at the input of a network, and corresponding computer program and network equipment: The invention relates to a method of controlling data packet traffic at the input of a network, whereby the traffic comprises N streams and/or substreams which are each associated with a priority level, N =2, and each of the aforementioned packets is marked with the priority level associated with the... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070058549 - Method and signaling node for reducing signaling during call setup: A method and a signaling node for reducing signaling during call setup in a communication network. The signaling node is an intermediate node on a signaling path between an origination node and a destination node. When a call setup delay is experienced, the intermediate node receives a first excessive delay... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070058550 - Image formation device, management device, network system, control program for image formation device, and control program for management device: A management device is connected to image formation devices, each having at least one network interface, via a network. Embodiments include a presence check request transmitting unit which transmits presence check requests to the network interfaces of the image formation devices via the network; an identification information receiving unit which... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070058551 - Method and system for intrusion prevention and deflection: A system for preventing intrusion in communication traffic with a set of machines in a network includes a data base having stored therein patterns representative of forbidden communication entities as well a firewall module configured for blocking forbidden communication entities in the traffic as identified by respective patterns included in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070058552 - Communication apparatus, communication state detection method and communication state detection program: A communication apparatus including a network controller configured to control communication connection to a different apparatus; and a main controller configured to control state detection of the network controller and data communication with the different apparatus connected to the communication apparatus through the network controller, wherein the main controller controlling... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070058553 - Method and an arrangement for transport layer control signalling in utran supporting both atm and ip transport technologies: The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement for controlling the user plane of a UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network, UTRAN, comprising a first edge node connected via a Transport Network Layer to a second edge node, by using Transport Network Layer, TNL, signalling. A radio link is... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070058554 - Method of networking systems reliability estimation: Interconnected networking systems is becoming a challenge in terms of dependability estimation as two main communication technologies co-exist in today's networks: switching and routing. These two technologies have two different and complementary levels of resilience. Switching is focused on sensitivity to delays and connectivity whereas routing is focused on traffic... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070058555 - Method and apparatus for low overhead network protocol performance assessment: A method and apparatus for testing network performance are provided. In data provided by an application on a first host for transport or communication to an application associated with a second host according to a first data transport protocol is intercepted at the first host and wrapped or encapsulated in... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20070058563 - Communication system, communication device and method, and program: A communication device for performing communication with another communication device via a communication medium includes an obtaining unit for obtaining first attribute information which is information relating to a function and a usage of the other communication device, a setting unit for performing setting of the communication based on the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070058562 - Measurement system and method of measuring a transit metric: A measurement system comprises a pair of probes located at different points in a communications network. The probes generate transaction records related to messages observed, an exchange of the messages constituting a transaction. The transaction records are passed to a data store, the data store being mined by a correlator... Agent: Perman & Green

20070058558 - Method and apparatus for compositional control of end-to-end media in ip networks: A method and apparatus for controlling end-to-end media on packet networks such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Service over Internet Protocol (SoIP) networks are disclosed. The present method provides an algorithm to be run by channel terminations such that the media channel is controlled by compositional actions. For... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070058557 - Method and apparatus for scheduling data transmissions based on a traffic data pattern model: A communication network includes at least two nodes which exchange data packets. The communication network further includes a processor and a data transmission scheduling unit. The processor monitors the data packets, collects and analyzes information contained in the data packets, and identifies a particular service based on the monitoring of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070058564 - Method and device for managing data flow in a synchronous network: A Cyclone Network Synchronization algorithm is presented that does not depend on highly stable and expensive clocks or hardware, yet it can synchronize nodes in a network with a very high degree of accuracy. It is very light-weight since no clock synchronization is performed, and subsequently does not incur any... Agent: Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20070058561 - Method and system for quality of service renegotiation: A method of renegotiating QoS levels of a communication link in one or more networks, the communication link having an initial QoS level prior to renegotiation, includes examining information flowing on the communication link between a first network endpoint and a second network endpoint. The method also includes determining, based... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070058559 - Method and system of assigning priority to detection messages: The embodiments of the present invention provides for methods, devices, and systems for proximity detection, typically between transmitting devices and receiving devices. The various embodiments of proximity detection may be typically applied any priority-based networks. The round trip time control messages are typically set at a highest priority or at... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, PC

20070058565 - Method for indicating padding in a digital mobile radio system: A method for indicating padding in a digital mobile radio is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a packet comprising a header and a defined length blocks portion. The defined length blocks portion comprises payload and a padding portion. The padding portion comprises padding and a payload pad count field. The... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070058560 - Network device, and data processing method: There is provided a device which comprises: a reception unit adapted to receive a specific request transmitted from an information processing device on a network; a judgment unit adapted to judge whether or not setting concerning the network in the device has been changed; and a control unit adapted to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070058556 - System and method for offloading a processor tasked with calendar processing: The invention comprises system and method for offloading a processor tasked with calendar processing of channel status information. The method comprises multiplexing channel status information received from a plurality of physical interfaces; grouping the channels based on bandwidth; comparing current and previous status information of a group of channels in... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070058566 - Fast control messaging mechanism for use in wireless network communications: In a wireless network according to embodiments of the present invention, fast control messaging frames are used to signal control information. A fast control messaging (“FCM”) frame includes MAC layer control bits in a PLCP header, obviating the need for a PSDU. These frames can be used in 802.11n wireless... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070058568 - Controlled distribution of inter-area routing information: A technique controls distribution of reachability information for a tail-end node of a traffic engineering (TE) label switched path (LSP) to a head-end node of the TE-LSP in a computer network. The TE-LSP preferably spans multiple domains of the network such that the tail-end node resides in a domain (“tail-end... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070058567 - Discovery and identification of upstream device characteristics for self-configuration of customer premises equipment: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a customer premises equipment (CPE) apparatus includes a first communications unit and a processing unit. The first communications unit is adapted to send and receive messages over an upstream network. The processing unit is adapted to control the sending and receiving... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070058570 - Identifying and analyzing network configuration differences: A contextual and semantic analysis of network entities facilitates a mapping and comparison of the entities between network models. The system includes a plurality of refine handler and match handler pairs that use rules that are specific to the type of network entities being analyzed. The refine handler analyzes the... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070058569 - Integrated presentation and management of communication services: Methods of managing a suite of communication services include providing a central management function configured to manage the status of a plurality of communication services including at least one IP-based communication service and at least one non-IP based communication service, receiving a status of the at least one IP-based communication... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070058571 - Facilitating topology change functionality when regional root information changes: A method for providing Topology Change functionality in a Local Area Network (LAN) comprises a plurality of operations. An operation is performed for determining that a Multiple Spanning Tree Instance (MSTI) Master port on a Bridge of a LAN has transitioned to Forwarding state from a corresponding Common Internal Spanning... Agent: Alcatel Internetworking, Inc.

20070058572 - Multi-ring resilient packet ring add/drop device: A Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) add/drop device to connect multiple rings, e.g. SDH/SONET rings, wavelength or fibers, to a single switch or router device is disclosed. The add/drop device according to the invention comprises two multiplexing framer devices and an Add/Drop Multiplexor-Media Access Control (ADM-MAC) device. Each of the multiplexing... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20070058573 - Method for allocating a communication right, communication conference session server and communication conference session server arrangement: A plurality of communication conference sessions coupled to one another n such that when a communication right is requested, a check is made to ascertain whether the communication right has already been allotted to subscribers in a different, coupled communication conference session. In such a case, the communication right is... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070058574 - Organizational arrangements for self-coordinated machine networks: The invention is a mode of operation for an improved self-coordinated machine network. The invention is used for applications where individual machine may be dormant for a significant fraction of total use time to save power. The invention provides organizational functions which allow the network to save power by having... Agent: Mark Rodgers

20070058575 - Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption of wireless lan device: A method and apparatus for reducing the power consumption of a wireless LAN device that operates in a wireless network are disclosed. The method for reducing the power consumption includes receiving a high throughput (HT) frame; judging whether the received HT frame is decodable; and if the received HT frame... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070058576 - Mobile communication terminal and method for reproducing digital broadcasting: Disclosed is a mobile communication terminal and a method for reproducing digital broadcasting by a mobile communication terminal equipped with a moving picture player, the method including receiving digital broadcasting data, detecting CODEC information necessary for reproduction of the digital broadcasting, while parsing the received digital broadcasting data into video... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070058580 - Controlling the communication mode in a mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terninal comprising an interface for allowing scheduling of a first time period; a timer for monitoring a beginning and an end for the first time period; and a controller for switching the mobile communication terminal to a first mode, at the beginning of the first time period,... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070058581 - Hybrid coordination function (hcf) access through tiered contention and overlapped wireless cell mitigation: A method and system reduce interference between overlapping first and second wireless LAN cells in a medium. Each cell includes a respective plurality of member stations and there is at least one overlapped station occupying both cells. An inter-cell contention-free period value is assigned to a first access point station... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20070058579 - Method for processing calls from multiple communication networks and equipment thereof: The present invention discloses a method for processing calls from multiple communication networks, comprising: determining if services of a communication network other than the first communication network are already proceeding. If services of the communication network other than the first communication network are already proceeding, terminating the calling request or... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070058577 - Methods and apparatus for providing a cooperative relay system associated with a broadband wireless access network: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing a cooperative relay system associated with a broadband wireless access network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070058578 - System and method of data access for mobile stations: Method and apparatus for data access for a mobile terminal comprising a module for determining whether first and second modes of wireless network coverage is available, a module for selecting the first mode if available, a module for attempting access via the second mode on failure to establish access via... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070058583 - Apparatus and method for allocating resources in a mobile communication system: A method is provided for allocating resources in a base station (BS) of a mobile communication system. The method includes calculating a priority value of each sub-carrier for each mobile station (MS) according to a data rate required by each MS and an average channel gain for each MS, the... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070058582 - Mobile node for obtaining ip address allocation information, data server for providing ip address allocation information, and method of providing ip address allocation information: A mobile node transmits a frame requesting IP address allocation information needed to obtain an IP address in a neighboring network; receives a frame including the IP address allocation information requested in the transmitted frame; and obtains an IP address in the neighboring network based on the IP address allocation... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070058584 - Techniques to transmit and duplex with channel knowledge at a base station: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a base station employing a duplexing technique that allows simultaneous transmission and reception on a plurality of frequency such that in each transmit time interval downlink transmission is carried over a frequency band used for uplink reception in a contiguously... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070058585 - Maintaining a data connection during a dormant data session with a wireless communication network: A wireless device establishes a data session with a data call, and a data connection is set up for the data session. The wireless device may receive or originate a voice call while the data session is dormant, exchange traffic data for the voice call, and perform handoff between base... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070058589 - Mobile communication system, mobile station and diversity handover branch control method: A branch candidate selecting method by a mobile station and a diversity handover control method on a network side in DHO performance are provided which consider a maximum cable branch number and maximum radio branch number of the mobile station, when the mobile station detects the plurality of addition branch... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070058588 - Reducing handoff latency in a wireless local area network: If a handoff by a mobile station currently associated with a particular access point is probable, then the particular access point sends an activation alert to one or more other access points. An access point receiving the activation alert that is in a low-power state enters a higher-power state. An... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20070058587 - System and method for performing fast handoff in mobile network: A mobile network is disclosed in which there exists a Mobile Node (MN), the MN is managed by a first Access Router (AR), and there exists a second AR with a subnet different from the first AR. A method is provided for the MN performing a fast handoff from the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070058586 - Wireless telecommunication system, transmitter and receiver: In a wireless telecommunication system for transmitting a plurality of streams from a base transmission station comprising a plurality of antennas to a mobile station comprising a plurality of antennas, the base transmission station respectively transmits, by way of a plurality of the antennas, each stream obtained by dividing data... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070058590 - User selection method in a zero-forcing beamforming algorithm: In a method for selecting a transmission target terminal in a zero-forcing beamforming algorithm, information about a channel capacity of each terminal is received from all K terminals. A terminal with a largest channel capacity is selected as an initial transmission target terminal. A determination is made as to whether... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070058592 - Method for allocating cdma channels: A method for allocating CDMA channels applicable to a mobile communication system that performs communication by using two or more CDMA channels, the method comprising: for each active sector corresponding to a particular mobile station, independently allocating CDMA channels (i.e., frequency assignments) such that each active sector is allocated at... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070058593 - Mobile communication system, communication control method, and base station and mobile station to be employed in the same: In the communication system performing transmission with generating the vacant period in the slotted mode during data transmission in order to perform various process, such as different frequency carrier quality measurement or so forth, the control signal for maintaining a communication quality is inserted even in the vacant period. Therefor,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070058591 - System and method for the mitigation of cdma cross-corrlation artifacts and the improvement of signal-to-noise ratios in tdma location networks: A correlation system for Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) positioning systems is disclosed, whereby a position receiver acquires, tracks, and demodulates a plurality of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) modulated positioning signals are pulsed in a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) scheme. A specialized correlation processor within the position receiver... Agent: David Small Locata Corporation

20070058594 - Channel allocation method between heterogeneous wireless networks and wireless network apparatus providing the same: A wireless network apparatus and method for performing channel allocation between heterogeneous wireless networks is provided. The wireless network apparatus includes a first ultra wide band (UWB) interface module that transmits and receives a frame compliant with a first UWB communication format; a second UWB interface module that transmits and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070058595 - Method and apparatus for reducing round trip latency and overhead within a communication system: During operation radio frames are divided into a plurality of subframes. Data is transmitted over the radio frames within a plurality of subframes, and having a frame duration selected from two or more possible frame durations.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070058598 - Method and system for detecting rogue access points and device for identifying rogue access points: A system for detecting rogue access points (APs) includes a detecting station (130) and a device for identifying rogue access points (110). The detecting station scans access points and stations associated with the access points, in order to compile an AP list and an association list within the scope of... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070058596 - Method for distributing data, adapted for mobile devices: A method for distributing data in a heterogeneous network. The method operates on a private mobile network, which includes a mobility server, mobile components and fixed components, on which the mobility server includes data storage units that store data on behalf of network members, at least some of such data... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070058601 - Method of authenticating access points on a wireless network: A method of authenticating access points (1, 2, 3) on a wireless network (4) comprises sending a list of nearest neighbours (2, 3) from a trusted access point (1) to a controller (6). At the trusted access point (1), test data related to each of the listed nearest neighbours is... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070058599 - Method to sustain tcp connection: The present invention relates to network communication systems for managing client/server connections in a wireless environment. In accordance with the invention, a mobile communication unit (i.e., client), deploys keepalive packets at selected times in order to reset a keepidle timer of a server (e.g., host computer). By periodically resetting the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070058597 - Network adapted for mobile devices: A network mobility server, which includes a target device inventory module, a data collection module, a data management module and a distribution module. The data management module, includes at least one data storage module, in which at least a portion of the data stored therein are identical data items stored... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070058600 - Packet flow control in wireless local area network (wlan): Packet flow control in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system includes controlling packet flow of the WLAN using a pause frame depending on whether a buffer of an (Access Point) AP is saturated, thereby preventing packet loss and channel dissipation and improving the efficiency with which resources of the... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell Suite 300

20070058602 - Transmission apparatus and frame transmission method: A line unit holds in its active table data a number that indicates which flooding setting table is to be made active. An input frame forwarding unit embeds the number in an internal frame header of a frame that is to be output. As the number is embedded before the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070058603 - Apparatus and method for estimating and reporting a carrier to interference noise ratio in a multi-antenna system: An apparatus and method for estimating and reporting a Carrier to Interference Noise Ratio (CINR) in a wireless communication system are provided. The wireless communication system receives the CINR reported from the mobile station and transmits data by adaptively setting a coding and modulation level. In a mobile station, a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070058604 - Method and apparatus for scheduling data packet transmission over a multihop wireless backhaul network: A method and apparatus for scheduling the transmission of data packets over a multihop wireless backhaul network in which delay guarantees through the network may be advantageously ensured. Illustratively, a novel packet scheduling scheme is provided which is advantageously based on an existing scheduling policy for wireline networks and for... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20070058605 - Scheduling with reverse direction grant in wireless communication systems: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate increased communication channel bandwidth efficiency in association with scheduled time periods that allocate channel access to particular stations. According to various aspects, systems and methods are described that facilitate providing and/or utilizing reverse direction grants in connection with scheduled channel access. Such systems... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070058607 - Method and system for multi-layer network routing: Each node of a telecommunications network determines interface point connection type attributes available for each signal type supported by the node. Each signal type represents a different connection routing layer within the telecommunications network. Adaptation costs involved in traversing from one connection routing layer to another connection routing layer in... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070058606 - Routing data packets from a multihomed host: The invention allows routing data packets from a multihomed host. A default gateway is associated with each of network addresses associated with the multihomed host. One of the associated network addresses is assigned to a data packet to be sent from the multihomed host as its source address. A routing... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070058614 - Bandwidth utilization for video mail: Video content is delivered in a bandwidth efficient manner to a destination device. The video content is analyzed and a compression operation is performed on the video content prior to delivery to the destination device. Any audio associated with the video content is maintained in synchronization with the video content.... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070058615 - Emergency services for voice over ip telephony (e-voip): A method for determining the physical coordinates of a VoIP phone and transmitting the physical coordinates to an emergency services call center or the like comprises the steps of determining the physical coordinates of the VoIP phone using signals from a GPS or cellular network, placing a call to an... Agent: Henry C. Query, Jr.

20070058613 - Integrating telephonic service subscribers: A telecommunication system comprises a first interface, a second interface, and a voice-over-Internet device. The first interface enables a telephonic handset coupled to the voice-over-Internet device to communicate via a phone service. The second interface enables the telephonic handset to communicate via a data network coupled to the voice-over-Internet device.... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070058609 - Media route optimization in network communications: Media routes may be optimized in network communications, such a radio telephony communications networks. In one embodiment, the description includes identifying a first network controller corresponding to a first media communications client, identifying a second network controller corresponding to a second media communications client, determining whether the first and second... Agent: Stattler, Johansen, And Adeli LLP

20070058611 - Method and system to proxy mobile and network originated call sessions: A method (300) and system (100) are disclosed to proxy mobile and network originated call sessions. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method in a network proxy (102) having the steps of receiving (308) from a mobile device (116) on a data... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070058617 - Method for establishing and maintaining a connection: A method for establishing and maintaining a connection between at least one terminal and at least one communication server, preferably for using the connection in case of VolP (Voice over IP) communication, wherein the terminal and the communication server are connected over a network, wherein the establishment and the maintenance... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070058610 - Method for transmitting a message by compressed data transmission between a sender and a receiver via a data network: A method for transmitting a message by compressed data transmission between a sender and a receiver using connectionless or connection oriented protocols. The sender gateway assures that the appropriate handling of the message data is made by knowing the transmission protocol(s) used. T The rules and structures of the protocol(s)... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070058616 - Method, system and terminal for implementing information transfer services: The present invention discloses a method for implementing information transfer services, including: A. generating, by a sending terminal, an address of the information to be sent, and sending, by the sending terminal, the address via a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) short message to a receiving device of the information; and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070058612 - Quality of service enabled device and method of operation therefore for use with universal plug and play: A method of operation for use with a QoS enabled device includes maintaining a record of a configuration of QoS objects present at a QoS enabled device and available for configuration. Further operation includes communicating the record to a user of the device, receiving a request from the user specifying... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070058608 - Telephone network architecture for a voice over internet protocol service: A VoIP telephone network system for providing VoIP telephone service to telephone customers connected to the network, has a managed IP network; a plurality of gateways connected to the managed IP network; a plurality of telephones connected to the gateways; a VoIP server connected to the managed IP network; a... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070058618 - Multi-channel communication circuitry for programmable logic device integrated circuits and the like: An integrated circuit like a programmable logic device (“PLD”) includes multiple channels of data communication circuitry. Circuitry is provided for selectively sharing signals (e.g., control-type signals) among these channels in groupings of various size so that the device can better support communication protocols that require various numbers of channels (e.g.,... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup

20070058620 - Management of a switch fabric through functionality conservation: A method, system or computer program product for managing a switch fabric in a computer network, the switch fabric containing a plurality of switches, the method, system or product further including the capability for establishing a client/provider mode of operation between at least two switches of the plurality of switches;... Agent: Hensley Kim & Edgington, LLC

20070058619 - Port expander for fibre channel fabrics in storage area networks: An port expander Fibre Channel switch presents F_ports to form a first Fibre Channel fabric and N_ports to a second Fibre Channel fabric to appear as node devices. The port expander may be used to connect a plurality of blade servers to a Fibre Channel fabric. Fabric events engendered by... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070058625 - In-vehicle terminal, server, traffic information system, link data update method, and traffic information provision method: The in-vehicle terminal includes an additional link database where link data including a temporary link ID (Identification) before being given by a server and established by an authorization device; a new and old link IDs database where a new and old link IDs table is saved wherein an established link... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070058622 - Low latency working vpls: A system and method are provided for forwarding packets through a fully meshed communication network when the destination MAC address may not be known. Each network element maintains a mapping of MAC addresses and IP addresses, each MAC address having an associated IP address which indicates to where packets are... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070058623 - Method & apparatus for packet processing: Frame processing for a wireless communication system. The frame processing includes detecting reception of a frame based on a portion of a preamble of a frame, wherein the frame includes a preamble and a data payload. With detecting the reception of a frame, determining a frame type of a plurality... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070058624 - Method for controlling packet forwarding in a routing device: The present invention discloses a method for implementing packet forwarding control in routing device, comprising: said routing device getting a source address of a received packet and judging whether said source address is a legal source address; if it is a legal source address, confirming said packet to be a... Agent: Summa, Allan & Additon, P.A.

20070058621 - Method of identifying a home gateway using network traffic sniffing and apparatus employing the same: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a customer premises equipment (CPE) apparatus includes a first communications unit, a second communications unit, and a processing unit. The first communications unit is configured to receive an inbound message packet from a first communications channel. The inbound packet includes a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070058629 - Application driven fast unicast flow replication: A technique to replicate unicast flows is described. A plurality of unicast control flows are received at a network element from a plurality of clients. One of the unicast control flows is forwarded to a server. A unicast content flow is received from the server at the network element in... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070058628 - Broadcasting in wireless systems: In a radio access network, techniques for multicasting information from a radio network controller to radio nodes. The techniques further include broadcasting the information from the radio nodes to mobile access terminals. The information can include content to be delivered to the access terminals.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070058627 - Dynamic source selection within an ip multicast network: A method to perform dynamic source selection within an IP multicast network is performed at a designated router of an IP multicast network. At the designated router within the IP multicast network, a first source of a multicast group is selected to be forwarded to a receiving host or multiple... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070058626 - Multi-user streaming: The invention provides a solution for performing multicast for streaming transmission in a telecommunication system. An intermediate node is proposed which is able to connect the functionality of a broadcast/multicast server and of a streaming node. Further the intermediate node is responsible for the establishment of a bearer for multicast... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070058630 - Wireless network information distribution method: An information distribution method for sending similar information from a sending node to all of receiving nodes in a given state in a dense wireless network. The sending node sends, only one time, information including status data directly to all of receiving nodes in an area where communication with the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070058633 - Configurable network connection address forming hardware: An apparatus and method are provided for extracting connection information from a traffic header in a communications network. The apparatus includes a first storage element containing a first look-up table for determining a first data packet header offset and data size for extracting a communications protocol type from the header... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20070058631 - Distributed network management: Hosts or end-systems residing at the edges of a network gather data about the traffic they transmit into and receive from the network. The network's routing protocol (typically a link-state protocol such as OSPF) is monitored and routing data or packets are used to recover the network's current status and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070058634 - Interaction with wireless sensor devices: A client node is communicatively coupled to a gateway node via a TCP/IP network. One or more constrained devices that include a wireless receiver/transmitter circuit communicate with the gateway node via a wireless network. The gateway node includes a web server that provides a dynamic web page accessible by the... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Attn: Timothy Schulte

20070058632 - Packet flow bifurcation and analysis: Methods and apparatus for optimum matching of a traffic profile with an individual traffic flow using flow bifurcation and analysis. Bifurcation and duplication of packets that make up a flow received at an ingress element are forwarded to each of egress traffic and computation processor resources, such that egress traffic... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070058636 - System and method for evaluating lower layer reliability using upper layer protocol functionality in a communications network: In one embodiment, a method is provided for evaluating reliability of a communications link between a sender and a receiver in a wireless packet data network. The method comprises transmitting a datagram or at least a fragment thereof to the receiver; responsive to a failure to receive acknowledgment of receipt... Agent: Danamraj & Youst, P.C.

20070058635 - Systems and methods for transmitting data over lossy networks: An encoder/decoder system usable to decrease the probability of a failed transmission over a lossy wireless network. In one embodiment, data packets unsuccessfully sent over the wireless network may be retransmitted a particular number of times, depending on how important the data in the lost packet is. In another embodiment,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070058637 - Method for multi-channel multi-device call transfer: A method of improving communication in a SIP-enabled communication network which involve a variety of communication devices. By the method, a call, either entirely or just a selected medium stream of the call, may be switched, easily and seamlessly to a different channel for different media, either on the same... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070058638 - System and methods for network segmentation: A routing mechanism provides network segmentation preservation by route distribution with segment identification, policy distribution for a given VPN segment, and encapsulation/decapsulation for each segment using an Ethernet VLAN_ID, indicative of the VPN segment (subnetwork). Encapsulated segmentation information in a message packet identifies which routing and forwarding table is employed... Agent: Chapin & Huang L.L.C. Westborough Office Park

20070058640 - Efficiently transmitting rtp protocol in a network that guarantees in order delivery of packets: A method and computer program product for providing RTP suppression across a DOCSIS network. An index number and a set of rules are sent to a receiver. The index number indicates the type of header suppression technique (i.e., RTP header suppression) to be performed, and the set of rules define... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070058639 - Systems and methods for interworking qsig and h.323 signaling in a sip-based network: A SIP-based network architecture is defined allowing a variety of access methods for interfacing QSIG-based signaling devices. The QSIG-based signaling devices are typically enterprise-based PBXs that either interface directly via QSIG, or adapt QSIG signaling to related signaling protocols via gateways, which can be customer premise or network based. The... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070058641 - Enterprise physical layer switch: A physical layer switch is provided that includes a switch cross bar for changeably interconnecting selected ports within a physical layer switch such that an optical signal can be changeably routed between selected ports, a first port in communication with the switch cross bar, and a second port in communication... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070058642 - Client requested external address mapping: An access is requested by a local host to a public network. A public address to be used for the access to the public network is determined. A local address, corresponding to the local host, is mapped to the public address. The public address is returned to the local host.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070058646 - Device and method for forwarding multicast traffic in a hybrid device: A hybrid device for forwarding traffic in a communication network is provided. According to one embodiment, the hybrid device comprises a layer-2 switch, a multicast forwarding information and a multicast router. The layer-2switch forwards a unicast traffic based on a destination address in the data-link layer within the unicast traffic.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070058643 - Dual purpose video adapter port: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for using a video port, such as a display data channel (DDC) port, in two modes for transmitting and receiving serial data streams. In one mode, the DDC port is used to control the operation of a video display of an information... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile. LLP

20070058645 - Network controlled customer service gateway for facilitating multimedia services over a common network: The present invention provides a customer service gateway acting as an interface between various customer premise equipment for a customer and a local access network. The customer service gateway has one or more customer agents and network agents. A network agent is a secure and trusted agent of the service... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070058644 - Service for nat traversal using ipsec: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for methods and apparatus for facilitating a secure connection between a first and a second node in a computer network where one or both of the nodes may or may not reside behind a network address translation (NAT) enabled gateway. Embodiments of the present invention... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070058647 - Video based interfaces for video message systems and services: The user interface to a video based telecommunications system is enriched by the provision of multi-media user interfaces. The user interface may include active video portions along with instructional audio or may be icons or thumbnails representing available video information. Menu structures can be animated by changing the color or... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070058648 - Identifying nodes in a ring network: A master node in a packet ring network periodically sends packet containing a discovery marker into the packet ring network. As each node in turn receives the packet, each adds its own discovery marker, which contains its topology information, to the packer, saves the topology information of others, and resends... Agent: Michael A. De Sanctis

20070058652 - Method and system for managing time-sensitive packetized data streams at a receiver: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing time-sensitive packetized data streams at a receiver includes receiving a time-sensitive packet of a data stream, analyzing an energy level of a payload signal of the packet, and determining whether to drop the packet based on the energy level... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070058651 - Method, system and program product for setting a transmission rate in a network: The present invention provides for congestion and flow control for a data transmission between computers in a network (e.g., a lossless network) by repeatedly setting a transmission rate for the data transmission at predetermined time intervals. Under the present invention, a ratio of a current occupancy to a maximum occupancy... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070058649 - Packet queuing system and method: There is disclosed a method of queuing packets received at an input to at least one device for processing, the method comprising the steps of: allocating each received packet to at least one arrival queue of the device; placing each packet in the allocated queue if said queue is not... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070058650 - Resource buffer sizing under replenishment for services: Disclosed are a method of and system for sizing service resource buffers. The method comprises the step providing a model for determining a buffer size and upper and lower thresholds for said buffer, said model including a plurality of parameters and constraints. Values for said parameters are entered into the... Agent: Steven Fischman, Esq. Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070058653 - Method and apparatus for efficient assigning of addresses for a mobile station: A method and apparatus is provided to efficiently assign addresses for a mobile station (110) that monitors one or more broadcast groups. The mobile station (110) determines (210) at least one broadcast group to monitor. A broadcast server (150) determines (220) the broadcast time for the monitored broadcasts group(s). A... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070058654 - Arrangement and coupling device for securing data access: The invention relates to a mechanism and a coupling device, a so-called secure switch, for securing data access of a first subscriber to a second subscriber, wherein the secure switch has a port that is configured to provide an endpoint of a tunnel to the second subscriber through which data... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070058655 - Detecting network interfaces capable of channel bonding: A method discovers whether network interfaces associated with a device are capable of being channel bonded. In particular, each network interface associated with a device broadcasts a message on a network that other network interfaces can identify as having originated on the sending network interface. If a second network interface... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070058656 - Method of data transmission in a data communication network: A method of data transmission in a data communication network includes negotiating a connection between a source terminal and a destination terminal in the data communication network. During the connection negotiation process, optimal field lengths are determined for recording a source identifier and a sequence number in data packets transmitted... Agent: Dallas Office Of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070058657 - System for consolidating and securing access to all out-of-band interfaces in computer, telecommunication, and networking equipment, regardless of the interface type: A system for physically consolidating and securing access to all Out-of-Band interfaces in computer, telecommunication and networking equipment, regardless of the interface type, isolating the management ports from the data network. The system converts low-level management protocols into higher-level network protocols suitable for secure transport over the data network. The... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070058658 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for multi-channel communications using universal address book server: A method of providing communications can include forwarding a message from a universal address book server via a plurality of communications channels associated with an addressee of the message based on a priority of the message received at the universal address book server. Related systems and computer program products are... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070058661 - Media access control architecture: Systems and methods which provide a scheduled media access control (MAC) architecture are shown. Scheduled MAC architectures provided according to embodiments result in a one function-at-a-time approach, wherein stations are provided parallel process media access. A communication framework is established for communication among stations, wherein the communication framework preferably defines... Agent: Dallas Office Of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070058659 - Method for providing requested quality of service: Methods, devices, and systems are provided wherein connections are requested with a connection specification that is based on whether the request is between a higher layer entity and a lower layer entity, between two stations, or between a station and a central coordinator. The connection specification may include QOS parameters... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, PC

20070058660 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for controlling access to aloha slots: A method and apparatus for controlling access to Aloha slots are disclosed. An access point (AP) assigns at least one Aloha slot for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The AP may assign the Aloha slot based on quality of service (QoS) policy, measurements of a predetermined metric, or combination of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070058663 - Flexible collision detection serial bus transceiver apparatus and method: A vehicle diagnostic tool includes an asynchronous serial communications device for communicating with an automobile using a digital communication system having a dominant/recessive bus. The device includes a transmitter configured to communicate over the dominant/recessive bus, a sensor capable of sensing the state of the dominant/recessive bus and a collision... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070058664 - Method and apparatus for lifetime maximization of wireless sensor networks: A method and apparatus for distributed routing at the network layer of a network is disclosed that integrates contention resolution properties from the MAC layer. In one embodiment, an energy constraint is used in routing at the network layer of a network to determine a first parameter representing the optimal... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20070058662 - Methods and systems for utilization of resources of contention under any load to facilitate desired bandwidth across single or multiple classes of devices: Methods and systems for controlling utilization of resources(s) of contention by a plurality of devices of a single or multiple priority classes. A utilization scaling factor is determined for each class for the resource(s) and compared with a threshold value. An apersistence property pattern is then created for each class... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20070058665 - Unified channel access for supporting quality of service (qos) in a local area network: Contention communications often requires a station to wait an inordinate amount of time before the station is able to transmit its data successfully. In many applications, an extended delay is not acceptable. Contention-free communications in a contention period allows a hybrid coordinator (HC) to schedule contention-free access to a communications... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070058667 - Apparatus for connecting and disconnecting a computer or other device to a network such as the internet: Apparatus for connecting and disconnecting a computer or other device to the Internet includes switching means which has an input and output. The switching means is operative in a first mode to connect the input to the output and in a second mode to disconnect the input from the output.... Agent: Plevy & Howard & Darcy P.C.

20070058666 - Wall-mountable connector: In one embodiment, a media converter comprises a power interface that extracts power from a communication medium coupled to the media converter for powering the media converter. In another embodiment, a connector comprises a first media attachment interface to physically attach a first communication medium to the connector and a... Agent: Fogg And Associates, LLC

20070058668 - Protocol-level filtering: Mechanisms are disclosed for detecting protocols independently of the ports used by streams associated with the protocols or applications that may send out such streams. The detecting may entail using a content filter that is hosted on a networking stack, where the content filter may be composed of a stream... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070058672 - Apparatus and method for switching between single description and multiple descriptions: Provided is an apparatus for and a method of transcoding video, in which, in the transmission of a compressed video, the compressed video is transcoded into multiple descriptions in an error prone environment and is transcoded into a single description in an lower error or errorless environment. Video transcoder includes... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070058669 - Distributed quality-of-service management system: An application unit and a modem unit for mobile communication are provided. The application unit comprises at least one application that exchanges data traffic with at least one protocol stack, wherein said at least one protocol stack transfers data between at least one of the applications and at least one... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070058671 - Method and apparatus for packetization of data frames: A receiving buffer (110) in communication with a processing circuit (150) stores (310) received packets of data while the processing circuit (150) strips (320) the frames of data from the packets. The stripped frames are stored (330), and the processing circuit (150) creates and stores (340) reformed packets using the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070058673 - Mobile ip accounting: In one embodiment, accounting information for a mobile node operating according to Mobile IP Protocol is updated. A network device that supports Mobile IP composes a request packet for the mobile node. The request packet identifies the mobile node and includes at least one counter associated with accounting information pertaining... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070058670 - Udp to tcp bridge: A bridge module is bridging communications between computing systems using UDP (user datagram protocol) communication protocol and computing systems using TCP (transmission control protocol) communication protocol. Communications between the bridge and the computing system having UDP communication drivers are handled with the UDP protocol. Communications between the bridge and the... Agent: Leonard J. Hope Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20070058675 - Channel interface for conveying digital data having a lower data rate: Digital data is conveyed over a channel having a frame rate greater than the data rate of the digital data. The digital data is produced at the data rate. From frame to frame, determining whether a digital data sample is available. When the sample of the digital data is available,... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070058674 - Guided discovery of media content: Guided discovery of content in a device. A device such as a satellite radio can received multiple data streams at least over networks including a satellite network or other wireless networks. The device includes filters that are based on the history of the device, the advertising history of the device,... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070058677 - Service providing method based on service subscriber level on cable network: Provided is a method for providing a service based on a subscriber level. The method includes the steps of: a) initializing a Data Back-off Start (DBS) value and a Data Back-off End (DBE) value; b) acquiring subscriber information from an external management system; c) acquiring service flow identifier (SFID) and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070058676 - System and method for transmitting/receiving a signal in a communication system: Disclosed is a method for transmitting a signal in a signal transmission system, which includes demultiplexing a bit stream to be transmitted into a first bit stream and a second bit stream; generating a first coded bit stream by coding the first bit stream according to a first coding rate... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070058678 - Tower discovery and failover: Described is a communication system including wireless client devices. In the described system, the client devices may be wrist-worn watches such as are in common use today, except that the watches are specially configured to receive transmissions from broadcast towers. A client device is associated with one or more home... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070058679 - Dynamic robust header compression: A unit (25, 46) performs a compression operation or a decompression operation with respect to information for transmission in packets over a wireless link (36). The transmission over the wireless link is such that the packets may become reordered from a transmission sequence. The compression operation and the decompression operation... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070058680 - Apparatus and method for multimedia data transmission and reception in cable network using broadband and physical layer frame structure: Provided are an apparatus and a method for multimedia data transmission in a cable network using a broadband and physical layer frame structure. The apparatus includes an external network matching module for transmitting data inputted/outputted from/to an external network to a Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) Media Access... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070058681 - Provision of messaging services from a video messaging system for video compatible and non-video compatible equipment: A telecommunications system that supports the provision of video messaging, yet maintains compatibility and operation with user equipment that is not capable of processing, receiving or rendering video content. Based on the type of user equipment, as well as user selected options, network configurations and status, and class-of-service characteristics, the... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070058682 - Method for optimizing bandwidth utilization in bus systems: In accordance to one aspect, a method for optimizing the effective data transmission rate in a bus system, in particular in automation technology is provided. A data telegram used in higher-order data networks based on the Internet protocol, with at least one data telegram, at least one data segment and/or... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070058683 - Mobile communication system, and base transceiver station apparatus and mobile station apparatus used in mobile communication system: A phase error detector in a base transceiver station detects a phase error caused by a Doppler shift in a received wave from a mobile station. A phase rotator rotates a phase of a transmission symbol in a base band region so as to cancel the Doppler shift, which occurs... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070058684 - Transparent methods for altering the video decoder frame-rate in a fixed-frame-rate audio-video multiplex structure: An apparatus comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate a multiplexed signal at a fixed frame-rate in response to a video input signal. The multiplexed signal comprises one of (i) a pre-defined packet which corresponds to a new frame rate detected... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070053281 - Method system and receiver for receiving a multi-carrier transmission: Mobile handheld terminals receiving DVB transmission require relatively low power consumption and TDM based transmission can be used to reduce power of the terminals. In order find pilot carrier position at least one symbol is accessed which is adapted to establish a correspondence pattern for pilot carriers in a matrix... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070053282 - Scattered pilot pattern and channel estimation method for mimo-ofdm systems: Methods and apparatus are provided for inserting data symbols and pilot symbols in an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) transmission resource utilizing frequency hopping patterns for the data symbols and/or the pilot symbols. Data symbols and pilot symbols are allocated for down link (base station to mobile station) and up... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20070053280 - Wireless communication system and wireless communication method: Each of communication terminals MS#1 to MS#N spreads transmission data using an orthogonal spreading code that is specific to each of the communication terminals, performs OFDM modulation on the spread signal and thereby forms an OFCDM signal, and base station BS receives the OFCDM signal from each of communication terminals... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070053283 - Correlation and consolidation of link events to facilitate updating of status of source-destination routes in a multi-path network: In a communications network having a plurality of interconnected nodes adapted to communicate with each other by transmitting packets over links, with more than one path available between source-destination node pairs, a network interface is associated with each node. Each network interface has a plurality of route tables for defining... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.c.

20070053284 - System and method for fault-tolerance in an inter-carrier network interface: A system and method are disclosed for fault-tolerance in an inter-carrier network interface. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a PE-ASBR (Provider Edge-Autonomous System Boundary Router) (108, 138) having a communications interface (202) for internetworking with another MPLS-VPN (Multi-protocol Label Switching-Virtual Private Network)... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070053285 - Method and apparatus for recovery from faults in a loop network: A method and apparatus for recovery from faults in a loop network (500) is provided. The loop network (500) has a plurality of ports (520, 530, 532, 534) serially connected with means for bypassing the ports (520, 530, 532, 534) from the loop network (500). A control device (522, 524)... Agent: Harrington & Smith, L.l.p.

20070053289 - Protecting a network from unauthorized access: A method and apparatus of protecting a first network from unauthorized access includes storing profile information for each call session, and determining if an unauthorized access of the first network is occurring based on the profile information. The profile information includes a predetermined threshold indicating a maximum acceptable rate of... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, Pc

20070053286 - Router congestion management: A concept for providing processes and apparatus for router resource management is described. One process for managing router congestion in a distributed communications system includes monitoring messaging traffic originating from a plurality of clients and determining when one or more of the plurality of clients deviates from an accepted congestion... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20070053287 - System and method for selecting data rates in a wireless communication system: There is provided a system and method and apparatus for selecting data rates in a wireless communication system. More specifically, there is provided a method comprising selecting one of a plurality of data rate control values for a transmission based on an adjustable relationship between the selected data rate control... Agent: Michael G. Fletcher Fletcher Yoder

20070053288 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for selecting a channel type for a call: Wireless communication method and apparatus for selecting a channel type for a call are disclosed. In a wireless communication system that supports both a basic low speed channel and a special high speed channel, when a call is received from a user, it is determined whether the high speed channel... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20070053290 - Packet attribute based prioritization: An apparatus and method to optimize latency and bandwidth in a system include a queue configured to receive control data packets of a control stream, and an arbiter. The arbiter is operatively connected to the queue and configured to set a threshold level defining a priority to transmit and process... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20070053291 - Optimized broadcast of esg with simple fragment management scheme: Provided are apparatuses and methods in a digital broadcast transmission system for managing ESG fragments of a service guide at a receiver or subscriber terminal. In one example of the invention, an ESG fragment containing one of a start time or a stop time of a corresponding program or service... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070053292 - Facilitating dslam-hosted traffic management functionality: One embodiment of the disclosures made herein is a method for managing traffic flows through a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexor (DSLAM). In accordance with such embodiment, the method includes performing an operation for analyzing a traffic flow arriving at a DSLAM, wherein a type of the traffic flow is... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070053294 - Network load balancing apparatus, systems, and methods: Apparatus, systems, methods, and articles described generally herein may receive a first packet marked with a congestion indicator (CI). Upon receipt of the CI, a load-balancing operation may be performed among a plurality of physical links upstream from a point of congestion to alleviate the congestion. Other embodiments may be... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.a.

20070053293 - Optimizing data rate for video services: Optimizing data rates for video services on a broadband network. Different data rates can be delivered to a subscriber premises depending on the size of the display screen connected to a set-top box, the type of content being requested, or whether there is real-time viewing. Therefore, the data rate can... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20070053296 - Packet forwarding apparatus with qos control: A technique capable of controlling packets to be output to a plurality of ports is provided. Disclosure is made of a packet forwarding apparatus for distributing packets received from a physical port to be transmitted over a plurality of physical ports, which includes a transmitting/receiving unit for transmitting/receiving packets via... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20070053297 - Serial clustering: Serial clustering uses two or more network devices connected in series via a local and/or wide-area network to provide additional capacity when network traffic exceeds the processing capabilities of a single network device. When a first network device reaches its capacity limit, any excess network traffic beyond that limit is... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070053295 - Stream control in a mimo-enabled mesh network: In a multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) enabled mesh network, streams for transmitting data from a node to a destination node are controlled based on next hop latency and available stream capacity at neighboring, next hop nodes. Routing information maintained and dynamically updated at each node includes latency information associated with each... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070053298 - Networking controller, device and communication network system of asynchronous transfer mode: The present invention discloses an ATM networking controller, including: an external interfaces and an internal interface; an Interface Processing Module for processing network transmission services and implementing the uplink/downlink transmission of local services and the transparent transmission of non-local services; an OAM Processing Module for implementing automatic topology management and... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070053300 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for multi-path shortest-path-first computations and distance-based interface selection for voip traffic: Methods, systems, and computer program products for multipath Shortest-Path-First (SPF) computations and distance-based interface selection for VoIP traffic are disclosed. According to one method, a multi-path router instance associated with a plurality of network interfaces in a source IP device is provided. A cost is assigned to each of a... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070053299 - Wireless communication terminal and qos information collection method: In a wireless communication terminal, the other terminal existence confirmation section broadcasts a confirmation message at fixed intervals and receives a response message. The topology information management section computes the topology of the whole network to which the wireless communication terminal itself belongs, on the basis of the topology information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20070053302 - Fault tolerant network traffic management: A system and apparatus for transmitting transit data through a network with first and a second rings coupling two or more nodes. In one aspect, when the first ring is intact and the second ring has a fault between two nodes, transit data may be wrapped from a second, faulted... Agent: Marc R. Ascolese Campbell Stephenson Ascolese LLP

20070053301 - Network hardware device: A network hardware device of the invention includes a reception section receiving data from a network, and outputting a reception completion signal, a timer section measuring a preset time, and a delay section generating an interrupt signal so as to notify a host CPU of completion of the reception. When... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070053304 - Method to detect missing filter/splitter and apparatus for performing such a method: A method to detect a defective or missing filter at a customer's side between a first connection having a first frequency spectrum and a second connection having a second frequency spectrum and using the same physical transmission medium as the first connection between said customer and a central office equipment... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20070053303 - Transmission quality monitoring for multimedia streams: A network performance monitor and an associated method for monitoring the perceived transmission quality of a packetized multimedia signal encoded by a first codec are provided. The monitor includes a packet processor for performing real time direct counting of received and lost packets in the burst and gap states in... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.a.

20070053305 - Method of tuning process for wlan devices: A method of a tuning process for WLAN devices is to select test channels of the DUT (device under test) by utilizing the method of random sampling or sequence. Besides, the method obtains a parameter average by averaging the parameters of the already tested channels (or further includes the current... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070053306 - Location based rules architecture systems and methods: Systems, methods, and software for identifying location based rules related to a network connected device are described. A network connected device may transmit a set of data identifying the location of the device and an identifier unique to the device to a server. The server may also receive an action... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070053307 - Methods, apparatus, and program products for applying a visibility function to networked information: The disclosed technology uses a visibility function within a network environment that includes a set of nodes. At least one of nodes can directly transmit to one or more of a subset of the set of nodes. The visibility function characterizes a non-uniform resolution profile within the network environment that... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070053308 - Apparatus and method for dynamically updating and communicating within flexible networks: A software-based application dynamically updates user lists and enables communication between various network communication devices within a wireless network. The software-based application automatically builds and maintains a list of available users associated with the network communication devices in real-time, without reliance on a centralized server for authentication. Various types of... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon

20070053309 - Policy-based topology maintenance for wireless networks that employ hybrid tree-based routing with aodv: A mesh point operable in a decentralized wireless network is provided. The mesh point includes a transceiver and a processor. The transceiver is operable to communicate with other mesh points. The processor is programmed to execute a routing protocol such that, when a first policy of the routing protocol is... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070053310 - Manufacturing method of electronic device: The conveying precision of a continuation inlet tape in the production line of the inlet for electronic tags is improved. The first thing of the structural bodies used as an inlet is moved to the inspection position where a communication characteristic test is carried out, and a CCD camera photos... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070053311 - Rof link apparatus capable of stable tdd wireless service: A radio over fiber (ROF) link apparatus capable of a stable TDD wireless service for a time division duplexing (TDD) baseband signal includes a central access platform (CAP) for receiving various kinds of data including the TDD baseband signal from upper layers, multiplexing the data, electro-optically converting the multiplexed data,... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20070053312 - Pipelined method and apparatus for exchanging information over a wireless network: A method for exchanging information over a wireless network, the method includes: (i) providing a distributed media access controller and a high communication layer component, the high communication layer component includes a high communication layer hardware and a high communication layer software; and (ii) utilizing the distributed media access controller... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070053313 - Controlling visibility of a wireless device: A first wireless device controls its visibility by disabling its discoverable mode or modes upon ascertaining that a second wireless device does not require the first device to be in a discoverable mode in order to establish connections therebetween.... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20070053314 - Method and apparatus for providing satellite television and other data to mobile antennas: A low profile low cost mobile in-motion antenna system for satellite TV reception.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070053315 - Wireless communication system and wireless communication apparatus: A wireless communication system includes plural wireless communication apparatuses which form an ad-hoc network. In the system, an operating state of each superframe of each wireless communication apparatus is determined from three operating states: an active state in which beacon signal transmission/reception and data transmission/reception are performed as necessary; a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070053316 - Method and system of accessing a de-keyed base station: A method and system of accessing a de-keyed base station is disclosed. The method and system comprise de-keying a base station in a conventional TDMA communications system and starting a timer in the base station when the base station de-keys. The method and system further comprise receiving a transmission from... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070053317 - Methods and systems for monitoring a wireless broadband base station: Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring a wireless broadband base station in a wireless broadband system. The disclosed systems and methods may include polling at least one wireless broadband base station in the wireless broadband system. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include gathering alarm condition information from... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070053321 - Flexible data partitioning in systems using wideband channel bonding modems: The invention relates to improved utilization of modems for data communication and particularly, although not necessarily exclusively, relates to use of wideband modems. The invention relates to a method for allocating groups of channels to users or groups of users in an improved manner, such that at least one of... Agent: Head, Johnson & Kachigian

20070053322 - Method and apparatus for scheduling in a communication system: A method and an apparatus for scheduling in a communication system take QoS of data into account. The method includes scheduling data to be transmitted to mobile stations according to a scheduling policy, wherein the scheduling policy is determined based on a fairness between the mobile stations and at least... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070053319 - Method for spectrum sharing: A method of spectrum sharing comprises determining a first frequency in a first location area (30) for a channel (15) of a first transmission type; and choosing a second frequency for a channel (1) of a second transmission type on which to transmit in the first location area; wherein the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070053318 - Subscriber-controlled registration technique in a cdma system: A subscriber controlled registration protocol, a subscriber monitors a congestion indicator signal broadcasted by a base station with which it desires to register. If the congestion indicator signal indicates that the base station is operating in a congested state, the mobile station selects another base station in the system. Otherwise,... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20070053320 - Unified entry format for common control signalling: An apparatus that provides control channel signalling to a plurality of user terminals is provided. A definition unit is configured to define at least two allocation table formats. A selection unit is configured to select which allocation table format from the at least two allocation formats is to be used... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20070053323 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method: A wireless communication apparatus for performing a different carrier measurement without lowering throughput is disclosed. In this apparatus, a packet continuation determining section (121) observes user packet data and determines whether packets addressed to the wireless communication apparatus are continuously received or paused; a different carrier measurement suppressing section (122)... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070053324 - Apparatus and method for collecting traffic information using ultra wideband impulse, and system and method for controlling traffic sign using the same: Provided are a traffic information collecting/managing apparatus using ultra wideband impulse, a method thereof, a traffic light control system using the method and a method therefor. The traffic information collecting/managing apparatus includes: a primary wireless communication unit for assigning channels upon receipt of a channel assignment request from a terminal... Agent: Venable LLP

20070053325 - Method and apparatus for securing wireless communications: A method and apparatus for securing wireless communications are disclosed. A watermark message is encoded to watermark message symbols. A cover message is encoded to cover message symbols. The watermark message symbols are then overlaid onto the cover message symbols to generate a watermark-embedded cover message in a physical layer.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20070053327 - Mobile communication terminal for supporting wireless data services and method thereof: A mobile communication terminal for supporting wireless data service and a method thereof. A mobile communication terminal for supporting wireless data services, comprises: a memory for storing information for at least one wireless data network and a preset priority for the wireless data networks; a controller for sequentially selecting the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070053326 - Network-requested activation of packet data protocol context: A method for activating a packet data protocol context in a wireless telecommunication system comprising at least one terminal and at least one network element. The network element is arranged to deliver packets between the wireless telecommunication system and other packet data networks. Direction-specific service conditions are stored in the... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070053330 - Advice of charge for internet protocol multimedia subsystem services without utilizing an application server: Advice of charge information is provided utilizing the session initiation protocol (SIP) in an Internet protocol multimedia subsystem without utilizing an application server. The advice of charge message is provided to a user via the serving call/session control function and the home subscription server. When a request for a service... Agent: Woodcock & Washburn LLP

20070053332 - Broadcast station, base station control device, receiver, control method, receiving method, broadcast system, reception program, transmission program, distribution program, and storage medium: A portable terminal includes: a radio frequency receiving section for receiving main broadcast data and sub broadcast data; an electric field strength measuring section for measuring an electric field strength corresponding to a receiving condition of the radio frequency receiving section; a reception quality determining section for determining reception quality... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070053329 - Integration of an analog phone with unlicensed mobile access/global system for mobile communications functionality: In one embodiment, a UMA-integrated device includes at least one cellular UMA integrated circuit supporting the UMA Up architecture from the IP transport layer and higher; a router integrated circuit coupled to at least one cellular UMA integrated circuit through an Ethernet link; and an analog telephone adapter (ATA) logic... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070053333 - Method and apparatus for sharing desired information among wireless transmit/receive units: A method and apparatus for sharing information among a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) in a wireless communication system comprises a first WTRU in the wireless communication system broadcasting a request for desired information. A second WTRU in the wireless communication system searches a memory of the second WTRU... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20070053328 - Method and system for maintaining a secure tunnel in a packet-based communication system: The invention relates to a mechanism for maintaining a secure tunnel in a packet-based communication system. A secure tunnel is established between a security gateway and a mobile terminal being located at a first address in a first network, wherein the security gateway connects the first network to a second... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20070053335 - Mobile device address book builder: Technology is provided to allow users of wireless mobile devices to propagate personal contact information to other users in an automated fashion. Users can create a “persona” of information which is made public, or destined for groups or individual friends, which is then distributed and added to the mobile device's... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20070053334 - Packet forwarding apparatus for connecting mobile terminal to isp network: A packet forwarding apparatus enabling the selective provider type access service in a mobile communication network, comprising a first group of line interfaces connected to a plurality of routers deployed to service areas of a mobile network, a second group of line interfaces connected to the Internet or to routers... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20070053331 - Qos-aware radio resource management (for wireless communication) with activity detection: A packet scheduler (21) that schedules packets for wireless transmission to a UE (16) during a time interval, based on calculating a metric for the UE (16) that takes into account both an activity ratio indicative of the long-term required throughput (if any) for the UE (16) compared to a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070053336 - Method and apparatus for performing inter-frequency measurements: The present invention relates to a mobile terminal and a communication method in a wireless system comprising a radio access network and a plurality of mobile terminals. To save processing time at the mobile terminal in order to perform inter-frequency measurements the mobile terminal receives data of a scalable data... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070053337 - Method for transmitting reserved mail and information terminal device: When reserved mail fails to be transmitted, an error message is promptly displayed in a partial field of a display unit for a predetermined period of time. A user operates a specific key in the predetermined period of time, thereby allowing the user to return to a screen for editing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070053338 - Apparatus, system and method capable of cooperating in a distributed communication wireless network: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a node capable of cooperating in a distributed communication wireless network and wherein the cooperation is based upon predetermined fairness criteria. In an embodiment of the present invention the predetermined fairness criteria may include algorithms that account for battery life... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070053339 - Frame synchronisation in a radio access network: A method of optimizing the timing offsets with which data frames are transmitted over the Iur/Iub interfaces of a UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network, UTRAN. The method comprises, for a given Iur/Iub interface or set of Iur/Iub interfaces over which identical user plane data is to be sent, defining a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20070053341 - System and method for synchronizing companion electronic devices: A method of establishing a communication link between a receiving device and a transmitting device from among a plurality of transmitting devices, wherein the preferred criterion for selection of the preferred transmitting device is based upon how long the particular transmitting device has been active.... Agent: Arthur G. Schaier Carmody & Torrance LLP

20070053340 - Time synchronization system and method for synchronizing locating units within a communication system using a known external signal: A time synchronization system synchronizes local clocks of locating units within a communication system using a known external signal. Each of the locating units receives a radio frequency (RF) signal from a transmitter at a known geographical location and measures the RF signal to produce a respective measurement of the... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070053342 - Systems and methods to determine network routes based on transmission medium length: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture to determine an administrative cost for a network path are disclosed. An example method is used to select a plurality of network segments and a plurality of network switches to determine a network path between first and second network nodes. A transmission medium length... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, Llc

20070053347 - Communication method, communication apparatus and communication system and processing method and processing apparatus: A communication device selects one of a remote or local transmitters according to the destination of a message, transmits the message from the selected transmitter, receives the message at a receiver, and transmits the received message to the destination of the message.... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20070053343 - Conversational bearer negotiation: A method of setting up a call between first and second nodes of a communication system, said call extending across at least one circuit switched access network and a packet switched backbone network, the networks being interconnected by at least one Media Gateway. The method comprises, at a control node,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070053345 - Data transmission system: A data transmission system includes a data transmitting device coupled to the Internet for transmitting a broadcast packet containing identification data of the data transmitting device to the Internet; and a remote storage device coupled to the Internet for receiving the broadcast packet and determining if the identification data is... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070053346 - Distributed ip architecture for telecommunications system with video mail: A telephone system architecture enabling various components of a video based telephone system to be distributed geographically yet operates as a seamlessly integrated system. A transcoding gateway provides an interface to a third generation wireless network and received video messages in a plurality of formats. These video messages are converted... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, Llc

20070053348 - Method for transmitting coding information over packet data network: A method for transmitting information related to tandem free operation, where a cellular network comprising a tandem free operation capable coding-decoding unit is connected to a packet network, an entity, which can be a second network or a terminal, is connected to the packet network and data is transmitted over... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070053344 - Multimedia call control mechanism and communication equipment using the same: A method of controlling an establishment of a multimedia call between at least two communication equipments, a corresponding system, and a corresponding communication equipment comprise a set up of a bearer connection resulting in a creation of a data transmission channel between at least two communication equipments. A data stream... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20070053349 - Network interface accessing multiple sized memory segments: A network interface that accesses multiple sized memory segments is disclosed. In a method, a data unit is received and its size is evaluated. A group of memory segments is selected from a plurality of groups of memory segments based on the size of the data unit. The selected group... Agent: Socal Ip Law Group LLP

20070053350 - Buffering data packets according to multiple flow control schemes: In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus that has multiple buffers, including a first buffer dedicated to a first virtual channel of a first virtual network and a second buffer shared among virtual channels of a second virtual network. The shared buffer may be implemented as a shared... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, Pc

20070053351 - Wireless ad-hoc network formation: A wireless communications system comprising at least two piconets, each piconet comprising a plurality of wireless communications devices in direct communication with other devices within the same piconet, wherein the system comprises a bridging device capable of simultaneously communicating with communications devices in two separate piconets, the bridging device being... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20070053354 - Method and system for securing wireless transmission of an aggregated frame: A method and apparatus for securing the wireless transmission of an aggregated frame are disclosed. An aggregated frame is generated by aggregating at least one subframe and a security field. The security field is used to secure the entire aggregated frame. The contents of the security field may be generated... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20070053353 - Method for processing subscriber packet using subscriber identification tag: A method of classifying packets by a subscriber and processing classified packet to provide fairness to subscribers is provided. In order to classify the packets by the subscriber, a subscriber identification tag is inserted into a predetermined portion of an Ethernet frame and the packets are classified using the subscriber... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070053355 - Network processor: A network processor, including: a programmable Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) module, with one or more main forwarding hardware pipelines for a main forwarding upon packet; a MicroEngine (ME) module, including one or more programmable ME's for an assistant forwarding through software; designated Steps in the main forwarding hardware pipelines... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070053352 - Power line communications system with differentiated data services: A power line communications system that facilitates the provision of differentiated data services is provided. One embodiment of the present invention may include tagging downstream data at an ingress point, such as a point of presence or aggregation point. The tagging of data packets may allow the power line communication... Agent: Capital Legal Group, Llc

20070053356 - Nonblocking and deterministic multirate multicast packet scheduling: A system for scheduling multirate multicast packets through an interconnection network having a plurality of input ports, a plurality of output ports, and a plurality of input queues, comprising multirate multicast packets with rate weight, at each input port is operated in nonblocking manner in accordance with the invention by... Agent: Teak Networks, Inc.

20070053357 - System and method for mobile host implementing multicast service: A system and a method for a Mobile Host (MH) implementing a multicast service, wherein each MH corresponds to a Dynamic multicast Agent (DMA); the DMA needs to implement dynamic switch according to the path that the MH passes when moving; if the DMA of the MH is switched to... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070053361 - Method and an apparatus for resource admission control process: A method for resource admission control process, an Access-Resource and Admission Control Function entity and a Service-based Policy Decision Function entity, wherein the method includes: sending an Admission Request message, which carries the current media stream address information, to an Access-Resource and Admission Control Function entity (A-RACF) in an originating... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20070053360 - Method of reducing power consumption of network connection apparatus and apparatus for same: There is provided a network connection apparatus including a plurality of line connection parts 201 connected to network lines 111 to transmit and receive packets, a transmission destination decision part 104 for deciding a transmission destination on the basis of header information of packet received by a first one of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070053358 - Multicast data transfer: An edge router (6) for multicast data transfer comprises a cache (10). In response to a request for a file from a host (3a), the router (6) retrieves the file from a content provider (2). The file, comprising data packets A-G, is stored in the cache (10) before transmission to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070053359 - Recovery from control plane failures in the ldp signally protocol: The invention provides a distributed back-up mechanism and a two-step method for facilitating fast control plane recovery in a switched network network. In a preferred embodiment, a Label Information Database (LID) maintained at a control node of a GMPLS network is mirrored to an upstream node using the Label Distribution... Agent: Teitelbaum & Maclean

20070053362 - Bss-switch module for wireless devices: An access point (AP) (120a) manages and coordinates the switching of mobile devices (110) to other access points (120b, c, d). The access point (120a) monitors the quality of its communications link with the mobile device (110). When the access point (120a) determines that the quality is degrading, or when... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070053363 - Method of providing reliable transmission quality of service in a communication network: A method is disclosed for providing reliable transmission Quality of Service (QoS) in communication network, in which a QoS connection is established between bearer network resource managers in bearer network control layer, and maintenance management mechanism is well established in terms of the QoS connection. Various QoS resource control messages... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070053364 - Encapsulation of e1-type frames under ethernet: An apparatus (D) is dedicated to processing E1 data frames in communications network equipment (ETPL) including at least one E1 line interface unit (LIU1). The apparatus (D) includes processor means adapted, on receiving from at least one E1 interface unit (LIU1) at least one E1-type frame addressed to a given... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20070053366 - Layer-two interworking applied to l2-l3 pseudowires: A method and apparatus for performing Layer 2 (L2) interworking is presented. A L2 Protocol Data Unit (PDU) is received at an L2 Switching Entity (SE). The L2 PDU is converted to a normalized Pseudowire (PW) PDU. The normalized PW PDU is then forwarded to a Layer 3 (L3) Routing... Agent: David E. Huang, Esq. Bainwood Huang & Associates Llc

20070053365 - One digital network control system: A digital network system includes a user communication interface that is adapted to be connected to a public communication network that transfers information between the digital network system and a communication device, a control communication interface that is adapted to exchange information between the digital network system and an electronic... Agent: Park Law Firm

20070053368 - Graphical representations of aggregation groups: The apparatus in one example may have: aggregation groups of network ports; a respective aggregation group having a formation that is one of statically formed, dynamically formed, unknown, or empty; a respective aggregation group having a state that is one of a working state, a degraded state or a failed... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070053371 - Method and device for working mode switching of media stream transition channel on gateway: A method and a device for switching the working mode of the media stream transition channel on a gateway. The method includes: detecting signals sent by data devices passing through the gateway, if the signals from common fax machines are detected, the media stream transition channel is switched to a... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070053370 - Method of providing access to packet-switched services in a heterogeneous network environment: A method of providing access for a multi-mode mobile terminal (13) to packet-switched services in a heterogeneous network environment (10) comprising a uni-directional network (12) and a bi-directional network (11), which method comprises the step of creating and storing a data structure in each of said multi-mode mobile terminal (13),... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20070053367 - System and method for developing and executing a wireless application gateway: The invention provides a system and method that enables a business developer to develop and execute a Wireless Application Gateway (WAG) without programming or writing code. The WAG, as developed and executed through this invention can support a variety of wireless devices and a variety of backend systems. The business... Agent: William L. Botjer

20070053369 - System apparatus and method for interconnecting tdm and frame/packet communication networks: An interconnection between fully synchronous networks of the prior art and next generation frame communications networks, which is required for the shift to next-generation packet networks and a broader-based connection service, is realized. Here, the first point is that a means of bidirectional frame format conversion between a synchronous multiplexing... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070053372 - Method for realizing automatic synchronization of timing source in networks: A method for realizing timing source synchronization is disclosed, applied to a ring-network including several network nodes wherein each network node selects a timing source from timing sources available for selection according to the quality states of the timing source, synchronizes the timing source, and takes the timing source as... Agent: Summa, Allan & Additon, P.a.

20070053373 - Packetizing media for a time slotted communication system: Media that is normally packetized into many separate individual packets and then queued for individual transmission during a transmit window is combined together into one, or a few, packets. The larger packets more efficiently carry media over a time slotted communication media since only one, or a few, packet headers... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.c.

20070053374 - Multi-service communication system: A network card of a rack system. The card includes a bus interface adapted to connect to a backplane bus of the rack system, a data interface adapted to transmit data signals through the bus interface onto the backplane bus and a controller adapted to periodically generate bandwidth allocation signals... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20070053375 - Systems and methods for managing communication between master and slave devices: Systems and methods for increasing the efficiency of communications between master devices and slave devices in a system. A master normally sends a command to a slave if a token from the slave is received. Determining whether a token is of the correct type requires multiple processing cycles. Alternatively, if... Agent: Law Offices Of Mark L. Berrier

20070053376 - Control of network plug-and-play compliant device: A network device includes a network protocol controller and a device controller. The device controller controls a plurality of service devices including a first device, and a second device of different type from the first device. The network protocol controller and the device controller are connected by a packetized logical... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070053377 - Data processor unit for high-throughput wireless communications: A data processor unit includes at least two operation-execution units, each one adapted to receive input data, perform a respective operation on the input data and outputting output data resulting after applying said operation; the data processor unit further includes: a data storage unit including at least two individually-accessible memory... Agent: Graybeal Jackson Haley LLP

20070053378 - Constant-weight-code-based addressing of nanoscale and mixed microscale/nanoscale arrays: Various embodiments of the present invention include methods for determining nanowire addressing schemes and include microscale/nanoscale electronic devices that incorporate the nanowire addressing schemes for reliably addressing nanowire-junctions within nanowire crossbars. The addressing schemes allow for change in the resistance state, or other physical or electronic state, of a selected... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20070053380 - Apparatus and method to achieve a constant sample rate for multiplexed signals with frame boundaries: Given a hardware platform capable of capturing framed data in a multiplexed fashion from multiple sources, a method and apparatus are shown for providing a constant frame rate for each logical stream.... Agent: West & Associates, A Pc

20070053379 - Streaming media encoder with confidence monitor: A system and method for encoding an audiovisual media stream is disclosed. The method includes, receiving an input signal from an analog audiovisual source, encoding the input signal to produce an encoded media stream, providing the encoded media stream to a network interface, and displaying the received input signal on... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070053381 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for sharing resources: In a computer system including a set of resources for allocation to, and access by, a plurality of consumers, a method for allocating a resource to a requesting consumer comprising: calculating a suitability rating for each resource in the set of resources as a value in a range from least... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070053383 - Apparatus and method for forming and ascertaining system information from system information medium access control protocol messages: Apparatus and method for forming system information medium access control protocol messages, wherein system information data packets are received from a logical channel, with at least some of the packets having associated prioritization information which is used to indicate the priority of the respective packets, and the system information medium... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070053382 - Method, apparatus, signals, and medium for managing a transfer of data in a data network: A method and apparatus for managing a transfer of data in a data network identifies data associated with a communication session between a first node and a second node in the data network. Further processing of the communication session occurs when a portion of the communication session meets a criterion... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070053384 - Methods and systems for reducing waiting-time jitter: A method of minimizing jitter in a system for rate adapting a data signal for transport through a synchronous network. A phase difference is measured between a data clock synchronous with the data signal and a local clock of the synchronous network. A timing reference (F) indicative of a frequency... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070053385 - Cascade switch for network traffic aggregation: A method and apparatus for aggregating network traffic using “cascade” of individual nodes, where each node connected to, and configured to monitor, two or more nodes below it. Each node has two or more inputs. These inputs are connected to a CPU having a memory buffer to temporarily store the... Agent: Douglas E. Mckinley, Jr.

20070047432 - Apparatus and method for reducing transmission overhead in a broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for reducing transmission overhead in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. In a transmitter in a broadband wireless communication system where total time resources are divided according to lengths of transmission data and the transmission data are allocated to the divided time resources, a header... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070047431 - Radio transmission apparatus and peak power suppression method in multicarrier communication: A radio transmission apparatus capable of suppressing peak power without causing deterioration in throughput and degradation in transmission efficiency in multicarrier communication. In this apparatus, a coding section (11) codes transmission data, a modulation section (12) modulates the coded data to generate a symbol, an assigning section (13) assigns the... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070047433 - Method and circuit for fine timing synchronization in the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing baseband receiver for ieee 802.11a/g wireless lan standard: A method for fine timing synchronization is provided. The method comprises: detecting an end point of the short preamble; delivering the samples after the end point to a matched filter to generate a plurality of correlation peaks; searching the correlation peaks generated from the samples of the first LTS for... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070047435 - Advertising availability for ad-hoc networking based on stored device history: A communication device (110) that includes a wireless adapter (112) and a processor (114). The wireless adapter can communicate via a Bluetooth communications protocol. The processor can determine whether at least a second communication device (130) is identified in a device history list (120). In response to determining that the... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070047434 - Method for starting lasers in a network: A method for starting lasers in a network is provided. According to the method, a restart phase in automatic mode is initiated after the laser is disconnected. During the restart phase in automatic mode, which is accompanied by a delay time for the new laser connection, the automatic mode is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070047436 - Network relay device and control method: In the case of detection of failure on a direct link interconnecting Master and Backup upstream switches, a control module of the Master upstream switch sends a partial failure message representing the occurrence of partial failure in the Master upstream switch via any of multiple lines connected to multiple ports... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070047437 - Method and apparatus for controlling retransmissions in a wireless communications system: A method is provided for controlling communications between a base station and a mobile device when transmission gaps occur. The method comprises skipping a transmission that overlaps with the transmission gap. An alternative method comprises postponing the transmission to the next available transmission time.... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070047438 - Identifying a transaction of interest within a network: Transactions within a transmission stream are identified that are related to an activity. The transactions are classified utilizing characteristics that identify the activity. Packets of the transaction are extracted from the transmission stream that corresponds to the activity. The extracted packets are presented in a visualization that identifies the packets... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070047440 - Communication device and method: A device and method for controlling data unit communications between a sender and a receiver, and flexibly responding to a potential data loss event. Data units are transmitted from the sender to the receiver, and the receiver returns an acknowledgment data unit for each data unit received. If the receiver... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070047439 - Method and apparatus of supporting business performance management with active shared data spaces: A managed policy driven virtual data space for managing artifacts relationships and sharing artifacts among services. A policy model is used to represent business artifacts, sharing of the artifacts, and subscription of other artifacts that is of interest to current artifact and, to represent the various state of the artifact.... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20070047443 - Channelized flow control: In one embodiment, a controller is configured to receive a flow control packet from a link partner on a communication medium. The flow control packet includes a channel indication that indicates one or more channels. The controller is configured to inhibit transmission of packets from at least one channel specified... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070047444 - Method for managing a plurality of virtual links shared on a communication line and network implementing the method: In one aspect, a method for managing a plurality of virtual links from at least two different sources shared on a physical communication line extending between a first unit and a second unit is disclosed. The method comprises establishing a first situation in which the total bit width of the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070047441 - Methods and systems for dynamically changing message communication quality of service: A quality of service policy for one or more documents for transmission from the local storage to one or more end points for said documents through a communication system is retrieved from a remote registry associated with an offering, and said documents are enqueued according to said quality of service... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070047442 - Techniques for watermarking and distributing content: Techniques for watermarking and distributing are provided. Content is broken into frames, each frame includes a watermark. Resources request the content and each frame of each resource's acquired version of the content includes a watermark. The frames of each resource's acquired version of the content form unique watermark sequences or... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070047445 - Transmission rate control method, and mobile station: A transmission rate control method for controlling a transmission rate of uplink user data, based on a received relative transmission rate of the uplink user data which is transmitted via an E-RGCH, includes: transmitting, at a radio base station, any one of Up command which instructs to increase the transmission... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070047446 - Method and apparatus for updating best path based on real-time congestion feedback: Techniques are provided for updating best path based on real-time congestion feedback. A method comprises monitoring packets received from an internetworked system, wherein the packets are received on one of a plurality of external interfaces of a networking device; detecting that a received packet includes real-time information that signals a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070047447 - Ospf unidirectional link support for unidirectional return paths: A method of supporting a unidirectional link from a first router to a second router, the first and second routers existing in an area of a communication network, the method comprising: the second router receiving a hello packet from the first router; the second router determining that its topology information... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070047449 - Cable modem analysis system and method therefor for an hfc cable network: A modem checker diagnostic toolkit comprises a modem checker client and a modem analysis server. The modem checker client comprises a modem query interface to communicate with the modem analysis server to acquire information indicative of the operational status of a modem and to display the information graphically. A user... Agent: Roberts, Mardula & Wertheim, LLC

20070047448 - Network equipment testing method and system: A network equipment testing method and system is proposed, which is designed for use with a network system based on a server-client architecture for implementing a data transmission reliability testing procedure concurrently on one or more pieces of network equipment, and which is characterized by the utilization of a universally... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek, LLP Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070047450 - Time-correlated, simultaneous measurement and analysis of network signals from multiple communication networks: A system and a method for simultaneous measurement and analysis of network signals on multiple communication networks are described. Accordingly, in one embodiment, the system accepts signals from two communication networks. The two networks may be following different protocols. A time-correlated measurement of corresponding frames of two protocols may be... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20070047451 - Harq process restriction and transmission of non-scheduled control data via uplink channels: The present invention relates to a method and mobile terminal for performing a data allocation process for scheduled data, non-scheduled user data and non-scheduled control data obeying restrictions on the resource utilization defined by a scheduling grant and at least one non-scheduled grant. Further, the invention relates to a method... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070047452 - Mac layer reconfiguration in a mobile communication system: The invention relates to method and apparatus for reconfiguring a MAC entity of a MAC layer of the apparatus receiving protocol data units from a mobile terminal via on uplink upon reconfiguration of the uplink channel. Further, the invention relates to methods and mobile terminals for triggering the transmission of... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070047453 - Reliable message transfer over an unreliable network: In a communications network having a plurality of nodes adapted to communicate with each other, and more than one path available between most source-destination node-pairs, a network interface is associated with each node. Each network interface has a plurality of route tables for defining a plurality of routes for transferring... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070047454 - Error notification device notifying of occurrence of error: When an error occurs in an image processor, error information including a performer of the job having been processed upon occurrence of the error, the type of the job, and the type of the error is transmitted to a host. In the host, a transmission destination of support information is... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070047455 - Computer-readable storage medium storing data analysis program: A computer-readable storage medium storing a data analysis program is used to direct a computer to perform the procedure of: receiving one or more time series cases of free correspondence including a plurality of data points each having one piece of time data and a plurality of attribute values, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070047457 - Method and system for reassembling packets prior to searching: A method and system for inspecting a data packet stream in a computer network for patterns that fall across data packet boundaries is disclosed. This includes determining if two or more data packets are consecutive in the data packet stream, combining data payloads from the consecutive data packets, and analyzing... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20070047456 - Sampling of network traffic based on cam lookup: One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of sampling network traffic. A data packet is received by a network device. Information is extracted from fields in the data packet, and a look-up word is created using the extracted information. A content addressable memory is searched for entries matching the look-up... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070047460 - Generating test sets: This invention relates to a method of defining an optimised set of test sequences for use with a packet based perceptual quality evaluation processor associated with an edge-device that receives packets containing speech data and converts said packets to a speech signal, the method comprising the steps of: defining a... Agent: Bourque & Associates Intellectual Property Attorneys, P.A.

20070047461 - Method and apparatus for measuring quality of wireless channels: A method and apparatus for measuring the quality of wireless channels based on a result obtained by measuring contentions between stations in a wireless network employing a carrier sense multiple access/collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) medium access control (MAC) method specified in the IEEE 802.11 standard are provided. The method includes determining... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070047459 - Method and system for gathering data: Embodiments of the present invention seek to provide a cost effective means for gathering data which associates an individual or business with an address for a given time frame. This is accomplished by utilizing resources already providing a service in a geographic area to collect the desired data. In some... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070047458 - Timestamp generator: A method of generating a timestamp includes measuring a time period between two events, automatically determining a precision for an indication of the time period, and storing the timestamp. The precision for the indication of the time period is decreased as the time period increases. The timestamp includes an indication... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070047462 - Method and apparatus for constructing a forwarding database for a data communications network: A method of constructing a forwarding database for a data communications network comprising a plurality of network components and supporting at least first and second topologies having one or more common network components is described. The forwarding database includes at least first and second database structures having records including forwarding... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070047463 - Method of constructing a forwarding database for a data communications network: A method of constructing a forwarding database for a data communications network comprising a plurality of network components and supporting at least first and second topologies having one or more common network components is described. The forwarding database includes a plurality of entries providing forwarding information for data destined for... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070047466 - Network management system: Disclosed is a network management system for performing automatic setting of agent addresses to thereby improve operability and maintainability of network management. An agent node has an access list for registering an address of a partner to be permitted to make access and performs communication by a network management protocol... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070047467 - Optimal path selection system: A router includes a label-mapping-message receiving unit, a passing-node managing unit, and a passing-node selecting unit. The label-mapping-message receiving unit receives a label-mapping message including label information and PV TLV information from all adjacent nodes. The passing-node managing unit registers received label information and PV TLV information to manage the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070047468 - Packet communication device: A packet communication device, which provides a modular node capable of setting up the operation of the node at a time without updating a program in the node body when a new functional module is installed, sends a process setting content, requested by a configuration file specified by a manager,... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070047465 - Path setting method and communication device in network segmented into plurality of areas: The communication device includes a transmission node connected to a transmission network, and a control node connected to a control network for controlling the transmission on the transmission network and setting the transmission of the transmission node, and the control node has a control link collecting unit collecting link information... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070047464 - Routing configuration validation apparatus and methods: Apparatus, methods, and related data structures for validating a routing configuration in a communication system are disclosed. Routing information in a communication system is passively collected, illustratively from routing protocol advertisement messages. A routing configuration of the communication system is validated based on the collected routing information. Validation may involve... Agent: Arnold B. Silverman Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070047470 - Algorithm for searching graphs and device for searching graphs using it: In order to provided algorithm for searching graphs and a device for searching graph into which a new concept for solving a disadvantage arisen by using proof numbers or disproof numbers in an AND/OR graph construction is taken, algorithm according to the present invention which searches directed graphs in which... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070047469 - Efficient constrained shortest path first optimization technique: A technique performs an efficient constrained shortest path first (CSPF) optimization of Traffic Engineering (TE) Label Switched Paths (LSPs) in a computer network. The novel CSPF technique is triggered upon the detection of an event in the computer network that could create a more optimal path, such as, e.g., a... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070047472 - System and method for implementing multiple ring networks using a common link: Various systems and methods for implementing virtual ports within ring networks are disclosed. For example, one method involves allocating a logical port that corresponds to a first port and a second port and instantiating a spanning tree protocol instance. The first port and the second port are both assigned to... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070047471 - System and method for implementing virtual ports within ring networks: Various systems and methods for implementing virtual ports within ring networks are disclosed. For example, one method involves allocating a logical port that corresponds to a first port and a second port and instantiating a spanning tree protocol instance. The first port and the second port are both assigned to... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070047473 - Pcm type interface: An interface device having a first and second data terminal configured for the communication of data in duplex mode, with one of the first and second data terminals always assigned to each direction of the communication, the first and second data terminals configurable during operation such that, in a first... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070047474 - Apparatus and method for communicating signaling information: An apparatus, such as a base station, transmitting signaling information in a cellular communication system whereby a plurality of shared uplink transmission resources is divided into sets of mutually exclusive transmission resources. The apparatus comprises means for granting uplink resources to a wireless subscriber communication unit via a grant message... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070047475 - Internet based digital satellite radio system and associated methods for providing indoor reception: A digital satellite radio system includes a content server for providing digital satellite radio channels, a satellite for broadcasting the digital satellite radio channels, and a terrestrial repeater for broadcasting the digital satellite radio channels. A micro-repeater receives a selected digital satellite radio channel from the content server via the... Agent: Michael W. Taylor

20070047476 - Method and apparatus for best service rescan scheduling for mobile device operating in an evdo hybrid mode: A method and apparatus for best service rescan scheduling on a mobile device operating in an EVDO hybrid mode, the method comprising the steps of: blocking a best service rescan on the mobile device if the mobile device in an EVDO traffic state, the mobile device characterized by blocking means,... Agent: Moffat & Co

20070047483 - Broadcast scheme for a multi-carrier wireless network: A base station for use in an OFDM/OFDMA wireless network. The base station transmits system-specific broadcast control channel (BCCH) information in a first group of time-frequency slots and transmits cell-specific BCCH information in a second group of time-frequency slots. The time-frequency slots in the first group are orthogonal to the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070047481 - Electrical control system: An electrical control system.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070047477 - Extensible authentication protocol over local area network (eapol) proxy in a wireless network for node to node authentication: A system and method for providing an authentication protocol for authenticating nodes (102) for access to a network (100), such as to a server of a wireless ad-hoc peer-to-peer network (100). The wireless communication network (100), such as a mobile wireless distribution system (WDS), employs an extensible authentication protocol over... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070047484 - Location tracking in a wireless communication system using power levels of packets received by repeaters: A location tracking apparatus and method are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving information from each repeater indicating which packets wirelessly transmitted by a mobile station were received by each repeater including received signal strength of each of those packets, and determining location of the mobile station with... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070047479 - Method and system for conveying media source location information: A method for conveying media source location information includes receiving a first communication from a first endpoint and receiving location information indicating a first location of the first endpoint. The method also includes presenting the first communication to a user of a second endpoint in a manner to reflect the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070047478 - Method for access assurance in a wireless communication system: A method for access assurance in a wireless communication system, e.g., a mobile phone network, involves allocating communication resources for transactions between the network and various wireless access terminals (each having a unique identifier) based on priority classes assigned to the access terminals. The access terminals are divided into different... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070047482 - Method for controlling the communication with mobile stations over a wireless network: A method for controlling the communication with mobile stations over a wireless network, preferably a WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) according to the IEEE 802.11 standard, wherein the network comprises at least one access point via which the mobile stations are associated with the network, wherein the mobile stations can... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070047480 - Wireless terminal, management apparatus and wireless lan control method: The present invention provides a wireless terminal for constituting a wireless local area network together with a plurality of access points and a management apparatus that manages the access points and carries out a wireless telecommunication with the access points, comprising an access point notification unit for transmitting connection request... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070047486 - Communicating message in mobile communication system: The present invention relates to communicating a message in a mobile communication system. Preferably, the present invention comprises requesting radio resources for transmitting at least one message, receiving a response to the request for radio resources, transmitting a first message for requesting a first layer connection to a first node,... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070047487 - Transmission power control method, and mobile communication system: A transmission power control method for controlling a transmission power of an E-RGCH for uplink user data transmitted from a cell controlled by a radio base station to a mobile station, includes: notifying, from a radio network controller to at least one radio base station controlling a first cell and... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070047485 - Varied transmission time intervals for wireless communication system: Embodiments describe a varied transmission time interval in wireless communication system. According to some embodiments is a method for assigning a transmission time interval. The method can include measuring a channel condition and/or a data rate of packet communicated by at least one wireless device. Based in part on the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070047490 - Fast handoff in wireless local area network: Handoff of a communication session in a wireless network is presented in a wireless network interface including a terminal device having a first address (ADD1) and a second address (ADD2) in which an ongoing communication session between the terminal device and an associated first access point (AP1) in the wireless... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070047491 - Framework of media-independent pre-authentication improvements: including considerations for failed switching and switchback: The preferred embodiments herein relate to methods and systems for controlling a handoff decision related to switch back of a mobile node between a first network and a second network in a media independent pre-authentication framework and/or to methods and systems for mitigating effects of undesired switch back of a... Agent: Watchstone P + D

20070047489 - Handoffs in wireless communications network incorporating voice over ip using shared supplemental spreading codes: Disclosed is a method and system for performing handoffs in a wireless communications network which incorporates Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) using shared supplemental spreading codes. In this method and system, a mobile station is assigned a first and second primary code and a first and second set of supplemental... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20070047492 - Method and apparatus for fast and efficient handover at link layer of wireless lan: A handover method and apparatus at a link layer of a wireless LAN according to the IEEE 802.11 standard are provided to minimize a handover latency. The handover method is performed in a mobile station moving from one subnet to another subnet, each subnet being managed by one of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070047488 - Method and network element for distributing and directing data packets during a handover of a mobile transceiver station from a first radio cell to a second radio cell within a mobile communication network: A method and network element for distributing and directing data packets during a handover of a mobile transceiver station from a first radio cell to a second radio cell within a mobile communication network, especially during a packet-switched cell handover. The network element of the mobile communication network via which... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070047493 - Method of transmitting and receiving radio access information in a wireless mobile communications system: In a wireless mobile communications system, a method of transmitting and receiving radio access information that allows a faster and an efficient way of establishing a radio connection between a terminal and a target base station while performing a handover for the terminal to a cell of the target base... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070047496 - Intenna of wireless terminal: An intenna of a wireless terminal including at least one intenna for transmission/reception of wireless communication signals, and an intenna for reception of digital broadcast signals. Also an intenna of a wireless terminal, which includes at least one intenna for both transmission/reception of wireless communication signals and reception of digital... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070047497 - Inter-processor communication in a mobile communication terminal: A method for communicating a voice call between heterogeneous microprocessor modules is disclosed. In one example embodiment, a method for inter-processor communication in a mobile communication terminal equipped with first and second microprocessor modules includes the acts of: sending a first High-level Data Link Control (HDLC) message packet to the... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070047502 - Method and apparatus for adjusting channel quality indicator feedback period to increase uplink capacity: A method and apparatus for adjusting a channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback period to increase uplink capacity in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The uplink capacity is increased by reducing the uplink interference caused by CQI transmissions. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) monitors a status of downlink transmissions to... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070047494 - Method and apparatus for detecting interference using correlation: A system and/or a method for detecting interference using correlation may be used in a communication system to protect against, or to report the presence of, narrowband interference, which has deleterious effects on the performance of the wideband communication system. The interference detection system described herein may be used to... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070047499 - Method and apparatus for reliable signaling in wireless communication: Techniques for improving reliability of signaling are described. A transmitter determines if improved reliability is applicable for signaling for a data frame. The transmitter sends the signaling without improved reliability if deemed not applicable and with improved reliability if deemed applicable. A receiver receives the signaling and declares the signaling... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070047495 - Reverse link soft handoff in a wireless multiple-access communication system: A terminal communicates with a serving base station and at least one soft handoff (SHO) base station for soft handoff on the reverse link in a wireless communication system. In one design, the serving base station schedules the terminal for transmission on the reverse link, forms an assignment for the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070047501 - Transmission power control method, and mobile communication system: A transmission power control method for controlling a transmission power of an E-AGCH including an absolute transmission rate of uplink user data, which is transmitted from a cell controlled by a radio base station to a mobile station, includes: notifying, from a radio network controller to the radio base station... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070047500 - Transmission rate control method, mobile station, and radio network controller: A transmission rate control method for controlling, at a mobile station, a transmission rate of uplink user data, based on a dedicated absolute transmission rate of uplink user data received via a dedicated E-AGCH which is transmitted using a dedicated identifier for the mobile station or a common absolute transmission... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070047498 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for selecting cells in an ofdma system: A wireless communication method and apparatus for selecting cells in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) measures a downlink path loss of a current serving cell and at least one other cell. The WTRU determines whether a path loss difference between... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070047503 - Method and apparatus for dynamic time slot allocation: A communication system utilizes a Downlink Radio Link Control (RLC) data block conveyed to a mobile station (MS) via a first downlink time slot to inform the MS of an allocation of a second downlink time slot, which Downlink RLC data block is conveyed to the MS regardless of the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070047510 - Beacon scheduling method in multi-hop ad-hoc networks: A beacon scheduling method in multi-hop ad-hoc communications is provided. This method can prevent overhead in a manner that a base station (BS) transmits beacon slot information to a carrier sense multiple access (CSMA)/collision avoidance (CA) node (CN) and a gateway (GW) through contention-free time division multiple access (TDMA) communications... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070047504 - Data re-routing method for dual mode terminal after handover: A dual mode (e.g. WLAN/UMTS) terminal with two network interfaces sends one interface to sleep mode following handover from one network to the other. Here sleep mode is synchronised with the end of the data stream, either by marking the stream or in response to sending a handover related SIP... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070047507 - Home agent and mobile node: Deterioration of communication quality in mobile communication through an IP network caused by a shortage of transfer capacity in a home agent or a capacity shortage in an access channel is prevented, in a mobile IP network. The mobile IP network includes a home agent and a mobile node of... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070047509 - Method for sending message that recommends viewing digital multimedia broadcast and mobile terminal using the method: Disclosed is a method for sending a message that recommends viewing a digital multimedia broadcast to a mobile terminal capable of receiving the digital multimedia broadcasting services. The method includes: in a sender mobile terminal, checking whether digital multimedia broadcasting is currently being provided when a user inputs a request... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070047506 - Methods and devices for dynamically adjusting page scan intervals of bluetooth enabled devices: Described is a method for regulating power consumption during page scanning operations in a Bluetooth enabled communication device (102) having a power source (118) and a processor (120) that is configured to communicate according to a plurality of page scanning intervals. The method include assessing trigger events (304, 306) to... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070047505 - Mobile wireless communication terminals, systems and methods for providing a slideshow: A mobile wireless communication terminal includes a wireless communication module and a controller. The wireless communication module is configured to communicate with other communication terminals over at least one direct point-to-point wireless interface. The controller is configured to establish a connection with each of a plurality of participant wireless communication... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070047508 - Quality guarantee method for mobile terminal communication: To achieve end-to-end quality guarantee in regard to communication with a mobile terminal (node) in a carrier network in which Mobile IP is presupposed, in an IP network, quality guarantee is realized by performing network resource reservation in a resource reservation server receiving a resource reservation request from a node.... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070047511 - Continuously adjustable bandwidth discrete-time phase-locked loop: A user equipment which receives a CDMA communication signal that is wirelessly transmitted includes a system for correcting phase errors in an information signal which has been transmitted. The correction system comprises circuitry for generating a correction signal and for combining the correction signal with the information signal to produce... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070047512 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for selecting a serving cell and node-b in an sc-fdma system: A method and apparatus for selecting a serving cell/Node-B in a single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system are disclosed. For intra-Node-B serving cell selection, a serving Node-B measures channel quality indicators (CQIs) of each subcarrier block in an uplink of each cell controlled by the serving Node-B and... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070047513 - Data packet type recognition system: Embodiments of the present invention distinguish a first type of data packet transmitted over a random access communication channel of a wireless cellular communications system from a second type of data packet transmitted over the same random access communication channel, allowing the first and second data packet data packet types... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070047514 - Integrated wireless distribution and mesh backhaul networks: Networks, devices and methods related to wireless networking. A wireless network using nodes that perform both distribution and backhaul functions is provided. These nodes constitute the key elements of a wireless network that would be deployed and controlled by a wireless network operator. Each node contains a distribution wireless module... Agent: Cassan Maclean

20070047515 - Adapting playout buffer based on audio burst length: The invention relates to a size variable playout buffer (120) adapted for temporarily storing data packets comprising bursty audio data received over a communications system (1) at user equipment (100). The temporary storage and size variability compensates for changes in bit-rate or any transmission delay over the communications system (1).... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070047525 - Local area network: A local area network that includes multiplexing means for establishing out-of-band channels along with corresponding Ethernet channels over shared network cabling; the out-of-band channels are configured dedicatedly for operating an IP telephony system including IP phones; a power sourcing equipment (PSE) may be further provided for remotely supplying power to... Agent: Ziqiang He

20070047517 - Method and apparatus for altering a media activity: A method and apparatus for altering a media activity are disclosed. The provision (101) of a dynamic media activity to a recipient user is enhanced by the dynamic acquisition (102) of information regarding an ambient condition of the user's environment and the use (104) of the information to dynamically alter... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070047523 - Method and system for call-setup triggered push content: The present invention provides a method for providing a call set-up triggered push content to at least one receiving party via a first telecommunication network. The method includes performing a call control function in response to a call set-up from a calling party to a called party. The call control... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070047520 - Method for calling multimedia ip units about an impending emergency situation: The present invention provides a method for calling multimedia IP units about an impending emergency situation. A multimedia IP communication network or government authority forecasts the path of an impending emergency situation to create an impending impact area. The VoIP communication network determines the multimedia IP units that are located... Agent: Lucent Technolgies Inc. Docket Administrator

20070047522 - Method of and system for telecommunication management: The present invention relates to telecommunication systems and more specifically, to a method of and system for managing and routing calls and/or data between various devices. The invention includes a method of routing real-time communications including the steps of: obtaining rule preferences from a user, and responding to the receipt... Agent: Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP

20070047518 - Methods, systems, and devices for providing voice-call services responsive to a dialed sequence: A connection is established in a communications network responsive to receiving a Dual Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) signal at a port having an assigned sequence associated therewith. A dialed sequence corresponding to the received DTMF signal is identified. If the dialed sequence is associated with a request for a specified service,... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070047524 - Peripheral device, information processing device communicating with peripheral device, and method regarding settings applicable to information processing device: An information processing device is configured to set up a port as one of an output destination and an input destination corresponding to a peripheral device. The information processing device is configured to acquire identification information on the port from the peripheral device, and to determine whether identification information on... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070047519 - System and method of presenting caller identification information at a voice over internet protocol communication device: A method of providing caller identification information to a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephone device is disclosed and includes receiving an incoming telephone call. The method also includes determining a destination VoIP telephone device associated with the incoming call. Further, the method includes populating a caller identification portal with... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070047521 - Voip apparatus and method for detecting a pstn service provided thereto: A method for detecting a status regarding provision or otherwise of a public switched telephone network (PSTN) service to a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) apparatus includes the steps of: providing a dummy load circuit and an off-hook detection circuit; entering a PSTN mode; coupling the dummy load circuit to... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070047516 - Wireless voip/vip roaming to access point of different network type: A mobile communication device (for example, a cellular telephone) has one air interface for wireless communication with wireless LAN and another air interface for cellular telephone communication with a cellular telephone network. Initially, the communication device is used to transmit VoIP packets of a media stream to a target communication... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070047526 - Systems and methods for conecting between telecommunications equipment: A system for of converting circuit switches to packet switches, and associated methods. The system includes a terminal block having disconnect blocks and switching blocks. A half-tap is provided to connect the terminal block with an existing main distribution frame in a manner that enables cut over or conversion from... Agent: Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070047530 - Application server (as) database with class of service (cos): Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with provisioning an internet protocol (IP) multimedia core network subsystem (IMS) are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes logic for provisioning an IMS application server (AS) database with AS data and logic for provisioning an IMS user database with user data. The exemplary... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070047528 - Method and apparatus for integrating customer care inquiries across different media types: A method and apparatus for integrating queries across different media types so that the response time performance of a customer care agent, such as time to respond and/or time to repair can be uniformly measured are disclosed. The present method can provide configurable time to respond and time to repair... Agent: Mr. S.h. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20070047527 - Method and apparatus for providing customer configurable quality of service settings of customer premise based equipment: A method and apparatus for providing a method for precedence-based Quality of Service (QoS) to become a customer configurable parameter on network interfacing premise equipment, such as a Terminal Adapter (TA), a customer gateway or a customer router is disclosed. The invention enables customers to dynamically adjust the QoS level... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070047529 - Method and apparatus for providing internet protocol call transfer in communication networks: A method and apparatus for enabling a network provider, in concert with IP technology and protocols, to provide the ability to offer a simple pre-answer or post-answer call redirection, such as call transfer, to customers with IP endpoints is disclosed. The present invention allows call transfers to be initiated from... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070047531 - System and method for implementing proxy independent hunt group function in a packet based network: A system and method are provided for implementing the Hunt group function without the necessity of using any proxy functionalities. The Hunt group function can be independent of the signaling protocol being used by VoIP terminals. Consequently, there is no need of any special or proprietary signaling protocol to be... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20070047532 - System and method of managing telephone calls within a voice over internet protocol telephone system: A voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephone server is disclosed and includes a computer readable medium that is accessible to a processor. A centralized address book is embedded within the computer readable medium. Further, a computer program is embedded within the computer readable medium and the computer program utilizes the... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070047534 - Virtual pbx based on feature server modules: A virtual private branch exchange is formed by a plurality of interconnected feature server modules, each having an integral feature server that is configured and operates independently of the other feature server modules. Within a virtual private branch exchange, the feature server modules may be logically arranged in a hierarchy... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070047533 - Voice over internet protocol (voip) management: Techniques are described herein which are operable to manage Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070047536 - Input/output router for storage networks: A blade server is disclosed, comprised of multiple server blades that plug into a midplane from the front, and an I/O router including multiple IOCs (one for each server blade) and an embedded switch that plugs into the midplane from the back. The midplane carries PCI Express lanes for connecting... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070047535 - Switching device utilizing flow-control management: In some embodiments a switching device is disclosed that includes one or more ingress queues to queue data received from external sources while waiting to forward the data to one or more egress queues. The egress queues queue the data while waiting to transmit the data to external sources. The... Agent: RyderIPLaw C/o Intellevate

20070047537 - Expandable structure for peripheral storage device: The present invention relates to an expandable structure for peripheral storage devices. The expandable structure includes an interface controller having a plurality of connecting ports for serial data transmission; and a Port Multiplier electrically connected to one of the connecting ports of the interface controller for serial data transmission, and... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20070047538 - Wireless computer system with queue and scheduler: A wireless computer system (30) is formed to have a host section (31) and a wireless hardware section (40). A first portion of a transmission frame is formed in system memory (36) of a host section (31) and a second portion of the transmission frame is formed in the wireless... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070047539 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for preserving sequencing of signaling messages at a routing node: Methods, systems, and computer program products for preserving sequencing of signaling messages at a routing node are disclosed. First and second signaling messages are received at a routing node of a communications network. The first signaling message is received prior to the second signaling message. Next, it is determined whether... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070047540 - Forwarding table minimisation in ethernet switches: An Ethernet switch for use in an Ethernet network comprises a set of ingress ports for receiving data frames and a set of egress ports. A memory is associated with each ingress port and stores forwarding information indicating one or more of the egress ports to which data frames received... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070047543 - Access device for preventing transmission of copyrighted content to external network and method for the same: An access device and method for preventing transmission of copyrighted contents to an external network and a method for the same. The access device includes a packet-header analyzer analyzing a header of a packet received from a home network device, a copyrighted-content sensor detecting whether the packet includes copyrighted content... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070047541 - Multi-speed rotorswitch: A multi-grained high-performance rotorswitch scaling to high capacities is disclosed. In one embodiment, the rotorswitch comprises common-memory switch modules each of which cyclically accessing each other switch module for an access interval of a predefined value and transmitting, during the access interval, a number of data segments collectively having a... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070047542 - Real-time audio-visual quality monitoring in a network: Systems and methods are described for real-time audio-visual quality monitoring in a network. In one implementation, a system displays an IPTV network in a user interface as a tree consisting of the nodes and the links between nodes of the IPTV network. When a user selects one or more test... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070047544 - Method and system for conducting a group call: A method and system for conducting a group call between a source electronic device (116) and a plurality of destination electronic devices is disclosed. A packet characterized by a first coding technique and destined towards the plurality of destination electronic devices is received. The packet is processed to identify if... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070047545 - Multicast host authorization tracking, and accounting: Instead of implementing per flow measurement at every interface of every IGMP Router or Snooping Proxy in the aggregation network, as in the prior art “per flow measurement” approaches, the present invention relates to a scheme where the IGMP Router or Snooping Proxy tracks the multicast subscription of each host... Agent: Terry W. Kramer Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070047546 - Packet forwarding apparatus: In a virtual LAN, a packet forwarding apparatus forwards IP packets and L2 packets using a single switch. The packet forwarding apparatus includes a switch that switches a media access control (MAC) packet using a MAC address of the MAC packet, and a packet format converter. The packet format converter... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070047550 - Communication apparatus, communication method and communication program: For carrying out communication with the use of an IP address, prefix information is extracted from a router advertisement, the prefix information is registered and managed; and a predetermined number of prefixes are selected from the prefix information registered and the IP address is generated therefrom.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070047549 - Dual-stack network apparatus and broadcasting method thereof: A dual-stack network apparatus and a broadcasting method are provided. The broadcasting method is provided with transforming data created by an application into a packet and generating an IP packet using the IP address of a target network apparatus, looking up the Ethernet address of the target network apparatus in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070047547 - Header elimination for real time internet applications: The disclosed techniques provide for eliminating real-time transport protocol, RTP, extension bit X, marker bit M, time stamp and sequence number information and/or user data protocol, UDP, checksum information from the header of a packet for transmission.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070047548 - Packet forwarding device with packet filter: To provide a packet forwarding device which minimizes degradation in packet forwarding performance at the time of execution of filtering there is provided a technique in which a destination decision processing unit of a destination decision and filtering unit decides whether to execute filtering on the basis of at least... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070047551 - Header compression for real time internet applications: The disclosed techniques provide for eliminating real-time transport protocol, RTP, sequence number information and/or user data protocol, UDP, checksum information from the header of a packet for transmission.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070047552 - Measurement method for spatial scheduling: The present invention relates to methods in a communication system providing the steps of determining a set of spatial transport formats, and signalling a selected active set of transport formats to one or several mobile terminals. The transport formats are adjustable by means of adapting the parameters of their complex... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070047553 - Uplink scheduling in wireless networks: A medium access control (MAC) scheduler is disclosed for scheduling uplink (UL) traffic by a subscriber station having multiple active service connections. The scheduler may include two types of queue sets, a first type of queue for each unsolicited grant service (UGS) connection and a second type of queue for... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070047554 - Multi-stage sonet overhead processing: An overhead processor processes overhead bytes in a stream of Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) frames in multiple levels. In one embodiment, the overhead processor includes three stages. A first stage provides access for external processing of a first set of overhead bytes in the stream of SONET frames. A second... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070047555 - Method of and system for providing quality of service in ip telephony: A method and system for providing quality of service in an IP telephony session between a calling party and a called party establishes a high quality of service ATM virtual circuit for the session between first and second devices, each of the devices having ATM capability and IP capability. The... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070047557 - Methods and apparatus for implementing vpn services: Implementation of a VPN service such as a VPLS (Virtual Private Local area network Service) is performed utilizing a two-stage process. A first stage of the two-stage process involves providing notification of whether a PE (Provider Edge) router in a label-switching network has VPLS capability. Notification can include broadcasting a... Agent: Chapin & Huang L.L.C. Westborough Office Park

20070047556 - Resiliency in minimum cost tree-based vpls architecture: A system for providing resilient multimedia broadcasting services over a VPLS network is described. A network Management System (NMS) calculates disjoint minimum cost trees using the Steiner algorithm executed with extra steps to result in the disjoint trees. Destination PE routers in the VPLS network are connected to the disjoint... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070047558 - Automated application server (as) permissions provisioning: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with provisioning an Internet Protocol (IP) core network services multimedia subsystem (IMS) are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) logic operably connectable to components including, a user database, an application server (AS), and a permissions database. The HSS... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070047559 - Gateway device, audio communication system, and audio communication method: There are provided a voice communication unit 23a for voice communication with the telephone equipment 13 through the metallic cable 3, an identifier generation unit 23b for generating a caller identifier and an intended recipient identifier on the basis of a control signal from the telephone equipment 13, a conversion... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070047562 - Method and apparatus for cross paging a multi network communication system: Various embodiments are described which can serve to increase the cross paging call success rate in joint networks. Resource reservation by a requesting network (312) in the context of cross paging is described. In general, such resource reservation may be triggered by the occurrence of any one of a variety... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070047561 - Method for accessing data and for searching data and a message box: A method for accessing data is disclosed, which method is for accessing data to a plurality of storage media through an electronic communication device, wherein the storage media are electrically connected to a gateway, the method including the steps of: the electronic communication device being connected to the gateway in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070047560 - Wireless bridge with beam-switching antenna arrays and method thereof: A wireless bridge for communicating with another wireless bridge. The wireless bridge comprises a plurality of phased-array antennas, an antenna selector and a transceiver. The phased-array antennas each forms a beam and transmits/receives a signal to/from the other wireless bridge, and the beams are overlapped in angles. The antenna selector... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070047564 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus includes a plurality of first queues to which priorities or predetermined bandwidths are assigned respectively, a plurality of second queues which are corresponded to any of the plurality of first queues and to which the priorities are assigned respectively, a first writing portion which writes data blocks... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070047563 - Priority queuing of frames in a tdma network: A node (401) responsive to a TDMA protocol is provided. The node (401) can include a transceiver (403) and one or more processors (407) cooperatively operable with the transceiver (403). The processor (407) can be configured to facilitate receiving (413) one or more frames to be transmitted in a communication... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070047565 - Network device and interface device for exchanging packets: Network devices (1) for receiving first and second packets comprising source addresses and destination addresses and codes from interface devices (2-4) via network couplings (12-14), which codes define couplings (15-20) between the interface devices (2-4) and terminal devices (5-10), are provided with detector units (109) for, in response to detections... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070047566 - Compensation for independent clocks in relayed communication over packet-based networks: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are presented for compensating for independent clocks in relayed modem communications involving receiving data packets from a first network device, forwarded over a packet-based network, at a second network device, the data packets representing data in a first modulated signal from a first modem, the first... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070047567 - Network management system: A network management system comprises a plurality of terminal devices, and a network to which the plurality terminal devices are connected. At least one of the plurality of terminal devices comprises a management setting information changing system configured to change management setting information for managing usage of the network by... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070047568 - System and method for providing locally applicable internet content with secure action requests and item condition alerts: Optimized delivery of locally applicable Internet content to users. A cache of locally applicable Internet content is maintained in a local content server, based upon a monitoring of locations of users requesting Internet content. Requests for Internet content are received from user equipment through a wireless network base station, and... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070047569 - Interference-reducing method of forward link scheduling for wireless networks: A method of scheduling and sub-channelization is provided for a wireless network such as an OFDMA network. Distributed coordination is applied across sectors, such neighboring sectors will tend to schedule cell-edge users at the same time, while sub-channelizing to different portions of the full frequency band available for forward link... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20070047570 - 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.

20070047571 - Session initiation protocol survivable server: This document discusses, among other things, a telephony network having a server configured to provide selected communication functions following failure of a primary server.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070047572 - Explicit flow control in gigabit/10 gigabit ethernet system: In one embodiment, a system comprises a communication medium; a first controller coupled to the communication medium; and a second controller coupled to the communication medium. The first controller is configured to interrupt transmission of a packet on the communication medium to the second controller subsequent to transmission of a... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070047573 - Networking and multimedia adapter for power outlets: A power outlet adaptor device having a housing, at least one multimedia, networking and/or communications component, and an electrical socket box including at least one electrical socket is provided. The multimedia, networking, and/or communications component is secured within the housing and provides multimedia, networking and/or communications capabilities. The electrical socket... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo

20070047575 - Service data transfer method and apparatus: The present invention discloses a service data transfer method applicable in PSN, which includes: when sending service data, a sending end performing a rate adaptation on a service data stream depending on a constant rate container adaptive to the rate of the service rate stream, encapsulating the service data stream... Agent: Robert Popa, Esq. C/o Ladas & Parry

20070047574 - Transmission of multiplex protocol data units in physical layer packets: A transmitter generates MUX-PDUs for video, audio, data, and/or control streams based on a fixed PHY packet size such that all or a substantial percentage of the MUX-PDUs conform to the PHY packet size. The MUX-PDUs have variable sizes and are mapped to PHY packets such that (1) each MUX-PDU... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070047577 - Cell disassembly unit: The present invention provides a cell disassembly unit which accurately reproduces the position of data on a time axis when ATM cells are converted into STM signals even if cell loss occurs in an ATM network. A cell loss detection circuit disassembles the ATM cells into bytes, sends them to... Agent: Venable LLP

20070047576 - Mapping uplink signaling channels: The present invention provides a method of wireless communication involving at least one first uplink channel associated with a first protocol and at least one second uplink channel associated with a second protocol. The method may include providing signaling information associated with the first uplink channel over a signaling channel... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070047578 - Bandwidth control method and transmission equipment: The present invention is comprised for pre-setting bandwidth control information of each user for each of the number of normal physical links which are integrated as a Link Aggregation, recognizing the number of currently normal physical links if a failure, or recovery therefrom, of a physical link which is integrated... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070047581 - Dynamic, dual-mode wireless network architecture with a split layer 2 protocol: A wireless data network architecture supports both centralized mode operation and distributed mode operation. In the centralized mode, all of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model data link layer, also known as layer 2, protocol functions are implemented within the radio access network control entity, such as at a... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky And Popeo P.C.

20070047580 - Method and device for improving the transmission efficiency in a communicaton system with a layerd protocol stack: In a method for improving the transmission efficiency in a communication system with a layered protocol stack, data packets are processed on an upper protocol layer. Data packets are forwarded to a lower protocol layer for transmission and the transmission is performed with variable channel access delays. The upper protocol... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070047579 - Multipacket interface: A multipacket interface is easily adaptable to any of several link layer interfaces via a simple adaptation layer which can be provided on an ASIC or FPGA. The interface according to the invention includes (in both transmit and receive directions) a multi-bit data signal, a multi-bit channel identifier, a packet... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20070047582 - Radio link control unacknowledged mode header optimization: A system and method is provided for inserting, in a radio link control entity, at least one service data unit to a protocol data unit of an appropriate size. The method also includes providing at least one indicator including a length indicator for indicating that a first data octet of... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070047583 - Method for using a short address in a packet header: A method and device for changing between a long address and a short address in a packet is provided. According to one embodiment, a method of converting a long address to a short address by an processing element in a communication network, comprises receiving a packet having a first long... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070047584 - Interleaving data packets in a packet-based communication system: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a first portion of a first packet at a first agent and determining whether the first portion is an interleaved portion based on a value of an interleave indicator. The interleave indicator may be sent as part of the... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070047585 - Methods and apparatus for network address change for mobile devices: In one aspect, a system capable of performing network address changes is provided. The system comprises a network interconnecting a plurality of hosts, a mobile device connected to the network, the mobile device associated with a first network address corresponding to a first network location of the mobile device on... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070047586 - System and method for scalable multifunctional network communication: A system and method for scalable multifunctional network communication between presentation devices and service providers are disclosed. A group of consumer premise equipment (CPE) units are coupled to the presentation devices, and a headend control computer receives upstream messages from the CPE units and for sending downstream messages to the... Agent: Duckor Spradling Metzger

20070047587 - Modulation scheme detecting apparatus and related method: A modulation scheme detecting apparatus for determining a target modulation scheme used for demodulating a received signal and a related method are disclosed. The modulation scheme detecting apparatus includes: a first power estimating module, for evaluating a first nominal power of the received signal rotated by a first predetermined phase... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070047588 - Communication system and slave and repeater units therefor: A communication system is formed with a master unit having a communication function and at least one slave unit also having a communication function connected by a network including a bus. Repeater units are inserted on the network between the master unit and the slave unit in one or more... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20070047590 - Method for signaling a device to perform no synchronization or include a synchronization delay on multimedia stream: An improved system and method for permitting a transmitting electronic device to indicate explicitly which streams in a multimedia stream being transmitted should not be synchronized or should include a specified amount of synchronization jitter. The present invention aids the receiving device in understanding the stream characteristics. The present invention... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070047589 - Multi-rate serdes receiver: A serializer/deserializer (SERDES) receiver circuit designed to support multiple serial data rates (full, half, and quarter rates) based on user selection, while requiring substantially minimal amounts of additional logic and complexity within the core logic functions and analog circuits of a full rate SERDES. Over-sampled data from the analog block... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070047591 - Synchronizing data transmission over wireless networks: Techniques for providing an uninterrupted data stream to a mobile node are disclosed. In a first technique, a time stamp is inserted at some point in the wireless network and the time stamp is used along with a tolerance value to determine when to transmit a packet in a data... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070047592 - Method and apparatus for providing a gigabit ethernet circuit pack: Method and system for providing data transmission with transparency over the Gigabit Ethernet data stream includes receiving the 10 bit code with a data rate of 1,250 Mbits/second from the encoded 8B/10B data and arbitrarily selecting 9 bit codes using a look-up translation table which can fully represent the 10... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070047593 - Methods and apparatus for deskewing vcat/lcas members: Write logic and read logic are couple