Multiplex communications inventions 05/07

20070121482 - Transmitting/receiving apparatus, method, program, recording medium, and integrating circuit used in communication network: A transmitting/receiving apparatus includes a packet construction section for dividing continuous data into a plurality of subpackets, and constructing a packet by concatenating the plurality of subpackets; a modulation transmission section for modulating the constructed packet, and transmitting the modulated packet to another apparatus; a training session execution section for... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070121483 - Method and system for reducing peak-to-average power for ofdm signals: The invention provides a system and method for effectively reducing peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) in an OFDM signal. The method includes the steps of oversampling a signal in the time domain, gradually clipping an amplitude of the signal to a predefined level using a formula involving a hyperbolic tangent, bandpass... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070121484 - Method of transmitting signals for initial synchronization in a wireless communication system using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ofdm) or ofdm access (ofdma) scheme: A method of receiving at least one synchronization signal from at least one base station (BS) in a wireless communication system using an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) or an OFDM Access (OFDMA) scheme is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes receiving the at least one synchronization signal transmitted from... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070121485 - System and method for adjusting a pid controller in a limited rotation motor system: A method is disclosed for adjusting a proportional, integral, derivative controller in a limited rotation motor system. The method includes the step of providing a first frequency domain sequence that is representative of a frequency domain representation of a motor control signal responsive to a first digital signal that is... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070121487 - Network element recovery process: A method for recovering circuits of a network element in a communications network includes determining a recovery interval in response to a failure occurring in the network element, and collecting recovery data relating to at least one circuit provisioned in the network element during the recovery interval to support a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070121486 - System and method for pe-node protection: A novel fast reroute (FRR) technique is provided for quickly and efficiently rerouting selected types of network traffic in response to a node or link failure at the edge of a computer network. According to the technique, the network includes first and second edge devices that function as “FRR mates,”... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070121488 - System and method for implementing service switching: A system for implementing service switching includes a primary service processing unit, a physical interface card, a control center, a switching unit and a standby service processing unit, to guarantee that the physical interface card connected to the failed primary service processing unit transmits the service data that should be... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070121490 - Cluster system, load balancer, node reassigning method and recording medium storing node reassigning program: Each of node servers provided in a cluster system connected to load balancers includes a storage portion for storing node-session information that associates a session ID and a node server in charge with each other and node life/death information, a node checking portion for, when receiving a message sent from... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070121489 - Transaction detection in link based computing system: A transaction detection device is described having inputs to couple to communication lines. Each communication line to transport notification of a packet observed by a link probe within a computing system containing point-to-point links between nodes. Each of said nodes having at least one processing core. The transaction detection device... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070121491 - Digital demodulating apparatus, digital receiver, controlling method of the apparatus, computer program product for the apparatus, and recording medium recording thereon the product: A digital demodulating apparatus is provided capable of more reducing the power consumption of a demodulator by decreasing the performance of demodulation processing to a portion of a signal in which the signal condition is forecasted to be worsened. In the apparatus, when a signal status forecasting section has forecasted... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070121492 - Thermal interrupt generation: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and processor are provided for thermal interrupt generation. An interrupt temperature is set to a first temperature and an interrupt direction is to a greater than or equal to determination. A determination is made as to whether a sensed temperature from a digital... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070121493 - Variable-sized packet support for enhanced synchronous connection oriented links over a usb interface: A system for enabling data packets of variable size to be used on Bluetooth communication links over Universal Serial Bus (USB) is provided. A host device is configured to identify a target device with Bluetooth capabilities. The host device may determine a USB alternate setting for Bluetooth communication having data... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070121497 - Accounting based on active packet time: An accounting method, system, device, and a computer-readable medium. The accounting method, system, device, and a computer-readable medium provide for measuring a time interval between arrival of two adjacent packets, comparing the measured time interval to a predetermined threshold, and determining whether the measured time interval is an active packet... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070121494 - Communication device and communication method: A transmission processing portion 102 that transmits various kinds of data, a timer portion 107 that counts a continuous operation request effective time during which transmitted data is always received, a transmission control portion 104 that controls the transmission processing portion 102 to transmit data in which is set a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070121495 - Method and apparatus for managing flow control in pci express transaction layer: A method and apparatus is provided wherein a central Credit Controller Entity (CCE) is connected to a PCIE fabric environment by means of several buses. Flow Control information sent to the CCE over two of the buses indicates the buffer storage capacity that is available at respective Receiver components in... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation Legal Department - Ip

20070121496 - System and method for amplitude optimization in high-speed serial transmissions: A method, system, and computer usable program code for increasing drive strength using various steps. First, a data signal is received at a receiving device. The receiving device determines whether the data is successfully received once the data signal is received at the receiving device. If the receiving device determines... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation Legal Department - Ip

20070121498 - System and method for transmitting non-real-time data in a broadband communication system: A method is provided for transmitting non-real-time traffic in a broadband communication system. A Base Station (BS) transmits to Mobile Stations (MSs) status information corresponding to each service for transmission of non-real-time traffic. The MSs to the BS each send a bandwidth allocation request according to the status information provided... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070121500 - Communication session admission control systems and methods: Communication session admission control systems and methods are disclosed. A state of a communication system is monitored, and admission of a communication session into the communication system is controlled based on a random admission control procedure and a current state of the communication system. Monitoring of the current state of... Agent: Arnold B. Silverman Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070121501 - Method and apparatus for providing quality of service level in broadband communications systems: An access terminal having user applications identified by product keys used to determine a QoS level to be granted to invoked user applications for the establishment of connections by an access network. The access terminal invokes the user applications, identifies the product key of the invoked user applications and determines... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070121499 - Method of and system for physically distributed, logically shared, and data slice-synchronized shared memory switching: An improved data networking technique and apparatus using a novel physically distributed but logically shared and data-sliced synchronized shared memory switching datapath architecture integrated with a novel distributed data control path architecture to provide ideal output-buffered switching of data in networking systems, such as routers and switches, to support the... Agent: Rines & Rines

20070121505 - Providing proportionally fair bandwidth allocation in communication systems: Sharing a resource may include the use of label values associated with information units presented to the resource. The label values may be determined based on, for example, arrival rates and/or committed flow rates. Criteria may be applied to label values to determine if the associated information units may be... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070121503 - Routing topology bandwidth management methods and system: A system for facilitating bandwidth management in a routing domain (100), the system including: a domain bandwidth manager (116); and a plurality of area bandwidth managers (118, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128) coupled to the domain bandwidth manager and arranged in accordance with an OSPF hierarchical routing topology with the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070121504 - Scheduling incoming packet traffic on an output link of a network device associated with a data network: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for scheduling a flow on an output link among a plurality of flows of incoming packet traffic at a network device associated with a data network. A scheduler comprises scheduler logic that uses a credit counter per flow to keep track... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070121502 - System and method for handling network overload: A system and method for handling network overload includes receiving one or more requests, wherein an originating client originates the one or more requests. It is determined if a network element processing the one or more requests is overloaded. If the network element is overloaded, a pushback message is generated.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070121506 - Efficient loss recovery architecture for loss-decoupled tcp: The invention provides a method and apparatus for decoupling loss recovery from congestion and window control. The system provides improved performance in high loss environments such as wireless links. The system avoids unnecessary window adjustment in response to packet losses. Transmission rates can be maintained with out compromising loss recovery.... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070121512 - Control apparatus for deactivating an electrical load during congestion periods: A control apparatus (1) for controlling an electrical load (2) has a housing (28), a plug (12) mounted to the housing (28) for connecting the control apparatus (1) to the power outlet (4), a socket (10) mounted to the housing (28) for connecting the control apparatus (1) to the electrical... Agent: George W. Rauchfuss, Jr., Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070121508 - Method and system for handling context of data packet flows: The present invention relates to the handling of context of data packet flows. As mentioned, there is a need of a coordination mechanism for the transfer of context for flows that belong to the same session. One object with the invention is to offer a coordination mechanism for the handling... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070121510 - Methods and apparatus for designing traffic distribution on a multiple-service packetized network using multicommodity flows and well-linked terminals: Methods and apparatus are provided for designing traffic distribution in a multiple-service packetized network using such multicommodity flows and well-linked terminals. Arbitrary multicommodity flows f are transformed to sets of well-linked terminals. The multicommodity flows are represented in a graph G having a set of k node-pairs s1t1, . .... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070121509 - System and method for predicting updates to network operations: A system and method are disclosed for predicting updates to network operations. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network management system (NMS) (100) having a memory (104), a communications interface (110), and a controller (102). The controller is programmed to observe (202)... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070121507 - System and method for the automatic setup of switched circuits based on traffic prediction in a telecommunications network: An optical network is configured so as to dedicate a first portion of lightpaths to high priority traffic and leave a second portion of lightpaths available for low priority traffic. The high priority traffic entering the high priority lightpaths is monitored. In case of detection of a burst in high... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070121511 - Transmission control protocol (tcp) congestion control using transmission delay components: According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided to improve the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) for data such as delay sensitive or bursty data. A maximum send window is adjusted using forward queuing delay and maximum bandwidth parameters. Reverse queuing delay and the number of packets drops are... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070121513 - Weighted fair bandwidth distribution system: An efficient policer (210-1, . . . , 210-M) based weighted fairness bandwidth distribution system (200) is disclosed. The system (200) is based on a plurality of policers (210-1, . . . , 210-M) and at least one queue (220). To achieve fairness, the rate for queuing packets is adaptively... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070121514 - Method for negotiating bearer properties in ip networks: In one aspect, a method for negotiating bearer properties in a communication network providing a plurality of Media Gateway Controllers and a plurality of Media Gateways, in which bearer properties are maintained, and maintaining reference lists in the Media Gateway Controllers, the reference list comprising influenceable bearer properties is provided.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070121515 - System and method for handling network overload: A system and method for handling network overload includes receiving one or more requests, wherein an originating client originates the one or more requests. It is determined if a network element handling the one or more requests is overloaded. If the network element is overloaded, a pushback message associated with... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070121516 - Method for testing stateful network communications devices: There is disclosed a method for testing a stateful network communications device. A plurality of stateful and simulated stateless connections are established with the device under test. Packets are sent to the device under test, and responses are received from the device enter test, over the stateless and stateful connections.... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070121517 - Methods and systems for checking expected network traffic: A method for checking expected network traffic is disclosed. The method for checking expected network traffic includes accessing pre-registered expected results of a network traffic checking exercise that include expected packet content verification information for individual packets of the network traffic. In addition, the method includes accessing network traffic where... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070121518 - Method and system for phy loop detection: A method, system and apparatus are provided for detecting a loop-back in a physical layer on an Ethernet link. In the physical layer, a device sends a base page on the Ethernet link. The base page has at least one next page capability bit set. Subsequently, the device receives a... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070121519 - Pool-based network diagnostic systems and methods: A networking system may include one or more nodes communicating with each other. The nodes may communicate via one or more links, which a switch or other structure may provide. The networking system may include one or more pools of at least one network diagnostic module. A network diagnostic module... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070121521 - Method and apparatus for broadcast in an ad hoc network with dynamic selection of relay nodes: Techniques are provided for allowing a node (300) in an ad hoc network to deterministically decide whether to relay broadcast information to another node in the ad hoc network. The node (300) receives broadcast information and measures received signal strength (RSS) of the broadcast information. The node (300) may determine... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070121524 - Method and apparatus providing prioritized recursion resolution of border gateway protocol forwarding information bases: A method, performed in a network packet routing element, comprising establishing a forwarding information base (FIB) lacking a hierarchical data structure but wherein one or more dependent FIB entries are associated with a parent FIB entry; establishing a plurality of strict priority queues, wherein each of the queues has an... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070121525 - Method and sytem for increasing bandwidth usage in a network: A method and system for increasing the bandwidth usage in a network is provided. The method includes monitoring the bandwidth usage. The method and system further includes offering one or more incentives to a user of an electronic device for using one or more services when the bandwidth usage is... Agent: William L. Botjer

20070121526 - Method, ue and system for providing simulateneous multiple session poc multimedia service in poc system: Disclosed are a method, a User Equipment (UE) and a system for providing a simultaneous multiple session Push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC) multimedia service. A PoC client performing a PoC multimedia communication service participates in multiple sessions according to the setup of a user, and can simultaneously receive the same media... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070121523 - Methods and apparatus for determining reverse path delay: According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided for determining components of a round trip time (RTT). A source node sends data to a destination node. The destination node inserts a timestamp into an acknowledgment and sends the acknowledgment back to the source node. The source node determines... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070121520 - System and method for automated double-ended field management of dsl service: A system and method to perform double-ended measurements of a network is provided. The system includes a test device that makes measurements at the customer end and a portable computing device that interfaces with the test device, a customer gateway and database at a network location to analyze the data... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070121522 - Techniques for modeling and evaluating protocol interactions: Techniques for modeling and evaluating protocol interactions are provided. A service is monitored for its interactions with one or more protocols. The protocols are semantically defined and reference behaviors are derived therefrom in response to the interactions. The reference behaviors are then compared to runtime activities observed for the service... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070121528 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus according to the present invention includes a presence information setting unit that sets presence information including a user display name and its apparatus state, and a presence information notification unit that that notifies an opposing apparatus of the presence information. The communication apparatus further include an action... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070121527 - System and method for remote dynamic network configuration: A computer-executable system and method thereof are provided for remote dynamic network configuration in a remote network management environment of TCP/IP base. Through a sever management daughter card located on an agent terminal, a medium access control address of the agent terminal is used to request a corresponsive internet protocol... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070121529 - Communication network providing wireless and hard-wired dynamic routing: A data communication network for providing dynamic routing through both wireless and wired subnetworks to support wireless communication devices and wired remote stations is disclosed. In the wireless network, the wireless communication devices can be mobile RF terminals, while the wired remote stations might be personal computers attached to a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070121530 - Method and apparatus for conference spanning: Disclosed are conferencing systems, devices, architectures, and methods for managing a conference spanning system to facilitate participation in a plurality of conferences at the same time. An exemplary system having devices and/or structures in accordance with embodiments can include: (i) a plurality of conferences, each conference being configured to support... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070121531 - Hybrid wireless communication system and communication method using the same: Disclosed is a hybrid wireless communication system and a communication method in the system. The system supports time and frequency division duplexing modes and includes a base station having a cellular communication range based on a cellular mode and mobile stations within the cellular communication range. The base station divides... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070121532 - Application specific encoding of content: Transmitting content and tailoring encoding according to application requirements. To change encoding, choosing an operation point for encoding content depending on the application receiving the content, sending data representative of the chosen operation point to a sender of the content, receiving data representative of an operation point from a receiver... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070121533 - Mobile phone: The present invention is a mobile phone having a non-telephone function (e.g. a radio function) that is different from a telephone function, and comprising: a non-telephone function unit (a radio functioning unit) operable to execute the non-telephone function; an auto-power-off control unit operable to cause a timer to operate during... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070121534 - Wireless user network for handheld information terminals: An example user network provides information and entertainment for users via handheld information terminals. The “look and feel” and personality of the handheld information terminals can be location-specific so that the most relevant information and entertainment can be provided to users in a useful and appealing manner.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070121535 - Dynamic transmit power for non-canonical transmission formats: Data packets on forward link packet data channels are typically transmitted at the full available power of the base station. When a non-canonical transmission format associated with a received DRC index is selected for encoding the packet data, the data may be transmitted with less that full available power, achieving... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070121536 - Mobile communication terminal and computer readable recording medium: An object of the present invention is to reduce the power consumed by mobile communication terminal having wireless LAN connection function. To achieve this object, when data communication operation is started, a control unit determines whether connection to wireless LAN is available, and if so, detects the battery remaining amount... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070121537 - Data multiplexing for diversity operation: In a satellie mobile telecommunications system based on the GSM standard, and using a TDMA frame structure, discontinuous transmission (DTX) mode is used to take advantage of the substantial silences which occur during normal speech. In this mode, traffic channel (TCH) data is not sent, but control of the link... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070121538 - Wireless base station and wireless communication method: A wireless base station that performs data communication using a plurality of sub carriers, and repeatedly generates frame patterns comprising one combination or more of at least two types of frames in which the number of common pilots in each is different, and transmits data for mobile terminals having poor... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070121540 - Arrangement and method for providing user stations with access to service providing networks: The present invention relates to an arrangement and a method for providing a user station with access to (a) service providing network(s) over a wireless radio access network, particularly Bluetooth. It comprises a radio access network control node (RANCN) (3) acting as a gateway node between access stations (HBS; 2A,2B)... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070121541 - Wireless communication system, communication apparatus, setting information providing method, setting information obtaining method, and computer program: A wireless communication system includes an access point, a master communication apparatus, and a slave communication apparatus, and the master communication apparatus and the slave communication apparatus perform wireless communication through the access point. The master communication apparatus stores setting information necessary for accessing the access point; performs wireless communication... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070121539 - Wireless line sharing network system, and administrative apparatus and method thereof: A wireless line sharing network system enabling the charge of fees according to the use of a wireless communication network as well as reduction in capital invested by a communication carrier. A user terminal that subscribes to a communication carrier accesses a corresponding communication carrier network at a licensed radio... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070121547 - Apparatus and method for allocating resources in a communication system: The present invention is provided a method for allocating uplink resources in a communication system. The method includes calculating a scheduling metric for each Mobile Station (MS), selecting an MS with a high priority according to the scheduling metric, determining a Modulation order Product coding Rate (MPR) and a number... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070121544 - Base station system and method for assigning a unique word in a communication system: A method and system for assigning unique words in an SDMA communication system is disclosed. A base station has a set of available unique words from which to select and assign unique words. The base station prioritizes the unique words by determining which unique words are likely to interfere with... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070121542 - Quality-of-service (qos)-aware scheduling for uplink transmission on dedicated channels: Abstract: The invention relates to a method for scheduling in a mobile communication system where data of priority flows is transmitted by mobile terminals via dedicated uplink channels to a base station. Each mobile terminal transmits at least data of one priority flow via one of the dedicated uplink channels.... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070121545 - Resource allocating method among mobile-stations in distribution communication network: A method of resource allocation among mobile stations in distributed communication network enables a mobile station to perceive existence of another mobile station through a time slot for resource allocation without having to communicate with a sensor node. If perceiving another mobile station, the mobile station allocates time slot resources... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070121543 - Scheduling in wireless communication systems: A method in a wireless communication network (100) wherein information is communicated in a frame structure wherein each frame includes multiple sub-frames, including grouping at least two wireless communication terminals in a group, assigning the group to less than all sub-frames constituting a communication frame, and assigning a radio resource... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070121546 - Simultaneous simulcast and single cast hybrid multi-tone communication system: Methods and systems for simultaneous transmission of simulcast and single cast information over a hybrid point to multipoint communication systems, including the steps of: selecting an area to be ubiquitously covered by a common channel; assigning a first wireless client to the common channel; assigning a second wireless client to... Agent: Active Knowledge Ltd.

20070121548 - Network generating system and method: A wireless communications network generating device comprises an antenna for transmitting and receiving radio frequency signals, a communications bus for routing data signals; a radio frequency transceiver operable to receive incoming signals from said antenna and supply outgoing signals thereto. The signal processor includes a port electrically connected to the... Agent: Middleton & Reutlinger

20070121549 - Fast handover method and apparatus: A fast handover method and apparatus for a mobile node between sub-networks by using a predictive algorithm includes: identifying a sub-network which is likely to be connected to a mobile node; requesting detection of whether an address of the mobile node which is to be used in the sub-network is... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070121551 - Method of operating a radio communications network, terminal and base station: The invention relates to a method of operating a radio communications network (100), wherein data is transmitted from a base station (10) of said network (100) to a terminal (20) via a radio link (15). The inventive method is characterized in that data to be transmitted from said base station... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070121550 - Wireless apparatus, monitor camera system using the wireless apparatus, and audio-video listening and viewing system using the wireless apparatus: A wireless apparatus has a wireless reception unit for receiving a wireless signal, extracting a reception beacon signal and a reception frame body signal from the wireless signal, and outputting the extracted reception beacon signal and the extracted reception frame body signal, a frame body disassembly unit for receiving the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070121552 - Cell selection in high-speed downlink packet access communication systems: The usual determination of signal-to-noise ratio EC/I0 in a communication system is modified such that EC/I0 is also based on either or both of the path delay profile (PDP) and estimates of the load on a cell in the communication system. The PDP may be obtained from a path searcher... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070121554 - Interference cancellation in wireless communication: Techniques for recovering transmissions on data and control channels with interference cancellation are described. A receiver derives a first interference estimate for a first channel based on a first channel estimate and cancels the first interference estimate from an input signal. The receiver thereafter derives a second interference estimate for... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070121556 - Optical code-division multiple-access network system employing central code assignment scheme and optical encoder and decoder for the network system: Provided are an optical code-division multiple-access (O-CDMA) network system and method and an optical encoder and decoder in the system. The O-CDMA network system includes a central station and at least one subscriber unit. In a code assigning method of the optical code-division multiple-access network system, first, the subscriber unit... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070121555 - Positioning using is-95 cdma signals: Apparatus having corresponding methods and computer-readable media comprise a receiver to receive a wireless Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) signal comprising a continuously transmitted pseudonoise sequence; and a pseudorange unit to determine a pseudorange based on the wireless CDMA signal; wherein a location of the receiver is determined based on... Agent: Law Office Of Richard A. Dunning, Jr.

20070121553 - Reverse link load estimation using reference signal: A reference signal including a quality indication is injected into the reverse link signal received at a base station. The transmit power of the reference signal is controlled by the base station through reverse link power control, and the base station estimates the reverse link load from the transmit power... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070121562 - Communication control system and method thereof: A communication control system applicable to a portable communication apparatus and a method thereof are disclosed. The communication control system includes a first communication module, a second communication module, a detector, and a controller. A first wireless signal is sent and received between the first communication module and a first... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070121564 - Communication network and method: A wireless, ad-hoc or private communications network (100) comprising nodes (102, 112, 120, 130, 140), forming with other elements of the network a switching and management infrastructure /SwMI/, and subscribers, wherein each of said nodes (102, 112, 120, 130, 140) has a Visitor Location Register /VLR/ (108, 118, 126, 136,... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070121557 - Location broadcasting: The present invention broadcasts location information to communication terminals, which are located in a geographic area associated with the location information. Communication terminals within the area in which the broadcasted location information can be received will receive the location information and be able to use the location information as an... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070121563 - Method and apparatus to determine wireless network link: A method and apparatus to determine a wireless network link includes detecting one or more connectable wireless networks, forming a link to one of the detected wireless networks, determining whether predetermined data is received via the linked wireless network, and determining the linked wireless network as a host-connected network when... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070121565 - Network partitioning using encryption: In an example embodiment, a system for providing a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) by use of encryption states or encryption keys for identifying a VLAN. A table of data including a VLAN and an associated encryption state or key is provided for assignment of encryption states or keys, for... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070121560 - Positioning for wlans and other wireless networks: Techniques for positioning access points and terminals in WLANs and other wireless networks are described. For access point positioning, measurements are obtained for at least one access point in a WLAN. The measurements may be based on transmission sequences (e.g., beacon frames) transmitted periodically by each access point. The measurements... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070121559 - Routing switch for parameterized routing in mesh networks: A wireless device for routing data in a mesh network is provided. The device includes a component operable to promote routing in the mesh network according programmable parameters. The wireless device includes a transmitter operable to promote communications with at least one other device in the mesh network.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070121558 - System and method for data communication in a wireless network: Described is a system comprising a first wireless device and a second wireless device. The first device has access to a packet routing table which includes data indicative of a packet transmission path in a wireless mesh communications network. The second wireless device is communicatively coupled to the first device... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070121561 - Wlan mobile phone and wireless network: A wireless network has a plurality of base stations, each configured to communicate with at least one portable device using a WLAN protocol. The wireless network also has a VoIP core network coupled to each of the base stations. A WLAN mobile phone has a VoIP processor coupled to an... Agent: Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP

20070121566 - Method and apparatus for transitioning between evdo and cdma 1x systems using redundant data call blockings: A method and apparatus of optimizing transitioning between EVDO and CDMA 1X systems in a hybrid access terminal, the method having the steps of preventing a reconnect data call from being sent from the hybrid access terminal. The preventing step including checking whether a transition between an EVDO and a... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070121567 - Method and apparatus for improving rf coverage area in a wireless network: Sub-channelization gain in an OFDMA-based wireless channel is enhanced by utilizing packet fragmentation when implementing a constant bit rate (CBR) real time (RT) packet application. A packet that would normally be transmitted using multiple sub-channels in a single OFDMA frame may be fragmented and delivered through the wireless channel over... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Intellevele

20070121569 - Communication method, terminal, and base station: A terminal transmits a request for a resource assignment to a base station, and acquires an initial value of a resource for data transmission that can be reduced with time. The terminal does not transmit the new data to the base station when the resource for data transmission is not... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070121568 - Method and apparatus for distributing messages to mobile recipients: For processing digital communication traffic in a network comprising a central communication processing structure (402, 403; 502, 503) and a number of separate devices (401, 405; 501, 505) of users designed for communication with the central communication processing structure, each time, a communication coming from one of the separate devices... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070121570 - Broadcast messaging in peer to peer overlay network: Broadcast messages are efficiently directed to nodes of an overlay network. Broadcast messages include an End ID parameter specifying the range of key values for nodes that should receive the broadcast message. Each node of an overlay network maintains a list of finger nodes and their respective key values. Upon... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070121573 - Hybrid system having multiple downlink channels and a single uplink channel: Methods and systems for hybrid point to multipoint communication systems having multiple downlink channels and a single uplink channel, including the steps of: centrally allocating bandwidth to, and synchronizing communications with, a first and a second wireless clients; transmitting, over a shared signal wired distribution line, a first downlink signal... Agent: Active Knowledge Ltd.

20070121571 - Method and apparatus for improving recovery performance of time windowed signals: A method and apparatus are provided for processing a windowed time division multiplexed signal received by a radio receiver. The method includes the steps of detecting (802) a pilot symbol within the windowed time division multiplexed signal, determining (804) a difference between the detected pilot symbol and a corrected pilot... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070121572 - Systems and methods for tandem free operation signal transmission: Systems and methods are provided for reducing signal distortion during tandem free operation signal transmission from a first mobile station to a second mobile station over a network; the systems and methods reduce the signal distortion in tandem free operation mobile to mobile communications that occurs when there is a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070121580 - Classification for media stream packets in a media gateway: A method in Field Programmable Gate Array for processing packets received at a media gateway is provided. The method includes ascertaining whether a received packet is a UDP (User Datagram Protocol) packet. The method also includes comparing first portion of UDP destination port number from UDP packet header with first... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20070121574 - Communication system, multicast-capable router, transmitter terminal, receiver terminal, and communication method: A communication system (1) is provided with URs (20a to 20h) and a source terminal (10). The URs (20a to 20h) include: entry holders (21a to 21h) for holding forwarding addresses; message processors (25) for registering the addresses of other URs, the addresses being associated with a source terminal address... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070121576 - Method and device for providing communication services: Technology for providing subscribers with communication services in accordance with their agreements with a service provider, that comprises: a) determining a plurality of subscribers to be connected to the service provider via a distribution unit located in an access network; b) selecting a default advanced broadband technology (DABT) for the... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070121579 - Packet routing system and method: A flexible, scalable hardware and software platform that allows a service provider to easily provide internet services, virtual private network services, firewall services, etc., to a plurality of customers. One aspect provides a method and system for delivering security services. This includes connecting a plurality of processors in a ring... Agent: Hamilton Desanctis & Cha Michael A. Desanctis

20070121577 - Physical wiring control device, physical wiring control method, and computer product: An optical power information receiving unit receives optical power information transmitted from a power monitor. When it is judged that a new IT apparatus is connected to an optical switch, an optical switch control unit controls the optical switch to connect the IT apparatus and an optical switch control device.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070121575 - Protection for an integrated circuit chip containing confidential data: An integrated circuit chip for holding or processing data on information for secure protection. A first side of the chip has at least one first conductor element and another side of the chip has another conducting element.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070121578 - System and method for multi-channel communication queuing using routing and escalation rules: A system, apparatus, and method for routing work items to agents, wherein the work items can be of one of two or more different communication media types from one of two or more different communication channels. A queuing engine includes a list of routes and each route is associated with... Agent: Csa LLP

20070121584 - Caller id information to internet protocol television displays: Network-based methods and systems transfer caller ID information from a telephony network to an IPTV network. Embodiments integrate service provisioning, subscriber account and policy information between telephony services and IP-based television services. voice call signaling may be intercepted to retrieve caller ID, caller name information, and other call management information,... Agent: Matthew E. Burr Lake Austin Marina

20070121591 - Internet protocol telephony voice/video message deposit and retrieval: A method for signaling an Integrated Messaging System (IMS) on an Internet Protocol (IP) based network to deposit a message, including the steps of sending a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) SIP INVITE request to the IMS indicating a message deposit action; receiving a corresponding SIP message from the IMS agreeing... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070121593 - Method and apparatus for ensuring accessibility to emergency service via voip or via pstn: The Federal Communications Commission Order 05-116, E911 Requirements for IP-Enabled Service Providers, (FCC Order) requires interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service providers to deliver all emergency service calls to a VoIP service user's local emergency service operator as a standard feature of the service. Under the FCC Order, VoIP... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070121586 - Method and apparatus for performing active packet bundling in a voice over ip communications system based on voice concealability: A method and apparatus for performing a active packet bundling in a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) based on a measure of voice concealability of one or more speech packets to be transmitted. Voice concealability is a property of a speech packet which indicates the likelihood that a given speech... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20070121583 - Method and apparatus to provide cryptographic identity assertion for the pstn: The present application provides an authentication scheme that allows a device to provide additional authentication of a Publicly Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) identity assertion made in a PSTN call by also sending an Internet Protocol (IP) communication. The device sends the IP communication generally in parallel with the PSTN call.... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070121589 - Method of call trace on media gateway of next generation network: The present invention discloses a method of call trace on an NGN MG. According to the present invention, the softswitch device adds an extended trace indication to an H.248 message related to the call to be traced; the MG determines whether the received H.248 message needs to be traced according... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070121581 - Method of playing a multimedia content transmitted by a third-party on a user device: The invention relates to transmitting a multimedia content to a user device and playing said multimedia content on said user device during booting of said user device. Transmission is achieved by downloading or by streaming. The invention allows transmission of a start-up content (for instance a video logo or advertisement)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070121587 - Package for mcgp for cost and quality control in a voip system that simplifies fax/modem/tty call setup: A package under MGCP protocols for providing control over cost and quality of voice calls on an IP-based network such that an optimal selection of connection parameters under given network conditions can be made by a call agent. A gateway transmits an event to the call agent, which in turn... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070121582 - Security module for encrypting a telephone conversation: A telephone conversation between one or several first telecommunication terminals in a packet oriented data network and telecommunication terminals in an analog and/or digital network is encrypted by a module which enables the use of protocols from a LAN network to a TDM network to carry out end-to-end encryption.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070121585 - Streaming file transfer apparatus, systems, and methods: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to receive a stream of packets, including perhaps a stream of hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) packets, at a server. The stream of HTTP packets may comprise a data message and a control message. Both messages may be encoded in a computing platform independent protocol,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070121590 - System and method for providing call management services in a virtual private network using voice or video over internet protocol: A system and method for providing call management services in a Virtual Private Network of the present invention uses the advantages of end-to-end Internet Protocol signaling. The system and method of the present invention includes a user profile which offers both a customer address and a user name as search... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070121588 - System and method of routing data packets: A system and method of routing data packets is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a first Internet Protocol (IP) data packet at a first access port of an access line card within a data router. The method also includes transmitting the first IP data packet from... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070121592 - Voip with local call access: The invention provides marketing a telephone service that has an adapter or dongle that is functionally interposed between a telephone and a telephone utility line. The adapter is programmed to receive a voice signal and telephone number transmitted by the telephone. Based on the telephone number, the adapter determines whether... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP. Hani Z. Sayed

20070121597 - Apparatus and method for processing voip packet having multiple frames: Provided is an apparatus and method for processing a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) packet with multiple frames. The apparatus includes: a transmission packet processing unit for receiving a frame from a speech codec, forming a Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) payload in a form of multiple frames and transmitting the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070121600 - Devices, softwares and methods with improved performance of acoustic echo canceler in voip communication: Devices, softwares and methods send a warning signal when a periodic signal is present in the audio content of a VoIP connection. In response to the warning signal, an acoustic echo canceller of an IP telephone discontinues its adapting process. A signaling network switch detects when a periodic signal is... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070121607 - Dsl integrated call waiting: One embodiment of a call handling method, among others, includes receiving a query from a switching system indicating that a called party telephone is busy; examining handling information for the called party to determine if the called party has voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service; and instructing the switching system... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070121598 - Emergency call methodology for voip communications: A method for determining the location of a VoIP caller includes receiving an emergency call from a VoIP phone from the internet via a VoIP enabling device. A device identifier of the VoIP enabling device through which the call from the VoIP device originated is received. The device identifier is... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20070121601 - Integrating sip control messaging into existing communication center routing infrastructure: A software suite is disclosed for routing communication events over a data-packet-network using an IP session initiation and management protocol. The software suite comprises, a server application running on the network for computing and serving routing determinations per request, a session management application running on the network for initiating and... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070121604 - Lightweight voice over internet protocol phone: Disclosed above are various embodiments of VoIP communication systems that utilize low cost IP phones that rely on a centralized VoIP controller for much of the processing. Reducing the processing taking place on an IP phone may reduce the number of components that need to be on the IP phone... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070121594 - Method and apparatus for performing active packet bundling in a voice over-ip communications system based on source location in talk spurts: A method and apparatus for bundling packets together for transmission in a Voice over IP communications network based on packet location within a talk spurt. Illustratively, all frames other than the first and last frames of a talk spurt may be advantageously bundled up to a predetermined maximum bundle size.... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20070121595 - Method and apparatus for providing customized ringback to calling party devices in an ims network: An exemplary method provides ringback information to a calling party device. A call establishment request is received in an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network from the calling party device by a session initiation protocol, SIP, application server, SIP-AS. Ringback information associated with the called party, which may require... Agent: Carmen B. Patti & Associates, LLC

20070121603 - Method and system for creating voip routing registry: VoIP Routing Registry (VRR) has been created to allow VoIP Service Providers to direct calls properly over their IP networks. In operation, the VRR translates a 10-digit or 6-digit telephone number into a URI that can be used for routing. The VRR must also take into consideration Local Number Portability... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20070121608 - Method and system for implementing communications: The present invention discloses a method and a system for implementing communication for a CSI terminal, the system includes: an IP Multimedia Subsystem Terminal Module (IMS TM), a Circuit Switched Terminal Module (CS TM), a CS/IMS interworking gateway. The method includes: the IMS IM indicates the CS TM to establish... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070121610 - Method of operating a virtual private network: A method of operating a virtual private network includes the steps of: (a) dialing a custom number; (b) receiving the custom number at a switch (20) of a first carrier; (c) routing the call to a switch (18) of a second carrier based on having received the custom number; and... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070121599 - Method, system and apparatus for announcing caller information over a television link: A method, system and apparatus for announcing caller information to users over a television link. The method comprises receiving, via a portion of a data network adapted for handling Voice-over-IP (VoIP) calls, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) signalling information associated with an incoming call destined for a destination party, the SIP... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20070121611 - Methods and apparatus for providing voice communications through a packet network: A communications system multiplexes voice communications signals onto one or more transport level connections established through a packetized network, such as the Internet. The invention supports the use of variable-length packets and accommodates variable jitter. The system conforms to real time protocol (RTP) and employs internet telephone gateways (ITGs) to... Agent: Priest & Goldstein, PLLC

20070121596 - System and method for providing network level and nodal level vulnerability protection in voip networks: The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for providing network level and nodal level vulnerability protection in VoIP networks by receiving a communication, filtering the received communication using three or more stages selected from the group comprising a media protection and filtering plane, a policy based filtering plane,... Agent: Chalker Flores, LLP

20070121605 - Telephone line switching apparatus, telephone line switching system, telphone relay system, telephone relay method, telephone relay program: A telephone relay system enabling a terminal having multiple telephone numbers to originate and receive calls same as a terminal having only one telephone number is provided. When a connection management unit of an agent device receives a call request from a terminal device, it activates a terminal calling unit... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070121609 - Telephone system and hunting method of channel in the same: According to one embodiment, a telephone system includes a memory which stores a group table in which a plurality of groups divided and configured by using terminal IDs corresponding to the plurality of interface units are associated with interface units belonging to the groups, and a controller which refers to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070121602 - Voip call routing: A method of managing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls with an Internet Protocol Private Branch Exchange (IP PBX) is provided, including: receiving at an IP PBX device an incoming call directed to a target telephone number, said IP PBX device storing a contact list parameter including one or more... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070121606 - Voip hub using existing audio or video systems: A voice over Internet hub that uses existing audio or video systems to handle phone calls. The hub is linked to the audio system and produces an audio output to the audio system. The audio system may be a stereo system or television. The hub generates audio signals for ring... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070121612 - Techniques for distributing network provider digital content to customer premises nodes: Techniques for distributing digital content include receiving provider content over a network connection at a customer premises node located on premises of a first customer. The provider content is offered by a network service provider different from the first customer. Provider data based on the provider content is stored in... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20070121613 - Automatic allocation of prefixes to equipments of an ipv6 communication network: A communication equipment for an Internet Protocol communication network including a set of interfaces each connected to one or more other communication equipments and having means for receiving an address prefix from a first other communication equipment. It further includes allocation means for allocating to at least a portion of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070121619 - Communications distribution system: A communications system, such as a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM), or corresponding method increases available bandwidth for transmission of data, video, and audio to a customer premise, or curb node for further distribution to customer premises, within a network. In one embodiment, a system comprises a host digital... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070121617 - Extending sso for dhcp snooping to two box redundancy: Disclosed are mechanisms for facilitating the use of DHCP (dynamic host configuration protocol) binding data. In general, certain applications include mechanisms for intercepting data being sent from a node and then determining whether the data corresponds to a valid IP address and MAC address binding. Embodiments of the present invention... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070121621 - Integrated active-active fibre channel capability in sata and sas devices: Integrated active-active fibre channel capability in SAS and SATA is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a data processing system to communicate a fibre channel frame through a network and a conversion module in a storage device coupled to the network to translate between the fibre channel frame and... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP C/o Portfolioip

20070121615 - Method and apparatus for self-learning of vpns from combination of unidirectional tunnels in mpls/vpn networks: A technique is provided for implementing deep-packet inspection (DPI) services in a MPLS/VPN configured computer network. The technique employs a novel self-learning algorithm that analyzes data packets belonging to different unidirectional tunnels in the MPLS/VPN network and determines whether the analyzed data packets transport data in the same VPN. If... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070121614 - Method and device for communication channel selection: A communication terminal and a method for initiating a communication link from a communication terminal to a remote party, where the method includes sensing input of an address number for the remote party. Upon sensing the input of an address number a plurality of selectable items, representing different communication channels... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20070121625 - Method and device for creating/reproducing multimedia file, and information recording medium storing multimedia file: A method and device for creating/reproducing a multimedia file, and an information recording medium recording the multimedia file are provided. According to the method for creating the multimedia file, multimedia raw data is coded in accordance with characteristics of a device reproducing the multimedia raw data. After that, header information... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070121620 - Method and system for audio and video transport: Aspects of a method and system for processing audio and video transport may comprise synchronizing streams with associated program content based on 24-bit presentation time stamps (PTSs) and 32-bit system clock samples (SCSs) field without using decoding time stamps (DTSs). A PTS field may be provided as part of a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070121623 - Method and system for establishing narrowband communications connections using virtual local area network identification: A method and system detects a network connection in a communications system, such as a narrowband communications system, using Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) identification. In one embodiment, a first node transmits a message to a specific second node among a group of second nodes. The message from the first... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070121618 - Method and system for priority based routing: A method and system for routing a data packet, intended for a destination node, from a source node to a first intermediate node in a network is useful for improving network efficiency and participation. The method includes determining a priority level of the source node and a priority level of... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070121624 - Method and system of network clock generation with multiple phase locked loops: A method and system generates a network quality clock signal in a communications system by synthesizing a first clock signal based on arrival rate of packets transmitted via a network link at a rate according to a network clock. The system then synthesizes a second clock signal is then synthesized... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070121622 - Method, system and equipment for processing sip requests in ims network: A method for processing SIP requests in an IMS network includes: an AS in the IMS network receiving a first SIP request forwarded by a S-CSCF entity, generating a second SIP request and deciding whether it is needed to associate the second SIP request with the first SIP request in... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070121616 - Methods and systems for routing packets with a hardware forwarding engine and a software forwarding engine: A system is provided that includes a hardware forwarding engine that routes data packets. The system also comprises a processor coupled to the hardware forwarding engine, the processor having a software forwarding engine that routes data packets. If data packets are forwarded from the hardware forwarding engine to the software... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070121626 - User and activity based end-to-end utilization measurement system: A method and a computer program product embodying software for measuring the utilization of all components in an end-to-end application and automatically associating them with the end-user and end-user activity. One aspect of the invention deals with the measurement and automatic association of server application utilization by the client and... Agent: Jeffrey Leonard Shepard

20070121629 - Accelerated channel change: Channel changing can be accelerated by multicasting a bouquet of multicast burst streams from a server. In an example implementation, each multicast burst stream is delayed sufficiently so that a past independent frame is available for delivery to and display by a client device without waiting for a future independent... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070121630 - Method and switch for broadcasting packets: A switch for broadcasting packets is provided including a plurality of input ports, a switch fabric coupled to the input ports, a plurality of output ports coupled to the suited fabrics and a multicast interconnect coupled between the input ports and output ports for routing multicast packets directly between the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20070121627 - Selective multicast traffic shaping: A method and integrated hardware system for multicast transmission shaping in EPONs which employs a selective multicast algorithm that significantly reduces the complexity of traffic shaping for multicast traffic. Unlike prior art methods, my method exploits the broadcasting nature of the downstream point-to-multipoint access system including EPONs. Operationally, the method... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC

20070121628 - System and method for source specific multicast: A source specific multicast may be performed in a network, by inspecting a signal for a source specific multicast channel identifier. The source specific multicast identifier signal is then mapped to a frame switching identifier. The frame switching identifier can be mapped to the signal, allowing the signal to be... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070121633 - Active-active fibre channel capability in sata and sas devices: Active-active fibre channel capability in SAS and SATA apparatus and method is disclosed. In one embodiment, a storage device includes a dongle having a conversion module to translate between a fibre channel frame and a SATA frame and/or a SAS frame, and a data processing system to communicate through a... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP C/o Portfolioip

20070121636 - Apparatus and method for downlink packet scheduling in base station of a portable internet system: In a base station of an IEEE 802.16 Wireless MAN-based portable Internet system, a forward packet scheduling method and apparatus is provided. The portable Internet system portable Internet service includes a user terminal AT for providing a portable Internet service, a base station AP for supporting an inter-user terminal wireless... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070121637 - Message ring in a switching network: A switching network for efficiently receiving and transmitting data packets having both frames and messages includes a crossbar switch with a plurality of surrounding ports for exclusively switching frames which normally consist of large data streams of 40 to 60 bytes. Then the ports are connected together in a message... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070121632 - Method and system for routing an ip packet: Method for generating and thereafter updating a data structure used for routing Internet protocol data packets. Routing a packet is performed by using a destination address of the packet and an updatable set of prefix rules. A prefix rule may be added to a first-level table if the terminating level... Agent: Eitan Law Group C/o Landonip Inc.

20070121635 - Method of implementing association in automatic switched optical network (ason): A method of implementing association in an Automatic Switched Optical Network. When an initial node of the 1+1 protection service is outside the ASON, it associates the primary service and the slave service to realize 1+1 protection. This invention includes: a node of a first associated service acquiring path information... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070121634 - System and method for distributing addresses: An apparatus, data structures, and method are provided for prioritizing data transmissions within a network. As applied to a switching station in a network, the method prioritizes transmissions from the network to determine which packets should be transmitted from the switching station first when multiple packets are routed to the... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070121631 - System having an energy efficient network infrastructure for communication between distributed processing nodes: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide for a data processing system having an efficient network communication infrastructure. The data processing system has a plurality of data processing nodes distributed across a network. Each node comprises a processor and a memory having an application and... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070121639 - Data packet retransmission and fec arrangement, and corresponding method: The invention concerns a data packet retransmission arrangement having a retransmission buffer, a counter, a forward error correction device and control logic. The retransmission buffer stores recently transmitted data packets. The counter keeps track of the number of retransmission requests received for a data packet (211). If this number is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070121638 - Method and system of communicating superframe data: A method and system provides narrowband communications across a communications link through the processing of a superframe of data into packets or through the processing of packets into a superframe of data. In an embodiment, a first node repackages a superframe of data containing multiple subframes of data in known... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070121640 - Dual-mode broadband modem: A dual-mode broadband modem operative to operate in a service mode and a surveillance mode is disclosed. Generally, the dual-mode broadband modem comprises a primary communication device; a secondary communication device; a central processing unit in communication with the primary and secondary communication devices; and a memory unit in communication... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070121641 - Method and system for network services with a mobile vehicle: A method for network services with a mobile vehicle comprising: initiating from a remote station a first connection session with a device in the mobile vehicle, wherein during the first connection session the device is notified of a pending command; and initiating a second connection session from the device in... Agent: Anthony Luke Simon General Motors Corporation

20070121642 - Method and system for supporting an emergency call: A method and system for supporting an emergency call is disclosed. The method includes initiating (302) an emergency call through an Internet Protocol (IP) based system (108). The method further includes receiving (304) authorization for restricted access to the resources of the IP based system, only for the purpose of... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070121643 - Authentication for use of high speed network resources: A network node sets up a virtual connection in a network based on a virtual connection request initiated from an access port different from a first location previously associated with an account of a user. The network node includes a receiver for receiving a signaling message from the access port... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070121644 - Method, system and devices for optimizing use of contexts / apns: The invention provides a method, system and devices for providing a connection of a terminal to at least two networks for providing services to the terminal. The terminal establishes only one logical connection to a support node of a network for communication between the terminal and the network. The logical... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070121645 - Method and apparatus for providing a real-time message routing communications manager: A communications manager in a telecommunications transaction server communicates service request messages and service response messages between one or more remotely executing service request processes and one or more service applications executing on the transaction server. A main thread in the communications manager monitors connections requests and initializes other threads.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070121650 - Enterprise application based multi-billing integration system: A telecommunications messaging architecture efficiently routes messages to the appropriate support systems which process the messages. The messaging architecture is a partially merged architecture in which selected previously independent processing systems (e.g., customer relationship management systems) have been merged. Despite the partially merged architecture, a routing system flexibly routes messages... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070121649 - High density optical network access switch: In one example, an optical network access switch includes independent first and second banks of individually selectable optical inputs, as well as independent first and second groups of individually controllable optical outputs. A first multiplexer is connected to the optical inputs of the first bank and the optical outputs of... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070121646 - Method and apparatus for multiplexing dial-up internet sessions: A method and system for multiplexing a plurality of calls (135a, 135b, 135c, 135d, 135e) to an Internet Service Provider (ISP) for transmission in a plurality of timeslots (145a, 145b, 145c) by combining the calls in assigned timeslots. The timeslots may be assigned dynamically or statically. For example, calls (135a)... Agent: Sidney L Weatherford Ericsson

20070121655 - Method for forwarding packet and apparatus thereof: A method for forwarding packet includes: configuring a corresponding relationship between a physical feature and a service feature of a packet; receiving a packet, obtaining the physical feature of the packet; finding the corresponding relationship between the physical feature and the service feature according to the obtained physical feature, and... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070121647 - Method for processing create packet data protocal context request: The present invention discloses a method for processing Create Packet Data Protocol (PDP) Context Request. The method includes: 1) storing Cause values of different versions as well as definitions for all the Cause values in the GSN receiving Create PDP Context Request messages; 2) after receiving a Create PDP Context... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070121652 - Method for storing and processing a data unit in a network device: To provide a possibility for increasing the speed of operation of a data unit according to forwarding and/or processing of data units by a network device (2) that is connected to a communications network (1b) and wherein at least one management information is assigned to each data unit and wherein... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070121651 - Network-based format conversion: Various embodiments of the invention provide solutions for converting content, such as audio files and/or streams, video files and/or streams, other data files and/or the like. In an aspect, embodiments of the invention thus provide novel solutions to facilitate the provision of media services to one or more subscribers. In... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070121654 - Protecting the filtering database in virtual bridges: A method for budgeted learning of link information in a network includes providing a database to contain the link information, for use by an entity connected to the network in transferring traffic over the network, and setting a maximum rate for addition of entries to the database. New entries to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070121653 - Protocol independent application layer for an automation network: A software architecture for an automation network is disclosed that implements a high level, protocol-independent interface for a network system. The software architecture includes a system layer interface to maintain a protocol-independent interface with a transport layer and an application layer of the automation network. The system layer interface includes... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070121648 - Wireless communication system: A modular wireless Internet access communications system designed to extend broadband 802.3 linear-bus topology up to fifteen miles beyond the physical limits of DSL or cable technologies through the integration of specialized wireless hardware devices, firmware, and protocols.... Agent: Anthony D. Pellegrini Rudman & Winchell, LLC

20070121656 - Multilayer bridging system and method: A multilayer bridge supports a plurality of bridge protocols for various electronic devices. In one embodiment, the multilayer bridge is implemented as a wireless multilayer bridge, configured to provide the choice of bridge functionality to network devices. The multilayer bridge can be configured to include a plurality of bridge engines,... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070121657 - Method and communication device for providing a personalized ring-back: The invention concerns a communication device (102) and a method (200) for providing a personalized ring-back to a first user of the first communication device (102), when the first user initiates a phone call with a second user of a second communication device (104). In one arrangement, the method can... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070121658 - Packet-aware transport architecture for enhanced data volume: Packet-aware transport architecture and techniques for implementing same that enhance data volume by scaling effectively to rapid data growth are disclosed. For example, a technique for determining a route for a demand in a circuit-switched network comprises the following steps/operations. The demand to be routed in the circuit-switched network is... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070121659 - Ring-based cache coherent bus: Managing data traffic among three or more bus agents configured in a topological ring includes numbering each bus agent sequentially and injecting messages that include a binary polarity value from the bus agents into the ring in a sequential order according to the numbering of the bus agents during cycles... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070121660 - Load balanced architecture of cascading of mxm ethernet packet based switches that supports up to 4 levels of qos: A network switch is provided that includes a bank of input switches configured to receive variable length data packets; a bank of central switches configured to receive packets from the input switches in a distributed manner; and a bank of output switches configured to receive and output variable length packets... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20070121661 - Data reception device: A data reception device includes: a reception data buffer unit for storing a plurality of packets contained in a data packet; a reception data amount measuring unit for measuring the data amount stored in the reception data buffer unit; a variable clock generation unit for generating a clock having a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070121662 - Network performance scaling: In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides in response to receiving one or more packets on a computing platform, storing each of the one or more packets in a corresponding one of a plurality of receive queues, each of the plurality of receive queues... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070121663 - Power dissipation management for wired transceivers: A system, method and apparatus for reducing a power consumed by a physical layer device (PHY). A length of a cable connecting the PHY to a link partner is determined. Based on the length, power provided to one or more components of the PHY, or any portion thereof, is reduced.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070121664 - Method and system for double data rate transmission: Data is transmitted between a first node and at least one second node of an optical networking unit. Data transmission begins at the first node, which polls at least one second node for availability of a data transfer. The polling occurs at a first rate, typically based on a rise... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070121665 - Delay start-up of applications: A delay of starting up of certain applications may result in improving the overall performance of a system. The applications to be delayed may be placed in a container object or box such that they can be tracked and that other applications dependent on the delayed applications can be appropriately... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070121666 - Apparatus and method for allocating subchannel and power in communication system, and transmitting apparatus: In a communication system, subchannel state information for a plurality of user equipments (UEs) are collected, and a plurality of subchannel state prediction parameter values for the respective UEs are calculated using the subchannel state information. In addition, the communication system allocates at least one subchannel among the plurality of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070121667 - Method for improving cluster bring-up in a distributed topology liveness system: A method is provided for establishing clusters in a distributed data processing environment having a plurality of nodes. The frequency of messages sent for the purpose of cluster formation is selected based on ranking of the nodes. Higher ranking nodes transmit such messages more frequently than lower ranking nodes. Lower... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070121669 - Communication method, communication system, repeating apparatus, communicaiton apparatus, and computer program product: A communication apparatus going to acquire transmission right accepts input of specifying a communication apparatus as a main target of output among other communication apparatuses, and then performs multi-address calling of output data to the other communication apparatuses. At executing output processing on the basis of the output data, the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070121668 - Firmware architecture of active-active fibre channel capability in sata and sas devices: Firmware architecture of active-active fibre channel capability in SAS and SATA is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a processor and a memory connected to the processor having stored therein a conversion firmware to cause the processor to translate between a fibre channel frame and a SATA frame or... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP C/o Portfolioip

20070121672 - Compatible methods and systems for multiple spanning tree protocols: A compatible method for multiple spanning tree protocols. A verification module is provided between a standard multiple spanning tree (MST) module and a LLC layer and Ethernet driver module. The verification module executes a reception verification procedure and a transmission verification procedure. The verification module, the standard MST module, and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070121670 - Method for converting, editing and modifying communication protocol: A method for converting, editing and modifying communication protocol. A computer is connected to a plurality of communication protocol converting modules through a master bus. The plurality of communication protocol converting modules is connected to corresponding slave buses and each of the slave buses is connected to a plurality of... Agent: Hdsl

20070121671 - Peer tunnels and peer group targets: Transferring data using peer-to-peer protocols. A method may be practiced, for example, at a computer system in a computer network. The computer network may include one or more networked agents formed into a peer group of peers using at least one peer-to-peer connection. The method includes an act of receiving... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070121674 - Systems and methods for correlation of burst events among data streams: Systems and methods for the identification of correlated burst events among two or more data streams, given one or more specific query time spans are disclosed. Also broadly contemplated is the act of finding, from one or more data streams, those streams that have correlated burst events with another given... Agent: Ference & Associates

20070121673 - Tailored relief for congestion on application servers for real time communications: Techniques for managing computational load in real-time communications include receiving usage data on a particular node of a packet-switched network. The usage data indicates an amount of computational resources consumed on that particular node by application layer processes for a first type of data packet. It is determined whether this... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20070121675 - System for data collection through an alternate current supply network: The invention relates to electrical network communications engineering and can be used in systems for automatic data collection from electric, heat, water, gas meters etc. The technical result is significant simplification of the interior structure of slave units increased noise stability of a system. This result is achieved by using... Agent: Ilya Zborovsky

20070121676 - Communication apparatus, integrated circuit, and communication method: A communication apparatus repeatedly outputs a first multi-carrier signal SS during predetermined periods T1, T2, T3, . . . , and outputs a second multi-carrier signal RS whose phase vector is different from that of the first multi-carrier signal SS, at a predetermined timing based on the first multi-carrier signal... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070121677 - High-frequency homepna: A network device includes a HomePNA modem and means for synchronizing its clock with clocks of other HomePNA modems in the network in order to communicate at a higher frequency band. In one embodiment, the synchronization is with pilot signals. In another, it is by correcting for clock differences. The... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20070121678 - Apparatus and methods for utilizing variable rate program streams in a network: Apparatus and methods for transparently using otherwise wasted bandwidth associated with variable-rate program streams to deliver additional content. In one embodiment, the network comprises a broadcast switched architecture (BSA), and the program streams are loaded up to a target rate using “null” packets and then delivered over the network infrastructure... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20070121680 - Method and system for handling multicast event control symbols: A packet switching system comprises a first switch and a second switch. The first switch includes a first receive port, a first plurality of transmit ports, a first switch fabric, a first reference clock signal input and a first multicast control symbol input/output port coupled to the first plurality of... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20070121679 - Method and system for improving time of arrival (toa) measurements in a wirless communication network: A technique for improving the capability of measuring the distance between nodes of a wireless communication network is provided. Technique (800) includes receiving a measured signal, correlating the measured signal with a reference signal to output a measured correlated function, comparing the correlation function to a predetermined reference correlation function,... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070121681 - Digital television transmitter/receiver and method of processing data in digital television transmitter/receiver: A digital television (DTV) transmitter and a method of processing data in the DTV transmitter/receiver are disclosed. In the DTV transmitter, a pre-processor pre-processes the enhanced data by coding the enhanced data for forward error correction (FEC) and expanding the FEC-coded data. A packet formatter generates one or more groups... Agent: Jonathan Y. Kang, Esq. Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka, P.C.

20070115795 - Frequency division multiple access schemes for wireless communication: Techniques for transmitting data using single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) multiplexing schemes are described. In one aspect, data is sent on sets of adjacent subbands that are offset from one another to achieve frequency diversity. A terminal may be assigned a set of N adjacent subbands that is offset... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070115796 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving channel quality information in a wireless communication system: A method and an apparatus for adaptively transmitting and receiving channel quality information of each AMC sub-band in application of an AMC technology in a broadband OFDM-based system are provided. A speed status of the UE is determined, a determination is made based on a determined speed status whether to... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070115797 - Ofdm modem for transmission of continuous complex numbers: The invention enables the transmission of continuous complex numbers using a symbol based transmission scheme such as OFDM. Accordingly, complex numbers are mapped to the constellation map, enabling a fine granularity of constellation points. This scheme may be used, for example, in the transmission of video where the coefficients representing... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070115798 - Method of data modulation and demodulation in soc: A method of modulating data, which is represented by two data types of ‘high’ and ‘low’, and demodulating the modulated data, is disclosed. In a method of data modulation and demodulation for a communication system which has a transmitting end modulating a data and a receiving end demodulating the transmitted... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070115799 - Mimo-ofdm system and pre-coding and feedback method therein: The present invention provides an antenna-array-based multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system and a pre-coding and feedback method used in the same. The present invention uses QR decompositions of the MIMO channel matrixes to parameterize the channel state information (CSI) of every OFDM frequency band. In addition, the present invention feeds... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc. Suite 250

20070115803 - Multipoint-to-point communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing: A method for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing multipoint-to-point communications system is provided. The method includes establishing communication between a first remote unit of a plurality of remote units and a host unit, the plurality of remote units communicatively coupled to the host unit in a multipoint-to-point configuration and transmitting... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070115801 - Switching diversity in broadcast ofdm systems based on multiple receive antennas: Systems and methods are provided for enhancing signal quality at receivers in a wireless network. In one embodiment, an antenna is selected from a subset of antennas based on a signal quality parameter such as received signal power or signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In another embodiment, multiple antennas are applied to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070115802 - Transmitting and receiving systems for increasing service coverage in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless local area network, and method thereof: The present invention relates to an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless local area network (LAN) transmitting/receiving system for providing expanded service coverage, and a method thereof. According to the present invention, first OFDM modulation is performed for an even-numbered time, and second OFDM modulation is performed by changing subcarrier allocation... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070115800 - Uplink modulation and receiver structures for asymmetric ofdma systems: The present invention centers upon uplink communication protocols for use primarily with orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) communication systems. Aspects of the invention relate to narrow band frequency division multiplexed (NBFDM) modulation protocols primarily for uplink usage in asymmetric OFDMA communication systems. In particular, NBFDM uplinks that use quadrature... Agent: Eric M. Dowling Interlink 731

20070115804 - Processing apparatus, processing method, processing program and recording medium: It is the object of the present invention to provide a processing apparatus, processing method, processing program and recording medium capable of reducing the concentration of load upstream in the communication path of a network, and to improve the efficiency of a network system. A processing apparatus in a network... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070115805 - Protection switching method and apparatus for nodes in a resilient packet ring network: The present invention discloses a protection switching apparatus for nodes in a Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) network, including: a first switching module, for receiving inner ringlet data and transmitting data to the outer ringlet; a second switching module, for receiving outer ringlet data and transmitting data to the inner ringlet;... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070115806 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for session initiation protocol (sip) fast switchover: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer program products for notifying a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) entity of a fast switchover event. According to one method a first SIP entity having an active host and a standby host is provided. At the active host a SUBSCRIBE message is received from a... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070115807 - Router providing continuity of service of the state machines associated with the neighboring routers: A router made up firstly of at least two router modules, only one of which is in an active state at any given time, and secondly a of changeover device making it possible to cause one of the other router modules to go from a standby state to an active... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas, PLLC Suite 800

20070115809 - Common protection architecture for optical network: A communication network is arranged in a ring configuration of network elements (12) coupled by working spans (16) associated protection spans (18), with multiple rings sharing network elements (12a and 12b). A shared protection span (18ab) is coupled between pairs of shared network elements (12a and 12b). A matrix 28... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070115808 - Network node with plug-in identification module: A network node well suited for use in a distributed control network includes a housing containing the node electronics, and an external port for receiving a detachable plug-in module. The plug-in module contains a programmable memory which, when the plug-in module is attached, allows electronic interconnection between the electronics of... Agent: Irell & Manella LLP

20070115810 - Distributed preconfiguration of spare capacity in closed paths for network restoration: A method for restoring traffic in a network. The network includes plural distinct nodes interconnected by plural distinct spans, each span having working links and spare links. Each node has a digital cross-connect switch for making and breaking connections between adjacent spans forming span pairs at a node. Cross-connections between... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070115813 - Apparatus and method for proportional fair scheduling for multicast service in a communication system: An apparatus and method for Proportional Fair (PF) scheduling for multicast services in a communication system are provided. In the PF scheduling method, a multicast PF metric is calculated over every AMC level provided by the system using the channel status information and average data rates of MSs, and an... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070115812 - Sequence numbers for multiple quality of service levels: A system for providing communications using sequence numbers for multiple quality of service (QoS) levels includes a first network device. The first network device receives a data packet and determines a QoS level for the data packet. The first network device also determines a sequence number for the data packet... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070115811 - Using a signal route dependent on a node speed change prediction: A device, method, computer program product, and network subsystem are described for receiving wireless data via a node-speed-change-prediction-dependent signal route and relaying at least a portion of the wireless data.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070115814 - Method and apparatus for improved data transmission: Methods and apparatuses for improved data transmission control protocols. Acknowledgment streams are used by a sender process to generate various estimates of eligible transmission rates that are fair to other processes competing for bandwidth across a common network. In addition, the acknowledgment streams are used in conjunction with various other... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070115817 - Minimum rate guarantees on wireless channel using resource utilization messages: Systems and methods are described that facilitate performing interference management techniques between sending and receiving nodes in order to provide minimum transmission rate guarantees. Carrier-to-interference ratio (C/I) may be controlled by employing specialized resource utilization messages (RUMs), the number and rate of which may be governed by a “token bucket”... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070115815 - Receiver, transmitter and transmission/reception system for media signal: A transmission/reception system for transmitting a media signal such as moving picture data, audio data and the like has a transmitter for transmitting the media signal to a transmission path, and a receiver for receiving the media signal through the transmission path. The receiver comprises a buffer for temporarily storing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115816 - Selection of radio resources in a wireless communication device: The invention relates to a method for selecting radio resources for a communication session in a wireless communication terminal. In order to facilitate the selection of quality of service between diversified terminals, terminal capabilities are described by a set of capability parameters, the set including at least one parameter indicative... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070115818 - Triggered notification: In one embodiment, a virtual frame director may receive association data regarding a virtual server and a physical server, send instructions to a management module based on the received association data, send a control command to the physical server based on the received association data, and send a notification regarding... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070115819 - Virtual linking using a wireless device: A system and method for virtual linking a wireless device to another device is disclosed herein. The system includes an access point and a controller configured to mediate transmissions between the wireless device and the another device. The system further includes a virtual device table and a permissions filter to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070115820 - Apparatus and method for creating and managing tcp transmission information based on toe: Provided is an apparatus and a method for creating and managing Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) transmission information based on a TCP Offload Engine (TOE). The apparatus includes: a TCP transmission processing unit for receiving a data transmission request from a predetermined network program, creating transmission information and deleting the transmission... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070115821 - Method for transmitting wireless data using piggyback: A method for transmitting wireless data using a piggyback technique includes the steps of: a) transmitting a predetermined request packet from a first communication unit to a second communication unit in a predetermined wireless network system; b) determining, by the second communication unit having received the request packet, whether to... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070115822 - Configuring network interface on home network: A CE data processing system is configurable to communicate via a particular one of multiple data network environments. The system comprises a receiver for receiving configuration data from a physical token for configuring the system. The system comprises an appliance for data network communication via a network interface. The appliance... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070115823 - Inter-layer communication of receipt confirmation for releasing retransmission buffer contents: Provided is a multi-layered transmission technique in which a signal indicating that a transmitted data packet has been correctly received by the receiver is provided from one communication layer to another. Based on that signal, the second layer releases the corresponding data from its retransmission buffer. As result, storage requirements... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070115825 - Micro-flow management: New switching technology relies upon state information for providing a previously unavailable degree of quality of service. In particular, by providing the ability to give service guarantees to uniquely identifiable sets of packets (“micro-flows”), different qualities of service can be offered for each transmission. The QoS associated with each micro-flow... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070115824 - Selective flow control: In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides transmitting data from a source node to a destination node, receiving a special flow control pause frame transmitted by the destination node in response to the destination node detecting a flow modification condition, and adjusting transmission of... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070115826 - Systems and methods for increasing capacity in collision-based data networks: A multiple-access contention-free environment is disclosed for a local area network without using centralized control and without using information contained in the data. Data collisions are eliminated by buffering data from connected devices when the bus (or other common transportation media) is not available for immediate use. In one embodiment,... Agent: Dallas Office Of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070115828 - Method for sending requests in a network: A method for sending requests in a network (100) is disclosed. The network includes a plurality of nodes and a plurality of wireless base stations. Each of the plurality of nodes is associated with at least one wireless base station in the network. The method includes receiving at a wireless... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070115827 - Wireless communication network architecture: A heterogeneous wireless network topology suited for low-power, short-range and ubiquitous ad-hoc communication. The network topology integrates different wireless transmission technologies, in particular to a wireless sensor network including different node types and communication technologies. The network is highly heterogeneous and can be operated according to the master-slave principle. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070115829 - System and method for performing topology control in a wireless network: A system and method for performing topology control in a wireless network (100). The system and method operate to enable a node (102-1) to determine the link cost of a link between itself and another node (102-2), based on the number of nodes (102, 106, 107) that would be affected... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070115830 - Computer-implemented method, system, and program product for tracking a location of a user of a wireless device in a private network environment: The present invention provides a computer-implemented method, system, and program product for tracking a location of a user of a wireless device in a private network environment. Specifically, under the present invention, a wireless device user will form a data connection with a private network through a public network such... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070115835 - Correlating signalling and bearer circuits in a mobile communications network: Identifications of signalling and bearer circuits carrying signalling information and communications traffic (e.g. voice calls) for the same communication are correlated by recognising a predetermined pattern in the communications traffic signals, and identifying signalling messages by reference to information contained in the messages relating to time of occurrence of the... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070115831 - Method and apparatus for meeting compliance for debugging and testing a multi-speed, point-to-point link: A method and apparatus for meeting compliance for debugging and testing a multi-speed, point-to-point link. In one embodiment, the method includes the selection of a compliance speed for a point-to-point link from at least two link frequencies supported by the point-to-point link. Once the compliance speed is selected for the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070115834 - Pool-based network diagnostic systems and methods: A networking system may include one or more nodes communicating with each other. The nodes may communicate via one or more links, which a switch or other structure may provide. The networking system may include one or more pools of at least one network diagnostic module. A network diagnostic module... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070115832 - System and method for facilitating network performance analysis: A system for facilitating network performance analysis. In an illustrative embodiment, the system includes a first module capable of quantifying network performance associated with a first portion of the network and providing a signal in response thereto. A second module is capable of ascertaining performance degradations in a communications link... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070115833 - Varying the position of test information in data units: Variable positioning of test information in data units is disclosed. A method of preparing data units with test information located in varying locations is disclosed. The test information includes a signature. A method of receiving data units having test information in varying locations is disclosed. Upon receipt, the test information... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070115836 - Communication systems: A communication system comprising an SDH network and an Ethernet network, wherein the SDH network has a network management system to monitor the functionality of SDH network elements in the SDH network. The SDH network is arranged to transport Ethernet information in SDH format across the SDH network, and is... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.C.

20070115837 - Scalable selective alarm suppression for data communication network: Scalable selective alarm suppression is achieved through a new class of management packet, such as a new class of Ethernet management frame, adapted to convey a reachability relationship between a lower level maintenance point and a single higher level maintenance point, and more particularly adapted to convey to a first... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070115838 - Method and system for loop-back and continue in packet-based network: Method and system for loop-back and continue in packet-based network. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for transferring data in a packet-based network. The method includes a step for receiving at least a first data frame. The first data frame is associated with a first origination... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070115839 - Device control method and system using xml document: A device control method and system that sets a control setting through a user interface generated by using an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) document is provided. Operation control of a device is set through a user interface that is generated using an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) document. A user interface... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070115848 - Adaptive application sensitive rate control system for packetized networks: A method operates a limited-bandwidth network in a differential service (DiffServ) mode with DCCP congestion control to provide high throughput with good QoS.... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070115851 - Automation device: The invention relates to an automation device, with which a multiplicity of physically distributed functional units communicate with each other by means of a common transmission protocol. The device has a microcontroller (110), which is assigned at least one clock generator (120) and one memory unit (150), and which is... Agent: Abb Inc.

20070115852 - Automation device: The invention relates to an automation device, with which a multiplicity of physically distributed functional units communicate with each other by means of a common transmission protocol. The device has a microcontroller (110), which is assigned at least one clock generator (120) and one memory unit (150), and which is... Agent: Abb Inc. Legal Dept. - 4u6

20070115853 - Collision avoidance systems and methods: Disclosed herein are various embodiments of collision avoidance systems and methods. One method embodiment, among others, comprises a client sending an end of transmission (EOT) request to an access point (AP), and responsive to the EOT request, the AP responding with an EOT frame.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070115850 - Detection method for abnormal traffic and packet relay apparatus: The present invention provides a technology including, for example, a packet relay processing section to carry out packet relay, a packet sampling section to carry out packet sampling, a flow statistics counting section to take statistics of each flow, and a flow statistics generating section to generate a NetFlow export... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070115840 - Method and apparatus for communicating data within measurement traffic: Methods and apparatuses for communicating data within measurement traffic are described. Embodiments that send, receive and both send and receive are described. Some embodiments are described that compute statistics based at least partly on measurement traffic. Some embodiments are described that communicate computed statistics within measurement traffic. Some embodiments are... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20070115847 - Method and apparatus to estimate link performance in a packetized communication network: The present invention provides a method and apparatus to estimate link performance in a packetized communication network (100). The method includes identifying one or more system parameters (240) of the packetized communication network (100); obtaining one or more transaction feedback (235) of one or more packetized communications within a communication... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070115854 - Method for automatically discovering a bus system in a multipoint transport network, multipoint transport network and network node: A method for automatically discovering a bus system in a multipoint transport network is described, wherein the individual nodes of this network at first discover those conditions, which are directly accessible to them and then exchange and acknowledge said conditions along said bus. Furthermore a multipoint transport network to be... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115846 - Method for controlling data throughput in a storage area network: A method and system for controlling data throughput in a network connecting two sites in which mixed communication protocols are employed, and in which the inter-site communication protocol is different than the intra-site communication protocol. A series of PING source messages are sent from a source storage device to a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070115841 - Method for transmitting data over lossy packet-based communication networks: The invention is concerned with the transmission of streaming scalable data, particularly video data, through lossy communication channels, for applications in which limited retransmission is possible, and the associated reception and decoding of transmitted data. The PET (Priority Encoding Transmission) framework is used and the invention exploits both unequal error... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070115845 - Network time out handling: An example method for time-out handling comprises establishing a session from a network-based application at a client to a web server. The method includes identifying a time-out parameter for the web server. A timestamp of the established session is saved at the client. The method also includes determining a first... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070115843 - Resource reservation in a packet switched telecommunications network: Resource reservation in a packed switched telecommunications network is provided. System and method are directed to make resource reservation especially in an Internet Protocol (IP) network for achieving Quality of Service (QoS) requirements controlling traffic preferable in a Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) of a Universal Mobile Telecommunications Network (UMTS).... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070115844 - Routing a service query in an overlay network: A query including a plurality of attributes and attribute values for a desired service is received. The query is routed to a destination in the overlay network using different attributes in the query.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070115842 - Transmission time difference measurement method and system: The propagation time (1605) of signals between a terminal (1304) and a base station (1302) is calculated from the round-trip time (1601) of signals between the terminal (1304) and the base station (1302) and the turn-around time (1603) from the reception by terminal (1304) of a signal from base station... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115849 - Using filtering and active probing to evaluate a data transfer path: If a condition in a data transfer path is modeled appropriately, then a filter-based approach can be used to provide an estimate of the condition. This permits accurate, real-time estimates of the condition with modest requirements for data processing and memory resources.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070115858 - Communication apparatus and communication method: To reduce the processing load and maintain higher security in the communications, a communication apparatus includes a network surveying unit configured to determine at least one of (1) an architecture of a network comprising the communication apparatus, and (2) the number of apparatuses on the network; and an alteration detecting... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070115857 - Mapping connectivity of discrete types of nodes in a network of nodes: Tables of connectivity between nodes of two discrete types can be generated for edge nodes existing at the periphery of a network of nodes. Connectivity queries are initiated at one of an interior node type and then traverse in a first direction towards one edge node type and then in... Agent: Canady & Lortz LLP- Ibm

20070115856 - Method for controlling forwarding quality in a data network: Method and a computer program product for controlling the forwarding quality in a data network including a measurement manager elements for performing end-to-end measurements between nodes in the data network and a Network Resource Manager, NRM, including elements for obtaining information of the network topology. The method includes the steps... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070115855 - Route servicing device, method and system applying the device: The present invention discloses a route service device and a method and a system for realizing call route by the device, in which, route service device and soft switch control device are networked in a layered way, the soft switch control device is the node of the lowest layer, when... Agent: Lau & Associates, LLC Michael N. Lau

20070115859 - System and method for communications of cargo containers in a container security system using wireless ad-hoc networking techniques: A system and method for communications between a plurality of shipping containers using a short range or local area wireless communication device is provided. The system also contains a cellular communications device, a satellite communications device, or both, which are used to transmit information to, and receive commands from remote... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP Ste. 700

20070115860 - End-to-end test and diagnostic management system: An end-to-end test and diagnostic manager and a method of diagnosing service problems in a multi-domain, multi-service network are provided. A database receives and stores service and network inventory data identifying and describing the customer and the network components necessary to deliver a service to the customer over a multi-domain... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070115861 - Method for selecting a charging rule in connection with a subscriber and system thereof: The present invention discloses a method for selecting a charging rule in connection with a subscriber. The method comprises: an AF providing a CRF with service information and user information used for selecting a charging rule; the CRF selecting a charging rule for the subscriber according to the user information... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070115862 - Channel mode converting method of a wireless portable internet system: Provided is a channel mode converting method of a wireless portable Internet system. When a diversity channel mode is converted into an Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) channel mode, a radio resource for transmitting Channel Quality Information (CQI) is allocated without responding to a resource allocation request and a request... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070115863 - Dualduplexer having matrix structure and method for forming the same: The present invention relates to a dualduplexer having a matrix structure and a fabrication method thereof. The dualduplexer includes a dualduplexing block which uses the transmitting input unit, the receiving input unit, the transmitting output unit and the receiving output unit in common, wherein the transmitting input unit, the receiving... Agent: Venable LLP

20070115864 - Method and apparatus for ordering retransmissions in an nxm mimo system: A method is provided for ordering retransmissions in a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) system using N×M antennas. A transmitter splits a coded data stream into N sub-packets, and transmits the N sub-packets to a receiver via N transmission antennas. The receiver removes interferences of the N sub-packets received via M reception... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070115865 - Multicast delivery quality monitoring mechanism: The present invention provides a new and unique method and apparatus for communicating information between two nodes, points or terminals in a wireless local area network (WLAN), wherein multicast diagnostic information is allowed between the two nodes, points or terminals in the wireless LAN network. The two nodes, points or... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070115866 - Power generation control device for vehicle generator: The power generation control device for a vehicle generator includes an IC circuit including a communication circuit formed therein and having a function of performing a digital communication with an external device through a communication wire, and a resistor mounted to the IC circuit so as to connect the communication... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070115867 - Apparatus and method for controlling multiplex number in spatial domain: This invention provides a controller of multiplex number in spatial domain that collects from a plurality of radio communication apparatuses the number of terminals connected thereto and the multiplex number in spatial domain, determines the ratio of (the number of terminals connected thereto)/(the multiplex number in spatial domain) for each... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070115868 - Group-header based method to organize local peer group of vehicles for inter-vehicle communication: A method for establishing and maintaining the network and a corresponding ad-hoc moving-device to moving-device network having a plurality of moving-devices grouped into a Local Peer Group (LPG) is disclosed. A group header node (GH) is selected from the plurality of moving wireless devices in the LPG. The GH controls... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20070115869 - Systems and method for high data rate ultra wideband communication: A high data rate UWB system implements a frame structure that uses a connected set of m-sequences comprising the lowest possible cross-correlation and perfect, or near perfect autocorrelation. Each m-sequence can be used to identify a different piconet. A very efficient code matched filter can then be used to decode... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070115870 - Method and apparatus for precise first-path detection in cdma mobile communications system: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus of precise first-path detection in CDMA mobile communications systems, comprising the steps of: a. calculating the noise threshold for the first-path detection according to the multi-path profile; b. judging whether there is a maximum point exceeding the noise threshold in the... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070115871 - Method and apparatus for scheduling transmissions via an enhanced dedicated channel: A method and apparatus for scheduling transmissions via an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) are disclosed. A scheduled power is calculated for scheduled data flows. A remaining transmit power is calculated for the E-DCH transmission. A rate request message is generated, wherein the scheduled power, remaining transmit power and rate request... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070115872 - Method for controlling transmission power of a physical random access channel: A method for controlling transmission power of a physical random access channel in a mobile communication terminal. The mobile communication terminal sets initial transmission power according to received signal code power when a preamble of the physical random access channel is transmitted to a mobile communication network. A wireless channel... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070115873 - Power saving method for mobile terminal in wireless local area network: The present invention relates to a power saving in a wireless local area network including a plurality of access points providing at least one mobile station in each access point cell boundary with access service, the mobile station transits between an active mode and an idle mode. The power saving... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070115874 - Communication control apparatus and communication control method: A communication control apparatus includes: a weighted average processor configured to update an average value of measured values at predetermined timings by use of a weighted average process using a forgetting factor; a forgetting factor calculator configured to increase the forgetting factor gradually; and a communication controller configured to control... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070115875 - Data transmission method and mobile telephone system: A method for transmitting data from a radio network subsystem to user equipment in a mobile telephone system, a radio network subsystem and user equipment. In the method, the radio network subsystem transmits a dedicated control channel to the user equipment and a dedicated traffic channel of variable data transmission... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070115880 - Apparatus and method for uplink scheduling in a communication system: An uplink scheduling apparatus and method in a communication system are provided. In the uplink scheduling method, a scheduling metric is calculated for each Mobile Station (MS). An MS with a high priority level is selected according to the calculated scheduling metric. The number of subchannels and a product of... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070115881 - Data link transmission control methods, mobile communication systems, and data link transmission control apparatus: A data link transmission control method of performing data link transmission control comprises automatic repeat request control for transmission/reception of a packet between a mobile station and a plurality of base stations indicated in FIG. 28, wherein a base station performing the data link transmission control transmits to the mobile... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070115876 - Identifying and accessing a network device via wireless communication: One embodiment of the invention is a method that includes a mobile device receiving via a wireless communication channel a request for an identifier corresponding to a network device. The mobile device transmits the identifier. The mobile device receives a network identifier corresponding to the network device. The mobile device... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070115878 - Method of partitioning resources in a cognitive radio wireless communication system and system supporting the same: A method of partitioning resources in a CR wireless communication system and a system supporting the same are provided. A new BS receives radio resource status information from a prior BS using a particular frequency band, and requests resource partitioning to the prior BS using a new uplink subchannel defined... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070115882 - Symmetric transmit opportunity (txop) truncation: Various embodiments of symmetric transmit opportunity (TXOP) truncation (STT) systems and methods are disclosed. One method embodiment, among others, comprises receiving a frame that truncates a TXOP around a first station, and responsive to receiving the frame, sending a second frame that truncates the TXOP around a second station. Others... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, L.L.P.

20070115877 - Wireless local area network (wlan) and channel selection method of wlan station: In a wireless local area network (WLAN) and a channel selection method of a WLAN station, a station newly entering the WLAN captures packets from WLAN service channels, which packets are provided by at least one access point (AP) for a predetermined measuring time. The WLAN calculates, from the captured... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell Suite 300

20070115879 - Wireless network device and resource allotting method for the same: A method and apparatus for a wireless network to maintain a QOS is provided. The apparatus includes a resource calculating unit which calculates resources needed to transmit packets if a transmission rate of a network changes, a comparing unit which compares the calculated resources and resources allotted by an access... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115890 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving a downlink signal in a communication system: In a communication system, a first Downlink (DL) signal to be commonly received by all Mobile Stations (MSs) at a Base Station (BS) is generated. A second DL signal that all the MSs do not need to commonly receive is generated. The first DL signal is applied to an interference... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070115887 - Device for providing hand-off quality of service of inter-access systems and method thereof: The present invention relates to a device for providing a quality of service (QoS) of a hand-off between heterogeneous networks, and a method thereof. According to the present invention, the device includes a device for performing a QoS management function for each access system and a device for performing a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070115889 - Method and apparatus for providing trust guarantee transmission service in digital broadcasting system: Provided is a method and apparatus for providing a trust guarantee service in a digital broadcasting system, in which trust is guaranteed to a user in providing broadcasting streaming and file download services in a Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) system. The method for providing a trust guarantee service through a... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070115885 - Method and system for fast ip handoff of a mobile node: A method and system for fast IP handoff of a mobile node (MN) (102) from a first wireless network (106) to a second wireless network (108) is disclosed. The method includes releasing (402) a tunnel between a first access router (AR) (204) and a second FA (206), based on at... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070115883 - Method for reducing hand-off latency in mobile networks: A method for use in a mobile device to expedite hand-off of mobile devices between access points first detects movement of the mobile device among the coverage ranges of the access points. A mobile device that moves from one access point to another periodically transmits information on the data link... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070115888 - Method for reverse data processing in a mobile communication system: A method is provided of performing reverse data processing in a mobile communication system that can prevent data error caused by lack of synchronization in data from a plurality of base stations at a time of handoff in the communication system. The method may include establishing a predetermined total receiving... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070115886 - Method of verifying integrity of an access point on a wireless network: A method of verifying integrity of an access point on a wireless network comprises registering an access point with a core network, allocating a unique identifier from the network to the access point; recording data including the unique identifier together with a geographical location of the access point; requesting reports... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070115884 - Method, user equipment and network for performing a handover for user equipments in peer-to-peer communication mode, to a cell whose link performance is a predefined value higher than that of the active cell: A method to be executed by a UE (user equipment) is proposed, for said UE in P2P communication mode to perform cell handover, comprising steps of: detecting downlink signals of the active cell in which said UE is camping and its adjacent cells (S205); judging whether there exists a suitable... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070115891 - Method and system for transmitting/receiving data in a communication system: A method is provided for transmitting/receiving data in a communication system. If a base station has data to transmit to a mobile station, the base station detects a service flow for transmission of the data, sets an identifier of the detected service flow in a message, and transmits the message... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070115892 - Rate control method and apparatus for data packet transmission: Base stations control the transmission rate that is used by UE (user equipment) to forward them information. A UE periodically forwards a rate request to a base station if the UE needs to have its data transmission rate to the base station increased or decreased, and the base station responds... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115893 - Method and system for managing radio resources in a time-slotted communication system: A method and system for managing radio resources in a time-slotted wireless communication system is based on the quality of service (QoS) information of a user. A plurality of time slots of a radio resource are sorted into a plurality of different categories, such as high QoS time slots, high... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070115901 - Access point and method for establishing a wireless distribution system link between access points: A method for a establishing wireless distribution system link between two access points includes the steps of: providing an input module for each access point; receiving a first input to enter a master mode by an input module of a first access point, and transmitting a broadcast frame by the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070115907 - Detecting, reporting and mitigating hidden stations in a wireless data network: A method for automatic hidden node detection that includes observing frame exchange sequences that conform to a MAC standard such as the IEEE 802.11 standard. The method includes detecting a hidden node upon receiving a response frame without previously receiving the frame causing the response. Similar conclusions may be drawn... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070115895 - Framework for hybrid ad-hoc networks: A hybrid mobile ad-hoc network and a method of operating the same, including a mobile network node and a plurality of static network nodes randomly distributed over a coverage area with a predetermined density. The static network nodes form a static infrastructure backbone of the hybrid mobile ad-hoc network. Position... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20070115897 - Linked equivalent cell header-based approach and protocol for organizing an ad-hoc network: Establishing and maintaining a moving ad-hoc network is provided. The ad-hoc network includes a plurality of equivalent cells communicationally linked together to form a linked equivalent cell network. An equivalent cell header manages each equivalent cell. Additionally, regular nodes, scattered throughout the equivalent cell network, may be provided. Regular nodes... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20070115906 - Load balancing method for a wireless area netowrk: The present invention relates to a load balancing method for a wireless local area network, which including the following steps: initializing the load balancing group, self-organizing to select an online access point from the load balancing group as a load balancing agent center, each access point of the said balancing... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070115905 - Mechanism for multicast and/or broadcast acknowledgements: The present invention provides a new and unique method and apparatus for communicating information between two nodes, points or terminals in a wireless local area network (WLAN), wherein multicast and broadcast data is transmitted in a power save multi poll (PSMP) scheme and the transmitted data is acknowledged between the... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070115903 - Method and apparatus for efficient data broadcast within beaconing network: A wireless communication apparatus, system, method and computer readable medium therefor for transmission between a parent node and a child node are provided. The child node transmits a first packet to the parent node via point-to-point transmission. When the parent node tries to transmit a second packet to the child... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070115900 - Method and apparatus for improved voice over internet protocol (voip) telephone configuration: A method of configuring a wireless telephone for use over a WLAN is provided. The wireless telephone is automatically configured for communication through a WLAN access point without obtaining configuration information from a user of the wireless telephone and in accordance with communication enablement information received at the wireless telephone... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070115904 - Method and device for integrating a cellular network and a ubiquitous network: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for integrating a ubiquitous network and a cellular network. The cellular network may adopt time division or frequency division duplex communication and the communication mode may be time division multiplexing, frequency division multiplexing or packet division multiplexing. One embodiment of the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070115908 - Method for call control in intelligent networks: The presentation of information identifying a calling user of a terminal device (MS-A) to a called terminal device (MS-B) in a communication involving a radio access network is triggered upon receipt of an incoming call; if triggered, the information is presented to a user at a man machine interface (MMI)... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070115899 - Method, apparatus and system architecture for performing handovers between heterogeneous wireless networks: Method, apparatus, and system architecture for performing handovers between heterogeneous wireless networks. While receiving wireless service from a base station for a first wireless network, a mobile subscriber station (MSS) device roams within range of one or more access points (APs) corresponding to a second wireless network. The MSS obtains... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070115896 - Resource allocation in a radio access network: In a radio access network, techniques for enabling the network to provide a service availability guarantee to a user of a premium service without requiring the network to identify a priority level of a connection with an access terminal associated with the premium service user prior to connection establishment.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070115894 - Transmission of data packets from a transmitter to a receiver: Due to NACK-to-ACK misinterpretations in base stations, packets are lost, and there may be gaps in a re-ordering buffer of a base station. According to the present invention, when the receiver decodes—possibly after some retransmissions—a first data packet without an error, which first data packet is sent along with an... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070115902 - Ubiquitous connectivity and control system for remote locations: A thermostat control system for monitoring and controlling environmental characteristics of a building includes a base station unit and a remote access unit continuously interfacing through instant wireless private direct connectivity. The system also includes a plurality of sensors that measure the environmental characteristics and provide the thermostat unit with... Agent: Ishman Law Firm P.C.

20070115898 - Use of wireline networks to access 3g wireless services: Methods, devices, and computer programs for using a wireline communication network, such as a cable network (306), to access a packet-switched service (21) delivered by a 3G communication network, such as a universal mobile telecommunications system (“UMTS”) communication network (10), are described. The service is provided to a wireless communication... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070115909 - Linear precoding for time division duplex system: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate generating and/or utilizing explicit and implicit feedback related to a forward link channel for linear precoding in a time division duplex (TDD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. Implicit feedback may be provided by estimating a reverse link channel, which may be substantially similar to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070115910 - Radio communication system and transmitter: A radio communication system according to the present invention comprises a transmitter having a plurality of transmission antennas, and a receiver having a mechanism to perform a diversity reception. A plurality of multi-modulators of the transmitter allocates the same transmission data to a plurality of subcarriers, combines all transmission signals... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070115911 - Method for handling periodic status report timer after an rlc re-establishment in a wireless communications system: A method for handling a Timer_Status_Periodic timer in a wireless communications system includes starting the Timer_Status_Periodic timer for a Radio Link Control Acknowledged Mode (RLC AM) entity, performing a re-establishment procedure for the RLC AM entity, and not stopping the Timer_Status_Periodic timer after re-establishment of the RLC AM entity.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070115912 - Method for handling periodic status report timer after an rlc reset in a wireless communications system: A method for handling a Timer_Status_Periodic timer in a wireless communication system includes starting the Timer_Status_Periodic timer for a Radio Link Control Acknowledged Mode (RLC AM) entity, performing a reset procedure for the RLC AM entity, and not stopping the Timer_Status_Periodic timer in response to the reset procedure.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070115914 - Data link transmission control methods, mobile communication systems, and base stations: A data link transmission control method of performing data link transmission control comprises automatic repeat request control for transmission/reception of a packet between a mobile station and a plurality of base stations indicated in FIG. 11, wherein a first base station stores and makes a copy of packet in which... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070115913 - Method for implementing the virtual leased line: A method for implementing a virtual leased line (VLL) is provided. The method includes the steps of: configuring a virtual local area network (VLAN) label stack on the basis of VLAN QinQ technique; configuring a VLAN QinQ switching device and a multi-protocol label switching device to communicate with each other;... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070115915 - Method of wireless channel resource allocation and rate control in a cdma communication system: The present invention discloses a method for resource allocation and rate control of dedicated channels in a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) communication system, the method being characterized by comprising: a) the step of determining channel states of downlink DCH channels for non-realtime data services; b) the step of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070115916 - Method and system for optimizing a network based on a performance knowledge base: A method for optimizing a network based on a performance knowledge base is provided. The network comprises a plurality of network elements. The method includes analyzing raw performance data for each of the network elements in real-time to generate processed data based on network policies and optimization rules stored in... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070115917 - Mtom data transfer via tcp: MTOM data transfer via TCP is described. In an embodiment, a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) message is separated into message units using SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM). The message units include a text-based component and independent binary component(s) of the SOAP message. A virtual connection protocol manages and... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070115921 - Apparatus and methods for subscriber and enterprise assignments and resource sharing: Methods and apparatus for subscriber and enterprise assignments and resource sharing are disclosed. A disclosed method includes managing resources for a communication service having a communication location. The disclosed method comprising associating a group identifier with a sub-group type, and associating a subscriber with the group identifier, wherein the sub-group... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070115927 - Click to initiate secure network service: A computer is provided access to a page from a computer site without a login. The computer sends a first request to the computer site in response to a user-initiated action made using the page. The computer site generates a first redirect message based on the first request to redirect... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070115942 - Deployable voice over internet protocol (voip) communication system: A deployable Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system for providing VoIP communication to communication devices via a data network is provided. Wireless telephonic devices are used for wireless communication with an extended range antenna coupled with a base station. VoIP adapters, coupled with the base station, provide telephonic lines upon... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon

20070115920 - Dialog authoring and execution framework: A framework to author and execute dialog applications is utilized in a communication architecture. The applications can be used with a plurality of different modes of communication. A message processed by the dialog application is used to determine a dialog state and provide an associated response.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070115929 - Flexible system for distributing content to a device: A flexible system for distributing content to a device involves associating a set of packages with a provider, associating a set of tiers with a package, associating a set of channels with a tier, and allowing subscription to a package of services associated with the provider, wherein a channel is... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070115925 - Group calling method and system: One or more communications devices in communication forming a calling group. A server associated with the communications devices transmits information to the individual members of the calling group. For example, an incoming information transmission is received from a communications device. The incoming information transmission is recorded in a memory of... Agent: Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd.

20070115931 - Inter-server multimodal user communications: Included is a first communications device that includes a communications interface configured to receive session information related to a communications session established between a second communications device and a third communications device. Also included in this embodiment is logic configured to communicate information related to the first communications device with... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070115930 - Method and system for advanced voice over internet protocol (voip) emergency notification: An emergency system for advanced Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) emergency notification combines the utility of an alarm system with the flexibility of a VoIP telephone network to aid emergency authorities and those in need during an emergency within a locale such as a building. The alarm system and/or security... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070115934 - Method and system for locating subscriber data in an ip multimedia subsystem: A method for locating subscriber data in an IP multimedia subsystem is provided. The method includes receiving a subscriber location request for a user agent. The subscriber location request comprises a subscriber identifier that is operable to identify the user agent using one of at least two formats. One of... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070115940 - Method and system for multi-level secure personal profile management and access control to the enterprise multi-modal communication environment in heterogeneous convergent communication networks: A method and apparatus, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, is presented for securely accessing a voice-enabled communication terminal using Internet Protocol by performing physical authentication, performing biometric authentication, performing logical authentication, performing confirmation of a user and upon successful confirmation of the user, allowing access to... Agent: Maryam Imam, Esq. Law Offices Of Imam

20070115919 - Method and system for using a packet-network telephone to schedule a conference call: A method and system for scheduling a conference call using a packet-network telephone in which a user interface of the packet-network telephone (i) is provided with a user directory that comprises a list of potential conference call participants that are selectable via the user interface, (ii) receives from the user... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070115944 - Method and system of control signaling for a wireless access network: A method and system of control signaling for a wireless access network includes receiving from a wireless access network a signaling message for a mobile device. The signaling message is in a wireless-specific format. The signaling message is converted to a native format of a call agent to generate a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070115918 - Method for controlling the forwarding quality in a data network: A method for controlling the forwarding quality in a data network comprising measuring (S11) end-to-end forwarding quality in measurement nodes (106) located outside the network core and detecting forwarding quality violations in at least one path between these nodes. According to the invention the method comprises the further steps of:—selecting... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070115933 - Method for maintaining continuity of a multimedia session between media devices: A system and method are disclosed for maintaining continuity of a multimedia session between media devices. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a computer-readable storage medium in a multimedia server (112) operating in a service management center (SMC) (100) for managing operations of... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070115932 - Method, apparatus and computer program product providing packet filter synchronization: A method including establishing a first packet flow over a network between a first mobile device and a second mobile device said first mobile device coupled to a node having a first packet filter including an identifier and specifying a second mobile device as a first end point, interposing a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070115924 - Methods and apparatus for authorizing and allocating outdial communication services: Methods and apparatus for authorizing and allocating outdial communication services are disclosed. A disclosed system comprises an application server to initiate an outdial communication service, a gateway to transport the outdial communication service from the application server to an access network via a shared communication facility, and a policy server... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070115923 - Methods, apparatus and computer program products for secondary routing of calls in a voice over internet protocol communication system: A method of providing Voice-Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications can include processing a call placed to a VoIP phone line based on whether the VoIP phone line is included in a calling group of a plurality of VoIP phone lines.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070115922 - Methods, apparatus and data structures for managing distributed communication systems: Methods and apparatus for authorizing and allocating outdial communication services are disclosed. A disclosed system comprises an application server to initiate an outdial communication service, a gateway to transport the outdial communication service from the application server to an access network via a shared communication facility, and a policy server... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070115937 - Network device and method for testing voice quality and communication system using the same: A network device for testing voice quality is provided. The network device includes a parsing module, a test module and a processing module. The parsing module is for receiving a data packet transmitted over the Internet and parsing data in the data packet. The test module is for comparing parsed... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070115939 - Network on chip system employing an advanced extensible interface protocol: A network on chip system employing an advanced extensible interface protocol is provided. The network on chip system employing the advanced extensible interface protocol includes a plurality of intellectual properties (IPs) which are installed in a chip and read and write data; a router which is connected to the plurality... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115928 - Network support for enhanced voip caller id: An apparatus in one example has: a calling terminal and a called terminal in a telecommunication system; at least one of a specified name or a preferred call back number that are input at the calling terminal before originating a call to the called terminal; at least one telecommunication system... Agent: Carmen B. Patti & Associates, LLC

20070115941 - Peering network for parameter-based routing of special number calls: A system and method that routes special number calls from communications devices, including VoIP communications devices, to an answering point that is selected based on a parameter. A peering network effects parameter-based routing of calls to a pre-assigned answering point, wherein the voice path and the signaling paths are set... Agent: Michelle A. Zarinelli C/o West Corporation

20070115938 - Remote aircraft maintenance in a networked environment: Remotely performed maintenance of a transportation unit such as an aircraft is disclosed, wherein the maintenance is performed utilizing a networked environment. In one implementation, a first network, located within the mobile transportation unit, is accessed from a second network, located externally to the mobile transportation unit. Having remotely assessed... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070115943 - System and method for establishing emergency communications in a telecommunication network: System and method for establishing a voice or data communication in a Internet Protocol (IP) communication network (1), the network comprising a gateway (13, 23) and at least one call server (15, 24). In case of failure in the communication link between the gateway (13) and the call server (14),... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115935 - System and method for location management and emergency support for a voice over internet protocol device: In a particular embodiment a system and method for processing a call in a Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) network are disclosed. The method includes receiving the call associated with a private identifier (PRID) at a server, classifying a call location based on the PRID and sending the call from... Agent: Gilbreth Roebuck Bynum Darrington Schmidt Walker & Tran, LLP

20070115926 - System and method for receiving a user message at a packet-network telephone: A system and method for receiving, at a packet-network telephone, a user message stored at a network device. Receiving the user message includes the packet-network telephone receiving a SIP message comprising an identifier that identifies (i) the user message, and (ii) a message transport protocol for retrieving the user message.... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070115936 - Updating status of feature services in universal messaging: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for relaying status information between messaging systems. Briefly described, one embodiment of the system, among others, includes a monitoring system for detecting a change in state of one or more messages maintained on a database for a user, where the database... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070115946 - Adapter unit and method: In one aspect of the invention, emergency modes of operation for an adapter unit comprising a channel transmitter/receiver unit, a data packet transmitter/receiver unit, and a data insertion/data retrieval unit which inserts signaling data transmitted by the channel receiver unit into data packets and forwards the same to the data... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070115945 - Communication protocol and method for operating a volp communication with additional data transmission: The present invention concerns a communication protocol suitable for bi-directional VoIP communication with media streams including audio and/or video data, and based on a real-time transport protocol (RTP) as described in IETF RFC 1889, wherein packets mainly comprised of a header part and a payload part are exchanged between at... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115952 - Gateway apparatus and method of protection switching thereof: A gateway apparatus comprising signal converter has service line concentrating unit and protection line concentrating unit, packet switch has a plurality of IP converters each line-concentrated to service line concentrating unit and protection line concentrating unit, first monitor monitoring responses from the plurality of IP converters through service line concentrating... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070115949 - Infrastructure for enabling high quality real-time audio: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve media communications. In one embodiment, a media server receives a media communication with a first quality from a personal computer with VoIP telephone capabilities. The media server translates the media (e.g., audio, visual, etc.) communication into a second quality, and forwards the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070115950 - Programmable wireless access point supporting configuration profile updating: A system and method in a wireless communication network access point for configuring operation of the access point. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise determining communication configuration information desired for the access point. Communication configuration information may, for example, correspond to a particular communication protocol. Communication configuration information... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070115947 - System and method for routing call traffic: A system and method for routing calls based on the jurisdiction of the originating call and the terminating call includes determining or assigning a jurisdiction to the call before the call is set up. This may be accomplished by determining or assigning a special jurisdictional parameter to each call based... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070115951 - System and method providing location based wireless resource identification: A system and method providing location based wireless resource identification in a communication system. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise determining a location of a communication system (e.g., a multimode communication device). One or more wireless resources may then, for example, be identified based, at least in part,... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070115948 - Techinque for providing virtual n-way video conferencing to ip videophones: A technique and method provide virtual N-way video conferencing to participants having IP stations/videophones, which have limited processing capacity, by auto-selecting a limited subset of the participants for video display and restricting the rest of the participants to voice-only mode which requires reduced processing capability. The method uses a virtual... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC C/o Portfolioip

20070115954 - Transmitting circuit, receiving circuit, interface switching module and interface switching method for sata and sas interfaces: A transmitter circuit, a receiver circuit and an interface switching module for SATA or SAS interface are provided. The invention uses transistors as elements with different impedance and also provides impedance modulating method in coordination with the exterior circuit and the layout design so as to develop an auto-switching mechanism... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070115953 - Voice-recording apparatus and voice-band audio codec: A voice-recording apparatus and a voice-band audio CODEC apparatus derived therefrom are disclosed. The voice-recording apparatus includes a multiplexer, a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter (SAR-ADC); and a pulse code modulation code digital circuit (PCM code digital circuit). The multiplexer alternately outputs a left channel input signal and a right channel... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070115955 - System and apparatus for integration of equipment and communications: An integrated, modular equipment system including a communication component configured to allow voice and data communication, a navigation component configured to provide location and directional information, a central processor in communication with the communication component and the navigation component, the central processor comprising software for providing information about a user's... Agent: Kagan Binder, PLLC

20070115956 - Rate-controlled optical burst switching: A method and apparatus are provided for low latency loss-free burst switching. Burst schedules are initiated by controllers of bufferless core nodes and distributed to respective edge nodes. In a composite-star network, the burst schedules are initiated by any of a plurality of bufferless core nodes and distributed to respective... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070115957 - Packet-switched system for communication network node: To selectively route stand-by packets in input modules (IMi) to destination output modules (OMj) via a switching matrix (1), distributed arbitration functions are executable by successive arbitration cycles. Each cycle comprises: a first phase executable by each input controller (ICi) to send each output controller (OCj) requests representative of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115958 - Two-dimensional pipelined scheduling technique: A scheduler and method for scheduling packet forwarding operations is provided. Packet forwarding request information associated with a first set of input port/output port combinations is received. Packet forwarding request information associated with a second set of input port/output port combinations different from the first set of input port/output port... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070115970 - Apparatus for allocating transmission period in a wireless communication system: An apparatus is provided for efficiently allocating a transmission period in a wireless network system. An access point (AP) transmits a PSMP frame indicating a downlink period provided to each station (STA) and a minimum amount of an uplink period allocated to each STA, and at least one sub PSMP... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070115972 - Apparatus for allocating transmission period in a wireless communication system: An apparatus is provided for allocating a transmission period in a wireless network system. An access point (AP) transmits a PSMP frame indicating a downlink period and an uplink period allocated to each station (STA), and at least one sub PSMP frame indicating an allocated downlink period for at least... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070115966 - Compact packet operation device and method: A network device and a method of handling a frame in a network device defining a common header for each rule in a rules table of a search engine, wherein the common header comprises a source port specifying a corresponding rule to be applied to a port or ports, and... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070115964 - Data compression method and system: A data compression method and system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the data compression method includes receiving a data packet. Also, the method includes compressing the data packet using a confirmed compression history, wherein the confirmed compression history includes previously acknowledged data packets. Further, the method includes sending a compressed... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070115960 - De-interleaver for data decoding: A de-interleaver for data decoding. Two memory banks are configured to store data in column order and output the data in row order. A de-interleaving encoder receives a stream of interleaved data values, generates an input address for both the two memory banks contingent upon a modulation mode and based... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070115968 - Default route coding: A multi-level lookup table includes a plurality of search levels with each search level including a plurality of subtrees, each subtree representing a plurality of nodes. A search of the multi-level lookup table for an entry corresponding to a search key results in a value stored in an entry associated... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070115967 - Dynamic discovery of iso layer-2 topology: A method is provided of determining a layer-2 topology of an IT infrastructure which includes layer-2 interconnect devices having ports. A list of layer-2 interconnect devices available in the IT infrastructure is obtained. Uplink and non-uplink ports of layer-2 interconnect devices are determined. All the, or a subset of the,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070115974 - High speed data classification system: An optical network packet classification architecture is disclosed that addresses the packet classification requirements for OC-768 optical routers and beyond. The herein disclosed system is used for ultra-high speed packet classification of optical data at either the serial data stream level for maximum performance, or after it has been converted... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070115963 - Maximum transmission unit tuning mechanism for a real-time transport protocol stream: A Real-Time Protocol (RTP) source node of a network operates to send a first data packet of a first size to a destination node over a path of the network that includes a plurality of intermediate nodes, at least one of the intermediate nodes having a maximum transmission unit (MTU)... Agent: Burgess & Bereznak LLP

20070115959 - Method and system for quiet time: A method and system for creating a quiet zone. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes receiving a request for the creation of the quiet zone and generating a quiet time data packet. The quiet time data packet may be generated by a source system and includes data specifying the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20070115971 - Method for allocating transmission period in a wireless communication system: A method is provided for efficiently allocating a transmission period in a wireless network system. An access point (AP) transmits a PSMP frame indicating a downlink period provided to each station (STA) and a minimum amount of an uplink period allocated to each STA, and at least one sub PSMP... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070115961 - Method for transmitting data from a participant device in a session in an internet protocol (ip) system: A method for transmitting data from a participant device in a session in an Internet Protocol (IP) system (100) is provided. The method comprises sending (405) one or more a first Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) packet of the session to a first address. The method further comprises sending (410) one... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070115973 - Power line communication apparatus, power line communication method and communication apparatus: PLC modems and a PLC communication system that includes the PLC modems receive a multicast packet from a video server of a multicast group. When a MAC address table is set therein, the PLC modems and the PLC communication system convert the multicast packet into a unicast packet and transmit... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070115969 - Systems and methods for digital stream denting: A method of forming a digital packet stream, the stream including transport packets. The method can include receiving a packet ID in a transport stream, determining if the packet ID includes a video ID, determining if a coded video frame starts a transport packet, and if a coded video frame... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20070115962 - Techniques configuring customer equipment for network operations from provider edge: Techniques for configuring customer premises equipment for communication with a provider network include establishing a physical layer network connection between a particular customer node and a first provider node. The particular customer node is an intermediate network node on a customer premises. The first provider node is an intermediate network... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20070115965 - Wireless communication system, method for transmitting frame, and computer program product thereof: A wireless communication system, method for transmitting a frame, and computer program product thereof are provided. The system comprises a base station and a subscriber station. The frame comprises a MAP area and a user area. The MAP area comprises a broadcast test area. The method and the computer program... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070115976 - Address management system, address management method and address management program of image forming apparatus: The present invention is an address management system (14) of an image forming apparatus comprising multi send function to be able to send the same data at once by using multiple transmitting means at a unit of a group plural addresses are entered comprising: an address entry means (15) for... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070115975 - Method and system for controlling the multicast source: The present invention provides a multicast source control method, which comprises: creating multicast source authentication information; a management platform of the multicast source authentication information dynamically updating said multicast source authentication information in accordance with restriction on multicast source; controlling multicast message sent from the multicast source in accordance with... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20070115992 - Architecture to enable keyboard, video and mouse (kvm) access to a target from a remote client: A keyboard, video and mouse over an Internet Protocol (IP) switch in which the master and target interfaces share the same IP address and access to the target interfaces from the client is via a Transmission Control Protocol/IP network. The master is able to determine into which switch port the... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20070115984 - Circuitry for determining network operations in a network device: A network processor for determining one or more network operations to be performed on a packet of data in a network comprises processing circuitry and protocol indicator circuitry. The packet of data contains information populating a plurality of protocol header fields. Moreover, the protocol indicator circuitry comprises a plurality of... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070116001 - Communication apparatus, communication system, and communication method: A communication apparatus is connected to a transmission host that generates a header and a packet body data for generating a packet, and performs a packet communication with outside via a network. A receiving unit receives the header and the packet body data from the transmission host in a separate... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070115978 - Communication apparatus, method of controlling communication apparatus and control program for communication apparatus: The invention realizes, utilizing a call control process according to SIP, detection of the condition of in terms of capableness/incapableness of receiving of the destination station and notification of restoration to a condition capable of receiving thereby eliminating troublesome operations such as telephonic communication etc.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070115994 - Communication system and method: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a communication arrangement for distinguishing between network entities having the same address by translating between the same addresses and surrogate addresses using an intermediary network entity.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070116000 - Communication terminal device, method, program, recording medium, and integrated circuit for use in communication network system: A communication terminal device of the present invention includes: a packet classification section 103 for classifying the packets by stream types and destinations; a packet accumulation section 104-107 for accumulating the packets classified by the packet classification section, so as to be separately stored based on classification by the stream... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070115982 - Hashing algorithm for network receive filtering: Roughly described, a network interface device is assigned a maximum extent-of-search. A hash function is applied to the header information of each incoming packet, to generate a hash code for the packet. The hash code designates a particular subset of the table within which the particular header information should be... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070115979 - Method and apparatus for managing subscriber profiles: Methods and apparatus for managing subscriber profiles in a network environment are described herein. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a connection request from a subscriber, wherein the subscriber is associated with a first-level profile identifier, and wherein more than one subscriber can be associated with the first-level profile... Agent: Hamilton Desanctis & Cha Michael A. Desanctis

20070115993 - Method and apparatus for network deception/emulation: A number of innovations in the field of networking are disclosed. These techniques use multiple address translation to achieve effective deceptions, emulations, extended private networks and related goals. A further embodiment using a deception network having a number of different actual computer systems each performing emulation where deceived datagrams are... Agent: Quine Intellectual Property Law Group, P.C.

20070115998 - Method and software product for identifying network devices having a common geographical locale: A method and software product for identifying network devices having a common geographical locale. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods to associate a geographical location with network data including network edge address data and corresponding pivot data comprising storing network data with corresponding known geographical locations, subsequent... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070115988 - Method and system for processing incoming packets in a communication network: A method and electronic device (104) for processing incoming packets in a communication network (100) is disclosed. The method includes filtering (302) incoming packets in real time by using a recent offender list (212). The method also includes classifying (304) the incoming packets as offending packets and non-offending packets in... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070115990 - Method of providing an encrypted multipoint vpn service: A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing an encrypted multipoint Virtual Private Network (VPN) service is presented. A first packet of a plurality of packets is received at an ingress provider edge (PE) the plurality of packets destined for a remote server in communication with said egress PE... Agent: Chapin & Huang L.L.C. Westborough Office Park

20070115986 - Method to perform exact string match in the data plane of a network processor: Methods for performing exact search string matches in the data plane of a network processor. The methods employ a two-stage string search mechanism to identify the existence of a search string from a set S in a packet payload. A first pre-processing stage identifies a potential search string match and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070115983 - Methods and system to offload data processing tasks: Via use of a shared data bus, a processor system offloads processing tasks. For example, a processor system communicates over a respective data bus with a data communication controller. After notifying the data communication controller of a particular block of data to retrieve, the processor system relinquishes control of the... Agent: Chapin & Huang L.L.C. Westborough Office Park

20070115999 - Methods for standardizing medical image information and applications for using the same: The present invention discloses a method for standardizing medical digital image information based on a desired format. The method for standardizing digital medical image information based on the required format in accordance with the present invention comprises transmitting medical image information to a conversion module and (a) if the transmitted... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20070115980 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for operating an electronic mail or messaging system in which information associated with an attachment is sent to a destination for evaluation before sending the attachment: An electronic mail/messaging system is operated by compiling information associated with an attachment for an electronic mail at a source. The information includes initial information and descriptive information. The initial information is sent to a destination. A determination is made whether the destination has a file that matches the attachment... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070115991 - Multi-modal auto complete function for a connection: An apparatus, method, and system are directed to managing a multi-modal communication over a network. In one embodiment, the method, apparatus, and system employ an instant messaging client to perform actions. The actions may include receiving contact information associated with a plurality of communication mediums. The contact information includes contact... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070115995 - Noc system employing axi protocol and interleaving method thereof: A Network-on-Chip (NoC) system employing an Advanced extensible Interface (AXI) protocol is provided. The NoC includes an NoC router which classifies data transmitted from a plurality of AXI Intellectual Properties (IPs) according to a destination AXI IP, and a network interface (NI) which processes data from the NoC router and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115996 - Notification method, connection apparatus, communication method, and program: A UPnP device proxy apparatus (103) recognizes a device connected to a network (120) and transmits information regarding the recognized device to UPnP device proxy apparatus (101) The UPnP device proxy apparatus (101) receives the information transmitted from the UPnP device proxy apparatus (103) and transmits, based on the received... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070115977 - Overhead reduction and address and protection in communication stack: The invention reduces addressing overhead for communication using a layered communication protocol. An improvement of the invention maintains security for the addressing information.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070115985 - Ring lsp topology for supporting vpns over mpls-based networks: A communications system for transmitting packets includes a network. The system includes a plurality of P, PE and CE devices in communication with the network. The system includes a controller which creates an LSP through the PE devices defining a path such that the LSP starts and ends at the... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz

20070115989 - Support of unidirectional link in is-is without ip encapsulation and in presence of unidirectional return path: The present invention supports the operation of IS-IS over UDLs without the need for encapsulation of IS-IS PDUs in IP and without the need for a large-scale upgrade of the protocol in the network. The present invention also supports adjacency establishment when the return path from a router at the... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070115981 - System and method for filtering communications at a network interface controller: A system and method and method for filtering communications at a network interface controller is provided. The network interface controller is coupled to a baseboard management controller through a sideband communications channel. The network interface controller filters packets to the baseboard management controller on the basis of the address within... Agent: Roger Fulghum Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070115987 - Translating network addresses for multiple network interfaces: The present invention provides a method for translating network addresses for multiple network interfaces. The method includes accessing information indicative of a plurality of first addresses associated with a plurality of first network interfaces and forming a second address associated with the plurality of first addresses.... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070115997 - Virtual gateway: A virtual gateway bridges voice and related signaling traffic between multiple endpoints behind the same or different Network Address Translation devices or firewalls or neither. The virtual gateway also serves as a mixer when used in a teleconferencing mode, which handles a number of endpoints that are behind the same... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070116002 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing radio link parameter update for reallocation of harq process for 2ms nst/st: A method, apparatus, and computer program for re-allocating a hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ process is described where a Node B initiates HARQ re-allocation by sending to a radio network controller RNC a RL PARAMETER UPDATE INDICATION message that includes at least one of a HARQ process allocation for 2... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070116003 - Method and system for communication using a partial designated transit list: A communication system includes a source PNNI node. The system includes a destination PNNI node. The system includes a network having logical group nodes representing peer groups through which the source node and the destination node communicate by establishing an SPVC using a DTL which identifies the group nodes representing... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz

20070116005 - Apparatus to output multimedia data and method of outputting the same: An apparatus to output multimedia data and a method of outputting the same, more particularly, an apparatus to output multimedia data and a method of outputting the same, in which multimedia data of all applicable formats is converted into multimedia data formats supported by a media center extender so as... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070116004 - Method and apparatus for guaranteeing qos using end-to-end cac in internet service network: Provided is a method and apparatus for guaranteeing QoS using end-to-end CAC in an Internet service network. The method includes the steps of: (a) performing a subscriber domain CAC by querying a subscriber DB to determine whether to admit a call based on available bandwidth information of a subscriber when... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070116006 - System and method for communicating data in a loadbalancing environment: A method for communicating data in a network environment is provided that includes receiving a request from an end user for a communications link, the request being used to initiate a communication session. A response is then received that is communicated to the end user in order to establish the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070116009 - Method and systems for optimization analysis in networks: Methods and systems for providing optimization information for networks.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070116008 - Second-order hubbing-and-grooming constrained by demand categories: An end-to-end demand between a pair of nodes of a telecommunication network is determined is categorized into a category based on hub assignments for the nodes. A route for the end-to-end demand in the telecommunication network is determined using a hubbing-and-grooming algorithm. The hubbing-and-grooming algorithm constrains which one or more... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070116010 - System and method for allocating resource and user terminal: A system for allocating resources, including at least one user terminal operable to determine at least one resource needed by the user terminal and further operable to request a first allocation of the resource. A relaying apparatus is provided which is operable to determine the resource to be allocated and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070116007 - Method and system for scheduling and resource allocation in a data communication network: A method for scheduling and resource allocation in a data communication network (104) that transports data packets for a plurality of sessions is disclosed. The method includes monitoring a packet delay of a session data packet awaiting transport (302). The method also includes re-evaluating a scheduling priority of the session... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070116012 - Data service apparatus and method in heterogeneous wireless networks: Provided are an apparatus and a method for providing a concurrent data service to an Mobile Station (MS) through a plurality of heterogeneous networks. In a method for providing a data service to an MS through different wireless networks, the MS measures channel qualities of at least one accessible wireless... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070116011 - Method and apparatus for communications of user equipment using internet protocol address in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for communications of a UE using an IP address in a mobile communication system are provided. When the UE moves from an old subnet managed by an old gateway to a new subnet managed by a new gateway, the UE determines whether there are allocated radio... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070116014 - Enhanced multicast vlan registration: A method and apparatus utilized in layer 2 access switches of an Ethernet ring-based network to bridge multicast packets between a multicast VLAN and a selected VLAN coupled to a VLAN trunk port of the layer 2 access switch. The duplication of multicast streams over the ring technology is avoided... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20070116013 - Workflow decision management with workflow modification in dependence upon user reactions: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for workflow decision management. Embodiments include maintaining a device state history; identifying a device usage pattern in dependence upon the device state history; identifying a workflow scenario in dependence upon the device usage pattern; identifying a workflow in dependence upon the workflow... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070116015 - Switching circuit, and a modulator, demodulator or mixer including such a circuit: A switching circuit comprising: first and second steering switches operable to make or break a path between first and second terminals thereof, and each steering switch further having a control terminal for controlling the switch, the first and second steering switches having their control terminals driven by first and second... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070116017 - Individualizing a connectivity-indicative mapping: A method, device, and computer program product are described for obtaining a connectivity evaluation with an associated location of a first individualized node and for aggregating an indicator of a first location, an indicator of a second location, a first connectivity evaluation, and a second connectivity evaluation into an individualized... Agent: Searete LLC

20070116016 - Signal routing dependent on a loading indicator of a mobile node: A device, method, computer program product, and network subsystem are described for obtaining a node identifier dependent on at least a position index and a loading indicator of a mobile node and routing data through the mobile node responsive to the node identifier.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070116021 - Mesh based/tower based network: Included are embodiments for providing communications services. At least one embodiment includes a first communications component configured to receive data from a first communications device and a second communications component configured to send at least a portion of the received data to a second communications device.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070116022 - Method and apparatus for guaranteeing fairness regarding access to medium among stations in wlan: A method and apparatus for guaranteeing fairness regarding access to a medium among a plurality of stations in a wireless local area network (WLAN) where a plurality of high throughput (HT) stations and a plurality of 802.11 legacy stations coexist are provided. In the WLAN, information that allows a plurality... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070116019 - Method for providing home agent geographic redundancy: Methods and systems for providing redundancy in servicing packet data communications within wireless mobile data networks are disclosed. More particularly, the method and system for provide a redundant Home Agent with the ability to assume the role of the primary Home Agent in the event of a primary Home Agent... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070116020 - Method for providing home agent geographic redundancy via a service redundancy protocol: Methods and systems for providing redundancy in servicing packet data communications within wireless mobile data networks are disclosed. More particularly, the method and system provide a redundant Home Agent with the ability to assume the role of the primary Home Agent in the event of a primary Home Agent network,... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070116018 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for distributed resource allocation among clustered media gateways in a communications network: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer program products for distributed resource allocation between media gateways (MGs) in a cluster of MGs. According to one method, available resources provided by each MG in a cluster of MGs controlled by a media gateway controller (MGC) are communicated between the MGs in the... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070116023 - Method and apparatus for dynamically configuring a generic processing module: A programmable netwok component for use in a plurality of network devices with a shared architecture. The programmable network component includes an interface with an external processing unit to provide management interface control between the external processing unit and a network device. The programmable network component also includes an interface... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070116027 - Device and method for generating priority preservation composite bursts, for a network equipment of a burst switching communication network: A device (D) is dedicated to generating bursts of packets of data, in a network equipment (N) of a burst switching communication network. This device (D) comprises processor means (MT) adapted to generate, with a view to their transmission by the equipment (N), composite bursts assembled from packets extracted from... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070116025 - Methods and system to manage data traffic: A system includes multiple input ports that forward received data (e.g., data packets) to each of multiple queues. Data received at the input ports of the system can be somewhat random or “bursty” at times. That is, the input ports can receive data at a variable bit rate or unspecified... Agent: Chapin & Huang L.L.C. Westborough Office Park

20070116024 - Packet scheduling method for wireless communication system: The present invention provides a method of scheduling packet in a wireless telecommunication system, in which the user packet queues to be transmitted are divided into the user packet queues with lost packet and the user packet queues without lost packet; for the user packet queues with lost packet, if... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070116028 - Recording method for optical disc: The invention provides a method for recording data packets to be recorded onto an optical disc via a buffer memory. The method, according to the invention, first, is to receive the data packets to be recorded and to store the received data packets in the buffer memory. Then, when the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20070116026 - Scatter and gather scheme for aggregating multiple high speed point-to-point interfaces: A mechanism for combining plurality of point-to-point data channels to provide a high-bandwidth data channel having an aggregated bandwidth equivalent to the sum of the bandwidths of the data channels used is provided. A mechanism for scattering segments of incoming data packets, called data chunks, among available point-to-point data channel... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070116029 - Distributed medium access control for broadband access systems: A distributed scheduler for frame based communication between a plurality of terminals and a master controller, comprises a plurality of concentration elements for local scheduling of upstream data, the plurality of concentration elements and the plurality of terminals being partitioned over a plurality of cells distributed on a multiple hierarchical... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070116030 - Feedback for data transmissions: Methods and apparatus are presented for dynamically controlling the re-transmission scheme of acknowledgment signals. A source transmits a first data packet over a slot s1. If channel conditions are favorable, source transmits a second data packet over slot s2, which precedes the reception of any acknowledgment signals. A destination receives... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070116031 - Anti-collision method and system in wireless network system: An anti-collision method and system in a wireless network system are provided. The anti-collision method includes: transmitting a beacon signal including information related to an owner type of a first device and information related to an available time interval of the first device; transmitting information related to a time interval... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070116033 - Carrier sensing multiple access with collision avoidance scheme optimized for a priori known carrier usage for low duty cycle systems: Systems and methods for a communication system implementing a short range communication link between devices advertising available information and services, and user devices which may initiate a request for further information or services. The communication system provides a low power solution utilizing an optimized combination of a carrier sensing and... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070116032 - Open cable broadcast processing apparatus and control method thereof, and cable card software upgrading method for open cable system: An open cable broadcast processing apparatus and control methods are provided. The broadcast processing apparatus includes a tuner to tune a cable signal supplied from a delivery system, an interface which is connected with a cable card descrambling the cable signal supplied through the tuner; and a controller which controls... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070116034 - Supporting mobile voice clients in a wlan: Operation of a mobile voice client utilizing a WLAN for access is enhanced by controlling the rate at which transmission power is changed by the access point with which the mobile voice client is associated. The access point calculates a target transmit power level based at least in-part on the... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070116035 - Method and system for addressing channel access unfairness in ieee 802.11n wireless networks: A method and system for communication in an IEEE 802.11n WLAN including L-stations and HT-stations, wherein a signaling field such as a small legacy format frame is appended at the end of a L-SIG TXOP Protection sequence in order to terminate the EIFS procedure at L-stations. This increases the probability... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070116036 - Patient records using syndicated video feeds: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for syndication and management of structured and unstructured data to assist institutional healthcare delivery, healthcare providers' practices, healthcare providers' group practices, collaborative academic research and decision making in healthcare, including through the utilization of medical devices and healthcare pools.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070116037 - Syndicating ct data in a healthcare environment: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for syndication and management of structured and unstructured data to assist institutional healthcare delivery, healthcare providers' practices, healthcare providers' group practices, collaborative academic research and decision making in healthcare, including through the utilization of medical devices and healthcare pools.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070116040 - Automation device: The invention relates to an automation device (100, 100′), with which a multiplicity of physically distributed functional units communicate with each other by means of a common transmission protocol. The device has a microcontroller (110), which is assigned at least one clock generator (120) and one memory unit (150), and... Agent: Abb Inc. Legal Dept. - 4u6

20070116038 - Devices and methods for matching link speeds between controllers and controlled devices: A controller system for detecting and matching link speeds. The present invention provides for a controller system. The controller system is a first controller and a first port. The first port is located in the first controller and has a first link speed. The first controller is adapted to match... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation Legal Department - Ip

20070116041 - Digital broadcast receiver: The digital broadcast receiver has a main broadcast audio input buffer for storing therein an audio stream of a main broadcast and a data broadcast audio input buffer for storing therein an audio stream of a data broadcast. The audio streams in the main broadcast audio input buffer and the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070116039 - Media flow converter for use in real-time delivery transactions: A method (200) and a system (100) for coordinated streaming use a single Real Time Protocol (RTP) producer (130) for handling multiple audio services (110). The method can include the steps of assigning (202) a RTP producer to handle multiple audio objects, and maintaining (204) a service for each object... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070116044 - Capture buffer, a network analyser, a network analyser card and a method of capturing network data: A capture buffer stores data frames captured from a network which includes a data storage region for storing content data of the or each data frame received from the network, and for storing a descriptor associated with the or each data frame received from the network. The invention further includes... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070116046 - Cpri link multiplex transmission method and system: A communication method between the units of a distributed base station system, characterized by comprising: at the transmitting end, mapping a CPRI link to a GFP-T frame; encapsulating the GFP-T frame into SDH virtual containers to form a STM-N frame; and transmitting the STM-N frame via a SDH line, and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070116047 - Method and apparatus for supporting multi-object transport protocols: A method and apparatus of supporting multi-object transport protocols are provided. The method includes generating a first request message based on a first object transport protocol by request of an application; translating the first request message into a second request message based on a second object transport protocol supported by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070116045 - Method and apparatus for transporting ethernet services: Frames of customer traffic may be encapsulated by adding Mac-in-Mac (MiM) encapsulation fields for transportation of the frames over a portion of provider network. The MiM encapsulated traffic may be further encapsulated using VPLS by adding VPLS encapsulation fields for transportation of the frames over another portion of the provider... Agent: John C. Gorecki, Esq.

20070116043 - Method and system of session media negotiation: Methods and systems for processing a signaling message are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises: determining a first transcoding policy associated with an originator endpoint contained in a received first call offer; determining a second transcoding policy associated with an answerer endpoint contained in the first call offer; applying the first... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070116042 - Power extension apparatus having local area network switching function: A power extension apparatus for local area networking is disclosed. The power extension apparatus has an array of power sockets and network interface ports on an extension cable, where the power sockets are to connect two or more computing devices to a power line wiring, and the network interface ports... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070116050 - Connection mode setting apparatus, connection mode setting method, connection mode control apparatus, connection mode control method and so on: Providing a connection mode setting apparatus, a connection mode setting method, a connection mode control apparatus, a connection mode control method, and the like realizing shorter time of fining an optimum connection destination at the time of connection for participation/withdrawal to/from the system since network topology itself constructing the system... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070116049 - Dynamic power management for i/o resource pools: Methods and apparatus for managing a pool of I/O interfaces associated with one or more I/O devices are disclosed. The I/O bandwidth utilization of the I/O devices is ascertained and compared with an upper threshold and a lower threshold. When the I/O bandwidth utilization is greater than the upper threshold,... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070116048 - Systems and methods for next generation cable network dynamic multiplexing: An intelligent multiplexer is disclosed for multiplexing various types of traffic on a cable network. The multiplexer receives information regarding the traffic currently provided, or anticipated to be provided, including the associated bandwidth and dynamically allocates bandwidth for the various traffics types as required. A rules database may be consulted... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070116051 - Method and apparatus for transporting ip datagrams over flo network: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate transporting Internet protocol (IP) datagrams over a broadcast wireless network, such as a forward-link-only (FLO) network. According to aspects, third-party IP applications to operate over a FLO network without having to understand FLO-specific lower-layer protocols. In such cases, third party applications may request... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070116053 - Apparatus and methods of handling simultaneous universal terrestrial radio access network radio resource control procedures with activation times in a universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment: The details of an apparatus and methods of handling simultaneous universal terrestrial radio access network radio resource control procedures with activation times in a universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment are disclosed herein. According to one aspect, the apparatus includes a message handler to receive a received message from the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070116052 - Encoding and error correction system for enhanced performance of legacy communications networks: An encoding and error correction system and method employs an AMR codec by stripping header data from a plurality of legacy system frames having header and traffic channel (TCH) data blocks. Speech data is then encoded using the AMR to create bits for a data block substantially the same as... Agent: Felix L. Fischer, Attorney At Law

20070116054 - Image transmission apparatus: In an image transmission apparatus that transmits image data to the transmission destination accepted by the operation panel, an external storage I/F (connector) to which a USB memory (external storage medium) storing transmission destination information is connected is provided, the transmission destination information is read from the USB memory connected... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070116055 - Transmission apparatus: A transmission apparatus is disclosed, which performs positive/negative stuffing with 8-bit/10-bit (8B/10B) codes being kept intact while retaining the normality of 8B/10B codes and the continuity of running disparity (RD) without termination of 8B/10B codes of a plurality of Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) signals received. The apparatus then executes multiplexing and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070116056 - Digital subscriber line access sharing method and device: A method of sharing digital subscriber line resources is provided by the invention. In a digital subscriber line (DSL) communication system including a central office connected to customer premises over telephone lines, a resource sharing method includes establishing a LAN (local area network) network through a junction box shared by... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070116059 - Circuit and method for synchronization: The invention relates to a circuit and associated method for synchronizing clock pulses, which enables, with a combined pulse spacing coding and pulse width coding, a simultaneous, collision-free, real time transmission of a number of plesiochronous reference clock signals on a bus line between network units, whereby the selection of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070116062 - Cycle synchronization between interconnected sub-networks: A method to perform a cycle synchronization between interconnected sub-networks, in which a reference node connected to one of the sub-networks transmits a respective cycle time information to cycle masters of all other sub-networks at recurring time instants, and the cycle masters of all other sub-networks adjust their cycle time... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070116061 - Externally synchronized optical transport network systems and associated methods: The present invention utilizes external synchronization to generate a completely standardized or functionally standardized optical transmission unit of level k (OTUk[V]) signal providing less jitter and wander build-up through a network of optical transport network (OTN) elements. This increases noise margins of transported signals and payloads. The present invention provides... Agent: Clements Walker

20070116060 - Method and system for providing clock synchronization over packet network: A method and a system for providing clock information synchronization over a packet network, including: a logic tree of clock synchronization is created in the IP packet network to form an IP clock synchronization network; clock information is converted into an IP data message by a clock gateway equipment, the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070116058 - Network node: A computer node comprising a synchronisation unit for comparing network timing information for a first network with network timing information for a second network and for communicating to the first network the sign of the difference between the first network timing information and the second network timing information to allow... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20070116057 - System and method for determining clock skew in a packet -based telephony session: A method for determining clock skew in a packet-based telephony session is disclosed. A telephony device receives RTCP SR packets from a remote telephony device transmitting RTP packets in a telephony session. Each control packet includes an NTP time-stamp and a RTP time-stamp. The device determines from two or more... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070116063 - Method and apparatus for managing communications within a distributed network: Some embodiments of the present invention relate to an apparatus for managing communications within a distributed network. According to some embodiments of the invention, the apparatus may include a communication management module and a synchronization module. The communication management module may be operatively coupled to a communication module belonging to... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070116064 - One-way delay time estimation method and apparatus and clock synchronization method and apparatus using the same: An apparatus for and method of estimating a one-way delay time between two hosts and an apparatus and method of clock synchronization using the same. The two hosts are connected to a network and communicate a predetermined packet; k-th, (k+1)-th, and (k+2)-th transmission times are measured at the first host,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070116065 - Communication system, communication method, transmitter and receiver: A transmitter has a mapping unit mapping transmitting symbol data to a plurality of phase amounts, and a phase rotating process unit giving a phase rotation to the transmitting symbol data mapped to the phase amounts to generate a polyphase modulated signal. A receiver has an inter-chip phase difference detecting... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070116066 - Method and apparatus for packet error detection: The invention provides a packet error detecting method for a PCI express bus link. When a start framing symbol of a packet appears at the PCI express bus link, the start framing symbol is ignore if a predetermined error condition is satisfied.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070116067 - Serial multiplexer module for server management: A serial multiplexer module for server management includes a first, a second and a third switching devices in circuit connection with a baseboard management controller, a serial transceiver and an input/output controller respectively. Each of the switching devices includes respectively four simplex sub-switches. The simplex sub-switches are controlled to be... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070109953 - Method and apparatus for interleaving \ within a communication system: A method and apparatus for interleaving within a communication system is provided herein. More particularly parameters for a convolutional turbo code interleaver are provided, and interleaving takes place utilizing the new parameters. The new parameters generate interleavers that have the correct turbo code behaviors of improving performance with increasing block... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070109954 - Exploiting selection diversity in communications systems with non-orthonormal matrix and vector modulation: The invention relates to methods for scheduling at least one out of K transmission channels k with respective Nt,k transmission interfaces and respective Nr,k reception interfaces for the transmission of data symbols that are matrix or vector modulated, the method comprising calculating a respective Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) qk for... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070109955 - Power control in mimo transceiver: A method of controlling power levels on a plurality of transmit streams in a single radio transceiver includes, for each of the plurality of transmit streams, detecting an output power level and sampling the output power level, digitizing the sample output power level, producing the digitized sample to a baseband... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070109956 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data in a frequency division multiple access system, and system thereof: An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system using a plurality of resource blocks are provided, in which a transmitter generates a sub-packet to perform a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) function on the data, performs interleaving on the generated... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070109957 - Otdm transmission method and apparatus: An OTDM transmitting method and transmitter realizing an OTDM distortion-free transmission substantially not relying upon dispersion. A time division multiplexed OTDM signal from an OTDM signal transmitter (1) enters an optical Fourier transform unit (2). Optical Fourier transform can be carried out most accurately so long as the optical pulse... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070109958 - Network with redundancy properties, a branching unit for a user device in a network, redundancy manager for a network with redundancy properties and method for operating a network with redundancy properties: The invention relates to a network, in particular a PA PROFIBUS network having redundant properties and a linear topology. Two line ends are connected to a redundancy manager which disconnects said line ends in error-free conditions and connects them in error conditions. Said redundancy manager supplies voltage to the first... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070109959 - System and method for synchronizing a back-up device in a communications environment: An apparatus for communicating data is provided that includes a cell site element associated with a base transceiver station and comprising a compression module that is operable to receive a plurality of bits associated with a communications flow, to inspect the bits, to determine whether one or more samples included... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070109960 - Clustering call servers to provide protection against call server failure: Systems and techniques for providing call server failure protection involve assigning a set of media gateways to each of three or more call servers. Each call server has primary control of the corresponding assigned set of media gateways. A second call server is designated as having secondary control of a... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070109961 - Determining throughput between hosts: An apparatus and method of determining throughput between a first host and a second host of at least one network is disclosed. The method includes the first host intentionally corrupting ICMP packets by manipulating a checksum of the ICMP packets. The first host sends the corrupted ICMP packets to the... Agent: Tropos Patent Department

20070109962 - Method and apparatus for implementing relay: The present invention discloses a method for implementing relay in a wireless communication network, which method comprises: determining that a present-stage backhaul window for use in the backhaul of a present-stage service has started; and switching from a first frequency to a second frequency to complete the backhaul of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070109963 - Internet protocol telephony proxy device: An Internet protocol telephony proxy device having a processor configured to execute a first, second and third logic is described therein. When the first logic is executed by the processor, the processor will be configured to authenticate a remote VoIP client. Next, when the processor executes the second logic, the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070109964 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving control information of user equipment for uplink data transmission: A method and apparatus for transmitting a happy bit indicating whether a UE needs additional resources for uplink data transmission in a mobile communication system supporting an uplink packet data service are provided. The UE sets a happy bit for a current process based on a different criterion, depending on... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070109965 - Use of negative classifiers for internet traffic: The present invention provides for enhanced packet classification. With the present invention packets are classified using both positive and negative classifiers. That is, a packet is classified based on both (a) whether or not the packet does meet certain criteria and, b) whether or not the packet does not meet... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070109966 - Method and apparatus of performing tunnel signaling over ip tunneling path: An apparatus and method for performing tunnel signaling over an IP tunneling path are provided. The method includes transmitting an end-to-end signaling flow through an end-to-end path connected to the IP tunneling path, generating a tunnel signaling flow corresponding to the end-to-end signaling flow, and transmitting the generated tunnel signaling... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070109967 - Apparatus and method for post-processing data rate control value in high rate packet data system: An apparatus and method for post-processing a Data Rate Control (DRC) value in a high rate packet data system are provided, in which a loss of data throughput can be prevented by controlling the output of the DRC value. The apparatus for post-processing a DRC value, which is included in... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070109968 - Hierarchical metering in a virtual router-based network switch: Methods and systems are provided for applying metering and rate-limiting in a virtual router environment and supporting a hierarchy of metering/rate-limiting contexts per packet flow. According to one embodiment, multiple first level metering options and multiple second level metering options associated with a hierarchy of metering levels are provided. A... Agent: Hamilton Desanctis & Cha Michael A. Desanctis

20070109970 - Method and apparatus for transmitting circuitry that transmit data at different rates: A system for transmitting data to a first circuit that transmits and receives data at a first rate from a second circuit that transmits data at second rate that is greater than the first rate. This invention includes an interface that transmits pause frames to the second circuit in response... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070109969 - Method of ensuring the quality of service in a network: The invention relates to a method of ensuring the quality of service in a broadcast network (1) which also comprises apparatuses (Q, Z) that do not have their own quality of service functionality. An apparatus operating as a bandwidth manager (BM) monitors the data traffic in the network and, in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070109971 - Power line communication system: A communication control portion (11) performs most of communication processing performed by a communication apparatus (1). The communication control portion (11) also executes communication with another communication apparatus (1) using a communication parameter determined by a communication parameter determination portion (13). A transmission line estimation portion (12) measures characteristics of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070109973 - Co-location interference avoidance in multiple protocol communication networks: A method includes an access point providing a request for co-location interference information to at least one multiple protocol device. The method continues with the at least one multiple protocol device obtaining co-location interference information in response to the request. The method continues with the at least one multiple protocol... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070109972 - Method for wireless network self-configuration: Method for wireless communications network self-configuration. A preferred embodiment comprises determining a state for communications links in the communications network, entering a normal operating mode, and periodically repeating. The determining of communications link state creates a set of shortest paths connecting each access point in the communications network to a... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20070109974 - Passive optical network unit management and control interface support for a digital subscriber line network: An optical network unit for managing digital subscriber line (xDSL) connections to a passive optical network. According to one embodiment, the optical network unit comprises data structures in the form of managed entities that are issued by the optical network unit for managing each of the xDSL connections. Each managed... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070109975 - Remote device management in a home automation data transfer system: An automation network includes automation network devices connected to the network and a system layer interface that interfaces with a transport layer and an application layer of the home automation network. The system layer interface includes command libraries configured to upgrade a remote network device. The automation network queries the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070109976 - Dynamic peer application discovery: Dynamic discovery of active peer applications and information related thereof in a network is described. In one embodiment of the present invention, the discovery and information related to peer applications is maintained by a plurality of network device peers. This information is supplemented by device or peer application failure information,... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070109977 - Method and apparatus for improving listener differentiation of talkers during a conference call: A method and apparatus for improving listener differentiation of talkers during a conference call is provided herein. Particularly, during a teleconference a node (101) will extend the bandwidth of received signals (e.g., speech). Each caller within the conference call will then have their voice projected by the node (101) to... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070109978 - Method and system for secure conferencing: Methods and systems for secure conferencing in a network have been provided. Relevant endpoints from the provided endpoints are selected on the basis of the endpoint selection parameters received in an SRTP extension. Data streams generated from the selected endpoints are decrypted and mixed, to obtain all the possible data... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070109979 - Method and conference controller for cluster-based conferencing: A method and conference controller for cluster-based conferencing between ad-hoc network terminals supporting cluster-based conferences and legacy network terminals not equipped with such capabilities. The controller implements a Super User Agent (SUA) having a conference identity, a cluster member list including identities of legacy network's terminals members of a cluster... Agent: Alex Nicolaescu Ericsson Canada Inc.

20070109980 - Wireless lan with load balancing: A communication system with a plurality of access points (AP1, AP2, AP3) and at least one network station (5, 6), the network station (5, 6) being arranged to communicate with one of said the plurality of access points (AP1, AP2, AP3) through a wireless communication protocol, each access point (AP1,... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20070109983 - Method and system for managing access to a wireless network: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing access to a wireless network includes defining access criteria for a plurality of endpoint devices in the wireless network. The access criteria includes a group of access policies controlling access to specific access points in the wireless network. The... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070109982 - Method and system for managing ad-hoc connections in a wireless network: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing ad-hoc connections in a wireless network includes receiving, at an endpoint device, a connection policy from a managing device over the wireless network. The connection policy indicates network security settings for the endpoint device. The method also includes detecting... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070109984 - Mobile broadband communications system, such as a deployable self-contained portable system: Systems and methods for establishing IT services in edge environments are described. In some examples, the system comprises a transportable housing capable of being carried by personnel, a plurality of commercial off-the-shelf components contained in the housing and coupled together and configured to provide the broadband communications network, a software... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070109981 - Radio communication method, radio communication terminal accommodating apparatus, and radio communication terminal: A technique for enabling a configuration of an entire radio communication system to be grasped in a manner of bird's-eye is disclosed. In the radio communication system provided with one radio communication terminal accommodating apparatus 101 and a plurality of radio communication terminals 102a to 102e accommodated in this radio... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070109986 - Fast cell selection method and apparatus for high speed downlink packet access system: A cell setting apparatus is provided for scheduling a packet data service in a mobile communication system supporting the packet data service. A signaling receiver receives information on a cell to be added to an active set and information on a change in a best cell, from a terminal. A... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070109985 - User terminal employing quality of service path determination and bandwidth saving mode for a satellite isp system using non-geosynchronous orbit satellites: A mobile satellite telecommunications system is disclosed including at least one user terminal, at least one satellite in earth orbit, and at least a gateway bidirectionally coupled to a data communications network wherein a user terminal comprises a controller responsive to applications for selecting individual ones of a plurality of... Agent: Karambelas & Associates

20070109987 - Wcdma device and method for discontinuous reception for power saving in idle mode and flexible monitoring of neighboring cells: A WCDMA enabled user equipment device configured to have functions collectively or selectively idle to conserve power. A discontinuous receiver is used to detect and read network messages and report the messages to the host processor within the WCDMA enabled user equipment device. The host processor then activates functions previously... Agent: Stephen B. Ackerman

20070109988 - Efficient partitioning of control and data fields: Embodiments describe efficient tradeoff of latencies with processing times. A single control field can be placed within a frame to tradeoff encoding time with decoding time. Alternatively, a control field can be split into two portions to achieve good latency performance while maintaining sufficient processing time for scheduling, encoding and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070109991 - Access point supporting direct and indirect downstream delivery based on communication characteristics: An end-point device comprises multiple communication transceivers via which the end-point device associates with multiple access points. The multiple access points may belong to packet switched data networks that are communicatively incompatible. Each of the associated access points contributes a separate pathway for flow of data packets between the end-point... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070109993 - Cell controller adapted to perform a management function: A wireless local area network is provided with simplified RF ports which are configured to provide lower level media access control functions. Higher level media access control functions and management functions are provided in a cell controller, which may service one or more RF ports. Mobile units can also be... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070109994 - Cell controller for multiple wireless local area networks: A wireless local area network is provided with at least one cell controller and simplified RF ports which are configured to provide lower level media access control functions. Higher level media access control functions are provided in a cell controller, which may service one or more RF ports that are... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070109992 - Indirect command pathways between an end point device and a target access point via a secondary access point: An end point device that interacts with a first access point using a first radio and via a first direct pathway. The end point device interacts with at least a second access point using a second radio and via a second direct pathway. The end point device sends multimedia information... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070109990 - Pathway parameter exchange between access networks of differing types: An end-point device comprises multiple communication transceivers via which the end-point device associates with multiple access points. The multiple access points may belong to packet switched data networks that are communicatively incompatible. Each of the associated access points contributes a separate pathway for flow of data packets from the end-point... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070109989 - Radio communication apparatus, ad-hoc system and communication system: An object of the present invention is to improve the network usage efficiency and economy. There is provided a radio communication apparatus (10) having ad-hoc communication means for building an ad-hoc network with other nearby radio communication apparatus and performing communication with the other radio communication apparatus by radio. The... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070109996 - Apparatus and method for transmitting packets in wireless network: Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting packets in a wireless network. The apparatus includes a motion calculation unit, a transmission repetition adjustment unit, and a packet transmission repetition unit, The, motion calculation unit calculates the motion value of a mobile terminal. The transmission repetition adjustment unit receives N-value... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070109995 - Compensating for noise in a wireless communication system: A number of features for enhancing the performance of a communication system, in which data is transmitted between a base station and a plurality of subscriber stations located different distances from the base station, are presented. The power transmission level, slot timing, and equalization of the subscriber stations are set... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070109997 - Access router based mobile ipv6 fast handover method: Provided is a mobile IPv6 fast handovers method, which includes the steps of: a) if a mobile node is moved in a layer 2, receiving a modified RS message from a mobile node in the access router, b) detecting movement of the mobile node in a layer 3 in the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070109998 - Information communication program, information communication apparatus and information communication method: An information communication program, an information communication apparatus and an information communication method make it possible for a mobile node to maintain direct communication with some other terminal while it is moving from a network to another if the some other terminal is always located on a particular network. An... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070109999 - Method and system for adaptive modification of cell boundary: A method and system for reducing interference in a cellular radio communications network. At least one parameter affecting user terminals within a cell is adjusted such that the cell boundary is modified, such that interference in the network is reduced. In alternative embodiments the at least one parameter is adjusted... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070110000 - Method for scheduling uplink transmissions from user equipments by a base station determining a measure of a quality of service, and corresponding base station, user equipment and communication system: A method of transmitting data packets in an uplink from a plurality of source user equipments to a base station, the data packets being for onward transmission to a plurality of destination user equipments, is disclosed. The method comprising the steps of determining a measure of a quality of service... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070110001 - Wireless system, method for reconnection, and computer readable medium thereof: A method for reconnecting a wireless system in an interference environment is provided. The wireless system comprises a host and an end device. The method searches an available communication channel between the host and the end device asynchronously. The end device informs the host of the condition of the qualified... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070110002 - Adaptive modulation and coding method: An adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) method for data transmission by various modulation orders and coding rates is provided. A signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a transmission channel is estimated. Quality of service (QOS) parameters are provided, defining maximum allowable delay and packet error rate (PER). A retransmission limit is determined... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070110004 - Method and base station for bandwidth allocation in wireless single-hop self-backhaul networks: The present invention discloses a method and a base station for allocating bandwidth for subscriber stations and a backhaul station through taking into joint consideration uplink and down bandwidth requests from respective subscriber stations in a wireless single-hop self-backhaul network. Upon receipt of information on bandwidth requests from the subscriber... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070110005 - Self-backhaul method and apparatus in wireless communication networks: The present invention relates to a wireless self-backhaul technique in a wireless communication network, especially in a WiMAX network, which implements wireless backhaul between base stations by using radio resources (frequency, sub-band or timeslot) of base stations' own. More specifically, uplink and downlink backhaul channels are formed between a master... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070110003 - Subcarrier allocation in ofdma with imperfect channel state information at the transmitter: A system and method for digital communications combine features of multiuser diversity and frequency diversity allocation schemes. The system and method retain advantages of multiuser allocation whenever possible by assigning a fraction, α, of the available bandwidth to users in channels where the users are experiencing high SNR. Recognizing that... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070110006 - Burst detector: A burst detector and method for detecting when a selected timeslot which includes data signals for a plurality of channels is received without selected ones of the plurality of channels. The burst detector includes a comparator for generating a burst detection signal when a signal power estimate of a predetermined... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070110008 - Communication device for a landborne vehicle: A communications system for land vehicles usable in the field of radio communications with any electronic data processing equipment connected to a mobile telecommunications network. The communications system enables the connection of a communication terminal (TP_i) to a mobile communications network (2) from a vehicle (1) of the kind including... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070110009 - Contex transfer in a communication network comprising plural heterogeneous access networks: The present invention relates to a method for a context transfer in a communication network comprising a plurality of heterogeneous access networks, (220, 221, 222) wherein a mobile terminal is attached to one of the access networks. Further, the present invention relates to a context transfer manager performing the method... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070110014 - Data transfer apparatus, data transferring method, and data transfer program: Various data such as mail data distributed through network are transferred to a communication terminal device through the medium of a non-contact IC card communication technology, and the transfer data are enabled to be viewed with a communication terminal device separated from the network. A data transfer apparatus (NW device... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070110012 - Device and method for tracking usage of content distributed to media devices of a local area network: A media device (812) for tracking usage of content distributed to media devices (806-812) of a local area network (802). A memory (906) of the media device (812) stores a content usage counter (918) associated with media content (816) of the media device (812). The transceiver (902) of the media... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070110013 - Method for assigning a unique word in a communication system: A method and system for assigning unique words in an SDMA (spatial division multiple access) communication system is disclosed. A base station has a set of available unique words from which to select and assign unique words. The base station prioritizes the set of unique words by determining which unique... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070110007 - Method for operating a radiocommunication system: A radiocommunication system has a downward link radio channel associated with each upward link radio channel, respectively. A subscriber station receives data from a radio station on a network side to the downward link radio channel, with no logic liaison being established between the subscriber station and the radio station... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070110018 - Methods and systems for wireless local area network (wlan)-based signaling network monitoring: Methods and systems for WLAN-based signaling network monitoring are disclosed. A signaling message is received at a network routing node. A message copy function on the network routing node copies the signaling message. The message copy function forwards the copied signaling message to a WLAN interface. The WLAN interface transmits... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070110011 - Mobile communication apparatus for operation in a wireless local area network: A mobile communication apparatus and methods for operation in a wireless local area network. The mobile communication apparatus is equipped with a transceiver for communication of data intended for the mobile communication apparatus. Furthermore, the mobile communication apparatus comprises a repeater. The repeater is adapted to receive a data packet... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070110017 - Mobile router device: A wireless mobile router (300) includes a CPU (222) and one or more network interfaces for hosting locally reachable devices. The router (300) includes one or more cellular network interface devices (316) configured to make a network connection with a cellular network. The router (300) operates to translate data packets... Agent: Edward L. Kelley Dba Invention Management Associates

20070110010 - Portable local server with context sensing: A system for distributing information via short-range wireless communication. A mobile server receives information from an information provider for distribution to encountered devices. The information received from the service provider may contain both content to be distributed and context information that controls how the content is distributed. The mobile server... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070110015 - Select diversity for radio communications: Select diversity in cellular radio communications involving both the radio access network and the mobile radio ensures that an optimal base station cell under a current condition is selected for communicating with the mobile radio. A candidate set of radio base station cells is defined for a radio connection between... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070110016 - Wireless access control method, relay station and base station: The present invention provides a wireless access control method, relay station and base station. The wireless access control method according to the present invention is characterized in that under the control of said base station, information of said subscriber station and said base station is received and forwarded via a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070110019 - System and method providing variable-frequency if conversion in a multimode communication device: A system and method providing variable-frequency IF conversion in a multimode communication device. Various aspects of the present invention provide a multimode communication device comprising at least one RF signal receiver adapted to receive at least a first RF signal corresponding to a first communication protocol and a second RF... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070110020 - Equalizer for am in-band on-channel radio receivers: A method is provided for equalizing OFDM symbol vectors received on AM in-band on-channel radio signal including a main carrier and first and second BPSK modulated subcarriers. The method comprises the steps of: computing a BPSK magnitude signal; filtering the BPSK magnitude signal; filtering complex samples received on the main... Agent: Pietragallo, Bosick & Gordon LLP

20070110021 - Method and system for directing a call for a mobile station to a band class in a wireless communication network: Methods and systems for directing a call for a mobile station (MS) (400) to a band class in a wireless communication network (100) are provided. The wireless communication network includes a plurality of band classes (125). The method comprises the MS idling (405) in a first band class. The first... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070110022 - Method and apparatus for wireless intersystem handover: A method and apparatus for measurement event synchronization of a portable radio communication apparatus providing multiple radio access technologies, wherein an idle gap is identified between transceiver activities of a first radio access technology device, and an execute signal is sent to a second radio access technology device for initiating... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070110023 - Method for clock sychronization of wireless 1394 buses for nodes connected via ieee 802.11 a/b wlan: A method and apparatus for providing clock synchronization of 1394 buses having wireless devices utilizing 802.11 communication with computers attached to one or more 1394 buses, includes the steps of (a) synchronizing an internal time base of a wireless master device attached to a first bus by receiving a Software... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070110025 - Autonomous system interconnect using content identification and validation: A method and computer program product for providing autonomous system interconnect for a first peer device is presented. The method includes producing routing information at a first peer. Next, the first peer device provides a context identifier in the routing information. A context authenticator is also provided in the routing... Agent: Chapin & Huang L.L.C. Westborough Office Park

20070110024 - System and method for spanning tree cross routes: A spanning tree cross-route protocol for establishing mesh-like cross routes in an underlying wireless spanning tree topology. A cross route spans branches of the tree topology to provide a more optimal route between any two nodes in the wireless network. The cross route can span multiple spanning trees. Each mesh... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070110026 - Systems and methods for dual power and data over a single cable: A system for providing power and data to at least two Ethernet devices over a common Ethernet cable includes a combiner circuit and a splitter circuit. The combiner circuit receives first and second Ethernet cables and is configured to route power and data signals communicated over the first and second... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070110027 - Systems and methods for processing packet streams: The present invention relates to packet stream processing systems and methods for multiple cascaded units. Each unit has a packet rate compensator to maintain a time interval of packets output from the unit approximately the same as a corresponding input interval. A smooth real-time transmission and presentation can thus be... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070110037 - Apparatus and method for displaying web page in mobile communication terminal: An apparatus and method for displaying a Web page of a wireless Internet in a mobile communication terminal. In the method, the Web page is divided into a plurality of sub-sections and the sub-sections of the Web page are mapped in a one-to-one correspondence with keybuttons of the mobile communication... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070110040 - Apparatus, and associated method, for completing a call to a packet-network, telephonic station: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating a call to a packet-network, telephonic station, such as an SIP phone. The call is originated at a originating station formed of a telephonic station of a time-domain-multiplexing network. A call establishment creator is embodied at a media server forming a portion of... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070110031 - Automated connection to a voip session: A system, method, and apparatus are directed to status-based automatic answering and conferencing for presence-enabled VOIP communications. A first device may send a message to a plurality of devices indicating that it is available for an automatic VOIP connection. The message may be sent based, in part, on a contact... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070110043 - Distributed edge switching system for voice-over-packet multiservice network: A network device including a plurality of communication interfaces, including a telephone line interface, a computer data interface, and a broadband network interface; a processor; a machine-readable storage medium which during use stores a call processing application and service profiles, and which stores executable instructions to mediate communications between the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070110032 - Dsl prospecting system and method: This disclosure provides visual representation of spatially correlated customer and communication networks service distribution areas. A method is provided wherein customer data is geocoded, and spatially enabled. Maps are generated that depict customer subscribe in service distribution areas in a selected geographical region for a plurality of regions. Visual representations... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070110041 - Ethernet-based broadband communication channel methods and systems: A broadband communication channel access network comprises an Ethernet device disposed in a serving area interface. The Ethernet device serves as an Ethernet bridge for a neighborhood service area. The Ethernet device communicates with a plurality of customer premises modems in the neighborhood service area. An Ethernet switch disposed at... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070110029 - Method for linking communication channels of disparate access technologies in a selective call unit: An apparatus and method (200) are disclosed for linking communication channels of disparate access technologies in a selective call unit (SCU) (100). A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an SCU having a multimode transceiver (102) supporting two or more disparate access technologies, and... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070110028 - Method for transferring user position identifier: The present invention provides a method for transferring user position identifier. By adding two tags i.e. a VlanCI tag and a VlanPI tag for identifying users accessed into broadband access network, the number of users accessing to the broadband access network is increased, and the problem of having insufficient VLAN... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070110038 - Mobile communication system, call control server, and call control method: A mobile communications system has a subscriber database, located in a second mobile communications network, which manages subscriber information of a mobile terminal and registers location information in response to a location registration request made by the mobile terminal to the second mobile communications network, and registers location information in... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070110035 - Network nodes cooperatively routing traffic flow amongst wired and wireless networks: End-point devices, access points and other types of network nodes each employ multi-path management software to manage communication via multiple possible paths to the Internet backbone from communication applications that run on an end-point device. The multi-path management software on an end-point device may operate independently and/or cooperate with the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070110034 - Pathways analysis and control in packet and circuit switched communication networks: A communication infrastructure, that allows communication pathways to be analyzed and controlled. It consists of packet switched, circuit switched networks, access points, and nodes of which provide sub-pathway characteristics information to end-point devices, when requested. The end-point devices may be PSTN or Internet telephones, personal computers, servers etc., and in... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070110039 - Port forwarding configuration system and method for wire and wireless networks: In a port forwarding configuration system and method for wire and wireless networks, when an Internet protocol (IP) is allocated according to a request from a wireless terminal of a private network and an initialization information message is transmitted by the terminal, a port to be used by the terminal... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070110036 - System and method for establishing long distance call connections using a desktop application: A system and method for establishing a long distance call connection between call stations over the PSTN initiates a call connection request from a desktop application to operate locally on a user workstation. The desktop application communicates call connection information to a long distance service provider server without requiring a... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070110033 - Using pstn to communicate ip address for point-to-point text, voice, video, or data communication: A first device uses a PSTN to send its public IP address to a second device to setup point-to-point communication over the Internet. The first device calls the second device over the PSTN. In one embodiment, the second device answers the call and the first device transmits its public IP... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070110042 - Voice and data exchange over a packet based network: A signal processing system which discriminates between voice signals and data signals modulated by a voiceband carrier. The signal processing system includes a voice exchange, a data exchange and a call discriminator. The voice exchange is capable of exchanging voice signals between a switched circuit network and a packet based... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070110030 - Wireless bluetooth internet phone: Disclosed is a wireless Bluetooth internet phone. The wireless internet phone comprises a central processing unit, a wireless communicating interface, a voice control interface, an operating interface, and a display control interface. The central processing unit is coupled to the wireless communicating interface to establish a bidirectional wireless signal link... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20070110044 - Systems and methods for filtering file system input and output: Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070110045 - Packet switching equipment and switching control method: A packet switching equipment and a switch control system employing the same performs operation of the switch core portion independent of content of decision of an arbiter portion and overall equipment can be constructed with simple control structure. The packet switching equipment includes input buffer portions temporarily storing packets arriving... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070110056 - Apparatus and method for delivering service guide contents and notification event information in a mobile broadcast system: A system and method is provided for providing a service guide for a mobile broadcast (BCAST) service in a wireless communication/broadcast system supporting the BCAST service. If there is a need to provide a service guide in the mobile broadcast system, a Service Guide Subscription Source (SGSS) delivers a subscription... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070110049 - Data compression approach to telephone number management in domain name systems: Systems and methods of storing DNS data associated with a telephone number are presented. These systems and methods can reduce storage space needs, increase access speed and/or result in other benefits, in comparison with the prior art. In some embodiments, DNS data is indexed using a numerical representation of a... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070110054 - Device and method for communicating with another communication device via network forwarding device: The communication device includes a first transmitting unit that transmits to a server a first message transmitted according to a first protocol; a receiving unit that receives a port number message including a translated port number from the server via the network forwarding device; a first protocol processing unit that... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070110055 - Fast block acknowledgment generation in a wireless environment: Fast block acknowledgment generation is provided, via a receiving station, for a plurality of received frames to accommodate latency-sensitive data applications. The fast block acknowledgment generation includes receiving a frame of the plurality of received frames including a transmitter address, a quality of service (QoS) value, and a sequence number.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070110058 - Internet protocol address allocation method using base station and mobile terminal, and system therefor: An Internet Protocol (IP) address allocation method using a base station and a mobile terminal and system therefor are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a radio frequency(RF) unit for transmitting a signal requesting allocation of an IP address for access to Internet to a base station and receiving information about... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070110046 - Internet protocol optimizer: A method for optimizing the throughput of TCP/IP applications by aggregating user application data and consolidating multiple TCP/IP connection streams into a single optimized stream for delivery to a destination application. Optimization of the internet protocol uses a packet interceptor to intercept packets from a source application, a packet driver... Agent: Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett, P.A.

20070110057 - Method and apparatus for transmitting service guide source in a mobile broadcast system: A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting information necessary for the generation of a service guide for a mobile broadcast service in a broadcast system supporting the mobile broadcast service. A Content Creation (CC) block transmits a service guide request message including various sources necessary for the generation of... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070110050 - Method and system of determining last hop device addresses: Method and system of determining addressing in a network environment where client devices are serviced by a number of last hop devices. The method and system including determining client device addresses serviced by the last hop devices as a function of last hop device addresses and client address masks associated... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070110047 - Method of collecting and searching for access route of information resource on internet and computer readable medium stored thereon program for implementing the same: Disclosed is a method for systematically collecting and searching for access routes of information resources. Search index node is formed in hierarchical tree structure in the computer. Basic search information including access route and name of resource loaded on web browser is input with selection of search index node. Information... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20070110059 - Modulated jitter attenuation filter: A system and modulation method are provided for reducing jitter in the mapping of information into Synchronous Payload Envelopes (SPEs), in a data tributary mapping system. The method comprises buffering data from a plurality of tributaries, and generating buffer-fill information responsive to the buffered data being written and read. The... Agent: Gerald W. Maliszewski

20070110051 - Numeric approach to telephone number management in domain name systems: Systems and methods of storing DNS data associated with a telephone number are presented. These systems and methods can reduce storage space needs, increase access speed and/or result in other benefits, in comparison with the prior art. In some embodiments, DNS data is indexed using a numerical representation of a... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070110053 - Packet processors and packet filter processes, circuits, devices, and systems: A packet filter (2500) for incoming communications packets includes extractor circuitry (2510) operable to extract data from a packet, and packet processor circuitry (2520) operable to concurrently mask (3010) the packet data from the extractor circuitry (2510), perform an arithmetic/logic operation (3020) on the packet to supply a packet drop... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070110060 - Packet switching apparatus: An access node run as a packet switching apparatus enables IP connection services for a plurality of access methods; e.g., relatively low-speed IP connection, high-speed 1P connection, and mobile network IP connection. By using this apparatus of the present invention, cost can be reduced and upgrading to advanced access networks... Agent: Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas LLP Suite 1400

20070110052 - System and method for the static routing of data packet streams in an interconnect network:

20070110048 - Techniques for inserting internet protocol services in a broadband access network: Techniques for inserting a network service in an Ethernet access network operated by an access service provider include sending routing data to customer premises equipment. The access network is between a physical layer link with customer premises equipment and a remote packet switched network. The routing data indicates a logical... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20070110063 - Apparatus, system, and method for reliable, fast, and scalable multicast message delivery in service overlay networks: A method to organize nodes into an overlay network and to disseminate multicast messages within this overlay both through an efficient tree embedded in the overlay and through gossips exchanged between overlay neighbors. Regardless of the size of the system, this invention incurs a constant low overhead on each node.... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20070110061 - Method of scheduling broadcasts in a self-organizing network: In self-organizing networks, broadcasts comprising presence information, referred to as beacons, are the default mechanism in finding neighboring information, i.e. information on which devices are present in the network of a given device. Such beacons are transmitted periodically from each device. A device has knowledge of the presence of other... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070110064 - Multicast transmission method, multicast transmission system, mobile station and base station: In a multicast transmission system in which the same information is transmitted from a base station to a plurality of mobile stations, the mobile station sends a retransmission request signal to the base station when detecting an error in a received multicast signal. The base station judges whether a received... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070110062 - Scalable ip-services enabled multicast forwarding with efficient resource utilization: This document describes, among other things, a router providing service-enabled multicast forwarding for a flow-based architecture. Services are enabled using inbound/outbound policies from Access Control Lists (ACLs). In a first mode, per-flow services are not enabled, and flows are aggregated for efficiency. In a second mode, per-flow services are enabled,... Agent: Hamilton Desanctis & Cha Michael A. Desanctis

20070110067 - Mac forwarding method for multi-hop routing in communication system between vehicles: Provided is a Media Access Control (MAC) forwarding method for multi-hop routing in a communication system between vehicles. The method includes the steps of: a) receiving a frame from all nodes and checking whether there are duplicate frames; b) partly updating forwarding cache table (FCT) information, or updating SNT information... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070110065 - Method and apparatus for demultiplexing, merging, and duplicating packetized elementary stream/program stream/elementary steam data: Presented herein are system(s) for demultiplexing, merging, and duplicating packetized elementary stream/program stream/elementary stream data. In one embodiment, there is presented a system for processing data. The system comprises a first circuit and a memory. The first circuit receives transport packets carrying the data. The memory stores data and comprises... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070110069 - Method of blocking network attacks using packet information and apparatus thereof: A method of blocking network attacks using information included in a packet, and an apparatus thereof are provided. The method includes: receiving a packet containing information on the packet including at least information on a source from which the packet is sent, and information on a destination to which the... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070110068 - Reply communication apparatus and arp reply communication apparatus: A reply communication apparatus conforms to a protocol to return a reply electronic document in reply to a request electronic document sent from a communication apparatus. The apparatus has a hardware to perform a reply process in the protocol, and is operable to rewrite contents of the request electronic document... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070110066 - System and method for searching target devices within the same subnet: A system and method for searching target devices within the same subnet for connecting target devices to a master control device in a network. A first query packet is broadcasted by the master control device after being activated via the network to query the IP addresses of all target devices... Agent: Fulbright And Jaworski LLP

20070110070 - Techniques for sequencing system log messages: Techniques for system (syslog) messages are provided. As syslog messages are generated a dual sequence number is maintained for each syslog message. The first sequence number is consistent for each syslog message and represents a total number of syslog messages received. The second sequence number is maintained as a total... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070110071 - Method and apparatus for session establishment for emergency voip calls: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to providing session establishment for emergency VoIP (e.g., E911) calls.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070110073 - Method and system for priority based routing: A method and system for routing a data packet, intended for a destination node, from a source node to a first intermediate node in a network is useful for improving network efficiency and participation. The method includes determining a priority level of the source node and a priority level of... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070110072 - Digital subscriber link interconnection to a virtual private network: A digital subscriber link (DSL) network providing an interconnection to a virtual private network using multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) includes a DSL source, an L2TP access concentrator (LAC) to aggregate DSL source traffic, a broadband remote access server (B-RAS) to aggregate DSL Internet traffic as well as to function as... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070110074 - System and method for synchronizing media presentation at multiple recipients: A network media delivery system includes client devices and a host device. Each client device has a network interface, an engine for processing media data, and a media interface. The host device, which can be a computer, establishes network communication links with the client devices, which can be networked media... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070110075 - Media independent handover application server for facilitating seamless integration of multi-technology networks: A media independent handover (MIH) application server which facilitates seamless integration of multi-technology networks. The MIH application server includes a higher layer transport unit for interfacing with at least one dual mode terminal, a layer 2 (L2) transport unit for interfacing with the dual mode terminal via a first access... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070110076 - Message interworking gateway: A message interworking gateway (1) resides in an overlay IMS network (2) associated with a home SS7 network (10). The gateway (1) intercepts requests for routing information (MAP-SRIs) from either the home SMSC (11) or a foreign SMSC. If the message recipient is available on the IMS overlay network (2)... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070110078 - Multi-tiered virtual local area network (vlan) domain mapping mechanism: In one embodiment, a first port of a device provides connectivity to a customer network and a second port of the device provides connectivity to a provider network. Frame mapping logic associated with the first port processes a network message received at the first port and accesses a Virtual Local... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070110077 - Virtual network management method, virtual network management program, virtual network management system, and virtual network means: The invention relates to a network management method wherein: a service management equipment holds the mapping of services and virtual networks as management information; a managed server sends an advice to a VLAN management equipment when its status changes; and the VLAN management equipment receives the advice and refers to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070110079 - Method and network nodes for reporting at least one dropped-out connection path withing a communication network: A network node in the communication network is a target network node, connected by a first communication path with at least one first and one second network node, connected to each other by means of a further communication path. A routing table is held in each network node. The direct... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070110080 - Multiple node applications cooperatively managing a plurality of packets switched network pathways: End-point devices, access points and other types of network nodes each employ multi-path management software to manage communication via multiple possible paths to the Internet backbone from communication applications that run on an end-point device. Although the multi-path management software on an end-point device may operate independently, it may also... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070110084 - Access points of defferent types exchanging addresses and rules to support end points devices: An end-point device comprises multiple transceivers via which the end-point device associates with multiple access points simultaneously. The access points may belong to communicatively incompatible packet switched data networks. A backbone network communicatively connects all associated access points. The end-point device receives unique network address of an access point from... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070110081 - Daisy chaining device servers via ethernet: A device server intended for attaching serial devices to a network includes Ethernet communications, an Ethernet switch, and serial communication capability so that multiple device servers are connected in a “daisy chain” or series pattern. Galvanic isolation of the power supply from the housing and communication ports, screw terminal and... Agent: Robert D. Fish Rutan & Tucker, LLP

20070110083 - Gateway for achieving low latency and high availability in a real time event processing system: Methods, machine-readable media, and apparatuses are disclosed for interfacing computer networks. According to one embodiment, a method for interfacing a first network using a first protocol with a second network using a second protocol can comprise receiving an event in the form of a first message from the first network,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070110082 - Systems and methods for implementing second-link routing in packet switched networks: A network (100) includes multiple gateways (135, 140) and a router (105) connected to at least one of the multiple gateways (135, 140). The router (105) is configured to receive packets that include multiple first virtual circuit identifiers associated with the multiple gateways in the network (100), assign second virtual... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070110085 - Synchronous digital hierarchy (sdh) tributary module and sdh equipment node: The present invention provides a Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) tributary module supporting multiple service processing, which includes an SDH tributary processing unit and at least two service processing units, the SDH tributary processing unit which is connected with each of the service processing units respectively multiplexing and demultiplexing different service... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070110087 - Method and system to reduce interconnect latency: A method and system for reducing arbitration latency employs speculative transmission (STX) without prior arbitration in combination with routing fabric scheduled arbitration. Packets are sent from source locations to a routing fabric through scheduled arbitration, and also through speculative arbitration, to non-contentiously allocate outputs that were not previously reserved in... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20070110086 - Multi-mode management of a serial communication link: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for providing data management between a serial interface and another component. A variable rate buffer manager and state machine progress data on a serial link relative to a width and clocking frequency of a parallel bus that interfaces within the serial... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070110088 - Methods and systems for scalable interconnect: Embodiments of the present invention define a modular architecture that provides the physical level of interconnect that is used to cost effectively deploy high performance and high flexibility communication networks. Aspects of the physical communications are described to deliver scalable computer to computer communications as well as scalable computer to... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.C. Alan W. Young

20070110089 - System for intercepting multimedia documents: The system for intercepting multimedia documents disseminated from a network comprises an interception module (110) for intercepting and processing information packets, which module comprises a packet interception module (101), a packet header analyzer module (102), a module (104) for processing packets recognized as forming part of a connection that has... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20070110090 - Method and apparatus for overflowing data packets to a software-controlled memory when they do not fit into a hardware-controlled memory: A system for managing packets incoming to a data router has a local packet memory (LPM) mapped into pre-configured memory units, to store packets for processing, an external packet memory (EPM), a first storage system to store packets in the LPM, and a second storage system to store packets in... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070110091 - Medium access apparatus and method for preventing a plurality of stations in a wireless local area network from colliding with one another: A method and apparatus for preventing a plurality of stations in a wireless local area network (WLAN) where a plurality of high throughput (HT) stations and a plurality of 802.11 legacy stations coexist from colliding are provided. The method includes generating a data frame having an HT format by inserting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070110092 - System and method to support priority in wireless lan mesh networks: A device in a wireless LAN mesh network is disclosed. The device consists of a transceiver operable to send and receive a data packet in the mesh network and a component operable upon detection of a collision with a high priority data packet transmitted by the transceiver to add a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070110093 - Channel scanning device and method thereof: A channel scanning device (100) for scanning channel status of a wireless local area network (WLAN) is provided. The channel scanning device includes a status recording module (120), a transmission module (130), and a probing module (140). The status recording module is used for setting up a channel status list... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070110094 - Task allocation method and task allocation apparatus: A distributed processing system includes plural nodes each provided with a processor and communicably connected to each other. A task information obtaining unit obtains antecedent dependency between tasks. A node information obtaining unit obtains a time constraint imposed on the tasks. A start time computing unit computes an absolute earliest... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070110095 - Method and system for decoding: Methods and apparatus to decode encoded data. One method starts and stops turbo decoding depending on channel conditions of a received pilot signal. One method may be used with Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (H-ARQ).... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070110096 - Contention-based access to tones in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ofdm) waveform: A multiple access method for a remote unit of a multi-point to point communication system is provided. The method includes modulating one or more tones of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing waveform with the upstream information based on an inverse Fourier transform algorithm, transmitting the one or more tones to... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070110098 - Method for channel congestion management: A method for managing data traffic in a multi-user multiple-simultaneous-access (MUMSA) environment, for example in a code reuse multiple access (CRMA) environment or other physical environment having true random access with more than one transmission present at the same time, the method including estimating channel load for multiple users, then... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20070110097 - Wireless communication system, communication method and computer readable medium thereof: A wireless communication system, a method and a computer readable medium thereof for maintaining communication in an interference environment are provided. The wireless communication system comprises a selection and distribution device and a terminal device which communicate by a beacon. The beacon comprises a definition of an active period and... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070110099 - Equipment and method for band allocation: A bandwidth allocation equipment in an optical line terminal, which allocates bandwidth for data to be transmitted from optical network units through an optical splitter, includes a transmit/receive unit and bandwidth allocation units. The transmit/receive unit receives an output request for requesting bandwidth allocation, and sends back a signal sending... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070110100 - Method for sending channel quality information in a multi-carrier radio communication system, corresponding user terminal and base station: The present invention relates to a method for gaining channel quality information at a base station of a multi-carrier radio communication system having a plurality of orthogonal frequency sub-carriers. According to the present invention, the method comprises the steps of: measuring a Channel Frequency Response at a user terminal of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070110101 - Method of handling rlc sdus during rlc reset and rlc re-establishment in a umts system: A method of transmitting downlink data after re-establishment of a universal terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN) acknowledged mode (AM) radio link control (RLC) entity includes receiving a plurality of RLC service data units (SDUs) from a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer of the UTRAN; dividing the received RLC SDUs... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070110102 - Wireless multi-hop network, terminal and bandwidth ensured communication method for use therewith: To provide a wireless multi-hop network in which the stable bandwidth ensured communication can be made without causing a collision of time slots due to the terminal movement or reserving the slot again due to a route change on the path of end-to-end communication. A terminal makes a slot allocation... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070110103 - Method and system for packing management messages in a communication system: A method and apparatus for packing management messages in a broadband wireless communication system. Management messages are sent across a link in packets addressed to a particular connection, where the address identifies messages which may be specially treated. Such special treatment may include recognition of an overall message conveyed in... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070110104 - Resource allocation in cellular communication systems: A method for assigning resources to FS and FNS users, for example, in an OFDM wireless communication system, including assigning a first frequency resource to at least one FS user during a time interval, wherein the first frequency resource includes at least two near contiguous sub-carriers, and assigning a second... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070110105 - Apparatus and a method for receiving a multiplexed broadcast signal carrying a plurality of services: In communication transmitting a first stream (intermittent data portion) for burst transmission of packet sets and a second stream (continuous data portion) for transmitting packets at a speed determined by the transmission rate required for the service, the second stream related to the selected service is received and reproduced for... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070110106 - Arrangement and method for synchronsing a signal processing device with an incoming signal: The present invention provides an arrangement and a method for synchronizing a signal processing apparatus with a received signal which has a characteristic signal content. The arrangement has a first control loop (1, 20, 3, 4), which readjusts the signal processing apparatus with respect to the characteristic signal content on... Agent: Maginot, Moor & Beck

20070110107 - Method and system for in-band signaling of multiple media streams: Methods and systems are provided for in-band signaling of at least two simultaneous digital media streams in a network, the two simultaneous streams being a part of a media session. Each of the at least two simultaneous streams is generated from a corresponding source. The generated simultaneous streams are synchronized... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070110108 - Apparatus for communicating frame control header in wireless access communication system and method thereof: An apparatus for communicating a frame control header (FCH) in a wireless access communication system and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus for receiving the FCH includes an information generator for generating information on the FCH, an adder for adding an error check code of a predetermined length to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070110109 - Time data checking unit, electronic device and method for checking a time indication: A first time indication which can be changed by a user and stored in a first memory. Furthermore, in the case of a change in the first time indication which is performed externally to the checking device, the difference between the stored first time indication and the changed first time... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070110110 - Audio/video processing main unit and control method thereof, audio processing terminal device and control method thereof, audio processing main unit, audio/video processing system, audio/video processing main unit control program, audio processing termina: A home theater includes a main unit section and at least one speaker section. The main unit section includes a communication section which receives an AV stream from an AV stream transmission device and via a communication network, a demux section which separates the AV stream into a video stream... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070104085 - Varying scrambling/ovsf codes within a td-cdma slot to overcome jamming effect by a dominant interferer: Scrambling/OVSF codes are varied with a TD-CDMA slot to overcome jamming effects by a dominant interferer. Interference is detected and a scrambling code sequence is varied and employed to multiply a Walsh code assigned to a user device within a transmission time slot.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070104086 - Apparatus and method for modulating data message by employing orthogonal variable spreading factor (ovsf) codes in mobile communication system: A method for converting source data to a channel-modulated signal having a plurality of pairs of in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) data in a mobile station, wherein the mobile station uses at least one channel, includes the steps of: a) encoding the source data to generate at least one data... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070104087 - Apparatus and method for feedback of subcarrier quality estimation in an ofdm/ofdma system: A method for subcarrier quality estimation in a wireless network is disclosed. The method comprises analyzing characteristics of at least some of the subcarriers of a first signal, creating feedback data based on the analyzed characteristics, wherein the quantity of the feedback data is less than the quantity of all... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070104089 - Method and apparatus for improved long preamble formats in a multiple antenna communication system: Methods and apparatus are provided for improved long preamble formats in a multiple antenna communication system having N antennas. According to one aspect of the invention, a preamble having a legacy portion and a high throughput portion is transmitted (or received) on each of the N transmit antennas, wherein the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070104088 - Method and apparatus for improved short preamble formats in a multiple antenna communication system: Methods and apparatus are provided for improved short preamble formats in a multiple antenna communication system having N antennas. A short preamble format having a legacy portion and a high throughput portion is transmitted (or received) on each of the N transmit antennas, wherein the legacy portion comprises a legacy... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070104091 - Apparatus for providing shelf manager having duplicate ethernet port in atca system: An apparatus for providing duplicated shelf managers in an ATCA system is provided. The apparatus for providing duplicated shelf managers includes a hub/switch in a control backplane to allow a manager to access the duplicated shelf managers all the time from an external network while maintaining the switch configuration defined... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070104090 - Method and system for fast channel change in a docsis set top gateway device: A DOCSIS set-top gateway device uses multiple embedded cable modems so that one eCM can remained tuned to a frequency being used for a current two-way data session and another eCM can be used to tune to a different frequency. The other eCM that tunes to a different frequency is... Agent: Arris International, Inc

20070104092 - Method for configuring ip network resource and ip network: A method for configuring IP network resource and an IP network are disclosed. The method includes: configuring a Plane A and a Plane B to have a reciprocal master-slave relation and to carry services individually, wherein the Planes A and B are connected with each other in a carrying network;... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070104093 - Method of inter-rpr-ring bridge redundancy: A method of inter-RPR-ring bridge redundancy configures a priority for each inter-ring bridge; constitutes a redundancy group by more than one inter-ring bridges on both two RPR rings, and configures one inter-ring bridge as a primary inter-ring bridge in the redundancy group which is in charge of forwarding packets, while... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070104094 - Method and device for controlling data connections in a data network having a plurality of data network nodes: The present invention relates to a method for controlling data connections in a data network including a plurality of data network nodes, whereby the quality of a first data connection is evaluated on the basis of the adaptations of at least one coding used for the first data connection, and... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070104095 - Communication traffic isolation and control: Communication traffic isolation and control systems and methods are disclosed. Communication traffic streams are received and either passed or filtered by respective controllable filtering modules. The operation of the filtering modules is controlled on a per-module and thus a per-stream basis, responsive to congestion of filtered communication traffic streams at... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070104099 - Data processing system and method: A method is provided of managing cluster interconnect traffic, comprising prioritising the cluster interconnect traffic using at least two priorities, and distributing the prioritised cluster interconnect traffic according to the prioritising. Corresponding system and computer program product are also provided.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070104096 - Next generation network for providing diverse data types: A data-processing network based on a new Internet protocol features a modified addressing system, a novel routing method, resolution of congestion problems in the routers, differentiated transport of data, real-time videos and communications, a multicast system to distribute real-time videos, and data transport with quality of services. The network uses... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLPIPGroup, Columbia Square

20070104098 - Radio frequency signal processing device and mobile communication terminal equipped with the device: An RF signal processing integrated circuit has a first operation mode in which the operation setting of a time slot is executed using one time slot as one setting unit and a second operation mode in which the operation setting of a time slot is executed using plural time slots... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070104097 - Transitioning to secure ip communications for encoding, encapsulating, and encrypting data: An apparatus, system, and method is directed to transcoding broadcast content, such as in a DVB, ATSC, and MPEG based network, to secure content suitable for an Internet Protocol (IP) based network. In one embodiment, a single multifunctional convergence appliance is employed to enable such transcoding actions as encryption, encoding,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070104102 - Buffer management and flow control mechanism including packet-based dynamic thresholding: A network device for processing data includes at least one ingress module for performing switching functions on incoming data, a memory management unit for storing the incoming data and at least one egress module for transmitting the incoming data to at least one egress port. The at least one ingress... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070104101 - Dynamic resource allocation based on quality-of-service: A method and system for allocating a satellite payload terminal's (payload terminal) resources in response to a plurality of flow requests received by the payload terminal from one or more ground terminals is provided. The method includes, prioritizing the plurality of flow requests received at the payload terminal for a... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070104100 - Method and system for quality of service optimisation in a data network: The present invention provides a method and system for estimating the optimum service rate or bandwidth requirement (BWR) for a switch or router in a communications network for a particular traffic flow which contains elastic traffic, i.e. traffic subject to a feedback mechanism. The invention provides an iterative technique to... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070104103 - Method and system for regulating traffic in a network device: A token bucket instantiation regulate packets in a traffic flow stream based on a predetermined peak traffic flow rate. The token bucket size is nominally set to zero. An evaluation is made at a device that has received a given packet. The packet is considered conforming and is passed from... Agent: Arris International, Inc

20070104104 - Method for managing security keys utilized by media devices in a local area network: A method of an existing media device for distributing a media key to a new media device joining a local area network or revoking an existing media key. For distributing a media key, a set of key generation counter (“KGC”) values are received from the media devices (1010). Each value... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070104105 - System and method for determining flow quality statistics for real-time transport protocol data flows: Systems and methods for determining lost packets for real-time transport protocol (RTP) data flows is disclosed. Generally, a first endpoint is connected to a second endpoint, wherein the first endpoint comprises a transceiver, software stored within the first endpoint defining functions to be performed by the first endpoint, and a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070104106 - Method and apparatus for improving convergence in networks: A method of improving convergence in networks that use path vector protocols. In one embodiment using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) for inter-domain route and reachability communication, nodes that need to remove routes using EBGP NLRI announcements send BGP WITHDRAW messages containing a new route originator attribute that identifies an originator... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070104107 - System and method for routing packets in a wireless multihopping communication network: A system and method for routing packets in a multihopping wireless communication network (100). The system and method selects a node (106-1) of the wireless network (100) to operate as an aggregation point, at which two or more possible routes for transmitting packets or packet fragments from a source mobile... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070104108 - Procedure for correcting errors in radio communication, responsive to error frequency: Errors of e.g database synchrony between radio-connected stations can be especially troublesome if continued and repeated, in that the task of detecting and correcting errors in transmissions between a mobile station and a server can quickly deplete resources in the mobile station. This problem is addressed by keeping an error-event-count... Agent: Anthony Asquith

20070104109 - Method and apparatus for rlc protocol error handling in a wireless communications system: A method for radio link control error handling procedure in a wireless communications system including a first communication device and a second communication device includes a first radio link control entity of the first communication device only resetting a transmitting side of the first radio link control entity when a... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070104110 - System and method for testing a network interface card: An exemplary method for testing a network interface card (104) is disclosed. The network interface card (NIC) is connected to a motherboard (102) and a test fixture (108) collectively to form a transmission loop. The method includes the steps of: enabling the NIC; creating a first data packet that includes... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070104111 - Internal analog loopback for a high-speed interface test: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for an analog loopback for high-speed interface tests. In an embodiment, a chip includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a loopback circuit coupled between the transmitter and the receiver, wherein the loopback circuit is to provide an internal... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070104113 - Determining whether to compress data transmitted over a network: Provided are a method, system and program for determining whether to compress data transmitted over a network. A determination is made of compression performance for a compression algorithm to use to compress data to transmit to a target node over a network and of network performance of the network. The... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20070104114 - Providing a capability list of a predefined format in a communications network: In a communications network having plural nodes, a first node receives a capability list that has a predefined format and includes plural entries identifying corresponding data processing functions supported by one or more nodes along a communications path of a communications session involving the first node. The first node adds... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070104112 - Systems and techniques for establishing a connection over a network: Provided are systems and techniques for connecting first and second devices over a network by utilizing a small, portable third device to carry network connection information from one of the devices to the other. In one representative implementation, the portable device functions as a sort of virtual cable, in that... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070104118 - Determining, transmitting, and receiving performance information with respect to an operation performed locally and at remote nodes: Further provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for determining, transmitting, and receiving performance information with respect to an operation performed locally and at remote nodes. Performance information is determined with respect to performing an operation at a node and transmitted to remote nodes over a network. Performance... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20070104116 - Method and apparatus for mapping 3gpp service primitives to media independent handover event services: A Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) media independent handover (MIH) service access point (SAP) is configured to provide MIH event services, (e.g., IEEE 802.21 event services), by mapping service primitives to the MIH event services. The service primitives may be 3GPP service primitives which originate from at least one of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070104115 - Overlay network infrastructure: A method and apparatus for processing an overlay network infrastructure. In one embodiment, the method comprises a plurality of transparent access points (TAPs). Each TAP is communicably coupled between one or more clients and servers and a wide area network (WAN) to enable the one or more clients to communicate... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070104117 - Packet switched data network (psdn) having local area network (lan) interface and overload control method thereof: In a Packet Switched Data Network (PSDN) having a Local Area Network (LAN) interface, an auxiliary controller controls all protocols of the LAN interface through an interrupt routine and transmits a state-monitoring signal after processing the protocols. A main controller compares a transmitting period of the state-monitoring signal transmitted from... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070104119 - System and method for managing and provisioning virtual routers: Site reachability information is determined for a service processing switch that is communicably coupled to one or more sites. In addition, global routing profiles, customer site profiles and OSPF profiles are defined. The profile data, in addition to or instead of the reachability information is used to generate routing configuration... Agent: Hamilton Desanctis & Cha Michael A. Desanctis

20070104120 - Hierarchical tree-based protection scheme for mesh networks: In a hierarchical tree-based protection scheme, a node in a mesh network is designated as a root node of a spanning hierarchical protection tree and subsequently invites each adjacent node to become its child within the tree. If the inviting node provides a more capacious protection path to the root... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20070104121 - Method and system for providing a push-to-talk communication session: A method for providing a push-to-talk communication session includes facilitating a push-to-talk communication session among a full duplex endpoint supporting simultaneous two-way communication and a plurality of half duplex endpoints. Communications are received from and transmitted to the full duplex endpoint along a two-way communications path. The method includes blocking... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070104122 - Handling communications between stations in a digital telecommunications system: A method and program product for handling communications with stations in communications systems, especially digital telecommunications systems, such as for VoIP telephony. Requests are received for communicating with communications stations in the communications system. Each request is forwarded to a respective communications system station, which returns an indication of an... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070104123 - Method to provide centrally coordinated contention-free channel access within a wireless mesh network: In a wireless local area network (WLAN) mesh network of clusters, each cluster having a master node with a plurality of associated slave nodes, a method an apparatus for coordinating channel access between the clusters. A structure of clusters is established as a hierarchal mastership, wherein a high level master... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070104124 - Cable sense mode for intelligent power saving in absence of link pulse: Certain embodiments of a cable sense mode for intelligent power saving in the absence of a link pulse may include detecting an energy level of an Ethernet link. The Ethernet link may couple a network adapter chip to a network. The power supplied to the network adapter chip may be... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070104125 - Lightweight communications protocol for reducing wireless data transactions in mobile subscriber sessions: A method and system are provided for reducing the number of wireless transactions between an application server and mobile subscribers in a wireless communications system. The communications system includes a plurality of wireless mobile subscribers communicating with network devices via the application server. Each of the mobile subscribers includes a... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070104126 - Method for optimized layer 2 roaming and policy enforcement in a wireless environment: Methods, apparatuses, and systems directed to facilitating the application of pre-allocation policies in a wireless network environment. According to one implementation of the present invention, a central controller, or other control point in a wireless network infrastructure, applies one or more policies that limit the number of resource pre-allocations a... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070104127 - Method for selecting serving node in multi-hop wireless mobile communication system: Provided is a multi-hop wireless mobile communication system where a plurality of nodes exist. To select a serving node to be provided with a service, a Mobile Station (MS) receives relay information provided for serving node selection from at least two nodes and selects a first mode of selecting a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070104135 - Apparatus and method for providing notification of allocation of communication resources by using a temporary flow set indicator: Apparatus and an associated method for notifying communication stations of communication allocations made to communicate data. A matrix representation is formed of communication resources that are allocated for communication of the data. The matrix representation is used to construct an assignment bit map by a bit map constructor that is... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070104136 - Apparatus and method for signaling communication resource allocation on a block basis: Apparatus, and an associated method, for providing notification of communication resource allocation to perform an EDGE-based, or other, data radio communication service. A matrix representer forms a matrix representation of communication resource allocations made across a plurality of radio carriers. A bit map constructor constructs a bit map of the... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070104137 - Channel switch method: A channel switch method is applied in a wireless communication system. The wireless communication system includes an access point and a plurality of mobile stations. The access point communicates with the plurality of mobile stations on a shared channel. The channel switch method includes transmitting a request frame from a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070104140 - Communication initialization method at medium access control layer in a cognitive radio wireless communication system: A communication initialization method at a MAC layer in a CR wireless communication system is provided. The use or non-use of a frequency band is sensed over a broadband with a minimized sensing time in a non-interfering manner with existing communication systems.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070104131 - Dynamic packet error management for wireless communications: Methods and apparatuses for dynamic error rate management. A wireless station may receive one or more data transfer parameters from another wireless station using a wireless communications protocol. Data may be selected to be transferred between the stations according to the wireless communications protocol based, at least in part, on... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070104134 - Method and apparatus for communicating data upon multiple radio carriers: Apparatus, and an associated method, for allocating communication resources in a data radio communication system, such as a communication system that provides for EDGE data communication services. A multi-carrier radio resource control logic element includes an analyzer that analyzes communication resource requirements to carry out a communication service, and a... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070104139 - Method and system for autonomous channel coordination for a wireless distribution system: A method and system for autonomous channel coordination for a wireless distribution system (WDS) are disclosed. A wireless communication system includes a plurality of access points (APs) and the APs communicate each other via a WDS. A coordinated channel group (CCG) of a plurality of member APs is established. The... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070104138 - Method and system for performing peer-to-peer communication between stations within a basic service set: A method and system for performing peer-to-peer wireless communication between stations (STAs) within a basic service set (BSS) while maintaining connectivity with an access point (AP) in the BSS are disclosed. A source STA, an AP and a destination STA negotiate a direct link setup (DLS) channel for performing peer-to-peer... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070104133 - Method for improved frequency division duplex operation in a wireless communications system: In a frequency division duplex wireless communications system, the wireless network independently and separately assigns RL and FL carrier frequencies to a mobile station, thereby supporting a variable duplex frequency separation. The assigned RL and FL carrier frequencies can be within the same frequency segment, in different frequency segments within... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20070104141 - Method for requesting and allocating uplink resources in a wireless communication system for supporting a real-time service: An uplink resource allocation method is provided for transmitting a control packet on a channel different from a currently connected channel in a wireless communication system for supporting a packet based real-time service. A new format of a grant management subheader is proposed in which a piggyback request conventionally used... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070104128 - Methods and apparatus for selecting and signaling a preferred link among a plurality of maintained wireless communications links: Methods and apparatus for maintaining, selecting and indicating a preferred communications link with an access node, e.g., base station, are described.... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070104129 - Systems and techniques for improved data throughput in a wireless network: Techniques to improve data communications for a wireless system are described. An apparatus may include an asymmetric data channel manager to perform asymmetric link adaptation for multiple wireless data channels based on a class of data flow for each data channel. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070104132 - Techniques capable of providing efficient scheduling of packet data traffic in wireless data networks: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method comprising, using packet knowledge at a base station to efficiently schedule uplink transmissions from a subscriber station. The present method may further comprise using the type of packet and the destination subscriber station as the packet knowledge and, further, the type... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070104130 - Uplink throughput for wireless network interfaces: Methods and apparatuses for uplink allocation. A remote station may receive one or more uplink data transfer parameters from a base station using a wireless communications protocol. Data may be selected to be transferred from the remote station to the base station according to the wireless communications protocol based, at... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070104148 - Apparatus and method of processing handover of a mobile relay station in broadband wireless access (bwa) communication system using multihop relay scheme: An apparatus and method of processing handover of a mobile relay station (MRS) in a cellular communication system using a multihop relay scheme is provided. The handover processing method includes transmitting, by the MRS, a handover request message containing child node information to a serving BS when handover is required;... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070104146 - Apparatus and methods for home agent resiliency for mobile ipv4: Providing resiliency for mobile terminal data sessions, wherein the data sessions rely on Internet Protocol Version 4 and wherein at least one Home Agent node maintains a mobility bindings database for all registered mobile terminals while they are away from a home network. A first aspect of the invention provides... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070104143 - Communication handover method, communication message processing method, program for executing these methods by use of computer, and communication system: Disclosed is a technique which enables a mobile node to promptly and continuously get an additional service (e.g., QoS guarantee) gotten before handover after the handover. According to the technique, a mobile node (MN 10) has a correspondence relationship between information (link layer address of an AP) on an access... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070104144 - Control of reverse link packet forwarding in a wireless communications system: An approach to controlling packet forwarding in a wireless communications system that helps limit the burden placed on internal communication links while maintaining some or all of the advantages of diversity gain on the reverse link. A primary base station sends its peers a forwarding control message if a packet... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070104145 - Data accessing method for a wireless communication device performing a handover operation between wireless stations: A data accessing method for performing a handover operation between wireless communication stations is provided. In particular, the present invention provides a virtual DHCP server module that is installed in a wireless communication device and roams between a plurality of wireless stations. Wherein, a communication module, which can simultaneously record... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070104142 - Method for modem switching for use with mm-mb terminal: A multimode-multiband terminal includes an RF antenna for transceiving a CDMA-2000 signal and/or a WCDMA signal; an RF transceiver for demodulating a WCDMA pilot signal received from the RF antenna and outputting the demodulated WCDMA pilot signal; a pilot signal measurement unit for measuring an intensity of the demodulated WCDMA... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070104147 - Mobile communication terminal for handover from wcdma network to cdma network and method therefor: A handover method from a WCDMA network to a CDMA network in a system comprising a mobile communication terminal, a RNC of the WCDMA network and a BSC of the CDMA network comprises: transmitting a measurement control message for commanding cell power measurement on a WCDMA cell and a beacon... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070104149 - Method and system for providing adaptive modulation and coding in a multi-carrier wireless network: A method of providing adaptive modulation and coding in a multi-carrier wireless network that includes a plurality of subscriber stations is provided. The method includes, for each of the subscriber stations, selecting a type of modulation and a coding rate based on a signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) variance.... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070104154 - Fdd/cdma transmission/reception system: An FDD/CDMA transmission/reception system includes a CDMA transmitter and a CDMA receiver. The CDMA transmitter includes a plurality of transmission antennas, signal transmission units for transmitting transmission signals weighted by different values to the respective transmission antennas, and pilot signal transmission units for transmitting a plurality of different pilot signals... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070104153 - Method and system of allocating code resources for high speed physical downlink shared channel: A method and system of allocating code resources for a high speed physical downlink shared channel are disclosed. The method includes: recording usage states for all code resources of a system at a base station; allocating, by the base station, code resources with idle state to the HS-PDSCH when the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070104152 - Method for preforming user allocation in sdma systems, and corresponding base station: The present invention relates to a method for determining a set of users able to be scheduled on an identical basic resource unit in a base station of a SDMA capable multiple access radio communication system. According to the present invention, the method comprises the steps of: Attributing to each... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070104151 - Method for transmission of unicast control in broadcast/multicast transmission time intervals: Embodiments of the invention provide methods for maximizing the bandwidth utilization in the uplink of a communication system supporting time division multiplexing between unicast and multicast/broadcast communication modes during transmission time intervals in the downlink of a communication system. This is accomplished by multiplexing at least unicast control signaling for... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070104150 - Transmission structure supporting multi-user scheduling and mimo transmission: Techniques for transmitting data in a manner to support multi-user scheduling, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission, and interference cancellation are described. A base station assigns multiple time segments of a transmission time interval (TTI) to at least one terminal, maps data for each terminal to at least one time segment assigned... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070104155 - Apparatus and method for providing notification of allocation of communication resources in a radio communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for notifying a remote station of a communication resource allocation made to communicate data thereto. The allocation of communication resources is made across a plurality of radio carriers during time frames defined upon each of the carriers. A matrix representation of the resource allocation is... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070104156 - Control apparatus and mobile terminal: A controller apparatus, when it receives packets addressed to a mobile terminal, implements paging control in which it transmits a paging notification packet to a paging area of the mobile terminal, so as to obtain location information on the mobile terminal and to determine a forwarding destination of the packets.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070104168 - Gateway network multiplexing: A gateway adapted to receive data from a device of a local area network is described herein. In some embodiments, the gateway may be adapted to multiplex received data to another device among multiple wide area networks, wherein at least one of the wide area networks is a wireless wide... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070104160 - Interoperable mobile ad hoc network: Nodes of a network become aware of services provided by the other nodes of the network. A node can store information in a registry that indicates services that the node itself can provide. A node can inform other nodes of services it provides by sending advertisements over the network. Each... Agent: John S. Beulick Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070104169 - Lan / wwan gateway carrier customization: A gateway adapted to establish a connection between itself and a WWAN, wherein the gateway has a WWAN interface adapted to receive data from and transmit data to the WWAN on behalf of devices of a LAN, is described herein. The gateway may further determine whether the WWAN interface is... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070104161 - Method and apparatus of selectively tying the opening and closing of evdo and ppp sessions: Method, and associated apparatus, for operating a hybrid access terminal operable in a CDMA 1x/EVDO hybrid communication session system. The hybrid access terminal is operable to communicate pursuant to an EVDO communication session and to a PPP communication session. The opening and closing of the communication sessions are independent of... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070104163 - Method and system for utilizing tone grouping with givens rotations to reduce overhead associated with explicit feedback information: Aspects of a method and system for utilizing tone grouping with Givens rotations to reduce overhead associated with explicit feedback information are presented. In one aspect of the invention, Givens matrices may be utilized to reduce a quantity of information communicated in explicit feedback information via an uplink RF channel.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070104164 - Methods and apparatus for determining, communicating and using information including loading factors which can be used for interference control purposes: A wireless terminal receives and measures broadcast reference signals, e.g., beacon and/or pilot signals, transmitted from a plurality of base station attachment points. The wireless terminal monitors for and attempts to recover broadcast loading factor information corresponding to attachment points. The wireless terminal generates and transmits an interference report to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070104165 - Mimo system with plural access points: A prior art MIMO technique assumes one-to-one communication in which a transmitter and a receiver exist and does not assume a cellular system in which plural access points and access terminals exist. When the prior art is applied to the cellular system, the characteristic can be deteriorated. MIMO signal processing... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070104166 - Mobile device with a mobility analyzer and associated methods: A method for operating a wireless mobile device moving through different types of networks includes storing within the wireless mobile device a type of network associated with a respective access node as the wireless mobile device moves through the different types of networks. A type of connectivity available for each... Agent: Michael W. Taylor

20070104167 - Signaling cell combining capabilities: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for providing combining capability information of a Node B (supporting a cell to which a user equipment is set-up) to radio network controllers as related to HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access). The Node B can support... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070104170 - Support mobile device in asymmetric link environment: Methods and apparatus for registering a mobile device such as a mobile node or mobile router with a Home Agent in an asymmetric link environment. A Foreign Agent associates each of one or more interfaces of the Foreign Agent with a different care-of address. An agent advertisement including the care-of... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070104157 - System and method for locationing in a communications network: Described is a method for locationing in a communications network. A wireless access point receives a signal corresponding to activity of a plurality of wireless devices on a predetermined bandwidth. The signal is processed to generate a plurality of subsignals using a predetermined signal processing procedure. An energy level of... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070104158 - System and method for resolving contention among applications requiring data connections between a mobile communications device and a wireless network: A mobile communications device (30) includes a wireless transceiver (34) operable to conduct at least two data connections between the mobile communications device (30) and a wireless network (12) wherein each of the data connections is associated with a connected application operating on the mobile communications device. A processor (32)... Agent: Danamraj & Youst, P.C.

20070104162 - Use of timing information for handling aggregated frames in a wireless network: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to the use of timing or timing-related information for handling aggregated frames in a wireless network. According to an example embodiment, a plurality of frames may be received. An aggregated frame may be generated based on the plurality of received frames. A transmission lifetime for... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann PLC

20070104159 - Wlan data reception method and wlan device: A method and device of receiving WLAN data. The device comprises a transceiver module and a controller module. The transceiver module transmits first data and receives second data. The controller module is coupled to the transceiver module, and disables the transceiver module for a first period based on interframe space... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070104172 - Slide type mobile terminal and sliding mechanism thereof: In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a slide type mobile terminal comprises a first body; a second body slidably installed on the first body; and a sliding mechanism installed between the first body and the second body for guiding a slide motion of the second body in relation... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070104171 - Wireless communication apparatus: The wireless communication apparatus includes transmitter modules and receiver modules for carrying out transmission/reception via a plurality of antenna beams formed by an adaptive array antenna between stations. The apparatus is provided with an end time detecting section and a maximum reception end time is detected by detecting section based... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070104173 - Method for configuring a mobile communication network with tracking areas: One object of the present invention is a method for for configuring a cellular mobile communication network with Tracking Areas, comprising: a step of configuring a Radio Access Network entity, with at least one Tracking Area it is to be associated with, a step of registering a thus configured Radio... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070104174 - Method and apparatus for allocating a pilot signal adapted to the channel characteristics: A set of different pilot structures are designed for use in different environments and/or different user behaviours that are expected to occur in a cell. The radio conditions for a user are estimated. Each user is then assigned an area (108A-E) in resource space for its communication, which has a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070104175 - Method and apparatus for allocating communication resources to communicate data in a radio communication system: Apparatus and method for allocating communication resources in a data radio communication system, such as an MAIO (Mobile Allocation Index Offset) communication system, e.g., a communication system that provides for Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution (EDGE) data services. A multi-carrier radio resource control logic element includes an analyzer that analyzes... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070104177 - System and method for allocating bandwidth in a wireless communication system: In a method for allocating bandwidth in a wireless communication system, a base station (BS) broadcasts at least one ranging code for which a bandwidth size for bandwidth allocation is set. A mobile station (MS) receives the at least one ranging code, selects a ranging code for which a bandwidth... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070104176 - System and method for pilot signal utilization in an environment using dynamic frequency assignment: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for pilot signal utilization in an environment using dynamic frequency assignment. In one example, a method for a wireless device includes identifying a pilot signal of a base station in a frequency division duplex wireless system. A reverse access channel identifier... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss

20070104178 - Method and apparatus for interfacing among mobile terminal, base station and core network in mobile telecommunications system: A method, apparatus and a computer readable record media storing instructions for executing the same method for interfacing among a hybrid type synchronous or asynchronous terminal to a core network in a next generation mobile telecommunications system. The hybrid type synchronous or asynchronous radio network determines the operating type of... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20070104179 - Sleep-mode wireless cell reselection apparatus, systems, and methods: Embodiments herein may receive a ranging request message with a sleep-mode indication from a mobile node at a destination base station in a wireless packet-switched network. System paging information may be accessed to determine a base station identifier associated with an originating base station that last served the mobile node.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070104184 - Caller-controlled routing to non-sip/non-tel uri destinations for an ims-based enum query: A telephone number of the callee is received from a caller device. An Internet protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-based telephone number mapping (ENUM) query is constructed based on the telephone number of the callee. An ENUM database is queried based on the ENUM query. If a response to the ENUM query... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070104180 - Connected communication terminal, connecting communication terminal, session management server and trigger server: The communication system according to the present invention is made up of: a connected communication terminal (1) to which communication is requested; a connecting communication terminal (3) that requests a communication with the connected communication terminal (1); a session management server (4) that manages sessions between the communication terminals; a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070104182 - Enabling multiple service profiles on a single device: The embodiments disclosed include a system and method for enabling multiple service profiles on a single telecommunications device resulting in improved flexibility for a user who wishes to access different services through multiple service profiles. The user can access multiple service profiles with a single device, and therefore switch the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070104183 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for emergency 911 (e911) registration assistance for subscribers using portable internet protocol (ip) communications devices: Methods, systems, and computer program products for E911 registration assistance for subscribers using portable Internet Protocol (IP) communications devices are disclosed. According to one method, an IP address of a portable IP communications device is stored. A message is received that indicates an IP address of the portable IP communications... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070104186 - System and method for a gatekeeper in a communications network: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for managing services in a communications network. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to manage services provided by third party service providers, for example, to callers establishing communications sessions in a network. The ability of embodiments to control access... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070104181 - System and method for a media internet channel station (mics) to connect to and access media content utilizing media domain name (mdn) channels with three modes: A system and method of connecting and accessing the Internet Media Domain Name (MDN) channels with multiple media content from local media servers to client nodes by using a Media Channel-Routing Internet Protocol (mCh-IP) in a Media Internet Channel Station (MICS). For the first mode of the MICS, a private... Agent: David H. Lee

20070104185 - Voice over internet protocol codec adjustment: A system for changing the coder-decoder utilized during a voice over Internet protocol telephone call is disclosed. The system includes two local area networks connected to each other via a wide area network. Each local area network includes a router connected to the wide area network, a switch connected to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070104187 - Cache-based free address pool: A method and apparatus for managing memory according to several embodiments of the invention. According to embodiments, the invention includes providing a memory including a plurality of memory locations configured to store data, providing a memory address pool having a plurality of available memory addresses and providing a cell free... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070104188 - Determining transmission latency in network devices: A method, system and storage medium for determining a transmission latency in a network device. The method includes receiving a plurality of data packets in the network device, determining a packet age value for each received packet, generating at least one latency value from a plurality of the determined packet... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070104191 - Ip network and communication method therein: An IP network and a communication method therein. The IP network includes a first terminal adapted to make an outgoing call and a second terminal adapted to transmit information on a plurality of serviceable communication modes other than a communication mode of the call incoming from the first terminal depending... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell Suite 300

20070104193 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving information regarding upnp event: Provided are a method and apparatus for efficiently transmitting and receiving information regarding a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) event. In the method of receiving event information, a notice regarding a part of a plurality of status changes of a service is requested for an event indicating at least one... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070104189 - Network system and operation method thereof: A network system includes a client device (10), a central office (50), and a network device (30) connected to the client and the central office. The network device includes a first control card (300), a second control card (400), and a plurality of line cards (100) connected to the first... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070104192 - System and method for simultaneously offering layer-2 multicast switching and layer-3 multicast routing: Provides is a method for processing a multicast packet received in a system for simultaneously providing virtual interface-based layer-2 multicast switching and layer-3 multicast routing. When a destination MAC address of a received Ethernet frame is a multicast MAC address, a VLAN-based layer-2 multicast switching function is performed. When a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070104190 - User datagram protocol packet processing on network elements: A device for user datagram protocol packet processing on network elements in a network, a radio access network comprising such a device and a method for user datagram protocol packet processing on network elements in a network, wherein a predetermined limited range of user datagram protocol port numbers is provided.... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070104196 - Apparatus and method for determining public long code mask in a mobile communications system: An apparatus and method of assigning a public long code mask (PLCM) to a mobile terminal in a mobile communications network is provided. The invention comprises assigning a first PLCM type, when the PLCM for the mobile terminal is based on an international mobile station identification number that is based... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070104195 - Cell copy count hazard detection: The present invention is directed to a network device, method and apparatus for processing data. The present invention includes at least one ingress module for performing switching functions on incoming data. The invention further includes a memory management unit (MMU) for storing the incoming data, and at least one egress... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070104194 - In-band multicast signaling using ldp: A mechanism is provided by which a transport tree identifier can be generated using one or more identifiers for a multicast datastream. The transport tree identifier can then be used in the process of building a transport tree across a transport network. A transport network egress router can receive a... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070104198 - Apparatus and method for providing a high availability network mechanish: A high availability network mechanism (100) is provided having a primary node (105) and at least one secondary node (120) utilizing Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (“VRRP”) compatible redundancy systems. The primary and secondary nodes (105 and 120) are associated with access routers (110 and 130, respectively) that are associated with... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070104199 - Efficient broadcast in wireless mesh networks: A method, apparatus and system for communicating in a wireless mesh network may entail receiving a multi-receiver single body broadcast (MRSSB) medium access control (MAC) frame at a mesh node. The MAC frame may include a multiple receiver address field, a previously addressed neighbor field and a message sequence number... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070104202 - Location privacy through ip address space scrambling: In a network, a router uses some secret information combined with a cryptographic process in determination of a subnet's routing prefix. Several methods are disclosed, including using an IP suffix for prefix generation and for decryption, maintaining a pool of pseudo prefixes at the router, using public key encryption and... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

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