Multiplex communications inventions 06/07

20070147225 - Apparatus and method for estimating frequency offset: In a frequency offset estimating device of a subscriber station of a communication system in which a plurality of sectors are allocated to a cell, the frequency offset estimating device extracts a preamble sequence from a downlink frame signal. The frequency offset estimating device estimates a phase offset of a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070147228 - Method for hopping frequency of orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing symbol: Provided is a method for hopping frequencies of an OFDM (orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing) symbol, including: receiving an OFDM symbol comprising mapping information as to a type of disposing sub-carriers of the OFDM symbol, a frequency hopping pattern, and positions of pilots; and mapping the type, the frequency hopping pattern, and the positions... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070147227 - Method of coding data, decoding method, transmitter and receiver: A method of coding data, wherein one or more data symbols are coded by using, OFDM, characterized by using Hermite polynomials as an orthogonal function system for said orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, whereby an OFDM-signal is obtained, transforming said OFDM-signal into the time domain thus obtaining a time domain signal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070147226 - Method and apparatus for achieving flexible bandwidth using variable guard bands: Techniques to flexibly support different bandwidths in a wireless communication system are described. The system supports a configurable operating bandwidth using a fixed design bandwidth and variable guard bands. Values for various parameters such as fast Fourier transform (FFT) size, cyclic prefix length, and sample rate may be selected based... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070147229 - Ranging and round trip delay timing adjustment in a multi-point to point bidirectional communication system: A bidirectional communication system is provided. In one embodiment, a method for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing multipoint-to-point communications system comprises 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... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070147230 - Network system, communication device and program: There is provided a network system, comprising: a communication device communicating with an external device via a first network, an output device, and a first storage device stored with first data. The communication device, the output device and the first storage device communicate with each other via a second network.... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070147231 - Path protection method and layer-2 switch: A path protection method is disclosed that is capable of path protection without extra cost and able to improve path switching efficiency. The method includes the steps of associating a virtual network identifier assigned to one or more users with a virtual network identifier for management, the virtual network identifier... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070147232 - Redundant supervisory control system, and redundancy switching method of the same: An object is to provide a redundant supervisory control system and a redundancy switching method thereof. In the redundant supervisory control system, remote I/O apparatuses are less likely to be inaccessible, even in a case where failures occur in plural locations. Thus, the reliability of the system is enhanced. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147233 - Graceful failover mechanism for sscop service access point for ss7 links: The invention includes two hosts having synchronized information to provide graceful failover for an SSCOP Service Access Point. Each host connected to the same SSCOP SS7 link, and has a Link Manager, SSCF-NNI layer, and SSCOP layer. For each link, there is an instance of SSCF-NNI state machine running in... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070147236 - Method of detecting and avoiding interference among wireless network by dynamically estimating the noise level from the uwb per and ber, and synchronously switching into unoccupied channel: e

20070147235 - Digital broadcast receiver and directed channel change method thereof: An apparatus and method for changing a channel according to direct channel change information transmitted from a broadcasting station. The apparatus includes a broadcast receiver, a tuner and a controller for checking parsed DCC information. The broadcast receiver receives a broadcast signal. The tuner tunes channels and stores the tuned... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070147234 - Last mile high availability broadband (method for sending network content over a last-mile broadband connection): This disclosure provides a method transmitting a network content, comprising: receiving a first data stream of a network content over a first link; forming a second and third data streams from the first data stream; sending the second data stream over a second link and the third data stream over... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070147238 - Method for managing congestion in a network switch: A method for managing congestion in a stack of network switches includes the steps of receiving an incoming packet on a first port of a network switch for transmission to a destination port and determining if the destination port of the packet is a monitored port. Thereafter, the method determines... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070147237 - Quality of service (qos) class reordering with token retention: The present invention relates to a router (e.g., intermediate router) and a method that queues and services an upgraded/downgraded packet and a plurality of other packets all of which are part of a flow in a manner that eliminates the reordering of the packets. In one embodiment, the router and... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070147240 - Call admission control for mobility-capable telecommunications terminals: As is reflected in the disclosed method and apparatus, the present invention is a technique to account for the variation in channel occupancy of a particular terminal or terminals during the call admission process. Instead, a channel utilization manager accounts for the probabilistic nature of the call admission decision by... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20070147242 - Device for optimization of the utilization of services in hybrid access networks: An optimization device for an IMS type core network coupled to service applications and to at least two access networks of different types, comprises processing means coupled to the service applications and adapted, when a user terminal connected to one of the access networks requests access to a chosen service,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070147241 - Method and apparatus for admission control of data in a mesh network: An apparatus and method of controlling a traffic stream in a mesh network comprising receiving at a second node a traffic stream admission request to admit a traffic stream from a first node, determining a traffic load for the second node, and determining whether to admit or deny the traffic... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070147243 - Method and system for guaranteeing end-to-end quality of service: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for guaranteeing end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS), including: establishing in advance a corresponding logic bearer layer for each network, and storing information of the logic bearer layer in a bearer control entity of the bearer control layer of each network; initiating a... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070147239 - Terminal and related computer-implemented method for detecting malicious data for computer network: A computer-implemented packet detection method includes a source at a first address transmitting packets to a terminal at a second address without transmitting the packets to any intermediate address during the transmission, the terminal receiving the packets, the terminal reassembling the received packets; the terminal performing a process referring to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070147245 - Link-aware transmission control protocol: In a TCP/IP network, congestion control techniques such as slow start and congestion avoidance are employed. Such networks include wired and wireless links. However, normal operation of the wireless links exhibit different latencies than those exhibited over the wired link. The protocols employed in the wired network do not lend... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070147244 - Method for the mapping of packet flows to bearers in a communication system: The invention relates to a method for the mapping of packet flows onto bearers in a communication system. The establishment of a session between a terminal and a remote terminal is initiated. Information on the session and packet flows associated with it is received to a second network node. A... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070147246 - Method and device for configuring a network device: A method for configuring network device adapted to process network traffic comprising a plurality of network flows and to export network flow information. For configuring the network device, a copy of the network traffic that is processed by the network device is created. A simulation of a process of collecting... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20070147247 - Auto adaptive quality of service architecture and associated method of provisioning customer premises traffic: A customer premises device is provided for monitoring quality of service (QOS) metrics between a network edge and a customer. The device includes a memory which stores at least one user profile, and, information regarding active sessions of traffic flow through the customer premises device. A hardware and/or software/firmware based... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147248 - Characterizing the capacity region in multi-channel, multi-radio mesh networks: A method of characterizing a capacity region in a multi-channel, multi-radio mesh network of nodes interconnected by links. The method includes: (a) modeling the network by determining one or more link-flow feasibility constraints; (b) obtaining a feasible upper-capacity bound by solving an optimization problem using the one or more link-flow... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20070147249 - Cross layer optimization for improving tcp performance in lossy wireless environments: An improved method is provided for reducing packet loss using cross layer information. An exemplary method includes: monitoring a transmission state of a data source, where the transmission state is defined in accordance with TCP; marking data packets with a drop preference at an Internet Protocol (IP) layer of the... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070147252 - Method for reducing traffic loading in an ad-hoc network: Disclosed is a method in a multi-hop network node for reducing data traffic loading comprising the steps of storing (204) a first communication portion, of a plurality of communication portions, received at a network node in a network node memory. Then generating (206) a first communication portion checksum and forwarding... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070147250 - Synchronous data communication: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products that synchronously communicate data packets between a first node and a second node. Data packets are transmitted from the first node without waiting for acknowledgment of receipt by the second node. Acknowledgment of receipt of a given data packet is subsequently received at the... Agent: Patent Dept Intuitive Surgical, Inc

20070147251 - Technique for adaptive data rate communication over fading dispersive channels: In a duplex radio link wherein digital data information from a data interface is transmitted from a local terminal to a remote terminal over fading dispersive channels, a method and transceiver are described that provide for transmission at an adaptive data rate. The transmission is at a constant symbol rate... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070147253 - Efficient ack to nack error detection: A method and apparatus to determine whether a transmission was successfully received in a multiple access communication system is claimed. First and second encoded data packets are received and decoded. The first and second data packets are then re-encoded, and correlated to determine whether the first and second re-encoded data... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070147254 - Cost determination in a multihop network: In a multihop communications network a cost determination method includes determining a plurality of simultaneously potential or favorable next hop nodes for at least one of the nodes between a source and a destination node pair, whereby a mesh-like path comprising a plurality of simultaneously potential routes or paths is... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070147257 - In-line packet processing: A method and apparatus for in-line processing a data packet while routing the packet through a router in a system transmitting data packets between a source and a destination over a network including the router. The method includes receiving the data packet and pre-processing layer header data for the data... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070147255 - Routing in wireless mesh networks: A method, apparatus and system for communicating in a wireless mesh network may entail using a Viterbi routing algorithm to determine a multi-hop path between a source node and a destination node having a lowest cost metric. In one example, the cost metric may be inversely proportional to the achievable... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070147256 - Transport network node, for addition of timing data to traffic engineering data: Node (N1), of a transport network (R) incorporating a control plane using a routing protocol, including a traffic engineering database (BD1) and means of processing (MT) charged i) with exchanging with other nodes (N2-N6) of the network (R) routing messages incorporating traffic engineering data, so as to deed the database... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070147258 - System and method for measuring network performance using real network traffic: A system and method for measuring network performance include a first element in a network, the first element operable to receive a data packet and to create a clone packet based on the data packet, the clone packet having a destination the same as a destination of the data packet... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070147260 - Method for loading a list of alarms by means of an alarm application: In on aspect, method for loading a list of alarms by means of an alarm application is provided. The alarm application displays currently open alarms, together with associated alarm attributes, transmitted by network elements of a telecommunications network. When the currently open alarms of the network elements are requested by... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070147259 - Synchronous optical network (sonet) demarcation device: A synchronous optical network (SONET) demarcation device can be placed on a customer premises to enable remote testing and trouble shooting of customer premises equipment. The device includes a SONET signal analyzer that extracts SONET data, such as section, line and path overhead. The SONET demarcation device also includes a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070147261 - System, method, and computer-readable medium for determining a layer 2 path trace in a heterogeneous network system: A system, method, and computer-readable for performing network system diagnostics is provided.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070147262 - Methods, communication networks, and computer program products for storing and/or logging traffic associated with a network element based on whether the network element can be trusted: A determination can be made whether a network element is configured in an authorized manner, e.g., whether the network element is configured with authorized firmware, software, and/or data. In this regard, a determination is made whether the network element can be trusted and to what degree the network element can... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070147263 - Method for transmitting real-time streaming data and apparatus using the same: A method and an apparatus for transmitting real-time streaming data are provided. The apparatus has a first terminal, a second terminal, and a relay server. Real-time streaming transmission paths between the first terminal and the relay server as well as between the second terminal and the relay server are established,... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070147266 - Apparatus and method for determining receipt of a sent packet: A receiver and method thereof for determining if a sent packet was properly received. The method includes buffering more than one response message received in response to the sent packet and using the buffered response messages to determine if the packet was properly received.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070147265 - Correcting time synchronization inaccuracy caused by internal asymmetric delays in a device: A method for time synchronization that avoids time synchronization inaccuracies caused by asymmetric delays internal to a device. Time synchronization according to the present teachings includes determining an asymmetry between an internal delay of an inbound timing packet in a device and an internal delay of an outbound timing packet... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070147264 - Network assessment and short-term planning procedure: A method for predicting node blockage in a telecommunications network includes determining an aggregated load on a network node and determining a current level of blockage on the node. A demand on the node is projected based on the determined aggregated load. A level of blockage of the node is... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070147267 - Obtaining multiple port addresses by a fibre channel switch from a network fabric: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to Fibre Channel (FC) switch interoperability and provide a novel and non-obvious data processing system, method and computer program product for obtaining multiple port addresses by a FC switch directly from a SAN fabric. In one embodiment, the... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070147271 - Real-time network analyzer: A real-time network-analysis system comprises a network appliance and a plurality of management devices. The network appliance continuously monitors an object network and synthesizes a current network image comprising contemporaneous indicators of connectivity, occupancy, and performance of the object network. A management-client device may gain access to the network image... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20070147268 - Distributing overall control of mesh amr lan networks to wan interconnected collectors: Collectors within a wireless metering network that control a wireless Local Area Network (LAN) of nodes. The collectors typically interact over a WAN with a head-end system, which has network management and control of all collector LANs. Control is distributed from the head-end system down to the data collectors by... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070147269 - Method, system and apparatus for communications circuit design: A method of designing a network circuit for a telecommunications network is disclosed. The method includes storing first model data in a database representing a first model of the telecommunications network. Second model data is received representing a second model of the telecommunications network. The second model data defines node... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20070147270 - Systems and methods for providing voice/data communication systems and voice/data communications: Web/portal-based systems and methods for selling, configuring, installing, reconfiguring and servicing such integrated voice/data communications systems are disclosed. An Internet/web or personal digital assistant (“PDA”) or personal computer (“PC”) based portal is provided to enable a relatively high level of data to be more easily collected. The portal preferably is... Agent: Alan R. Loudermilk Loudermilk & Associates

20070147273 - Rof link system for supporting various services: Disclosed is a radio-over-fiber (ROF) system for supporting various services, the system comprising: a central access platform (CAP) for providing time division duplexing (TDD), frequency division duplexing (FDD), and broadcasting services, converting a TDD downward signal and FDD/broadcasting downward signals into optical signals, respectively, transmitting the converted optical signals to... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070147272 - Garment having protective inflatable devices: A garment, provided with at least one inflatable protecting device, adapted to be worn by a person travelling on a moving means, comprises a radio receiver (34, 35), a trigger circuit (33) and non-volatile memories (32, 37). A programmable logic unit (31) interfacing with the radio receiver (35) and communicating... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070147274 - Personal information management using content with embedded personal information manager data: Some embodiments of the present invention provide methods of operating an electronic device, such as a wireless communications terminal, a personal digital assistant and/or a media player, having a personal information manager, such as a scheduling application and/or a contact management application. Data is received at the electronic device, the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070147275 - Wireless network system: A wireless network system communicates a wireless network with a destination, and includes a wireless base station for receiving or transmitting data via the wireless network. A coupling portion is set on the wireless base station. A router has a conducting portion, which is electrically connected to the coupling portion... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070147277 - Asynchronous and automatic device and method for transmission of results between communicating objects: The invention relates to a method for managing remote method calls in object-oriented languages, by means of an asynchronous communication between a local process of a station and a remote process on another station, such a call comprising a request from one of the processes, followed by a reply from... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070147276 - Reduction of radio frequency leakage: The present invention is directed towards methods, devices and a system for reducing negative influence on signals transmitted in one of at least two frequency bands. A power amplifier (18) and a modulation unit (16) are connected to each other via at least two connections (22, 24). A switch (20)... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070147278 - System and method for retransmission of data: A received RF signal can include data information intended for transmission over a wireless communication link. The data information of the signal can be processed at a node to produce overhead bits supporting a serial transmission of the data information over a communication medium to another node. For example, the... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070147279 - Satellite switch communication over a network: A method for interconnecting a satellite switch and a virtual switch for communication over a network includes transmitting a multicast packet containing a satellite identifier over the network and receiving a response multicast packet containing the satellite identifier, a satellite index associated with the satellite switch, and a virtual switch... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20070147280 - Combining a marker with contextual information to deliver domain-specific content: A system and method provides content to a mobile device in response to a marker received from the device and an associated context. A mobile device user initiates delivery of content or another action by entering the marker into the mobile device. The mobile device transmits the marker to a... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070147281 - Explicit congestion notification for docsis based broadband communication systems: Satellite communications are carried out using the Data Over Cable Interface Specification (DOCSIS). Satellite modems are notified of upstream channel congestion by inserting a congestion notification message in a medium access protocol (MAP) message for the upstream channel. Specifically, the congestion notification message is inserted in an unused field of... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070147283 - Method and apparatus for end node assisted neighbor discovery: Methods and apparatus for using end nodes, e.g., wireless terminals, to discover base stations and communicate information about discovered access nodes, e.g., base stations, to other access nodes in a system are described. As the wireless terminal roams in the system and new access nodes are encountered, one or more... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070147284 - Method and apparatus for transmission management in a wireless communication system: In a wireless communication system comprising at least one access point (AP) and a plurality of stations (STAs), a method for transmission management of the wireless medium comprises the AP configuring a Multiple Receiver Aggregate Multi-Poll/Power Save Aggregation Descriptor (MMP/PSAD) frame with scheduled Uplink Transmission Time (ULT) information for the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070147282 - Method and system for re-establishing context of data packet flows: The present invention relates to a system, a Midcom Agent, a method for re-establishing context and a computer program product for performing the steps of said method. In a multi-domain, multi-access IP network there is a need for a method to re-establish context associated with a flow when the end-to-end... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070147291 - Apparatus and method for estimating available throughput in a wireless local area network: A method and apparatus for estimating available throughput of a fixed node in a mobile node of a communication network. The communication network includes fixed nodes connected to a router connected to at least one foreign network and mobile nodes connected to the fixed nodes. A second mobile node is... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070147290 - Broadband wireless communications using multiple contention channels: a communication system comprises a plurality of downstream transmission systems configured to transmit downstream wireless communications to an area having a plurality of sectors over a plurality of downstream channels to a plurality of users in the plurality of sectors and a plurality of upstream receiver systems configured to receive... Agent: Sprint

20070147286 - Communications methods and apparatus using physical attachment point identifiers which support dual communications links: Methods and apparatus for routing messages between an end node and an access node via another access node are described. Physical layer identification information is used when identifying a remote, e.g., adjacent, access node as a message destination. Thus, when a connection identifier based on one or more physical layer... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070147294 - Communications system: In one aspect, the invention is a method for allocating channels. The method includes determining a communication standard used by a message and determining available channels. The method also includes allocating a channel based on the available channels and the communication standard used by the message. The method may also... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070147293 - Method and apparatus for overlaying two cdma systems on the same frequency bandwidth: In order to align the timing of an overlay base station to the timing of an existing base station, a sync unit is introduced into the system. The sync unit has a first receiver configured to receive a first signal, the first signal having a first CDMA channelization. The first... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070147285 - Method and apparatus for transferring non-speech data in voice channel: A method is provided for a mobile terminal to transmit non-speech data in voice channel, comprising: generating a non-speech data frame Tx (transmitting) indication according to the preset non-speech data frame Tx indication generating mode; generating a VAD (voice activity detection) flag about the next frame according to the non-speech... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070147295 - Mobile station, mobile communication system, handover control method, handover control program and recording medium: A mobile station applied to a mobile communication system in which data transmission from base stations to mobile stations is performed by using a first channel shared by a plurality of mobile stations and second channels exclusively used by respective mobile stations, including a data signal reception section that receives... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147289 - Mobile terminal apparatus and channel compensation method of the same: A mobile terminal includes a channel estimation processor to obtain the channel estimation value of a first channel reception signal in use of a plurality of known signals received from a base station within a channel estimation period; a channel compensation processor to perform a compensation process of the first... Agent: Edward A. Pennington Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070147287 - Real-time spectrum management to increase frequency reuse: A wireless network allocates special base-station resources to mobile user devices in the inter-station overlapping fringes that are also serviceable by a neighboring base-station. Included-fringe mobile user devices interoperate with a base-station that has been assigned to handle those particular mobile user devices. If a central controller has assigned another... Agent: Law Offices Of Thomas E. Schatzel A Professional Corporation

20070147292 - Resource admission control for customer triggered and network triggered reservation requests: Customer triggered resource reservation requests (131) are granted or refused in an access node (104) on the basis of available resources on downlinks (102) between the access node (104) and customer premises, and eventually uplinks (105) between the access node (104) and an aggregation network (106). Network triggered resource reservation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070147288 - System, apparatus and method of scheduling transmissions: Briefly, a wireless system, a base station and a method of scheduling data transmissions by allocating resources to a mobile station based on at least an estimated obsoleteness rate of a channel knowledge of the mobile station.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070147297 - Dynamic baseline technique for analyzing wireless networks: The technique for analyzing a live wireless network (20) includes repeatedly alternating (54, 60) between a baseline network configuration (52, 58, 64) and a trial network configuration (56, 62) a plurality of times within a twenty-four hour period. A disclosed example includes repeatedly alternating between the baseline network configuration and... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070147305 - Employing simulated acknowledgment signals for efficient handoffs in cellular packet networks: An improved arrangement is described for maintaining throughput of date packets over a cellular packet network from an Internet server to an end user machine during handoff of a mobile subscriber unit from a first base station to a second base station. The end user machine conventionally generates, in response... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070147300 - Fast handover method using candidate coas: Provided is a fast handover method using candidate care-of addresses (CoAs). The method includes obtaining Internet protocol (IP) address information of access routers located adjacent to a previous access router (PAR) to which a mobile node is connected; setting more than one candidate CoAs based on the IP address information;... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070147298 - Method and apparatus for mobility management in wireless networks: This invention provides a method and apparatus that uses a mobility management server (MMS) device for supporting mobility management in wireless networks. With the MMS device for services of resource management and packet relay, this invention speeds up the handover procedure for a mobile device switching from a first network... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070147303 - Method and multimode terminal for minimizing mute interval: A method and a multimode terminal for minimizing a mute interval caused when call interruption occurs due to a handover between communication networks which provide communication services using different mobile communication technologies. In the method, communication network modems of the terminal supporting a multimode are interconnected through a one-to-one communication... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070147301 - Method for acquiring handover network in multi-mode terminal and multi-mode terminal therefor: Disclosed is a method capable of minimizing a period of time required for a handover network acquisition procedure when a handover occurs between communication networks which provide communication services using different mobile communication technologies. When a modem for a handover communication network performs network acquisition due to the occurrence of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070147302 - Method for minimizing current consumption at handover in multimode terminal and terminal for use in the same: A method and a multimode terminal for minimizing current consumption and simultaneously reducing a handover processing time when a handover occurs between communication networks which provide communication services using different mobile communication technologies. The communication network modems of the multimode terminal are interconnected via a one-to-one communication path, so that... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070147296 - Method for simulating communication networks, related simulator, communication network, and computer program product: A communication network is simulated with a simulator with object based architecture in which each object represents the model of a network device. The simulated network is capable of corresponding to a plurality of different systems, such as, GSM, GPRS, UMTS, WLAN, fixed networks. At the simulator level, the physical... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070147304 - Method of reestablishing communication by a mobile node upon recovery from an abrupt shut down: When a mobile node suffers an abrupt shut down while operating in a foreign network and recovers in a new foreign network, the invention enables the mobile node to reestablish communication capability, without time delay, with the nodes that had established one or more communication sessions with the mobile node... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070147306 - Systems and methods for migratable services: A migration framework provides for the migration of services in a cluster. A migratable target contains a list of servers in the cluster capable of hosting a migratable service. A migration manager can migrate the service between servers in the migratable target, and can activate an instance of the service... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070147299 - Wireless transmission device: The wireless transmission device connected to any one of subnetworks configuring an IP network including a server managing IP addresses, and connecting a mobile terminal to any one of subnetworks, includes an address storage unit storing identifying information specifying the mobile terminal as a sender of a message and the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070147307 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving audio data in mobile communication terminal: A method and an apparatus for transmitting/receiving audio data in a mobile communication terminal are provided. The method includes a transmit terminal generating n split audio data by splitting input audio data; the transmit terminal sequentially transmitting the n split audio data to a receive terminal; the receive terminal receiving... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070147308 - Signalling in multi-hop communication systems: This application relates to techniques for reducing the signalling overhead associated with multi-hop communication systems which require one or more administrative signals to be transmitted over more than one of the multi-hop communication links. Administrative signal processing means are described for deriving a) an absolute administrative signal which is indicative... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070147311 - Automatically activating wireless fidelity capability for a mobile station: A mobile station (20) includes a first portion (24) having wireless fidelity communication capability. A second portion (28) of the mobile station (20) determines when at least one source (26) of wireless fidelity communications is within an acceptable range of the mobile station (20) to facilitate wireless fidelity communications. The... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070147309 - Method and system for allocation of channelisation codes in a code division multiple access system: Downlink channels within an implementation of a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system, e.g. a Wideband CDMA system, are allocated to channelisation codes in a primary or secondary code tree, each tree having its own scrambling code. During Compressed Mode (CPM), channels which need reallocation during CPM are reallocated to... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070147310 - Method for improving random access channel performance: A user equipment, for use in a wireless communication system, comprises a receiver to receive resource usage information transmitted from a base station over an acquisition (or acknowledgement) indicator channel, and a controller operatively coupled to the receiver, to determine an available resource, with a high probability of success, based... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070147312 - Device, system and method of uplink/downlink communication in wireless network: Devices, systems and methods of uplink/downlink communication in wireless network. For example, a wireless access point includes a transmitter to transmit a downlink frame having a duration field value equal to or greater than a sum of: a time period corresponding to transmission of the downlink frame, a time period... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070147321 - Apparatus and method for packet transmission scheduling in wireless ad-hoc network: A method and apparatus for transmitting packets is capable of saving energy in a mobile ad-hoc network. In the method and apparatus, a phenomenon of abnormality is prevented by one or more mobile terminals exchanging with each other, in an Ad-hoc Traffic Indication Message (ATIM) window period, an ATIM frame... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070147323 - Data communication system, relay apparatus, and portable terminal apparatus: The following are provided: a data communication system, a relay apparatus, and a portable terminal apparatus in which when a mobile portable terminal apparatus such as a mobile telephone displays a screen based on display screen definition data received from the central apparatus, the exception handling of the data communication... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070147319 - Radio communication system: An access point includes a terminal function unit which has the transmission/reception functions of a radio terminal. A radio signal is transmitted from the terminal function unit to the signal processing unit of an access point through the antenna of the access point, and a process for the calling connection... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070147320 - Access router selection method: (c) using a response from said at least one network domain (26, 28, 30) to decide whether or not to perform a network layer handover of said group of mobile network nodes (14) to one of said number of available access routers (20, 22, 24).... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20070147315 - Access to cdma/umts services over a wlan acccess point using a gateway node: The present invention relates to an arrangement and a method for providing user station with access to (a) service providing network(s). It comprises a radio access network control node (RANCN) (3) acting as a gateway node between WLAN access points (AP) (2A,2B;4) and the service providing network, and it comprises... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070147318 - Dynamic passing of wireless configuration parameters: Methods and apparatuses allow for wireless configuration parameters to be passed to a client to enable the client to configure a wireless network interface to connect to a wireless network.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070147316 - Method and apparatus for communicating with a multi-mode wireless device: A device, method, and system for communicating with at least one target wireless device are disclosed. The method includes initiating, by an originating wireless device (104), a communication using a first communication service with a target wireless device (106). The originating wireless device (104) determines that the target wireless device... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070147317 - Method and system for providing differentiated network service in wlan: A system (100) and method (700) is provided for extending a standby battery life of a WLAN station (102) within a WLAN. The method can include creating an extended service area containing at least two access points (APs) (104/105), monitoring beacon frames and conducting neighbor AP scans for identifying the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070147313 - Method for establishing a connection between a service requester (client) and a service provider (server) in a decentralized mobile wireless network: The invention relates to method for producing a link between a person requesting a service (Client) and a service provider (Server) 3 in a decentralized mobile radio network with a service/service provider search service (Service Discovery) wherein the person requesting the service (Client) sends a Service Discovery Request in the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070147322 - Multi-hop wireless mesh network medium access control protocol: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate mitigating a hidden node condition in a wireless mesh network wherein nodes utilize a request-to-send/clear-to-send (RTS/CTS) protocol in conjunction with an asynchronous hybrid automatic repeat request protocol. For instance, a node may contend for a set of subcarriers by sending an RTS signal... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070147314 - Network processing node and method for manipulating packets: A network processing node (e.g., MGW, MRFP) and method are described herein that can: (1) receive packets on a first heterogeneous link (e.g., wireless link); (2) manipulate the received packets based on known characteristics about a second heterogeneous link (e.g., “Internet” link); and (3) send the manipulated packets on the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070147326 - Qos-based multi-protocol uplink access: A method and apparatus for multi-protocol uplink access defines two protocols and maps each to one of a user's access service class (ASC) and quality of service (QoS). A first uplink access protocol type is defined in which a random access channel (RACH) burst is sent and an acquisition indicator... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070147324 - System and method for improved wifi/wimax retail installation management: A system for managing wireless internet access. The system includes an interface for receiving incoming requests for wireless internet access from a plurality of subscribers. The subscribers submit requests from a wireless access provider having a plurality of geographic locations at least one request coming from one location and at... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20070147325 - Terminal for accessing network, wireless access module and method thereof: In a wireless access module in a terminal, a user interface unit for receiving information for managing network access is provided. A terminal function performing unit performs an authentication process for accessing the network and sets a network address according to the information from the user interface unit. A terminal... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070147329 - Method and system for signal reconstruction from spatially and temporally correlated received samples: A method and system for reconstructing a user's received signal based on knowledge of the user's transmitted signal to yield efficient interference cancellation when there is spatial and/or temporal correlation in the received signal. The invention may be applied to the cancellation of pilot, decoded data and overhead signals. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070147327 - Method and apparatus for transferring non-speech data in voice channel: A method is proposed for a mobile terminal in mobile communication systems to transfer non-speech data in voice channel, comprising steps of: encapsulating the non-speech data to be sent to another mobile terminal into IBD frames; storing said IBD frames in a buffer; detecting whether a speech burst sent to... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070147328 - Method and arrangement relating to communications network: The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for downlink power adjustment in a base station (210, 310, 610) comprising at least two similar hardware units: a first unit (231, 316a, 616a) and a second unit (232, 316b, 616b), in a communications network when moving a resource from said... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070147330 - Method for packet polling in a wlan: A method (500) is provided for dynamic packet polling during a power save mode. The method can include polling (504) an access point (104) for packets at a first rate on at least one access category, determining (506) a polling time-out as a function of a packet priority, and possibly... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070147331 - Method of managing transmission delay in a wireless communication system: In one embodiment of a method of managing transmission delay in a wireless communication system, a length of time over which a mobile station is permitted to re-transmit a packet or portion of a packet over a channel is controlled such that the length of time depends on at least... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070147332 - Multimode support for wireless communications: A plurality of polling response transmission times are allocated for a corresponding plurality of remote devices. The remote devices operate according to a first wireless transmission mode, such as Bluetooth LEE. These allocated polling response transmission times are outside of a time interval designated for communications according to a second... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, LLP

20070147333 - System and method of transmission scheduling in time-division duplex communication system to minimize interference: In a Time-Division Duplex (TDD) data frame, wherein time slots are allocated to downlink and uplink transmissions, time slots are allocated to pending communication signals beginning at the start of the data frame for one of downlink and uplink transmissions, and are allocated to pending communication signals beginning at the... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070147334 - Connecting devices to a peer-to-peer network: A communication device G is arranged to delay a procedure for joining a network (1) until it detects activity (23) on the network (1), for example until the communication device G is within range of network (1). In response to a positive detection of network activity (23), the communication device... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070147335 - Data transmission apparatus, data receiving apparatus, and data transmitting-receiving method: Received packets are preserved in a receiving buffer 102; a playback decision section 103 decides whether the preserved packets are in time for the playback time or not; the playback orders and the preservation addresses of the preserved packets which have been decided to be in time are memorized in... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070147337 - Method of synchronizing with an uplink channel and a method of determining a propagation delay in a wireless communications system: A method of synchronizing with an uplink channel and a method of determining a propagation delay in a wireless communications system are provided. In the example method of synchronizing, a propagation delay between a target base station and a mobile station is calculated. Then, the calculated propagation delay is sent... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070147338 - Opportunistic use of wireless network stations as repeaters: Implementation of opportunistic use of stations in a wireless network as repeaters is described. In one implementation, a station detects the existence of rate anomaly in a wireless network. In response to the rate anomaly, the station may transform into a software repeater for certain other neighboring stations. The repeater... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070147336 - Preamble configuring method in the wireless lam system, and a method for a frame synchronization: A method of configuring a preamble of a downlink frame for synchronization in data frame transmission of a 60 GHz a wireless local area network system, the method comprising arranging a short preamble having a plurality of repetitive S symbols, and an IS symbol, and arranging a long preamble having... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070147340 - Method and apparatus for load-balancing: An Ethernet switch/router for an unshielded twisted pair (UTP)/optical integrated network comprises: at least one physical chip for physical-layer processing the frame; at least one media module connected to at least one kind of media; and at least one cage having a socket connected to a corresponding physical chip via... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell Suite 300

20070147341 - Communication scheduling method: In the P-MP wireless data communication via relay stations, a wireless base station forms a communication schedule between the relay station and the relay station and a communication schedule between the relay station and the subscriber station. For each subscriber station (SS), a connected station, an interference at downloading, an... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070147339 - Method and apparatus for load-balancing: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of outing a message, conveyed in stream through a point-to-point connection to a load-balancing element, to one of a plurality of available processing systems each connected to the load-balancing element by separate point-to-point connections, io comprising at... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070147352 - Access point and wireless audio both having self-sustained power supply apparatus: The provided access point includes a self-sustained power supply apparatus, a base station coupled to the power supply apparatus and receiving a first DC power supply, and an antenna set coupled to the base station. In which, the power supply apparatus further includes an autogenic energy generating apparatus generating an... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070147342 - Enhanced circuit-switched media transmission over ip access networks: An enhanced circuit-switched media transmission over packet-switched, or Internet Protocol, access networks is disclosed. Access legs of calls between terminal devices are monitored at a gateway positioned at the interface between packet-switched and circuit-switched networks. Access legs are identified which connect terminal devices residing in the same access network through... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070147353 - Inhibiting system traffic from unregistered mobile stations: A method and system for reducing transmissions from unregistered mobile wireless devices including inhibiting administrative type transmissions from the mobile wireless device upon detection that the mobile wireless device is in a first transmission mode indicating that the mobile wireless device is deactivated or unregistered. Moreover, the administrative type transmission... Agent: Gardner Groff Santos & Greenwald, P.C.

20070147354 - Local area network: A local area network having multiplexing means for establishing out-of-band channels along with corresponding Ethernet channels over shared transmission media of twisted pair cables. The out-of-band channels are configured for implementing a separate packet switching system for operating a dedicated network application such as IP telephony communications; power sourcing equipment... Agent: Ziqiang He

20070147344 - Method and arrangements in an ip network: An IP network includes a network resource manager having a resource utilization map adapted to manage network resources in an IP network and an application framework having elements for receiving a request for a multicast distribution from a client in the IP network, and elements for requesting network resources from... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070147351 - Methods and apparatus for integrating media across a wide area network: A system for distributing media includes a wide area network (WAN), a media player coupled to the WAN at a first home, and a media server coupled to the WAN at a second home for providing media. A service is coupled to the WAN for receiving a request for media... Agent: John Stattler, Esq. Stattler Johansen & Adeli LLP

20070147346 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing access resources in an internet protocol network: Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, systems, and computer program products for managing access resources in an Internet protocol network. Methods include receiving a request for IP network service, the request including a required class of service. A storage device that specifies routers and resources available on the routers is accessed.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070147348 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing location information for voip emergency calling: A method for providing location information for VoIP emergency calling including: providing a location information database in operable communication with a location information server; maintaining a location information record corresponding to a physical location; associating a VoIP device with a location information record; receiving a request for the physical location... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070147347 - System and methods for locating and acquisitioning a service connection via request broadcasting over a data packet network: A broadcast routing system with dynamic end node response capability includes a first node for creating a request for broadcasting, a broadcasting application running on, or available to the first node for broadcasting the request, one or more destination nodes enabled to monitor a broadcasting channel or channels and to... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070147349 - System for customized messaging presentation based on called-party voice-over-internet-protocol settings: A method for customized messaging presentation based on called-party voice-over IP (VoIP) settings in a VoIP telephony system includes determining settings for a calling party based on parameters associated with the calling party, where the parameters are stored in an address book accessible to a called party; storing the settings... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070147350 - System for predefined voice-over-internet-protocol call parameters: A method for configuring a VoIP system for pre-defined call parameters includes storing call setting parameters associated with a VoIP call session in an address book, where the parameters are associated with called party identification records stored in the same address book characterizing the called parties; transmitting, to a called... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070147343 - Voice communication system and a server apparatus: In a voice communication system for transferring voice information stored in a protocol data unit under a predetermined communication protocol over a network under the protocol, end voice terminals for transferring and receiving the voice information in the protocol data unit, and a management server for managing said end voice... Agent: Venable LLP

20070147345 - Voip 911 address locator service: A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) device and method of operation of the VoIP device are provided. A local telephone number serving a location of the VoIP device is stored in a database of a VoIP service provider. A fixed address is associated with the local telephone number. The local... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070147355 - Composite services generation tool: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for deploying and delivering composite services in an NGN network. In an embodiment of the invention, a composite services generation method can include specifying fields for a model for a composite service, generating each of a visual... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070147358 - Customer owned telephone numbers: According to various embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods for routing telephone calls from host switch to remote switch in a Voice Over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) network. A host switch in the VoIP network may be communicably coupled with a plurality of remote switches and with a public... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070147357 - Method and apparatus for generating ip traffic in an internet protocol (ip) based network: A method for having a computer-based node for simulating requests for Internet Protocol (IP) services for a group of IP terminal in an IP network. The method obtains at the computer-based node a test scenario from a memory, generates a computer medium based on the test scenario, reads computer readable... Agent: Sandra Beauchesne Ericsson Canada Inc.

20070147356 - Registration of multiple voip devices: A calling network capable of accepting voice and data information includes a voice distribution server, wherein the voice distribution server is communicably coupled to an integrated access device, wherein the voice distribution server is associated with a computer readable medium, and wherein the computer readable medium includes a customer profile;... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070147359 - Method and apparatus for configuring at least one port in a switch to be an upstream port or a downstream port: A method and apparatus are described herein for configuring at least one port in a switch to be an upstream port or a downstream port based, at least in part, on a control signal. If a component includes both a switch and an endpoint, the method and apparatus support configuration... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070147360 - System and method for scheduling digital information transmission and retransmission on a network during time slots: The present invention is a computer system for delivering digital information over a network. A request receiving process receives a request for transmitting digital information after a start time and before an end time. The digital information has a number of packets. A transmit time process determines the time required... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070147361 - Method of constructing wireless high speed backbone connection that unifies various wired/wireless network clusters by means of employing the smart/adaptive antenna technique and dynamically creating concurrent data pipelines: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a high-speed wireless backbone connection, Backbone Connection Facilitator (BCF), to create a wireless home network, which may consist of many short-range wired/wireless networks. BCF dynamically creates concurrent data pipelines to meet the data bandwidth demand to transfer packets from one short-range... Agent: Hyun Lee

20070147362 - Balanced high-capacity switch: A high capacity switching node comprises a lattice structure of low-latency switch units and a plurality of balanced connectors interfacing electronic edge nodes to diagonal subsets of said switch units. The edge nodes may be collocated with the switch units or remotely located. The switch units may be bufferless, having... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070147367 - Voip communication remote control system and remote controller thereof: The present invention provides a VoIP communication remote control system. A network signal processing unit retrieves a network data packet from an Internet, the network data packet is de-packeted by a central processing unit to obtain an encoded visual signal and an encoded income-call data stream, after the encoded visual... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070147365 - Communication method, communication system, relaying device and communication device: A communication device transmits to a relaying device a transmission right grant request for requesting a grant of a transmission right to a transmitting device, and the relaying device determines whether the received transmission right grant request is a command associated with the transmission right of the communication device or... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070147364 - Local and remote switching in a communications network: A method, system or switch device, the switch device including an ASIC creating a switching system within the switch device, the ASIC including an ingress packet processor, an egress packet assembly device, a transmit control device and a routing device; whereby the ingress packet processor is disposed to receive a... Agent: Hensley Kim & Edgington, LLC

20070147363 - Network edge device configured for adding protocol service header identifying service encoding of ip packet payload: A service header is generated by an edge device (e.g., a gateway or a router) configured for providing a prescribed service operation for a prescribed network service for a received IP packet. The received IP packet includes an IP payload and an IP header having a protocol field specifying an... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20070147368 - Network packet steering via configurable association of processing resources and netmods or line interface ports: Methods and systems are provided for steering network packets. According to one embodiment, a mapping associates a processing resource with a network interface module (netmod) and/or a number of line interface ports included within the netmod. In one embodiment, the mapping is configurable within the processing resource and pushed to... Agent: Hamilton Desanctis & Cha Michael A. Desanctis

20070147366 - System and method for optimizing robust header compression (rohc) in high delay variance environment: A system and method for optimizing robust header compression between a compressor (residing at AN/AT) and a decompressor (residing at AT/AN), the method comprising initializing the compressor with an estimated jitter value before the compressor; notifying the decompressor of the estimated jitter value before the compressor; estimating various threshold limits... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070147369 - Telephone system having multiple sources and accessories therefor: In conjunction with a data communication network carrying multiple telephony signals and allowing for connection of telephone sets, a system and method in which two external feeders connect to the data network at two distinct points via two distinct devices. The data network can be based on dedicated wiring or... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070147374 - System and method for controlling multicasting service: In a system and method for guaranteeing quality of service (QoS) of a multicasting service, when a multicasting source or a receiving terminal is newly registered, or a router or the receiving terminal leaves an existing multicasting group, a topology and a resource state of a network is retrieved, and... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070147370 - Apparatus and method for resetting physical channel: A wireless communication system in which a communication apparatus performs a packet communication with a radio network controller through a base transceiver station stores identification information about a communication line in a first state in which communications are performed using an individual channel and line information including a setting parameter.... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070147372 - Method for implementing multicast in virtual router-based virtual private network: A method for implementing multicast in a Virtual Router-based Virtual Private Network (VR-VPN), including: establishing a local multicast tree in each VPN site and a Service Provider (SP) multicast tree connecting each VPN site; setting a Proxy Source/Rendezvous Point (RP) for a multicast source on each VR; the multicast source... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070147373 - Method for preventing simultaneous issuance of two multicast flows, ip stb and dslam thereof: A method for preventing simultaneous issuance of two multicast flows, comprising a process of ceasing the transmission of a multicast flow upon an internet protocol set-top box (IP STB) being switched on; the ceasing of the multicast flow transmission can be initiated by the IP STB or by communication entities... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070147371 - Multicast packet video system and hardware: A multicast packet video system includes a codec placement module placing codecs in nodes of a multicasting network. In some aspects, the placement includes receiving, at a parent node of the network, feedback from its child nodes indicating a number of the child nodes unable to decode FEC blocks, and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070147375 - Multicast system using client forwarding: A system and method are disclosed for multicasting information to a set of clients that includes transmitting the information to a primary client from a server and instructing the primary client to forward the information to a secondary client.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070147383 - Communication device: A communication device includes a receiving unit, a setting storage unit that stores information to represent a source address of a packet to be discarded, a discard determination unit that determines whether a packet received by the receiving unit should be discarded based on the information stored in the setting... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070147377 - Communications methods and apparatus using physical attachment point identifiers: Methods and apparatus for routing messages between an end node and an access node via another access node are described. Physical layer identification information is used when identifying a remote, e.g., adjacent, access node as a message destination. Thus, when a connection identifier based on one or more physical layer... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070147378 - Ip encapsulation with exposed classifiers: When a virtual private network (VPN) connection is made, an internet protocol (IP) packet is encrypted and encapsulated within an outer IP packet. Quality-of-service information is placed in the outer packet header that includes classifiers that refer to the encrypted packet.... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC

20070147381 - Method and device for transfer of data over a data connection from a sender to a receiver by means of packets: In a method and device for transfer of data over a data connection from a transmitter to a receiver by means of packets, repetition packets with respect to predetermined packets are transmitted given free transfer capacity The packets and their corresponding repetition packets comprise an identifier by use of which... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070147382 - Method of storing pattern matching policy and method of controlling alert message: A method of storing a pattern matching policy and a method of controlling an alert message are provided. The method includes (a) generating a content structure as a sub-structure of a header combination structure of a stored traffic pattern which is a policy to be newly applied to a pattern... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070147379 - Network interface controlling lock operation in accordance with advanced extensible interface protocol, packet data communication on-chip interconnect system including the network interface, and method of operating the network interface: A packet data communication on-chip interconnect system is provided including a network interface efficiently controlling a transaction performed between at least one master intellectual property (IP) block and at least one slave IP block connected via a Network on a Chip (NoC). According to an aspect of the present invention,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070147376 - Router-assisted ddos protection by tunneling replicas: A method for protecting a victim includes locating at least one router, providing a set of addresses associated with at least one replica and a victim to each of the at least one router, intercepting a request packet sent from a requesting source to the victim by one of the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070147380 - Systems and methods for implementing protocol-aware network firewall: A method may include receiving a first packet; determining, in a first processor, whether the first packet meets a criterion to be forwarded to a destination indicated in the first packet; receiving a second packet; determining whether the second packet is of a type for changing the criterion and sending... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070147385 - Synchronous data communication: A data packet is provided that includes a synchronization field and an acknowledgement field indicative of an acknowledgement of receipt of a prior data packet. The data packet also includes a response field that includes information indicative of a system fault, a header field, and a sequence number field that... Agent: Patent Dept Intuitive Surgical, Inc

20070147384 - System and method for data transmissin and reception: A method for data transmission comprising, placing one or more data segments into a two-dimensional structure (103) having first data arrangement and second data arrangement which are perpendicular to each other and placement is with respect to first directional arrangements, adding to each second directional arrangements one or more corresponding... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070147386 - System for switching variable-length data packets of heterogeneous network and method for the same: The present invention relates to a system for switching variable-length data packets of a heterogeneous network and a method for the same; and, more particularly, to a switching of variable-length data packets of a heterogeneous network through a serial communication between switching chips to switch the packets with a switching... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070147389 - Signalling exchange method for guaranteeing internet protocol quality of service: The present invention discloses a signalling exchange method for guaranteeing Internet Protocol (IP) Quality of Service (QoS), including: after a Call Agent (CA) receives a request from a source User Agent (UA) for transferring a user service stream, sending a QoS resource request from the CA to the bearer control... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070147388 - Terminal and method for setting quality of service therein: The present invention provides a method for setting a quality of service (QoS) in a terminal. The method includes receiving from a base station and displaying information regarding radio resource usage condition in a communication network; receiving and setting a QoS demanded by a user; receiving a data service by... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070147387 - Interface link layer device for long delay connections: An interface link layer device (1) to be connected in-between a first sub net-work (5) and a long delay link (3) to which at least one second sub network (4) is connected via another interface link layer device (2) is able to simulate or replace time critical messages of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147390 - Hardware acceleration apparatus for iscsi target system using toe and method for performing read/write command using the apparatus: Provided is a hardware acceleration apparatus for an iSCSI target system including a local memory storing data transmitted between a disk storage device and a network system, a TOE controller performing TCP/IP stack offloading on a TCP/IP packet of data stored in the local memory, a network controller allowing data... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070147392 - Mobile communication network system: If a trouble, which occurred in a node managing positional information, has been solved, the positional information can be restored only by transmitting a position registration request addressed to one multicast address without need to transmit multiple position registration requests addressed to multiple mobile terminals (MN). There are included a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070147391 - Routing mobile voice calls: A call routing system for use with a wireless telephone systems is disclosed. The system, which monitors the subscriber's current physical location, determines the device to which a call should be terminated, and routes the call. The device can be any IP telephone, including a cable television system adapted to... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070147393 - Method for improving subscriber access capacity, broadband access device and network: A method for improving subscriber access capacity of a broadband access device is disclosed, including: establishing a Virtual Local Area Network Path Identifier (VlanPI) and corresponding VlanPI Tag, establishing a VLAN Circuit identifier (VlanCI) and corresponding VlanCI Tag for each access port of the broadband access device, dividing the access... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070147394 - Method and apparatus for processing timers: A timer for processing timer entries in an efficient manner utilizing linked lists, without requiring a walk-through to add new timer entries. Timer entries are added to a linked list only at its tail. Each linked list has an associated timer size. In one embodiment, a timer entry is added... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070147400 - Communication method for interworking of local heterogeneous link layer protocols and apparatus thereof: A communication method for interworking of local heterogeneous link protocols, includes the following steps: when the type of an input interface of a data packet is a predefined type, remove link layer information of the data packet according to a link protocol of the input interface; transmit the data packet... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070147396 - Method and system for converting service types of devices connected to control gateway: A method and a system for converting the service types of the devices connected to a control gateway are provided. The system includes a server, an open platform, a control gateway and devices connected to the control gateway. Wherein, the device possesses device description information and is operated in a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070147398 - Method and system for setting up a media session in a telecommunications network: A communication system sets a media session between a first media gateway and a second gateway through a media gateway controller. The first media gateway receives a control address of the second media gateway from the media gateway controller. The first media gateway allocates media processor resources from a pool... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070147395 - Method for selecting egresses of a multi-isp local area network: The present invention discloses a Multiple ISP local area network egress selecting method, comprising: setting the local area network routing as normal routing and strategic routing; setting the routing plan of the strategic routing; creating NAT address pool; in the case that there is egress request from inside of local... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070147397 - Methods, communication networks, and computer program products for configuring a communication tunnel for traffic based on whether a network element can be trusted: A communication network is operated by determining whether a network element can be trusted and configuring a tunnel for traffic associated with the network element based on whether the network element can be trusted operates a communication network.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070147401 - System and method for communicating telecommunication information between a broadband network and a telecommunication network: A system for communicating telecommunication information includes a memory, packetization modules, and a telecommunication interface module. The memory stores subscriber profiles associating each of several subscribers with a telecommunication interface. The packetization modules receive data packets from a broadband network and extract telecommunication information associated with a subscriber from the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070147399 - Using secondary channels to communicate ip addresses for point-to-point communication: A first device uses a secondary communication channel to send its public IP address to a second device to setup point-to-point communication over a primary communication channel, such as a public computer network. The secondary channel may be a public switched telephone network, a circuit-switched voice channel in cellular network,... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070147402 - Dynamic queue instantiation: A Point to Point Protocol (“PPP”) link running PPP Multilink Protocol with multi-class extensions (“Multilink-Extension”) having both peers on the PPP link support a number of egress priority queues negotiated during the Multilink-Extension negotiation. Each peer also establishes a number of classes equal to the negotiated number of egress priority... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20070147403 - Interface scheduling and traffic-shaping: Efficient interface scheduling that maintains fairness among the scheduled interfaces and remains efficient even when scheduling large numbers of interfaces and even when implemented in software. Systems for scheduling interfaces through a physical port are provided that utilize a bit-mask. Each bit-mask has a bit-mask-level-1 having a plurality of bits,... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20070147404 - Method and apparatus for policing connections using a leaky bucket algorithm with token bucket queuing: The invention includes a method and apparatus for performing packet policing by operating an input queue as a leaky bucket queue. The method includes storing a received packet in a shared memory shared by a plurality of input queues and a plurality of output queues, storing a corresponding packet pointer... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070147405 - Packet scheduler in a radio system: The invention relates to scheduling of data packets in a radio transmitter. A scheduling metric is applied in the scheduling, which scheduling metric may be dynamically adjusted during transmission of data packets to the receivers.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070147406 - System and method for processing multiple broadcast multimedia streams: A computer-implemented method is disclosed including: receiving a broadcast signal containing a set of multiplexed multimedia channels; storing said multiplexed multimedia channels in a temporary storage buffer on a mass storage device; determining a point in said temporary storage buffer to begin demultiplexing and decoding a first channel responsive to... Agent: Digeo, Inc C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20070147407 - Modular outlet: In conjunction with a wiring in a house carrying data network signal, a modular outlet comprising of a base module and interface module. The base module connects to the wiring and attached to a wall. The interface module provides a data unit connection. The interface module is mechanically attached to... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070147408 - Line termination arrangement with combined braodband and narrowband services: A combined line termination arrangement (1) for an access system supporting broadband transmission mode and narrowband transmission mode, the combined line termination arrangement (1) comprising a common interface device (4) having a common port (6) for receiving or transmitting a signal in said transmission modes and being connected to a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070147410 - Detecting wireless devices to inform about a quiet period: A wireless device is detected. A signal is received via a wireless medium. The received signal is processed to detect a wireless device, if any, to communicate with regarding a quiet period. During the quiet period, wireless devices that are aware of the quiet period refrain from transmitting, and the... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070147409 - Optimized method for multiplexing digital data: Provided are apparatuses and methods for identifying unused bandwidth in portions of a time slice frame that are allocated to carrying elementary service burst data and related overhead data, and using that unused bandwidth for the transmission of additional data. The unused portions may be aggregated and subdivided into unused... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070147411 - Method for converting between unicast sessions and a multicast session: The invention includes methods for converting between a plurality of unicast sessions and a multicast session. A method for converting from unicast sessions to a multicast session includes receiving a request for establishing a unicast session for delivering content to a first client device, generating a multicast session establishment message... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070147412 - Automatic configuration system and method: An automatic configuration system and method is provided. A detecting unit is used to detect whether a signal indicating link establishment appears at a first connector or a second connector, which serves as a receiving terminal of a node device, and accordingly generate a detecting result. Thus, according to the... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070147413 - Local area network of serial intelligent cells: A serial intelligent cell (SIC) and a connection topology for local area networks using Electrically-conducting media. A local area network can be configured from a plurality of SIC's interconnected so that all communications between two adjacent SIC's is both point-to-point and bidirectional. Each SIC can be connected to one or... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070147416 - Wireless modem architecture: The invention allows for a common integrated circuit PHY of a wireless modem to be used with different RF sections for making different modems by providing different RF adjustment interfaces. The RF adjustment interfaces can be provided by programmable hardware, and in some cases the same programmable hardware that is... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070147415 - Intelligent electronic device with embedded multi-port data packet controller: An intelligent electronic device (IED) configured to supervise a process having a state has at least one of a current, voltage or resistive input configured to monitor the state of the process, a binary status input configured to monitor the state of the process, a binary status input configured to... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (12552)

20070147418 - Logical node identification in an information transmission network: A system for generating and sending a Logical Node identification signal as part of a data stream is disclosed. The system also includes subscriber stations capable of receiving and extracting Logical Node identification information from a data stream. The subscriber stations create new messages including the Logical Node identification signal... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Sedna Patent Services, LLC

20070147417 - Method for reducing capacity of virtual concatenation group and communication network thereof: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for reducing the capacity of a Virtual Concatenation Group (VCG) and a VCG communication network. When a network management device sends a downlink-member removing command to remove a downlink member to a Sink in the VCG, the Sink receiving the downlink-member removing... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070147414 - Method of switching transmission modes in ieee 802.11n mimo communication systems: A method and system is provided that selects transmission modes between spatial multiplexing, delay diversity and space-time coding in 802.11n systems. As such, eigen-value computation for mode selection is not required. This provides efficiency, in particular for basic receiver structure where a linear MMSE or ZF MIMO detector is applied.... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070147421 - Isatap router for tunneling packets and method thereof: An Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Address Protocol (ISATAP) router for tunneling packets and a method thereof are provided. A private IP address of an ISATAP host and public IPv4 address information are stored in a mapping table, a public IPv4 address of a Network Address Translator (NAT), to which an IPv6... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070147419 - Communication network system and communication apparatus: The present invention provides a communication network system in which communication can be securely performed via a global network from an existing terminal apparatus to an existing device connected to a local network without needing a special gateway function in a router and without performing a special setting in the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070147420 - Network access device: The present disclosure describes a system and apparatus for providing a network service, such as Frame Relay. The apparatus transmits the service to the network utilizing a G.SHDSL transmission standard; converts data between data utilizing a DS-1 transmission standard and data utilizing a G.SHDSL transmission standard; stores a parameter relating... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070147422 - Bandwidth management apparatus: In a bandwidth management apparatus that outputs packets by observing the bandwidth set value predetermined for each destination, provisions are made to prevent a situation where the contracted bandwidth cannot be provided due to influences from packets destined for other destinations. When performing bandwidth management using token buckets provided one... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070147423 - More power save multi-poll indication: Various embodiments of systems and methods that provide more power save multi-poll (MPSMP) indication solutions to improve both the channel access efficiency and power saving capability. In one embodiment, for each address destination, a PSMP frame (the multi-poll frame) provides a time interval during which the client station is to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070147428 - Networking layer extension: A device, for example a ZigBee device, includes an 802.15.4 MAC layer 4 and a ZigBee networking layer 2. A switch layer 10 is provided, having an interface 12 imitating a MAC layer interface and a database 18. The switch layer 10 is able to parse commands from the ZigBee... Agent: Francissen Patent Law, P.C.

20070147425 - Wireless modem: A wireless modem includes an RF module adapted to be connected to an antenna, comprising an intermediate frequency input and an intermediate frequency output, a PHY module receiving the intermediate frequency output and generating the intermediate frequency input, and a low level media access control (LL-MAC) module connected to the... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070147424 - Communications methods and apparatus for using a single logical link with multiple physical layer connections: A base station uses a common link layer controller corresponding to multiple physical attachment points, facilitating multiple concurrent wireless connections between different base station sector physical attachment points and the same wireless terminal using the same link layer link. A wireless terminal maintains multiple simultaneous wireless connections for the same... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070147427 - Method for setting up a connection between portions of a application distributed in nodes connected to a communication network with gmpls control plane: A method is devoted to setting up a connection between the first (N1) and second (N2) external nodes connected to a GMPLS control plane (RG) and each incorporating a portion (PA1,PA2) of a distributed application and a signalling module (MS1,MS2) loaded to manage the setting up of the connection. This... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070147426 - Pci-express™ transaction layer packet compression: A system, method, and device are disclosed. In one embodiment, the device comprises logic to determine whether a received transaction layer packet (TLP) has a compressed header and, if the received TLP has a compressed header, logic to decompress the header.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070147429 - Stream file format for digital video recording: A method of recording an MPEG compliant transport stream selected by a user on a storage media. The method comprising: receiving the transport stream, the transport stream comprising transport stream packets; removing stuffing bytes from each transport stream packet in the transport stream containing stuffing bytes; recording all transport stream... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070147430 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data in an integrated circuit: A method and apparatus for transmitting data packets in an integrated circuit according to a data integrity scheme that embeds an integrity value in each data packet. As the data packets are transferred, the data integrity value for a data packet is stored during a stall of the transmission of... Agent: Ibm Microelectronics Intellectual Property Law

20070147431 - Xdsl modem: A reception result of an analog signal transmitted from a local switch to a subscriber line, or a voltage difference corresponding to a line current is analyzed, and a transmission characteristic in the subscriber line is evaluated based on an analyzing result. The transmission characteristic is sent to a network... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070147432 - 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 are disclosed. A pre-processor pre-processes the enhanced data by coding the enhanced data for forward error correction (FEC) and expanding the FEC-coded enhanced data. A data formatter generates enhanced data packets including the pre-processed enhanced... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070147433 - Telephone system having multiple distinct sources and accessories therefor: In conjunction with a data communication network carrying multiple telephony signals and allowing for connection of telephone sets, a system and method in which two external feeders connect to the data network at two distinct points via two distinct devices. The data network can be based on dedicated wiring or... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070147434 - Data transmission method and data transmission device: In a method for data transmission, which transmits data through a transmission line 20, which integrates a plurality of links into one transmission line, a first link group, which transmits information data by at least one link out of a plurality of links, a second link group, which transmits parity... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070147435 - Removing delay fluctuation in network time synchronization: Techniques for removing delay fluctuations from network time synchronization so that timing packets that experience an inordinate network delay to not cause unneeded adjustments to a local clock. Time synchronization according to the present techniques includes measuring a network delay associated with a timing packet and discarding the timing packet... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070147436 - Sub-frame synchronized multiplexing: A method of communication that includes transmitting a communication signal having a synchronization preamble from a first node. Setting a local clock of at least one second node pursuant to the synchronization preamble to synchronize communications between the first and at least one second node. Exchanging subsequent data communications between... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070147437 - Communication system and communication method: According to one embodiment, a communication system with a transmitting device and a receiving device communicably connected thereto, wherein the transmitting device comprises a packet transmitting unit to transmit a data packet to the receiving device and a retransmission buffer which stores the data packet for a retransmission and the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070147438 - Directed multiplexing of data traffic in a link control environment: A link controller that is capable of asymmetric network traffic multiplexing. A typical link controller treats all provisioned links as being equal (i.e., traffic is symmetrically multiplexed or distributed between all provisioned links) except when a link failure is detected. Our link controller is capable of modifying the multiplexing behavior... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070147440 - Digital broadcasting transmitter, turbo stream processing method thereof, and digital broadcasting system having the same: A digital broadcasting transmitter, a turbo stream processing method thereof, and a digital broadcasting system having the same. The digital broadcasting transmitter includes a first compressor, forming a normal stream by compressing audio and video signals in a first compression format, a second compressor, forming a turbo stream by compressing... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070147439 - Complex multiplexing transmission/reception apparatus and method in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting data in a wireless communication system using Code Division Multiplexing (CDM) are provided. A code controller distinguishes a Walsh code used for spreading during data transmission and a Walsh code unused for spreading based on a signal-to-interference ratio required by the system, and separately... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070140100 - New interleaver design with column skip for ieee 802.11n standard: A MIMO wireless system includes a transmitter having a parser that parses a bit stream into multiple spatial data streams and multiple interleavers corresponding to the multiple spatial data streams, where each interleaver interleaves the bits in the corresponding spatial data stream by performing column skip operation and frequency rotation,... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070140101 - System and method for reducing peak-to-average power ratio in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signals using reserved spectrum: A method and apparatus for reducing the peak to average power ratio of an OFDM signal. The method involves operating on the signal only after it is converted to the time domain where the signal is compared to a power threshold and any signal above the power threshold is considered... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070140105 - Configurable block cdma scheme: The invention detailed here is in some ways a generalisation of many of the MUI-free techniques given above. In particular, it addresses three important special cases: reduced-complexity SC-FDMA, reduced-complexity OFDMA, and self-shift-orthogonal CP-CDMA. These methods provide scalable, low-complexity, MUI-free techniques. Furthermore, these techniques can easily be extended to multiple-input multiple-output... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140102 - Apparatus and method for assigning sub-carriers in an orthogonal frequency division multiplex system: An apparatus and method for assigning sub-carriers in an orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) system are disclosed. In the apparatus and method, data is transmitted through at least one transmit antenna. At least two sub-carriers in a predetermined frequency band are assigned to a user equipment (UE), for data transmission.... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070140103 - Interleaver design with column swap and bit circulation for multiple convolutional encoder mimo ofdm system: An improved interleaver design to fully explore the diversity of the MIMO OFDM systems provides higher diversity gain than usual. A method for wireless data communication using such interleaver design implements parsing a bit stream into multiple spatial data streams, interleaving the bits in each spatial data stream by performing... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070140106 - Synchronization channel for ofdma based evolved utra downlink: A method for performing cell search in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) based cellular communication network in which a primary synchronization channel (P-SCH), and optionally a secondary synchronization channel (S-SCH), carries cell search information. A downlink signal is received containing P-SCH symbols. The P-SCH symbols are processed to... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070140104 - System and method for timing acquisition and carrier frequency offset estimation in wireless communication based on ofdm: The present invention relates to a method for timing acquisition and carrier frequency offset estimation of an OFDM communication system and an apparatus using the same. For this purpose the present invention provides a method for calculating at least one auto-correlation and calculating an observation value by performing a sliding... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070140107 - Multicast operations using prioritized state information: A classification mechanism to allow selected classes of multicast entries to be acted upon in a chosen order of priority during multicast distribution tree convergence is provided. Such prioritization allows for the designation of customers, networks or multicast groups to receive faster convergence of multicast distribution trees to modified multicast... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070140108 - Swapping an operational networked electronic system for a nonoperational networked electronic system: A method of switching a network access configuration associated with a first electronic system to a second electronic system via a network is described. The first electronic system is inoperable. The second electronic system replaces the first electronic system such that a user seamlessly transitions from the first electronic system... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070140109 - Method for protection switching of geographically separate switching systems: A protocol is provided being executed with a redundancy of 1:1. As a result, an identical clone, with identical hardware, identical software and an identical data base, is allocated to each switching system to be protected, as a redundancy partner. Switching is carried out in a quick, secure and automatic... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070140110 - Peer communities: A software architecture that permits for a unified mechanism for interfacing with multiple peer groups. The architecture includes multiple peer group interfaces, each facilitating communication between computing systems in a corresponding peer group. In addition, a perhaps configurable number and type of service modules are configured to use the peer... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070140111 - Method and system for preventing data packet loss in a redundant pdsn environment: A method and apparatus are provided for preventing data-packet loss upon a switchover from an active to a standby PDSN, in a redundant PDSN environment. Data-packet loss is prevented by modifying the checking of the sequence number associated with the data-packets. The first sequence number received upon switchover is used... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070140112 - Geographic redundancy in communication networks: The present invention provides a redundancy mechanism for packet-based communication environments without requiring localized redundancy of session control entities. These session control entities are generally referred to as service nodes, which may act as proxies on behalf of the communication terminals being served. Instead of having a dedicated backup service... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070140114 - Method and apparatus for multi-path load balancing using multiple metrics: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for facilitating multi-path load balancing at a local node in a network. During operation, the system measures a value for a metric on a local link which couples the local node to a neighboring node. In addition, the system receives from... Agent: Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Flem

20070140113 - Method for providing quality-of-service based services in a packet network: The disclosure provides a system and method for providing a service in a packet-switched network at a selected Quality of Service (QoS) level. The method includes receiving a request for a service from a customer gateway at server connected to the packet-switched network; correlating the requested service to available network... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070140118 - Access multiplexer: In access multiplexers (1) comprising network interfaces (22) for interfacing network links (12) with network units (2) and comprising customer interfaces (23) for interfacing customer links (13) with customer units (3) and comprising coupling means (31) for coupling the interfaces (22, 23), allocating means (32) are introduced for allocating Medium... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070140119 - Access multiplexer: In access multiplexers (1) comprising network interfaces (22) for interfacing network links (12) with network units (2) and comprising customer interfaces (23-25) for interfacing customer links (13-15) with customer units (3-5) and comprising coupling means (31) for coupling the interfaces (22-25), allocating means (32) are introduced for allocating Medium Access... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070140120 - Data communication apparatus and module using human body: In circumstance of a wearable computing system, in order to effectively transfer data between electronic devices using electric property of human body, minimization, low power, and high-speed are required. Human body data communication apparatus and module using broadband signaling technology is provided to perform high-speed peer-to-peer data communication with a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070140116 - Interactive codec selection: A codec selection process is independent of a codec source. A codec table may be used that includes indexed codec references related to codecs stored in a codec source. The codec table and the codec source may be modified without affecting a codec selection process. This feature of an exemplary... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070140115 - Method for selection of an available transmission channel by sending a negative decision value and an additional positive decision value and corresponding base station, mobile terminal and mobile radio network: A transmission channel, for the transmission of messages from a mobile terminal to a base station, is selected after a terminal sends a send authorization request signal, for a particular transmission channel, to the base station and the base station sends a reply signal with a first decision value. The... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070140121 - Method of preventing denial of service attacks in a network: A system, method, and computer readable medium for preventing denial of service attacks in a network, comprising counting a data packet generated by an address on the network and blocking access to the network of the address if the counted data packets exceeds a pre-defined threshold. In other embodiments, the... Agent: Anthony Edw. J Campbell

20070140117 - Tracking and blocking of spam directed to clipping services: A method and apparatus tracks and blocks content requested by a first remote device for forwarding over a network to a second remote device. For a given content item, one or more usage identities are tracked. Usage identities may include any combination of one or more of a source identity,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070140122 - Increasing cache hits in network processors using flow-based packet assignment to compute engines: Methods and apparatus for improving cache hits in network processors using flow-based packet assignment to compute engines. Packet processing operations are performed on a network processor having multiple compute engines via execution of instruction threads on those compute engines. Via execution of the threads, a flow-based packet processing assignment mechanism... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070140123 - Control station apparatus, base station apparatus, terminal apparatus, packet communication system, and packet communication method: A control station apparatus wherein the transmission rate of packet data is controlled, thereby suppressing abandonment of packet data, improving the usage efficiencies of wireless and wire lines, and reducing an increase of delay time caused by buffering. In the apparatus, when receiving, from a buffer part (104), a signal... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070140124 - Method to preserve the order of packets of a same flow and transmitted either through a control plane or through a data plane of a telecommunication network element: A method to preserve the ordering of data packets of a same flow (P1-P4, P7, P8) passing either through a control plane (CP) or through a data plane (DP) of a telecommunication network element. The method comprises the step of, when the control plane starts processing the new flow, the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070140125 - Signal message decompressor: A method for decompressing a signalling message in a communications device in a communication system comprising the steps of receiving a virtual machine bytecode block for carrying out decompression on the signalling message; detecting in at least one part of the virtual machine bytecode block at least one predefined code... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070140126 - Method and system for originating connectivity fault management (cfm) frames on non-cfm aware switches: A system for originating connectivity fault management (CFM) frames on non-CFM aware switches is disclosed. In the disclosed system, an OAM (Operations Administration and Management) proxy networking device connected to a core Ethernet network operates with one or more CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) devices to which it is communicably connected... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070140129 - Ad-hoc network routing metric optimization: A network processing device calculates variable link metrics and then prioritizes selection of network links for sending packets according to the calculated variable link metrics. The variable link metrics can include a link capacity index that represents a combination of platform and interface capabilities for nodes on opposite ends of... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070140127 - Method and apparatus for efficient transfer of data over a network: A method and apparatus for improving the efficiency of a network. A source node determines the propagation delay for data to reach a destination node. This enables the source node to transmit data more efficiently by ensuring a greater portion of a specific time slot is used for receiving data... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20070140128 - System and method to provide routing control of information over networks: A system and method for controlling routing of data. It is determined whether at least one data flow is active, the at least one data flow having an ingress portion of a current ingress path to a first point from a second point and an egress portion of a current... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20070140131 - Interactive network monitoring and analysis: A network monitoring system and method processes captured message data to create a plurality of categories, provides summary data corresponding to each category, and displays the categorized summary data. The categories preferably include an identification of the source node and destination node of each message, and the summary data includes... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070140130 - System method and software for user customizable device insertion: Disclosed is a system method and software for user customizable device insertion. A new device is to be inserted in a loop based network such as an FC-AL network. The network is facilitated by a dedicated networking element, such as a switch. In order to ensure that the new device... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070140132 - Transit devices and system including a slow protocol filter and methods of transmitting information within a transit device or system using a slow protocol filter: A transit device and system that include a first link configured to receive a plurality of packets, and a second link communicatively coupled to the first link via a slow protocol filter. The plurality of packets include a first type of packet (e.g., data packets) and a second type of... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070140133 - Methods and systems for providing outage notification for private networks: Systems and methods provide outage notification. The disclosed systems and methods may include collecting network performance measurement data and processing the collected network performance measurement data in to a plurality of child events. Furthermore, the systems and methods may include correlating the plurality of child events according to at least... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070140134 - Method for estimating a subjective quality of a signal: A method for estimating a subjective quality of a signal carried over a transmission path. The transmission path is monitored at periodic intervals. For each of the periodic intervals, at least one impairment factor is measured, an estimated effect of each of the impairment factors is determined using at least... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070140135 - Methods and systems for providing performance testing for private networks: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing performance testing for private networks. The disclosed systems and methods may include connecting a management virtual private network with a customer virtual private network, the management virtual private network and the customer virtual private network are configured to recognize each other's presence. Furthermore,... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070140136 - Network loop monitor: A network loop monitor (10) is disclosed which comprises an RS485 port (16) for connection to a host which receives and transmits data. The port (16) comprises termination jumpers (14), a transmitter/receiver (34) and an isolator (36). The monitor (10) includes two further RS485 ports (18, 20) each of which... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20070140138 - Method and apparatus for use in an internet protocol (ip)-based device for providing a user with indications of conditions that may affect use of internet services: A method and an apparatus for use in an IP-based device having at least one indicator that conveys information to a user as to conditions that may affect use of an IP service by a user of an IP-based device. Such information includes, for example, network component ports that are... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070140139 - State negotiation method in pci-e architecture: In a state negotiation method of a PCI-E upstream device supporting multiple downstream configurations, a state of a second link asserted by a second state machine of the PCI-E upstream device is detected when a first link asserted by a first state machine of the PCI-E upstream device is ready... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20070140140 - System and apparatus for distributing data over a network: A system and method for the distribution of digital media content makes use of a network control element to manage the fragmentation of the digital content and to distribute the fragments of the digital content to different endpoint elements in the network. The network control element responds to endpoint element... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070140137 - System and method for diagnosis of misconfigurations in ethernet networks: System and method for diagnosing misconfigurations in a network are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises querying a network element for a current value of at least one parameter; determining an optimal value of the at least one parameter; comparing the current value of the at least one parameter... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070140144 - Service designs for communications networks: The production of a service design for a communications network in response to a provisioning order is described. An order specifies a change to the network between a start node and an end node, and at least one condition attaching to that change. A design model satisfying said at least... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070140143 - Communication device and method for managing a communication link in a network: A communication device and a method for managing a communication link 108 are provided. The method includes establishing 402 the communication link between an originator communication device 102 and a target communication device 104. The method also includes suspending 408 at least a portion of the communication link when the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070140142 - Computer method and apparatus for connection tree routing in visual modeling of software: Computer method and apparatus for connection tree routing in visual modeling of software is disclosed. Tree routing style is represented as a property of a subject connection. A router object manages location of bendpoints of the subject connection in a connection tree. The subject connection maintains an end node as... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20070140141 - Dynamic speed-dial list: Methods are provided for managing communications over a communications routing network. A data store is maintained of records of communications links established over the communications routing network between a first endpoint of the communications routing network and multiple second endpoints of the communications routing network distinct from the first endpoint.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070140146 - Method for managing network device data and network management system: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for managing network device data and a network management system. The method including: storing identifiers respectively for different types of device data at the device side; the network management system storing the identifiers of the different types of device data into a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070140145 - System, method and apparatus for authentication of nodes in an ad hoc network: A method and apparatus are provided for authenticating a first node M 220M in an ad hoc network 200. Node I 220I can receive a request from node M 220M to join the ad hoc network 200. This request includes, among other things, a biometric input associated with a first... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070140148 - Fast simulated annealing for traffic matrix estimation: The FastSATME method and system estimate source-to-destination traffic matrices using a simulated annealing algorithm, the traffic matrix estimation being represented as a probability distribution over the set of all possible matrices that satisfy a set of given constraints. The constraints explicitly encode information that the user knows about the network... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070140149 - Method and apparatus for optimizing convergecast operations in a wireless sensor network: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that optimizes packet transmissions during a convergecast operation in a convergecast network. During operation, the system receives a request to perform the convergecast operation in the convergecast network. This convergecast network includes a base-station and a plurality of nodes, wherein during... Agent: Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Flem

20070140147 - System and method for implementing multiple spanning tree protocol automatic 802.1q trunking: System and method for performing automatic trunk formation in a multiple spanning tree protocol (“MSTP”)-enabled bridge comprising a plurality of ports are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises determining which ones of the ports comprise MSTP trunk ports; forming an MSTP trunk group for each multiple spanning tree instance... Agent: Alcatel Internetworking, Inc.

20070140150 - Method and network for providing service blending to a subscriber: A method and communication network for providing a subscriber with a blend of services of the communication network delivered to the subscriber through a telephone and services delivered to the subscriber through a TV delivery system in communication with the network. Upon receipt of a message from a calling party,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070140151 - Discarded packet indicator: A source device (10) sends information to a destination device (12) through intermediary network elements (14). If an intermediary network element (14) needs to discard one or more packets of information, it sends a smaller informational packet to the destination device (12). Upon receiving the informational packet, the destination device... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070140152 - Multi-network aircraft communication systems and methods: Systems and methods for multi-network aircraft communications are disclosed. In one embodiment, a communication system includes a communications module executing in an onboard computer in an aircraft. Applications executing on the onboard computer generate messages, which the communications module transmits over one of a plurality of broadcast networks including ACARS... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070140153 - Radio communication terminal and reception control method: In a control of receiving service information, a controller in a radio communication terminal (AT) controls a communication section to receive broadcast data continuously for one cycle while a broadcast service is executed. When a packet among the broadcast data can not be received for some reason, retransmission of the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070140154 - Wireless communication apparatus and method for compensating offset using the same: A wireless communication system, apparatus and a method for compensating offset using the same are disclosed, in which offset due to latency in a power save mode is compensated. The wireless communication apparatus includes a frequency matched unit for compensating offset due to latency that may occur during communication between... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070140155 - Method for implementing multicast based on switchover between active board and standby board in access device: This present invention discloses a type of active and standby board backup and switchover method for access devices, comprising: maintain real time communications between standby board and active board, and check the operating status of the active board at all times; refresh standby board data based on changes to multicast... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070140156 - Method, system, and article of manufacture for data transmission: Provided are a method, system and article of manufacture for data communications. A transmitter transmits a plurality of packets, wherein each packet is transmitted after a time interval. A receiver receives at least one part of the plurality of packets. The receiver determines whether all parts of a packet are... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070140157 - Method and system for wireless lan network detection: A method and a system discover a wireless LAN network for a multi-mode handset in a power-efficient way. The method extends stand-by time for the cellular and wireless LAN multi-mode handset, taking advantage of that fact that the cellular interface demands less energy from the battery than the wireless LAN... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070140159 - Power-efficient address mapping scheme: The present invention relates to a method, system, client device, gateway device and computer program product for maintaining a state information in an intermediate network function, wherein the state information expires after a predetermined idle period. Detecting means are provided for detecting an idle state of a connection. In response... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070140158 - Method, apparatus and network arrangement for establishing calls in a communications network: A method for establishing calls in a communications network comprising a fixed network section and a mobile network section is provided. In the fixed network section, all calls to mobile called party addresses subscribers are signaled to a fixed network node capable of querying a home location register of the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070140167 - Apparatus and method for reducing map channel overhead in a broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for reducing MAP channel overhead in a broadband wireless communication system. In a Base Station (BS), a traffic classifier classifies transmission data into a first group and a second group according to user channel information and packet sizes of the transmission data. A MAP channel configure... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070140162 - Apparatus and method for transmission on a fractional dedicated physical channel: A method and apparatus for transmission on a fractional dedicated physical channel. The fractional dedicated physical channel is divided into a plurality of frames. Each frame of the plurality of frames has a plurality of slots. A slot of the plurality of slots can include at least one field. A... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070140165 - Base station uplink scheduler in wireless communication system and method thereof: A method of an uplink scheduler for a base station in a wireless communication system is provided. The wireless communication system performs uplink wireless access for a best effort service, based on random access. The uplink scheduler of the base station transmits downlink traffic data to a user terminal, and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070140164 - Method and system for decoding control channels using partial combining with weighted snr: A method and system for decoding SACCH control channels in GSM-based systems with partial combining using weighted SNR may comprise combining least one weighted bit of a GSM slow associated control channel (SACCH) frame with at least one weighted bit of a subsequent GSM SACCH block based on burst signal... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070140160 - Method for dynamically allocating power of a pilot channel: The present invention relates to a method for dynamically allocating the power of a pilot channel according to the load of the forward traffic channel, which can increase the capacity of a CDMA forward link. According to the present invention, the power allocated to a pilot channel is not fixed... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070140166 - Method, network device and user station for allocating resources to frequency bands of radio communication system: Resources of two frequency division duplex (FDD) frequency bands at a distance from each other are allocated for transmissions by a time division duplex (TDD) transmission method. The resources in the first FDD frequency band are allocated for FDD transmissions in the uplink and for TDD transmissions predominantly in the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070140161 - Multiple configuration communication apparatus: Multiple-configuration communication apparatus includes: a communication device (130) simultaneously maintaining at least a first and a second channel; a storage device (114, 116, 118) storing a plurality of communication configurations; and a configuration controller (120) determining a first time frame and during the first time frame, selecting a first communication... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070140163 - System and method for integrated wifi/wimax neighbor ap discovery and ap advertisement: A system and method wherein mobile nodes scan both 802.16 and 802.11 radio channels for neighbor access points. A mobile node reports both WiMax and WiFi neighbor access points to its parent access point. A parent access point advertises both WiMax and WiFi neighbor access points to child mobile nodes... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070140168 - Methods and apparatus for determining, communicating and using information which can be used for interference control: A wireless terminal receives a broadcast uplink interference report request conveying a requested report type and/or a locally unique base station identifier. The wireless terminal receives and measures broadcast reference signals, e.g., beacon and/or pilot signals, transmitted from a plurality of base station attachment points. Specific type interference reports relate... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070140169 - Dynamic quality of service (qos) provisioning using session initiation protocol (sip) module in wireless base stations: A method, apparatus and/or system for communicating in a wireless network may dynamically create and/or delete a medium access control (MAC) quality of service (QoS) connection in a wireless link between a base station and a mobile station. Each wireless base station in the network may include a packet classifier... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070140170 - Method for faster mobility handoff of a mobile node: When a mobile node moves to a network (foreign network) other than its home network, it must register with the home network so that the home agents are able to tunnel messages to the mobile node while it is operating in the foreign network. The present invention enables the mobile... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070140171 - Radio link management in distributed network architecture: In a mobile communication network, the call context for an active call is managed in a distributed manner following a cell change. When a mobile station migrates from one access node (AN) to another during the course of a call, the call state variables are transferred to the new serving... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070140172 - Radio network control: The radio node controller of one subnet sends a communication to an access terminal over a control channel through the infrastructure of another subnet. The radio node controller maintains an open traffic channel with an access terminal when the access terminal moves from a coverage area of the first subnet... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070140173 - Wireless communication terminal: A wireless communication terminal, comprises: a requesting section that is configured to request content of a broadcast/multicast service; a storage section that is configured to store information on the content requested by the requesting section; and a control section that, when a handoff is performed, is configured to control a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070140174 - Power control protocol for highly variable data rate reverse link of a wireless communication system: A technique for implementing closed loop power control in a wireless system using a modulation that requires synchronization over the radio channel, which dynamically assigns coded channels on a demand basis. The technique maintains a proper power level, even when no traffic channels are allocated, by determining a link quality... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070140175 - Atm switch for use in w-cdma: An ATM switch for use in a W-CDMA comprises two boards, thereby reducing the number of boards in order to increase the usability of rack space while mitigating the manufacturing costs. The ATM switch comprises a WSFA board for providing 16×16 LUDS ports of 155 Mbps and a throughput of... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070140177 - Method and apparatus for implementing beam forming in cdma communication system: The present invention relates to a device for realizing beam-forming in CDMA mobile telecommunication system by employing smart antenna technique and method thereof, which forms multiple fixed beams in a sector, and uses multiple fixed beams to form the traffic channel with narrow beams and the common channel with sector... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070140176 - Method for the transmission of additional information in a communication system exchange device, communication system and user station: The invention relates to a method for the transmission of additional information in a communication system, whereby a first user (A) in a communication system establishes a communication context for a second user (B) in the communication system, and, during the establishment of the communication context, additional information, for example,... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070140178 - System and method for transmitting random access data using orthogonal frequency division multiple access: Disclosed is a random access data transmission system and method using OFDMA. The system includes a scheduling ID into an access grant on a preamble for a random access, and transmits it together with an acknowledgment or a non-acknowledgment of the preamble, a base station uses the scheduling ID to... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070140179 - Tfc and e-tfc selection for a user equipment: A user equipment determines transport format combinations (TFCs) that are available for at a dedicated channel (DCH) based on at least a maximum transmit power for the user equipment. A TFC is selected from the available TFCs for the DCH. Based on a remaining power after the TFC selecting, enhanced... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070140194 - Method of detecting and solving network id conflict: A method of detecting and solving a network ID conflict is provided. The method of detecting and solving a network ID conflict includes generating and transmitting a personal area network identifier (PAN ID) report command frame that includes an extended PAN ID, and receiving a PAN ID update command frame... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070140196 - System for preventing ip allocation to cloned mobile communication terminal: A system for preventing IP (Internet Protocol) allocation to a cloned mobile communication terminal is provided, including: a mobile communication terminal generating a hash value obtained by hashing a user key inputted by a user and an ESN (Electronic Serial Number) with a hash function, and transmitting the hash value... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070140201 - Base station modulator/demodulator and atm cell send/receive method: A base station modulator/demodulator for constituting a mobile communication system and sending ATM cells to a higher rank station and receiving ATM cells from the higher rank station is provided. The base station modulator/demodulator comprises: receive means for terminating, among ATM cells received from the higher rank station through a... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070140183 - Call flow modification based on user situation: The call flow of a user is modified based on the user's situation. A set of context-specific information regarding a user is collected, without prompting the user for this context-specific information within a call with the user. For instance, the context-specific information can include locational information regarding the user, weather... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Mcginn & Gibb, PLLC

20070140197 - Communication method, control station, and communication apparatus: When a first communication apparatus issues a request for communication quality securement to a control station in order to select communication using a communication path via a control station or communication using a direct communication path between communication apparatuses, it is determined whether the communication partner of the first communication... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070140193 - Managing connections in a wireless communications network: A method of managing connections in a mobile communications network, the method comprising: transmitting over a connection from a network entity to a mobile device natural traffic and keepalive messages at a frequency determined by at least one keepalive parameter; at the mobile device, monitoring receipt of natural traffic and... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070140202 - Method and system for hierarchical processing of protocol information in a wireless lan: In a wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system, a hierarchical architecture is provided which employs a protocol which divides protocol processing functions between a plurality of substantially identical access elements in which reside time-critical protocol functions, such as acknowledgment and retransmission of packets, and a centralized control element which provides... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070140195 - Method and system for providing ip services using cable and wireless infrastructure: One embodiment of a Wireless Access Point system for use in a hybrid wireless/cable network, the system capable of authenticating a communication device (mobile and non-mobile) via DOCSIS and/or DOCSIS-compatible protocol and providing the IP service to the mobile device in accordance with a result of the authentication, including QoS... Agent: Ilan Kaftan

20070140190 - Method and system for uplink scheduling in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access network: A method of uplink scheduling in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access network is provided. The method includes classifying each of a plurality of users as one of an exploration user and a utilization user. The users are then scheduled based on the classification of each of the users as... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070140189 - Method for enabling communications between a communication device and a wireless access point: A system and methods (300, 500) are disclosed for enabling communications between a communication device and a wireless access point. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a multimode communication device (MCD) (106) having a controller (214) for managing operations of a multimode wireless... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070140186 - Method of blocking alert messages to mobile units: The present invention provides a method is provided for blocking alert messages to mobile units. The method includes determining at least one location of at least one mobile unit based on at least one response to a first page message provided to the at least one mobile unit. The method... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070140192 - Mobile station in wireless lan system, and method of guaranteeing bandwidth for the mobile station: A bandwidth requesting unit gathers requests for a bandwidth guarantee from a plurality of data communication devices connected to a mobile station, and makes a request for bandwidths for the data communication devices collectively to a base station. A transmission control unit multiplexes packets to be transmitted from the data... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070140198 - Mobile terminal and communication system: A mobile terminal and a communication system that can prevent user errors in transferring data are provided. In the communication system related to the present invention, the mobile terminal decides on a transfer of the video data from the storage device when a predetermined transfer condition has been satisfied. Thus,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140182 - Network information access system control method: A network information access system control method is cooperated with a track, at least an access point (AP) and a server. In this case, the access point is connected to the track. Additionally, the access point has a driving unit and a rolling unit. First step of the method is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070140199 - Power saving in multi-processor device: A mobile computing device comprises a first microprocessor having a sleep mode and a wake mode and a second microprocessor configured for wireless communication. A communication port is configured to communicate data from the second processor to the first processor, wherein the second processor is configured to provide a wake... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070140180 - Processing method of providing subscriber use equipment location information to request side: The present invention discloses a handling method for providing a client with the location estimate of a target UE. In the handling process of a requestor originating a LCS location request against a target UE to the LCS system and request the LCS system to provide the location estimate of... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070140184 - Radio frequency dragging prevention: A device receives information about signals detected by an access terminal, a first one of the signals corresponds to a radio node with which the access terminal is in communication, and if a second signal detected by the access terminal does not correspond to signals in use by the radio... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070140185 - Radio network communication: Techniques for enabling a radio access network to cause an access terminal in communication with the radio access network to send an update including information about a location of the access terminal.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070140188 - System and method for advertising the same service set identifier for different basic service sets: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method comprises advertising services by a first wireless device. The services are provided by different basic service sets, each basic service set having the same service set identifier (SSID). Thereafter, one of the basic service sets is selected.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070140187 - System and method for handling simultaneous interaction of multiple wireless devices in a vehicle: A wireless unit or hub for a vehicle includes a wireless communication interface, such as a Bluetooth® interface. The hub stores profiles for wireless devices that can actively interact with the hub. The wireless devices, which can be cellular phones, headsets, portable music players, and Personal Digital Assistants, are capable... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070140181 - System and method for integrated cellular access routing: A system (200) and method for integrated cellular access routing enables mobility across different cellular access networks. The system (200) includes a mobility router (300) and first and second media access controllers (310-1, 310-2) operatively connected to the mobility router (300). A first connectivity manager (325) is operatively connected to... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070140200 - System and method for over the air area code update: Systems and methods for modifying the area code in a wireless communication device are provided that provide authorization from the carrier. The wireless communication device contains a table of valid area codes in persistent memory. The table defines the complete set of area codes that can be used by the... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070140191 - Wireless lan device and communication mode switching method: A wireless LAN device for lessening failure in switching from infrastructure mode to ad-hoc mode. A radio wave coverage storage stores coverage information about coverage of radio waves amongst access points. A terminal information storage stores terminal information about terminals associated with the access points. A packet receiver receives, via... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070140204 - Communication device, communication node, and method for transmitting a message: A communication device (102), communication node (104), and method for transmitting a message are disclosed. The method includes calculating number of frames (402) in a message to be transmitted from the communication device. The method further includes determining transmission power (404) for the message based on the number of frames.... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070140203 - Method and device for estimating carrier frequency offset of subscriber terminal: The invention discloses a method of estimating carrier frequency offset for subscriber terminal, including: determining number of effective base stations from which more than one signals are received by a subscriber terminal; combining the signals of each station corresponding to said number of effective base stations; calculating a rough estimation... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070140205 - Rapid push-to-send data exchange method and apparatus: A system (20) and method (50) of establishing a rapid push-to-send data exchange in a multi-wireless network environment can include a first wireless network (24 and 26) having a fast network channel to exchange an Internet Protocol (IP) address or other data, a second wireless network (23 and 27) operatively... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070140206 - Spread spectrum communication device and spread spectrum communication method: In a compressed mode, a spread spectrum communication device interleaves bit units across multiple frames using an interleaver, reduces the spreading factor using a framing/spreading unit, outputs the compressed mode frames at a predetermined compressed mode frame timing, and increases the average transmission power in the compressed mode at a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140207 - Communication system, communication apparatus, communication method and base station: A communication method includes receiving broadcasting of a content intermittently by first communication system, and monitoring second communication system periodically by performing switching from the first communication system. In the first communication system, content is transmitted by being divided into packets, and transmission timings of the packets are shifted. Furthermore,... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070140208 - Method and system for multiple-input-multiple-output (mimo) communication in a wireless network: A method and a system for Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication in a wireless network are provided. According to the method, streams of the data of a user-equipment are communicated to a group of user-equipments that act as antennas for the user-equipment. The communication between the various user-equipments is through an Interlink.... Agent: William L. Botjer

20070140209 - Methods for the synchronization of multiple base stations in a wireless communication system: A plurality of base station devices are linked together and synchronized to facilitate communication between the respective base station devices and respective downlink subscriber stations. According to one embodiment of the invention, one of the base station devices is designated as a master device, and the other base station devices... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070140210 - Method and system for decoding control channels using repetition redundancy based on weighted bits: Various aspects of a system for decoding control channels using repetition redundancy based on weighted bits may include a processor that enables receipt of a current encoded information block from a signal received wirelessly via a control channel. The processor may also enable computation of an adjusted encoded information block... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070140212 - Apparatus and method for sampling frequency offset estimation and correction in a wireless communication system: A communication system, including a receiver, is described having a common clock source that drives both carrier frequency (fc) and sampling frequency (fs). The receiver comprises a first signal processing stage for down converting a received data stream to baseband, a demodulation module coupled to the first signal processing stage... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070140211 - Method and system for determining a minimum time of flight of a radio frequency transmission: A method and system for determining a minimum time of flight between communication devices is useful for correcting ranging errors induced by multi-path signals. The method includes transmitting a range request message, including a first periodically repeating synchronization sequence, from the first communication device via a first RF channel to... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070140213 - Systems and methods for providing a network bridge for udp multicast traffic: A multicast repeater is located on a host computer system on a network. One or more other multicast repeaters on other networks are discovered. These other multicast repeaters are located on networks that are separated from the network comprising the host by at least one networking device that is not... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070140225 - Enhancing cellular telephone capabilities using a multi-channel network: A method for efficient communication from a cellular telephone handset. The method begins with the step of providing a cellular telephone handset, including an interface to a computer software system for requesting a call and providing a desired call number. Then, the system sends a message from the handset to... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070140222 - Facilitating the exchange of a position on a waiting list: The present invention provides a method, computer-readable medium and software system for allowing computer users to exchange a position on a waiting list. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided that facilitates the exchange of one or more positions on a waiting list using networked computers. In this... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070140216 - Gps-assisted architecture for voip 9-1-1: A system receives a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) 9-1-1 call and Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) data from a first network device and identifies a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) using the received GPS data.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070140218 - Managing backhaul connections in radio access networks: Techniques for initiating a backhaul connection between a radio node controller and a packet data serving node of a radio access network based on a determination of a presence of a packet data session on an access terminal. Techniques for enabling a dormant access terminal in communication with a radio... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070140223 - Media stream management: In a method and system for managing at least one media stream from a media source to a media destination, where the media stream passes through at least one network, providing a media manager for managing the media stream and the at least one network for performing at least one... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070140214 - Method for accessing a packet-switched network financed by a provider for electronic trade and payment and for running a telecommunication system based on a partnership bonus principle: The process for bidder-financed packet-switched telecommunication partner system for electronic commerce and account of premiums for partners is a special service of an Internet Service Provider, where the said service enables the customers to access free of charge all the offered services of the sellers and bidders of services by... Agent: Zoltan Pal

20070140219 - Method for announcing a calling party from a communication device: A system and method are disclosed for announcing a calling party from a communication device. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a call processing system (102) can have a controller (108) for processing calls in a communication system (100). The controller can be... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070140220 - Method for seamless communications between a communication device and wireless access points: A system and methods (300, 400) are disclosed for seamless communications between a communication device and wireless access points. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a multimode communication device (MCD) (106) having a controller (214) to manage operations of a global position (GPS)... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070140215 - Methods and systems for providing voice network services using regulated and unregulated telecommunications infrastructures: Provision of voice telephony services includes providing government-regulated subscriber line transport using a first telecommunications infrastructure that includes analog and digital subscriber lines, and providing a non-government-regulated packet-based telephony (e.g., VoN) service for the digital subscriber lines and at least some of the analog subscriber lines using a second telecommunications... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070140224 - Personal gateway and the method of processing the same: The present invention provides a personal gateway comprising a controller, a voice port chip for VOIP (voice over Internet Protocols) application coupled to said controller and a pair of connectors comprising a Foreign exchange Subscriber (or Foreign exchange Station; FXS) and a Foreign exchange Office (FXO). A status detector is... Agent: The Maxham Firm

20070140221 - System and method for voice over internet protocol: The present invention includes both a system and a method for communication over Internet protocol. In its various embodiments, the system and method of the present invention is particularly well suited for communication via VoIP between a user and a recipient, wherein the recipient is a host or a representative... Agent: Kevin M. Farrell Pierce Atwood

20070140217 - System and method to support voip session by sharing existing packet data resource: An apparatus in one example has: a terminal operatively couple by at least one of a fundamental channel and a supplemental channel to a telecommunication system having packet data capability; the terminal having a packet data session that is established on a packet data path on the fundamental channel; a... Agent: Carmen B. Patti & Associates, LLC

20070140226 - Communication system, information processing apparatus, server, and communication method: A first information processor (1) transmits a bubble packet to a second communication control unit (4) for leaving transmission record in a first communication control unit (3) by way of the first communication control unit (3), a second information processor (2) transmits a reply packet to one or more ports... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070140227 - Receiver: A receiver for performing packet communication by using a serial transmission line, includes: a plurality of receiving circuits for generating reception data by receiving a transmission signal via the serial transmission line at timings of clock signals having different phases; a plurality of determining circuits for respectively determining an acceptability... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070140228 - Telecommunication system, method and subscriber unit for use therein: A telecommunication system includes a digital switch, a local loop coupling the digital switch to a subscriber location, wherein a segment of the local loop includes copper twisted pair and wherein an asymmetrical digital subscriber line is carried by the local loop, the asymmetrical digital subscriber line including a plurality... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070140229 - Method for cell reordering, method and apparatus for cell processing using the same: A method for cell reordering, a method and a related apparatus for cell processing are disclosed. The method for cell reordering includes steps of inserting time flags and sequence flags into cells by a sequence flag generating module; sending the cells from a source module to an object module; and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070140230 - Scalable router-switch: A scalable router-switch comprises a plurality of switch units each having consolidation means for data disassembling and reassembling. The switch units are arranged into switch modules and the switch units of each switch module are interconnected through a dual rotator to form a contention-free temporal mesh.... Agent: Maged E. Beshai

20070140231 - Smooth capacity expansion method and system for data communication products: This invention discloses a method for smooth capacity expansion of data communication product, and a smooth capacity expandable system of data communication. Architecture of the system at least comprises circuit card and switched network card; and further comprises interface card of switched network, interface transfer card and connection optical fiber.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070140232 - Self-steering clos switch: A self-steering switch includes an input stage, and output stage, and an arbitration stage. The input stage is configured to accumulate a surplus of switching cycles, allowing the arbitration stage to resolve traffic congestion without blockage. The arbitration stage includes a configuration memory, one or more arbitrators, and one or... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070140237 - Apparatus and method for traffic filtering in a communication system: A method includes receiving traffic through a first interface in a first group of interfaces at a switch. The first group of interfaces is associated with a first virtual network. The method also includes determining that the traffic is destined for a destination associated with a second virtual network and... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070140239 - Distributed services for mesh networks: Nodes in a mesh network are configured to access centralized Internet Protocol (IP) services whenever the Internet infrastructure is accessible and then dynamically switch to providing the IP services locally in the mesh network when the Internet infrastructure is not accessible and operate through collaborative cooperation. In one embodiment, a... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070140236 - Fibre channel traffic redirect scheme using fc nat acls: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for redirecting fibre channel data that is transmitted between a first and a second node, such as a host and target, in a storage area network (SAN) to an intelligent node that facilitates implementation of a service on such redirected data. Such redirection is provided... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070140240 - Internet switch router: An internet router is implemented as a network fabric of fabric routers and links. The internet router receives data packets from trunk lines or other internet links and analyzes header information in the data packets to route the data packets to output internet links. The line interface also analyzes the... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070140235 - Network visible inter-logical router links: A scheme for allowing logical routers to achieve data path efficiency and still maintain network visible virtual links is provided by allowing logical routers in the same physical router to share routing information using standard protocols in place of proprietary route leaking, and by analyzing received data packets to determine... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070140238 - Power management device with communications capability and method of use: A power management device can include a power management device housing, a power input associated with the power management device housing, and a plurality of power outputs associated with the power management device housing. At least certain power outputs can be connectable to one or more electrical loads external to... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070140233 - Resource sharing among network: A method for communication includes defining a resource-sharing group including two or more communication paths that traverse at least two different routes through a communication network, the routes traversing at least one common network element. A notification of an affiliation of the two or more communication paths with the resource-sharing... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070140234 - Signal transmission housing assembly: A signal transmission housing assembly is formed of a plurality of longitudinally interconnected signal transmission housings, wherein the casing of each individual signal transmission housing has a closed bottom plate and four closed surrounding wall plates, and an detachable top plate so as to form a chamber therein. An insertion... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20070140245 - Last hop topology sensitive multicasting key management: A system and method of managing multicast key distribution that includes associating a multicast address with each internal node of the key tree, wherein the key tree is created based on the last hop topology.... Agent: Watchstone P + D

20070140241 - Fast processing of multicast data: A memory stores destination addresses and a counter value for each of the stored addresses. A counter value for a stored address is incremented in response to receiving a message having a destination address matching the stored address. A controller determines a destination address of a received message and searches... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070140244 - Optimal algorithm for large message broadcast: A method and associated program storage device readable by a machine embodying the method for message broadcasting in a parallel computing environment is enclosed. The method comprises the steps of first performing a set up process phase by first determining how the message is sliced to be broadcasted and then... Agent: Lily Neff IBM Corporation - Ms P386

20070140242 - Reliable multicast operating system (os) provisioning: A method and corresponding system for multicast provisioning of operating systems (OS) at reduced bandwidth. The method includes providing a computing device on a digital communications network. An OS image is stored in the computing device, with the image including data sets or chunks making up one or more phases... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20070140243 - Systems and methods for selecting a transport mechanism for communication in a network: A publisher node in a network determines how many subscriber nodes in the network have subscribed to receive notification messages about data that is maintained by the publisher node. The publisher node also determines how many available connections the publisher node is configured to support. If the number of available... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070140246 - Dynamic quality of service (qos) provisioning in wireless networks: A method, apparatus and/or system for communicating in a wireless network may dynamically create and/or delete a medium access control (MAC) quality of service (QoS) connection in a wireless link between a base station and a mobile station. Each wireless base station in the network may have an integrated session... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070140247 - Inter-fe mpls lsp mesh network for switching and resiliency in softrouter architecture: Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Switched Path (LSP) tunnels provide protection and a switching mechanism between forwarding elements (FEs) and a control element (CE) for control and data traffic in a SoftRouter network.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070140251 - Method for implementing a virtual private network: A method for implementing VPN, including: configuring a static label for a VPN corresponding to a CE connected with a first PE; configuring, in a second PE static routes for reaching a network entity connected with the CE, the destination address of the static route is the network entity address,... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070140248 - Method for transmitting message in a resilient packet ring network: A method for transmitting packets in an RPR includes: pre-setting an MAC table having an item which is a corresponding relationship between the node MAC address and the UE MAC address of each node; an RPR node receiving an insert packet, performing the MAC table lookup, deciding whether an item... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070140249 - Processor comprising components: In processors (1) comprising components (11, 21) that comprise application parts (12, 22) and Internet Protocol processing parts (13, 23) for processing Internet Protocol information, the components (11, 21) are provided with Ethernet parts (14, 24) for processing Ethernet information and the processor (1) is provided with a bridge component... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070140250 - Shared application inter-working with virtual private networks: A method of providing a shared application infrastructure simultaneously to multiple independent virtual private networks with potentially overlapping IP addresses, involves connecting to an underlying layer 1, 2 or 3 virtual private network offering one or more virtual private networks, determining which virtual private network traffic is being received from... Agent: Marks & Clerk

20070140252 - Fast call setup method: In according with the teachings of the present invention, a method and apparatus for performing fast call set-up in a wireless network is presented (FIG. 2). A number of efficiencies are implemented to diminish the time required for establishing a call in a packet-based network. For example, call initiation (224)... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070140253 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing communications re-connection services: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing communications re-connection services is provided. The method includes determining whether a disconnection for a communications session occurring between at least two devices is voluntary. The method also includes automatically attempting to re-establish the communications session between the at least two devices... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070140258 - Method for dynamic bandwidth allocation in passive optical network: A method for dynamic bandwidth allocation in Passive Optical Network (PON), said PON includes a OLT and a plurality of ONUs accessing to the OLT, comprising: classifying traffic which is to be communicated between the OLT and the ONUs into a plurality of service types, and granting a different priority... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070140259 - Method and device for transmitting information with verification of unintentional and intentional transmission errors: For the transmission of information with verification of transmission errors, a useful information message (M) is transmitted in a determined frame while being associated with a determined number p of transmission error verification bits (CRC,S) also transmitted in the frame. In order to have an element allowing the verification of... Agent: Miller, Matthias & Hull

20070140254 - Method for packeting time-synchronous data during transmission in a packet data network: The invention relates to a method and device for packeting time-synchronous data during transmission in a packet data network. Several time-synchronous links exist in said packet data network, for which data packets are periodically sent in a recurrent manner. According to the invention, the beginning of data transmission of a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070140260 - System and method of single switch string hardware: An improved string switch architecture is provided having a partial shared memory. The string switch includes a plurality of input ports configured to classify incoming packets, wherein the destination output port and priority is determined at classification; a plurality of output ports, each having a string bank of memory units... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20070140261 - Method and apparatus for selecting a transport format combination: A method and apparatus for selecting a transport format combination (TFC) are disclosed. A TFC recovery and elimination unit generates an allowed transport format combination set (TFCS) subset by recovering supported TFCs and eliminating not supported TFCs based on allocated radio resources and parameters that are new. A multiplexing and... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070140256 - Dynamic use of multiple ip network interfaces in mobile devices for packet loss prevention and bandwidth enhancement: The particular status of a Multiple Network Interface Mobile Device (MID) is identified and particular problems associated with that status are addressed by activating different modes of operation depending upon whether the MID is stationary or in motion. In particular, when the mobile device is in motion, the multiple network... Agent: Watchstone P + D

20070140255 - Method and system for communication across different wireless technologies using a multimode mobile device: A mobile wireless device (302) can include a first processor (614) for establishing a first communication link using a first wireless communication protocol, a second processor (615) for establishing a second communication link using a second wireless communication protocol different from the first wireless communication protocol, and an interprocessor communication... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070140262 - System and method for routing signaling messages in a communication network: A system and method for routing signaling messages in a communication network includes an improved route engine having a plurality of dynamically loadable route trees encoded as standardized data files each provisioned for use according to a corresponding network service and having one or more nodes each encoded with logic... Agent: Schwartz Law Group, PLLC

20070140263 - Virtual machine system and method of network communication between virtual machines: A plurality of machine systems constituted by different VLAN constitution methods are integrated on one machine system by using virtual machines. An operation can be switched for virtual network interface cards to VLAN communication corresponding to VLAN ID set to a virtual network interface card or to VLAN communication corresponding... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070140264 - Address translation device and method for forwarding packets for the same: An address translation device includes a connection searching module, a table creation module, a media access control (MAC) address searching module, and a forwarding module. The connection searching module receives a packet, and searches a connection mapping table according to the packet. The connection mapping table includes a plurality of... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070140257 - Dtv transmitter and method of coding data in dtv transmitter: A DTV transmitter includes a pre-processor expanding original enhanced data, a data formatter generating enhanced data packets and inserting known data into the data packets, a multiplexer multiplexing the enhanced data packets with main data packets, a data randomizer randomizing the multiplexed data packets, an RS encoder RS-coding the randomized... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070140265 - Marking of a datagram transmitted over an ip network and transmission of one such datagram: The invention relates to a method of marking a datagram that is forwarded over an IP communications network by routers, which method comprises references in the fields of the datagram. When a datagram is received by a router, the router reads a reference entered in the datagram and looks up... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070140266 - Information handling system with virtualized i/o adapter ports: A communication port of a communications interface of an information handling system comprises a plurality of virtual ports. A first command is issued to obtain information indicating a number of images of virtual ports supportable by the communications interface. A second command is then issued requesting the communications interface to... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070140269 - Cellular communication system on a work machine: A work machine communication system for providing cellular network communications on a work machine includes a work machine controller configured to control at least one operation of a work machine. The system may also include a gateway device including a Web server, the Web server being configured to provide bidirectional... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070140274 - Centralised irrigation automation system for a building provided with local computer network with standard network protocol: A centralised automation system for an irrigation system is disclosed that is associable with a local computer network of standard type with a standard network protocol of a building in a so-called “building automation” context. The automation system comprises a field control unit (4) for receiving, storing and issuing irrigation... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070140276 - Communication system switching method, and terminal device using this method: A W-LAN communication unit, a personal handyphone communication unit and an EV-DO communication unit include communication functions corresponding to their communication systems. A W-LAN quality measurement unit detects a value corresponding to RSSI, which is the reception power. An EV-DO quality measurement unit periodically obtains EV-DO quality values. A throughput... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070140270 - Device, method and computer program product for controlling reception of broadcast content: A device for controlling reception of broadcast content includes a receiving module and an output interface. The receiving module receives broadcast content from a source. The output interface communicates the received broadcast content to a terminal. The device is configured to determine a state of the terminal. The device is... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070140271 - Method and system for terminating sonet/sdh circuits in an ip network: A method and system for terminating SONET/SDH circuits in an IP network includes a SONET/SDH to Ethernet inter-working device/functionality implemented in a network element for mapping SONET/SDH channels into logical channels over an Ethernet connection. The SONET/SDH channels are de-encapsulated to remove Layer-2 protocols and expose IP packets. The IP... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070140275 - Method of preventing denial of service attacks in a cellular network: A system, method, and computer readable medium for preventing denial of service attacks in a cellular network, that comprises, counting a data packet generated by an address on the cellular network and blocking access to the cellular network of the address if the counted data packets exceeds a pre-defined threshold.... Agent: Anthony Edw. J Campbell

20070140268 - Network with distributed authentication control: A bridged network system (10). The system comprises at least one network server (NS) for receiving and responding to authentication session requests. The system also comprises a plurality of bridge nodes (BRNx). Each bridge node in the plurality of bridge nodes is connected to communicate with at least one other... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070140273 - Packet relay system: A packet relay system requests a peripheral apparatus to perform filtering and enhances the quality of packet relaying. A path establishment block establishes a request path on which a packet to be proxy-filtered is sent and a return path on which a proxy-filtered packet is received. A request source filter... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070140272 - Portable communication device: A portable communication device comprising a router and a method for incorporating a router into a portable communication device. The portable communication device comprises a transceiver unit. The transceiver unit is adapted to communicate data with at least one communication network, and communicate data with at least one external electronic... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070140267 - System and method for implementing multimedia calls across a private network boundary: A system and method of the present invention for implementing multimedia calls across a private network boundary is provided, the system comprising a public network and at least one private network, and at least the following hardware components: at least one media gateway for connecting with multimedia terminals of various... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070140278 - Network system: A hub-free network system is provided in which control systems can operate normally for mutual communications, even though one of the plurality of control systems malfunctions. Each of the plurality of control systems has a network interface card, and each of the network interface cards has a plurality of communication... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070140277 - Packet transmission apparatus and processing method for the same: A packet transmission method. A switch, a server, and at least one host are provided. The switch comprises at least one first port and one second port and the host connects to the switch via the first port and the server connects to the switch via the second port. The... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070140280 - Computer chip for connecting devices on the chip utilizing star-torus topology: A computer chip including a plurality of routers, each of the plurality of the routers connected to the adjacent routers in the directions of an X axis and a Y axis; and a plurality of intellectual properties, each of the plurality of the intellectual properties connected to only one of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070140279 - Dynamic beaconing in wireless mesh networks: A method, apparatus and system for communicating in a wireless mesh network may relate to a mesh point observing beacon transmissions of one or more neighboring mesh points and dynamically determining if and when to transmit its own beacon based on these observations. Determining when to transmit the beacon may... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070140282 - Managing on-chip queues in switched fabric networks: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for monitoring a state of a device of a switched fabric network, the device including on-chip queues to store queue descriptors and a data buffer to store data packets, each queue descriptor having a corresponding data packet; detecting a first trigger... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070140281 - Network communication apparatus with shared buffers: An apparatus for network communication comprises a plurality of hardware sockets and a plurality of buffers shared by hardware sockets to store information received from and to be transmitted to the network. The buffer is capable of storing one data unit transferred on the network. The hardware socket is capable... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070140284 - System and method for communicating data packets: A method for communicating data packets is provided that includes receiving a data packet at a first processor. A packet handle and interface handle are attached to the data packet. The packet handle, interface handle, and data packet are communicated to a second processor. A plurality of data packets that... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070140283 - System and method for ims bridging: A system for IMS bridging includes an I-CSCF, a BGCF, an S-CSCF and an MGCF; and a method for IMS bridging, including: a caller starting a call, and an I-CSCF routing the call according to a network where the caller locates. According to this invention, the MGCF and S-CSCF can... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070140285 - Weighted fair queue having extended effective range: A scheduler for a network processor includes a scheduling queue in which weighted fair queuing is applied to define a sequence in which flows are to be serviced. The scheduling queue includes at least a first subqueue and a second subqueue. The first subqueue has a first range and a... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070140286 - Bonding circuit for a line card and method for bonding data fragments: In a method for bonding data fragments, data fragments are delayed in such a manner that a first transmission time for a direct transmission of data fragments between a master line card and a terminal connection via a first group of subscriber lines of a telephone line bundle corresponds to... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070140287 - Controlling the configuration of a transmission path: A method, system and unit for controlling the configuration of a transmission path coupling a first unit and a second unit is disclosed. The first unit and the second unit are configurable to support the transfer of information items over the transmission path in time-slots of successive transmission frames in... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070140288 - Method and apparatus for accommodating tdm traffic in an ethernet passive optical network: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for accommodating time-division multiplexing (TDM) traffic in an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON). During operation, the system receives data from an upstream TDM channel at a remote node and stores received data in a segmentation buffer. The system encapsulates the data... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070140289 - Transceiver power backoff: A device and method of setting transmit power backoff of a transceiver within a network is disclosed. The method includes estimating a channel loss of a channel of the transceiver, obtaining channel loss information, the channel loss information including estimates of channel loss of other channels of the network, obtaining... Agent: Teranetics Patent Dept

20070140290 - Device network interface: The terminal device has a network transceiver and a processor having a first program to cause the processor to transmit a packet of data using the network transceiver in accordance with a data transmission protocol. The first program begins transmission of a packet by sending data to a transmit signal... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070140291 - Data segregation and fragmentation in a wireless network for improving video performance: A wireless communication device comprises an input terminal configured to communicate data with a processor. A segregation circuit (150) is coupled to the input terminal and configured to identify predetermined data and to separate more important data from less important data. A memory (112) is configured to store at least... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070140292 - De-interleaver synchronization methods and apparatus: A methods and apparatus for synchronizing a de-interleaver are disclosed. One example method includes fixing a phase of a de-interleaver in a first state; de-interleaving symbols in the signal while the phase of the de-interleaver is in the first state; processing the de-interleaved symbols; detecting if the known information is... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070140294 - Communication message conversion apparatus and communication message conversion method: A communication conversion apparatus achieve efficient conversion without conversion delay and converts messages that effect communication with different communication protocols and schedules. In a message conversion apparatus that performs message conversion of different communication protocols, a routing circuit and a scheduler circuits that perform scheduling of the different communication protocols... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070140293 - Rfci mapping to support backward-compatible transcoder-free operation for umts: A transcoder-free operation (TrFO) implementation is disclosed that provides backward-compatibility, or interworking between nodes supporting Iu UP version 1 and version 2. A media gateway (MGW) on the terminating side of a prospective call detects mismatching RFCI values between an originating and terminating side of a prospective call, such as... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20070140295 - Packet data analysis program, packet data analyzer, and packet data analysis method: There is provided a packet data analysis program and a packet data analyzer that analyze packet data captured at a plurality of locations on a network and correct the time at which the packet data is captured. A packet data analysis program allows a computer to execute analysis of packet... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070140296 - Frame format decoder and training sequence generator for wireless lan networks: A frame format decoder (22) and training sequence generator (24) for determining the frame format of received data which is compliant with the IEEE 802.11b standard for wireless local area networks, and for providing a training sequence for an adaptive equalizer (16). The received signal is first despreaded, demodulated and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070140297 - Extensible protocol processing system: The present invention relates to an extensible protocol processing system. The system of the invention is mounted between a host and a network, and is utilized to offload partial network protocol packets of the host. The protocol processing system comprises a microprocessor, a host interface device, a medium access controller,... Agent: Volentine Francos, & Whitt PLLC

20070140298 - Method and apparatus of downstream communication for a full-service cable modem system: A method and system are disclosed for enabling full-service communications between a full-service cable modem termination system (fsCMTS) and a plurality of full-service cable modems (fsCMs) for a conventional two-way hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) cable television network. Full-service communications include data, voice and video. Video includes broadcast quality MPEG-2 transport packet... Agent: John Wai Tsang Eng

20070140299 - Method and network for providing service blending to a subscriber: A method and communication network for providing blending of services to a subscriber of one or more services of the communication network for a phone of the subscriber and one or more services of a TV delivery system in communication with the network utilizing a server broker function. Upon receipt... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070140300 - Packet based media delivery system with community channel manager: A packet based media delivery system (201) has a media store for media assets, and a channel manager enabling packet based delivery of the media assets through broadcast channels and/or on-demand channels to end users (204). According to the invention, the packet based media delivery system (201) further has a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070140301 - Performance logging using relative differentials and skip recording: The present invention is directed towards “skip” and “differential” recording techniques for recording values of network parameter to a log in a lossless manner while reducing storage resources used to record such values. The counter monitor of the present invention monitors and records values of counters at time intervals to... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20070140302 - System for real-time change of slot duration within a wireless network: A supervisory communications device, such as a base station within a wireless network, monitors and controls communications with a plurality of remote communications devices, such as mobile nodes, throughout a widely distributed network, including the Internet. The supervisory device establishes the upstream slot structure and allocates upstream bandwidth by sending... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070140304 - Method of controlling resolution of digital data broadcasting receiver, apparatus therefor, and digital data broadcasting receiver using the same: Provided are a method of controlling a resolution desired by a user in a graphics device of a digital data broadcasting receiver, an apparatus therefor, and a digital data broadcasting receiver using the same. The method includes providing a list of resolutions available on a graphic plane to a user;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070140303 - Real-time wireless sensor network protocol having linear configuration: A network configuration method of a sensor network configured to collect sensed data from a plurality of sensor nodes comprising: arranging linearly a path of respective node so as to enable all sensor nodes except for a sink node and a terminal node to have respectively a predecessor and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070140305 - Systems and methods for measuring transport utilization: Systems and methods of measuring transport utilization are provided. A method may include receiving data regarding a number of stuff bits used to pad an unused portion of at least one frame. The at least one frame may have a fixed data payload. The method may also include determining a... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070140306 - Identifying existence and rate of jitter during real-time audio and video streaming: Various embodiments of a computer-implemented method, system and computer program product identify jitter in a multimedia datastream comprising packets which are sent from a web server in a web server computer to a client computer. An agent in the web server computer computes packet intervals associated with the packets which... Agent: International Business Machines Corp.

20070140307 - High definition media storage structure and playback mechanism: An apparatus and method for storing and playing high definition content is disclosed. This invention provides a mechanism for storing and playing back high definition content on a medium such as DVD optical disc. One aspect of the invention is that elementary streams may be multiplexed and processed in a... Agent: David Grossman

20070133385 - Reverse id class inference via auto-grouping: Class information is leveraged to facilitate in grouping identifications (ID) to allow ID range-to-class mapping information to be determined. ID range-to-class inference techniques are employed to determine similarities of IDs associated with a class, creating ID range-to-class mapping. Identifications can include Internet Protocol (IP) addressing, telephone numbers, and other sequenceable... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070133386 - Downlink signal configurating method and device in mobile communication system, and synchronization and cell searching method and device using the same: Disclosed is a downlink signal configuring method and device, and synchronization and cell search method and device using the same in a mobile communication system. A downlink frame has plural symbols into which pilot subcarriers are distributively arranged with respect to time and frequency axes. Initial symbol synchronization and initial... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070133388 - Apparatus and method of controlling action change gap in multi-hop relay cellular network: An apparatus and method of controlling an action change gap interval in a multi-hop relay cellular network, includes constructing a first symbol included in a first frame as a first interval for a first action change and a second interval for exchanging data; and constructing a last symbol included in... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070133387 - Cognitive ultrawideband-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing: The present invention provides a system and method for transmitting an ultrawideband (UWB) signal that is composed of an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) based signal that is transmitted in an underlay manner and an impulse radio based signal that is transmitted in an overlay manner. The system and method are... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20070133391 - Apparatus and method for carrier frequency synchronization in an ofdm system: An apparatus and method for carrier frequency synchronization in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system are provided for correcting an initial carrier frequency offset in the OFDM system. A metric generator for frequency estimation performs a first accumulation process for a value computed by multiplying a Phase Reference Symbol... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070133389 - Circular fast fourier transform: A DIF FFT stage is used in an N bin FFT, wherein N is an even integer. The DIF FFT stage includes swap logic that receives a first input sample, x(v), and a second input sample, x(v+N/2), and selectively supplies either the first and second input samples at respective first... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070133390 - Synchronization codes for wireless communication: Techniques for supporting synchronization in wireless communication are described. A Node B generates a primary synchronization code (PSC) having a length of L chips based on a first inner sequence and a first outer sequence, where L is less than 256. The Node B also generates a sequence of secondary... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070133392 - Method for adjusting fft window positioning in mb-ofdm uwb system: Provided is a method for adjusting Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) window positioning in a Multi Band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Ultra-Wideband (MB-OFDM UWB) system. The method includes the steps of acquiring an initial FFT window position and a frequency hopping position, demodulating a received signal by using the initial FFT... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133393 - Multi-carrier receiving method and multi-carrier receiving apparatus: In a multi-carrier communication method that receives and demodulates a signal to which a guard interval has been attached for every group of a plurality of multi-carrier transmission symbols, the present invention removes the guard intervals from the received signal, performs Fourier-transformation processing together for the plurality of multi-carrier transmission... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070133395 - Avoiding deadlocks in performing failovers in communications environments: Deadlocks are avoided in performing failovers in communications environments that include partnered interfaces. An ordered set of steps are performed to failover from one interface of a partnered interface to another interface of the partnered interface such that deadlocks are avoided.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070133394 - Communication connection control systems and methods: Communication connection control systems and methods are disclosed. If a control failure recovery function is to be enabled for a data communication connection established by a communication connection controller by communicating control information with a remote controller, an indication that the control failure recovery function is supported at the controller... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC.

20070133396 - Method for re-routing data packets onto an alternative network: In one aspect, a method for re-routing data packets of a packet-switching network onto an alternate network that assures a quality requested by a network user is provided. Data packets to be routed via an alternate network in the source node by a bit pattern known to the access node... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070133397 - Smart mechanism for multi-client bidirectional optical channel protection scheme: Methods and apparatus for efficiently allowing protection switch information to be communicated on bidirectional lines are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for communicating protection switch information from a first network element to a second network element across bidirectional links that include at least one... Agent: Aka Chan LLP / Cisco

20070133398 - Method for implementing bidirectional protection switching in multiple protocol label switching network: A method for implementing a bidirectional protection switching in a Multiple Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, mainly includes: configuring bidirectional protection switching strategy for two bidirectional Label Switching Path (LSP) each of which includes two LSPs in opposite directions according to an Automatic Protection Switching (APS) protocol; and implementing the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070133399 - Data processing in which concurrently executed processes communicate via a fifo buffer: A processing circuit executes a data producing process and a data consuming process. The data producing process produces a stream of data, the data consuming process consumes the stream of data concurrently with production of the stream. A first-in first-out buffer passes data from the stream between the data producing... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070133404 - Interface link layer device to build a distributed network: An interface link layer device (1) of an interface which allows the interconnection of different networks to build a distributed network according to the present invention routes complete data packets directly to another interface link layer device (1) that serves the destination via uplink means (10, 11, 12, 13, 14,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070133401 - Qos control apparatus in multi-cell network system and method thereof: The present invention relates to a QoS information controller in a multi-cell environment and a method thereof. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the QoS information controller is used in the multi-cell environment to determine the traffic characteristic, the mobile communication system characteristic, the traffic processing capacity,... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070133400 - System for receiving call having priority in call regulation method for receiving call having priority, and program thereof: A mobile terminal (1) includes a call request unit (11), a memory unit (12), and a call request probability generation unit (13). A base station (2) includes a t traffic measurement unit (21), and a call regulation transmission unit (22). The call request unit (11) acquires a transmission destination telephone... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070133402 - Terminal and method for managing bandwidth of terminal: A terminal includes a higher level bandwidth manager and a lower level bandwidth manager. The higher level bandwidth manager generates a guaranteed access request message including size information of a bandwidth corresponding to user data, transmits the guaranteed access request message, and transmits a user data transmission message including the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070133403 - Voip endpoint call admission: The present invention is directed generally to an intelligent endpoint or communication device that can collect available bandwidth-related information metrics and/or perform call admission control functions. The present invention is further directed to an architecture comprising a switch or media server in communication with a plurality of subscriber communication devices... Agent: Ted S. Daniel

20070133409 - Allocating access across shared communication medium to user classes: A method of providing network access across a shared communications medium between competing users includes the step of allocating network access for each user for a future time interval. Features include forecasting network access of the users in a future time interval, and prioritizing the users for allocating network access... Agent: Chad D. Tillman/ Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP Suite 1125

20070133408 - Apparatus and method for authenticating traffic using packet header information: Provided is a traffic authentication apparatus using information on a header of a packet for traffic authentication. The apparatus includes a call admission control agent receiving a call admission request from a calling terminal; a network controller determining whether to approve the call admission request received by the call admission... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070133405 - Congestion controller for network transmissions: A congestion controller for a media server monitors both the buffer status of the client device as well as the network performance. The congestion controller may increase or decrease the pacing of packets transmitted over the network based on the fullness of a buffer on the client device, but may... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070133407 - Dynamic bandwidth allocation apparatus and method: The present invention relates to a bandwidth allocation apparatus and a method thereof. The present invention provides a method for adaptively allocating and controlling radio channels to multimedia traffic having various characteristics. Particularly, the present invention proposes a method for maximizing a system resource use rate while satisfying a communication... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070133406 - Technique for enabling traffic engineering on ce-ce paths across a provider network: A technique enables Traffic Engineering (TE) on paths between customer edge devices (CEs) across a provider network (“CE-CE paths”) in a computer network. According to the novel technique, TE is configured on a link from a sending provider edge device (PE) to a first CE (“PE-CE link”), e.g., a CE... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070133410 - Data communication network having multidimensional link structure: The present invention provides a data communication network that has a link structure that allows a large traffic-handling performance to be obtained with a small network construction cost. In the data communication network of the present invention, the nodes are assigned with m-dimensional coordinates (J1, J2, J3, J4, J5, .... Agent: Venable LLP

20070133411 - Method of downlink rate control: The present invention provides a method involving at least one base station and at least one mobile unit is provided. The method includes receiving rate control information associated with at least one wireless communication channel between the at least one base station and the at least one mobile unit. The... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070133413 - Flow control in a video conference: In a videoconference images are not always displayed across the entirety of a viewing endpoint's screen. For example, a user may wish to view more than one videoconference participant at a time. Providing images of more than one participant can result in large amounts of bandwidth being required to transmit... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20070133417 - Late frame recovery method: Method of processing a transmitted encoded media data stream is received. If a data element arrives prior to, or at, a predetermined playout deadline, the data element is decoded, the media represented by the decoded data element is played, and the data element is provided to a decoder state machine... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070133415 - Method and apparatus for flow control initialization: According to one embodiment of the invention, a credit/debit flow control mechanism performs credit initialization by a combination of standard protocol level messages (e.g., one or more flits) with encoded credit return values and the use of saturating counters.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070133414 - Method for faster detection and retransmission of lost tcp segments: A method, network receiver and TCP network that enables a receiver-side triggering of the fast retransmit mechanism when a TCP packet/segment is lost or received out-of sequencing order. The receiver is enhanced with a Fast Retransmit Support (FRS) utility that monitors when a next received packet is out-of-order and responds... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070133412 - Method of transferring data: A method for transferring data between a first computer and a second computer includes detecting and recording occurrences, which reduce quality and which lead to a deterioration in the quality of the transferred data.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070133416 - Transport control method in wireless communication system: A transport control method in a transmitter of a wireless communication system, which includes a transport layer having a congestion control function of transmitting data in a segment basis and retransmitting a segment if an RTO timer expires before receipt of an ACK segment is received in response to transmission... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070133419 - Communication traffic congestion management systems and methods: Communication traffic congestion management systems and methods are disclosed. Communication traffic is analyzed to determine its type, and a traffic congestion management function to be applied to the received communication traffic is selected based on the determined type and a level of communication traffic congestion. Congestion levels may be determined... Agent: Arnold B. Silverman Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070133418 - Transmission control protocol with performance enhancing proxy for degraded communication channels: The integration of an improved retransmission protocol into a performance enhancing proxy (PEP) for degraded communication links. Various embodiments of the invention include congestion control, window size adjustment algorithms, connection negotiation features, and connection establishment acceleration features.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070133420 - Multipath routing optimization for unicast and multicast communication network traffic: Multiple paths in a communication network are provided between at least one source node and at least one destination node. The network arrangement may thus support either unicast transmission of data or multicast transmission. Measurements are made at nodes of the network to determine a partial network cost for data... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070133421 - Digital subscriber line access multiplexer writing validation: A test system detects proper connection wiring in a connection frame between a customer's lines and a DSL Access Multiplexer (DSLAM). A multi-loop tester at a central office generates a test signal on low frequency lines to a customer's connection in a connection frame. A signature circuit is electrically connected... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070133423 - Data transmission method, data transmission system, transmitter and receiver: A data transmission method etc. is provided. At a transmitting side, if a frame contains transmission data, frame data containing the transmission data and a calculated error-detecting code is generated. If the frame contains no transmission data, frame data containing neither transmission data nor an error-detecting code is generated. At... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070133422 - Methods, computer programs, and systems for verifying a customer premises connection to an integrated communication system: Verifying a customer premises connection to a communication system having a plurality of ports, each of which serves a corresponding customer premises. A known quantity of data is transmitted to an address corresponding to a specific customer premises. A quantity of data received at a first trial port of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070133424 - Onu delay and jitter measurment: A system and method provide measurement of round trip delay and jitter in an optical network without adding cost to the components of the network. A method of determining round-trip delay and jitter in an optical network comprises the steps of a) transmitting a test frame over the optical network... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070133425 - End of line monitor using docsis: The invention relates to a system for end-of-line monitoring of HFC networks by using a main tuner dedicated to receiving measurement requests from a network monitoring server via a DOCSIS downstream channel, and an auxiliary tuner used for the purpose of performing measurements of the downstream channel by analogue and... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070133426 - Data encoding and decoding method for transmitting multiple redundant copies of a data packet: A method for transmitting information from a transmitter to a receiver over a forward only communication channel includes generating and transmitting multiple data packets at each input data event. Each data packet includes a data field having a first data portion encoding an identification code identifying the input data event... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070133431 - Media access control method in wireless local area network: A media access control method in a wireless local area network is provided. The media access control method includes assigning a QoS (quality of service) slot to each of mobile terminals which request a transmission of a voice frame by exchanging frames for ensuring QoS between the mobile terminals and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133429 - Parameter setting device and method: An embodiment of the invention provides a parameter setting device. The parameter setting device is disposed in a client connected to the Internet via a network device, and includes a status detecting module, a user interface, a parameter generating module, and a data module. The status detecting module detects a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070133430 - Periodic media reservation method for qos data having periodic transmission characteristic in wireless local area network: Provided is a method for reducing a transmission delay on the basis of non-contention without performing backoff and polling when transmitting an audio frame of a radio frequency (RF) link section in a voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) system having a wireless local area network (WLAN) function. The method includes the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133428 - System and method for providing dynamic qos based upon group profiles: A usage pattern is determined for at least one member (102 or 104) of a group. A Quality-of-Service (QoS) level (114) is determined for the group and is based upon the usage pattern of the at least one member (102 or 104) of the group. The QoS level (114) is... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070133427 - System and method for providing high speed content and services: A first communication is associated with a group. A backhaul path to a network (108) is determined for the first communication based upon a Quality-of-Service (QoS) level associated with the group. The first communication is backhauled to the network (108) via the backhaul path.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070133432 - Methods and system for measuring the round trip time in packet switching telecommunication networks: A method and related system measure the round trip time in the communication of packets between ports of a packet switching communication network in which, among other packets, report packets, like RTCP packets of the SR type, are transmitted by transmitting ports to destination ports in response to previous packets... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070133433 - Apparatus and method of selecting label switched path in network management system: Provided are an apparatus and method of selecting a label switched path (LSP) in a network management system. The apparatus comprises a status analyzing unit which analyzes and digitizes performance information, fault occurrence, and fault history of a link in order to convert the performance information, fault occurrence, and fault... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070133434 - Network router failover mechanism: A method, system, and logic for determining connectivity information for routers running on servers that are attached to a device. A router is resigned in favor of a corresponding router at another server when the corresponding router has better connectivity to the device, where partial connectivity is better than no... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070133436 - Audio bridge for network conferencing: An audio management apparatus manages simultaneous streams of packet-switched audio data for a network conference tool. The apparatus uses a receiver thread to receive packets input from different audio connection points, and a sender thread to send modified packets to the audio connection points. The apparatus uses a plurality of... Agent: Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070133435 - Method and system for floor control for group call telecommunications services: A telecommunications network (10) comprises a group call service server (18) which facilitates a group call over a radio interface (32) between different user equipment units (30) in a defined group within the telecommunications network. The group call service server (18) receives a floor request from a requesting user equipment... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070133438 - Method and system for reserving resources in a conferencing system: A method for reserving resources in a conferencing system includes receiving a conference reservation request for a first conference comprising at least one invitee. The method also includes reserving for the at least one invitee a conference resource to allow the at least one invitee to participate in the first... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070133437 - System and methods for enabling applications of who-is-speaking (wis) signals: A system for enabling controlled application of derived who-is-speaking indications related to activity of participants to a live multiparty communications conference or recorded outputs. The system includes a first node hosting a conference bridging switch, software or a combination thereof, having multiple conference input channels; a second node having data... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070133439 - Method and apparatus to facilitate transferring chairmanship of an ad-hoc conference call: One detects (101) an indication from an initiator of a presently supported ad-hoc conference call who seeks to transfer chairmanship of the presently supported ad-hoc conference call to another conference call participant. The chairmanship is then transferred (102) to this other participant to thereby provide a presently supported ad-hoc conference... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070133441 - Apparatus and method of variable bandwidth multi-codec qos control: An apparatus and method of variable bandwidth multi-codec quality of service (QoS) control are provided. The apparatus for controlling the QoS of a variable bandwidth multi-codec includes: a network state detection unit detecting a network state including at least one of a packet loss ratio, a packet loss interval, and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133440 - Session initiation protocol (sip): According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a SIP network element, for processing messages received from other SIP elements in a network of SIP elements, wherein the element is adapted for receiving a predetermined type of SIP request, the request comprising a plurality of headers and... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070133442 - Two-way communications device having a single transducer: Embodiments of the invention provide a small and economical two-way communications device that has both an excellent echo-cancellation function that substantially suppresses echoes over the entire frequency range and an excellent voice-operated exchange function that provides natural switching of conversation sounds while protecting against unnatural disconnection or echoes during conversation,... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070133443 - Automatic tuning of multicavity filters of microwave signals: The system for the automatically tuning of multicavity filters of high frequency signals, by means of screws sticking out from the lid of the plate incorporating said cavities, comprises a robotized movement imparting subsystem SUB-1A, a measuring subsystem SUB-2M for the extraction of the transfer characteristic, a subystem SUB-3C to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070133447 - Dual cts protection systems and methods: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide dual CTS protection (DCTS) systems and methods. One method embodiment, among others, comprises receiving a first frame of a transmit opportunity (TXOP), and sending a short frame with a modulation that depends on whether the first frame is an extended range or normal... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070133445 - Expanding cell radius in a wireless communication system: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for a wireless communication between a base station and at least one mobile station. The method includes receiving a request for a data rate from the mobile station on a reverse link channel to the base station. The method further includes,... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070133444 - Telemote: a remote control for home and entertainment use: A duel sided remote which has a universal television remote on one side that can also control selected home lighting. Along with other entertainment devices such as DVD player. On the opposite side there is a cordless rechargeable telephone with a sliding face cover over the numeric pad which allows... Agent: Wayne A. Beale

20070133446 - Transmitting apparatus of wireless communication system and method thereof: The present invention relates to a transmitting apparatus of a wireless communication system, and a method thereof. The transmitting apparatus monitors receiving of response data for data that has been transmitted to a receiving end, and sets a first parameter for counting successful receipts according to receiving on the response... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070133448 - Method and apparatus for optimal atim size setup for 802.11 networks in an ad hoc mode: A method for power saving in an ad hoc wireless computer network determines an optimal ATIM message exchange window. The method (a) determines an effective number of nodes that participate in exchanges of ATIM messages during an ATIM window; (b) using the effective number of nodes, calculating a length for... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070133450 - Broadcasting apparatus, radio terminal and communication system: An access point obtains an incoming call monitoring timing at which each portable telephone accesses a BTS (base station) based on terminal identification information of all (or some) portable telephones managed by the access point. The access point assigns timings that do not overlap with the incoming call monitoring timing... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070133449 - Method for associating multiple users with a shared downlink channel: The present invention provides a method for associating multiple users with a shared downlink channel. One embodiment of the method may include associating an identifier with a plurality of mobile units and providing at least one multicast service to the plurality of mobile units over a shared channel using the... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070133451 - Perodic ranging in a wireless access system for mobile station in sleep mode: A method of performing a ranging process between a base station and a mobile station in sleep mode in a wireless access system, wherein the base station provides the mobile station with an initial notification of a periodic ranging time that occurs during a sleep time interval and during which... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070133454 - Method and apparatus for packet scheduling in a wireless network: Method and apparatus for packet scheduling in a wireless network is described. First values for a data transmission rate are measured for each of a plurality of mobile stations over time. Second values for a function of the data transmission rate are computed using at least one of the first... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070133456 - Method and system for receiving multimedia broadcast/multicast service control information, and ue thereof: A method for receiving Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) control information includes: a network side transfers a system information block in a broadcast channel, the system information block includes Radio Link Control Layer (RLC) configuration information; a User Equipment (UE) selects a new cell, and obtains the available RLC configuration information... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070133452 - Method for signaling a path to radio stations of a radio communications system: A method determines a path between a first and a radio station of a radio communication system, whereby the radio communications system comprises, in addition to the first and the second radio station, one or more additional radio stations. A frequency band subdivided in to a number of subbands is... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070133453 - System and method for management of a wireless environment: Described is a system and method for management of a wireless environment. The system may includes a network management arrangement (“NMA”), a wireless mobile unit (“MU”) and an access point (“AP). The AP receives a request for an association from the MU and transmits the request to the NMA. The... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070133455 - System and method for multicasting through short range mobile-to-mobile communication: It is determined whether a first mobile station (102) should receive multicast communications. A control message is sent to at least one of the first mobile station (102) and a second mobile station (104). The control message initiates a mobile relay of multicast communications received at the second mobile station... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070133459 - Apparatus and method for controlling transmission rate in a wireless lan: An apparatus and method for controlling transmission rate by determining whether a data transmission failure is caused by a channel error or a data collision in order to reduce a collision-caused rate decrease or a collision-caused rate increase delay in a WLAN. A collision-caused data transmission failure and if the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070133460 - Apparatus and method for processing ranging channel of communication system: Disclosed herein is a base station that extracts a ranging channel signal from a received signal partially correlates each of a plurality of ranging channel signals and each of ranging codes according to ranging modes, and selects a ranging channel signal greater than a first threshold value, the plurality of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070133461 - Data transmission method, system, base station and subscriber station, a data processing unit, computer program product, computer program distribution medium and baseband module: A data transmission method in a communication system including transmitting at least one capacity request message from a subscriber station, granting capacity subscriber station-specific by a base station, transmitting at least one capacity grant message from the base station, allocating granted capacity connection-specific by the subscriber station, transmitting from the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070133458 - Method and system for providing control information for supporting high speed downlink and uplink: A method and system for providing control information for supporting high speed downlink and high speed uplink packet access are disclosed. A Node-B assigns at least one downlink control channel and at least one uplink control channel to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The downlink control channel and the uplink... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070133457 - Radio communication method and radio communication device: A radio communication device includes a communication data selection unit for selecting from the received radio communication data containing communication time reservation request information in which a time slot for performing data transmission source radio communication device is described and a communication information analysis unit for extracting an identifier of... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070133462 - Hopping pilot pattern for telecommunications: A transmitter (22) of a telecommunications system transmits hopped pilot signals as a distinct (i.e., locally unique) time-frequency shift of a time frequency plane array wherein the pilot signals are hopped using a hopping sequence. Differing transmitters of the system (20) preferably transmit using different time-frequency shifts of the same... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070133463 - Communication handover method, communication handover program, and communication system: A technique which realizes an efficient handover by reducing loads on a mobile node and an access router and communication traffics thereof while keeping a packet loss rate in a fast handover technology is disclosed, and according to that technique, a mobile node (MN 10) has a correspondence relationship between... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070133466 - Method and apparatus to facilitate persistence of a handed-off communication system: During a communication session (101) for a multi-network user platform (which communication session is presently occurring in a first network and is terminable by a Session Initiation Protocol server as comprises a part of that first network), one establishes (102) in the first network a Session Initiation Protocol instance as... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070133465 - Method and apparatus to facilitate use of a session initiation protocol instance to support on-hold session status: During (101) a communication session for a plurality of user platforms wherein at least one of the user platforms is on hold and wherein the communication session is presently occurring in a first network and is terminable by a Session Initiation Protocol server as comprises a part of that first... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070133464 - Method for determining a path in a local radio communication: In a case where an access point lies outside the direct radio transmission range of a first radio station of a radio communications system, and a routing runs between the first radio station and the access point that includes at least one additional radio station is known to the first... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070133470 - Method for recovering arq data in wireless portable internet system: In an Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) method for recovering ARQ data by a target base station when handover of a mobile terminal is performed from a serving base station to the target base station in a portable Internet system is provided. First ARQ data, which includes a first service data... Agent: Paul J. Farrell Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070133468 - Radio network system, communication traffic changeover method for the same system, and traffic processing apparatus, line multiplexing apparatus, and host apparatus for the same system: When a congested state is detected with respect to a traffic processor, the ATM multiplexer performs a line changeover process so that at least a part of communication traffic to be processed by the traffic processing apparatus is processed by another traffic processing apparatus. This arrangement makes it possible to... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070133469 - Sensor node device and method for supporting mobility of mobile node in sensor network: Provided are a sensor node device and method for supporting mobility of a mobile node in a sensor network. The sensor node device includes: a network interface for communicating with a sink node, at least one neighboring sensor node, and the mobile node; a mobility supervisor for detecting a location... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070133471 - System for interworking services of heterogeneous networks and method for vertical handoff: An interworking network system between heterogeneous networks and a vertical hand-off method for supporting QoS are provided. WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) and Wibro (Wireless Broadband) have a service range overlaid with that of the CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) 2000 that has been provided over the whole area, and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133467 - Vertical handoff method and system in wlan/3g integrated networks: An IPSec tunnel is established by assigning parameters TS and SPI being translated into TFT (PF I, PF II). A first index is assigned. A GTP tunnel is established based on TFT (PF I, PF II) and the first index. GGSN generates a table based on TFT (PF I, PF... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070133472 - Method of vertical handoff: The present invention relates to a vertical handoff method. According to the present invention, a serving network of a mobile station is determined. Herein, the mobile station that can access a first network having relatively wide service coverage and a second network having relatively narrow service coverage in an area... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133473 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method: A physical header detecting unit detects a physical header from a received signal in which a first received signal intensity of a first channel or a second received signal intensity of a second channel exceeds a first threshold value. A first carrier sense unit determines that a carrier is detected... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070133479 - Method and apparatus for packet communications in wireless systems: Techniques for transmitting and receiving data in an efficient manner to potentially improve capacity for a wireless network and achieve power savings for a wireless device are described. The techniques utilize a Continuous Packet Connectivity (CPC) mode comprised of multiple (e.g., two) discontinuous transmission (DTX) modes and at least one... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070133477 - Method and apparatus for transporting cdma traffic over a umts-compatible cpri interface: A base station has a processor to generate a Code Division Multiple Access (“CDMA”) data frame. The CDMA data frame comprises a plurality of Basic Frames. At least one of the plurality of Basic Frames comprises a vendor-specific field. A modem transports the CDMA data frame over a Universal Mobile... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070133480 - Method and system for controlling data rate in a communication system: A system and method are provided for controlling a data rate in a communication system. A transmitter sets threshold values for classifying Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) levels. When receiving information about an MCS level desired to be used in the receiver, the transmitter sets an MCS level to be... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070133474 - Method, emitter and receiver for transmitting data in a multi-access cdma system by means of fully complementary code matrixes for two-dimensional data spreading in a frequency and time direction: A method transmits data bits between at least one subscriber station and a transmitter in a radio communication system. Each data bit is transmitted on at least two different units of a first radio resource. On the emitter side, the data bits are spread for each unit of the first... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070133476 - Obtaining data rates for mobile stations based on a forward link of a cellular system: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for adapting a data rate that a mobile station indicates to a base station for transmission on a forward link in a cellular system. The method comprises measuring a first value indicative of strength of at least one of a primary... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070133478 - System and method for determining a forward channel rate for wirelessly communicating information to a wireless communication device: A system, method, and wireless device for determining a forward channel rate for wirelessly communicating information to a wireless communication device is disclosed. The method includes receiving data rate control information from each wireless communication device (104, 106) in a plurality of wireless communication devices (104, 106). The method also... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070133475 - Transmission time interval alignment in wcdma systems: A method of aligning Transmission Time Intervals of physical channels in the uplink and downlink directions of a WCDMA communication system. The method comprises measuring or estimating the response processing delay at a user terminal, and delaying the Transmission Time Intervals of an uplink physical channel with respect to a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070133481 - Framing for an adaptive modulation communication system: A system and method for mapping a combined frequency division duplexing (FDD) Time Division Multiplexing (TDM)/Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) downlink subframe for use with half-duplex and full-duplex terminals in a communication system. Embodiments of the downlink subframe vary Forward Error Correction (FEC) types for a given modulation scheme as... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070133486 - Data pre-provisioning plan method and apparatus: A plurality of potential receiving locations where a target recipient may be able to receive at least a portion of data that has been provided (101) for transmission to that target recipient are determined (102). A pre-provisioning plan is then developed (103) to provide at least a portion of that... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070133492 - Device, system, and method for transmitting interworking information of mobile communication system and broadband wireless access system: The present invention relates to a system and method for transmitting interworking information of a mobile communication system and a broadband wireless access system. In the method, a cell broadcasting service message or system information including interworking information of the broadband wireless access system is received, and a communication connection... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070133488 - Method and apparatus for encouraging routing in a network: A node (200) includes a processor (201) for determining neighbor nodes in a routing path to a destination based on a routing table associated with the node (200). The node (200) includes a memory for storing a first authenticated tokens. The node includes a transmitter (203) for transmitting a first... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070133490 - Method and apparatus preventing plurality of stations in wlan from colliding with each other when attempting to access medium: A method and apparatus for preventing a plurality of stations in a wireless local area network (WLAN) from colliding with each other when accessing a medium are provided. In the method, an access point (AP) determines the transmission capabilities of a plurality of stations in a basic service set (BSS)... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070133482 - Method for scanning services with a multimode communication device: A system and method are disclosed for scanning services with a multimode communication device. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device (102) having a controller (206) for managing operations of a user interface (UI) (204), and a wireless transceiver (202). The... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070133491 - Mobile communication apparatus and channel switching method of ad-hoc communication: To effectively utilize an infrastructure communication channel and increase a number of channels available for ad-hoc communication in a mobile communication apparatus enabling communication in an infrastructure communication mode for radio communication via a base station and in an ad-hoc communication mode for direct radio communication with another mobile communication... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070133487 - Mobile location method for wlan-type systems: The present invention provides a new and unique method and apparatus for providing an estimate of a mobile location of a wireless node, point or terminal in a wireless local area network (WLAN) or other suitable network, the estimate being based on a correlation of a radio frequency (RF) signal... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070133485 - System and method for diverting a printing job to a proximal networked device: A printing system is provided including a plurality of printing devices. Each printing device includes an associated radio frequency identification (RFID) device. The RFID device associated with a first printing device of the plurality of printing devices is operable to sense the presence of an RFID device associated with a... Agent: George Likourezos

20070133484 - System and method for dynamically selecting wireless information communication modes for a wireless communication device: A system, method, and wireless device for dynamically selecting a wireless information communication mode for wireless communication of information to at least one wireless device (104). The method includes receiving at least one request for wireless communication of information to at least one wireless device (104). The method further comprises... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070133489 - Throughput performance in the presence of in-band interference in a csma based network: A wireless device in a wireless network transmits a data frame even in the presence of in-band interference (from transmission of other devices) on a shared channel provided in the wireless network. In an embodiment, configuration data is provided to the wireless device indicating whether frames be transmitted (stomped) or... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070133483 - Transmission power control over a wireless ad-hoc network: A method for controlling transmission power on a node over a wireless ad-hoc network which includes a plurality of sender, intermediate and receiver nodes is provided. Initially, levels of the transmission power of the node are configured. The node then exchange information with its neighboring nodes by sending out a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070133494 - Method and computer readable media for efficient channel access by using partial error detection code in centralized wireless communication system: A method for efficient channel access by using partial error detection code is utilized in a centralized wireless communication system. The partial error detection code is derived from the error detection codes of the transport layer to act as the reference of the error detection of a protocol data unit.... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070133493 - Radio communication device: A radio communications device includes a transmitter, a receiver, a propagation detecting unit, and a symbol rate setting unit. The receiver has a plurality of antennas, a plurality of transmitting circuits, and a transmission signal processing circuit. The transmission signal processing circuit has a modulator, and modulates data input transmission... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070133495 - Transmitter and transmitting method of code division multiplexing wireless communication system using on-off keying modulation scheme: A transmitter and a transmitting method in a code division multiplexing (CDM) wireless communication system are provided. The transmitter includes a DC offset unit, a Barker code generating unit, a multiplier, a unipolar code generating unit, a Kronecker product unit, and a modulator. The DC offset unit transforms digital transmitting... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070133496 - Resource allocation in a wireless network: A data stream is transmitted between a base station and user terminal. A first resource that is available to transmit a page is selected at the base station and the page transmitted from the base station via the first resource. The page is received at the user terminal via the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070133498 - Scheduler and method of scheduling data for communication between a node station and plurality of radio terminals: A method is provided for scheduling downlink and uplink data bursts in a frame for communication between a node station and a plurality of access terminals including half-duplex terminals, comprising the steps of allocating, in a current frame having a downlink and an uplink portion, a Tx burst in the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070133497 - Transmission parameter information: A terrestrial digital video broadcast (DVB-T) network includes a content provider and first to third transmitters. Each transmitter may transmit more than one signal, different signals having different frequencies, multiplexes and the like and relating to different network types. An integrated receiver/decoder (IRD) is mobile in the area around transmitters.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070133499 - Wireless communication system, method for enhancing network efficiency, and computer program product therefor: A wireless communication system, a method for enhancing network efficiency, and a computer program product therefor are provided. The wireless communication system includes a transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus. The method and the computer program product therefor perform the following steps. The transmitting apparatus transmits a request-to-send packet to... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070133500 - Bandwidth allocation and soft handoff in multi-hop cellular communication networks: Methods and systems for allocating bandwidth and performing soft handoffs in multi-hop cellular communication networks are disclosed. For example, a method for allocating bandwidth is disclosed, which includes the steps of a first communication device transmitting a first bandwidth allocation request, responsive to receipt of the first bandwidth allocation request,... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070133501 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing time information in a mobile communication terminal: A method and apparatus for synchronizing time information in a mobile communication terminal. The terminal stores region-by-region time offset information, information about decoding schemes used for radio time signal stations for broadcasting Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) information, and information about carrier frequency bands for transmitting standard time information from the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070133503 - Devices and methods for routing a unit of data in a network: A device for routing a unit of data in a network, the device comprising a processing means that is operable to: determine an identity of a first path in the network that was used to transfer the unit of data; identify a second path in the network based on the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070133502 - Method and apparatus for increasing the scalability of ethernet oam: After statically provisioned paths are created through an Ethernet network, trunks may be created to extend along those paths. The trunks extend between pairs of NNI interfaces on either end of the path, and Ethernet OAM may be run over the trunks to detect connectivity along the paths. Service instances... Agent: John C. Gorecki, Esq.

20070133504 - Method for selecting broadcast routing path using genetic algorithm in ad-hoc network: Provided is a method for selecting a broadcast routing path using a genetic algorithm in an Ad-hoc network. In the method, a plurality of nodes of the Ad-hoc network is defined as one chromosome, and the chromosome is represented with pairs of {order, power} in each node. Child nodes are... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133508 - Auto-establishment of a voice channel of access to a session for a composite service from a visual channel of access to the session for the composite service: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for deploying and delivering composite services in an NGN network. A method for auto-establishing a voice channel of access to a session for a composite service can include establishing a visual channel of access to a session... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070133515 - Central entity to adjust redundancy and error correction on rtp sessions: An example embodiment may include an apparatus comprising a message buffer to receive messages from a voice over packet endpoint if impairments in a media stream pass a threshold, and a processor coupled with the message buffer, the processor to determine changes to media characteristics for the voice over packet... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070133511 - Composite services delivery utilizing lightweight messaging: A composite service enabling data processing system utilizing lightweight messaging can include channel servlets enabled to establish multiple, different channels of access to a common session for a composite service. The system also can include a location registry including a table of entries associating the different channels of access with... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070133512 - Composite services enablement of visual navigation into a call center: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for deploying and delivering composite services in an NGN network. In one embodiment, a method for visually navigating a voice view of a call center composite service in a composite services enablement environment can include establishing on... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070133506 - Data transmitting system and the method of the same: The present invention discloses a data transmitting system and method. The system is used for connecting an electronic device to a remote server through a computer and a network. The electronic device excludes an earphone. The data of the electronic device transmits to a computer through an audio line, and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070133518 - Distributed off-line voice services: A voice processing system includes a real-time voice server, which is arranged to process real-time voice processing tasks for clients of the system. A gateway processor is arranged to accept from a client a request to perform an off-line voice processing task, to convert the off-line voice processing task into... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070133505 - Distribution of short messages using a video control device: In one aspect a system for transferring messages from a communication unit such as a phone, a cellular or mobile phone, a personal computer, a digital camera, or a digital video camera to other compatible systems such as digital set-top boxes, multimedia terminals, digital TV receivers or digital TVs is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070133520 - Dynamically adapting peer groups: Communicating a message using between networked agents. Some embodiments may be practiced, for example, in a network including one or more interconnected agents. A method facilities communicating a message to one or more of the interconnected agents. The method includes receiving feedback including information about the network. The information about... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070133509 - Initiating voice access to a session from a visual access channel to the session in a composite services delivery system: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for deploying and delivering composite services in an NGN network. A method for establishing a voice channel of access to a session for a composite service can include establishing a visual channel of access to a session... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070133510 - Managing concurrent data updates in a composite services delivery system: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for deploying and delivering composite services in an NGN network. A collision detection and resolution method for updating a model in a composite services enablement environment can include establishing for a single session having a corresponding model,... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070133519 - Method and apparatus for network-based call screening for interrupting packet data calls: A user of a telecommunications device (102), such as a wireless terminal, or the like, selects certain actions that should be taken when a circuit call is received while a packet data session is active (200). These actions include interrupting the packet data session, or not interrupting the packet data... Agent: Jenner & Block LLP

20070133516 - Method and apparatus for selecting a codec in a packet-switched communication network: The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for selecting a codec for a connection in a packet-switched communications network are described. In one embodiment, a connection request generated by a user device is detected. A session identifier is then detected in response to the connection request. Afterwards, the session... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070133517 - Method and apparatus for selectively redirecting session control for an internet protocol multimedia subsystem: A method and apparatus for selectively redirecting session control for a user equipment in a telecommunication system include: a home server (108), a proxy server (204, 206), and a user equipment (202) for transmitting a breakout request (208, 210) to the proxy server (204, 206) to break out of an... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070133522 - Method and system for defining, capturing, and reporting performance data: A network-based data management service includes a first network entry point for client-to-business interface and servicing, a second network entry point for client-to-client interface and social interactivity, a data repository for storing secure and public data, an application server running at least one application for result calculation, performance ranking, and... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070133507 - Model autocompletion for composite services synchronization: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for the auto-completion of values in a model in a composite services enablement data processing system. The method can include establishing for a common session, multiple channels of access to a model for a composite service. The... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070133521 - System and method for managing telecommunications: A system and method for managing telephone communications. An originating telephone carrier originates telephone calls by users and conveys the telephone calls to an internet protocol network provider for termination. The internet protocol network provider conveys the received telephone calls to a service platform comprising a softswitch for termination. The... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070133513 - View coordination for callers in a composite services enablement environment: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for deploying and delivering composite services in an NGN network. In one embodiment of the invention, a view coordination method for callers in a composite services enablement environment can include establishing for a single session, a first... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070133514 - Voip accessory: An accessory for electronic equipment includes an interface for exchanging data between the accessory and the electronic equipment, and a voice over internet protocol (VOIP) circuit. The VoIP circuit is operatively configured to implement at least a portion of VoIP in the electronic equipment or the accessory.... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070133523 - Replay caching for selectively paused concurrent voip conversations: A system, method, and apparatus are directed to enabling a user to manage multiple VOIP sessions concurrently using on-ready replay of buffered VOIP conversations. The user may initiate a plurality of VOIP conversations between different parties. When the user pauses, or otherwise initiates a VOIP conversation with another party, the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070133524 - Selectable replay of buffered conversation in a voip session: A system, method, and apparatus are directed to enabling a user to record VOIP conversations for selective instant replay. The VOIP conversation may be automatically recorded upon initiation of the conversation, or the user may select to record at least a portion of the VOIP conversation. At any point during... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070133525 - System and method for facilitating voip communications: A method for facilitating VoIP communication between VoIP providers. First and second VoIP service providers are registered with a VoIP communication system, which generates a table of registered VoIP subscribers from the first and second VoIP service providers. The information from the table is applied to a call generated from... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20070133526 - Remote access communication system and control method thereof: The present invention discloses a remote access Communication system, which includes an automated main distribution frame, a remote access device and a device management system. Under control of the device management system, the automated main distribution frame and the remote access device implement auto port-correspondence between a user and the... Agent: Robert Popa, Esq. C/o Ladas & Parry

20070133528 - Apparatus and method for traffic performance improvement and traffic security in interactive satellite communication system: There are provided an apparatus and method for traffic performance improvement and traffic security in an interactive satellite communication system. The method for traffic performance improvement of an interactive satellite communication system includes the steps of: a) storing an Internet protocol (IP) packet that is received from a user terminal... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133527 - Communication of data to communication devices: An application server for controlling communication of packet data with a plurality of communication devices in a multicasting session is disclosed. The application server is configured for receiving information regarding a packetization parameter that is desired by at least one of the communication devices for reception of packet data, for... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070133529 - Method of providing multicast services in virtual private lan: A method of providing multicast services in a virtual private local area network (LAN) is provided. The method of providing multicast services, which is used by a provider edge in a virtual private LAN in which the provider edge, a customer edge, and a management system are connected to each... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070133530 - Acknowledgement-based rerouting of multicast traffic: Various techniques for exchanging control messages in order to gracefully reroute multicast traffic are disclosed. For example, one method involves sending a join message for a multicast group towards a root of a new multicast tree and forwarding multicast traffic, addressed to the multicast group, on a current multicast tree... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070133533 - Ip multi-cast video ring distribution and protection: A system and method for IP Video distribution and protection provides lower cost by using a reduced number of expensive IP multi-cast router high-speed ports. A system for distributing multi-cast data traffic comprises a multi-cast data source, a plurality of multi-cast data destinations, and a data distribution network communicatively connecting... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070133532 - Method and apparatus for multicast forwarding: A method or corresponding apparatus in an exemplary embodiment of the present invention determines how many copies of a multicast packet are to be sent, as copies, to multiple destinations based on information in the multicast packet and a group (e.g., bridge node) with which the packet is associated. The... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070133531 - Packet forwarding apparatus and method for multicast packets: The present invention provides a technology for processing packets, such as VoIP packets, with priority. A priority-designating unit designates priority information based on header information. A pointer searching unit refers to a pointer table to obtain pointer information corresponding to a destination address. A sorting unit sorts the pointer information... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070133534 - Server arbitrated reliable multicast system and process for accessing the same: A system and a process for a session layer protocol allows a large number of client machines to receive a reliable data stream over inherently unreliable multicast connections in a highly efficient and scalable manner. More specifically, streaming of high-quality video, audio, stock and news tickers, or any other application... Agent: Caracappa And Associates, PC

20070133535 - Server arbitrated reliable multicast system and process for accessing the same: A system and a process for a session layer protocol allows a large number of client machines to receive a reliable data stream over inherently unreliable multicast connections in a highly efficient and scalable manner. More specifically, streaming of high-quality video, audio, stock and news tickers, or any other application... Agent: Caracappa And Associates, PC

20070133549 - Apparatus and method for managing traffic using vid in epon: An apparatus and method for managing traffic using a VID in EPON are provided. The apparatus includes a MAC lookup table, a service classification policy table, a service control policy table, a MAC lookup unit, a first and second classification module, a VID learning unit and a first and second... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070133550 - Associative memory having a mask function for use in a network router: When one or more storage data are coincident with single search data (12), an associative memory (1) carries out logical sum for all of storage data with a valid state for storage data as true. The result of logical sum is used as matched data logical-OR information. In a primary... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070133545 - Bridging device and method and computer readable medium for controlling the same: A bridging device, and a method and computer readable medium for controlling the bridging device, wherein the bridging device stores router identifying information and network prefix information contained in a router advertisement (RA) that is regularly sent from a router. When the stored router identifying information and network prefix information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070133544 - Communication apparatus, communication system including the same, and method for setting ip address of communication apparatus: An communication apparatus relays communication between a network device and an IP network, and assigns an IP address within a reserved range of IP address to the network device. The communication apparatus includes an address setter that sets an IP address of the communication apparatus; and the address conflict determiner... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070133543 - Communication terminal device: A communication terminal device that carries out broadcast communication with a plurality of other ends, includes an entry accepting unit, a searching unit, a fixing unit, and a destination information storage unit. The entry accepting unit accepts entry of destination information designated by a user. The searching unit searches a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070133537 - Leveraging active firewalls for network intrusion detection and retardation of attack: A computer network firewall or network filter functions normally to pass data on open ports to a respective service or data source associated with an open port. In addition, traffic arriving on closed ports may be directed to a handler for analysis and response. The handler may analyze and catalog... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070133542 - Locally administered mac address based method for selectively and efficiently identifying enhanced version nodes of standards: Embodiments of the invention provide a method for selectively identifying nodes implemented enhanced version of a standard by creating a random locally administered MAC address and advertising said random locally administered MAC address as the address that implies a particular amendment of a standard.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070133538 - Method and apparatus for implementing ipsec engine in ixdp2851: Provided are an apparatus and method for implementing an IPSec engine in IXDP2851. The apparatus for implementing an IPSec engine in IXDP2851 which is an IXP2850 network processor development platform, includes: a packet classifier/forwarding microblock classifying packets into an inbound packet and an outbound packet, using received packet information; determining... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133536 - Method and apparatus for striping message payload data over a network: A method, an apparatus and a recording medium are provided for communicating message payload data, especially noncontiguous message data, from a first node of a network to a second node of the network in response to a request to transmit a message. Such method includes dividing the length of a... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070133540 - Method for measuring performance of mpls lsp: Provided is a method for measuring performance of a multi-protocol label switching label switched path (MPLS LSP), using a fast failure detection (FFD) packet among MPLS operation and management (OAM) packets recommended by International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication standardization sector (ITU-T) Y.1711 to detect a packet error generated in the MPLS LSP... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133546 - Method for providing qos using address system and system resolution protocol: Provided is a method for providing quality of service (QoS) in a network including multiple nodes using an address system and an address resolution protocol (ARP). The method includes, at a current node, receiving a service request packet from a previous node using the address system and the ARP, checking... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070133547 - Method for providing qos using flow label in providing multimedia service in ipv6 network and system applying the same: Provided is a QoS providing method using a flow label in providing multimedia service in an IPv6 network and a system applying the same. According to the method, a signal connection server extracts session information from a communication request response signal transmitted from a destination in response to a communication... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133541 - Multiplexing and demultiplexing apparatus for delivering mpeg-2 ts packet error signal through cablecard interface and multiplexing and demultiplexing method using the same: Provided are a multiplexing and demultiplexing apparatus and method for delivering an MPEG-2 TS packet error signal through a CableCARD interface. In the multiplexing apparatus, a TS packet reception unit receives TS packets, and a pre-header generation unit generates pre-headers corresponding to the received TS packets. A pre-header insertion unit... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070133539 - Routing apparatus for supporting ipv6 anycast service and method thereof: A routing apparatus for supporting an IPv6 anycast service and a method thereof are provided. The anycast routing apparatus includes: a receiving unit receiving a neighbor discovery protocol (NDP) message; a routing entry unit adding or deleting a host route for an IPv6 anycast address and a neighbor entry for... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070133548 - Transmission apparatus having a plurality of network interfaces and transmission method using the same: A transmission apparatus having a plurality of network interfaces and a transmission method using a plurality of the network interfaces are provided. The transmission apparatus includes: a session information extraction unit which extracts session information of an IP packet; a network interface determination unit which determines a network interface associated... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070133551 - Switching system: An ATM switching system 1 is provided with an ATM switch 11, a reserved connection memory 12 for storing reserved connection information, a call history memory 13 for maintaining call histories of requests for connection from subscriber's terminal units 2−1 to 2−n, and a call-signal processing section 15. The call-signal... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070133552 - Packet-relay unit: A packet-relay unit 100 including a first interface unit (110), a second interface unit (120), and a function-setting switch (130). The second interface unit (120) includes a classifying unit (121), a priority control unit (122), and a transceiving unit (123). When the function-setting switch (130) sets a “QoS function” as... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070133553 - System and/or method for downstream bidding: Disclosed are systems and/or apparatuses of transmitting digital objects to a destination. In particular, disclosed are systems and/or apparatuses of facilitating bidding for the business of forwarding digital objects in a data transmission network.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070133559 - Apparatus and method for providing qos for mpls traffic: An apparatus and a method for providing a QoS for a multi protocol label switching (MPLS) traffic are provided. According to the apparatus and the method, a label and an experimental (EXP) are extracted from an MPLS packet input to an MPLS network system, and then applied to a predetermined... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070133554 - Data storage method and system: A method and computer system is provided for storing a data file in a peer-to-peer network of computer systems according to a selectable service level. Each computer system offers storage services at one of a set of service levels, the method comprising assigning to each of the computer systems respective... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070133555 - Mobile communication terminal having an enhanced data management function: A mobile terminal includes an input unit which allows a user to input a command, a controller which groups data according to the inputted command and controls the grouped data, and a memory which stores a group identifier identifying the grouped data.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070133560 - Method and apparatus for processing packet in high speed router: An apparatus for processing packets in a high speed router and a method thereof are provided. The high speed router includes a forward processor and a control processor where the forward processor having an input terminal processor and an output terminal processor. The output terminal processor manages a Layer 2... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133557 - Bandwidth allocation device and method to guarantee qos in ethernet passive optical access network: The present invention provides a device and method for allocating a bandwidth to a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) for transmitting an uplink frame in the EPON. The bandwidth allocation device includes a plurality of optical network units and an optical line terminal (OLT). The optical network units classify... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070133556 - System and method of distributed intelligent scheduling with compensation optimization (disco) for wireless ad hoc or personal area network: A system of distributed intelligent scheduling with compensation optimization (DISCO) for a wireless ad hoc network or a personal area network is provided. The system schedules packet transmissions for a plurality of links within the network based on link information which includes QoS requirement, achieved QoS and channel status for... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070133561 - Apparatus and method for performing packet scheduling using adaptation round robin: A packet scheduling apparatus and method using an adaptation round-robin method is disclosed. In order to schedule services of a plurality of flows over a high-speed communication network in which the flows share a single link, the packet scheduling method includes the steps of: a) receiving various-sized packets, and storing... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133562 - Method and system for speed negotiation for twisted pair links using intelligent e-fifo in fibre channel systems: Certain aspects of a method and system for speed negotiation for twisted pair links using intelligent elastic first-in-first-out (E-FIFO) in fibre channel systems are disclosed. Aspects of a method may include determination of a priority level based on amount of data in at least one elastic FIFO (E-FIFO) buffer communicatively... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070133563 - Service parameter interworking method: To achieve a transparent service parameter exchange between networks using a circuit-oriented protocol and networks using a packet-oriented protocol, there is provided a service parameter interworking method adapted to achieve a service parameter exchange between the networks by mapping circuit-switched service parameters into related packet-switched parameters or vice versa and... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070133558 - Method and device for supporting access of point to point protocol over atm terminal: A method for supporting access of a Point to Point Protocol over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (PPPoA) terminal including: the PPPoA terminal initiates a Point to Point Protocol (PPP) negotiation to a broadband access device based on an Internet Protocol (IP) architecture; the broadband access device assigns a Media Access Control... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070133564 - Method for propagating maintenance signal in vpws network using sdh/sonet: Provided is a method for propagating a maintenance signal that can notify an Ethernet layer as well as a VPWS, which is a multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) layer, that a defect has occurred when the defect occurs in a virtual private wire service (VPWS) network using synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH)/synchronous... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133565 - Content packet transmission control method in mobile communication network supporting multimedia broadcast/multicast service: A content packet transmission control system in a mobile communication network supporting a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) includes a broadcast/multicast service center (BM-SC) performing an inter-working operation with a gateway general packet radio service support node (GGSN) and managing the MBMS so that contents may be broadcasted/multicasted to a plurality... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133566 - Rapid messaging protocol wireless network data communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting data over a wireless connection uses a transmitter and receiver. The receiver assembles received data packets according to an identified predefined template and sequence numbers assigned at the transmitter. The transmitter also maintains an optimum packet load of the wireless connection at a selected... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070133567 - Configuring a network device: A method performed by a device adapted for communication over a network includes establishing a presence on the network, obtaining default configuration information for the device via the network, the default configuration information identifying a service on the network, receiving a request for validation information from the service, providing the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070133568 - Method for realizing route forwarding in network: A method for realizing route forwarding in a network, including: establishing LSPs in a bearer network; setting an entrance label in the starting node of each LSP pointing to forwarding information of the LSP; a bearer control entity assigning a transfer path for the service flow and sending the information... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070133569 - Home network system and its configuration system: The present invention discloses a home network system and a configuration apparatus thereof which can efficiently configure a new home appliance in the home network system comprised of various home appliances. The home network system includes at least one slave device, and a plurality of master devices connected to the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070133571 - Bidding network: Disclosed are systems and/or apparatuses of transmitting digital objects to a destination. In particular, disclosed are systems and/or apparatuses of facilitating bidding for the business of forwarding digital objects in a data transmission network.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070133573 - Integrated information communication system: To provide an integrated information communication system without using dedicated lines or the Internet, ensuring communication speed, communication quality, communication trouble countermeasures in a unified manner, wherein security and reliability in communication is ensured. The system is comprised of an access control apparatus for connecting a plurality of computer communication... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070133572 - System and method for sharing common location-related information between communication devices: A system and method for supplying a data object to a user of a communication system. The method comprising the steps of: establishing a session between a first and second communication device; transferring to the second communication device, in a first transferring step, a primary data object providing information pertaining... Agent: Hunton & Williams, LLP/ Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (usa), Inc.

20070133570 - System and/or method for bidding: Disclosed are systems and/or apparatuses of transmitting digital objects to a destination. In particular, disclosed are systems and/or apparatuses of facilitating bidding for the business of forwarding digital objects in a data transmission network.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070133575 - Interactive voice response system for online and offline charging and for multiple networks: An interactive voice response system (102) includes a protocol interface (134) that is adapted to communicate with a plurality of divergent telecommunications networks for voice communications (104, 106, 108, 110). These networks are, for example, a wireline telecommunications network, a CDMA network, a GSM network, and a voice over IP... Agent: Jenner & Block LLP

20070133574 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for using an e.164 number (enum) database for message service message routing resolution among 2g and subsequent generation network systems: Methods, systems, and computer program products for using an E.164 number (ENUM) database for message service message routing resolution among 2G and subsequent generation network systems are disclosed. According to one method, a message including message service message content is received. The message may include a 2G message recipient identifier.... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070133578 - Network gateway and communication frame relaying method: In a network gateway, when a target communication frame is transferred bit-by-bit from at least one of nodes through a corresponding one of networks, a receiving unit sequentially receives the transferred target communication frame bit-by-bit, and sequentially outputs the received target communication frame bit-by-bit. A buffer sequentially stores therein the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070133576 - Packet forwarding apparatus with function of limiting the number of user terminals to be connected to isp: A packet forwarding apparatus for connecting a plurality of user terminals to an ISP management server has a management table indicating the relationship between a connection port identifier and specific header information in association with the MAC address of each of the user terminals so that, in a communication protocol... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070133577 - Virtual private network and method for controlling and forwarding route thereof: The present invention discloses a Virtual Private Network (VPN), which includes: a Sub-Provider Edge (SUB_PE), configured in a customer's network and connected with a PE in a provider's network; at least one SUB_VPN belonging to a same customer is configured under the SUB_PE and accesses the provider's network through the... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070133579 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving wireless packet data: An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving wireless packet data are provided. In a wireless packet data transmitter for transmitting to a wireless packet data receiver data packet on a transport channel and control information for supporting the transport channel on a control channel in a wireless packet data... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070133580 - Communication system for controlling intercommunication among a plurality of communication nodes: The invention provides a communication system including a plurality of communication nodes respectively arranged at predetermined lattice points in lattice space forming a three-dimensional rectangular solid, a communication link that interconnects communication nodes arranged at adjacent lattice points, and a shortcut link that connects, for at least two faces that... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070133582 - Efficient send socket call handling by a transport layer: A method, system, and program provide for efficient send socket call handling by a transport layer. A transport layer of a network protocol stack receives a send socket call for data of a specified length from an application layer. Responsive to detecting that there is insufficient memory for a single... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20070133581 - Memory buffering with fast packet information access for a network device: A networking device employing memory buffering in which a first memory is logically configured into blocks, and the blocks are logically configured into particles, where a second memory is configured to mirror the first memory in which a fixed number of bits in the second memory are allocated for each... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070133583 - Method for buffering receive packet in media access control for sensor network and apparatus for controlling buffering of receive packet: Provided is a method for buffering a receive packet in a sensor node including a radio frequency (RF) transceiver, a media access control (MAC) hardware block and a micro controller unit (MCU). The method includes the steps of: a) if a packet is received from the RF transceiver, checking whether... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133584 - Ethernet line card and method of providing various services using the same: Provided are an Ethernet line card and a method of providing various services using the same. The Ethernet line card includes: a priority allocation unit setting a priority of a received Ethernet packet according to a pre-set control standard based on header information of the Ethernet packet; a quality of... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133585 - Method and device for scheduling interconnections in an interconnecting fabric: The method for scheduling interconnections in an interconnecting fabric comprises the following steps. In a determined time slot input selectors generate requests using a request pointer set, which is related to the determined time slot. Then, the requests are transmitted to output selectors, and the output selectors issue grants using... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20070133586 - Off-line broadband network interface: A network interface is presented that receives packet data from a shared medium and accomplishes the signal processing required to convert the data packet to host computer formatted data separately from receiving the data packet. The network interface receives the data packet, converts the analog signal to a digitized signal,... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070133587 - Connection mode controlling apparatus, connection mode controlling method, and connection mode controlling program: There is provided a network control device capable of surely distributing a content even when a relay function of one of the nodes contained in a network stops, without affecting the process in nodes below the node and while improving the re-liability of the network system itself. When controlling a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070133588 - Scheduling apparatus and method in channel bonding transmission system: Provided is a scheduling apparatus and method in a channel bonding transmission system. The apparatus includes: a downstream service identifier storing unit for storing information related to a downstream service identifier (DSID); a packet transmitting unit for transmitting a packet inputted from outside; a packet classifying unit for analyzing the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070133589 - Mute processing apparatus and method: A mute processing method used in a multi-person communication system is provided. The method is capable of automatically sending mute frames when there are no sound inputs from terminals of the multi-person communication system. The method includes the steps of: collecting input signals from a microphone; calculating an energy level... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070133590 - Channel resource assignment method for fair channel resource reservation and qos in mesh wpan: Provided is a channel resource assignment method for fair channel resource reservation in a mesh WPAN, in which the amount of channel resources is fairly reserved when devices share the channel resources. The channel resource assignment method in a mesh Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) includes the steps of: (a)... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070133591 - Synchronizing token time base: In a method and system for initializing a time-based one-time-passcode authenticating token, a clock of the token is started at a known initial setting. The token generates an initial one-time-passcode using the time on the clock. Initialization information including the initial one-time-passcode is sent to a server. When the initialization... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070133592 - Method for tree-based spatial time division multiple access (tdma) scheduling in a multi-hop wireless: A method for tree based spatial TDMA scheduling in a multi-hop wireless network (100). A time slot is requested (101) for non-use by a requesting node to all neighboring nodes. Similarly, the requested time slot is next requested (103) for non-use from the requesting node to its parent nodes. If... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070133593 - Searching strings representing a regular expression: A network device may determine the presence of one or more strings corresponding to a regular expression. The network device may comprise a CAM that may generate entries corresponding to the regular expression based on a tree structure representing the regular expression. The CAM may optimize the size of the... Agent: Jerray Wei C/o Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070133596 - Epon system and method for traffic scheduling in epon system: In an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) system and a method for traffic scheduling in the EPON system, the method comprises: dividing a periodic transmission cycle between an optical line termination (OLT) and an optical network unit (ONU) for upstream traffic time band assignment into an Expedited Forwarding (EF) sub-cycle... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070133597 - Method and network management system for service-oriented planning and expansion of a communication network: In one aspect, a method for a service-oriented planning and expansion of a communication network is provided. In the communication network a new service with all the data necessary for it is defined in a network management system. A check is made, based on a model of the already installed... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070133594 - Method and system for delivering a message in a communication network: A method for delivering a message to a user in a communication network (100) is disclosed. The method includes monitoring (402) an environment of the user. The method further includes delivering (404) the message to the user in a plurality of stages. The plurality of stages is determined based on... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070133595 - Method for a wireless communication system and system for wireless communication: A method for a wireless communication system and a system adapted for wireless communication are provided. The wireless communication system comprises a base station, a first terminal apparatus and a second terminal apparatus. The base station determines whether the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus conform to a... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070133600 - Communicating method between ipv4 terminal and ipv6 terminal and ipv4-ipv6 converting apparatus: In an apparatus, there are provided an IP transmitting and receiving unit for transmitting and receiving an IPv4 packet and an IPv6 packet; an IP header converting unit for performing a mutual conversion of the IPv4 packet and the IPv6 packet by an IP header conversion; a DNS substituting unit... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070133599 - Devices, softwares and methods for enabling sip devices to operate in h.323 devices to operate in sip networks: Devices, softwares and methods enable SIP devices to operate in H.323 networks, and devices, softwares and methods enable H.323 devices to operate in SIP networks. Messages that initiate communication from a first protocol are translated into the appropriate messages of the second, responded to, and the replies are translated back... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070133598 - System and method for determining position of communicating devices: The present invention determines distances between wireless sensor and computing nodes in a mesh computer or other network. The invention utilizes a set of sinusoidal waves, each being a multiple of a base frequency. The waves are transmitted from a first node to a second node. The second node determines... Agent: Law Office Of Brett N. Dorny

20070133601 - Automated tactical datalink translator: An automated system for translating datalink information and producing a computer code based on the translated datalink information. The computer code may subsequently be used to establish datalink communications between pieces of equipment having different communication protocols. The automated production of computer code reduces time and errors during software development... Agent: John S. Beulick Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070133602 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for detecting and mitigating fraudulent message service message traffic: Methods, systems, and computer program products for detecting fraudulent message service message traffic are disclosed. According to one method, message service messages are monitored. It is determined that the message service message traffic indicates that the message service message traffic is fraudulent based on detection of at least one of:... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070133603 - Methods, systems, and devices for bandwidth conservation: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for conserving bandwidth. A user's bandwidth consumption is monitored and compared to a threshold value. When the user's bandwidth consumption equals or exceeds the threshold value, then behavior is incentivized that reduces the user's bandwidth consumption.... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070133604 - Virtual network adapter for automatically maximizing frame sizes and avoiding physical network ip fragmentation: A method, virtual network adapter and computer program product are provided for automatically maximizing frame sizes and avoiding physical network Internet Protocol (IP) fragmentation. A maximum frame size of a selected physical adapter is identified. A frame size for the virtual adapter is calculated using the identified maximum frame size... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20070133605 - Data packet transmission: Using the attribute “priority” to achieve a stronger FEC for RLC Control PDUs transmitted via the HS-DSCH also entails prioritized handling so that an RLC Control PDU is likely to overhaul an RLC Data PDU. As a consequence the RLC protocol operation can severely be disturbed, since it relies on... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070133606 - Data packaging and transport method and apparatus: A method includes receiving a first frame of m n-bit bytes. A second frame is constructed at least in part from the first frame. The second frame has j k-bit bytes, wherein k>n, wherein j is selected for a pre-determined p such that p·j·k mod n=0. A plurality (p) of... Agent: Davis & Associates

20070133607 - Method of reproducing transport stream in video apparatus and video apparatus using the same: A transport stream reproducing method and a video apparatus such as a digital television receiver having a personal video recorder or PVR using the same are provided to facilitate the locating and reproducing of a specific point of a stored transport stream constructed of a plurality of transport packets according... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070133609 - Providing end user community functionality for publication and delivery of digital media content: An approach provides digital media services. A digital stream is transmitted according to a first resolution over one of a plurality of distribution channels to one or more devices. The digital stream is transmitted according to a second resolution in response to a selection of the digital stream for retrieval... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070133608 - Video quality assessment: This invention relates to a non-intrusive video quality assessment system. A method and apparatus are provided in which video frame parameters are extracted from a sequence of packets by generating a first video quality parameter for each group of packets associated with a particular frame of video data in dependence... Agent: Bourque & Associates Intellectual Property Attorneys, P.A.

20070133610 - Storage type broadcast system, transmitter and receiver: Providing a broadcast system wherein storage of contents on the receiving side and use restriction on the stored contents, etc. can be performed per service provided by contents providers. In a storage-based digital broadcast system wherein contents transmitted from a sending side are stored on a receiving side then reproduced,... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070133612 - Communication system: In a communication system where a terminal operates in clock synchronization with a global time used on a network, a period of time required for establishing clock synchronization when the terminal synchronizes a local time with a global time prior to receiving or transmitting a frame. In the communication system... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070133614 - Method and apparatus for implementing secure clock in device having no internal power source: A method and apparatus for implementing a secure clock having no internal power source are disclosed. The apparatus accesses a host device having an internal power source and transmits and receives data. The apparatus includes a clock control unit, a counter, and a time information unit. The clock control unit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070133615 - Method and apparatus for parsing data streams: A system includes an interface, a synchronization module, a pre-filtering module and a data alignment module. The interface is configured to connect a first device having a first transfer rate and a second device having a second transfer rate. The interface transfers a data stream from the first device to... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070133611 - Method and apparatus of frequency estimation for the downlink of td-scdma systems: A method of frequency estimation for the downlink of wireless communication systems, comprising steps of: determining, according to the received radio signals, the phase shift of the midamble and that of the downlink synchronization code of the radio signals respectively; calculating the phase shift difference between the midamble and the... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070133613 - Method and device for demapping a tributary recovering lower order synchronism: It is disclosed a method of demapping a tributary from a first frame into a second frame, the first frame comprising a plurality of tributary words and a synchronization word, the method comprising: providing a first and a second counters; increasing the first counter by a first value at each... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070133616 - Utilizing available sonet overhead bytes for additional signaling channels: An insertion apparatus receives a byte value from a signaling channel, locates a particular unused byte location within an overhead portion of a synchronous optical network (SONET) frame, and inserts the byte value from the signaling channel into the particular unused byte location. An extraction apparatus receives a synchronous optical... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070133617 - Method of displaying television receiver input signal according to time-shift function and television receiver using the same: In reproducing a broadcast signal according to a time-shift function, a method of displaying a television receiver input signal according to the time-shift function, and a television receiver using the same, enables a visual confirmation of a progress status of a real-time broadcast signal. The television receiver receives in real... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070133618 - Link aggregation with internal load balancing: A system and method provides Link Aggregation that internalizes the link aggregation to improve internal traffic capacity, in addition to sharing traffic across external links to connecting packet systems.. A system for handling data traffic comprises a plurality of network switches, each network switch having an interface to a packet... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070133619 - Apparatus and method of processing bitstream of embedded codec which is received in units of packets: Provided are a packet processing apparatus and method used when an output bitstream of an embedded codec is divided into a plurality of packets and transmitted accordingly, and more particularly, an efficient packet processing apparatus and method which can reduce deterioration of sound quality which may occur when a packet... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070133620 - Mobile communications terminal for supporting extended link adaptation techniques and method thereof: A mobile communication terminal including a Central Processing Unit (CPU) configured to set at least one or more predetermined parameters according to communication channel states, and a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) transmission/reception processor configured to process input data based on the set at least one or more predetermined parameters.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070133621 - Digital subscriber line arrangement: This invention relates to digital subscriber line arrangements. The invention divides the functionality of an xDSL-DSLAM device into two separate parts: a subunit and upper unit. The subunit contains xDSL line cards for copper pair lines to downstream and a multiplexer for multiplexing the transmission channels of the pair lines... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070133622 - Method and apparatus for generating information signal to be recorded: A compressively-encoding-resultant video signal resulting from compressively encoding a video signal, a first compressively-encoding-resultant audio signal resulting from compressively encoding a first audio signal having a synchronized relation with the video signal, a reference clock information signal relating to synchronization between the compressively-encoding-resultant video signal and the first compressively-encoding-resultant audio... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20070133623 - Method and apparatus for generating information signal to be recorded: A compressively-encoding-resultant video signal resulting from compressively encoding a video signal, a first compressively-encoding-resultant audio signal resulting from compressively encoding a first audio signal having a synchronized relation with the video signal, a reference clock information signal relating to synchronization between the compressively-encoding-resultant video signal and the first compressively-encoding-resultant audio... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20070133624 - Method and apparatus for generating information signal to be recorded: A compressively-encoding-resultant video signal resulting from compressively encoding a video signal, a first compressively-encoding-resultant audio signal resulting from compressively encoding a first audio signal having a synchronized relation with the video signal, a reference clock information signal relating to synchronization between the compressively-encoding-resultant video signal and the first compressively-encoding-resultant audio... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20070127355 - Method and apparatus of noise variance estimation for use in wireless communication systems: A method of noise variance estimation to be performed by a user equipment is proposed, comprising steps of: receiving a signal vector containing training sequence and noise vector transmitted via at least one transmission path; estimating the channel impulse response of each transmission path to construct a channel impulse response... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070127356 - Reducing interference (noise) caused by specific components of a transmitter while receiving a signal in a transceiver: A transceiver which effectively cancels interference caused by a component (e.g., driver) of a transmitter (contained in the transceiver). The input and output signals of the component are examined to estimate the magnitude of the interference, and the interference is canceled according to the estimate. Accordingly, the component need not... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070127357 - Communication system and alignment method of transcoder: When a terminal is moved to an area covered by a different switching node RNC of a radio access network, degradation of speech quality is prevented by returning a transcoder insertion connection to a transcoder-free-operation connection. When the terminal is moved and the switching node RNC of the radio access... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070127358 - Phase correction in a test receiver: The claimed subject matter relates to analyzing performance of a transmitter. This can be accomplished, for instance, through partitioning a super frame into a plurality of segments, and thereafter estimating and correcting phase with respect to at least one of the plurality of segments. Thereafter, additive noise can be determined... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070127359 - Method for partitioning resource space, assigning physical channel, and allocating power in ofdma-based cellular system: Disclosed is a method for partitioning resource spaces, and allocating physical channels and power in an OFDMA-based cellular system. A resource within a slot is partitioned into resource spaces in common in a plurality of adjacent cells, and the partitioned resource spaces are partitioned into resource sets according to sizes... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070127360 - Method of adaptive transmission in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system with multiple antennas: Disclosed is method of adaptive transmission in an OFDM system with multiple antennas. The adaptive transmission scheme includes an STBC, BLAST, and combined STBC/BLAST. By estimating channel environment, the method selects the proper transmission scheme among the STBC, BLAST, and STBC-BLAST. Therefore, the method has an advantage of each technique,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070127362 - Multi-carrier signals with selectable pilot pattern: Embodiments of the invention relate to a method of generating digital multi-carrier frequency division multiplexing (FDM) signals, the signals comprising FDM symbols having pilot symbols, wherein at least one FDM symbol has pilot symbols which are non-equidistantly spaced in frequency. Other embodiments of the invention relate to a method of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070127361 - Ofdm transmission apparatus, ofdm reception apparatus, and method: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided with an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) transmission apparatus, including: a subcarrier modulator configured to perform subcarrier modulation on a data sequence to generate subcarrier modulated signals; an IFFT unit configured to perform IFFT (Inverse Fast Fourier Transform) processing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127363 - System and method for managing network traffic load upon outage of a network node: In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for managing network traffic load upon outage of a network node disposed in a wireless packet data network, wherein the network node is adapted to serve a substantially large number of mobile nodes using respective data connections. Upon encountering an outage-causing condition, the... Agent: Danamraj & Youst, P.C.

20070127364 - System and method for managing network traffic load upon outage of a network node: In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for managing network traffic load upon outage of a network node disposed in a wireless packet data network, wherein the network node is adapted to serve a substantially large number of mobile nodes using respective data connections. Upon encountering an outage-causing condition, the... Agent: Danamraj & Youst, P.C.

20070127365 - Method for implementing redundant structure of atca (advanced telecom computing architecture) system via base interface and the atca system for use in the same: A method for implementing a redundant structure of an ATCA system via a base interface of a network system based on an ATCA standard, and the ATCA system for use in the same are disclosed. Each of routing protocol shelves and LI shelves includes two ports connected to two IPC... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070127366 - Quality of service using virtual channel translation: Virtual channels are used to improve quality of service through a large port count switch. Data frames are sent from one small switch to another small switch within the large port count switch on virtual channels. The use of virtual channels helps prevent congestion caused by a first external source... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070127367 - Communication system and communication method: A base node (100) and a base node (101) transmit a keep alive frame broadcast by a relay node forming a communication medium (106) and a communication medium (107) from a port 1 and a port 2, monitor an arrival state of the keep alive frame at each port, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070127368 - Signal divider: A signal divider 1 can be miniaturized in which divided signals do not interfere with each other and, at the same time, DC power does not creep into each other. Since a signal dividing circuit 11 is a lumped constant circuit and each element can be made as a chip... Agent: Kirk Hahn

20070127375 - Apparatus and method for classifying quality-of-service of packet in portable internet system: In a portable Internet system, packets are classified into a first packet classified as a transport connection identifier (CID) and a second packet that is not classified as a transport CID by using an established packet classification rule. An application program of the second packet is searched from a plurality... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070127374 - Communucation device for providing multimedia in a group communication network: A system and method for providing group communication services is disclosed. Each of a plurality of group communication devices coverts media, such as video, audio, image and/or data into data packets suitable for transmission over a data network, such as the Internet. The data packets are selectively transmitted through the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070127373 - Delayed data feeding for increased media access control processing time: A system and method are provided that are operable for network communications that promote network devices to receive a transmit request, transmit a first part of a frame by a physical layer without a second part of the frame from a medium access control layer, and request the second part... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070127372 - Digital object routing: A digital object may be routed via a network. Routing of a digital object may be based in part on link quality on the network and/or a desired level of quality and/or service.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070127370 - Method for implementing varying grades of service quality in a network switch: A method for implementing varying service quality grades in a network switch is provided, comprises the steps of: classifying a plurality of users of the network switch into a plurality of service quality grades according to a contributing factor of the plurality of the users; connecting each of the plurality... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070127369 - Scheduling with hidden rate request: The present invention relates to a terminal device and to a scheduling method and device for scheduling data transmission over a plurality of channels in a data network. A predetermined parameter, e.g. a TFC value, indicating a channel capacity in a received data stream of at least one of the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070127371 - Systems and methods for efficient electronic communication in a distributed routing environment: A system for managing communications with a provider is disclosed. A provider includes a provider binding. A requestor requests a requested binding. An intervening access node is in electronic communication with the provider and the requestor. The intervening access node includes program instructions stored in memory and implementing a method... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070127376 - Method for processing packets of a vlan in a network switch: A method for processing packets of a VLAN in a network switch is provided. The VLAN comprises a plurality of physical LANs and are divided into a plurality of subnets. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a packet through an ingress port of the network switch, wherein the packet... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070127377 - Method for updating a data record and device for carrying out the method: When updating a data record identified by a version number, the problem exists that a simple not equal to comparison or greater than comparison is often insufficient for ascertaining the up-to-date nature of the newly received data record, particularly if the data record is transmitted to a receiving station via... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070127381 - Congestion control access gateway and congestion control method for the same: A congestion control access gateway and a congestion control method for the same are provided. The congestion control access gateway interfaces between a broadband convergence network and a ubiquitous sensor network including sensors and terminals. The congestion control access gateway receives data from the ubiquitous sensor network. When a congestion... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070127380 - Method and apparatus for flow control of data in a mesh network: Flows admitted to a mesh node may be controlled through contention access parameters. The admitting node may determine a desired transmission opportunity duration, and a transmission opportunity frequency. Furthermore, the node may achieve the flow rate and delay bound requirements of the admitted flow based at least in part upon... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070127379 - Method and system for improving a wireless communication route: A system and method for improving a current wireless communication route, between a source node and a destination node in an on-demand wireless communication network, enables the current communication route to be improved even when the current route has not failed. The method includes analyzing at a local node a... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070127378 - Methods and apparatus for providing a flow control system for traffic flow in a wireless mesh network based on traffic prioritization: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing a flow control system for traffic flow in a wireless mesh network based on traffic prioritization are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070127382 - Routing traffic through a virtual router-based network switch: Methods and systems are provided for routing traffic through a virtual router-based network switch. According to one embodiment, a method for routing packets in a router includes establishing a flow data structure, which identifies a packet flow through a virtual router in the router. When a packet is received, a... Agent: Hamilton Desanctis & Cha Michael A. Desanctis

20070127383 - Accounting information filtering method and apparatus: A network element receives data intended for another destination and develops corresponding accounting information. This network element then process this accounting information with respect to at least one filter criterion as correlates to a target accounting information recipient to provide corresponding filtered accounting information. The network element then forwards this... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070127385 - Network fault detection apparatus: A network fault detection apparatus, which detects L2 loops due to L3 bridge connections, is provided. A network fault detection apparatus acquires physical addresses corresponding to the network addresses of at least two nodes among the plurality of nodes constituting a network, and by detecting the existence of a plurality... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070127384 - System to dynamically detect and correct errors in a session: A system for detecting and correcting an error in session between a client and a host over a network. When the system receives an indication of an error in a session, the system determines an error correction modification to the configuration of the session to correct the error. The system... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070127392 - Delay-based overflow routing in communication systems: A communication system determines a delay variation between at least a first link and a second link. The communication system routes user communications over the first link if the delay variation is within a maximum threshold. The communication system routes the user communications over the second link if the delay... Agent: Sprint

20070127388 - Method and system for managing networks, network fragments and subnetworks: A method and system are provided for verifying connectivity between monitoring points (MPs) within a network. The method comprises assigning, to each monitoring point, a unique MP ID and a unique sender MP ID and a unique receiver MP ID. Each sender MP ID uniquely identifying a sender MP from... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20070127390 - Method for providing quality-guaranteed service in converged network and apparatus using the same: A method of providing a quality-guaranteed service on a converged network and a network apparatus using the method are provided. The method includes: receiving a request of a quality-guaranteed service from a user terminal and providing information on the service quality of at least one adjacent network apparatus; receiving service... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070127389 - Method of monitoring the quality of a realtime communication: The invention concerns a method, a network element and a computer program product for monitoring the quality of a real-time communication (9) in a packet network (1) comprising at least two test points (3, 4). A packet stream pattern (22) is accessed and injected at a first test point (3).... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070127387 - Partial-parallel implementation of ldpc (low density parity check) decoders: Partial-parallel implementation of LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) decoder. A novel approach is presented by which a selected number of cycles is performed during each of bit node processing and check node processing when performing error correction decoding of an LDPC coded signal. The number of cycles of each of... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070127391 - Service level agreements based on objective voice quality testing for voice over ip (voip) networks: An objective, service-level specific voice call listening quality test scheme for a Voice Over IP (VOIP) network is presented. Test probes are deployed along the border of the VOIP network. Each test probe is capable of placing calls over the VOIP network to the other test probes at different levels... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070127386 - System and method to facilitate the use of multiple radios to increase the capacity of a wireless communication network: A system and method for increasing the capacity of a wireless network (100, 300) including a plurality of access points (APs) (106, 305) and a plurality of nodes (200), at least one of said nodes (200) and at least one of said APs (106, 305) including multiple radios (310), the... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070127393 - Device and method for setting up ad hoc networks: The invention concerns a network element (1) for setting up wireless networks (3), a corresponding network (4) and a method of setting up wireless networks and of wireless data exchange between network elements (1) and/or network users (2), wherein the network element (1) has a transmitting/receiving unit (12) for wirelessly... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070127397 - Interface system for an accessory and communication device: A configurable interface system (100) couples an accessory (102) to a communication device (104). The interface system utilizes a memory device (120) embedded in the accessory (102) that stores physical configuration and event mapping descriptors (114, 122) pertaining to the accessory. The communication device (104) reads the physical configuration and... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070127394 - Method and system for optimization of data transfer between networked devices: The invention relates to a method of arranging communication in a local area networking system comprising a first device, a second device and an intermediate node for arranging data transmission between the first device and the second device. The second device is arranged to multicast and/or broadcast messages to devices... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070127399 - Packet joining method, program, and apparatus: There is provided a packet joining method, program, and apparatus with an increased wireless utilization efficiency and a reduced packet delay. The packet joining method includes a step of performing Neighbor Discovery within a range reachable in one hop to detect neighboring audio terminals which are connectable over short-range radio... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070127395 - Preventing transient loops in broadcast/multicast trees during distribution of link state information: According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided to improve the link state routing protocol (LSRP) to prevent transient loops during topology changes. Broadcast and shared multicast traffic is dropped upon detecting link state change until neighboring nodes have computed routes using updated link state information. An acknowledgment... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070127396 - Preventing transient loops in broadcast/multicast trees during distribution of link state information: According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided to improve the link state routing protocol (LSRP) to prevent transient loops during topology changes. Broadcast and shared multicast traffic may be dropped on particular ports upon detecting link state change until neighboring nodes have computed routes using updated link... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070127398 - System and method for measuring and configuring miss-confitured 2g neighbors in 3g networks: A system and a method for measuring and configuring miss-configured 2G neighbors in a 3G network. The system comprises a user equipment, an operation and maintenance center, a radio network controller and a data register, wherein the operation and maintenance center further comprises a measurement information unit and a configuration... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070127400 - Professional services communications architecture: Professional services call management architecture. A professional services communications system (e.g., of a law firm) interfaces to a web-based call management system to facilitate call management (e.g., teleconferencing) capabilities in a professional services environment. The system can include a professional services communications component that facilitates voice communications, and a web-based... Agent: Eric D. Jorgenson

20070127402 - Method for performing access procedure of mobile communication terminal in data communication system, and mobile communication terminal using the same: A method and system for performing an access procedure of a mobile communication terminal in a data communication system are disclosed. An exemplary method includes performing an access procedure with a network according to an established access type. The method then determines whether a failure of the access procedure has... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070127401 - Optical wireless connecting terminal comprising an extended infrared source: A base for wireless connection of terminals to a communications network, said base including a transmit/receive unit adapted to exchange information with a remote terminal also provided with a transmit/receive unit. The transmit/receive unit of the base includes a transmitter including an extended infrared light source.... Agent: Thomas Langer Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane

20070127403 - Power saving method for wlan station: A power saving method is provided, implemented in a station operative in WLAN to receive packets from an access point. The station comprises a RF module, a baseband module, a MAC module, a processor and an ASIC. The RF module demodulates received radio signals into basedband signals. The baseband module... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070127404 - Pulsed signaling multiplexer: In one embodiment, a pulsed signaling multiplexer is described that comprises a first AC-coupled transmitter and a second AC-coupled transmitter. The first AC-coupled transmitter includes a first driver having a first input to receive first data and a first output. A first AC-coupling element couples the first output to a... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20070127405 - Methods and systems for jitter management and latency compensation in a packet-based system: Method and systems for aligning a clock at a second device based on a reference clock at a first device and reducing clock rate jitter between asynchronous devices in a network are disclosed. A transmission latency may be determined between the first device and the second device. A data packed... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070127406 - Enhancing mobile multiple-access communication networks: The present invention relates to mobile multiple access communication. More particularly it relates to novel features in mobile multiple access communication system.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070127407 - Method and apparatus for a control channel power allocation in a communication system: An apparatus and a method for a control channel power allocation in a communication system are disclosed. The method of control channel power allocation in an embodiment includes sorting a plurality of access terminals in an order of increasing required medium access control (MAC) channel power into a plurality of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070127409 - Method and apparatus for selecting call list numbers based on entry/exit to a wlan: A wireless communication device (100) includes a transceiver (204) that is operable to communicate with a first wireless communication network (104) and a second wireless communication network (106). The device (100) also includes a memory (216) for storing at least a first destination-device identifier (304) associated with the first wireless... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070127411 - Method for operating a device in a radio access network of a radio communication system as well as radio access network and device: In a method for operation of a device in a radio access network of a radio communication system, the device is arranged between a first network element and a second network element of a radio access network, receives at a first point in time from the first network element a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070127410 - Qos for av transmission over wireless networks: A method manages dynamically bandwidth for transport streams in a wireless network. An available bandwidth is defined for the network. An instantaneous bandwidth required by transport streams transmitted according to a hybrid coordination function controlled channel access (HCCA) category and an enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) category is determined. The... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070127408 - Wireless terminal base device, wireless system, wireless terminal control program, base device control program, and computer-readable storage medium: The present invention is a method for establishing and identifying a communication pair in a wireless AV system and provides a system in which notification is provided to a user in a case where a wrong pair that the user does not intend to establish among plural AV devices is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070127412 - Communications system employing non-polluting pilot codes: Transmitting non-polluting dummy pilot signals in a wireless communication network permits estimation of the downlink propagation channels between a number of joint transmitters and a lesser number of receivers. With fewer receivers than transmitters, loop back information from the receivers is not sufficient to determine the downlink propagation channels between... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070127413 - Erased frame and idle frame suppression in a wireless communications system: A method of reducing loading on backhaul communications links in a wireless communications system suppresses a portion of the upward flow of frame information for idle and/or erased frames in certain situations, such as when multiple ones of such frames are successively encountered. A radio base station abstains from sending... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070127416 - Method and apparatus in a cdma communication system: A novel and improved method and apparatus, in a WCDMA communication system, for informing a mobile station of a downlink data frame time offset by determining the downlink data frame time offset, and transmitting the downlink data frame time offset via an Active Set Update message transmitted from a cell... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070127414 - Seamless mobility in layer 2 radio access networks: Systems and techniques for routing frames in one or more radio access networks based on a physical addressing scheme involve assigning a unique identifier to a virtual local area network that includes a path connecting an access point to a radio network serving node. For each of multiple nodes in... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070127415 - System and method for performing handovers: A handover request (408) is received. The handover request (408) is for a mobile station to move between a packet-based network (112) and a circuit-voice with packet data based network (102). The handover request (408) is processed at a network element (108) to appear as a packet handover to the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070127425 - Adaptive wake-up period of roaming wireless terminals: A method for controlling a wireless terminal operating in a hibernation cycle alternating between a wake mode and a hibernation mode includes communicating with a first wireless network during a first waking period having a first duration, and with a second wireless network during a second waking period following the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070127427 - Communication system, control terminal and communication terminal: A control terminal 1a, 1b transmits a beacon frame including information necessary for connecting a communication terminal 2 to the control terminal 1a, 1b per se at each previously determined beacon interval, transmits a presence informing frame showing presence of the control terminal 1a, 1b at least one within the... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070127426 - Development environment: The present invention may be said to consist in a method, system (1) and/or of configuring one or more mobile devices (4) to provide one or more user interfaces to at least one database on a remote computer system. An index of one or more shadow fields (e.g. 32, 35),... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20070127419 - Enforcing fairness in ad hoc mesh networks: A self-adaptive algorithm to enforce fairness executes on nodes in an ad hoc wireless network. Each node is configured to measure or estimate the utilization of the RF channel in its neighborhood and then share this information with its neighboring nodes. In this way, the nodes learn about the traffic... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070127421 - Method and apparatus for broadcast in an ad hoc network using elected broadcast relay nodes: A method and apparatus for electing broadcast relay nodes (520B, H, M) in an ad hoc network (500). Each node (520A-520O) generates an attribute message including associated parameters. Each node (520A-520O) generates a weighted value (WV) based on the parameters. The WV can be included in the attribute message for... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070127424 - Method and apparatus to transmit and/or receive data via wireless network and wireless device: A method of and an apparatus to improve stability and efficiency during data transmission performed over a wireless network includes transmitting a first data frame containing a plurality of data units to a receiving device, receiving from the receiving device a receipt of confirmation for each data unit received by... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070127428 - Method and system for transmitting/receiving signal in wireless local network mesh communication system: Disclosed is a method for transmitting/receiving signals in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) mesh communication system. The method includes transmitting, by a transmitter, a control message including an address to receivers according to a generated traffic, if traffic is generated; and receiving, by a receiver, the transmitted control message,... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070127420 - Method, system and apparatus for creating a reverse tunnel: A method, system and apparatus for creating a reverse tunnel in a communication system is provided. The method includes obtaining an authentication key from an entity in the communication system. The method further includes manipulating a registration request message (402) sent by a mobile station (106) to a local agent... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070127418 - Network and node for providing a secure transmission of mobile application part messages: According to the present invention a telecommunication network with a first domain (PLMN-A) comprising at least one mobile application part protocol instance is connected to a gateway node (MSEGA) which is adapted to send and receive mobile application part messages and which is connectable to a second domain. The telecommunication... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070127429 - Self coordinated machine network: A self coordinated machine network is established by two or more machines in proximity with each other via a wired or wireless network infrastructure. The machines are configured to establish an ad hoc network between themselves for sharing information related to their common applications. New machines that come into proximity... Agent: Mark Rodgers

20070127417 - Self-configuring, self-optimizing wireless local area network system: A system and associated method provides for a wireless local area network (WLAN) that permits mobile units to communicate with an external, wired network Nodes in the WLAN include multiple components, such as a base module, antenna module, and one or more wireless modules. Indeed, this system can employ two... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070127423 - Server and mobility management for scalable multimedia quality of service (qos) communication: The present invention discloses a method for providing a client-requested location dependent information for a designated location through a wireless communication system. The method includes a step of detecting a presence of a wireless network client at the designate location by the wireless communication system wherein the wireless communication system... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20070127422 - System and method for computing the position of a mobile device operating in a wireless network: The present invention provides a method for computing the position of a mobile device (200,405) operating in a wireless network (100). The system includes a receiver, adapted to receive respective signals from each of at least four reference devices (410,415,420,425) at the mobile device (405), each respective signal including information... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070127430 - System, device, method and software for providing a visitor access to a public network: A system, device, method and software for providing a visitor access to a public network are disclosed. In one form, a virtual visitor enabled local area network includes a visitor access point operable to provide a visitor access to a public network while connected to a local area network (LAN).... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070127431 - Method and apparatus for generating pseudorandom binary sequence in communication system using linear feedback shift register: A method and apparatus for generating a code after a random time in a communication system using an n-stage Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) are provided. The method includes expressing an element indicating the current state value of the LFSR in a finite field GF(2n), performing a 2r-th power operation... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070127432 - Method for branching data in mobile communication terminal: A method for branching data in a mobile communication terminal to perform data communication between a mobile station and a network which have media access control sublayers. In a data sending mode, each of the media access control sublayers of the mobile station and network attaches logical channel types based... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070127433 - Method and apparatus for generating sndcp header in gprs communication system: A method for processing a set of data among N sets of data is provided. The method according to this invention first judges whether the set of data is compressed. If the judging result is NO, a first header is generated for the set of data. The first header includes... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20070127434 - Station comprising a rake receiver: Stations like mobile terminals, bases stations and network nodes comprising rake receivers with fingers require relatively many calculations to be performed for despreading a symbol. By replacing despreading multipliers, integrators and dumpers in the fingers by Hadamard transformers (62), chips of several symbols with orthogonal channelization codes can be despreaded... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070127435 - Nms corba listener for ems signals: A system and method is described for informing an upstream NMS when any changes have occurred in an electronic system architecture through a notification listener. The listener receives signals from EMS and translates them into a readily relayable format and forwards the signals to the NMS.... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070127443 - Branch exchange methods and apparatuses for switching telecommunication signals: A branch exchange comprises at least one interface module coupled to a plurality of telecommunication connections including a first telecommunication connection and a second telecommunication connection. A converter is coupled to the at least one interface module and a network interface controller (NIC). The converter is configured to communicate at... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070127441 - Ip phone server for a ksuless telephone system: The present invention discloses a IP phone server for a KSUless telephone system, wherein a data intercom device is used to transmit the data, which comes from a primary phone line, to a time division multiplex system, and the time division multiplex system transforms the data received from the data... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070127437 - Medium signal transmission method, reception method, transmission/reception method, and device: In the transmission and reception of a medium signal, a device in accordance with the present invention reduces a medium signal deterioration generated by a data loss, caused by a bandwidth fluctuation in a wired IP network or a wireless network or by a wireless handover, and minimizes an increase... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070127439 - Method and apparatus for enabling voice dialing of a packet-switched telephony connection: A method and apparatus provides a packet-switched telephony service over a broadband communications network. The apparatus may be a residential gateway that includes data terminal equipment having an interface for communicating with customer premises equipment. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to receive a voice utterance of a user... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070127438 - Method and system for processing telephone technical support: A system and method for processing telephone technical support is disclosed. The method and system monitor an authentication record comprising previous authentication attempts at a service provider, identify a user having at least one failed login attempt based upon the authentication record, monitor incoming telephone calls for a call from... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070127442 - Synchronization of client application data between pots telephone and content portal through pstn: Methods, Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) phones, and computer program products are provided for synchronizing client application data, such as names and associated telephone numbers in a phone book, between the POTS phone and a content portal through a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). A dial-up data communication connection is... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070127436 - System and method for converging circuit switched and packed switched communications: A method and system are provided for converging time division multiplexing (TDM) communication networks and packet based networks