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