Multiplex communications inventions 07/07

20070171808 - Adaptive orthogonal scheduling for virtual mimo system: A system and method for scheduling cooperative uplink transmissions in a virtual multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication environment are provided. More specifically, the present invention provides both random and channel aware orthogonal scheduling techniques for identifying a sub-set of N mobile terminals to provide cooperative uplink transmissions for... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070171811 - Apparatus for effectively transmitting in orthogonal frequency division multiple access using multiple antenna and method thereof: The present invention relates to a transmitting apparatus of an OFDMA system and a method thereof. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder for modulating data to be transmitted into data or a preamble by using a desired modulation scheme; an S/P converter for converting serial data output from the encoder... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070171809 - Radio resource control in fdma system: A radio resource control in an Uplink FDMA system is provided. The control procedure includes: dividing the common frequency band into more than one frequency band sub-block; allocating at least one user terminal to each frequency band sub-block on the basis of the modulation and coding schemes used by the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070171810 - Wireless communication system and wireless communication method: In a wireless communication system which uses a plurality of guard interval lengths, data format of a fixed guard interval length determined at a constant period is placed for the purpose of enabling the determination of the guard interval length with low power consumption and reduction of the reception station's... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070171812 - Ovsf code system and methods for cdma stations: A code indexing system for a CDMA communication station that uses orthogonal variable spreading factor (OVSF) codes having a single number mapped to each code. The new code number itself not only provides the code signature, but it is also used for the OVSF code generation. In addition, the system... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070171813 - Method and apparatus for fast fft processing of paging information: A method and apparatus for fast FFT processing of paging information in a user equipment (UE). The apparatus comprises a front end receiver (201) adapted to receive and down convert an RF signal to a baseband signal having a first part and a second part. An optional analog filter (202)... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070171814 - System and method for preventing loops in the presence of control plane failures: Various systems and methods for preventing loops in the presence of control plane failures are disclosed. For example, one method involves sending a special data packet in response to detection of a break in a network loop and then unblocking a port if the special data packet fails to circumnavigate... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070171815 - Fiber channel switch and computer system using the same: The fiber channel switch is capable of protecting data even if communication for adjusting reserves of access rights, which is performed by communication means, is interrupted. The fiber channel switch comprises: a plurality of connection terminals connected to a host computer and a physical storage unit via fiber channels; a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070171817 - Data communication device and the method thereof: When the provider edge PE1 detects the occurrence of a failure at the access line AL1, it sends the label withdraw message to the virtual circuit VC1, and when the provider edge PE2 receives the label withdraw message sent via the virtual circuit VC1, the access line AL2 is put... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070171816 - Method and apparatus for call reroute based upon qos: A method to reroute a call with a first termination point and a second termination point based upon Quality of Service (QoS) is disclosed. The method comprises establishing a quantitative QoS threshold, establishing a first communication path through a network for a data transmission such as a call, testing the... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20070171821 - Data communication apparatus, data communication method and data communication processing program: A data communication apparatus, comprising: a first control unit for controlling a client trying to access in order to establish a session by a call control protocol, for data communication by a data communication protocol that is other than said call control protocol; an IP address acquiring unit for acquiring... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070171820 - Information processing apparatus, method, and program: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus which is a component of an information processing system in which real time data for which transmission and reception assurance within a predetermined period of time after every fixed period is necessary is communicated through an asynchronous network. The apparatus includes a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070171819 - Restricting time slots for mesh networks: Systems and methods are described that facilitate controlling transmission/reception time slots in a wireless multi-hop ad hoc network. A node, such as an access terminal or an access point, may select an identifier that corresponds to specific time slots during which nodes with that particular identifier may transmit and/or receive.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070171818 - Wireless access method and system: A system shown in the drawing automatically sends information stored in a server to a mobile terminal (MT) that has entered a service area. At least one access point station (AP#1) of access point stations (AP#1 to AP#3) installed in a high place is connected by cable to a contents... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20070171822 - Method for reconfiguring a router: In a system which includes a configurable router which is configurable both as an edge router and a hub/backbone router and also including a router special needs agent (RSNA), a method which includes performing the steps of turning on active CoS/QoS provisioning between the configurable router and the RSNA such... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070171823 - Overload control in a communications network: An adaptive overload system for controlling the amount of traffic processed by a network access controller is described for a network access controller arranged to control a plurality of network access points. Each network access point provides traffic with access to the communications network and the system comprises determining at... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070171824 - Sampling rate-limited traffic: Out-of-profile rate-limited traffic is sampled to provide data for analysis, such as for, but not limited to, identifying a threat condition such as a denial-of-service or other malicious attack, or a non-malicious attack such as an error in configuration. A rate limiter including at least three states is typically used,... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20070171830 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing radio network controller internal dynamic hsdpa flow control using one of fixed or calculated scaling factors: Flow statistics for a buffer that receives data from a plurality of other entities are collected, and an available bandwidth for an interface coupled to an output side of the buffer is determined. From those is determined an arrival rate such that the buffer would not be overloaded. A flow... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070171829 - Reception apparatus and method and program: A reception apparatus for receiving first packets, including: a first decider configured to decide whether or not the number of the first packets received in response to a request from an application layer exceeds a first threshold value which is the number of the first packets when a second packet... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070171828 - Method of determining a maximum transmission unit value of a network path using transport layer feedback: A network element implementing a method for determining an optimal maximum transmission unit (MTU) value on a path between two nodes in a network is described. A sending node interested in learning the optimal MTU path value allows fragmentation of datagrams sent on the path, selects an initial MTU, and... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070171827 - Network flow analysis method and system: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture to uniquely identify network application flows. Upon detecting a network application flow, data is obtained from the flow and is used to prepare a unique data identifier, referred to as a global flow ID. Multiple stations monitoring network flow at different points in the... Agent: Olson & Hierl, Ltd.

20070171826 - System, method, and computer program product for controlling output port utilization: A system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, a plurality of flows associated with packets destined for an output port is identified. A utilization associated with the output port is further measured. Thus, rates of a plurality of the flows destined for the output port may be... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070171825 - System, method, and computer program product for ip flow routing: A router system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, it is determined whether a flow associated with a received packet is new. If it is determined that the flow associated with the packet is new, at least a portion of the packet is routed utilizing a first... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070171831 - Method for the support of high bit rate services in a mobile communication system: One object of the present invention is a method for the support of high bit rate services in a mobile communication system, said method comprising a step wherein a network entity signals to a Mobile Station, according to signalling procedures used in case of access via a broadband Access Network,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171832 - Route selection with bandwidth sharing optimization over rings: A method for establishing a connection through a communication network that includes multiple segments includes providing a sharing definition defining a sharing of bandwidth among connections in the network. Two or more candidate routes for a new connection to be established through the network are identified. For each of the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070171834 - Method and system for testing provisioned services in a network: A method, system, and apparatus are provided for testing a service in a network. A simulated interface is created on a network device by a Network Management Station (NMS). Thereafter, an instruction is received at the simulated interface from the NMS. The instruction comprises a source address, a destination address... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070171833 - Socket for use in a networked based computing system having primary and secondary routing layers: A method to be executed within a computing system having a network that couples a processor to a memory controller is described. The method involves receiving a packet and then characterizing the packet as being of a type selected from the group consisting of: i) a debug packet; ii) a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070171835 - Information processing device, and bubble packet transmission method and program: A first information-processing device at a communication source, is equipped with span of packet life setting part and bubble packet transmitter. The span of packet life setting part sets a span of packet life in a range where a bubble packet transmitted for leaving a transmission history in a NAT... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070171836 - Estimating system, terminal, estimating method, and program: An object of the present invention is to provide a technology capable of estimating header conversion applied in a network by collecting information required in the estimation, without introducing a special-purpose server directed to estimate header conversion applied in the network. The present invention provides a system for estimating information... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070171838 - Content aware apparatus and method: A network device for processing packets that includes means for applying specific fields from a packet to an associated memory device and comparing means for comparing input to the memory device with entries in the memory device. The network device also includes enabling means for enabling selection of bits, by... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070171840 - Controlling data transmission rate on the reverse link for each mobile station in a dedicated manner: The data transmission rate on the reverse link in a mobile communications system is controlled by determining an interference level at a base station due to signals from all mobile stations served by the base station, and determining a transmission energy level required for each mobile station. The interference level... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070171839 - Network interface card for measuring device and method of manufactring same: A network interface card for a measuring device and a manufacturing method thereof. The network interface card comprises a control unit for controlling the operation of the network interface card, and a line connection connected to the control unit for connecting the network interface card to a telecommunication network to... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070171837 - Ring-connected surveillance system with real-time backup monitoring: A real-time ring-loop surveillance network system is provided. By using digital communication network, multiple channels of media data and control data are transmitted in a ring-loop. The media data includes any forms of digital audio and video data, which is transmitted through 802.3/802.3u physical layer interface. The media data reaches... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070171844 - Determining network paths: In an embodiment of a method of tracing a path through a switch mesh from a first device connected to the switch mesh to a second device connected to the switch mesh, hardware addresses of the first and second devices are obtained. At least one switch that is a neighbor... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070171842 - Discovery of network nodes and routable addresses: Systems and related methods for discovering network nodes and routable addresses include a scan server, local link segment, an agent coupled to the local link segment, and a router coupled to place the scan server in communication with the agent. The scan server commands the agent to discover a network... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070171843 - Method and apparatus for operating a node in a beacon based ad hoc network: During operation a node (500) that has associated with a network (100) will periodically broadcast a beacon (303) during a beacon interval as part of a superframe. The beacon will be periodically broadcast for a first period of time, based on a time it takes for nodes to associate with... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070171845 - Method and apparatus to elect abrs dynamically and intelligently: The present invention elects an area border router from a plurality of potential area border routers by determining a full set of all areas attached to a router. A determination is made as to a full set of area pairs from the determined full set of areas. Routers are identified... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070171841 - Method and node for selecting a codec type or configuration by extending the list comprising codecs for transcoder/tandem free operation by further codecs supported by the node: The invention is related to a method for transmitting data in a telecommunications network and a device, e.g. a network node, utilising that method, where said data transfer requires the application of algorithms for coding and/or decoding (“codec”) on said data, where at least one of said network nodes provides... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070171846 - Modeling, managing, and scheduling videoconference meetings: Embodiments of the present invention provide data structures for modeling videoconference meetings, including videoconference meetings having only a single occurrence and videoconference meetings that repeat regularly, such as on a weekly or monthly basis. Some embodiments additionally model videoconference meetings that are part of a repeating series, but that have... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070171848 - Communication system, communication device, notification method, recording medium, and program: A communication system includes first and second communication devices that carry out wireless communication. The first communication device includes a setter configured to set a first indication mode and a corresponding second indication mode, a sender configured to send data representing the second indication mode to the second communication device... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070171847 - Decoding method and device: A symbol sequence in a received DS-CDMA signal is decoded in an efficient manner in order to reduce the processing needs in a receiver when, e.g., processing acquisition indicators (AI) in a UMTS system. The decoding comprises iterative calculation of a hard-decision vector, using a decision threshold having a value... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070171849 - Scheduling channel quality indicator and acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement feedback: A method for transmitting feedback by a user equipment in a wireless communication system includes scheduling a non-contention based uplink channel; and transmitting the feedback on the scheduled uplink channel. The feedback can include a channel quality indicator and an acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement for received downlink data. The feedback can be... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070171850 - Qos-aware paging in a wireless communication system: Paging messages are transmitted by a wireless communications network to mobile terminals, which have been in an idle state or dormant mode and which have waiting calls/data from their associated peer entities, in accordance with the qualities of service (QoS) associated with the waiting calls/data, where the QoS associated each... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20070171856 - Apparatus and method for enriching data records in a telecommunications network: An apparatus for enriching data records based on messages monitored on a telecommunications network having an Internet Protocol (IP) portion includes a data record enrichment module for receiving data records from a data record builder. The data records include at least a subscriber identifier field and a handset type identifier... Agent: Perman & Green

20070171852 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing high speed data, coverage / performance improvement in existing 2g/3g or future systems by using pan: Disclosed is a method, apparatus and computer program product to achieve enhancements in data transfer speed and reliability. In accordance with a method to operate a wireless device there is provided establishing a first connection path with a wireless network using a first long range transceiver; establishing a second connection... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070171855 - Communication method used in mobile communication system: A mobile terminal is connected to both first and second base station devices when handover is performed. Each of the first and second base station devices is connected to an upper level device. The first base station device is authorized to request retransmission of data to the mobile terminal when... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070171859 - Intelligent association of nodes with pan coordinator: Methods apparatuses, and systems directed to managing wireless node access to one or more wireless networks. According to one implementation of the present invention, a business logic application may function as a package tracking application to manage access to wireless access points in different WLANs along the route. A sensor... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070171857 - Method and apparatus for data security and automatic repeat request implementation in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for implementing data security and automatic repeat request (ARQ) in a wireless communication system are disclosed. Cipher entities are included in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and an access gateway (aGW), and outer ARQ, (or radio link control (RLC)), entities are included in the WTRU and... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070171851 - Method for the control and evaluation of a message traffic of a communication unit by means of a first network unit within a mobile radio system, pertaining communication unit and first network unit: A method for controlling and evaluating message traffic of a communication unit uses a first network unit within a mobile radio system for forwarding all the messages of the message traffic. The first network unit decides, using one or more useful information items of the communication unit, whether one or... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070171858 - Methods and systems for providing efficient operation of multiple modes in a wlan system: A method and system applies MAC transmission opportunity (TXOP) protection for multiple mode operation in a WLAN system. In particular, MAC mechanisms are defined to support multiple mode CTS frames, and multiple mode CF-End frames sent by the AP, each in a format appropriate for the corresponding mode which also... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070171853 - Quasi synchronous transmission in cellular networks: Aspects of the invention include a root node of a wireless communication infrastructure that buffers data packets for transmission by base stations over an air interface. The root node determines a time delay for transmission of a data packet from the root node to each base station, a maximum time... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070171854 - System for automatic wireless utilization of cellular telephone devices: A system and method for notifying emergency responders, family, and other contact parties of an urgent vehicle condition such as a breakdown or crash, by using a short-range wireless communicator mounted on the vehicle to employ a peer-to-peer communications capability to find and co-opt a nearby long-range communication device, such... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20070171865 - Mobile communication system, radio base station, mobile terminal and delivery method: A mobile communication system uses efficiently a radio band of a previously-connected base station, when a mobile terminal that executes multicast communication moves among radio base stations. The mobile communication system includes a layer-2 switch. Upon switching from one radio base station over to the other radio base station, the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070171862 - Media access control protocol for mobile ad hoc networks using cdma and multiuser detection: A method for transferring wireless communication data within an arbitrary network topology is provided. The method involves providing a channel access mechanism for a secure exchange of information between at least one first node and at least one second node over a single wideband channel and determining the requirements for... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070171864 - Method and apparatus for mapping an uplink control channel to a physical channel in a single carrier frequency division multiple access system: A method and apparatus for mapping an uplink control channel to a physical channel in a single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) generates control bits to be carried by a control channel. The WTRU maps the control channel to a plurality... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070171860 - Method for negotiating the bandwidth of data communication channel automatically: A method for negotiating bandwidth of a Data Communication Channel (DCC) automatically, including the steps of: performing a first communication channel configuration by two network elements respectively; informing, by the network element at transmitting end of the DCC, the network element at receiving end of the DCC of DCC negotiation... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070171861 - Pre allocating resources of a wireless network for packet-switched real time, interactive communications: To communicate in a wireless network, resources of at least one node (20A) of the wireless network are pre-allocated (44). The pre-allocated resources (44) comprise resources normally allocated in response to a call setup request. A first call setup request is received after pre-allocating the resources, and in response to... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070171863 - Wireless channel determination/ selection method and access point device: A wireless channel determination/selection method for use in an access point device configuring a wireless LAN system with a terminal device is disclosed. The method includes: a first step of selecting sequentially a wireless channel available for use, detecting a reception signal level for each of the wireless channels, determining... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070171866 - Method for transmitting data inside a base station for a mobile radio system and corresponding base station: Data IQ of a first mobile radio system are processed in the baseband unit BB of the base station BS, and are converted from or into the high-frequency range inside a high-frequency unit RF of the base station. The data IQ of the first mobile radio system are transmitted between... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070171873 - Method and apparatus for transmitting router advertisement and router solicitation messages through access point: A method and apparatus for transmitting a message in a wireless network environment are provided. The method of computing an interval of message transmission in an access point located in a specific subnet, includes determining whether the access point is an edge access point located at a boundary between the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171872 - Connection initiation in wireless networks including load balancing: Disclosed embodiments include a method for establishing a wireless communication session between a base station unit and a mobile unit wherein a system controller determines which base station unit of multiple base station units is an optimal base station unit to establish the session. The method includes the system controller... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070171868 - Method, system, terminal and computer program product for selecting radio access system in a multiaccess system: A method for selecting radio access system in a multi access system handling packet data services where a terminal can communicate with at least two different types of access systems. According to the invention the method comprises the steps of:—determining (S23) packet characteristics of each packet to be transmitted;—selecting (S31)... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070171870 - Mobility architecture using pre-authentication, pre-configuration and/or virtual soft-handoff: In some illustrative embodiments, a novel system and method is provided that can, for example, extend concepts of pre-authentication (such as, e.g., IEEE 802.11i pre-authentication) so as to operate across networks or subnetworks (such as, e.g., IP subnets). In preferred embodiments, a novel architecture includes one or both of two... Agent: Watchstone P + D

20070171871 - Secure distributed handover signaling: Provided are apparatuses and methods for providing security measures for a handover execution procedure in a communication network. In one example, the handover procedure is initiated by more than one base station. In another example, a base station may not launch a Denial or Service (DoS) attack towards other base... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070171867 - System and method for setting handover based on quality of service in wcdma system: The present invention relates to a method and system for performing handover based on a degree of QoS in WCDMA system. The method and system in accordance with the present invention establishes a new wireless link for use in hard handover upon determining the degree of QoS of a mobile... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070171869 - Wireless access networks: Changing access points for a mobile node (106) in a wireless access network (100), for example a wireless local area network (WLAN), includes the mobile node (106) communicating content data on an initial channel (214) via an initial access point (104) of the wireless access network (100); the mobile node... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070171874 - Wireless communications system, transmitting device, receiving device, wireless communications system controlling method, and wireless communications system controlling program and storage medium storing same: A wireless communications system confirms whether or not it is in an inspection process mode (S1). If the system is in the inspection process mode, the number of selectable communications channels is set at 7 (S2). Next, usable communications channels are set so that a different communications channel is used... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070171875 - Mobile communication system and mobile communication method: There is provided a technique for ensuring that the order in which a terminal, when performing a three-party handover, receives packets is the same as the order in which a transmission terminal transmits those packets. When a terminal device successively handovers among a plurality of radio base station routers, a... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070171876 - Method for reducing medium access overhead in a wireless network: The invention includes methods for achieving efficient channel access in a wireless communications system. The invention is embodied in a wireless network adapter that is present in all stations belonging to the network. The invention describes methods by which access overheads may be reduced by introducing the concept of context... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070171884 - Wireless communication system, wireless lan access point and settings confirmation/change method used therefor: There is provided a wireless LAN access point capable of confirming and changing the setting using the IP communication for a target wireless LAN access point positively even when the IP address of the wireless LAN access point is forgotten. The wireless LAN access point, upon receipt of a probe... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070171885 - Automated sniffer apparatus and method for wireless local area network security: A method for protecting local area networks within a selected local geographic region (e.g. office, apartment, building, coffee shop, hot-spot etc.) from wireless attacks, using a wireless sniffer apparatus. The method includes placing one or more wireless sniffer apparatus spatially to provide substantial radio coverage over at least a portion... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070171881 - Autonomous and heterogeneous network discovery and reuse: This application sets forth, among other things, a new approach for real time collection, discovery, and sharing of network and user information, which we refer to as Autonomous Collaborative Information Collection, Discovery, and Sharing (AC-CDS). It is autonomous because regular mobile users and devices act autonomously to collect information and... Agent: Watchstone P + D

20070171877 - Image processing apparatus and image processing system and its control method: An image processing apparatus connected with a wireless LAN unit having a USB host controller via a USB interface, which performs data transmission/reception to/from a PC included in a network with which the communication terminal is connected. A data-receiving request is issued to the wireless LAN unit via the USB... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070171879 - Method and apparatus for facilitating switched packet data services on multiple networks: A method and apparatus for establishing data connections between multiple networks is provided. A portable, electronic device 300, such as a mobile telephone, includes a communication module 303 configured to initiate the data connection by transmitting an initiation request. The device 300 establishes the data connection, which may be a... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070171882 - Multi-mode mobile communication terminal and method for reducing power consumption thereof: A mobile communication terminal includes a first communication module which communicates with a licensed network, a second communication module which communicates with a generic access network, and a controller which switches the first communication module between a hibernation mode and another mode according to whether the second communication module is... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070171883 - Rf port for multiple wireless local area networks: A wireless local area network is provided with simplified RF ports which are configured to provide lower level media access control functions. Higher level media access control functions are provided in a cell controller, which may service one or more RF ports that are capable operating with at least two... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070171886 - System and method for managing foreign agent selections in a mobile internet protocol network: A system and methods are shown for providing Internet Protocol communication services to a mobile client. One method includes sending a registration request from a radio node to a control node responsive to detecting a mobile client in a service area of the radio node. When the control node receives... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070171880 - System and method for providing data to a wireless communication device: A system and method allowing a mobile device user to initiate a transaction over the most widely used network such as a CDMA or GSM network and then have the device complete the transaction over a specialized data network such as Wi-Fi. The system includes a server communicating with a... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070171878 - Systems and methods for a multi-mode wireless modem: A multi-mode modem comprises a first device configured to communicate with a first communication system, a second device configured to communicate with a second communication system, a processor communicatively coupled the first and second devices, and a control function configured to place the device in one of the following communication... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070171887 - Apparatus, system and method with improved coexistence between multiple wireless communication techniques: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transceiver capable of passive scanning at least one channel used in a first wireless communication technique and approximating the start time, end time and period of interference caused by signals created from a second wireless communication technique within the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070171888 - Method and apparatus for establishing a wireless communications network solar powered access points: The present invention is addressed to method and apparatus for establishing a wireless communications network utilizing portable solar powered access points. Each access point includes a solar panel connected to a base unit containing-one or more charge storage assemblies. A charge controller controls the recharging of the charge storage assemblies.... Agent: Mueller And Smith, Lpa Mueller-smith Building

20070171889 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a rach signal in sc-fdma system: Embodiments of the present invention may provide an apparatus and a method for transmitting and receiving a random access channel (RACH) in a single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system. A frequency domain RACH signal may be mapped to a localized sub-frequency band of an entire frequency band available to... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070171894 - Call processing in dual mode terminal: In a dual mode terminal capable of providing at least two telecommunication services using different wireless technologies together, call processing is facilitated for one telecommunication service to be effected reflecting a telecommunication state of the other telecommunication service, thereby preventing call collisions.... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070171896 - Management system and management method for managing a communication apparatus: A management system for managing a plurality of communication apparatuses, the management system includes the plurality of communication apparatuses, a management apparatus managing the plurality of communication apparatuses by transmitting a periodic instruction to the plurality of communication apparatuses, and a network connecting the plurality of communication apparatuses and the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070171895 - Seamless session mobility for multimedia streams: A method for seamless handover of a multimedia stream session to a roaming terminal. In accordance with the proposed method, a first mediating network element is comprised in a communication path to the roaming terminal. Said first mediating network element first secures a session context of the multimedia stream session... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171891 - Cellular device with broadcast radio or tv receiver: Systems and methods are disclosed to provide portable data communication by receiving and transmitting a cellular signal containing audio data; receiving a satellite signal or terrestrial broadcast signal containing audio data, video data or Internet protocol (IP) data; and outputting the data to the user for consumption.... Agent: Tran & Associates

20070171893 - Inter-domain routing method for a dual-mode terminal, registration system and method, gateway and signaling forking function: The present invention discloses an inter-domain routing method for a dual-mode terminal, and a registration system and method. In the present invention, with an inter-domain IWGW, the dual-mode terminal registers respectively with the IWGW when it logins in the circuit domain or the packet domain; a GMSC or CSCF triggers... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070171892 - Method and system for supporting special call services in a data network: An approach is provided for supporting special call services and applications in a data network. A request message is generated for establishment of a voice session over a data network. The request message specifies that the voice session is special as to permit a non-subscriber to establish the voice session... Agent: Ditthavong & Mori, P.C.

20070171897 - Voice communication system and voice communication method: A voice communication system, which is connected to a LAN to which communication terminals are connected and to a public network to which telephones are connected, is provided with a communication server between the LAN and public network having different protocols from each other. The communication server enables a voice... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070171890 - Voice over internet protocol multi-routing with packet interleaving: A method and system for processing data packets is described within. The method executed by the system includes the steps of receiving a first data packet, determining if the first data packet is a first expected data packet, determining if the first data packet is a next expected date packet,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070171899 - Provisioning unified messaging system services: In a particular embodiment, a method includes providing a messaging service using a messaging system. The messaging system includes a centralized Internet Protocol switching network, an Internet access subsystem, a voice access subsystem, a mail subsystem and a storage subsystem. One or more of the subsystems may be coupled to... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070171898 - System and method for establishing universal real time protocol bridging: An apparatus and methods for Real Time Protocol (RTP) based bridging to create calls to and From any communication devices connected to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) or any public or private Internet Protocol network. The methods are represented in controls residing either in an RTP Bridge apparatus or... Agent: Patzik, Frank & Samotny Ltd.

20070171900 - Data burst scheduling: A method and apparatus for scheduling the transfer of data bursts in a network comprising electronic edge nodes interconnected by bufferless core nodes are disclosed. Each edge node comprises a source node and a sink node, and each core node comprises several bufferless space switches operated in parallel. Each source... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070171906 - Apparatus and method for extending functions from a high end device to other devices in a switching network: A network device for implementing a high speed transmission protocol. The network device includes a plurality of high speed modules which are connected by a plurality of high speed links, each of the plurality of high speed modules implementing the high speed transmission protocol. The network device also includes a... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070171905 - High speed transmission protocol: A high speed transmission protocol that is implemented in a network device that includes a plurality of modules which are connected by a plurality of high speed links. The protocol includes a transmission link aspect for providing at least one of variable-sized packet based transmission with fixed sized messaging capability... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070171907 - Message-based communications: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of communicating information between an intermediate element and a source element in a message-based communications system in which a request message is sent from the source element to a destination element and in response to which a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070171908 - Method and system for improving traffic distribution across a communication network: A system and method for distributing data across a network including a plurality of trunked port lines, including modifying an existing field within one layer of a data packet on the basis of information found within another layer of the data packet and restricting the process of trunking distribution to... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070171902 - Method device for transmitting data packets belong to different users in a common transmittal protocol packet: The present invention relates to a method, device and system for handling short data packets, such as speech packets, in a communications network, and in particular a wireless local area network. The present invention is based on collecting several data packets from several users active on the network in one... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070171903 - System and method for retrieving digital multimedia content from a network node: A scheme for retrieving digital multimedia content from a network node. A message is provided to the network node by a client application executing on a digital multimedia device, wherein the message includes a multidimensional pointer to a depository of digital multimedia content associated with the network node as well... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070171904 - Traffic separation in a multi-stack computing platform using vlans: Embodiments of networking traffic separation mechanisms in a multi-stack computing platform using VLANs are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070171901 - Transmission protocol automatic detection method for a portable object such as a chip card or a chip key: A processing method for data exchanged between a portable object and an interface device, the portable object being of a chip card or chip key type, wherein the method involves receiving an initial signal from the interface device, wherein the initial signal is received after transmission of a response upon... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070171911 - Routing system and method for managing rule entry thereof: In a routing system and a method for managing a rule entry of the routing system, the routing system comprises: a ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) for classifying rule entries into a reference rule entry having both basic information and priority information about a packet to which a rule having... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070171909 - Centralized wireless qos architecture: A QoS mechanism that evaluates congestion in one or more network nodes along the wireless delivery path to optimize the processing priority at the centralized wireless network controller. The QoS mechanism determines an idealized processing time for a given client packet, within a rich set of configurable QoS attributes, for... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070171910 - Peer-to-peer communication in ad hoc wireless network: For a peer-to-peer call in an ad hoc wireless network, a wireless device performs discovery of a target wireless device, performs authentication of the target wireless device and generates a session key (e.g., using a pre-shared key or a certificate provisioned on the wireless device), forms an ad hoc wireless... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070171912 - Network relay method and device: By a method and device which improve a transmission efficiency on an ATM transmission line upon network relay between an ATM cell and an Ethernet frame which is a variable length frame of a predetermined specification, a frame of a nonstandard frame format is generated, in which header information free... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070171913 - Network device and connection setting method thereof: A network device (10) for establishing a connection with one of other network devices includes a connection switch module (100) and a connection setting module (110). The connection switch module appoints one of the other network devices with which the network device will establish a connection. The connection setting module... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070171914 - Flow based congestion control: A method for selectively controlling the flow of data through a network device is discussed. The network device has a plurality of ports, with each port of the plurality of ports having a plurality of priority queues. Congestion at one priority queue of the plurality of priority queues is detected... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070171915 - Cost-aware networking over heterogeneous data channels: Disclosed herein are scheduling techniques for transmitting time-critical data in a cost-aware manner over a network comprising a plurality of heterogeneous transmission interfaces. The scheduling problem is formulated as a linear programming problem with the deliver-by deadlines of the various data blocks as hard constraints and minimizing cost set as... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070171916 - Memory control apparatus and memory control method: For an electronic apparatus in which data is transferred between a plurality of processing devices and a memory, a technique is provided which prevents the data transfer from being restricted and allows the processing devices to operate efficiently. The order of priorities of data transfer operations through channels is changed... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070171918 - Frame forwarding apparatus for converting vlan identifiers: A frame forwarding apparatus connected between an ISP router and a plurality of subscriber terminals comprises a frame forwarding processing unit and a VLAN bundling table defining the correspondence of subscriber side line information with ISP router side line information and subscriber terminal's MAC address. The subscriber side line information... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070171917 - Apparatus and method for implementing multiple high speed switching fabrics in an ethernet ring topology: A network device for implementing a high speed transmission protocol. The network device includes a plurality of high speed modules which are connected by a plurality of high speed links. Each of the plurality of high speed modules implements the high speed transmission protocol and each of the plurality of... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070171919 - Message batching with checkpoints systems and methods: Systems and methods are provided for passing control of message dependencies and ordering to one or more network nodes participating in a transaction. Thus, messages can be sent to the participating nodes and the participating nodes can handle the messages according to their respective dependencies without first sending a response... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070171920 - Buffer management system and method for a modem: A buffer management method for a modem having virtual circuits is provided. The buffer management method includes steps of: detecting the virtual circuits, and counting the number of virtual circuits in use; collecting the buffers of the modem; and distributing the buffers of the modem to the virtual circuits in... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070171921 - Methods and systems for interacting, via a hypermedium page, with a virtual machine executing in a terminal services session: A method for making a hypermedium page interactive, the hypermedium page displayed by a network browser, includes the step of selecting a hyperlink on the hypermedium page displayed on a client machine, the hyperlink identifying a desired computing resource. A hyperlink configuration file is retrieved, the hyperlink configuration file corresponding... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070171925 - Multiplex superposed communication device: A multiplex superposed communication device receives a data packet from a Local Area Network (LAN), analyzes the data packet, and extracts transmission destination information. A setting table includes a setting of a relation between the transmission destination information and multiplex signal channels. A signal channel to be used for relaying... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070171926 - Method and apparatus for interdomain multicast routing: An apparatus bridges a plurality of domains and routes multicast datastreams between them. The apparatus includes a receiver which receives a client request signal via a multicast access protocol from a user connected within a first domain. A transmitter requests multicast content using a multicast transmission protocol from a provider... Agent: Caracappa And Associates, PC

20070171922 - Methods and system for fast session establishment between equipment using h.324 and related telecommunications protocols: Methods of establishing multimedia telecommunication (a multimedia “call”) between equipment (“terminals”). More particularly, the invention provides methods for reducing the time required to establish calls between terminals that implement the ITU-T H.324 Recommendation and other Standards and Recommendations derived from or related to this such as the 3G-324M recommendation developed... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070171923 - System and method for exchanging information among exchange applications: In a system and method for accessing messages in a data store in a gateway, a data frame request, which is a structured SQL query, is received at the gateway. The received data frame request is applied to the gateway data store, which stores messages. A data frame is generated... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070171924 - System and method for exchanging information among exchange applications: In a system and method for processing messages, from one or more applications, in a gateway, an application payload is obtained from an application. A raw message is created from the obtained application payload, the raw message including a raw message header and a payload, the raw message header including... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070171927 - Multicast traffic forwarding in system supporting point-to-point (ppp) multi-link: An apparatus and control method for multicast traffic forwarding in a system supporting Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) multi-link includes: a memory adapted to store a received frame and a buffer handler having meta data information; and a network processor adapted to: store the frame received from an external network interface card... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070171929 - Queue management in a network processor: In a queue management method and apparatus in a network processor, enqueue completed and de-queue completed messages are transmitted to a scheduler when a queue manager performs enqueuing and de-queuing operations in the network processor, so that the queue processing time is synchronized between the queue manager and the scheduler.... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070171928 - Video aware traffic management: A multiplexer selectively chooses packets for discarding during periods of congestion. In a first embodiment, thresholds for fill levels of a FIFO queue are set for a plurality of priority types. As thresholds are exceeded, incoming packet below a set priority level will be prevented from entering the queue and... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070171930 - Communication system: An IPv4-IPv6 multicast address translation table is dynamically created, so that it is unnecessary to register multicast servers in advance. When an IPv4 MC group address exists as a response of a DNS server to a DNS request of an IPv6 MC client or when an IPv6 MC group address... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070171931 - Arbitrary average data rates for variable rate coders: Methods and apparatus are provided for achieving an arbitrary average data rate for a variable rate coder. One method includes selecting a set (e.g., a pair) of initial composite rates surrounding the arbitrary average data rate. A reallocation fraction is then calculated based on the initial composite rates. The reallocation... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070171932 - System and method for dynamic allocation and routing of resources: Systems and methods are provided for dynamically allocating and routing resource in a wireless communication system. The system includes at least one scheduled resource, a first terminal having a resource requirement and configured to acquire an alternate resource in response to an out-of-band signal, and a controller. The controller is... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070171933 - Medium access control and physical layer headers for high throughput data in wlan systems: A method and apparatus are provided for signaling collision avoidance behavior, and in particular deferral and/or backoff behavior, within a communication frame. Preferably, collision avoidance data is explicitly communicated and wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) are configured to use such data to generate instructions to control the WTRUs' deferral, backoff and/or... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070171934 - Method of operating systems comprising communication services: A method of operatively handling data systems that include communications services, particularly telephone and data services. A computer system executes a service in accordance with a data program and also processes log data. The computer system includes databases, at least one containing a predetermined number of transactions in the form... Agent: Alfred J Mangels

20070171935 - Method for path and bundle locking in a video processing device: A method is proposed for controlling a device for the distribution of audio, video, data and control signals with respect to path and bundle locking, as well as unlocking. The device has a number of inputs and outputs which can be connected by switching and cover signal paths. The method... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070171936 - Dynamic selection of communication links in a mixed network: Dynamic selection of communication links in a mixed network having wired and wireless links. An access point is coupled between at least two stations, with the access point coupled to a first station by a wired link and a wireless link. The access point is coupled to the second station... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC C/o Portfolioip

20070171937 - Self annealing auto-expanding network: A ring based network includes a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit selects one of a number of inputs and switches an input to a first common communication line. A second circuit selects one of a second number of inputs and switches a second input to a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070171938 - Method and system for transmitting multimedia message transmitted from transmitting mobile station of higher version to receiving mobile station of lower version: The present invention relates to a method and system for transmitting a multimedia message, which reconstructs a multimedia message to be appropriate for the receiving mobile station and transmits the reconstructed message, when the multimedia message is requested to be transmitted from a transmitting station of a higher version to... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070171939 - Method for synchronizing voice traffic with minimum latency in a wireless communications network: A supervisory communications node monitors and controls communications with a plurality of remote devices throughout a widely distributed network. A method is provided to convey and maintain information used to synchronize the packetization and burst operations within the network. During session setup, jitter constraints indirectly are used to explicitly communicate... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070171940 - Selectable training signals based on stored previous connection information for dmt-based system: Training signals can be chosen based on stored prior connection information to reduce the use of extra tones in transmitted training signals and thereby improve receiver performance. By choosing training signals based on the stored prior connection information, it is possible to make the training signals indirectly a function of... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070171941 - Dtv television transmitter/receiver and method of processing data in dtv transmitter/receiver: A DTV transmitter includes a pre-processor pre-processing enhanced data, a data formatter generating enhanced data packets including known data, a multiplexer multiplexing the enhanced data packets with main data packets, a data randomizer randomizing the multiplexed data packets, an RS encoder RS-encoding the randomized data packets, and a data interleaver... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070171942 - System and method for conducting fast channel change for iptv: A system for conducting fast-channel switching of programming delivered as compressed data streams over a unicast channel includes a switch for receiving both fully-compressed and a partially-compressed versions of the data streams corresponding to available programming. Upon receiving a channel change request from a user, the switch switches to a... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070171943 - Method for upgrading network rate of passive optical network: This invention provides a method for upgrading the network rate of a Passive Optical Network (PON), which mainly includes: upgrading the optical fiber line rate of the central office device, and adapting, by the network terminal device, the working rate of the upstream/downstream line automatically to the optical fiber line... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070171944 - Stereo coding and decoding methods and apparatus thereof: A method of encoding input signals (l, r) to generate encoded data (100) is provided. The method involves processing the input signals (l, r) to determine first parameters (φ1,φ2) describing relative phase difference and temporal difference between the signals (l, r), and applying these first parameters (φ1, φ2) to process... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070165514 - Method of transmitting ofdm signal and transmitter and receiver thereof: An OFDM transmitter includes, an allocation unit configured to allocate a first pilot signal and a first data signal respectively to at least one first pilot subcarrier and first data subcarriers within a subcarrier group that is identical among transmitters, and to allocate a second pilot signal and a second... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165515 - Dynamic protection against failure of a head-end node of one or more te-lsps: A technique dynamically protects against failure of a head-end node of one or more primary Traffic Engineering Label Switched Paths (TE-LSPs) in a computer network. According to the novel technique, a neighboring upstream node (“protecting node”) of the head-end node learns of the primary TE-LSPs (and their respective state control... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070165516 - Method and system for providing availability and reliability for a telecommunication network entity: Geographical redundancy and an efficient switchover process to redundant equipment (210) is achieved by separating active main equipment (220) and standby redundant equipment in different geographical locations so that failures can be avoided in the event of a natural disaster or other event that affects an entire building or region.... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070165517 - Recovery mechanism for 10 ge optical transport network wavelength division multiplexing ring: Methods and apparatus for processing a failure and a subsequent recovery in a ten Gigabit Ethernet (GE) optical transport network (OTN) wave division multiplexing (WDM) ring are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a device includes a plurality of ports, a sensing arrangement, and a processing arrangement.... Agent: Aka Chan LLP / Cisco

20070165518 - Vpls failure protection in ring networks: A method for communication over a bi-directional ring network includes provisioning a virtual private local area network service (VPLS) over the bi-directional ring network. The VPLS includes connection termination points provisioned respectively on a plurality of the nodes so as to connect each of the plurality of the nodes to... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070165519 - Method and apparatus for re-establishing anonymous data transfers: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for re-establishing anonymous data transfers between a first endpoint and a second endpoint in a network includes receiving, from a first node, the identity of a second node connected to the first node, where at least the first node is a neighbor... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan LLP IBM Corporation

20070165520 - Port trunking between switches: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and a computer program product are provided for processing packets in switches. A first switch receives a packet from a network that is to be directed to a host. A determination is made as to whether all of the ports connected from the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070165523 - Infrared communication system and method: A wireless communications capability enables field personnel to communicate with a remote control console of a distributed system. A hand held communications unit generates console related messages that are coupled, via local devices to the remote console.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070165522 - Method for allocating bearer network resource: A method for allocating bearer network resources is disclosed, which includes: each bearer network resource manager deciding after receiving a QoS resource request whether the destination user of the QoS resource request is an intra-domain user, if yes, selecting an intra-domain LSP, allocating resources on the selected intra-domain LSP, and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070165521 - Wireless transmission apparatus and wireless transmission method: A wireless transmission apparatus that improves throughput in a wireless communication network system. In this apparatus, MT units of transmission/reception sections (122-1 to 122-MT) respectively correspond to MT units of antennas (121-1 to 121-MT) and transmit a preamble signal and a data signal via corresponding antennas (121-1 to 121-MT). MT... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070165527 - System for rate-control of aggregate-rate communication services: A method of rate-control for a group of ports in a communication network. Ramping is performed for allowed-rate of each of the group of ports, if sum of the ingress-rates of the group of ports is less than a given rate threshold; and adjusting is performed for allowed-rate of each... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

20070165526 - Wireless qos by hardware packet sizing, data rate modulation, and transmit power controlling based on the accumulated packet drop rate: Two methods to improve the QoS. These methods can be applied individually or together. The first method is a packet sizing method, which is based on the Bit Error rate as well as the packet drop rate. The second method is a data transmit rate modulation method. The proposed methods... Agent: Hyun Lee

20070165525 - Computer program, method, and apparatus for managing reservation of it resources: A computer program, method, and apparatus that manage reservation of IT resources for efficient use thereof. Upon receipt of a reservation request, an IT resource finder identifies IT resources that are available for reservation in a period specified in the request. Subsequently a vacant period finder identifies vacant periods containing... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070165524 - Rate based congestion control for packet networks: The invention herein described consists of a method to compute in a end-to-end fashion the sending rate of data, audio and video flows over a packet switching network such as the Internet Protocol Network. The sending rate is computed as a function of the data sent in the recent past... Agent: Zito Tlp

20070165529 - Apparatus, method and computer program for traffic control: The present invention relate to traffic control for the communication network using a token bucket. According to the invention, tokens stored in the token bucket and data throughput to/from a data buffer are monitored, and new token rate is determined based on the data throughput during the period that at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165528 - Method for selecting packets in a data transmission network: A method for selection by a downstream device of data packets of connections of a network transmitted by at least one upstream device according to a predetermined threshold for quantities of data transmitted by the connections includes: for each connection, initialization by each upstream device of a counter for packets... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070165530 - Method, system and device of traffic management in a multi-protocol label switching network: Embodiments of the invention provide a method of traffic management in a Multi-Protocol Switching (MPLS) network. The method includes: setting a management tag on the outer layer of service traffic data carried in an MPLS packet when the MPLS packet is sent initially; and upon receiving the MPLS packet, identifying... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070165531 - System and method for transmission control protocol (tcp) transmission rate control: The present invention provides a smooth friendly TCP based transport layer protocol method and apparatus for data and streaming applications. In accordance with the invention, a low pass filter that uses history information modifies the multiplicative decrease portion of TCP's additive increase multiplicative decrease strategy, thereby creating an additive increase... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20070165532 - Techniques for detecting loop-free paths that cross routing information boundaries: Techniques for detecting loops in routes that cross route information boundaries include receiving a control message at a first edge node on one side of the boundary that is connected to a different second edge node on another side of the boundary. The control message indicates a particular network address... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20070165533 - System and method for processing link failure of broadband access devices: The present invention relates to a system and a method for handling link failure of broadband access devices in the field of communication technology. Said system for handling link failure of broadband access devices installs a status monitoring module and a failure handling module, which are used to monitor the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070165536 - Complex network management system and method thereof: In a system and method for managing a complex network, including an access network, a metro network, or the like, the method includes the steps of: requesting, at a first terminal, call set-up to perform the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call with a second terminal; collecting available bandwidth information... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070165534 - Method of indicating a signal characteristic: There is described a method of indicating a signal characteristic in a communication system comprising a first communication apparatus (10) coupled in wireless communication with a second communication apparatus (80). The method is distinguished in that it includes steps of: (a) receiving one or more wireless transmissions (60) at the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070165535 - Method, device and system for monitoring network performance: A method for monitoring network performance includes: sending correspondences between a remote network element and a plurality of IP addresses thereof from a network management device to a local network element; according to the correspondences, calculating performance parameters between the local IP address and the plurality of remote IP addresses... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070165542 - Domain name system, medium, and method updating server address information: A method of a first DNS which can update server information in real time without necessarily using a TTL (Time To Live) by recording a network address of the first DNS, which has previously obtained server address information from a second DNS, in a notification list, by the second DNS,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070165544 - Method and apparatus for providing distributed service composition model for ad hoc networks: A method and apparatus for providing a distributed service composition model in accordance with the characteristics of an ad hoc network are provided. The method includes confirming whether an adjacent mobile node exists within a number of hops from a task initiator node so as to execute a task, establishing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165543 - Routing system and route update method: A route update method includes: storing information on route insertion sequence by each routing protocol in respective entries in a routing table; performing a prefix search according to the stored route insertion sequence upon a restart of a routing module, and updating a corresponding routing entry upon a prefix matching... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070165545 - Control of low power wireless networks for power conservation: A wireless mesh network routes messages between a host computer and a plurality of field devices. The mesh network is synchronized to a global regular active schedule that defines active periods when messages can be transmitted or received by nodes of the network, and inactive periods when messages cannot be... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070165546 - Packet-switched network topology tracking method and system: The present invention permits a network operator to maintain a timely view of changes to an operational packet-switched network.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070165540 - Scalable management system for mpls based service providers: A management system manages multiple multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) virtual private networks (VPNs), the VPNs having overlapping IP addresses. The system includes a storage storing a file that associates a host name with an IP address and a route distinguisher. The host name corresponds to a network element within one... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070165538 - Schedule-based connectivity management: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for schedule-based connectivity management which includes maintaining a connectivity schedule, selecting one of a plurality of predetermined connectivity configurations in dependence upon the connectivity schedule and current date and time information, and establishing connectivity according to the selected predetermined connectivity configuration. Selecting one of... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070165541 - System and method for data maintenance and integration including interpolation: A system and method of managing collection and maintenance of performance data for a wireless communications network including collecting configuration data for the network, encoding the collected configuration data and storing the data, collecting a transmitted signal, measuring a parameter of the collected signal, and encoding and storing the parameter.... Agent: Patrick D. Mcpherson Duane Morris LLP

20070165537 - System and method for radio resource management in a communication system: The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for managing radio resources for providing wireless access to a communication system to a number of terminals. The communication system comprises a first access network (120) using a first access technology and at least one second access network (110) using at least... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070165539 - System and method for the configuration of network devices: A system and method is disclosed for configuring a network device. The system and method involves a network device that includes an external button for toggling the device between a managed mode and an unmanaged mode. When the device is toggled to a managed mode, an Internet Protocol (IP) address... Agent: Roger Fulghum Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070165547 - Integrated data processing circuit with a plurality of programmable processors: An integrated data processing circuit contains matrix of programmable processors. Each processor (12) has private operand transfer connections to its neighboring processors (12) in the matrix, typically for passing operands of transfer commands. An additional tree communication structure contain router circuits (16, 18, 19) hierarchically coupled to each other and... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070165548 - Apparatus and method for multi-point detection in power-over ethernet detection mode: An apparatus and method for multi-point detection in a power source equipment (PSE) device is provided. During multi-point detection, a series of at least four currents is sequentially applied to a link port of the PSE device. Each current is applied during a different measurement interval. A voltage measurement sample... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070165549 - Transport systems and methods incorporating absolute time references and selective buildout delays: In various exemplary embodiments, the present invention provides transport systems and methods incorporating absolute time references, such as global positioning system (GPS) time references and/or the like, and selective buildout delays, such as first-in, first-out (FIFO) buildout delays and/or the like. In one exemplary embodiment, the transport systems and methods... Agent: Clements Walker

20070165550 - System and method for generating flexible time slot in internal voice mail system: A system and method for generating a flexible time slot in an internal voice mail system, the system includes: a first counter/time slot playback device operating as a counter in response to a system synchronization signal and outputting at least one time slot (TS) signal; a second counter/time slot playback... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070165551 - Method of operating a mbms (multimedia broadcast multicast service) for a mobile station according to the position or signal quality: A method of operating a MBMS (Multimeda Broadcast/Multicast service) comprises causing a network controller to broadcast (1) to all mobile stations in a cell an offer of service. The network controller requests from each mobile station an indication of interest in the offered service and receives (2) data relating to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070165552 - System and related methods for beamforming in a multi-point communications environment: A system and related methods for beamforming in a multi-point communication environment is presented. According to one aspect of the invention, a method comprising identifying one or more target(s) for which a communication signal is intended, identifying one or more other target(s) which may benefit from receipt of the communication... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070165553 - Method for the acceptance of devices, an arrangement which can be used for this purpose, and equipment: Disclosed is an arrangement for determining a chronological acceptance of spaced-apart devices, comprising at least one transmitter unit which is disposed on each device and from which a signal that identifies said device and has a predefined range can be transmitted. Several personal apparatuses are provided that are to be... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070165554 - System, method and portable communication device: A system, method and computer program product for providing a user a way to change communications presence information is disclosed. A point of presence (PPD) device may produce presentity (a source of presence information about a user) which may be transmitted out-of-band to a watcher or watchers of an intelligent... Agent: Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP

20070165558 -