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 - Method and apparatus for decoding a control channel in a wireless communication system: A method of decoding a control channel in a wireless communication system is provided. In the method, a terminal calculates the number of sub-bursts to be used during a next decoding and positions of the sub-bursts, based on a signal-to-noise ratio of at least one of a first burst or... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070165555 - Wireless control systems for digital household appliance: The invention discloses a system for controlling household digital equipment based on wireless. The system comprises a remote device and receiving devices. The remote device sends controlling commands in wireless mode and provides at least two kinds of wireless communication modes. The receiving devices can communicate in the said wireless... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070165556 - Wlan tdm protocol: A first wireless network device in a wireless network that includes a plurality of wireless network devices comprises an RF transceiver that transmits and receives data packets and that periodically transmits or receives a beacon. A control module communicates with the RF transceiver, determines a transmission position m and a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070165557 - Wlan tdm protocol: A wireless network device in a wireless network that includes a plurality of wireless network devices comprises n RF transceiver that transmits and receives data packets and that periodically transmits or receives a beacon. A control module communicates with the RF transceiver, determines a group identifier and a station identifier... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070165562 - Adaptive call admission control for use in a wireless communication system: The invention relates to communication systems and to systems and methods for implementing adaptive call admission control (CAC) in such systems. Adaptive call admission control can determine what CPE to base station calls (connections) are allowed at any given time. CAC, coupled with precedence, can further determine what connections are... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070165560 - Baseband processor and a method of transmitting commands to a radio-frequency subsystem and radio telecommunication apparatus incorporating the baseband processor: The baseband processor (18) comprises: a storage unit (72) storing: a descriptor table comprising for each descriptor: a pointer field designed to point to a definition of an operation, an absolute operation time field indicating at which time from the beginning of a frame processing the corresponding operation should be... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070165559 - Communication control system: A communication control system comprising a plurality of user terminals connected via a network composed of a plurality of sub networks; and a home agent managing the addresses of the plurality of user terminals. The home agent stores the care-of addresses of the plurality of user terminals, which are associated... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070165563 - Method and apparatus for high rate channel access control: Access to a variable rate multiple access system is controlled based upon a current loading. The current loading level is used to determine a transmission rate set point. The transmission rate set point may include a maximum transmission rate and a transmission probability. The transmission rate set point is passed... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070165561 - Mobile terminated packet data call setup without dormancy: When the binding of a mobile station (MS) in a home agent (HA) expires, the HA generates an identifier from the MS's IMSI. The HA maintains a binding between the home address (HoA) and a special care of address (MAP-CoA), where the host ID of MAP-CoA is the identifier, and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070165568 - Localized and distributed allocation multiplexing and control: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate multiplexing of localized transmissions and distributed transmissions to reduce overhead transmission costs. According to various aspects, systems and/or methods are described that enable selection of an optimal transmission scheme in order to accommodate various traffic services, user abilities and channel properties.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070165569 - Method for minimising interference in a cellular ofdm communications system and base station and mobile station for this: The invention concerns a method for minimising the interference in a cellular OFDM communication network (CN), wherein mobile stations (T1-T4) are divided into groups according to the radio channel quality (RCQTvec), the interference levels (NLTvec) of mobile stations (T1, T2) which belong to a first group of mobile stations (T1,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165570 - Method for selecting a processing device: e

20070165567 - Preamble sequencing for random access channel in a communication system: A system and method for initializing a system communication without previous reservations for random access channel (RACH) access includes a first step of defining at least one spread sequence derived from at least one constant amplitude zero autocorrelation sequence. A next step includes combining the spread sequence with a Walsh... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070165565 - Wireless broadband (wibro) station capable of supporting quality of service (qos) and method for servicing qos in wibro network: A wireless broadband (WiBro) station is capable of supporting Quality of Service (QoS), and a method provides the QoS service in a WiBro network. A High_MAC processor is additionally constructed to parse a packet inputted from an application layer, assigns a QoS class according to a feature of the parsed... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070165564 - Apparatus for adaptive resource allocation for multi-channel communication system, and a method thereof: Disclosed is an adaptive resource allocation processor in the multi-channel communication system. A channel gain for the subchannel is determined and a modulation method for each subchannel is the present invention. A number of bits to be transmitted is determine according to a subchannel quality, and a minimum power for... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070165566 - Wireless communication method and system for communicating via multiple information streams: A wireless communication system is disclosed wherein an information source communicates with a mobile station via multiple intermediary base stations located in respective cells of a broadcast zone. In one embodiment, each base station sends multiple information streams that may be received by a mobile station located in the broadcast... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss

20070165574 - Method and apparatus to minimize packet loss during active data hard handoff: A method of hard handoffs begins by establishing a wireless link between a source radio access network (102a) and a mobile station (106). When the mobile station moves into another adjacent radio access network (102b), the present invention detects that handoff of the link from the source to the target... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070165572 - Method and system for seamless handover of mobile devices in heterogeneous networks: The invention relates to a method for seamless handover of mobile devices in heterogeneous networks. A mobile device (10) is moved between different topological network locations (30/31/32/33) and transmits and/or receives data by means of different network access technologies without the data transfer between a Client IP application (11), running... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070165573 - Mobility management with controlled use of new reject causes: Due to possibly different standard versions implemented in a mobile station (MS) and a network, the MS may not be able to interpret all reject-cause values used by the network. In this case, a MS may receive upon a mobility-management (MM) request a reject message with an unknown reject-cause value... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070165571 - Unauthorized wireless station detecting system, apparatus used therein, and method therefor: Wireless stations 300 and 400, being an object of administration, searches a wireless space over a plurality of frequency channels, and acquire a BSS identifier, being a specific ID, and a frame transmission source identifier from a frame propagating through a space. An operation administering apparatus 100 obtains these acquired... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070165576 - Mimo control channel with shared channelization codes: A control channel for MIMO users operating in conjunction with an HS-DSCH system shares channelization codes with an HS-SCCH control channel. MIMO control channel information can be signaled from a transmit antenna selected based on information produced by the intended recipient. The modulation format used by a MIMO control channel... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070165577 - Communication system, primary station and method of transmit power control: A transmit power control scheme for use in point-to-multipoint communication uses a random access channel for power control signals transmitted by the receiving stations (200).... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070165575 - Mobile station, base station, communication system, and communication method: In a communications system, a mobile station sends a transmission request for permission to transmit packet data to a base station and transmits the packet data to the base station according to transmission schedule information about a transmission schedule which the base station determines in response to the transmission request,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165578 - Physical layer interface system and method for a wireless communication system: Physical layer interface system for use in a broadband wireless access communication network is provided. The broadband wireless access communication network comprises a base station, a subscriber station and a wireless communication link for transmitting wireless communication signals upstream and downstream between the base station and the subscriber station. The... Agent: Marks & Clerk

20070165587 - Processing wireless resources in mobile ad hoc network: An apparatus and method to process wireless resources in a wireless Ad Hoc network includes: a first terminal to scan wireless resources in the network, to set quality information of each wireless resource in accordance with a state of each wireless resource, and to transmit a frame transmission request message... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070165584 - Cellular communication system and method for broadcast communication: A cellular communication system comprises a management function having a broadcast mode function; a plurality of wireless serving communication units operably coupled to the management function; and a plurality of wireless subscriber communication units receiving signals from respective wireless serving communication units in an uni-cast mode of operation on a... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070165579 - Method and device for accessing a mobile server terminal of a first communication network by means of a client terminal of another communication network: A method and apparatus are provided for enabling at least one client terminal, which is connected to a first communication network, to access the data and/or services of a mobile server terminal, which is connected to a second communication network. The first and second networks can coexist on or form... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070165581 - Method and system for communicating in cooperative relay networks: A method and system for communicating information in a cooperative relay network of wireless nodes. The wireless nodes including a source, a set of relays, and a destination. Channel state information for each channel between a particular relay of the set of relays and the destination is estimated. A subset... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070165583 - Methods and apparatus for use in switching communication operations between a wireless wide area network and a wireless local area network: Methods and apparatus for use by a mobile communication device in switching operation for communications from a wireless wide area network (WWAN) to a wireless local area network (WLAN) are disclosed. While providing operation for communications in the WWAN, the mobile device continually maintains visited cell site history information in... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070165585 - Network system: In a network system including a first relay connected to a wire network and a radio network, a second relay for relaying data in the radio network, a first terminal connected by wireless to the first relay, and a second terminal connected by wireless to the second relay, the first... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070165586 - Quiet periods for detecting wireless devices: A communication is received that includes information regarding a quiet period on a wireless logical channel. During the quiet period, transmissions are refrained from occurring on the wireless logical channel. At least one device performs a process to detect wireless devices, if any, on the wireless logical channel during at... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070165580 - Radio network monitor device and monitor system: A system is connected to an access point via a network, receives packet transmission information held by the access point, and extracts an address having a transfer destination which is radio interface from the packet transmission information. It is assumed that the terminal of the extracted address exists under the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070165582 - System and method for authenticating a wireless computing device: Described is a method, comprising receiving an authentication request by a server from a first wireless device, the authentication request including request data corresponding to a second wireless device. The second wireless device is authenticated by the server as a function of the request data. The server generates authentication data... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070165588 - Pilot signal in an fdma communication system: Methods (500, 800) and corresponding systems (100, 200, 300, 400, 900) for generating a pilot symbol (330) include providing an M-point parallel transform sequence that is a discrete Fourier transform of a CAZAC sequence (312, 504-508). The M-point parallel transform sequence (312) is distributed (316, 510) to a set of... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20070165590 - Frame aggregation control parameters: A method and system for defining a transmission of data within a transmission opportunity (TXOP) is described. Aspects of the present system and method are related to wireless local area network (WLAN) systems. In one embodiment, aspects of the present system may be utilized within a WLAN system operating in... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070165589 - Radio communication system, radio communication apparatus, radio communication method, and computer program: An autonomously dispersed type wireless network is suitably formed with communication stations avoiding collision of beacons transmitted one to another. In the event that the range of reach of airwaves change and a receivable state is created and beacons collide, a communication station changes the beacon transmission position of itself... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165591 - Polling method and vehicle search method in digital radio communication system: The present invention provides a polling method in a radio digital communication system making it possible to shorten time required for polling without causing increase in an error rate and to efficiently manage and administrate communications. In a digital radio communication system for collecting information from a plurality of terminal... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070165592 - System and method for multihop packet forwarding: The present invention provides a system and method for multihop packet forwarding within a multihop wireless communication network. The method uses a data frame format including at least the four address fields to forward packets in a multihop wireless network. The method includes generating a route request packet at a... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070165593 - System and method of enhancing wifi real-time communications: Systems and methods of enhanced real-time communications between WiFi devices. In one embodiment of the present invention a method for enhanced payload protection in a WiFi system includes transmitting multiple copies of data packets in successive frame body transmissions. In another embodiment, a method for enhanced communications over a WiFi... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070165595 - Methods for air interface message transfer in fast call setup processes: A method of UU message transfer for fast call setup. The method includes encapsulating a Service Request into a RRC Connection Request. When a UE starts the service sensitive to call setup delay, the RRC layer encapsulates the Service Request into IDT. If this encapsulation is successful, the RRC connection... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070165594 - Synchronization of time base units: Due top emerging cellular standards, such as UMTS, TDMA and WLAN, there is more need for so-called multi-mode mobile phones, i.e. phone which support not only one air interface but at least two. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a simplified synchronization of plurality of time base... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070165596 - Creation and management of routing table for pci bus address based routing with integrated did: A method is provided for creating and managing tables for routing packets through an environment that includes multiple hosts and shared PCI switches and adapters. A Destination Identification (DID) field in the PBA is appended to a transaction packet dispatched through the PCI switches, wherein a particular DID is associated... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070165597 - System and method for deterministic routing in a peer-to-peer hybrid communications network: An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method provides for deterministic routing.... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss

20070165606 - Method and infrastructure for accessing remote applications: A method, computer program product, and infrastructure for accessing a remote application running on a system A by a system B, each being connected to an open network and located behind a firewall, are provided. The method, computer program product, and infrastructure provide for system A sending a first HTTP... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070165603 - Access network system, subscriber station device, and network terminal device: The present invention provides a technique to freely select ISP of connection destination for each subscriber terminal while maintaining various advantages when using VLAN, such as accomplishment of inexpensive and simple arrangement and achieving of high-speed communication, and to ensure reliable communication between the subscriber terminal and ISP, and also... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070165605 - Apparatus and method for handling call features activated by pots phones in an ip multimedia subsystem: A SIP Gateway (SIPGW) coupled to an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is disclosed that detects when a first party, using a Plain Ordinary Telephone Service (POTS) telephone coupled to the SIPGW and participating in a call, performs a hook flash action. In response, the SIPGW sends to the IMS a... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070165598 - Intelligent multimedia calls: A method of setting up and/or controlling a multimedia call involving an H.324 enabled user terminal and a circuit switched connection terminating at the user terminal and at a video gateway, the method comprising: sending DTMF control signals over the circuit switched connection within H.245 protocol control messages; and on... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20070165599 - Method and communication system for automatically discovering the common multimedia service capability: The invention relates a method, a system, a server and a computer program product for Multimedia Capability discovery of different user terminals 12,13. This solution avoid unnecessary use of the radio interface and is based on a network storage 18, which is accessible without registration to find out about the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070165600 - Method for management of communications, telecommunication system for carrying out said method and associated equipment: The invention relates to terminals which can communicate through a second sub-system (3G), but not a first sub-system (2,5G) of a telecommunication system, using first and second modes of communication simultaneously. For such a terminal (1) with a current communication with the first sub-system using the first communication mode, a... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070165601 - Method for realizing metering pulse in ngn: A method for realizing metering pulses in Next Generation Network (NGN), which enables an MGC (media gateway controller) to cooperate with an MG (media gateway), so as to realize the metering pulse service. When it is necessary to initiate the charging, the MGC transmits the metering pulse signal to the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070165604 - Method of header compression over channels with out-of-order delivery: For use in packet-switched networks, a method is provided for using external information regarding the degree of misordering of packets, to make header compression more robust against such misordering.... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc.

20070165607 - System and method for providing alternate routing in a network: Methods and systems are described for performing alternate routing of communications in a network. The system initiates a communication from an origination endpoint in a packet-switched network, such as a VOIP network, to a destination endpoint, and determining, according to selection criteria, whether to route the communication to the destination... Agent: Hensley Kim & Edgington, LLC

20070165608 - Systems and methods to prioritize a queue: Methods and apparatuses to prioritize a queue of waiting requests which are queued to be process sequentially. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving one or more price bids on queuing priority; and determining an order of a plurality of pending requests based on at least the one or more... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070165602 - Voice mail device and voice mail communication method: A voice mail device includes a packet storing section which stores a received audio packet including audio data in a first encoding format. Therefore, the received audio packet is stored as it is without undergoing any transcoding, so that it is possible to reduce a need for transcoding upon receipt... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070165615 - Apparatus and method for notifying communication network event in application server capable of supporting open api based on web services: An apparatus and method for notifying a communication network event in an application server capable of supporting open APIs based on Web services are disclosed. The event notification apparatus configures an event table using a service provisioning manager to perform event notification, and registers static events, allows a service application... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070165614 - Apparatus capable of running primary and secondary processes: A communication apparatus capable of running a secondary process in addition to a primary process of communication is provided. The communication apparatus includes a communication circuit configured to send and receive a plurality of signals for communication, includes a first controller coupled to the communication circuit and configured to run... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070165616 - Embedded web phone module: A system for enabling Data Network Telephony (DNT) communication through a WEB page includes a Web server hosting an interactive WEB page and having an Internet port, a link in the WEB page adapted for launching a DNT-capable telephone module, and a DNT-capable telephone module associated with the link. In... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070165610 - Method for establishing a voice over ip call in a wlan: A method for establishing a voice over IP (VoIP) call in a wireless local-area network (WLAN) access point includes an access point receiving a first signal and forwarding the first signal to a station. After forwarding the first signal, the access point receives a request from the station. In response... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070165609 - Method of establising calls between a telephone terminal and an ip terminal: A method of setting up multimedia calls from a telephone terminal (T1) to a terminal (T2) connected to an IP network. The terminal (T1) sends to a server (SMR) a call request (DA) containing an identifier (ID2) for the terminal (T2). The server (SMR) stores the identifier (ID2) in a... Agent: Thomas Langer Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane

20070165611 - Phone device for public switched telecommunication network and voice over internet protocol network: A phone device for the Public Switched Telecommunication Network (PSTN) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network is provided. It is used to dial up through the PSTN and the VoIP network automatically or selectively, suitable for telecommunication networks of both inbound and outbound calls. A phone device includes a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070165613 - Routing methods and systems using enum servers internal and external to a service provider network: A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call from a first provider to a destination telephone number served by a second provider comprises sending a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) INVITE message from an originating switch to a first SIP server of the first provider. The first SIP server queries a telephone... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070165612 - System and method for managing call routing in a network environment including ims: In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for managing call routing in a network environment including a circuit-switched (CS) network and an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) network. When a call is originated by a user equipment (UE) device in the CS network, call information associated with the call is provided... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070165617 - Method for recording correction frames for high energy images: It is proposed according to the invention to record, in an image recording device for recording X-ray images, offset frames for different operating modes of said device according to a current sequence, wherein said current sequence can, by taking into account a new sequence in a comparison procedure, be changed... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070165618 - Vertical network switch: A network switch is provided whereby the vertical dimension of the network switch is larger than the horizontal dimension of the network switch. The network switch is further capable of being mounted vertically on a server rack. Further, the network switch comprises a controller module and a power supply module... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070165619 - Device and method for retrieving/storing electronic data in a system with a plurality of data processing units: n

20070165620 - Method and apparatus for supporting downlink joint detection in tdd cdma systems: A method is proposed for supporting downlink JD (joint detection) in a TDD CDMA communication network system, comprising steps of: judging whether the CAI (code allocation information) in a downlink timeslot will change in the next TTI (transmission time interval); if the CAI will change, inserting the changed CAI as... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070165624 - Operation management system: In a network system, which has a first computer belonging to a first network, a second computer belonging to a second network, and a first router and a second router belonging to a third network, wherein the first computer and the second computer are connected through a logical path built... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070165630 - Optimization of pdp context usage: In a mechanism for controlling a communication connection with policy control, after the communication connection with policy control is established in a communication network between a user equipment and service providing network element via a network control element on the basis of an initial packet data protocol context, a modification... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070165628 - Retransmission apparatus using ip multicasting method for dmb service: A retransmission apparatus using an IP multicasting method for a DMB service including a plurality (n) of radio frequency (RF) receivers, each for receiving a DMB RF signal of a corresponding channel, a plurality (n) of DMB decoders, each for outputting a transport stream (TS) by decoding the DMB RF... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070165626 - System for providing aggregate-rate communication services: A system for providing aggregate-rate communication services is provided. The system comprises a provider network, having an arbitrary topology; a plurality of customers; and a plurality of port nodes, comprising at least one aggregation-group. Port nodes in the at least one aggregation-group share capacity of the at least one aggregation-group... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

20070165627 - System for rate management of aggregate-rate communication services: A system for rate management of communication services. The system comprises at least one group of ports sharing a guaranteed-rate; and each of the group of ports determines an allowed-rate using at least one rate management policy.... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

20070165623 - Methods and apparatus for providing communications from a plurality of network devices to a user: In a first aspect, a first method of providing communication to a user via one of a plurality of network devices is provided. The first method includes the steps of (1) receiving a plurality of communications for the user from one or more of the network devices in a message... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law Dept. 917

20070165631 - Methods to suppress and expand packet header information in a wireless communication system: Data packets transmitted over a wireless network are suppressed by hardware at the transmitting end and expanded on the receiving end. This conserves bandwidth as well as reduces the processing resource requirements in both the subscriber station and the base station. An extended header element is added to a data... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070165629 - System and method for dynamic stability in a peer-to-peer hybrid communications network: An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method provides for dynamic stability.... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss

20070165625 - System and method for exchanging information among exchange applications: In a system and method for processing messages in a gateway, a gateway message is received at the gateway, the gateway message including a gateway message header and a payload, the gateway message header including a unique message identifier block, a target block identifying where the gateway message is going,... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070165621 - System and method for transport pid broadcast scheme: A system and method for processing information may include broadcasting information, which indicates program content for each of a plurality of channels communicated via a plurality of transport streams, to a plurality of processors. The plurality of processors identify which of the program content is associated with a particular one... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070165622 - Techniques for load balancing over a cluster of subscriber-aware application servers: Techniques for distributing control plane traffic, from an end node in a packet switched network to a cluster of service gateway nodes that host subscriber-aware application servers, include receiving a control plane message for supporting data plane traffic from a particular subscriber. A particular service gateway node is determined among... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20070165634 - Internet group membership protocol network device and signal processing control method thereof in ip digital broadcasting system: An Internet group membership protocol (IGMP) network device and a signal processing control method thereof in an Internet protocol (IP) digital broadcasting system are provided. The method includes: when an IGMP packet is received from an IGMP client, determining, at a packet transmission/reception unit, whether or not the received IGMP... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070165635 - Method for the exchange of data packets in a network of distributed stations, device for compression of data packets and device for decompression of data packets: The invention is related with network communication, in particular wireless networking. In order to improve bandwidth utilization, a header compression protocol is implemented in most wireless network systems, such as robust header compression ROHC for WLAN systems. When using multicast groups for data communication problems with ROHC are related with... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070165633 - Multicast packet control apparatus: When multicast distribution is performed on a network where a point-to-point connection is made between user terminals and a multicast router, the multicast router is protected from load due to response reports, join requests, or leave statements sent from the user terminals simultaneously. If the user terminals send response reports... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070165632 - Method of providing a rendezvous point: A method and network device are described for providing a rendezvous point (RP) functionality in protocol independent multicast (PIM) communications in a communications network. The method may comprise defining an RP sub-network identified by an RP address, the RP sub-network comprising a plurality of network devices and designating one of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070165636 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing transcoder free operation (trfo) and interworking between unlicensed mobile access (uma) and universal mobile telecommunications system (umts) call legs using a media gateway: Methods, systems, and computer program products for establishing transcoding free connections between UMA and UMTS call legs are disclosed. According to one method, a media gateway determines whether codec configurations used by UMA and UMTS legs of a call are compatible. In response to determining that the configurations are compatible,... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070165642 - Event and data management system and method: A method for transferring data based on an event function is provided. The method includes receiving an event function from an event initiator. The event function is distributed to one or more destinations associated with event performers. A response message is received as a function of destination and time. It... Agent: Mr. Christopher John Rourk Jackson Walker LLP

20070165641 - System and method for dynamically re-configuring communications session routing based on location information: System and method for dynamically re-directing communications sessions destined for a particular entity in a communications system, each communications session being associated with at least one predefined route. Location information indicative of a current location of the particular entity is obtained and applied to a predefined set of conditional routing... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20070165640 - System and method for dynamically re-directing communications sessions based on location-enhanced information: System and method for dynamically reconfiguring communications session routing in a communications system, each communications session being destined for a particular entity and being associated with at least one predefined route. Location information indicative of a current location for the particular entity is obtained and applied, in combination with at... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20070165639 - Method and apparatus for managing delivery of stream data: This invention is to cope with users requesting the delivery of stream data, flexibly. In this invention, a user terminal requesting the delivery of the stream data is used as a node in a delivery tree whose root is a delivery source device connected to a camera, and relays the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070165637 - Method and device for processing real-time data: A method and a device are disclosed for processing data packets which comprise real-time data packets. The data packets are classified first by a co-processor unit into at least one first data packet type comprising real-time data packets, and a second data packet type. The data packets of the first... Agent: Maginot, Moor & Beck

20070165638 - System and method for routing data over an internet protocol security network: A method of routing data over an Internet Protocol security (IPSec) network, the method comprising: receiving packets for transmission over the IPSec network, controlling the order of processing of the packets, determining whether each packet requires security features, feeding of the packets to a post-queue line interface module according to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070165643 - Method for controlling packet delivery in a packet switched network: A method is provided for controlling the misordering of packets in packet delivery in radio access networks (RANs) and other packet-switched networks. In one aspect, the method involves reading header information to determine the proper sequence of arriving packets, storing at least some packets that have arrived out of order,... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20070165644 - Method for selecting a codec as a function of the network capacity: The invention relates to a method for selecting a codec for transmission of audio and/or video data between terminals (1, 3) through a packet switching connection (2), the terminals (1, 3) selecting the codec from a codec list, characterized in that the codec list for a new connection is determined... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20070165645 - Method, system, content server, ggsn, and sgsn for switching traffic during real time stream transmission: A method for switching traffic during real time stream transmission depends on a network side device to identify the start and end of the stream transmission, and to perform a switching between Best Effect traffic and the streaming traffic. The network side device can be a stream media content server,... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070165647 - Apparatus, method, and computer program for data packet scheduling: An apparatus, method, and computer program for data packet scheduling in a system having a plurality of queues including a mixed queue are provided. The mixed queue has first traffic associated with a bandwidth guarantee and second traffic associated with a best effort expectation of access to available bandwidth. A... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070165646 - Service scheduling unit and a method thereof: This invention discloses a service scheduling unit and the method thereof, which performs scheduling for the packet service that comes from the line unit and the data service access processing unit in the digital communication system, and the service scheduling unit includes: a mapping module, a de-mapping module, an encapsulating... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070165648 - Packet processing apparatus and method: In a packet processing apparatus and method in an ethernet switching system, an introduced packet is discarded by switching to a dummy port instead of trapping the packet until a layer 3 table of an ethernet switch chip is updated, thereby operating an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) after having minimized... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070165649 - Behavior management systems: A behavior modification system, for school and institutional settings, comprising Internet-enabled software adapted to receive reports of misbehavior and to automatically generate, schedule, and track consequences for the misbehavior. The system also has the capability to receive reports of serious misbehavior and automatically transmit those reports to school administrators, parents,... Agent: Stoneman Law Offices, Ltd

20070165650 - System and method for managing network elements in an atm network: Reporting tools used to manage an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network. Tools include a trunk inventory reporting tool, a trunk utilization reporting tool, an exceptions reporting tool and a flow control processor activation utility. Reports generated by these the tools include information about the operation and capacity of trunks, switches... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070165655 - Combining ip and cellular mobility: The invention proposes a system for providing mobility to a terminal through at least two different mobility protocols, wherein a mobility gateway and a terminal share a common mobility session, said common mobility session can be updated through any of the said different mobility protocols, and each mobility protocol provides... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070165652 - Communication terminal device, communication method, and communication system: A facsimile machine, which is an analog communication terminal connected to a facsimile machine of another end via an IP network, monitors a silence generating interval by detecting energy of a signal received from the facsimile machine of the other end. When a silent state generates periodically, the facsimile machine... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070165651 - Broad band transmission path modem, radio terminal device, program, and recording medium: The present invention relates to a broadband transmission path modem, a radio terminal device, a program, and a storage medium. An object of the present invention is to provide a radio terminal device with various communication services including access to the Internet etc. via a broadband transmission path at a... Agent: Stanley R Moore Jenkens And Gilchrist

20070165656 - Control system with predictive field device response time over a wireless network: A host computer communicates with field devices by sending control messages and receiving response messages over a wireless network. When the host computer sends a control message to the wireless network, the host computer is provided with a predictive response time within which the field device receiving the message will... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070165653 - Inter-system communication: In one aspect, a communication system allows telephone users to roam between cellular and broadband domains and obtain equivalent level of service and features in the broadband network as in the cellular network. For example, such users can make use of Push-To Talk service, as well as continuous telephone call... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070165654 - Method for managing a terminal device: A method for managing a terminal device includes: setting management commands; sending the management commands to a terminal device; and obtaining executed results of the management commands from the terminal device. Another method for managing a terminal device, comprising: setting management commands; configuring a terminal device with the management commands;... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070165657 - Multicast implementation in a link state protocol controlled ethernet network: Forwarding state may be installed for sparse multicast trees in a link state protocol controlled Ethernet network by enabling intermediate nodes to install state for one or more physical multicast trees, each of which may have multiple logical multicast trees mapped to it. By mapping multiple logical multicasts to a... Agent: John C. Gorecki, Esq.

20070165658 - Transmission apparatus, transmission-channel-ring connecting method, and computer product: A transmission apparatus arranged on one packet ring connects the packet ring and the other packet ring by performing an acquiring step for acquiring connection information of the other packet ring and the own apparatus and a notifying step for notifying other transmission apparatuses arranged on the packet ring of... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070165659 - Information platform and configuration method of multiple information processing systems thereof: An information platform system, the configuration thereof is able to change flexibly to meet the needs of the customers, and able to use a single adapter for multiple uses, wherein multiple general-purpose processing modules and dedicated processing modules for processing disks and external networks are connected to one another with... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070165660 - Storage virtualization subsystem and system with host-side redundancy via sas connectivity: This invention discloses a storage visualization subsystem and system with host-side redundancy via SAS connectivity. The I/O interconnect interface between the storage visualization controller and the host is a serial-attached SCSI (SAS) interface. At least one SAS expander is inserted on the I/O interconnect path of the host side to... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070165661 - Information-processing system, reception device, and program: An information-processing system includes a reception device configured to receive data and a data-processing device configured to perform data processing by using the data. The reception device includes a reception unit configured to receive the data, and a storage-control unit configured to generate format data which is data generated in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070165662 - Communication line termination device: Communication line termination devices and associated methods of manufacturing and deploying such devices are disclosed. A communication line termination device includes a device housing, an electrical terminal carried by the housing for connection to a communication line, and a termination circuit connected to the terminal and carried by the housing.... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20070165663 - Method and system for a plurality of physical layers for network connection: Methods and systems for a plurality of physical layers for network connection may include coupling a MAC to one of a plurality of PHYs. The coupling to a specific PHY may be based on auto-detection of network activity, or network devices, via the PHYs. Also, one of the PHYs may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070165664 - Chime-in protocol for channel access: A network of stations uses bandwidth assigned to primary users on a secondary user basis. The stations having a status of needing to send information indicate a need for transmission access by transmitting, simultaneously with transmissions indicating a need for transmission access from other stations of the network, an indication... Agent: Charles E. Wands Allen Dyer Doppelt Milbrath And Gilchrist Pa

20070165666 - Adaptive synchronous media access protocol for shared media networks: In some embodiments of the present invention, asynchronous network nodes and synchronous network nodes coexist on a shared media network.... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20070165665 - System and method for access control in wireless networks: A method comprises obtaining a frame of information in an access class to be communicated over a wireless channel; determining whether the wireless channel is idle; selecting a random arbitration interframe space based on the access class of the frame; waiting a first time period pertaining to the arbitration interface... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070165667 - Multiple mode data communication system and method and forward and/or reverse link control channel structure: A multiple mode data communication system and method provides the flexibility to schedule wireless unit transmissions and/or allow the wireless unit to transmit autonomously. In certain embodiments, the wireless units can transmit autonomously and/or use scheduling depending on the data rate, the length of the data packet or the type... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070165668 - Communications system for delivering multimedia internet protocol packets across network boundaries: A communications system and method enables delivery of packets over network boundaries while preserving the QoS bits configuration. The communications system includes at least one sending site configured to send the packet. The packet may have a first set of bits in a first bit-set location that indicates an intended... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070165669 - Unified distributed architecture for a multi-point video conference and interactive broadcast systems: A unified architecture for a multipoint VC session and interactive broadcasting system is provided that includes a server, one or more video accessing points, reflectors and client machines. The server sets up the video communication sessions (VC sessions), each of which is hosted by one video accessing point. The server... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20070165670 - Base station and wireless terminal: A combination-information creating unit creates combination information for determining a maximum number of combinations or a maximum frame length according to a usable radio band and a modulation method and combination possibility information for indicating that a combination of frames is possible. A frame combining unit combines a plurality of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070165671 - Method and measuring device for determining an error rate without incremental redundancy: A method and device are described for determining an error rate during transmission from a transmitter/receiver station to a transmitter/receiver device and a measuring device. A first data block and at least one other and different redundant block is received by the transmitter/receiver device, decoded, and checked for transmission errors.... Agent: Ditthavone & Carlson, P.C.

20070165672 - Apparatus and method for stateless crc calculation: A mechanism for performing remote direct memory access (RDMA) operations between a first server and a second server. The apparatus includes a packet parser and a protocol engine. The packet parser processes a TCP segment within an arriving network frame, where the packet parser performs one or more speculative CRC... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070165673 - Method for reconstructing lost packets using a binary parity check: The present invention provides methods for reconstructing lost or corrupted packets. One embodiment of the method may include performing at least one parity operation on information associated with at least one first packet. The method may also include transmitting the information associated with at least one first packet and information... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070165674 - Apparatuses and methods for transmitting and receiving uncompressed av data: Apparatuses and methods are provided for transmitting and receiving uncompressed audio or video (AV) data by applying a different coding rate to each bit or each group of bits included in the uncompressed AV data according to significance of each bit or each group of bits. The apparatus for transmitting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165675 - Data conversion method and client-server system: A data conversion method includes the steps of retrieving direct stream digital data one byte at a time from a direct stream digital file, the direct stream digital data being a one-bit data stream, the direct stream digital data being arranged in the direct stream digital file so that temporally... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070165676 - Information processing device, information processing method, program, and data structure: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and a data structure for processing a stream including a base stream and extension streams at a plurality of levels. A transmitter encodes an audio stream into a base stream BS and first to n-th... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165677 - Method of synchronizing base stations of a terrestrial cellular communication network: The present invention relates to a method of synchronizing base stations of a terrestrial cellular communication system using a satellite component.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165679 - System and method for controlling a difference in optical phase and an optical signal transmitter: An optical phase difference control system is provided for controlling a phase difference of a single optical time-division multiplexed signal obtained by multiplexing a plurality of modulated optical signals encoded. The control system includes an interferometer and a low-frequency extractor. The interferometer is used for receiving part of the optical... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070165678 - Method and circuit for differential clock pulse compensation between two clock-pulse systems: A differential clock pulse compensation is performed between the clock-pulse system (23) of a digital line-connected data interface and the asynchronous clock-pulse system (22) of a digital wireless data interface. A characteristic variable (20, 21) for the asynchronous differential clock pulse between the clock-pulse systems (22, 23) is monitored hereby.... Agent: Baker Botts, L.L.P.

20070165680 - Built-in test for high speed electrical networks: An apparatus for providing auxiliary signals on a high speed electrical signal network is provided such that the auxiliary signals may be used for independent monitoring or communication of monitored information without affecting data or bit error rates for the primary high speed data signals. The auxiliary signals may be... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP And The Boeing Company

20070165681 - Electronic stream processing circuit with test access: An electronic signal processing circuit contains a chain of stream processing circuits (12a-d). Linking multiplexing circuits (16a-c), link respective pairs of stream processing circuits (12a-d). Each linking multiplexing circuit (16a-c) is individually switchable to a normal mode and to a replacement mode. A linking multiplexing circuit (16a c), when in... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070159959 - Device and method for performing channel estimation for ofdm-based signals with variable pilot subcarrier spacing: A device and method for performing channel estimation for an OFDM-based wireless communication system modifies pilot subcarrier spacing to use a set of interpolation coefficients associated with a different pilot subcarrier spacing.... Agent: Wilson & Ham Pmb: 348

20070159957 - Position adjusted guard time interval for ofdm-communications system: A device and a method within a communications system where at least some part of the transmission is executed by means of radio waves, and where symbols are transmitted by means of Orthogonal Frequency Divisional Multiplexing, so called OFDM-technology, between a transmitting unit and a receiving unit, at which the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070159958 - Transmitter, receiver, transmitting method, receiving method, and program: A coding section 201 of a transmitter receives an input of a transmitting signal and LDPC-codes the received signal, a serial-to-parallel conversion section 102 converts the coded signal from serial to parallel, and outputs m (m≧2) intermediate signals, a unitary matrix modulation section 103 modulates the m intermediate signals to... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20070159960 - Method and apparatus for implementing n-way fast failover in virtualized ethernet adapter: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing N-way fast failover in a virtualized Ethernet adapter. Requests are posted to queue pairs (QPs) to send and receive Ethernet packets. Each QP stores a designated physical Ethernet port. At the time of a failover, the stored failed designated... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20070159961 - Method and devices for implementing group protection in mpls network: A method for implementing group protection in a Multiple Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network disclosed in the present invention includes: monitoring a Label Switched Path (LSP) in an MPLS network; and performing a group protection switching when a failure is determined on an LSP of the working LSP group according... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070159962 - Hanging protocol software simulator: A hanging protocol simulator system and method permit the design and storage of hanging protocol without requiring the actual hardware utilized in the design. The creation and/or modification of hanging protocols can be made either: a) automatically, by sending images to the simulator and receiving the configuration based on these... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070159963 - Method and system for guaranteeing reliability of end-to-end quality of service: The present invention discloses a method for guaranteeing reliability of end-to-end QoS, including: a. detecting and determining whether there is a failure on a Label Switched Path (LSP); if there isn't, returning to the process of detecting; otherwise, determining whether there is a backup LSP for the failed LSP; if... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070159964 - Protection path reservation method and node unit: A protection path reservation method which reserves protection paths to avoid a node failure for each transmission path on a network formed of a plurality of nodes, comprising assuming the nodes as an imaginary failure node in turn in a condition in which the node failure is not present in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070159965 - Method for determining threshold values for traffic control in communication networks with admission control: Disclosed is a method for allocating transmission capacity to a threshold value based on an expected volume of traffic, said threshold value being used for restricting traffic in a communication network featuring threshold—based access controls. According to the inventive method, a portion of transmission capacity is allocated to the threshold... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070159969 - Methods and apparatus for communicating transmission backlog information: An uplink dedicated control channel reporting structure includes a plurality of different bit size reports, e.g. 1 bit, 3 bit and 4 bit reports, for reporting a wireless terminal's backlog information of uplink traffic request group queues. Smaller bit size reports are transmitted more frequently than larger reports. A 1... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070159968 - Selective text telephony character discarding: A network device has a port to allow the device to transmit text telephony packets over a packet network. The device includes at least one processor to detect impending buffer overflow, determine a number of text telephony characters to be dropped, and select a compression to be applied to the... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070159967 - System and method for implementing a preemptive retransmit for error recovery in a communications environment: A method for communicating data is provided that includes receiving a plurality of bits associated with a communications flow and determining whether one or more samples included in the flow should be suppressed. The method also includes suppressing a selected one or more of the samples. The method also includes... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070159966 - Systems and methods for managing traffic within a peer-to-peer network: In a peer-to-peer network, one or more congestion events are defined that imply congestion on the network. In addition, one or more non-congestion events are defined that imply a lack of congestion on the network. When a node detects the occurrence of one or more of the defined congestion events,... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070159971 - Broadband access method with great capacity and the system thereof: The present invention discloses a high-capacity broadband access method, comprising: a broadband subscriber initiating an access request to an access unit; the access unit sending the subscriber authentication information to a control unit via a route switching unit; the control unit authenticating the subscriber with an internal or external authentication,... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070159972 - Device and method for billing connections that are routed via a packet network: In one aspect, a method for billing for a connection routed via a packet network is provided. According to the method, billing is started the when the connection is established between a plurality of subscriber terminals. Information packets are transmitting according to a quality standard by at least one of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070159973 - Methods and apparatuses to provide multimedia connections: Methods and apparatuses to provide services to people who wish to make connections for real time communication, such as live telephone conversation, chat, video conferencing, etc., and/or non-real time communication, such as email. In one embodiment, a method includes: a first party providing one or more references to a second... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070159970 - Power reduction in switch architectures: A method according to one embodiment may include receiving, by an integrated circuit of a switch, a plurality of packets, monitoring a rate of the plurality of packets received at the integrated circuit, and adjusting a power consumption of at least a part of the integrated circuit in response to... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Portfolio Ip

20070159974 - Method, sysem and computer program for backing-up data with centralized control: A back-up solution (300) is proposed for use in a data processing system, wherein different host machines support multiple guest machines. For this purpose, a master one of the host machines owns (306) a scheduling file, which indicates which guest systems are enabled to back-up their data, and when the... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070159975 - Network,router device, route updating suppression method used for the same, and program thereof: A router (1) introduces virtual interfaces (3-1-3-n) between network interfaces (2-1-2-n) and a routing processing unit (4). The virtual interfaces (3-1-3-n) function to conceal a state such as a hit of the network interfaces (2-1-2-n) from the routing processing unit (4). One virtual interface is provided for each of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070159976 - Communications system, apparatus and method for providing mobility management information: A communications system is arranged to provide a service to user equipment in accordance with mobility management information. The system comprises a session protocol server (S-CSCF) operable to control the state of a communications session for at least one user equipment in accordance with user profile data, a subscriber information... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070159977 - Selecting paths in multi-homed transport-layer network associations: A multi-homed network node comprises an interface that is addressable using a primary network address and a secondary network address. Network packets identifying the primary network address traverse a first network path and packets identifying the second network address traverse a second network path that is routed physically separately from... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070159978 - Remote communications diagnostics using analog data analysis: Systems and methods for remotely diagnosing problems across the communications lines of an environmental control network using analog data analysis are disclosed. An illustrative system can include an executive controller, a communications bus including a number of communications lines connecting the controller to one or more slave modules, an analog-to-digital... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070159979 - System and method for detection of data traffic on a network: Systems and methods are described for detecting data traffic of a specific type, such as voice-over-IP traffic, on a network. A detector connected to the network is used to identify a set of data packets traveling across the network that conform to at least one signature describing data complying with... Agent: Greenberg Traurig

20070159980 - Disaster prevention system: Each terminal devices (1, 4) connected to one another via a LAN (11) includes: a main control portion (e.g. 31) performing operational control, a transmission LAN unit (34) performing transmission control regarding transmission and reception of disaster prevention information. The unit (34) includes: a transmitting and receiving circuit (36) connected... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070159981 - Apparatus and method of displaying power line communication channel information: Provided is an apparatus and method of displaying power line communication channel information. The apparatus for displaying power line communication (PLC) channel information includes a channel information determining unit which performs PLC channel estimation and determines channel information including a bandwidth which is available for a user in a power... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070159982 - Method and system for power save multi-poll (psmp) communication in wireless systems: The present invention provides a method and a system for PSMP communication in a wireless communication system such as an IEEE 802.11n WLAN including an AP and multiple STAs. An example of such a PSMP communication involves transmitting a PSMP frame from the AP to the STAs over a wireless... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070159983 - Virtual root bridge: A network includes a plurality of network clusters. Each network cluster includes a plurality of nodes. At least one of the plurality of nodes includes a portal node. A portal node is a node with at least one link that crosses a boundary of the network cluster. Each portal node... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070159985 - Method and an arrangement for avoiding unnecessary retransmissions: A method and an arrangement for avoiding unnecessary retransmissions in a packet-based radio-communication network by exchanging transmission state information between retransmission functionality entities (12, 21) located at respective protocol layers in different network nodes (1, 2), and performing inter-layer coordination of retransmissions between the network nodes (1, 2) based on... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070159986 - Method of refining node position information in wireless sensor network: Provided is a method for refining node position information in a wireless sensor network having an ultra wideband communication network and a wireless personal area network where the initial positions of respective nodes are set, by utilizing nodes at a 2-hop distance, or more than a 2-hop distance when the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070159984 - Methods and apparatus for providing flexible timing-driven routing trees: A method of producing a flexible timing-driven routing tree is provided. Two or more target nodes are sorted in accordance with data criticality. A source-sink grid is built from one or more source nodes and the two or more target nodes. An initial routing tree is built comprising the one... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070159987 - Seamless spanning tree restart of a single supervisor: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for restarting a first network device having a plurality of ports for receiving and transmitting layer 2 data is disclosed. The first network device belongs to a network of network devices. When a restart of at least a portion of the first network device is... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070159988 - Seamless spanning tree upgrade of a linecard: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for restarting a first network device having a plurality of ports for receiving and transmitting layer 2 data is disclosed. The first network device belongs to a network of network devices. When a restart of at least a portion of the first network device is... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070159989 - Sip enhancements to support network-wide overload control: A system for routing SIP (session initiation protocol) messages is provided. The system includes a first network element that is operable to send a message. The system also includes a second network element that is operable when overloaded and in response to receiving the message to send a reply message... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070159990 - Method for detecting a wireless network signal: The present invention discloses a method for detecting a wireless network signal that sets at least one service set identity in a wireless network signal detector, so that after the wireless network signal detector receives a wireless network signal and identifies that the wireless network signal includes the service set... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070159991 - Systems and methods of detection transmission facilities: In embodiments, a method of detecting a transmitting device within an obstruction rich environment is disclosed. The method may involve detecting the transmitting device with a wireless transmission detection facility; communicating signal information relating to the detected transmitting device from the wireless transmission detection facility to a central unit; determining... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070159992 - Power saving devices and power saving methods for mobile access point, and wireless network systems: In a power saving device and power saving method for a mobile access point, the power saving device sets a minimum power saving interval among power saving intervals of at least one first station coupled to the mobile access point as a power saving interval of the mobile access point.... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070159993 - Method and apparatus for scheduling frequency selective and frequency diverse allocations in mobile communications systems: A base station (105) includes a scheduler (220) to determine a location of a user terminal (110) within a cell (125) of a wireless system (100). The cell has a cell boundary (125). The scheduler (220) also determines a subcarrier frequency diverse resource allocation for a call on the user... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070159995 - Method to access location based functionalities: According to the invention, it is proposed a wireless interactive communication device comprising a microprocessor accessing a memory, this communication device comprising a communication channel to receive and store in the memory a database containing the spatial model of the venue where the device is used, this device furthermore comprising... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070159994 - Wireless network synchronization of cells and client devices on a network: A wireless synchronization device is used to coordinate the timing and activities of individual, possibly physically separated, wireless service providers with defined coverage area. Further, the synchronization information is used to coordinate the timing and activities of portable wireless client devices in an autonomous, wireless proximity sensing and data transfer... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070160000 - Control system with wireless address domain to field device address domain translation: A host computer communicates with field devices over a wireless network that includes a gateway and a plurality of wireless nodes. At least one of the field devices is associated with each wireless node, and each field device has a unique field device address. The host computer sends control messages... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070160001 - Control system with wireless messages containing message sequence information: A control system uses a wireless mesh network to provide communication between a host computer and field devices. The host and the field devices communicate with one another using wireless messages containing requests and responses that are routed through the wireless mesh network. The wireless messages include sequence information that... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070159998 - Efficient use of the radio spectrum: A communication device including a receiver for receiving information via a first radio protocol directly from a first communication device concerning at least a second radio protocol; and a controller for controlling communication of the communication device in dependence upon the received information.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070159999 - Intelligent node communication using network formation messages in a mobile ad hoc network: A method for node communication in a mobile ad hoc network, which network includes a plurality of wireless mobile nodes and a plurality of wireless communication links connecting the nodes together, includes the steps of transmitting node condition information from a given mobile node using a signal; determining a node... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20070160002 - Multi-radio unification protocol: An invention is disclosed whereby a wireless network node, equipped with two or more radio transceivers statically tuned to non-interfering frequency channels, can make decisions regarding which channel to use when communicating with a neighboring wireless node. A multi-radio unification protocol implemented in a wireless node coordinates the use of... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070159996 - Wireless internet access repeater and method thereof: Disclosed is a wireless Internet access repeater and method thereof. When a user terminal is located in a blanket area, the wireless Internet access repeater receives first communication type signals in a first frequency band from a wireless Internet access network. The received signals are converted into a second communication... Agent: Jones Day

20070159997 - Wireless security setup between station and ap supporting mssid: A method of wireless security setup is introduced. The method includes a station transmitting a first packet containing a first SSID and related information; an access point transmitting a second packet containing the first SSID to inform that the connection between the station and the first SSID is built; the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070160004 - Local radio group: A mobile device is provided that is operable for communicating in a mobile ad hoc network. The mobile device includes a transceiver operable to promote wireless communication. The mobile device also includes a display, an input, and a processor that is operable to promote the transceiver communicating with other devices... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070160003 - Hybrid qos access method for power save stations: A hybrid QoS access method for a wireless station, such as a power-save VoIP station, where a first method, such as “reverse polling” is used on a lightly loaded channel and a second method, e.g. unscheduled polled access, is used to mitigate contention when the channel is becomes more heavily... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070160005 - System and method for developing and executing a wireless application gateway: The invention provides a system and method that enables a business developer to develop and execute a Wireless Application Gateway (WAG) without programming or writing code. The WAG, as developed and executed through this invention can support a variety of wireless devices and a variety of backend systems. The business... Agent: William L, Botjer

20070160006 - Method and apparatus for improving wireless communication between motor vehicles: In order to provide a method of improving wireless communication between motor vehicles, wherein the motor vehicles transmit messages to a stationary unit (100), by means of which the exchange of messages is possible even between motor vehicles which are far away from one another, in the stationary unit (100)... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070160007 - Method and device for cost-function based handoff determination using wavelet prediction in vertical networks: A method for performing a network handoff between different network communication providers for a wireless endpoint includes: calculating a first cost value for a first network detected by the wireless endpoint according to a first cost function calculation, calculating a second cost value for a second network detected by the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070160008 - Method for selecting an inter-subnet idle hand-off technique: The present invention provides a method that includes accessing a first identifier associated with an idle mobile unit having a first session with a first subnet and a second identifier associated with a second subnet and determining whether the idle mobile unit has moved from the first subnet to the... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070160009 - System and method for detecting node mobility based on network topology changes in a wireless communication network: Techniques are provided for determining mobility of a first node in an ad hoc network. A particular node generates a fixed neighbor node table comprising second nodes in the area of the particular node which are not mobile. The particular node can monitor changes between the first node and the... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070160010 - Method and apparatus to perform channel estimation for a communication system: A method and apparatus to perform channel estimation for a communication system are disclosed.... Agent: John F Kacvinsky Kacvinsky

20070160011 - Method and system for quantization for a general beamforming matrix in feedback information: Aspects of a method and system for utilizing Givens rotation expressions for quantization for a general beamforming matrix in feedback information. In one aspect of the invention, feedback information is computed at the receiving MIMO wireless device based on a geometric mean decomposition (GMD) method. The feedback information may include... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070160012 - Method and apparatus for multi-antenna signal transmission in rf long-distance wireless bs: The invention relates to a method for transmitting a plurality of antenna signals in a wireless Base Transceiver Station (BTS) using Remote Radio Head (RRH) technology and the corresponding system. The method includes the steps of: transmitting signals over the transmit channel using Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)/Optical Transmission Network (OTN),... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070160013 - Multistage despreading of spread spectrum communications signals: A method and a component for despreading a multi-code signal that has been generated using two or more spreading codes with different spreading factors are described. The method comprises subjecting the signal to a first despreading step (40) that includes a first Fast Hadamard Transform (FHT) to jointly despread the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070160020 - Interleaved wireless mesh network: An interleaved wireless mesh network is described where each mesh node always has at least two radios that have access to at least two parallel meshes, and where a packet stream may utilize either or both of these parallel meshes for any given hop, using the parallel (physical) meshes as... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070160021 - Methods and apparatus to provide fairness for wireless local area networks that use long network allocation vector (nav) mechanisms: Methods and apparatus to provide fairness for wireless local area networks (WLANs) that use long network allocation vector (NAV) mechanisms are disclosed. A disclosed example method comprises receiving an indication from a station of a wireless network that a long NAV is to be terminated, and sending a contention-free end... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070160015 - Applying one or more session access parameters to one or more data sessions: In one embodiment, a method for applying one or more session access parameters to one or more data sessions includes obtaining one or more session connection parameters associated with a data session between a client device and a host coupled to each other via a network gateway and deriving one... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070160023 - Communication terminal with wlan base station functionality or wlan client functionality: In one aspect a communication terminal comprising a first interface, a second interface is provided, and a connection unit. The first interface for connecting to a first network for the bidirectional transmission of information between the first interface and a central communication device, arranged in a first network. The second... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070160018 - Content access management: Access control management within an access group, where at least two member devices create the access group. To allow mobile device being part of a quorum test, the right to issue response information can be transferred from mobile devices to stationary devices, which act as proxy devices and issue the... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070160019 - Method and apparatus for implementing spatial division multiple access (\"sdma\") to communicate user data and backhaul data with the same wireless time-frequency resources: A system [100] includes a base station [105] to communicate wireless data with at least one user terminal [125, 130] within a cell serviced by the base station [105]. A central backhaul access point [135] communicates wireless backhaul data with the base station [105]. At least a first portion of... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070160014 - Method and system for wireless communication networks using cooperative relaying: The present invention relates to relay supported wireless communication to enhance communication performance. In the wireless communication system according to the invention neighboring relay stations are arranged with substantially overlapping coverage. In the method according to the invention mobile stations makes soft association to relay stations. The mobile stations feed... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070160017 - Seamless roaming for dual-mode wimax/wifi stations: An exemplary embodiment providing for one or more improvements includes a method for use in a mobile station operating in a multi-protocol wireless network environment that supports a first wireless communication protocol and a second wireless communication protocol wherein the network environment allows the mobile station to seamlessly roam utilizing... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070160022 - Software architecture system and method for discovering components within an appliance using fuctionality identifiers: A network comprising a plurality of nodes, and each of the nodes has at least one identifier from pre-determined group of identifiers, with each identifier identifying at least one functionality applicable such node. A method of identifying the nodes comprises at least one node sending over the network a message... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20070160024 - Status indicator for communication systems: A variety of techniques and devices for acquiring user status information at a transmitting device to a receiving device, or vice versa, are provided.... Agent: Searete LLC

20070160016 - System and method for clustering wireless devices in a wireless network: Described are a system and method for clustering wireless devices in a wireless network. The system comprises a wireless access point and a plurality of wireless computing units grouped into a cluster as a function of a predetermined parameter. The cluster includes a cluster head unit and at least one... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070160025 - Method for allocating reverse traffic channels at the time of handoff in a cdma communication system: A method for allocating reverse traffic channels at the time of handoff in a CDMA communication system, comprises the steps of: upon receiving a handoff request from a control station at a target base station, setting a Search Center Offset (SCO) to a Round Trip Delay (RTD) value received from... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070160026 - Wireless delivery of non-standard frame field information via broadcast frames: Delivery of non-standard frame field information can be accomplished by publicly broadcasting the non-standard frame field information in one or more broadcast frames within an open wireless computing network. The broadcast can be received by a client wireless device when the client wireless device has not established a connection to... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070160027 - Dynamic power save modes: A mechanism that enables power sensitive communication devices to utilize the hibernation power saving mechanism offered by existing protocols is provided. In circumstances where there is no data buffered for transmission for a network device, that device can be permitted to hibernate. Alternatively, where there is data buffered for transmission... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070160028 - Communications terminal, a system and a method for internet/network telephony: A communication terminal for Internet telephony is provided that handles and control communication of data in accordance with a standardized network protocol and exchanges data with a connecting unit connected to the Internet where the resulting data exchanged between the terminal and a connecting unit consist of packets in a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070160029 - Method and system for uplink synchronization: This invention presents a synchronization method for uplink, and is based on UE JT technology. During downlink, UE sets up the downlink synchronization; UE undertakes the downlink channel estimation; UE, according to the estimated downlink channel estimation result, constructs transport matrix A, and the uplink synchronization code matrix d to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070160030 - Resource sharing broadband access system, methods, and devices: Methods, systems and devices for sharing communication resources among a plurality of clients (200-204) that are part of a common wireless community (1000). The communication resources are, for example, Internet access resources (101-104). Another example, might be a video or data delivery communication resource. As an example, clients have separate... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070160034 - Dual-protocol dual port telephone and method to connect another dual-protocol dual port telephone via ip network directly and without installation: A VoIP telephone call is seamlessly routed via an IP network between a dual mode, dual protocol source telephone and a dual mode, dual protocol target telephone both having two communication ports having respective first and second addresses for connecting to a non-IP network and an IP network, respectively. Upon... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070160031 - Dynamic call control: The present invention allows an originating media gateway to advertise available resources so that one or more media gateway controllers can interact with a terminating media gateway to determine the best communication scheme to use when establishing a communication session between the originating and terminating media gateways. The communication scheme... Agent: Nortel Networks

20070160033 - Method of providing a reliable server function in support of a service or a set of services: The invention relates to a method of providing a reliable server function in support of a service, such as internet-based application, the server function provided by a Server Pool (SP) with one or more Pool Elements (PE1, PE2), each of the Pool Elements (PE1, PE2) being capable of supporting the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070160032 - Nif device for sigtran protocol: The present invention relates to an apparatus implementing a SIGTRAN protocol comprising an NIF device coupled between an SS7 network and an IP network. If the NIF device receives messages of MTP2/MTP3/SCCP from the SS7 network, the NIF device defines the types of messages by reading integer values inserted in... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070160035 - Systems and methods to provide communication connections: Methods and apparatuses to provide communication connections for partners based on communication references assigned to entities maintained by the partners. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving from a partner contact information of an entity; providing the partner with a real-time communication reference usable to at least initiate a request... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070160036 - Method and system for servicing enhanced 911 calls: The present invention is a method and system for servicing enhanced 911 emergency calls. The present invention is utilized in a network providing Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) by a service provider to a user using a VoIP phone. When a user originates an emergency 911 call from the VoIP... Agent: Michael L. Diaz, P.C.

20070160037 - Memory interface device, memory interface method and modem device: It is possible to cope with a memory write procedure in which every time data is written into a memory every predetermined amount unit, it is confirmed that readout of the data from the memory has been completed, and then the next write of the data into the memory is... Agent: Bruce L Adams Adams And Wilks

20070160041 - Apparatus and method for analyzing xht protocol: An apparatus and a method for analyzing an XHT protocol are provided. The apparatus includes a packet collecting unit which captures packets on a network and collects data to be analyzed; a classifying unit which classifies the packets according to type of packets; and a protocol verifying unit which verifies... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070160040 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data frame using channel bonding in wireless lan: A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting a data frame using channel bonding in a wireless local area network in which high throughput (HT) stations and legacy systems coexist. The method includes adding a legacy format physical layer header including information, which indicates that a medium is being used... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070160038 - Fast channel change apparatus and method for iptv: The present disclosure provides a system that can receive a group of channels (at least one of which includes an I-frame) from a DSL network, a memory that can store the I-frames, and a channel change detector that can detect a user's selection of a particular channel. If the memory... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070160044 - Method and apparatus for managing transmission and reception of data over a network: In a network which includes at least a transmission-side apparatus having a plurality of logical plugs and a reception-side apparatus having a plurality of logical plugs, correspondence between transmission-side logical plugs (e.g., P2 to P4) and reception-side logical plugs (e.g., P4 to P6) is established. The reception-side apparatus stores therein... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070160039 - Method for identifying node reachability, method for identifying whether a link is an external link, method for calculating a routing, and method for disseminating node address information: The present invention discloses a method for identifying node reachability, a method for identifying a link, a method for calculating a routing, and a method for disseminating node address information. In the method of the node address information dissemination, when the network is initiated, each node in the automatically switched... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070160043 - Method, medium, and system encoding and/or decoding audio data: An audio data encoding method, medium, and system encoding a header that includes signaling information of audio data and selectively includes signaling information of an extension payload, and encoding the audio data and two or more extension payloads, so that backward compatibility is supported, and a decoder that may recognize... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070160042 - Switching apparatus having universal transport of data packet frames: Apparatus (A) is dedicated to switching data packet frames of different types coming from at least two transport networks (N1, N2) that use different transport protocol layers. Said apparatus (A) comprises a switching module (SM) and at least two access cards (AC1, AC2), each of which is connected to a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070160049 - Method and apparatus for effecting a handoff in a mobile internet protocol communication system: A communication system provides for an expedited Mobile Internet Protocol handoff by allowing a mobile station that is engaged in a communication session with a first access network to obtain Internet Protocol connectivity information associated with a second access network via the first access network. A tunnel is then established... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070160048 - Method for providing data and data transmission system: c

20070160047 - Wireless broadband internet system and its method of terminal hand-off: A terminal hand-off apparatus in a wireless broadband Internet system and a terminal hand-off method in the system includes a connection processor and a hand-off processor. The connection processor predicts a movement direction using a current position of the terminal in communication with a counterpart terminal using a predetermined Internet... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070160045 - Conserving network capacity by releasing qos resources: A broadband service is provided by allocating air interface resources in a wireless network that conforms to the 1xEV-DO standard. The air interface resources are characterized by various quality of service (QoS) parameters, such as bandwidth, packet priority and error rate. Packetized information is transmitted in data flows between a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070160046 - System and method for reliable multicast: A technique for reliable multicast involves identifying a client as an acknowledger of a wireless multicast packet, and having the acknowledger acknowledge receipt of the multicast packet. An example of a method according to the technique may include receiving a multicast packet, selecting a client associated with a destination of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070160051 - Method for assigning ip address to terminal device and communication system: A method for assigning an IP address to a terminal device and a communication system. The method includes: a router transmitting to a layer-2 device network a Router Advertisement message carrying routing prefix information; the layer-2 device network generating extended routing prefix information which identifies the downlink port uniquely within... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070160052 - Packet processing apparatus and method: A packet processing apparatus includes a packet processing engine and a search engine connected through a bus having a bandwidth which is equal to or greater than a total transmission bandwidth of one or more receiving ports. The packet processing engine is configured to append a device internal header containing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070160050 - Diagnostic mechanism for layer 2 and layer 3 networks: A diagnostic apparatus and method for a network includes a sender configuring a time to live (TTL) field in a packet to include an integer value greater than zero, configuring and extending an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) message to include a Media Access Control (MAC) address and an Internet... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070160053 - Method and system for providing indeterminate read data latency in a memory system: A method and system for providing indeterminate read data latency in a memory system. The method includes determining if a local data packet has been received. If a local data packet has been received, then the local data packet is stored into a buffer device. The method also includes determining... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20070160055 - Communication apparatus and control method of the same: m

20070160057 - Method and apparatus for voip video communication: In a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) video communication method and apparatus, first and second VoIP-based terminals store video event indexes and images mapped thereto with respect to state information of a user and terminal, and establish a session using session establishment information defining the video event. The first terminal... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070160056 - Communication system and call control server: When congestion occurs in a RAN in a cell phone VoIP service, calls using the congested device are detected to permit generation of a restriction in call by call units. The congested device notifies call connection data passing through it to a PDSN, the PDSN finds the IP address of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070160058 - Method and system for implementing backup based on session border controllers: A method and a system for implementing backup based on session border controllers, including: a terminal device registers to a first soft switch via a first session border controller; the terminal device detects whether a failure concerning the first session border controller occurs. If a failure occurs, the terminal device... Agent: Robert Popa, Esq. C/o Ladas & Parry

20070160054 - Method and system for receiving call center feedback: A method for receiving feedback at a call center includes receiving a call from a caller for connection with one of a plurality of agents and distributing the call to a first agent of the plurality of agents. The method includes initiating a first communication session with the caller and... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070160059 - Disabling header compression over point-to-point protocol (ppp): A method and system for manipulating packet header compression parameters, by substituting at least one instruction set associated with a PPP negotiation packet at the PPP layer of a protocol stack, the at least one instruction set for use in establishing a communication protocol and channel between a pair of... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20070160062 - Systems and methods for improved network based content inspection: The invention relates to network based content inspection (NBCI). More specifically, the invention provides systems and methods for improved NBCI in complex networks that are typical for enterprises and service providers. These networks are shared by large numbers of concurrent users who send and retrieve application content of various sizes... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens LLC

20070160060 - Method of distributed allocation for a medium access control, a method for re-organizing the sequence devices access a medium, a method for avoiding collision, a method of synchronizing devices in a shared medium and a frame structure: A method of distributed medium access control wherein a device that intends to send data first monitors the medium, then pre-occupies a slot and only in case a collision has not occurred starts sending the data. A method for re-organizing the device's sequence for the medium access by using a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070160061 - Technique for dynamically splitting mpls te-lsps: A technique dynamically splits Traffic Engineering (TE) Label Switched Paths (LSPs) in a computer network. According to the novel technique, a head-end node may determine that a TE-LSP to a destination needs to be sized to a larger bandwidth (a “larger” TE-LSP) than currently available over a single path to... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070160064 - Device supporting mobile internet protocol version 6 (mobile ipv6): A device supporting Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) includes: a mobile reception processor outputting home addresses of a mobile node and a correspondent node or mobility relevant header information according to whether a received packet is a Binding packet or a data packet; a binding cache storing Binding information... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070160063 - Approaches for switching transport protocol connection keys: Approaches are disclosed for switching transport protocol connection keys. A first node sends a keychange request message to a second node, causing the second node to accept subsequent messages digitally signed with a first or second key. The second node sends an acknowledgment message to the first node, causing the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070160065 - Method for route optimization with dual mobile ipv4 node in ipv6-only network: A method for route optimization with a dual mobile IPv4 node in an IPv6-only network is provided. The method includes the operations of: receiving a visited IPv6 address from a router when the dual mobile node is connected to the IPv6-only network; updating a home agent with the IPv6 address;... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070160066 - Display and method of driving the same: In a write period, a write current is caused to flow through a video signal line in a first state where a first control terminal and an output terminal of a drive control element, a second control terminal of a drive control element, and a video signal line are connected... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070160067 - Apparatus, system, and method for decentralized data conversion: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for decentralized data conversion. The present invention includes providing a server configured to be accessible over the Internet and receiving a payment from a user through a payment gateway module, the gateway module operated by the server. Additionally, the invention includes receiving a... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070160068 - Methods and systems for managing digital cross-connect matrices using virtual connection points: The present invention provides methods and systems for managing matrices of connections within digital switching fabrics. The methods and systems include means for defining one or more of sources and sinks in a matrix of connections as one or more of unidirectional connection termination points and novel unidirectional virtual connection... Agent: Clements Walker

20070160069 - Method and apparatus for peer-to-peer connection assistance: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for assisting a peer-to-peer connection between a first node and a second node includes receiving, at a third node, a request for connection assistance from one of the first and second nodes. The third node then connects to both the first node... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan LLP IBM Corporation

20070160071 - Framework for a wireless communication device: A method is provided for managing the operation of a wireless communication device. The method comprises receiving from a source a data stream incorporating at least some data in a generic format to be communicated via a wireless communications connection, determining a selected protocol interface module from a plurality of... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070160070 - Pushing documents to wireless data devices: A system pushes documents to one or more wireless data devices. The system receives a push request from a user to push a specified document to one or more identified wireless data devices. The system then constructs a wireless gateway server request for each identified wireless data device, and the... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070160072 - Selective handoff between access gateways: The described embodiments of the present invention include a method for providing access by a user device of a network service including: sending an initiation signal from the user device to a session initialization proxy server, initiating an application on the user device that requires the network service, sending quality... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070160073 - Packet communications unit: To analyze traffic at an application level, a stream according to TCP or SCTP is required to be reconstructed and to be analyzed. When a packet is transferred to analyzing equipment using a port mirroring function with which a router and a switch are provided, transferred traffic volume increases and... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070160074 - Terminal capable of substituting for control station: A terminal of the present invention comprises a control frame detection portion of detecting a control frame issued from a control station, a control frame memory portion of storing control information contained in the control frame, a substitute frame issuance determination portion of determining to issue a substitute frame when... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070160075 - Device, system and method of communicating between a bus controller and one or more remote terminals: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and system of communicating between a bus controller and one or more remote terminals. Some demonstrative embodiments of the invention may include, for example, identifying as a first remote terminal to a bus controller controlling a first bus according to a... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070160077 - Systems and methods to manage a queue of people requesting real time communication connections: Methods and apparatuses to provide services to people who wish to make connections for real time communication, such as live telephone conversation, chat, video conferencing, etc. In one embodiment, a method includes: presenting to a communicatee a plurality of requests for real time communication connections to the communicatee, the requests... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070160076 - Systems and methods to arrange call back: Methods and apparatuses to provide services to people who wish to make connections for real time communication, such as live telephone conversation, chat, video conferencing, etc. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving in a system a call back time window for a request from a first entity to establish... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070160078 - Ethernet component: An ethernet component includes a case, a data processing unit and a circuit device. The case has a plurality of first pins and a plurality of second pins. The data processing unit is disposed in the case and is electrically connected with the first pins. The circuit device is connected... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070160079 - Selectively enabled quality of service policy: A computer system that implements a quality of service policy. Information defining the quality of service policy is stored in a central location, such as a server within an enterprise. Policy management software on clients in the network download quality of service policy information from the central location to the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070160080 - Computer resource allocation system and method thereof: To effectively allocate a computer resource in an environment where the number of computer resources is smaller than the number of users. It is provided with a section for monitoring the utilization state of the computer resources and a section for registering the condition of the possibility of release depending... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070160081 - Integrated power line communications interface for performing communications protocol processing on a plurality of classes of communications data: An integrated power line communications (“PLC”) interface is coupled to a power line communications network and can simultaneously process a plurality of classes of communications data for automatically and dynamically establishing class-specific communications interfaces with communications network appliances or communications device coupled to the PLC network.... Agent: Mr. James Reeber Arkados, Inc.

20070160082 - Media access layer processors for network communications: Disclosed are apparatuses and methods for implementing the Media-access control layer of a network device.... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070160083 - Methods of synchronizing subscriber stations to communications networks: Disclosed are apparatuses and methods for implementing the Media-access control layer of a network device.... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070160086 - Voip phone with a receiving module for receiving data stored in a portable memory device and a voip module: A Voice over Internet Protocol phone (VoIP phone) includes a VoIP module coupled to an external network, a receiving module for receiving data stored in a portable memory device, and a control means coupled to the VoIP module and the receiving module for controlling the VoIP module according to the... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070160084 - Audio device, system and method for archiving audio files based on distributed audio phone data received over a data network in encrypted or non-encrypted form: An audio unit or audio system usable by a processor to: receive audio phone data over a data network; store at least one portion of the audio phone data in a non-encrypted form; and transmit at least one portion of the stored audio phone data to another data storage device... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070160085 - Method and system for transmitting supplementary data, and communication terminal: Method for transmitting supplementary data whose content relates to a communication session which has been set up or terminated to a communication terminal, in which a message is generated which contains the supplementary data and which has an identification for the communication session, and the message is transmitted to the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070160087 - Serial media independent interface: A 10/100Base-T MAC to PHY interface requiring only two wires (pins) per port, with two additional global wires: a clock wire (pin), and a synchronization wire (pin) represents a reduction in the number of pins associated with each port and is achieved by time-division multiplexing wherein each time-division multiplexed wire... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070160088 - Synchronization determination method and apparatus: A synchronization determination method includes: a synchronization determining step of determining whether or not synchronization has been successfully performed by detecting a synchronous pattern from the demodulated data input as a data stream; a synchronization probability determining step of determining whether or not there is a probability that synchronization is... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070160089 - Synchronization system using at least one external office line signal and synchronization control method thereof: A synchronization system using at least one external office line signal, and a synchronization control method thereof. The synchronization system includes a plurality of framers receiving digital office line signals having a square wave form from a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) through respective line interfaces, converting the digital office... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell Suite 300

20070160090 - Method and apparatus for generating information signal to be recorded: A compressively-encoding-resultant video signal resulting from compressively encoding a video signal, a first compressively-encoding-resultant audio signal resulting from compressively encoding a first audio signal having a synchronized relation with the video signal, a reference clock information signal relating to synchronization between the compressively-encoding-resultant video signal and the first compressively-encoding-resultant audio... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20070153672 - Method and apparatus for selecting multiple transport formats and transmitting multiple transport blocks simultaneously with multiple h-arq processes: A method and apparatus for selecting multiple transport formats and transmitting multiple transport blocks (TBs) in a transmission time interval simultaneously with multiple hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes in a wireless communication system are disclosed. Available physical resources and H-ARQ processes associated with the available physical resources are identified... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070153673 - Orthogonal frequency multi-carrier transmission device and transmission method: Symbols converted by a serial-to-parallel converting part (12) from serial to parallel form are subjected to inverse Fourier transform processing in an inverse Fourier transform part (13) as sub-carrier signal components of a frequency interval equal to the symbol rate, then the levels of the resulting time domain signal components... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070153678 - Method for managing broken node in wireless personal area network game: A method for managing a broken node in a wireless personal area network (WPAN) game includes broadcasting alive check data for checking states of nodes from a master node having opened the WPAN game in a standby state of the WPAN game; receiving alive response data to the alive check... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070153677 - Method and system for integration of wireless devices with a distributed control system: A method includes determining first and second communication paths from a leaf node of a plurality of leaf nodes to first and second gateway nodes, respectively, of a plurality of gateway nodes. The first and second communication paths may include first and second intermediate nodes, respectively, of a plurality of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070153676 - Recovery methods for restoring service in a distributed radio access network: A mobile communication network includes a plurality of access nodes that can serve different roles in support of a communication session with a mobile station. An access node can serve as a connecting node that receives access requests the mobile station, as an anchor node to anchor a radio packet... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070153675 - Redundant session information for a distributed network: A mobile communication network includes a plurality of access nodes that can serve different roles in support of a communication session with a mobile station. An access node can serve as a connecting node that receives access requests the mobile station, as an anchor node to anchor a radio packet... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070153674 - Signaling protocol for p-cycle restoration: Improved p-cycle restoration techniques using a signaling protocol are disclosed. For example, a technique for use in at least one node of a data communication network for recovering from a failure, wherein the data communication network includes multiple nodes and multiple links for connecting the multiple nodes, comprises the following... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070153679 - Method and apparatus for glitchless failover to redundant stream: A method and apparatus for providing seamless failover to a redundant stream at an edge device is disclosed. A plurality of identical streams are received via a plurality of paths at a plurality of synchronization buffers. Each synchronization buffer receives one of the plurality of identical streams from a corresponding... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070153681 - Messaging schema for services interaction on prepaid and subscription system: Inter-service messages conform to a protocol message schema and support predetermined types according to the destination service. Because the schema and types are well defined, input queues corresponding to the services are able to quickly identify and remove non-conforming messages. The schema supports both prepaid and subscription business models and... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070153687 - Method and apparatus for adaptive server selection in a data communication system: Methods and apparatus for selecting a serving sector in a high rate data (HDR) communication system are disclosed. An exemplary HDR communication system defines a set of data rates, at which a sector of an Access Point may send data packets to an Access Terminal. The sector is selected by... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070153684 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data from a first communication device to a second communication device: Method and apparatus for transmitting data from a first communication device to a second communication device, wherein the first communication device can assume at least two communication link states. The data is transmitted by the first communication device when the first communication device is in the first communication link state,... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070153686 - Method, apparatus and system for implementing iuup/nbup procedure control: The present invention relates to the field of mobile communication, including method, apparatus and system for implementing IuUp/NBUP procedure control. The method includes parsing a received UP frame; generating a control message based on a value obtained from the parsing, and buffering the control message; executing the buffered control message.... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070153682 - Multi-priority multi-color markers for traffic metering: A metering device has a first token bucket with a profile, a rate, and a maximum number of tokens. The device has another token bucket with its own profile, two associated rates, and a maximum number of tokens. In operation, the device adds tokens in the first token bucket at... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070153688 - Real-time rate control mechanism for multi-rate data transmissions in wireless networks: Wireless networks are becoming increasingly heterogeneous in terms of the processing capabilities of network users' receiving equipment. According to embodiments of the invention, in a communications network comprising a plurality of receivers with different data reception rate capabilities, data frames targeted to respective receivers may be transmitted to the receivers... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070153683 - Traffic rate control in a network: A system and method for controlling a rate of transmitting data packets into a subnet path by generating at an ingress point to the subnet a rate control signal based on a congestion level feedback signal received from the path and transmitting data packets from the ingress point into the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070153680 - Unlimited participants network: A method for communication between a number of participants in a region, the number of participants being unlimited, the method comprising the steps: (a) allocating a unique identity to each participant; (b) allocating an order of priority for transmission by the participants based on an order of the unique identities;... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070153685 - Wireless communication system and method for managing service flow identifier in the same: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and a service flow identifier method of the system. The wireless communication system includes a plurality of PARs that provides wireless communication services to a plurality of access terminals through a plurality of access points for separate management of service flow... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070153689 - Method and apparatus for monitoring malicious traffic in communication networks: A method and apparatus for monitoring data traffic in a communication network are provided. A router connected to the communication network monitors information contained in the data traffic, and based on the information determines whether data in the traffic is indicative of a malicious threat to one or more resources... Agent: Arnold B. Silverman Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070153690 - Scheduling method and system for communication systems that offer multiple classes of service: A method and system for prioritizing connection data that is associated with different classes of service for transmission in a frame based communication system. These classes of service can include CBR, nrt-VBR, MGR, and UBR traffic. One embodiment of the scheduling method and system uses hierarchical round-robin (HRR) with deficit... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070153691 - Systems and methods for automated service migration: A migration framework provides for the automatic migration of services in a cluster. A migratable target list contains a list of servers in the cluster capable of hosting a migratable service. A consensus subsystem can select a host server from the migratable target list. A migration manager can migrate the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070153692 - Methods and apparatuses for performing scene adaptive rate control: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect a network bandwidth; detect a sequence of frames; determine a motion based on the sequence of frames; set a target bit rate for the sequence of frames based on the network bandwidth; and set a frame rate for the sequence of frames... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070153693 - Transport format detecting apparatus and method: To provide transport format detecting apparatus and method capable of reducing a period necessary for detecting a transport format and saving current consumption. A transport format detecting apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes: a Viterbi decoding unit calculating likelihood information of a plurality of paths up to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070153697 - Hierarchical queue shaping: A network device and method include token buckets, each token bucket associated with one of clients and virtual ports and configured to process information based on a predefined bandwidth and a strict priority/weighted deficit round robin. A maximum rate shaper module and a minimum rate meter module shape and meter... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070153694 - Apparatus and methods for monitoring network traffic: Devices, systems and methods for network traffic monitoring for a process control network are disclosed. The exemplary system may include a connection to a physical media and a connection to a media access controller of the process control network. The system may also include a filter having a position identifier,... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070153696 - Collaborative communication traffic control systems and methods: Collaborative communication traffic control systems and methods are disclosed. In a communication traffic control apparatus, a communication traffic control module controls transfer of communication traffic in accordance with one or more communication traffic control rules. A communication traffic control rule exchange module is operatively coupled to the communication traffic control... Agent: Arnold B. Silverman Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070153695 - Method and apparatus for communication network congestion control: A communication network node, such as a radio base station or base station controller in a wireless communication network, is configured to monitor and control ingress and egress data congestion. As such, node-based congestion monitoring provides a method of flow control between network nodes and, as such, for example, it... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070153698 - Method and apparatus for managing connection identifiers in a multi-hop relay wireless access communication system: A CID management method and apparatus in a multi-hop relay BWA communication system are provided. A BS combines data destined for an RS and data to be relayed to an MS via the RS in a payload, distinguishing the data by CIDs, attaches a relay CID to the payload, and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070153699 - Route dependency selective route download: A method of selecting routing tables to include in a network line card consists of determining dependencies of local routes on remote routes using a reference count on prefixes, and selectively downloading remote routes when resolution of a route has a dependency on a remote route. In one embodiment, only... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070153700 - 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.

20070153704 - Traffic information providing apparatus and operating method using automatically scrolling display screen: The present invention relates to a traffic information providing apparatus and an operating method. The method includes receiving real time traffic information, storing sectional traffic information, dividing screen information currently displayed on the display unit into unit areas, selecting the unit areas sequentially, detecting additional traffic information on the corresponding... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070153703 - Advertising in a peer-to-peer network: A computerized system for advertising in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network of user modules within a global communications network. An advertising database contains associated advertisements that each include either local advertisement content stored in the advertising database or links to remote advertisement content stored elsewhere on the global network. A service... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Offices

20070153702 - Method for channel assignment and routing for multi-radio wireless mesh networks: A methodology for making joint channel and routing assignments in multi-radio wireless mesh networks that takes into account interference constraints, the number of channels in a network and the number of radio available at each mesh router, and maximizes bandwidth allocation subject to fairness constraints. In particular, the methodology provides... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20070153701 - Search determination module for a secondary network and corresponding method: A search determination module for a secondary network, wireless communication device, and corresponding method is provided for triggering the detection of a secondary network. The search determination module includes an ambient condition detector, such as a light detector, a temperature detector and/or a microphone, which is adapted to detect one... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070153706 - Design time support for service adaptation: A computer-implemented method and computer program product for adapting enterprise services to specific requirements of an enterprise. A graphical representation of a plurality of service elements is generated on a computer. Each service element includes an input and an output. A link is generated between an output of a first... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070153709 - Method of notifying the presence of a terminal in a communications system and a system therefor: Disclosed is a method notifying the presence information of terminals in an electronic communications system including a plurality of terminals, at least an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) ( ) server, and a presence server for managing the presence information of the terminals. The method causes one of the terminals to... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070153707 - Ad hoc network formation and management based on aggregation of ad hoc nodes according to an aggregation hierarchy: Each mobile ad hoc node has an assigned hierarchy position within an identified tree-based aggregation group. Each ad hoc node is configured for selectively attaching to one of a plurality of available ad hoc nodes based on identifying a best match, for the assigned hierarchy position within the identified aggregation... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20070153710 - Method for monitoring and providing information over a peer to peer network: A pseudonode for deployment on a peer to peer network. The pseudonode is programmed for monitoring the peer to peer network to receive search requests therefrom, optionally comparing each said received search with said list of data objects, and to respond to such requests. The response may include advertising; the... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070153705 - System and method for synchronous wireless communication with a medical device: Constituents of a network of medical devices communicate according to a synchronous communication protocol. A constituent of the network is established as a conductor. Time slots are assigned to each constituent of the network other than the conductor. Information is communicated between the constituents of the network in the assigned... Agent: Medtronic, Inc.

20070153708 - Topology comparison: A solution for comparing topologies is provided. In an embodiment of the invention, a set of differences between the nodes and/or connectors of two or more topologies is obtained. Each difference can comprise a missing node/connector and/or a difference in an item/relationship attribute. A user interface is generated that displays... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070153711 - System and method for transferring data between applications: A method of transferring data between applications, wherein at least one datum relating to a subject is published by a first application over a transport infrastructure; and the published at least one datum is provided in accordance with a delivery protocol to a second application that has previously subscribed to... Agent: Dechert LLP

20070153712 - Method and architecture for distributed video switching using media notifications: Disclosed are video conferencing systems, devices, architectures, and methods for using media notifications to coordinate switching between video in a distributed arrangement. An exemplary media switch in accordance with embodiments can include: a first interface configured for a first type communication with an endpoint; a second interface configured for the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070153713 - Transmission of media content stream: A solution for providing a media content stream to a mobile terminal of a wireless communication network is provided. The media stream content (e.g. Television programs) may be provided to the user terminals either through a conventional broadcasting system or through the wireless communication network. The user of the mobile... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC Suite 125

20070153714 - Device, system and method of securing wireless communication: Some demonstrative embodiments of the invention include methods, devices and/or systems to secure a wireless transmission. The method may include, for example, transmitting a noise transmission to be received by one or more destinations other than an intended destination of a packet during a time period corresponding to a duration... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070153715 - Reliable reporting of location data: A machine, such as a mobile device having telephony features, such as a voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony application, is configured with a secure environment in which a location provider within (more reliable) or external to (less reliable) the machine may determine location data for the machine and securely... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070153716 - Network system: A first and a second terminal carry out radio communications, the first terminal selects, based on an expectation saved in the concerned first terminal, a relay terminal relaying data to be transmitted to the second terminal and transmits the data, with a first information item indicating the address of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070153717 - Efficient resolution of relinquishment requests in a wireless communications network: A first device receives a request from a remote device to relinquish at least a portion of an existing reservation in a wireless communications network (e.g., a WiMedia network). The existing reservation is between the first device and a second device. Also, the existing reservation was initiated by the second... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, LLP

20070153718 - Method for transmitting and receiving message of short message broadcasting services in telecommunication system: A method for transmitting and receiving short message broadcast services in a communication system is disclosed. The present invention reduces a battery consumption of a mobile station by additionally using an inserted message field of a broadcast indicator for notifying whether a broadcast message is being transmitted from a base... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070153724 - Apparatus and method for enhancing link performance of multicast service in wireless system: Provided is an apparatus and method for enhancing the link performance of a multicast service for UEs in a wireless system. In the method, multicast data received in an Nth frame is recovered using systematic packets. When the recovery fails, parity packets are received in an (N+1)th frame and are... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070153722 - Method and apparatus for seamless and efficient wireless handoffs: The diclosure is directed to methods and apparatuses for seamless and efficient wireless handoffs of an acess terminal betweeen acess points in a communication network. The acess points include memory configured to buffer packets received from a network for the acess terminal, a processor configured to queue one of the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070153721 - Method of transferring session information between access nodes in a mobile communication network: A method and apparatus for transferring session information from a source access node to a target access node reduces the delay in the delivery of packets for delay intolerant applications such as voice over IP. A protocol data table is stored in the target access node. The source access node... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070153720 - Monitoring access nodes in a distributed radio access network: A mobile communication network includes a plurality of access nodes that can serve different roles in support of a communication session with a mobile station. An access node can serve as a connecting node that receives access requests the mobile station, as an anchor node to anchor a radio packet... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070153719 - Scheduling of broadcast message transmission to increase paging capacity: Broadcast control messages are repetitively transmitted to said mobile stations over successive control channel cycles to meet minimum recommended periodicity requirements. To increase paging capacity, the frequency of one or more of the broadcast control messages may be varied to avoid unfavorable pairings of the broadcast control messages within a... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070153723 - 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

20070153726 - Digital microwave radio link with adaptive data rate: A digital microwave link and system are provided that has an adaptive data rate.... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070153731 - Varying size coefficients in a wireless local area network return channel: Sending channel related parameters known as channel state information (CSI) over a WLAN return channel. The size of these coefficients is not fixed. Rather, the coefficients are quantized in a certain resolution, which is determined adaptively according to a measure of the channel quality. This allows minimizing the component of... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20070153734 - Apparatus and method for transparent relay in multihop relay broadband wireless access (bwa) communication system: An apparatus and method of transparently relaying a signal in a direct link and a relay link using the same frequency band in a multihop relay Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system. The method includes designating a start point of an asynchronous frame of the relay link by taking into... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070153729 - Apparatus, system and method for communicating information in a wireless communication network: Techniques are provided for communicating a data stream in a wireless communication network. A source divides the data stream into a first data sub-stream and a second data sub-stream. The first data sub-stream can be modulated using a first modulation technique to generate a first modulated data sub-stream, and the... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070153727 - In-band multi-user scheduling information transmission for group services: Methods (440, 500, 600) and corresponding systems (20, 24, 190) for scheduling uplink resources for communication with a base station (22) include receiving an uplink resource request (82, 204) for an uplink channel resource for a subscriber station (24). In response to the uplink resource request (82), generating an uplink... Agent: Law Offices Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20070153733 - Method and apparatus for initiating communications on a shared channel in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for initiating communications on a shared channel in a mobile communication system are provided. A user equipment transmits an uplink signal for requesting communications on the shared channel to a Node B, and waits for a delay duration without monitoring a downlink after transmitting the uplink... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070153730 - Method and apparatus to perform persistence tests in a network: A method and apparatus to perform persistence tests for a mobile station in a network are described. The apparatus includes a random number generator, a timer module, and a processor coupled to the random number generator and the timer module. A counter for the random number generator configured to count... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070153732 - Method for a wireless local area network terminal to access a network, a system and a terminal: The present invention discloses a method for a wireless local area network terminal to access a network, a local area network system and a wireless local area network terminal. The wireless local area network includes at least one basic service set and at least one extended service set thereof constructed... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070153728 - Method of cell-switching in a mobile communication network: A cell switching method reduces the time to setup a connection between a target access node and a packet data serving node when a mobile station switches between a source access node and the target access node. A source access node receives sector selection from a mobile station indicating that... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070153735 - Method, apparatus, software and system for handling intercell interference: A method of handling intercell interference applies physical layer (L1) scheduling decisions to ensure that L1 hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) retransmissions will not experience the same interference conditions. The retransmission is scheduled in a sub-frame portion that does not include previously tracked allocations of a plurality of users. Potential... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070153725 - System and method for communicating with mobile stations over an extended range in a wireless local area network: Embodiments of a system and method for communicating over an extended range in a wireless network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, a packet is generated to include an extended range header if the mobile station is identified as an extended range... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070153737 - Link mobility tracking and its application to mobile ad hoc networks: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for tracking link mobility between two mobile nodes. Each node estimates a link mobility state of a link between itself and each of its neighbor nodes, accumulates successively the link mobility states, estimates link mobility parameters using the successively estimated link mobility... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070153740 - Method and apparatus for media handover in the network: An innovative apparatus and method for media handover in the network is proposed. The apparatus comprises a communication network; a data source provider and handover devices. The handover device comprises a handover module for executing the handover execution. The handover process comprises searching for handover target devices by a searching... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20070153738 - Method for switching the use of an access point (ap) within a wireless communications network: A method for switching the use of an access point (AP) in a wireless communication network without explicitly updating a proxy address resolution protocol (ARP) cache (200) includes first providing a communication between a network node (111) and a first access point (107) utilizing a first proxy ARP cache. The... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070153742 - Method, apparatus, software, and system for handover: A method is presented for handing over a mobile device from a source base station to a target base station. A plurality of service data units are segmented, in the source base station, at a medium access control layer. The segments produced by the segmentation are transmitted, after which a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070153741 - Seamless roaming across wireless subnets using source address forwarding: To enable devices to detect L3 roaming users and to take appropriate forwarding actions, L3 knowledge is introduced inside a bridge in a non-intrusive way. In particular, as a client moves from a subnet associated with a first network element to a subnet associated with a second network element, a... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20070153736 - Wireless handoff to and from an ip network: In order to reduce the usage charges of a wireless telephone, the patent will manage and effect a handoff between a subscriber's wireless instrument and the subscriber's IP location, i.e. home, office, etc., and vice versa. The event may be automatically or manually activated without dropping the call. A gateway... Agent: John Beck Mow

20070153739 - Wireless router assisted security handoff (wrash) in a multi-hop wireless network: A wireless router assisted security handoff method (300) includes an efficient layer 2security handoff for an infrastructure-based mobile multi-hop wireless network. The handoff is assisted with a wireless router (311) which is the first hop from the mobile station (301) to the new access point (307). The security context from... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070153743 - Methods and apparatus for position location in a wireless network: Methods and apparatus for position location in a wireless network. In an aspect, a method is provided that includes determining whether a symbol to be transmitted is an active symbol, wherein the symbol comprises a plurality of subcarriers, and encoding identification information on a first portion of subcarriers if it... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070153744 - Undulating transmit patterns for multiple simultaneous transmitters to support signal separation at a receiver: A communications system includes multiple mobile wireless communications devices transmitting at a same time to a fixed receiver assembly. Each mobile wireless communications device transmits a source signal defined by a respective character set comprising a plurality of symbols. At least one of the symbols in the respective character sets... Agent: Michael W. Taylor

20070153745 - System and method for link adaptation for wlan voice transmission: Methods and apparatus for Link Adaptation in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) are disclosed. Methods and apparatus for optimizing voice traffic in real-time over WLAN are also disclosed. The methods are based on state transitions and depend on transmission parameters. A Transmission Diagram and a Rate Sequence providing... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070153746 - Method for requesting and allocating upstream bandwidth in a multi-hop relay broadband wireless access communication system: A method of requesting and allocating an upstream bandwidth in an RS in a multi-hop relay BWA communication system is provided. The RS receives an upstream bandwidth request message including an upstream bandwidth from at least one MS for a predetermined time period, detects the requested upstream bandwidth from the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070153755 - Wireless local area network (wlan) and method of transmitting frame in the wlan: In a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and a method of transmitting a frame in the WLAN, mode information and an available data transfer rate of each wireless terminal located within a coverage of an Access Point (AP) are collected. A determination is made as to whether or not the... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070153758 - Apparatus and method for selecting relay station using relay station preamble signal in a multi-hop relay broadband wireless access communication system: An apparatus and method for selecting an RS using an RS preamble signal in a multi-hop relay BWA communication system are provided, in which a BS sends preamble channel allocation information to at least one RS, the at least one RS sends a preamble to an MS according to the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070153748 - Device, system and method of uplink/downlink communication in wireless network: Some demonstrative embodiments of the invention include a method device and/or system of scheduling transmissions of one or more wireless communication stations. The method, according to some demonstrative embodiments may include instructing a plurality of wireless communication stations to set a transmission-disable counter to count a first value corresponding to... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070153752 - Method and apparatus for provisioning contacts for ptt over cellular (poc) communication: A push to talk (PTT) over cellular (PoC) wireless communication system (300) includes a media server (318), a push to commute (PTC) server (310) and a subscription database (328). The media server (318) identifies a contact having a uniform resource identifier (URI), the contact identifying location informative media. The PTC... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070153747 - Method and apparatus for soft switching: A method in wireless communication systems is provided for switching from P2P (Peer to Peer) communication mode to UP-UTRAN-DOWN (conventional communication mode) and from conventional communication mode to P2P mode, wherein the method performed by a user equipment for switching from P2P communication mode to conventional communication mode comprising steps... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070153753 - Method of allocating mobile station identifiers in a distributed radio access network: A mobile communication network comprises a plurality of access nodes, wherein each access node allocates mobile station identifiers to mobile stations from an assigned group of mobile station identifiers. The mobile station identifiers in each group have a common property that identifies the corresponding access node. The mobile station identifier... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070153757 - Method of transmitting aggregated mac mpdus in wlan system and system therefor: Provided are a system and method of transmitting an Aggregated Media Access Control (MAC)Protocol Data Unit (A-MPDU) in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system. A MAC layer divides service data transferred from an upper layer into a plurality of MPDUs, forms a single transmission frame including the sequentially arranged... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070153754 - Method, apparatus and system of spatial division multiple access communication in a wireless local area network: Some demonstrative embodiments of the invention include a method, apparatus, and system of performing simultaneous downlink transmission over a wireless medium to a plurality of wireless stations, using Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA) in a wireless local area network (WLAN). In one demonstrative embodiment of the invention, the method may... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070153751 - Pdsn-based session recovery from rbs/an failure in a distributed architecture network: An access node anchoring a connection to, e.g., a PDSN in a core network establishes a session with a mobile station and assigns the mobile station an identifier such as a UATI. The anchor node sends the UATI to the PDSN, such as in a GRE key where the data... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070153756 - Radio bearer control method and radio base station: A radio bearer control method is disclosed that includes the steps of a radio base station transmitting a change request signal to a mobile terminal so that a communications condition set in the mobile terminal is changed, and the radio base station changing a communications condition set in the radio... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070153750 - Reactivating a communication session for a dormant mobile station: A mobile communication network includes a plurality of access nodes that can serve different roles in support of a communication session with a mobile station. An access node can serve as a connecting node that receives access requests the mobile station, as an anchor node to anchor a radio packet... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070153749 - Wireless communication device and method for coordinating communications among wireless local area networks (wlans) and broadband wireless access (bwa) networks: Embodiments of methods for coordinating communications among wireless networks and a co-located wireless communication device are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, frame-timing parameters are reported by a broadband wireless access (BWA) network node to a node of a wireless local area network... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070153759 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving signal in a communication system using a plurality of transmit antennas: An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving a signal in a communication system with a plurality of antennas are provided. Received modulation symbols of channel coded transmission information data are generated using a space-time mapping scheme and processed to RF symbols. The RF symbols are transmitted through antennas among the plurality... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070153762 - Method of lip synchronizing for wireless audio/video network and apparatus for the same: Provided is a lip synchronization method in a wireless A/V network. The method includes generating audio and video packets including time stamps and transmitting the audio and video packets to devices in the wireless A/V network, in which the time stamp has information indicating reproduction time points of both audio... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070153761 - Device and method for preamble detection and frame synchronization in data packet transmission: A device (10) for preamble detection and frame synchronization, wherein data packets are transmitted by radio between transmitter and receiver and the data packets are in each case preceded by a known preamble with a sequence of preamble sections (B), with a correlator unit (20) for correlating samples (rn) with... Agent: Baker Botts, L.L.P.

20070153760 - Method, apparatus and system of spatial division multiple access communication in a wireless local area network: Some demonstrative embodiments of the invention include a method, apparatus, and system of performing simultaneous downlink transmission over a wireless medium to a plurality of wireless stations, using Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA) in a wireless local area network (WLAN). In one demonstrative embodiment of the invention, the method may... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070153764 - Compression of a routing header in a packet by a mobile router in an ad hoc network: Each mobile router in a mobile ad hoc network is configured for identifying routes to nearby nodes that are within a prescribed distance, based on storage of explicit paths specified within routing headers of packets transmitted from a host node to a destination node. Each mobile router also can selectively... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20070153765 - Method for managing virtual router redundancy protocol backup groups: A method for managing Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) backup groups includes: setting a VRRP Group Management Protocol (VGMP) group including at least one VRRP management group. Each VRRP management group includes at least one VRRP member, and the VRRP members belonging to one VRRP management group belong to different... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070153763 - Route change monitor for communication networks: Methods, systems, and network entities for detecting route changes, validating the route changes, and/or remediating potential attacks by blocking traffic over potentially compromised paths.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070153773 - Communication control unit: An extension telephone using an ordinary telephone circuit cannot be coordinated with a data terminal connected by an IP network. An extension telephone using an ordinary telephone circuit has none of the convenient functions of an IP telephone, such as implementing outgoing/incoming call data management and telephone book management on... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070153768 - Apparatus and method for cordless internet protocol: A mobile station (323) may register with a base set (301) to access a fixed line service, such as broadband IP network (315), to make and receive calls. When the mobile station (323) is within a radio coverage area of access point (313), it may seamlessly register itself and receive... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070153774 - Low latency digital audio over packet switched networks: Method and Apparatus for delivering audio signals from a source node to a destination node on a network. The apparatus uses a number of switches that transmit prioritized data on a packet network. The switches are coupled to a number of send/receive nodes for sending and receiving digital audio signals... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070153772 - Method and system for calculation of qov metrics: A method, system and apparatus are provided for measuring the quality of voice (QOV) in a communication network. A time-stamped voice data packet is received. The time stamped on the voice data packet indicates the time at which the voice data packet arrives at intermediate devices. In an embodiment of... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070153769 - Method of locating and transferring session information between access nodes in a radio access network: In a mobile communication network comprising a plurality of access nodes, session information for a communication session is stored in one access node and may be requested by a peer access node. A requesting access node determines the location of session information based on the mobile station identifier associated with... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070153771 - Methods and apparatus to provide extended voice over internet protocol (voip) services: Methods and apparatus to provide extended voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services are disclosed. An example residential gateway comprises a radio frequency (RF) detector to detect a presence of a cellular communication device, a service controller to enable a VoIP communication device when the cellular communication device is present, wherein... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070153767 - Statistics monitoring for messaging service: A messaging service is described that incorporates messages into cached link lists. The messages are not yet acknowledged as having been received by one or more consumers to whom the messages were sent. A separate link list exists for each of a plurality of different message priority levels. Messages within... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070153770 - System and method for feature-based services control using sip: A system and method for feature-based service control using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) in an Internet Protocol Automatic Branch Exchanges (IPABX) system is described. The system and method include a new Event package and new Enhanced SIP methodsto control information for various feature-based services like wakeup alarm, call forwarding, voicemail... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070153766 - System and method for providing early ringback by a home legacy mobile station domain network: A system and method of providing call progress to a calling party is provided. A circuit-switched call origination message is received in a home legacy mobile station domain. The call origination message specifies a destination terminal device having a directory number assigned to the home legacy mobile station domain. A... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070153777 - Method and apparatus for identifying caller preferences matched to callee capabilities for ims communications: Multimedia IMS communications are established by matching callee capabilities with caller preferences and identifying a URI parameter in response thereto. When a session initiation protocol (SIP) request identifying caller preferences for an internet communication session and an identified callee is received (602), a determination is made of whether the identified... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070153776 - Method and apparatus for routing internet telephone calls based upon the media types and formats or codec capabilities of the end points or destinations: In a packet-based communications network, where proxy servers guide the routing of requests and responses between destinations to aid in establishing the flow of voice or other media streams between the destinations, and where at least some destinations are assigned an IP or other network address and a telephone number... Agent: Perry Hoffman & Associates P.C.

20070153775 - Method for generating and sending signaling messages: A signaling method reduces bandwidth requirements and signaling delays normally associated with sending text-based signaling messages over a wireless links. An application at a transmitting endpoint generates and sends a binary-encoded signaling message, along with a binary interpreter that enables the receiving endpoint or SIP server to construct a text-based... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070153778 - Synchronous packetization interval for audio packets: A method of synchronizing packet rates in a voice over internet protocol system in accordance with one embodiment comprising sending a first parameter from an offering node (100) to an answering node (104), the first parameter indicative of a first rate at which the offering node wants to receive packets... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070153779 - Method and apparatus for mitigating port swapping during signal tracking: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for mitigating port swapping during signal tracking. The method and apparatus generally include acquiring a first signal characteristic corresponding to a signal assigned to a first port, comparing the first signal characteristic to a second previously acquired signal characteristic, and... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070153780 - Diagnostic system for power converter: A power converter system that includes a diagnostic system is presented. One example of a power converter system is an audio amplifier system, such as a switch mode amplifier. The diagnostic system in the power converter may collect data indicative of signals in the power converter system and analyze the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070153781 - Method and apparatus for dynamically configuring registers by a generic cpu management interface: A programmable network component for use in a plurality of network devices with a shared architecture. The programmable network component includes an interface with an external processing unit to provide management interface control between the external processing unit and a network device. The programmable network component also includes an interface... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070153787 - Home agent apparatus and method of implementing load allocation in communication network: The present invention is directed to the problem of data traffic allocation in a home agent (HA) of a mobile network. The present invention provides a method and apparatus of allocating data traffic by using a router and a route protocol, in which load allocation is implemented by using a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070153786 - Method and apparatus for communicating data using tx/rx fifo structure in a wideband stereo codec interface: A method and interface are provided for using a memory that distinguishes transmission data from reception data and performs a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) operation on the transmission and reception data in a communication system. In the method, a controller receives from a register a last transmission address provided for dividing one... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070153784 - Method and apparatus for enabling transport of ethernet data over a serial digital interface transport service: A method and apparatus is provided that allows for the transport of Ethernet data over a serial digital interface network. An Embedder/DeEmbedder allows selective use of the active video region of the SDI frame and the unused HANC space for transporting Ethernet media independent interface data.... Agent: Jackson, Demarco, Tidus & Packenpaugh

20070153785 - Method and system for decoding control channels using repetition redundancy: Methods and systems for decoding control channels using repetition redundancy may include generating enhanced soft bits by combining soft bits generated from the two GSM SACCH blocks. Combining may comprise averaging soft bits in one GSM SACCH block and corresponding soft bits from the other GSM SACCH block. Information in... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070153788 - Method for transmitting packet data in communication system: A method and apparatus for a transmitter having a radio protocol with an upper layer and a lower layer therein used for management of full header packet transmission when transmitting data packets to a receiver are provided. If the upper layer receives from the lower layer, information of a successful... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070153783 - Methods, systems, and products for condensing messages: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for condensing a message. The message is processed, and a portion of a header is removed. The removed portion is stored in memory. A reference is inserted into the header, and the reference references the stored portion. Because the reference replaces the removed portion,... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070153782 - Reliable, high-throughput, high-performance transport and routing mechanism for arbitrary data flows: The present invention leverages an existing content delivery network infrastructure to provide a system that enhances performance for any application that uses the Internet Protocol (IP) as its underlying transport mechanism. An overlay network comprises a set of edge nodes, intermediate nodes, and gateway nodes. This network provides optimized routing... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20070153789 - Apparatus and method for multicasting data in a communication network: Techniques are provided for providing information to a group of nodes over a medium. Before transmitting information to the group of nodes, a source can analyze factors to determine transmission reliability of a first transmission technique and a second transmission technique and generate an analysis result. Based on the result... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070153794 - Method and apparatus for transferring a communicaton session: Session Inter-Device (SD) mobility networks (50, 100, 150) ate described in which a seamless transfer of a communication session from a first device (56, 106, 116) to a second device (66, 116, 166) can be achieved without interrupting the active session. According to the SID mobility network (50), the transfer... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070153792 - Method and apparatus for using fmipv6 to trigger faster l2 handover: A method and an apparatus to speed up fast mobile internet protocol version 6 (FMIPv6) by using a relatively fast layer 2 handover. A method and an apparatus to use FMIPv6 to trigger a relatively fast layer 2 handover of a mobile node from an initial access point associated with... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070153793 - Method and apparatus of modifying integrity protection configuration in a mobile user equipment of a wireless communications system: A method of modifying Integrity Protection Configuration in a user end of a communications system starts with receiving a first Radio Resource Control (RRC) message through a first Signaling Radio Bearer (SRB) on downlink for modifying the Integrity Protection Configuration. Activation Time of a second SRB on uplink is set... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070153791 - Method for rapidly recovering multicast service and network device: The present invention discloses a method for rapidly recovering multicast service, a first network device having at least one link connected to a second network device and receiving a multicast data stream, the method comprising: a) the first network device performing link fault detection and link recovery; b) the first... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070153790 - Scaling enhancement for pim control messages in multicast vpns: A mechanism by which PIM network traffic can be aggregated is provided, thereby reducing the number of PIM messages transmitted by routers in a multicast network. PIM messages are adapted to permit information targeted at multiple destination routers to be included in one PIM message. Join/prune lists for a plurality... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070153795 - Dynamic wide area network packet routing: Methods, apparatuses, articles of manufacture, and systems for creating on a first router a first local route segment, notifying a second router of the first local route segment, receiving by the second router the notification, receiving by the second router a packet destined for a computing device coupled to the... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070153796 - Packet processing utilizing cached metadata to support forwarding and non-forwarding operations on parallel paths: In some embodiments a network processor is described that includes cache to store metadata for individual packets. The cached metadata is utilized separately for forwarding and non-forwarding based functional units so that the forwarding and non-forwarding operations can be segregated. The cached metadata may be maintained after an associated individual... Agent: RyderIPLaw C/o Portfolioip

20070153797 - Segmentation interleaving for data transmission requests: Some embodiments discussed herein may interleave one data transmission request with one or more segments of another data transmission request. In one embodiment, updated context information from a previous segment is used to transmit a next segment.... Agent: Caven & Aghevli LLC C/o Portfolioip

20070153798 - System and method for prioritization of traffic through internet access network: A method is provided for ensuring that specific traffic flows are adequately prioritized in a public packet communication network even when the network is heavily congested. Per-flow QoS capability is added to VPN tunnels. Connection requests are routed through a specific port in an access provider's network to designated VPN... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070153799 - Providing services over hybrid networks: In hybrid networks, there are different schemes to identify traffic. ATM networks identify traffic on two levels. The present invention provides a method and apparatus of identifying traffic in a hybrid network on two or more levels. The method comprises mapping, at each level, the identifiers for identifying traffic in... Agent: Arnold B. Silverman Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070153800 - Method and system for enabling connection of a call: Methods and a system for connecting a call across a network of network elements as a path for the call is being set up are provided. The call comprises a parameter for which a value must be assigned for each segment of the path between adjacent network elements. At least... Agent: Arnold B. Silverman Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070153801 - Method and apparatus for scheduling to guarantee qos of voip service in portable internet system: The present invention relates to a scheduling method and device for guaranteeing a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) quality of service (QoS) in a portable Internet system. In the portable Internet system, when a packet for connecting a session between a base station and a portable Internet terminal is input... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070153802 - Priority assignment and transmission of sensor data: Prioritized transmission of data from a mobile device, where the mobile device includes the ability to transmit data using more than one transmission medium, includes generating data packets from sensor data. The data packet is then assigned a priority level based on the sensor data and various factors relating to... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070153803 - Two stage queue arbitration: In a node to forward data on a switch fabric, a method that includes scheduling the forwarding of data associated with one of a plurality of traffic classes. The data is to be transmitted through one of a plurality of ports coupled to the switch fabric, each port to be... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070153806 - Media data transfer in a network environment: In a wireless network environment, a method of transmitting data from a source device to a set of sink devices, the method comprising the steps of: (a) initially the source device broadcasting packet data collectively to each of the sink devices; (b) the sink devices collecting packet data and identifying... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070153807 - Base-station aided resource sharing broadband access system, methods, and devices: Methods, systems and devices for sharing communication resources among a plurality of clients and base-stations that are part of a common wireless community. The communication resources are, for example, Internet access resources. Another example, might be a video or data delivery communication resource. As an example, clients have separate Internet... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070153805 - Duplicating digital streams for digital conferencing using switching technologies: Using switching technologies to duplicate packets of a digital stream (e.g., digital video stream) sent from one workstation to multiple recipient workstations, where the switching technologies enable the multiple streams sent from the switch to the recipient workstations to be generated from a single digital stream sent from the sending... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070153804 - Methods and systems for maintaining the address of internet protocol compatible devices: Disconnect and re-connect communication signals are used to initiate a process to determine the physical, logical and/or both addresses of an Internet Protocol compatible device may have changed when the device moves from one physical location to another.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070153810 - Emulation device and method for supporting ipv6 in wibro terminal: A network emulation device and method in a terminal of an IEEE 802.16 communication system supporting IPv6 communications based on a Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol are provided. The terminal includes an IPv6 module for performing an ND mechanism to search for a neighbor terminal or a router, a MAC module... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070153809 - Method of multicasting multimedia information over wireless local area network: A method for multicasting multimedia information from a transmitting device to multiple receiving devices on a wireless local area network is provided herein. According to the method, the transmitting device, based on the periodical polling of all receiving devices, specifies one of the receiving devices as a master receiving device,... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070153808 - Method of providing virtual router functionality: A method of presenting different virtual routers to different end users, classes of service, or packets is provided. An incoming packet is received having a VLAN field and at least one additional field. A key is formed from the VLAN field and at least one other packet field, and mapped... Agent: Howrey LLP

20070153811 - Systems and methods for enabling clock signal synchronization: An interworking function (IWF) is coupled to a switch of a packet network and communicates with the network switch based on an Ethernet clock signal or some other type of clock signal. A primary reference clock (PRC) of the network generates a PRC signal, and a timing analyzer determines timing... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070153814 - Distributing permission information via a metadirectory: The system further includes a metadirectory component which notices change(s) that are created in the data store and sends the security information to the endpoint system(s). The new security policy can then installed and enforced on the endpoint systems. The system can thus employ the capabilities of a metadirectory to... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070153815 - System and method for establishing and maintaining simultaneous operation of asynchronous and isochronous communications: A digital communication system and method for establishing and maintaining simultaneous operation of asynchronous and isochronous communications over the same or different physical communication media. The system includes a Multimode Network Controller having connections to multiple asynchronous and isochronous information sources, two or more normally non-interoperable Member Devices using different... Agent: Robert D. Gunderman, Jr. Patent Technologies, LLC

20070153812 - Dynamic discovery of a network service on a mobile device: A network service is made available on a device capable of operating on a first network that is coupled to a second network via a Network Address Translator (NAT). One or more User Datagram Protocol (UDP) messages with an entity of the second network. Based on the exchange of UDP... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20070153813 - Traffic distribution in a communications network: Systems and methods for implementing telecommunications systems and services are provided. More specifically, embodiments relate to systems and methods for distributing traffic within a telecommunications network. According to various embodiments, systems and methods for establishing a communication session are described which provide for determining information descriptive of an originator of... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070153816 - Methods and apparatus for characterizing a route in a fibre channel fabric: A fibre channel frame is received at a first fibre channel switch. The fibre channel frame includes time stamp information associated with fibre channel switches between a second fibre channel switch and the first fibre channel switch. A time-to-live (TTL) value included in the fibre channel frame is determined. The... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070153817 - Interleaved and directional wireless mesh network: A directional and interleaved wireless mesh network is described where mesh nodes have directional antennas facing in horizontally orthogonal directions. The antennas can be focused to have a beam width of less than ninety degrees in order to achieve greater strength of signal and radiation. Each mesh node can have... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070153819 - Methods and apparatus for reorganizing cells buffered after transmission: A method and apparatus of reorganizing cells received over data communication lines at a receive node is provided. The cells have an initial order identified by monotonically increasing sequence identifiers. The receive node has buffers associated with respective ones of the communication lines. Each of the buffers has an output... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070153818 - On-device packet descriptor cache: In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides in response to receiving a packet at a packet processing device having a memory (“on-device memory”), storing the packet at a location in a memory not on the packet processing device (“off-device memory”); creating a packet descriptor... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070153820 - Methods and apparatus for efficient ip multicasting in a content-based network: Methods and apparatus for assigning physical channels in a content-based network. In an exemplary embodiment, the network comprises a cable television network having a plurality of cable modems, and the physical channels are assigned to the cable modems based at least in part on any multicast transmissions that may exist... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20070153821 - Scalable router-switch: A scalable router-switch that grows from a capacity of a few gigabits per second to hundreds of terabits per second is disclosed. In one embodiment, the router-switch comprises a plurality of switch units arranged in a plurality of combinations. Within each combination, each switch unit cyclically connects to each other... Agent: Maged E. Beshai

20070153822 - Media access control device for high efficiency ethernet backplane: A improved Media Access Control (MAC) module specification is presented. The MAC module specification includes configurable support for: a reduced minimum packet size, a reduced inter-frame-gap size, a reduced preamble, receive and transmit clock generation. Benefits may be derived from protocol overhead reductions. Processors adhering to the improved MAC module... Agent: Laubscher & Laubscher, P.C.

20070153823 - Small form factor, pluggable onu: The present invention provides a small form factor, pluggable ONU, which includes a bi-directional optical transceiver configured to transmit optical signals to and receive optical signals from an OLT. The ONU further includes an ONU chip coupled to the optical transceiver and configured to communicate with the OLT. Also included... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070153825 - Streaming service providing method adaptive to dynamic network changes: A streaming service providing method adaptive to dynamic network changes is provided. The streaming service providing method includes requesting a quality of service (QoS) adapter to provide adaptive services if a QoS manager, which allocates network resources among QoS devices processing media streams, does not accept a request to provide... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070153824 - Uniform corporate client (ucc) usage model: A system board is to be designed as a standardized system board so that it can be used either in a mobile computer system or in a non-mobile computer system. In some embodiments, the system board may be fundamentally designed for the mobile computer system. Some reconfiguration may be performed... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070153826 - Method and apparatus for international media content delivery: A system captures media programs at a source location, converts them into a different format, and transmits them to an intermediate location. The programs are re-transmitted to a destination location, where they are converted into another format and output.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070153827 - Method for providing video and audio data to a plurality of clients: Provided is a method for controlling a video server providing video and audio data to a plurality of clients via a communication network in real time. Analog audio signals and analog video signals are respectively converted into digital audio data and digital video data. The digital audio data and digital... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070153828 - System and method to negotiate the addition or deletion of a ppp link without data loss: A method and apparatus for managing point-to-point protocol (PPP) links between a first endpoint and a second endpoint. The method may, when opening a link, receive an acknowledgement at the first endpoint from the second endpoint, open the receive portion of the link at the first endpoint, send a response... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070153829 - Wireless communication network, air interface and method for mapping user traffic: An air interface (1) according to IEEE 802.16 standard is characterized in that packet classification rules provided in a convergence sub layer (3) for mapping user traffic received at said air interface (1) in form of packets to a predefined connection comprise a generic classification rule with a user-defined value... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070153830 - Methods and apparatus to provide fairness for wireless local area networks that use extended physical layer protection mechanisms: Methods and apparatus to provide fairness for wireless local area networks that use extended physical layer (a.k.a. PHY) protection mechanisms are disclosed. A disclosed example method comprises choosing a length field value for a frame header such that, when a transmit operation is ended, a legacy wireless station and a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070153831 - Information transparent adaptation function for packet based network connections: In one embodiment, a rate adaptation device comprises one or more input/output (I/O) ports coupled to a first network operating at a first data transmission rate, a first physical coding sublayer (PCS) receiver to receive a stream of PCS blocks from the first network, an idle symbol remover to remove... Agent: Caven & Aghevli LLC C/o Portfolioip

20070153832 - Methods, systems, and products for condensing messages: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for condensing a message. The message is processed, and a portion of a header is removed. The removed portion is stored in memory. A reference is inserted into the header, and the reference references the stored portion. Because the reference replaces the removed portion,... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070153833 - Decoding apparatus and method of terminal in wireless communication system: A decoding apparatus and method of a terminal in a wireless communication system are provided. A carrier to interference and noise ratio (CINR) estimator estimates a CINR value of a received signal, and a controller generates a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) level candidate set satisfying the estimated CINR value... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070153834 - Method for allocating time-frequency resources in a communication system: A method for allocating time-frequency resources in a communication system is disclosed in an embodiment of the present invention. The method includes: configuring at least one time-frequency pattern for allocating time-frequency resources in a communication system; extracting segment time-frequency patterns from the time-frequency pattern by a cyclic slide window with... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070153835 - Providing high data rates in dsl systems connected by multiple pairs of wires: Providing high data rates in DSL systems connected by multiple pairs of wires. Data is transferred between user equipment at a customer premises and a central office using multiple pairs of wires, with one pair used for sending data in one direction and another pair used for sending data in... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070153836 - Telephone system having multiple distinct sources and accessories therefor: In conjunction with a data communication network carrying multiple telephony signals and allowing for connection of telephone sets, a system and method in which two external feeders connect to the data network at two distinct points via two distinct devices. The data network can be based on dedicated wiring or... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070153837 - Device, system and method of frequency tracking for clock and data recovery: Embodiments of the invention provide devices, systems and methods of frequency tracking, e.g., for clock and data recovery. For example, a device according to embodiments of the invention includes a frequency tracker to correct a frequency offset of a received signal in response to an overflow signal of a variable-step... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070153838 - Subframe interleaving: Included are embodiments for subframe interleaving. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving at least one subframe, the at least one subframe being derived from a plurality of frames of data and interspersing at least a portion of the at least one subframe according to a predetermined subframe... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP