Multiplex communications inventions 08/07

20070201345 - Distributed control of carrier frequency in multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication: A bidirectional communication system is provided. The system includes a first remote unit for communicating with a host unit using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, the host unit communicatively coupled to a plurality of remote units in a multipoint-to-point configuration. The first remote unit is configured to transmit up to a... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070201346 - Multipoint-to-point communication using orthgonal frequency division multiplexing and identification codes: Systems for multipoint-to-point communication using orthgonal frequency division multiplexing and identification codes are provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises: a host unit; and a plurality of remote units using a multiple access scheme to communicate at the same time with the host unit using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM);... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070201347 - Use of guard bands in multipoint-to-point orthgonal frequency division multiplexing communication: Systems for use of guard bands in multipoint-to-point orthgonal frequency division multiplexing communication are provided. In one embodiment, an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system comprises: a host unit; a plurality of remote units using a multiple access scheme to communicate at the same time with the host unit using... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070201344 - Wireless communication apparatus and method: A wireless communication apparatus that transmits and receives an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signal to communicate with a communication counterpart, the wireless communication apparatus including measurement means for measuring the signal level of each subcarrier of the reception signal received from the communication counterpart, calculation means for calculating a predicted... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070201348 - Use of identifier of remote unit for downstream signals: Systems and methods for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing multipoint-to-point communications systems are provided. In one embodiment, a method comprises: establishing communication between a first remote unit of a plurality of remote units and a host unit, the plurality of remote units communicatively coupled to the host unit in a multipoint-to-point... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070201350 - Methods for improving transmission efficiency of control channels in communication systems: Embodiments of the invention provide methods for optimizing the spectral efficiency of control channel transmissions carrying scheduling assignments from a serving Node B to user equipments. This is accomplished through the selection of the modulation and coding scheme with the highest spectral efficiency that can support transmission of a scheduling... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070201352 - Ranging and round trip delay timing adjustment in a multi-point to point bidirectional communication system: A bidirectional communication system is provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises a plurality of remote units; a multipoint-to-point host unit communicatively coupled with a plurality of remote units in a multi-point to point configuration, the multipoint-to-point host unit including a multi-carrier modem configured to communicate with the plurality of... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070201349 - Synchronization for ofdm signals: A method of acquiring, at a receiver, fine timing synchronization for an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal as transported over a channel, includes determining an impulse response of the channel; dynamically creating a window function corresponding to the impulse response; and selecting a multiplicity of samples of the OFDM... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20070201351 - Wireless communication method using ofdm and ofdm transmitter and receiver thereof: A wireless communication method includes generating and transmitting an OFDM signal containing a first OFDM symbol possessing a first transmitting pilot signal and a second transmitting pilot signal respectively allocated to a first subcarrier and a second subcarrier being symmetric with respect to a center frequency on a frequency axis,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070201353 - Computational circuits and methods for processing modulated signals having non-constant envelopes: Circuits and methods are provided for use in a wireline or wireless transmitter to complement the digital generation of non-constant envelope modulation signals therein. A digital signal processor is configured for deconstructing a predetermined signal having an undesirable property into one or more fragment signals which do not have the... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070201354 - Method and apparatus of the variable points ifft/fft: Provided are a method and apparatus for performing a variable point Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT)/Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). The apparatus for performing a variable point IFFT includes: an IFFT interpolator generating interpolation data signals having a determined point and interpolating a plurality of interpolation data, the number of which... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070201355 - Method and apparatus for determining a preferred backup tunnel to protect point-to-multipoint label switch paths: A method, apparatus and computer program product for determining a preferred backup path to protect a point-to-multipoint label switching path is presented. A point-to-multipoint backup path is computed for each node located upstream from a branching node, the backup path originating at the node and including a set of nodes... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070201356 - Method and apparatus for transparent communication between a fibre channel network and an infiniband network: A system and method for providing transparent communications between an Infiniband (IB) network and a Fibre Channel (FC) network are disclosed. One method comprises: (a) detecting FC node ports in the FC network; (b) creating virtual IB targets for each FC node port in the FC network; and (c) converting... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20070201357 - Control plane security and traffic flow management: An internetworking device that provides improved immunity to Denial of Service attacks, and in general, improved Quality of Service (QoS). An internetworking element or other route processor is composed of two main parts, including a data forwarding plane and a control plane; the control plane runs routing, signaling and control... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070201362 - Increasing bandwidth in a downhole network: A system, apparatus and method to increase bandwidth in a physically segmented downhole network are described herein.... Agent: Jeffrey E. Daly Intelliserv, Inc

20070201361 - method and apparatus for selecting a communication system based on a utilization analysis: A virtual operator and method for rating a charge for connecting to a network from a virtual operator and facilitating analysis of profitability of using a network. The virtual operator receives a Charge Detail Record in real time from a network the virtual operator is using for a service. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070201358 - Communication system, network system, information controller and terminal equipment: In a communication system and an information controller terminal equipment of a user, that is to say, a receiver of information is specified in a server side. And in a network system, a terminal equipment and a network server a position of a user is specified in a server side.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070201363 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus configured to make a transition to one of a plurality of modes each defining processing to be executed and execute the one of a plurality of modes to which a transition has been made, which may include first selection means; second selection means;... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070201360 - Network switch: A network switch includes a media access controller (MAC) coupled to a plurality of ports, a receiver coupled to the MAC, and packet queuing control (PQC) coupled to the receiver. The PQC is configured to maintain a count of the number of receive packets stored in the receiver in each... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP Suite 3250

20070201359 - Traffic information aggregating apparatus: Provided is a network system including a traffic information aggregating apparatus connected to a router for transferring data in a network, and a monitor server connected to the traffic information aggregating apparatus. In the network system, the traffic information aggregating apparatus receives traffic information from the router, assigns an aggregation... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070201364 - Wireless communication apparatus: A wireless communication apparatus is disclosed. A transmitting device transmits a first aggregation frame in which first transmission data frames are aggregated. A measuring device measures a number value of retransmission of each of the first transmission data frames. A storage stores a limiting value of the number value of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070201365 - Video packet multiplexer with intelligent packet discard: A IP video delivery system (10) includes a multiplexer (30) for transmitting multiple data streams of packets over link (31) to a site having one or more receivers (22). During times of congestion, the multiplexer will discard packets from its internal queues. Packets are intelligently chosen to minimize the effects... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070201368 - Telecommunications control apparatus and a method for determining a communicating node with electric power interference taken into account: A telecommunications control apparatus is included in each of a plurality of nodes constituting a telecommunications system and includes a reception power decider for determining the reception power value of a control signal received from another node. A control signal decider decides, in accordance with the reception power value of... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070201369 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product providing threshold-based buffer state reports from user equipment to a wireless network: Methods, apparatus and computer program products are provided. A method includes: providing at least one logical channel flow, wherein each logical channel flow of the at least one logical channel flow has an associated traffic priority; grouping the at least one logical channel flow by the associated traffic priority to... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070201367 - System and method for interworking h.323 flow control with sip: A system and method are provided for controlling a transfer rate between a first endpoint and a second endpoint, wherein the first endpoint implements a first protocol and the second endpoint implements a second protocol. The system and method may comprise elements for receiving a first control message from the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070201366 - System and method of dynamic qos negotiation in next generation network: The present invention discloses a system and a method of dynamic QoS negotiation in NGN. The Resource and Admission Control Subsystem (RACS) provides intercommunication interfaces with Transport functional (TF) entity, Service Control Functional (SCF) entities, and Network Attachment Subsystem (NASS), and thereby, when a user terminal in NGN is to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070201370 - Mac performance of a mesh network using both sender-based and receiver-based scheduling: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate determining when and whether to implement a sender-based data packet scheduling mechanism or a receiver-based data packet scheduling mechanism based on one or mode scheduling factors. For example, a sending node and a receiving node may communicate to permit a determination of which... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070201371 - Congestion adaptive network data routing: Congestion adaptive data routing is leveraged to provide a substantial increase in data throughput in networks with data congestion. By continuously adapting the data routes when a congested route is encountered, the data can reach its destination via alternate routes around the congested area. This is accomplished in a distributed... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070201372 - Automated switching for executing tests involving electronic devices: An automated switching system that enables a tester to establish different connections between multiple electronic devices is provided. The system includes a switching module that connects to the electronic devices. The switching module may be controlled to automatically couple the electronic devices to the testing device in different configurations. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070201373 - Portable interactive apparatus and method for providing service information: A portable apparatus and methods for demonstrating and/or providing service information of an apparatus, such a displaying a movie demonstrating a service procedure and providing access to other associative type information of the apparatus and/or service procedure such as parts information and/or another movie demonstrating a service procedure of an... Agent: Frank John Williams

20070201374 - Method and node equipment for guaranteeing service reliability in an end-to-end quality of service framework: A method for guaranteeing service reliability in an end-to-end Quality of Service framework, including: checking whether connection information held in all node equipment gone through by a session connection is consistent; if it is, finishing the consistency check; otherwise, releasing the inconsistent connection information from the node equipment. In this... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070201379 - Global switch resource manager: An apparatus having corresponding methods and computer programs comprises: a plurality of resources to process packets of data in a plurality of data streams each comprising a plurality of the packets of data, wherein at least one of the data streams has at least one performance requirement; a memory to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070201376 - Apparatus and methods for group communications: The disclosed embodiments provide apparatus and methods for establishing a group communications session with selected ones of a plurality of communications devices that define a call group. The apparatus includes a dispatch module operable to receive event information and communication device information associated with each of the plurality of communications... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070201377 - Backoff control for access probe transmission in communication systems: Systems and methods for improving latency in a communication system are disclosed. A random backoff time can be determined and the transmission of an initial access probe can be delayed for the random backoff time. A backoff interval can be determined based on channel load, wherein the backoff interval defines... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070201375 - Method and apparatus for provisioning a network: A method or corresponding apparatus provisions a network to support “open bandwidth” (openBW) Label Switched Paths (LSPs) that are define by a zero (0 Mbps) or substantially small bandwidth and enabled to burst up to a line rate of a communications path across which the LSP traverses.... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070201378 - Method, mobile terminal, system and computer program product for real time content attributing: A method of providing content attributing during an ongoing conversation includes receiving an assignment of an attribute to a selected portion of content from the ongoing conversation, and asynchronously delivering the selected portion to selected recipients based on the attribute.... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070201385 - Apparatus, method, and computer product for topology-information collection: A network managing apparatus detects a router capable of using Telnet from among nodes in a network and causes that router to send a broadcast ping to other nodes. Each node in the network returns a ping reply to the router. The ping and the ping reply pass through a... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070201383 - Discovery of physically adjacent neighbor devices using a unidirectional in-band process coupled with an out-of-band follow-up process: Equipment generates a discovery message containing its address/node identification (ID) and/or other information. Adjacent equipment (e.g., physically adjacent equipment) monitors control overhead bytes (section trace (J0) bytes, Data Communication Channel (DCC) control overhead, General Communication Channel (GCC) control overhead, etc.) for this message, but does not generate a corresponding response... Agent: Clements Walker

20070201382 - Method and apparatus for omniscient root node selection in an ad hoc network: Techniques are provided for selecting a root node in an ad hoc network comprising a plurality of nodes including a first node. According to one implementation of these techniques, a first node can receive a message from at least one of the other nodes. Each message includes a number of... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070201381 - Method and apparatus for root node selection in an ad hoc network: Techniques are provided for selecting a root node in an ad hoc network comprising a plurality of nodes including a first node. According to one implementation of these techniques, a first node can receive a message from at least one of the other nodes. Each message includes a number of... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070201380 - Method and system for power-efficient adaptive link aggregation: A method for power-efficient configuration of one or more physical ports at a network device in an EtherChannel is provided. Parameters for allocation of the physical ports to a logical port are negotiated with a link partner. Thereafter, bandwidth load at the logical port is compared with the parameter. The... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070201384 - Network explorer: A graphical user interface integrates into a single view multiple network devices discovered over a plurality of network protocols. The graphical user interface provides an intuitive user interface to indicate to a user the existence of all potential resources as defined by a network profile, the characteristics and properties of... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070201386 - Testing a station's response to non-compliant wireless communication: A controllable and/or configurable device that communicates wirelessly with a station may be used to test the station. For example, the device may be configured to communicate in multiple different wireless communication modes. As another example, the device may be controlled to engage in wireless communications that do not comply... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070201387 - Information processing device, communication load distribution method: A node according to the present invention, in a node which is to be instructed by a master node and communicates with an electronic device, performs an activation query notification to the master node. If it is determined that a response from the master node has not been made, the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070201388 - Methods and systems for resizing multimedia content based on quality and rate information: In general, this disclosure describes techniques for exchanging information between a plurality of encoder modules and a multiplex module to combine segments of data from the encoder modules with an improved overall quality. In particular, the encoder modules associate their respective segments of data with quality and rate information and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070201389 - Printing apparatus and method of connecting same: A communication apparatus capable of being connected to another communication apparatus generates temporary connection information used in making a wireless connection. The apparatus presents this temporary connection information and makes a wireless connection to another communication apparatus based upon this temporary connection information.... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070201390 - Apparatus and method for converting mac frame in broadband wireless access (bwa) system: An apparatus and method for converting a Media Access Control (MAC) frame in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system. The apparatus includes a receiver for receiving an Ethernet MAC frame; a path searcher for extracting a MAC Service Data Unit (SDU) from the Ethernet MAC frame, checking a destination Internet... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070201391 - Method and system of managing emergency alarms in a wireless communications system: A system for managing emergency alarm messages in a wireless communications system is disclosed. A first subscriber is assigned an emergency alarm responder role to send an acknowledgement message and present information from a received emergency alarm message to a user of the first subscriber, when the first subscriber receives... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070201392 - System and method for managing communication routing within a wireless multi-hop network: A system and method of operation for managing communication routing from a subscriber station to a base station is provided. The method includes establishing a communication link between the subscriber station and the base station; determining a base station signal quality and a base station timing offset from the subscriber... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070201394 - Method for selecting communication network by wireless terminal: Disclosed is a method for selecting a communication network by a wireless terminal, the method including receiving a signal having a predetermined reception power level from one or more communication networks, and calculating a guaranteed data rate of each of said one or more communication networks by using the predetermined... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070201393 - Regulation of transmission power within a wireless network: A method of optimizing link transmission parameters between access nodes within a mesh network is disclosed. The method includes each access node within the mesh transmitting packets at N different combinations of data rates and power levels. Each receiving node that receives the data packets at one or more of... Agent: Tropos Networks

20070201395 - User equipment identification specific scrambling: A base station for use in a code division multiple access communication system comprises circuitry configured to process a user equipment identification (UE ID) by ½ rate convolutionally encoding the UE ID to produce a code. The code is used by the base station for scrambling a high speed shared... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070201396 - Allocation of resources in packet-switched data transfer: The disclosed embodiments relate to a method for arranging the transfer of packets between a wireless data transfer device (MS) and a mobile communication network (NW). For transferring packets between the wireless data transfer device (MS) and the mobile communication network (NW), temporary block flows (UL TBF, DL TBF) are... Agent: Perman & Green

20070201401 - Broadcast/multicast data in a wireless network: A method, apparatus and computer program product for transmitting broadcast/multicast data in a wireless network, is presented. The network includes either a plurality of multi-radio nodes, or a plurality of single-radio nodes, or a mix of multi-radio and single-radio nodes and the network further includes a control channel and at... Agent: Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070201398 - Method and apparatus for wireless resource allocation: Techniques are provided to assign radio resources with one of two or more types of assignments on a frame-by-frame basis. The first type of assignment uses subcarriers that are contiguous in both time and frequency, and the second type of assignment uses subcarriers that are disjoint and equally-spaced in frequency.... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

20070201399 - Method for uplink bandwidth request and allocation in wireless communication system: Disclosed is a method for requesting allocation of uplink bandwidth for uplink data transmission and allocating the uplink bandwidth in a wireless communication system. In the method, when a number of uplink bandwidth allocation requests having occurred in a certain interval is different from that of scheduled uplink bandwidth allocation... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070201400 - Opportunistic packet scheduling apparatus and method in multihop relay wireless access communication system: Opportunistic packet scheduling apparatus and method in a multihop relay wireless access communication system are provided. The method includes aggregating channel condition information which are estimated and reported by Mobile Stations (MSs) and a Relay Station (RS) for each MS path in a cell, determining a Modulation and Coding Scheme... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070201397 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for selecting between transmission of short-version and full-version uplink scheduling requests: In a wireless communication system including a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and a Node-B, an uplink (UL) scheduling request is transmitted by the WTRU to the Node-B when the WTRU has buffered (user) data to transmit to the Node-B, but needs to have a scheduling grant for UL data transmission.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070201402 - Method and system for generating switching timing signal for separating transmitting and receiving signal in rf repeater of mobile telecommunication network using tdd and ofdm modulation: Disclosed are a method and system for generating switching a timing signal for separating a transmitting and receiving signal in a RF repeater of a mobile telecommunication network by using a TDD scheme and an OFDM modulation scheme, which transmits a part of a RF signal extracted from a coupler... Agent: Anderson, Kill & Olick, P.C.

20070201403 - Apparatus, system and method for transferring an active call between wireless communication networks: An active voice call with an access terminal is transferred from an originating wireless network to a destination wireless network in response to a call continuation message transmitted by the access terminal to a destination network switch of the destination wireless network. The call continuation message includes a connected number... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070201404 - Method and system for allocating resources in a communication system: Provided are a system and a method for allocating resources in a communication system. The method includes mapping a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) class according to channel information transmitted from a mobile station and service class information of the mobile station; and allocating resources by dynamically configuring a frame based... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070201408 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing a transport format that is compatible with another transport format that uses spreading codes: Either a first transport format or a second transport format is selected to transmit information corresponding to an input symbol sequence. The transport formats fit information into a timeslot having a predetermined duration. Based upon the selected transport format, either the information is created from the input symbol sequence using... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070201406 - Method and apparatus for multiplexing multiple reverse feedback channels in multi-carrier wireless networks: A method and apparatus is provided for multiplexing multiple Reverse feedback Channels in integrated multi-carrier systems in multi-carrier wireless networks. Assignment of a MAC Index for Reverse Link feedback channels to any Forward Link carrier using the Traffic Channel Assignment (TCA) message is facilitated.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070201407 - Power control and handoff with power control commands and erasure indications: Techniques for performing power control and handoff are described. In an aspect, power control (PC) is supported with multiple PC modes such as an up-down PC mode and an erasure-based PC mode. One PC mode may be selected for use. Signaling may be sent to indicate the selected PC mode.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070201405 - Power control in communication systems: Systems and methods for estimating transmit power in a communication system are disclosed. An estimate of a reverse channel condition is based on a received signal from an access point. A correction factor is determined based on at least one of the number of access points detected, a Rise-over-Thermal (RoT)... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070201417 - Methods and apparatus for simplified setup of centralized wlan switching: A wireless data communication system includes an access port configured to wirelessly communicate with a plurality of mobile units within multiple basic service sets (BSS), and a wireless switch having multiple predefined wireless local area networks (WLANs). The wireless switch is configured to automatically map the WLANs to the basic... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070201412 - Protocol for improved utilization of a wireless network using interference estimation: Disclosed is a protocol used by wireless stations sharing a single wireless channel. When a local station senses a communication between remote stations using the channel, the local station estimates whether its local transmissions would disrupt this on-going remote communication. To estimate, the local station forms capture models of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070201411 - Line of sight determination between nodes of a wireless network: A method and apparatus for determining line of sight between nodes of a wireless network is disclosed. The method includes identifying line-of-sight links between nodes within the wireless mesh network, and communicating the line-of-sight links between nodes to the system operator, allowing the system operator to selectively replace non-line-of-sight technology... Agent: Tropos Network Patent Dept

20070201421 - Method and apparatus for location estimation: In one embodiment, a method of estimating location of a mobile beaconing device within a building includes steps: concurrently transmitting from the beaconing device at least first and second signals, which respectively indicates at least first and second transmit power levels thereof; receiving the at least first and second signals... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070201409 - Method and apparatus for providing quality of service to voip over 802.11 wireless lans: The present invention provides a method and system for providing quality-of-service to VoIP over a wireless local access network by providing periodic, contention-free access to a wireless link for voice packets. This is achieved by coupling Session Initiation Protocol (“SIP”) signaling for call setup with the Point Coordination Function mode... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070201413 - Method and system to enhance energy savings in multicast transmissions in wlan: A new and unique method and apparatus are provided for communicating information between two nodes, points or terminals in a wireless local area network (WLAN) environment or other suitable network environment, featuring one or more steps for creating an association between multicast transmission scheduling and multicast internet protocol (IP) and... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070201416 - Methods and apparatus for a self-healing wlan: A wireless access port within a WLAN is capable of self-healing by re-performing auto-channel selection (e.g., auto-channel selection in accordance with the 802.11 family of standards) if particular conditions are met, wherein the conditions are indicative of a signal degradation between a mobile unit and the access port. Auto-channel selection... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070201415 - Methods and apparatus for cluster licensing in wireless switch architecture: Wireless switch licenses are assigned on a cluster basis rather than being limited to individual switches. A switch cluster is made up of two or more wireless switches that each having an assigned number of licenses. Each of the wireless switches is configured to establish the switch cluster with the... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070201418 - Mobile terminal device, control method, and mobile communication system: A mobile terminal device that forms an adhoc network comprises a clustering section that identifies the ID and state of a mobile terminal device that is adjacent to the mobile terminal device itself by exchanging a Hello packet (containing the ID and state of the mobile terminal device itself) with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070201419 - System and method for saving power in a wireless network by reducing power to a wireless station for a time interval if a received packet fails an integrity check: A method, an apparatus and a carrier medium storing instructions to implement the method. The method is in a first wireless station of a wireless network, and includes wirelessly receiving a signal corresponding to a packet wirelessly transmitted by a second wireless station. The packet includes a subpacket and a... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070201420 - Systems and methods for reducing communication unit scan time in wireless networks: A communication unit operates in a wireless-networking environment and maintains a mapping for active channels and associated network identifiers. The communication unit may associate with a wireless network using the mapping for one or more of the active channels having a selected network identifier. For associations and reassociations with wireless... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070201410 - Techniques to enable direct link discovery in a wireless local area network: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a wireless station operable in a wireless local area network, the wireless station capable of automatic discovery of other stations in a basic service set (BSS) which are capable of supporting direct link setup (DLS).... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070201414 - Testing a station's response to wireless communication in different modes: A controllable and/or configurable device that communicates wirelessly with a station may be used to test the station. For example, the device may be configured to communicate in multiple different wireless communication modes. As another example, the device may be controlled to engage in wireless communications that do not comply... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070201422 - Method and apparatus for dual frequency timing acquisition for compressed wcdma communication networks: Methods and systems for dual frequency timing acquisition for compressed WCDMA communication networks may include processing received WCDMA signals. The WCDMA signals, which may be primary synchronization channel signals, may comprise signals transmitted by one base station at one frequency band and by another base station at a different frequency... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070201423 - Methods and apparatus relating to timing and/or synchronization including the use of wireless terminals beacon signals: Wireless terminal beacon signaling is used to achieve timing synchronization between two wireless terminals in a wireless communication system, e.g., in an ad hoc network lacking a centralized timing reference. An exemplary timing structure used by an individual wireless terminal includes a beacon transmission time interval, a beacon monitoring time... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070201424 - Secure communication system: A reception part receives RLC-PDU from an RLC processing part to extract information to be used for determining whether security is required. This information is sent to a security management part, which determines whether security is required. Data outputted from the reception part is stored into a data buffer via... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070201426 - Network switching device: A method of controlling a network switching device is provided. Perform a mode-process including setting the determination-operation mode of a target switching block to a determination-operation mode that is different from the determination-operation mode of the first switching block while the first switching block is handling the switching-determination process. The... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070201427 - Apparatus and method for setting multi-path: A method and apparatus is provided for setting multiple paths between wireless nodes of an ad-hoc network including a source node, a relay node and a destination node that receives a message from the source node via the relay node. The multi-path setting method and apparatus includes receiving previous hop... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070201425 - Method of selecting operational parameters in a communication network: The present invention provides a method of selecting operational parameters of a communication network. The method is characterised by searching the operational parameter space using a multiple objective simulated annealing (MOSA) process, wherein the objectives are based upon performance indicators (PIs) of the communication network. Moreover, the MOSA process generates... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070201428 - Mobile communication terminal and route selection method: A mobile communication terminal communicates with a base station of an infrastructure network via any one of a single-hop route, and a multi-hop route using other terminals. The mobile communication includes an application processor and an access route selector. The application processor is configured to process an application involving communications... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070201431 - Wireless communication device and method for processing voice over internet protocol signals thereof: A wireless communication device (10) for processing Voice over Internet Protocol signals includes an encoding and decoding module (30), a central processing unit (CPU) (20), a digital signal processor (DSP) (40), and a wireless communication module (50). The CPU communicates with the encoding and decoding module for controlling signal flows... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070201436 - Call setup method for minimizing call setup delay in mobile telecommunications system and apparatus thereof: A call setup method and apparatus for minimizing call setup delay by a UE in a mobile telecommunications system are provided. The method includes the steps of: if call setup for a packet call service is requested, determining by the UE if the requested service is a predetermined service sensitive... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070201430 - Implicit secondary pdp context activation method: Several different methods are described herein for reducing the setup time needed to establish a media flow (e.g., packet-based voice communications) between two devices (e.g., two GPRS UEs, GPRS UE/server, GPRS UE/WLAN UE). In one embodiment, the method minimizes the setup time for establishing IMS telephony using pre-provisioned resources—reserve at... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070201438 - Joint ofdm and mc-cdma transmission and fast cell switching for circuit switching traffic: A method and apparatus for transmission to support various QoS requirements and various channel conditions is provided. By staggering the transmission of data sub packets and partitioning discrete tones used for transmission, a plurality of users may be provided with a plurality of multiple access techniques.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070201433 - Method and apparatus for providing e911 services via network announcements: A method and apparatus for providing emergency services, e.g., E911 services, for nomadic users by utilizing network announcements to remind customers to update location information used to provide services on packet networks, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Service over Internet Protocol (SoIP) networks, are disclosed. For example,... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070201429 - Method for billing a service in a packet data network: The invention relates to a method for billing a service in a packet data network (PDN). According to said method, at least one type of billing is associated with at least one service that can be used by a user, and data representing the type and use of the service,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070201437 - Method of transmitting at least one sub-packet based on feedback information in a wireless communication system: A method of transmitting subsequent sub-packets in a wireless communication system using a hybrid automatic request (HARQ) technique is disclosed. The method includes receiving feedback information from at least one receiving end, transmitting a transmit packet via at least one overhead channel, wherein the transmit packet includes information on carrier... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070201439 - Miscellaneous improvements on the hrpd system: Mechanisms for improving the proposed high rate packet data (HRPD) system are provided. Approaches proposed are including PilotGroupID in the sector parameter message to convey the pilot group information, encoding to enable shortened NeighborList messages, improvements on RoutUpdateRequest message for request updates on multiple carriers, inclusive of the channel record... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070201434 - Storage system having a channel control function using a plurality of processors: In order to efficiently utilize processor resources, a storage system according to this invention includes: a protocol processor; a processor; a local router; a first memory; and a disk drive. In the storage system, the protocol processor transmits, upon transmitting a frame to the host computer, information on a transmission... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070201435 - Transmission of video over ip: A method of handling video signals by a gateway. The method includes determining, by the gateway, that a circuit switched channel carries video signals, receiving, by the gateway, a signal stream from the circuit switched channel determined to carry video signals, placing the signals of the received signal stream in... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20070201432 - Voice gateway for multiple voice communication network: A method and system for providing seamless mobility. The seamless mobility system includes a computer having at least a dial up modem and an Internet access port. The dial up modem is coupled to a first telephone network and the Internet access port is coupled to a high-speed Internet access... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070201453 - Remote access to a computer telephony system: A method of accessing a plurality of features of a second telecommunication system from a first telecommunication system includes receiving a telephone call on the second telecommunication system from a first device having a first telephone number and determining whether the first telephone number is a stored authorized number. The... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070201454 - System and method for recording calls in an ip-based communications system: A software solution to recording IP based communications that is highly scalable and reliable. Recordings can be configured to occur automatically or be triggered on-demand by a user that has been given the rights to do so. The user initiating the on-demand recording need not be a participant on the... Agent: Milton S. Gerstein Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament&rubenstein,pc

20070201447 - Authentication tokens for voice over internet protocol (voip) calling, and voip devices, methods and computer program products using same: Setup of a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call is initiated and an authentication token is received for the VoIP call that is set up, that indicates that the VoIP call is authorized. The authentication token is inserted into packets for the VoIP call. The packets, including the authentication token... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070201456 - Auto block and auto discovery in a distributed communication system: A voicemail system enabling various components of the voicemail system to be distributed geographically yet operate as a seamlessly integrated system is disclosed. A signal gateway interfaces with a telephone network. In addition, one or more media servers interface with the signal gateway as well as the telephone network. The... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070201444 - Digital telephone data and control signal transmission system: Techniques are disclosed for using Ethernet Layer 1 as a means for transporting audio, control, and status signals between telephones and an aggregator device in a telephone system. Techniques are also disclosed for using the aggregator to determine whether a telephone supports only Ethernet Layer 1, and for using the... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20070201455 - Head office and plurality of branches connected via a network: In one aspect, a method of sending traffic in a telecommunications network is provided. The telecommunications network includes a first branch network, a second branch network, intermediate system, and a head office network having a server. The first and second branch networks communicatively connected to the head network via the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070201440 - Improved voic-over-internet-protocol method: A method of transporting Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol Packets in a wireless mesh network wherein VoIP packets from independent call flows are aggregated prior to transmission over multiple hops of the wireless network. Significant performance improvements are realized including the number of simultaneous VoIP calls supported and overall Quality-of-Service (QoS) for the individual... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC

20070201449 - Method and system for providing communication protocol interoperability: A method for providing communication protocol interoperability may include receiving a request from a first endpoint to establish a communication session with a second endpoint, the request uses a first communication protocol. The method also includes receiving a first response from the second endpoint, the first response uses a second... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070201445 - Methods and apparatus to limit ring trees in voice over internet protocol networks: Methods and apparatus to limit ring trees in voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) networks are disclosed. A disclosed example parallel ring policy enforcer comprises a memory to hold parallel ring tree information and a policy checker to enforce a parallel ring policy based on a parallel ring request and the... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070201450 - Network adapter: The claimed invention consists of integrating a wireless client with a network adapter in a single device which allows a telephone to connect to a network access point for the purpose of establishing Voice over IP (VoIP) calls. The user can attach his telephone to the network adapter and place... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP Attn:IPDocketing Dept.

20070201442 - Schema-based portal architecture for assessment and integration of silicon ips: Systems, methods, and media for a schema-based portal for assessment and integration of silicon IPs are disclosed. Embodiments may generally include an IP portal system having a portal interface to receive inputs from users and to provide output to users and a database interface to transmit and receive information to... Agent: Ibm Coporation (rtp) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070201451 - Service exchange in a voip to telephony bridging network: An infrastructure that supports both Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony via the Internet and Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) telephony via the PSTN. A plurality of client telephony bridging devices communicatively couple to both the Internet and to the PSTN and are operable to bridge calls between the Internet... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070201448 - System and method for consolidating media signaling to facilitate internet protocol (ip) telephony: A system and method for consolidating media signaling to facilitate IP telephony includes receiving a first message exchange in a first protocol from a first endpoint to negotiate a media path with a second endpoint. It is determined to consolidate the first message exchange with additional message exchanges received from... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070201441 - System and method for effecutating a sip call in a network environment including ims: In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for routing a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) call in a network environment including a circuit-switched (CS) network and an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) network. When a SIP call is originated by a user equipment (UE) device in the CS network domain, call information... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070201452 - System enabling ip (internet protocol) services for user terminal based on sip (session initiation protocol) signaling: The invention relates to a system enabling IP (internet protocol) services for user terminals based on SIP (session initiation protocol) signaling applicable in fixed and mobile terminals (1) of user (2) provided with means of access to an IP network (5) connected to an IMS network (6) communicating with other... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070201446 - Systems, methods and computer program products for dynamically allocating bandwidth of a subscriber line that carries voice over internet protocol (voip) telephone calls and internet protocol telephone (iptv) transmissions: Bandwidth of a subscriber line, such as a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), that carries Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone calls and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) transmissions is allocated. A message is sent from a VoIP call processor that is associated with the subscriber line and a video server that... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070201443 - Voip caller authentication by voice signature continuity: There are provided methods and systems for authenticating a user. A method includes receiving a voice signature certificate corresponding to a setup portion of a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call. The VoIP call further has a voice conversation portion. The voice signature certificate includes a voice signature segment. The... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20070201457 - Method and system for dynamically assigning domain identification in a multi-module fibre channel switch: A method for entering fabric configuration in a fibre channel system for a multi-module fibre channel switch is provided. The method includes determining if a primary blade has been selected for the multi-module switch; sending exchange fabric parameters to internal ports of the multi-module switch; and processing principal switch selection... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070201461 - Network switching device: A network switching device includes packet switching means and clock signal providing means. The packet switching means receive packets sent from any of the plurality of lines, determines forwarding destinations for the received packets, and forwards the received packets. The packet switching means operates synchronized with a provided clock signal.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070201463 - Data analysis apparatus and data analysis method: A unique pattern detection unit conducts a search for a unique pattern in a forward direction of a program stream, and detects a pseudo unique pattern PUP included in encoded data. A header information extraction unit sets extraction starting position information indicating a head of pseudo header information following the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070201460 - Data transmitting and receiving apparatus, data transmitting and receiving method, and computer product: In a data transmitting and receiving apparatus, payloads of packets received from the first device are accumulated in a storage unit, a designated payload volume DSPS is calculated based on DSPS=TP×(1−RR/TR), where TP is a total payload volume of a packet received at a certain time point from the first... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070201464 - Method and network element for forwarding data: In a method for forwarding data, when at least one logical port is created at a network element connected directly with a peer network element and the logical port is bound with at least two physical ports of the network element which are connected with the peer network element, determine... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070201466 - Network switch having port blocking capability: A switch is configured to block packets from being transmitted through designated ports. The switch has port bitmap generator configured to obtain a port bitmap and a table is configured to store a block mask indicating which port the packet should not be transmitted. A block mask lookup is configured... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070201465 - Prefix and ip address management scheme for router and host in network system: In a network system formed by one or a plurality of hosts having a function for accessing Internet, and a router for connecting each host and the Internet through an accessing communication path of a provider, two types of IP address including first type IP addresses and second type IP... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070201462 - Processing of forwarded in communication networks: Method and device are provided for processing a packet conveyed in a packet switched communication network. By the invention, a processing indication is associated with the packet, where the indication is adapted to provide instruction(s) for the processing of the packet, and the indication is determined in accordance with the... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070201458 - System and method for implementing acls using multiple hash-trie-key tables: A method, data processing system, and computer program product are provided for searching for access rules included in access control lists (ACLs), such as those rules used to accept or deny packets received at a router. An incoming packet that includes several fields is received. An original key is formed... Agent: Freescale - Jvl C/o Vanleeuwen & Vanleeuwen

20070201459 - System and method for providing status notification for conventional telephony devices in a session initiation protocol environment: The present invention comprises a system and method for status notification. The method comprises receiving a subscription message from a first endpoint requesting status data for a second endpoint; detecting a change in status data of the second endpoint; and notifying the first endpoint of the change in status. The... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070201467 - Multicast address signaling for power save delivery in a wireless network: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to multicast address signaling for power save delivery in a wireless network. According to an example embodiment, a wireless node may transmit a management frame (e.g., a PSMP frame) to identify a scheduled data transmission time for one or more receiver nodes in a wireless... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070201468 - Multicast group address signaling using mac header for power save delivery in a wireless network: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to multicast group address signaling using a MAC header for power save delivery in a wireless network. According to an example embodiment, a multicast management frame (e.g., a multicast 802.11n Power Save Multi Poll (PSMP) frame) may be transmitted to identify a scheduled multicast data... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070201469 - System and method for providing simultaneous handling of layer-2 and layer-3 mobility in an internet protocol network environment: An apparatus for providing mobility in an Internet protocol (IP) network environment is provided that includes a cell site element operable to receive an address resolution protocol (ARP) signal from a base station. The ARP signal is associated with a selected mobile station that can roam between networks. In response... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070201474 - Device for protection against illegal communications and network system thereof: A communication device, an illegal communication protection device, and network system for providing protection from illegal communications. A communication device is connected to a network, for receiving packets sent and received over networks, and transmitting packets based on the packet destination, includes a control unit, and a storage unit for... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070201477 - Method to optimize the data stream between a router and a multimedia unit: c

20070201475 - Packet processing system and related packet processing method: A packet processing system includes: a receiver for receiving a previous packet and a current packet through an interface; a storage device for storing the previous packet; a comparing module, coupled to the storage device and the receiver, for comparing contents of the current packet with contents of the previous... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070201472 - Prioritization within a session over internet protocol (soip) network: A method includes receiving, at a session controller, session data from a session-detail record. The session data is associated with at least a portion of a call over a Session over Internet Protocol (SoIP) network. A priority indicator associated with an Internet Protocol (IP) packet transmitted over the call is... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070201473 - Quality of service prioritization of internet protocol packets using session-aware components: A method includes receiving a first media-content packet associated with a first session within a Session over Internet Protocol (SoIP) network. The first media-content packet is associated with a quality-of-service parameter. A transmission priority value associated with the first media-content packet is identified based on a value of the quality-of-service... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070201471 - Fabric channel control apparatus and method: A method for receiving packet data at a communication channel and transmitting the packet data over serial links of the communication channel. The packet data is sliced into n-bit data portions which are concatenated with a header prior to transmitting an n-bit portion across one of the serial links of... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070201470 - Fast database migration: A system, method, and computer readable medium for fast database migration, that comprises, establishing a socket connection directly between intelligent processor unit nodes of the originating system and the terminating system, transferring home location register static data for the subscriber via the socket connection, wherein the home location register static... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070201478 - Mpoa system and its shortcut communication control method, and shortcut communication control program: An MPOA system for establishing communication by using layer 3 protocol on an ATM network, in which data about the layer 3 address of a source of data packets is added to an address resolution request packet which is transmitted in order to establish a shortcut VCC toward a destination... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070201479 - Prefix and ip address management scheme for router and host in network system: In a network system formed by one or a plurality of hosts having a function for accessing Internet, and a router for connecting each host and the Internet through an accessing communication path of a provider, two types of IP address including first type IP addresses and second type IP... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070201476 - Single stage pointer and overhead processing: A method and system for providing single stage pointer and overhead processing is disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, data including bytes of each of multiple types of overhead data is received at a logical element of a communications network. The logical element includes a labeler to... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070201481 - Multistage prioritization of packets within a session over internet protocol (soip) network: A method includes receiving, at a first endpoint, session data associated with a first Internet Protocol (IP) packet. The IP packet is associated with a session within a Session over Internet Protocol (SoIP) network and the session is associated with a call. An instruction, based on the session data, is... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070201482 - Automatic scheduling of activities between multiple participants: In one embodiment, the invention provides method, comprising: aggregating scheduling information for members of a social community to define aggregated scheduling information; discovering matches in the aggregated scheduling information; and notifying members of the social community of the matches.... Agent: Hahn And Moodley LLP

20070201480 - System and method for interworking communication protocols to provide supplementary services: In one embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided for redirecting a session established between two endpoints. In such an embodiment, the method comprises receiving a SIP request to redirect the session to a third endpoint; dissociating the two endpoints; suspending a media session between the endpoints; connecting... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070201485 - Method and communication network components for managing media signal quality: A media signal quality manager for controlling one or more parameters of a network node through which passes a media signal. The audio signal quality manager has an input for receiving information conveying a characteristic of the media signal and a processor that generates performance control information in response to... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20070201484 - Method and apparatus for providing interactive media during communication in channel-based media telecommunication protocols: A method of delivering a video ringback media stream to a first terminal includes transmitting a session signaling message from the first terminal to a ringback server, transmitting a session signaling response message from the ringback server to the first terminal, and establishing one or more channels between the ringback... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070201483 - Network name resolution into network address: A first domain name system (DNS) server of a first protocol type is requested to resolve a network name into a network address of the first protocol type. Where the network name is not resolved into a network address of the first protocol type by the first DNS server, a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070201487 - Distributed managed entities and database: A system and method for providing a technique by which currently available MCUs can handle the large amounts of information present in a large GPON network, without adding expense and complexity to the network elements. A system for managing a telecommunications network comprises a control unit controlling a plurality of... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070201486 - Gpon management system: The present invention provides the capability to manage NEs with a large number of units of equipment and facilities, by providing functions such profiling, auto-creation, link aggregation and scoping. This makes it easier for to manage GPON data, voice and video services and to support traffic protection. A method for... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070201488 - Apparatus and method for providing user datagram protocol/internet protocol-based a1 interface in a mobile communication system: A system and method for providing a UDP/IP(User Datagram Protocol/Internet Protocol)-based A1 interface in a mobile communication system are provided, in which a BSC controls an A1 interface connection by an A1 interface message using the UDP/IP as a data link layer protocol during communicating with a MSC, and the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070201489 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and system: This invention provides a technique for safely and readily managing a network device. To achieve this object, an authentication server (105) performs an authentication process by using a set of a login ID and password transmitted from a manager server apparatus (103), and transmits the authentication result to a multi-functional... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070201490 - System and method for implementing ethernet mac address translation: A method of using Ethernet MAC addresses translation scheme and encoding extra information is described herein. According to one embodiment, a process includes, maintaining a MAC (media access control) translation table (MAT) within a network element, the MAT table mapping a physical MAC address with a virtual MAC address for... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070201491 - System and method for synchronizing serial digital interfaces over packet data networks: A system for synchronizing circuit interfaces for transmitting a serial bit stream in the form of data packets over a packet data network (PDN). The system includes a transmitter side device responsible to receive the data packets via a serial interface comprising data from an input serial line according to... Agent: Edward Langer C/o Shiboleth Yisraeli Roberts Zisman & Co.

20070201492 - Compact packet based multimedia interface: A packet based display interface arranged to couple a multimedia source device to a multimedia sink device is disclosed that includes a transmitter unit coupled to the source device arranged to receive a source packet data stream in accordance with a native stream rate, a receiver unit coupled to the... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070201494 - Last leg utility grid high-speed data communication network having virtual local area network functionality: A power line based communication system includes a power line termination module, a plurality of power line gateways, and a plurality of power line nodes. The power line termination module manages data for local area networks within the power line based communication system. The plurality of power line gateways is... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20070201493 - Voip gateway apparatus, and method for controlling call-in/call-out in voip gateway apparatus: A VoIP gateway apparatus is used to provide an IP centrex service to accommodated devices. The VoIP gateway apparatus (1) assigns, to a call originated from an accommodated device (PBX2), a telephone number for which the number of simultaneous call connections has not reached a simultaneous connection tolerance number, and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070201495 - Data communication in networks comprising a plurality of network nodes and at least one star node: The invention relates to a network comprising a plurality of network nodes. At least part of the network nodes are directly coupled to each other via at least one star node. The star node comprises a plurality of star interfaces which are assigned to at least one network node. In... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20070201496 - Method and system for diagnosis and control of machines using connectionless modes having delivery monitoring and an alternate communication mode: A method and system for retransmitting messages using an alternate mode of communication when an original mode of communication is determined to be unsuccessful. A message is first transmitted using a connectionless-mode of communication such as by using an Internet electronic mail message. A request for acknowledgment of receipt of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070201501 - Base station and base-station control apparatus: Terminals #1 to #3 which have already been connected and a terminal #4 which wants to make a new connection send packets to a base station in that order. The base station queues the packets from the terminals #1 to #3 at a non-priority queue and the packet from the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070201500 - Selective frame dropping for initial buffer delay reduction: The embodiments of the present invention provide for methods, devices, and systems adapted to reduce initial buffering delay encountered at the client side by selectively dropping content elements of a source content within a drop interval prior to transmission to a client or receiver. The drop interval associated with the... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, PC

20070201499 - Device, system and/or method for managing packet congestion in a packet switching network: A network infrastructure device includes a receiver operable to receive packets when operably connected to a communication network; and a processor cooperatively operable with the transceiver. The processor can receive a packet on an interface corresponding to the transceiver. Also, the processor can map the packet to one of several... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070201498 - Fluctuation absorbing buffer apparatus and packet voice communication apparatus: A fluctuation absorbing buffer apparatus configured to absorb, by means of a reproduction buffer, a transmission delay time fluctuation occurring in a voice packet communication system, includes: a packet state notifying part carrying out decrease notification when the number of voice packets stored in the reproduction buffer decrease; a voice... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070201497 - Method and system for high-concurrency and reduced latency queue processing in networks: A method and a system for controlling a plurality of queues of an input port in a switching or routing system. The method supports the regular request-grant protocol along with speculative transmission requests in an integrated fashion. Each regular scheduling request or speculative transmission request is stored in request order... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20070201502 - Systems and methods for controlling the delivery behavior of downloaded content: The present invention provides a comprehensive development platform and client-side technology for intelligent and cost-effective delivery of video, audio and broadband content over a network, such as the Internet, to desktop, mobile computing, and network connected devices. In one embodiment of the present invention, an intelligent delivery system (IDS) uses... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070201503 - Communication terminal apparatus and wireless transmission method: A communication terminal apparatus that exhibits a shorter time period required until a start of communication and causes the throughput in the wireless communication system to be less reduced. In this apparatus, when the number, N, of retransmissions notified by a response determining part (107) is zero, a subchannel-to-be-used selecting... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070201504 - Dynamically enabling a seconday channel in a mesh network: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for using a node in a mesh network to perceive a plurality of channels within a mesh network; selecting a first channel from the plurality of channels within the mesh network with the node; remaining on the first channel with... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070201505 - Wireless communication terminal and wireless communication method: A communication terminal used in a mobile communication system complying with a carrier sense multiple access scheme is disclosed. The communication terminal includes: a receiving unit configured to receive a wireless packet transmitted by another communication terminal or a base station; a determination unit configured to determine periodic transmission timing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070201506 - Cooperative writes over the address channel of a bus: A processing system and method for communicating in a processing system over a bus is disclosed. The processing system includes a receiving device, a bus having first, second and third channels, and a sending device configured to address the receiving device on the first channel, and read a payload from... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070201507 - Frame transmitting/receiving method and device: A frame transmitting method and device insert a channel identifier into predetermined free bytes of parallel channel signals whose phases are different from each other without a phase adjustment, and convert the parallel channel signals into a serial signal to transmit a frame. A frame receiving method and device convert... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070201508 - Proxy agent for providing remote management of equipment in a communication network: In one aspect a method for remotely managing a non-compliant Internet Gateway Device (IGD) residing in a Local Area Network (LAN) is provided. The method includes providing a proxy agent that resides on a computer in the LAN. The proxy agent receives from a Wide Area Network (WAN) configuration device... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070201511 - Relay device and communication device realizing contents protection procedure over networks: A relay device and a communication device capable of realizing the contents protection procedure between devices that are not connected to the same network are disclosed. A relay device and a communication device are so configured that between a device/service/sub-unit on the second network and a device on the first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070201509 - System and method for providing a compatibility feature in a session initiation protocol (sip) environment: According to an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for addressing compatibility in a session protocol environment is provided that includes a communications platform operable to communicate with a first endpoint and a second endpoint and to recognize signaling capabilities of the first and second endpoints. The apparatus also... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070201510 - System and method for providing a compatibility feature in a session initiation protocol (sip) environment: According to an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for addressing compatibility in a session protocol environment is provided that includes a communications platform operable to communicate with a first endpoint and a second endpoint and to recognize signaling capabilities of the first and second endpoints. The apparatus also... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070201512 - System and method providing for interoperability of session initiation protocol (sip) and h.323 for secure realtime transport protocol (srtp) session establishment: A system and method providing for interoperability of SIP and H.323 for SRTP session establishment includes providing for interoperability of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and H.323 for Secure Realtime Transport Protocol session establishment include receiving a transmit key in a first protocol from a first endpoint. The transmit key is... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070201513 - Method and apparatus for real-time application-driven resource management in next generation networks: The present invention specifies the mechanism for supporting end-to-end quality of service (QoS) reservations for an implicit reservations model using a Resource and Admission Control Function (RACF) apparatus. The invention teaches how to implement implicit resource reservations using the open-standard Resource and Admission Control Function (RACF), which is being standardized... Agent: Lucent Technologies, Inc.

20070201514 - Time slot position coding: Spatial information associated with an audio signal is encoded into a bitstream, which can be transmitted to a decoder or recorded to a storage media. The bitstream can include different syntax related to time, frequency and spatial domains. In some embodiments, the bitstream includes one or more data structures (e.g.,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070201515 - System and method for bypassing data from egress facilities: An open architecture platform bypasses data from the facilities of a telecommunications carrier, e.g. an incumbent local exchange carrier, by distinguishing between voice and data traffic, and handling voice and data traffic separately. An SS7 gateway receives and transmits SS7 signaling messages with the platform. When signaling for a call... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070201516 - Dtv transmitting system and receiving system and method of processing broadcast signal: A DTV transmitting system includes a first pre-processor for coding first enhanced data having a high priority for forward error correction (FEC) at a first coding rate and expanding the first enhanced data at a first expansion rate, and a second pre-processor for coding second enhanced data having a low... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070195688 - Spatial pilot structure for multi-antenna wireless communication: Spatial pilot to support MIMO receivers in a multi-antenna and multi-layer transmission communication system. A first layer pilot for a single layer transmission is repeated across subbands in a first OFDM symbol and the first layer pilot is also repeated offset from the first OFDM symbol in an adjacent second... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070195687 - Symbol alignment in multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication: A system is provided. The system includes a host and a plurality of remote units. Upstream bandwidth capacity is shared among a plurality of remote units in a manner that permits at least two of the remote units to transmit to the host at any one time using the upstream... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070195689 - Method and system for adaptive modulation: Systems and methods for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing multipoint-to-point communications system are provided. In one embodiment, a method comprises establishing communication between a first remote unit of a plurality of remote units and a host unit, the plurality of remote units communicatively coupled to the host unit in a... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070195690 - Flexible time-frequency multiplexing structure for wireless communication: Techniques for efficiently sending data in a wireless communication system are described. Code division multiplexing (CDM) or orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) may be selected for each traffic segment, which may correspond to specific time frequency resources. An output waveform comprised of traffic and overhead segments may be generated. Each... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070195691 - Self-repair system and method for providing resource failure tolerance: A self-repair system provides resource failure tolerance using an interconnection network that provides interconnection information identifying connections between system resources, redundant resources and ports that are connectable to consumers of the system resources. A controller identifies both defective system resources and the affected sinks connected to the defective system resources... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070195692 - Systems and methods for obtaining ultra-high data availability and geographic disaster tolerance: Network data storage systems and methods allow computers reading and writing data at a plurality of data centers separated by, potentially, large distances to replicate data between sites such that the data is protected from failures, including complete Site failures, while not allowing network latency to significantly impede the performance... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070195693 - Method and device for implementing och-spring in wavelength division multiplexing systems: The present invention discloses a method and device for implementing Och-SPRing in Wavelength Division Multiplexing system. The method includes: in the node of the optical network system, setting two switches in each working path and its backup path that pass through the node, each of which includes two input ports... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070195695 - Network performance management: The performance of a network can be managed by receiving a set of key quality parameters, wherein a key quality parameter represents a characteristic associated with at least one network component; identifying a service quality mapping module based on one or more network components associated with providing an end customer... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070195694 - System for dynamic control of an ip network: System for dynamically controlling equipment in a communication system taking into account the dynamics associated at least with the mobility of the users (authentication and affiliation of services), service quality requests transmitted by the users of the telecommunication network, the availability of the resources of the system comprising at least... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20070195696 - Network testing and monitoring systems: A method of testing a digital mobile phone network such as a GPRS or 3G network comprises either using real traffic or creating test traffic using test mobile phone coupled to a computer, and using the computer to measure a parameter associated with the network's response to the traffic. The... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070195698 - Networks: The invention relates to data networks, and to nodes making up parts of data networks, arranged to derive information relating to the characterisation of paths taken by data travelling between nodes in the networks. Path characterisation information is fed back from a receiver of data to a provider of data,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070195697 - Radio resource usage optimisation in a packet network: A method of optimising the use of radio resources in a mobile radio communication system during a combinational multimedia session involving circuit switched and packet switched sessions between user terminals, the method comprising: disabling an in-sequence delivery option of packets between radio network control nodes of the radio access network(s)... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070195700 - Routing control method, apparatus and system: This invention is to enable appropriate routing based on transition prediction of network traffic. This routing control method includes: reading out predicted utilization transition data (e.g. utilization rate, or utilized bandwidth) associated with a received connection set-up request from a predicted utilization transition data storage storing said predicted utilization transition... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070195699 - System and method for efficient network flow control: A system enables efficient flow control in computer network. In the preferred embodiment, when an entity detects an impending full condition, it cuts short its transmission of the current frame that is being sent, and immediately sends a pause signal. The entity also deliberately corrupts the error detection signature of... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070195702 - Link duration based routing protocol for multihop ad hoc networks: A method is provided for selecting a route for transmitting data packets amongst nodes in an ad hoc network. The method includes determining a metric which is indicative of link stability between the nodes in the network; initiating a route discovery procedure that generates a plurality of candidate transmission paths... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070195701 - Simple and resource-efficient resilient network systems: The invention is related to a method for resilient multi-paths connections between edge devices of a communication network. First are determined connection-specific traffic distribution functions for the multi-paths depending on a plausible failure pattern of active and inactive paths of the multi-path of this connection. Further is selected the traffic... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070195704 - Method of evaluating data processing system health using an i/o device: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for monitoring health of a data processing system. A determination is made whether a response is received within a first time period in response to an I/O device sending a receive descriptor to the data processing system. A determination is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070195703 - System and method for monitoring a site using time gap analysis: A method for monitoring a site includes calculating a learned threshold time based on a statistical analysis of lengths of time between sensor firings of one or more sensors. A first sensor firing is detected from the one or more sensors. The length of time that has elapsed since the... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070195705 - System and method for detecting continuity of network lines: The present disclosure provides a system and method for detecting faults related to lines linked to provide network services. The method includes storing a synthetic value for the performance of a line, receiving a measured value of a performance parameter of the line measured at a customer end and comparing... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070195706 - Integrated municipal management console: Embodiments of the invention provide a networked system and management console for visualizing, identifying, and handling municipal or other regional events of interest as they arise. The management console is communicably linked via a wide area wireless network and/or other network or communications facilities to a number of data sources... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070195708 - Framing mobile communication signals for analysis: Systems and methods for framing mobile communication signals for analysis are disclosed herein. In one example, a framing module of a mobile communication system comprises a channel extractor, a framing path, and a feedback path. The channel extractor enables a user to assign voice and data channels in a number... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070195709 - Methods and systems for notifying and negotiating capabilities of monitoring the performance of label switching path: A method and system for notifying capabilities of monitoring performance of Label Switching Path (LSP), and the method includes: a source node sends to a destination node a request message for establishing an LSP, carrying the capabilities of monitoring performance of LSP provided by the source node; after receiving the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070195707 - Sampling test of network performance: A method for testing a communication network includes transmitting a flow of test packets over a path through the network. The flow includes a series of bursts of the test packets separated by intervals having an interval duration, each burst comprising a sequence of the test packets and having a... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070195713 - Communication node and routing method: A communication node of the present invention includes a two-hop neighbor management portion, a routing table management portion, and a multi-path establishment portion. The two-hop neighbor management portion manages a plurality of neighbor routes to a communication node that can be reached by two hops. The routing table management portion... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070195715 - Communications apparatus, communications system, and communication method: In a network made up of a plurality of devices each capable of a multi-hop communication that conforms to at least one of the wired communication standards or wireless communication standards, each device monitors a communication situation on communication links and path established between the device and a destination device.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070195711 - Automated cable identification and verification system: A method for configuring components in a networked computer system comprising providing a configuration map that includes installation locations and sequences for network components. The configuration map is used to indicate component installation locations and sequences through a series of indicators. The component installation locations and sequences are confirmed after... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070195710 - Mobile subscriber network and resource management method: In allocating a resource circuit by circuit, a reference is made to a table signifying a one-versus-many correspondence between a subscriber and a circuit, thereby to reflect a state of the other circuit that an identical subscriber holds into the above resource allocation. As a rule, the table is dynamically... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070195714 - Network data packet classification and demultiplexing: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for classifying and demultiplexing packets in a network protocol stack. It provides extendibility for packet processing in the network protocol stack by defining a standard method for adding new functionality. It provides a method to obtain external information, from an application scheduled outside... Agent: Ido Tuchman

20070195712 - Spatio-temporal and context-based indexing and representation of subterranean networks and means for doing the same: Systems, methods and devices for indexing, archiving, analyzing and reporting pipe and other void network data. Specifically, multi-dimensional indexing and correlation of spatial, temporal, feature, environmental, uncertainty and/or context-based data is synchronized, indexed and analyzed across a wide variety of pipe networks at various times. The present invention preferably includes... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070195716 - Ring bus in an emulation environment: A system and method for implementing a ring bus in an emulation environment is disclosed. The ring bus provides an extra communication channel between a ring master node and target nodes on the ring bus for communicating any desired information. In one aspect, the ring bus includes the ring master... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070195718 - Method of multicasting and transmitting data in plc network and an apparatus thereof: A method of transmitting data more effectively, and more particularly, a method of transmitting data to a group comprising a plurality of reception stations that receive the same data from a transmission station when the stations communicate the data in a power line communication (PLC) network, and an apparatus to... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070195717 - Creating a bridge clip for seamless connection of multimedia sections without requiring recording: The invention concerns a method, devices and a computer program code (10) bridging multimedia stream sections. The method comprises detecting user-selected switching from a first (TS1) to a second section (TS2) at an exit time (USEX) of the first section and an entry time (USEN) of the second section, determining,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070195719 - Local area network of serial intelligent cells: A serial intelligent cell (SIC) and a connection topology for local area networks using Electrically-conducting media. A local area network can be configured from a plurality of SIC's interconnected so that all communications between two adjacent SIC's is both point-to-point and bidirectional. Each SIC can be connected to one or... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070195720 - Data transmitting/receiving apparatus and received data analysis method: The present invention provides a data transmitting/receiving apparatus which determines whether received data is destined therefor, and a received data analysis method thereof. In the data transmitting/receiving apparatus, a comparison circuit in a transmitter-receiver outputs any of real data related to part of reception data and all data related to... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20070195721 - Program for distributed channel selection, power adjustment and load balancing decisions in a wireless network: The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically choose a channel such that channel usage is optimized. Furthermore, APs can... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070195723 - Reduced terminal power consumption via use of active hold state: An access terminal (AT) in a cellular communication system is configured to operate in an active hold (AH) state, a transitional state between traffic and dormant states. The AT applies power to its transmit chain with a low duty cycle while in the AH state, conserving battery power. To improve... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070195722 - Wireless communication apparatus and operating frequency control method of power conversion apparatus: In order to decrease a negative influence on other electric apparatuses because of conduction noise occurring from a wireless communication apparatus along with preventing increasing cost and an increase in size of communication module, the wireless communication apparatus includes: a high accuracy oscillator which is applied for communication operation of... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070195724 - Method and apparatus for transmitting broadcasting data with a plurality of information: The present invention relates to an apparatus for broadcast data transmission and a method thereof A method for transmission of broadcast data includes a plurality of information that includes setting up a transmission period by information/time slot for each of the plurality of information; receiving information transmitted from outside information... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070195725 - Access point control system, and access point control method: An access point control system capable of easily executing the correspondence between the BSSID and the VLAN of an access point device. This access point control system (100) comprises a plurality of access point devices (110-1, 110-2) , and an access point control device (120) for controlling the access point... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070195728 - Automated method for constructing a routing infrastructure in an ad-hoc network: A method is provided for mobile wireless ad hoc network, where network nodes using the same routing protocol are uniformly sharing a single contention channel. Network nodes are able to dynamically and distributedly switch roles according to surrounding network environment so that routing functions can be either activated or de-activated... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070195727 - Staggering bursts of broadcast management frames in a wireless network device having a plurality of mac addresses: A method, a software product, and an apparatus to operate in a wireless device of a wireless network. The wireless device acts as a plurality of APs. The method includes transmitting bursts of management frames containing a broadcast-buffered indication for a corresponding subset of network identifiers of the wireless device,... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070195729 - System and method for self-configuring adaptive wireless router network: An automated and distributed method is provided for configuring addressing of nodes in a wireless network, where the nodes includes at least one wireless interface and a network interface which connects to an external network. Briefly, the method includes: assigning a wireless network address to the wireless interface associated with... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070195726 - Voice-capable system and method for authentication using prior entity user interaction: A system and method for use with a voice-capable system, includes but is not limited to a method including accessing by the voice-capable system of one or more entities computationally networked to the voice-capable system, obtaining one or more user interactions with the one or more entities and generating an... Agent: The Jansson Firm

20070195731 - Methods, systems and computer program products for establishing a point-to-point communication connection: Methods of establishing a point-to-point communication connection using an uplink radio resource of a communication system include allocating an unused portion of the uplink radio resource of the communication system as a communication channel. The communication channel is assigned to establish the point-to-point communication connection.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070195730 - Random access method and radio communciation terminal device: There are disclosed a random access method for establishing an individual channel between a radio communication terminal device and a base station device in a short time and a radio communication terminal device executing the random access method. In this device, in step ST320, a RACH sub-channel allocation unit (211)... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070195733 - Handover method for minimizing packet call reconnection delay time between different mobile communication schemes and multi-mode terminal for the same: Provided is a function of minimizing a delay time of a packet call disconnect due to a handover between communication networks providing a communication service using different mobile communication technologies. To do this, even though a handover situation is generated during a packet service, the packet service is continuously provided... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070195732 - Method for releasing allocated resources at sip handover: When mobile communication is handed over from a first link to a second like, in order to relinquish resources as soon as possible, the release of resources allocated to the first link is initiated in response to the generation of the ACK signal by the mobile node, rather than waiting... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070195740 - Method and apparatus for sub-slot packets in wireless communication: Techniques for efficiently sending and receiving data in a wireless communication system are described herein. The techniques utilize a slot structure that is backward compatible with existing design. The techniques include sending and receiving forward link packets that occupy less than a full slot of the slot structure. An output... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070195737 - Multi-program viewing in a wireless apparatus: This disclosure describes a number of techniques for processing multimedia data that can improve multi-program “picture-in-picture” viewing, particularly in a wireless mobile apparatus setting. In one example, a method includes receiving multiple channels of the multimedia data, decoding frames associated with two or more of the channels, presenting first frames... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070195736 - Wireless communication method, base station and, wireless communication system: Data transmission is performed using the most suitable data rate for the radiation pattern of an antenna. Using an individual pilot channel of a first slot, a base station transmits a pilot signal in a specified direction with a beam pattern having narrow directivity. A wireless terminal located in that... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070195739 - Method and apparatus for data interleaving and data de-interleaving against periodical position interference: A method for data interleaving and data de-interleaving against periodical position interference, the process of data interleaving includes: multiplexing data of different transport channels, interleaving the data multiplexed, and Outputting the data interleaved; the process of data de-interleaving includes: receiving the data interleaved, de-interleaving the data received, and de-multiplexing the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070195735 - Method of buffering to reduce media latency in group communications on a wireless communication network: A system and method for minimizing latency for direct group communications, such as push-to-talk (PTT) calls, among a group of wireless telecommunication devices on a wireless telecommunication network. The wireless telecommunication device has a dormant state without an open dedicated traffic channel for communications therefrom and an active state in... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070195738 - Method of packet format dependent selection of mimo-ofdm demodulator: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate code rate and modulation order dependent selection of a suitable demodulator for a received data packet. According to various aspects systems and/or methods are described that enable selection of an optimal demodulation scheme such that signal receiver complexity is not increased and optimal... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070195734 - Methods of reverse link power control: Methods of reverse link power control are provided. A first example method includes first measuring a first type of interference, second measuring a second type of interference, determining a ratio between the first and second measurements and broadcasting the determined ratio to a plurality of mobile units. A second example... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070195741 - Method of scheduling data traffic in wireless communication system: A method of scheduling data traffics at a base station in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes preferentially assigning radio resources to a mobile station having a good channel state when the amount of data traffic generated is greater than a first threshold; preferentially assigning radio resources... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070195744 - Techniques for 40 megahertz (mhz) channel switching: Embodiments of the invention include methods, articles, and apparatuses to provide information related to channels transmitted and received according to a wireless communications protocol. One embodiment of the invention provides a method comprising generating channel offset information corresponding to an extension channel within a channel of a wireless communications protocol,... Agent: Intel/blakely

20070195746 - Topology management, power control and cross-layer design for wireless mobile ad hoc networks with directional antennas: Techniques for implementing systems and methods for topology management, power control and cross-layer design in directional antenna-based wireless mobile ad hoc networks are described. A multiple access control (MAC) system for a directional antenna and time division multiple access communication (DTMAC) node includes a neighbor discovery computer process designed to... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070195743 - Mobile communication device providing n-way communications through a plurality of communication services: A system and method, in a mobile communication device, providing N-way communication through a plurality of communication services. Various aspects of the present invention provide a mobile communication device comprising a user interface and at least one communication interface module adapted to perform a first communication with a first communication... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070195745 - Mobile terminal, resource allocation manager, and communication control method: A mobile terminal 1 comprises a first communication section 101, a second communication section 102, a receiving activation section 103 for activating a second receiving function for the second communication section 102 as a result that the first information is received by the first communication section 101, an information transmission... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070195742 - System and method for selectively manipulating control traffic to improve network performance: A system and method for selectively controlling traffic in a network to improve network performance. The system includes a network controller that includes a first control-traffic prioritizer. An Access Point (AP) includes a second control-traffic prioritizer and communicates with the network controller. One or more clients communicate with the AP.... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070195747 - Flexible payload control in data-optimized communication systems: An access terminal (AT) and a data-optimized cellular communication radio network (RN) negotiate a set of packet sizes for use on a reverse link between the AT and the RN. The negotiated set of packet sizes may differ from the default set of packet sizes defined in an existing standard,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070195748 - Integrated circuit and method for time slot allocation: An integrated circuit comprising a plurality of processing modules (M, S; IP) and a network (N) arranged for coupling said modules (M, S; IP) is provided. Said integrated circuit further comprises a plurality of network interfaces (NI) each being coupled between one of said processing modules (M, S; IP) and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070195754 - Method and apparatus for supporting circuit switched interworking: A wireless system performs interworking of a combined circuit switched (CS) session and an IP multimedia core network subsystem (IMS) session between two users having different content capabilities through an interworking circuit switched (CS) and IMS function (IMS CS IWF).... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070195755 - Method and device for interworking between internet protocol networks: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and device for interworking between Internet Protocol (IP) networks of. The method includes: judging whether the home network of a called UE supports the IP version of a calling UE, and forwarding a message sent from the calling UE to a home... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070195751 - Providing voicemail blocking in communication networks: Communication networks and associated methods are disclosed that provide a voicemail blocking service. A communication network of the invention comprises a network node and a voicemail system. The network node receives a call from a calling party to a subscriber of the voicemail blocking service, and attempts to connect the... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070195752 - System and method for handling call redirection and multi call destination failures: A system and method for providing Call Forwarding/Multi-Destination Call Redirection services that include notifying the subscriber/owner of a call leg creation failure and taking corrective action to prevent future failures. The failure can be detected at a Far End network node and communicated to a Detection node which communicates with... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20070195750 - System and method for network traffic splitting: A system is described where a routing server is configured to receive data packets from one or more servers on a computer network. Data packets may contain system event data that represent, for example, security events or system status. Each data packet is opened at the routing server and may... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070195753 - Systems and methods for anomaly detection in patterns of monitored communications: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for enhancing electronic communication security. A communication transmitted over a communications network is received and tested by a collection engine to generate data associated with the received communication. An analysis engine analyzes the data generated by the collection engine along with... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070195749 - Wireless ip telephone set: Provided is a wireless IP telephone set that, even when packet loss frequently occurs during a telephone call, keeps deterioration in audio quality to a minimum, permitting the telephone call to be continued without being interrupted. The wireless IP telephone set has a plurality of codecs. In a case where... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070195756 - Terminal switching technology for seamless switching of streaming sessions between terminals: Terminal switching technology for seamlessly switching streaming sessions between terminals is provided. In this technology, a switching destination terminal has an establishing section establishing a streaming session with a communicating party according to a terminal switching request, a receiving section receiving data from the communicating party after a streaming session... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070195757 - Time multiplexing logic in physical design domain for multiple instantiation: An apparatus and method are provided to perform a time multiplexing logic in a module, are provided including identifying a driving flop and a receiving flop in the module, receiving a modified input signal, and identifying a worst case timing path for the modified input signal to transmit from the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070195767 - Communication device: A communication device simplified in circuit configuration and capable of shortening the time required to copy packets for broadcasting or multicasting. A packet separator separates an incoming packet into a data part and a header part, and a memory stores the data part. An internal packet generator attaches, to the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070195760 - Light weight service discovery protocol: A service discovery protocol is provided for use in personal area networks and other ad-hoc networking environments. The service discovery protocol is specifically designed to take into account the dynamic network configurations, bandwidth constraints as well as other characteristics of these types of networks. One of the key differentiators of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070195762 - Method of classifying data and transmitting data in a plc network and apparatus therefor: A method of transmitting data more effectively, and more particularly, a method of classifying service traffic, transmitting data according to the classifications of the service traffic, and performing a contention free slot (CFS) allocation in order to transmit data in a power line communication (PLC) network, and an apparatus to... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070195759 - Identification of the location of nodes distributed in ad hoc networks: A location of node i in a network having a plurality of nodes is identified by intersecting regions that are guaranteed to contain the node i with respect the other nodes that are neighbors of the node i and iteratively minimizing the size of the intersection region containing the node... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070195765 - Method and system for a communication node with a plurality of network interfaces: The invention relates to a method for a communication node with a plurality of network interfaces. Configured on the communication node is a virtual interface, which is accessible from the applications able to be executed on the communication node. A configuration module generates an identifier assigned to the communication node.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070195763 - Mount structure, electrooptic device, and electronic device: A mount structure includes a first electronic component and a second electronic component mounted to the first electronic component. The first and second electronic components include first and second terminals arrayed in strips and extending along a plurality of lines passing through first and second common points. The second terminals... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070195758 - Packet data serving node and communication method using the same: A communication system using PPP in which a plurality of layer 3 protocols are defined has a problem. PDSN cannot judge which of layer 3 protocols is equipped in a terminal, and NCP phase processes corresponding to all layer 3 protocols of the system are executed. This increases the number... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070195761 - Pipelined packet switching and queuing architecture: An architecture for a line card in a network routing device is provided. The line card architecture provides a bi-directional interface between the routing device and a network, both receiving packets from the network and transmitting the packets to the network through one or more connecting ports. In both the... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070195764 - Service flow with robust header compression (rohc) in a wimax wireless network: A robust header compression (ROHC) controller provides for service flow processing of a ROHC channel in a WiMAX wireless communication system. The ROHC controller controls the negotiations of the MS ROHC capabilities during its registration and the negotiations of the ROHC channel parameters during ROHC enabled service flow setup; the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070195766 - Virtualized services system and method: A virtualized service system and method are provided herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group

20070195771 - Multicast system and method for utilizing the same: A multicast system is provided. The multicast system includes a multicast processing module and a multicast service module. The multicast processing module is for subscribing to the multicast service module. The multicast service module is for sending a subscribe response to the multicast processing module, and for transmitting data to... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070195772 - Distributed igmp processing: The present invention implements a distributed IGMP implementation. It connects to one or more multicast data sources from one node within a collection of cooperating computing devices. Other computing devices within the collection of cooperating computing devices connect to one or more IP hosts who wish to receive the multicast... Agent: John Nielsen

20070195769 - Multicast packet transmitting method of wireless network: A multicast packet transmitting method of wireless network is provided. According to the method, a first transmitting terminal adds a first acknowledge serial number into a multicast downlink packet and transmits the downlink packet to a second transmitting terminal. After transmitting the downlink packet, the first transmitting terminal determines whether... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070195770 - Network controller, receiving terminal device, content delivery system, network control method, and content receiving method: In a radio network controller for delivering an identical content to plural receiving terminal devices, a content delivery unit delivers the content in the P-t-M mode to the receiving terminal devices. A reception-content-information managing unit receives information indicative of an amount of content that has been received by each of... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070195768 - Packet routing method and packet routing device: A packet routing apparatus that simultaneously implements prompt route recovery and continuation of communication by an optimal route. A radio reception section (103) receives a radio signal including packet data received in a transmission/reception antenna (101) via a circulator (102). Further, the radio reception section (103) detects disconnection of an... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070195781 - Equipment managing device, equipment searching program, and recording medium: An equipment managing device includes a first address obtaining part configured to search for an equipment item connected to the same network as the equipment managing device so as to obtain an IP address of the equipment item; a second address obtaining part configured to obtain an IP address of... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070195782 - Network management system, network management method, information processing apparatus, device, and storage medium: A network management system that is capable of managing each device in an information processing device efficiently even though on a network there are a plurality of the information processing apparatuses which search for devices to manage. A network management system comprises a multi-function printer (MFP) connected to a network,... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070195779 - Content-based policy compliance systems and methods: Methods and systems for operation upon one or more data processors to filter communications of users in accordance with content-based policy.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070195780 - Dynamic building of vlan interfaces based on subscriber information strings: Techniques are described that allow a network device, such as a router, to dynamically build VLAN interfaces based on subscriber information strings included within packets. In particular, the network device comprises an interface controller and a forwarding controller, where the forwarding controller receives the packet over an Ethernet port and... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070195775 - Method and system for filtering packets within a tunnel: A system for filtering packets includes a first router, a second router, and a packet filter. The first router encapsulates a packet and transmits the encapsulated packet to the packet filter through a first tunnel. The packet filter receives the encapsulated packet through the first tunnel and de-encapsulates the encapsulated... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070195773 - Pipelined packet switching and queuing architecture: An architecture for a line card in a network routing device is provided. The line card architecture provides a bi-directional interface between the routing device and a network, both receiving packets from the network and transmitting the packets to the network through one or more connecting ports. In both the... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070195777 - Pipelined packet switching and queuing architecture: An architecture for a line card in a network routing device is provided. The line card architecture provides a bi-directional interface between the routing device and a network, both receiving packets from the network and transmitting the packets to the network through one or more connecting ports. In both the... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070195778 - Pipelined packet switching and queuing architecture: An architecture for a line card in a network routing device is provided. The line card architecture provides a bi-directional interface between the routing device and a network, both receiving packets from the network and transmitting the packets to the network through one or more connecting ports. In both the... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070195776 - System and method for channeling network traffic: A method for channeling network traffic is described, which includes identifying, with an agent disposed within a client computer of the network, a portion of the network traffic associated with the client computer that has compliance related interest. The identified compliance interesting traffic portion is encapsulated with a header. Apart... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070195774 - Systems and methods for access port icmp analysis: Systems and methods perform analysis of ICMP packets received at a network device port to determine if the ICMP packet is valid and thus should be forwarded. One aspect of the systems and methods includes configuring a port to be a trusted port in which any type of ICMP message... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070195785 - Method for requesting domain transfer and terminal and server thereof: A method, terminal and server for controlling a domain transfer operation, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the server includes a receiver to receive a domain transfer request; a controller to evaluate the domain transfer request based on criteria information, to determine whether or not to generate a domain transfer... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070195783 - Method of communicating from a mobile device: The present invention refers to a process of communication utilizing at least one mobile device comprising means of mobile telecommunications (of GSM, GPRS, UMTS, CDMA, W-CDMA, etc type) and means of access to a local wireless network consisting of: recording user profiles, each bearing a numeric identifier in at least... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070195784 - Power saving scheme for nodes that are out of range of a network: A power saving scheme for nodes (101) that are out of range of a network is provided herein. During operation when a node determines that it is out of range of a network it will switch to a “disconnected” mode of operation. In the “disconnected” mode the node will transmit... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070195789 - Managing packets for transmission in a communication system: Methods (400, 500) and corresponding systems (100, 200, 300) for managing a packet (318) for transmission include obtaining a quality of service (QoS) parameter value for a data stream (404), and determining one or more QoS statistics for previously transmitted data (406). Thereafter, a packet is selected from the data... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20070195790 - Method of managing buffer in radio network control equipment and radio network control equipment: Radio network control equipment is stably operated regardless of occurrence of burst of control signals by counting total number of control signals input to a buffer receiving control signals in each multiplexer in the radio network control equipment and the number of control signals transmitted from each cell in each... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070195788 - Policy based procedure to modify or change granted qos in real time for cdma wireless networks: A policy based look up procedure enables a code division multiple access (CDMA) wireless network to modify a quality of service (QoS) level granted for an application packet flow in real time, e.g. in response to a customer service request, upon determination of a need to change network operations, periodically,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070195787 - Methods and apparatus for per-session uplink/downlink flow scheduling in multiple access networks: A method for scheduling transmission of remote and local data packets over a shared medium comprises providing a scheduler and generating virtual packets corresponding to the remote data packets. The virtual data packets are scheduled in the scheduler together with local data packets. When the scheduler indicates that a remote... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station

20070195786 - Packet data scheduling method: There is provided a scheduling method for scheduling packet data capable of improving channel use efficiency while maintaining both of QoS and fairness of each mobile station (each flow). The scheduling method includes ST (step) 10 for setting a total transmission set value C (initial value), ST20 for calculating a... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070195791 - Route optimization for proxy mobile internet protocol: The present invention provides a method of route optimization for a proxy mobile Internet protocol. The method may include providing information indicative of a first proxy address based on a first address associated with a first access terminal and receiving information indicative of a second proxy address associated with a... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070195792 - System and method for an adaptive tcp syn cookie with time validation: Provided is a method and system for TCP SYN cookie validation. The method includes receiving a session SYN packet by a TCP session setup module of a host server, generating a transition cookie including a time value representing the actual time, sending a session SYN/ACK packet, including the transition cookie,... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070195793 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for selective layer 2 port blocking using layer 2 source addresses: Methods, systems, and computer program products for selective layer 2 port blocking using layer 2 source addresses are disclosed. According to one method, a layer 2 frame is received. An I/O port block list is identified based on a layer 2 source address in the layer 2 frame. A set... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070195794 - Virtual lan system and node device: A node A21 sets a communication tunnel for encapsulating a data link packet with other nodes joining in a virtual LAN to a peer-to-peer type, and comprises a packet forward table A2141 for forwarding the data link layer packet received from a communication tunnel to another communication tunnel. In addition,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070195795 - Network apparatus and method for forwarding packet: When a network apparatus of this invention receives an IEEE 802.3ad link application control packet from a subscriber line with a VPWS function, it processes the packet in a control unit without relaying the packet by VPWS. More specifically, the network apparatus receives an IEEE802.3ad link aggregation control packet along... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070195796 - Node apparatus, shared information updating method, shared information storing method, and program: The present invention provides a node apparatus, a shared information updating method, a shared information storing method, a shared information updating process program, a shared information storing process program, and the like capable of efficiently obtaining shared information in the latest state at any time without providing a management server.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070195798 - Medium access control method and device: A wireless communications network comprises a plurality of nodes, comprising at least one receiver node; and at least one source node that communicates with the at least one receiver node via a communicating data channel; and a communicating control channel that transmits pulse control information to reserve the data channel... Agent: Philip D Freedman PC Philip D Freedman

20070195797 - Network device that determines application-level network latency by monitoring option values in a transport layer message: A data processing apparatus in a network receives packet flows that are communicated between a first network node and a second network node, and comprises a clock and latency analysis logic configured for receiving a first data segment that has been communicated from the first node and forwarding the first... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070195802 - Call establishment for multimedia call: A mechanism for controlling an establishment of a call from a calling party being located in a first communication network environment to a receiving party being located in a second network environment, comprise a determination whether or not information on media parameters supported by the calling party is received in... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070195806 - Method of managing real-time services: The invention concerns a method of managing real-time services in a packet-based telecommunications network (1) of a plurality of coequal nodes (10 to 14) and a telecommunications network (1) for executing this method. A rule base for each node (10 to 14) is defined in consideration of the capabilities of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070195804 - Ppp gateway apparatus for connecting ppp clients to l2sw: In a PPP gateway apparatus comprising a plurality of line interfaces each accommodating one of access lines for connecting to client terminals and core lines for connecting to layer 2 frame forwarding apparatuses, a frame forwarding control table, and a frame processor for controlling frame forwarding, the frame forwarding control... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070195800 - Communication using private ip addresses of local networks: A system, apparatus and method to use private IP addresses to designate host devices or nodes in different networks for communication purposes are described. Various embodiments of the invention address the problem of a shortage of public IP addresses under IPv4 architecture. In one embodiment of the invention, dynamic NAT... Agent: North Weber & Baugh LLP

20070195801 - Context-based processing of data flows: The present invention relates to a network node, method and computer program product for processing a data flow based on a context information, wherein a dynamic data structure (DIF) associated with an active data flow is created, when a data packet belonging to said active data flow is received. At... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070195805 - Ip multimedia subsystem access method and apparatus: A method of facilitating access to IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, services by non-IMS enabled terminals. The method comprises registering a non-IMS enabled terminal with a Home IMS gateway, and, in response to said registration, performing an IMS registration on behalf of said terminal between the Home IMS gateway and the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070195803 - Method and arrangement device relating to communication network: The present invention relates to a gateway for connecting a number of incoming analogous and/or digital inputs to a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) based output. The gateway device comprises: at least one analogous and/or digital data interface for interfacing said inputs, a SIM card, with a specific IP address,... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070195807 - Methods and systems for establishing communications through firewalls and network address translators: Disclosed are methods that enable communications to be established regardless of the presence of communications blockers, e.g., firewalls and NATs, in the path between two computing devices. Two devices each establish communications with a rendezvous service. Through the service, the devices signal each other to set up direct, peer-to-peer communications... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070195799 - Packet routing method and packet routing apparatus: A packet routing method for quickly reorganizing a path from a transmission source terminal to a destination terminal. A radio receiver part (103) detects, from a decrease of the field intensity or the like, a cut-off of a communication with a communication device using a radio signal to directly transmit... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070195808 - Wireless vehicle mesh network: A wireless multi-node communication network which includes a coordinator, and a plurality of vehicle nodes which are configured to communicate information back and forth with said coordinator. The system may include a plurality of clusters, each of which comprises a plurality of devices such as sensors. One of the devices... Agent: Trexler, Bushnell, Giangiorgi, Blackstone & Marr, Ltd.

20070195809 - Method and apparatus for sending signaling information via channel ids: Techniques for sending signaling information are described. Multiple signaling channels may be available to send signaling information. Different signaling information, different signaling parameter values, or different interpretations of signaling parameter values may be associated with different signaling channels and conveyed by the selection of these signaling channels, which may be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070195810 - Systems and methods for providing a quiescing protocol: The systems and methods of the present invention provide a quiescing protocol. In one embodiment, nodes of a system utilize the protocol to complete processing until they reach a consistent state. In one embodiment, a coordinator initiates the quiescing process and the nodes communicate with each other to determine whether... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070195811 - Wireless communication system, associated methods and data structures: A wireless communication device, and a wireless communication system and a method of beamforming is presented. The wireless communication system and/or device includes a beamformee unit, a beamformer unit and two or more antennas to transmit the data unit and the protocol data unit according to the beamformee and the... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070195812 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data in power line communication network while preventing hidden node problem: A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting data more efficiently between stations in a power line communication (PLC) network while preventing a hidden node problem. The method of transmitting data includes: detecting a hidden node in a network; and transmitting at least one of a request to send (RTS)... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070195813 - Multicast packet transmitting method of wireless network: A multicast packet transmitting method of wireless network is provided. According to the method, a first transmitting terminal adds the number of collision count into a multicast downlink packet and receives a backoff time for an uplink packet, which is determined by a second transmitting terminal in accordance with the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070195814 - Integrated circuit apparatus and method for high throughput signature based network applications: An architecture for an integrated circuit apparatus and method that allows significant performance improvements for signature based network applications. In various embodiments the architecture allows high throughput classification of packets into network streams, packet reassembly of such streams, filtering and pre-processing of such streams, pattern matching on header and payload... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070195816 - Communication device: A communication device can transmit only types of data required by a receiving side, and change the type of the data during transmission. A transmitting device and a receiving device establish a communication connection via a data exchange network and perform communication. For example, when transferring sound data and moving... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070195815 - Methods and apparatus for low latency signal aggregation and bandwidth reduction: Wireless network demands continually increase as wireless service providers pursue additional service capabilities. In a cellular communication system, leased lines between remote cell sites and the corresponding Mobile Switching Offices (MSOs) remain a major operating cost. Bandwidth reduction by identification and elimination of payload data and control information which need... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070195819 - Method for detecting transmission quality: A method for detecting transmission quality is provided. The method includes following steps. First, the second electronic apparatus receives several data packets through a wireless channel. The data packets are sent by the first electronic apparatus. Next, the second electronic apparatus obtains a received signal strength indication and a bit... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070195818 - Expedited bandwidth request for emergency services for wireless clients: Methods, apparatuses, and systems directed to reliably providing emergency services to wireless clients. In one embodiment, a wireless client determines if an attempt to transmit an emergency message exists. If so, the wireless client determines if one or more wireless access points support expedited bandwidth capabilities. If so, the wireless... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070195817 - Upstream channel bonding using legacy maps in a cable communications system: A method for increasing upstream bandwidth per cable modem user in a cable communications system that includes a cable modem termination system (CMTS) and a plurality of cable modems is provided. The method permits a cable modem to transmit data to the CMTS on multiple upstream channels simultaneously using a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070195820 - System and method for adaptive frame size management in a wireless multihop network: A system and method for adaptively managing frame size in a wireless multihop network (100) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a packet is transmitted from a source to a destination (420). A acknowledgement packet (422) is received and a successful acknowledgement packet counter is incremented if the acknowledgement packet arrives... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20070195821 - Apparatus, system, and computer readable medium for reducing data transmission overhead: An apparatus, system, and computer readable medium are disclosed for reducing data transmission overhead. The present invention teaches a data transmission device having a fragment receiving module that receives at least one data fragment corresponding to a data segment and a memory controller that stores the at least one data... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070195822 - Method and system for locating packet boundaries: A method and system for locating packet boundaries in a bit stream. The method comprises generating a checksum from a first bit stream, and recovering the first bit stream according an intermediate result which is generated during the checksum processing. The step of generating the checksum comprises dividing the first... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070195823 - Communication between network interface device and subscriber devices via power supply lines: The disclosure describes communication of information between a network interface device and subscriber devices over a power line. A UPS unit receives operating power from subscriber premises via a first power line and delivers operating power to the network interface device via a second power line. The network interface device... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070195824 - Upstream physical interface for modular cable modem termination system: A modular Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) includes a packet shelf operating a Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) Media Access Control (MAC) framer. One or more downstream Physical Interface (PHY) shelves receive DOCSIS data from the packet shelf over a packet switched network and modulate the DOCSIS data... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070195825 - Satellite communication system and method: A method of enabling a call from a first DTE available via a public switched telephone network (PSTN or ISDN) to a second DTE remotely available over a satellite packet data network includes mapping a destination number to a service group, remote gateway associated with the service group and a... Agent: Kevin J. Mcneely, Esq.

20070195828 - Bit assignment in a communication system and communication method: A communication system sets the data transmission time which is the time suitable for data transmission and the quasi-data transmission time which is the time other than the data transmission time in a period in accordance with the transmission path. Further, bits are assigned and transmitted in such a manner... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070195827 - Data processing system, access controlling method, access controlling apparatus and recording medium: A data processing system including a storage section, a processing section, a control section, and a memory. The control section performing an action to allocate, to all of the ports, a time slot of a period of time which guarantees one seek action within a cycle time period which is... Agent: William S. Frommer , Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070195826 - Method of receiving data packets: A method of receiving data packets. In the method of receiving data packets, a determination is made as to whether a received data packet is received out of an expected order. If the determining step determines a received packet is out of the expected order, a time period is calculated... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070195829 - Phase-locked loop for maintaining system synchronization through packet dropout: A phase-locked loop for maintaining system synchronization of a receiver with a transmitter through packet dropout. A clock signal is generated by an oscillator and the interval between the neighboring pieces of incoming system timing information is determined by a first packet counter. A second packet counter determines the interval... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070195830 - Method for insertion of time stamp into real time data within a wireless communications network: A system for adding a time stamp to transmission traffic on a wireless network comprises a front end processor that receives a packet from the network and generates a Start Of Frame pulse and a LENGTH field corresponding to a length of the packet. A time stamp generator generates a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070195831 - Multiplexer circuit: Relay switches are provided between the output terminals of multiplexers in a certain layer in a tree structure and an input terminal of a multiplexer in a layer that is one level higher than the certain layer; the relay switch connected to the multiplexer, among the multiplexers in the certain... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070195832 - Method and system of signal transmission in base transceiver station based on remote radio head: The invention relates to a method of signal transmission between a host BTS and Remote Radio Unit(s), and the BTS communication system thereof. The transmission channel between the host BTS and the Remote Radio Unit(s) uses wideband transmission links or a network, the method includes the following steps of: performing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070189148 - Signal transmitting method (variants) and device for carrying out said method: A group of inventions relate generally to radio engineering, and more particularly to a method of data transmission (embodiments) and apparatus of data transmission (embodiments) to be used, for example, in cellular communications systems when transmitting an information signal over the downlink from base station to mobile station. The goal... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070189149 - Ofdm radio communications system: A transmitter forms each subcarrier group of only frequency locations of subcarriers to which at least one pilot signal is allocated, and conducts transmission by allocating a macro-diversity signal into the subcarrier group and allocating a non-macro-diversity signal to other frequencies (outside the subcarrier group). As for the macro-diversity signal,... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070189150 - Signal receiving apparatus and method: A signal receiving apparatus includes an antenna receiving an OFDM signal including a OFDM symbol, a first conversion unit configured to frequency-convert an OFDM signal received by the antenna, and a second conversion unit configured to analog-to-digital-convert the OFDM signal frequency-converted, sets a first section to be modulated in an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070189151 - Method and apparatus for performing uplink transmission in a multiple-input multiple-output single carrier frequency division multiple access system: A method and apparatus for performing uplink transmission in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system are disclosed. At a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), input data is encoded and parsed into a plurality of data streams. After modulation and Fourier transform, one of transmit beamforming,... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070189153 - Method for improving mean time to data loss (mtdl) in a fixed content distributed data storage: An archival storage cluster of preferably symmetric nodes includes a data protection management system that periodically organizes the then-available nodes into one or more protection sets, with each set comprising a set of n nodes, where “n” refers to a configurable “data protection level” (DPL). At the time of its... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20070189152 - Method, apparatus, and program for configuring networks with consistent route and bandwidth settings: An apparatus and method for verifying route and bandwidth settings of multiple services provided over networks. The apparatus has an extractor and a verifier. Based on input data describing services each having primary and secondary routes between specific locations, an available bandwidth of each network, and a guaranteed bandwidth of... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070189154 - System and method for resilient wireless packet communications: Rapid failure detection and recovery in wireless communication networks is needed in order to meet, among other things, carrier class Ethernet transport channel standards. Thus, resilient wireless packet communications is provided using a hardware-assisted rapid transport channel failure detection algorithm and a Gigabit Ethernet data access card with an engine... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070189156 - Method, apparatus and receiver for demapping dual carrier modulated cofdm signals: A method for demapping dual carrier modulated COFDM signals comprises normalizing an estimated channel state information signal to obtain a normalized channel state information signal, determining a Y-domain weighting factor from the normalized channel state information signal, determining an X-domain weighting factor from the normalized channel state information signal, performing... Agent: Venable LLP

20070189155 - Momentary-disconnection-free switching device: A read address from a memory and a write address to the memory are transmitted from a VT pointer circuit on an active side to a VT pointer circuit on a standby side in order to eliminate a difference between pointer values of the VT pointer circuits on the active... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070189157 - Method and system for providing safe dynamic link redundancy in a data network: Method and system for providing dynamic configuration of link redundancy in data network based on detection of dynamic changes in the network topology including the steps of detecting data network topology, determining a number of data paths from a node in the data network topology to each of a respective... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070189158 - Method and a system for transmitting control data traffic between a base station of a 3g mobile communication network and a network management station: The invention relates to a method and a system for transmitting packet switched control data traffic between a base station (NodeB) of a third generation (3G) mobile communication network and a network management station. In the system according to the invention, an IP-VPN virtual network is used to isolate essentially... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070189163 - Computer system and control, method for the computer system: A system, comprising, a first apparatus; and a second apparatus which transmits first data of a first amount to said first apparatus, wherein said first apparatus comprises, a memory element which stores said first data, a first controller which transmits a first signal for adjusting said first amount when said... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070189162 - Method for setting multicast and broadcast service in broadband wireless access system: A method for setting a multicast and broadcast service (MBS) of a broadband wireless access system includes: previously receiving and storing the information on the MBS setting from a MBS server by a radio access station; and broadcasting the information on the MBS setting stored in the PSS, which exists... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070189166 - Node discovery in physically segmented logical token network: Token authorized node discovery between a plurality of store-and-forward nodes in a downhole networking environment and respective applications for data processing and communication are described herein.... Agent: Jeffrey E. Daly Intelliserv, Inc

20070189165 - Physically segmented logical token network: Token authorized packet exchange between a plurality of store-and-forward nodes in a downhole networking environment and respective applications for data processing and communication are described herein.... Agent: Jeffrey E. Daly Intelliserv, Inc

20070189164 - System and method for packet timing of circuit emulation services over networks: A system and method for managing information communication in a network includes a plurality of network nodes. A plurality of circuit emulation data flows are established between a first network node and at least a second network node. Different data transmission rates are assigned to each circuit emulation data flow... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070189161 - Apparatus, and associated method, for providing network selection management in a radio communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for selecting whether to authorize connection of a mobile station to communicate by way of a communication network. Radio frequency uncertainty, such as at coverage area boundaries, is managed to control better the selection. Signals broadcast by the communication system are monitored and signal performance... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070189160 - Method and system for randomized puncturing in mobile communication systems: Certain aspects of a method and system for handling signals in a communication system are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include partitioning processing of a plurality of information bits in a received bitstream into a functional data processing path and a functional address processing path. A final address of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070189167 - Network congestion recognition and management: Apparatus for managing bandwidth for a plurality of connections each having a respective connection token, the apparatus having corresponding methods and computer-readable media, comprises a memory to store the connection tokens, the memory comprising a ready connection queue, a pending increase connection queue, and an increase connection queue; and a... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070189159 - System and method for dynamically optimized message processing: The invention comprises a method and system for dynamically processing messages. After a message is received from a network or from an internal application, and the message type is identified, the invention determines whether an optimized handler should be used to process messages of the identified message type. If an... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070189168 - Method and apparatus for establishing a virtual link, wireless lan, and method for transmitting data: The embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for establishing a virtual link. The method includes the following steps: a virtual link establishment requesting end initiates a virtual link establishment request which contains virtual link negotiation parameters of the requesting end to a requested end through... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070189169 - Bandwidth allocation: In certain embodiments, a method for bandwidth allocation includes receiving at least a first traffic flow and a second traffic flow, each traffic flow including at least committed information rate (CIR) and excess information rate (EIR) parameters. The CIR parameter in each traffic flow is associated with a corresponding guaranteed... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070189170 - Method and system for maximizing network capacity utilization in multiprotocol label switched networks by moving label switched paths: A method for adding a new path between a source node and a terminal node in a network, the new path and an existing path traversing links between nodes in the network, the method comprising: transmitting a forward entity from the source node along forward links through the network toward... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070189175 - Capture timing and negotiation data with repeat counts in a networking diagnostic component: A network diagnostic device or component that is placed in-line between two nodes in a network to compress network data traffic to preserve available memory space. The network diagnostic component receives a low speed signal pattern from a first node for communication with a second node. The low speed signal... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070189174 - Compacting of frames in a network diagnostic device: A network diagnostic component that is placed in-line between two nodes in a network to reorder or compact a data frame to allow the network diagnostic component to interpret the data frame. The network diagnostic component receives a network data frame from the first node for communication with the second... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070189171 - Network diagnostic systems and methods for transmitting and receiving network messages: A networking system is provided. The networking system may include a network diagnostic component. The network diagnostic component may perform any of a variety of network diagnostic functions. The network diagnostic component may include a diagnostic module. The network diagnostic component may also include at least one transceiver. The transceiver... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070189172 - Out-of-band control of communication protocol in an in-line device: Systems and methods for a network diagnostic component that is placed in-line between two nodes in a network to control the protocol with which two nodes communicate. The network diagnostic component receives a network data stream from a first node for communication with a second node. The network data stream... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070189176 - Random data compression scheme in a network diagnostic component: A network diagnostic component or device that is placed in-line between a first and second node. The diagnostic component or device is used to compress a random data signal. For example, the first node may communicate with the second node using a random data signal that includes random data units... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070189173 - Sliding frame comparator in a network diagnostic device: A network diagnostic component that is placed in-line between a first and second node. The diagnostic component is used to perform a comparison operation on any specified portion of a network data frame. For example, the first node may communicate with the second node using a network data frame that... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070189177 - Method of failure detection in an ip forwarding plane: A method of failure detection on an Internet Protocol (IP) forwarding plane, which includes: IP nodes of the two ends obtain Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) identifier information which is used in the BFD, moreover start a BFD session, encapsulate and transport a BFD packet between the IP nodes running the... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070189178 - Method for determining the operations performed on packets by a network device: Methods and systems for determining the operations performed on packets by a network device are described. A simulated packet is input into a network device. The path taken by the simulated packet is traced. Also, the operations performed on the simulated packet are logged. Further, the operations performed on the... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070189183 - Method and apparatus for adjusting output bit rate of video packet: An apparatus for adjusting an output bit rate of a TS packet includes: a TS processing unit for processing the TS packet; an output buffer for buffering and outputting TS packets processed by the TS processing unit; and a bit rate adjustment unit for separating a counting value of packet... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070189185 - Method for selecting qos policy and system thereof: A method and a system for selecting Quality of Service (QoS) policy, the method including: setting QoS policy processing information in a QPH; receiving, by a QoS Manager (QM), a QoS request from a CP, selecting a QPH to provide QoS policy for a traffic stream according to the processing... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070189184 - Method to accurately and securely determine propagation delay and distance between sending and receiving node in packet network using cut-through approach and packet network node for executing the method: A method and system for measuring a distance between nodes in a packet network are provided. The system and method include measuring and storing a departure time of a ping packet sent from a source node to a destination node, sending a response packet with respect to the ping packet... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070189187 - Method to precisely and securely determine propagation delay and distance between sending and receiving node in packet network and packet network node system for executing the method: A system and method for determining a propagation delay between nodes in a packet network are provided. The system and method include sending a ping packet from a source node to a destination node, determining an intermediate node delay of the ping packet at an intermediate node and recording the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070189180 - Method and node for controlling the forwarding quality in a data network: The present invention relates to a method and a node for controlling the forwarding quality in a data network. The data network comprising a measurement manager comprising means for performing measurements in said data network and a Network Resource Manager, NRM, comprising means for obtaining information of the network topology.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070189182 - Method for establishing power line communication link: A method for providing power line communications in a multi-unit building is provided. One embodiment includes determining the quality of a communication link associated with each of a plurality of communication nodes, selecting one of the plurality of communication nodes based, at least in part, on the quality of the... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20070189186 - Multiplexing of ds1 traffic across wired and wireless ethernet devices: Apparatuses and methods for multiplexing of DS1 traffic across wired and wireless Ethernet devices. A transmitter sends data packets to a receiver through an Ethernet system. The transmitter includes a modeling module that constructs a modeled jitter buffer corresponding to a receiver jitter buffer located at the receiver. The transmitter... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070189179 - Response time prediction method for frames on a serial bus: A method for predicting the worst case response time for a frame in a frame queuing system, where frames are grouped together in transactions. In order to achieve an analysis that better models the transactions present in the serial bus network, the transaction concept has been redefined compared to prior... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070189181 - System for using cellular phones as traffic probes: A system and method for determining the flow of traffic in a monitored route segment using global positioning system, or assisted global positioning system, enabled cellular phones as traffic probes takes advantage of the existing cellular infrastructure to deploy traffic probes to determine the flow of traffic based on the... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070189191 - Communications meshes: Methods are disclosed for forming a network (1) of nodes (A-H) from a plurality of nodes (A-H) and a plurality of potential transmission links (2) between respective nodes (A-H). Methods are also disclosed for adapting an initial mesh communications network configuration to a final mesh communications network communications configuration. Methods... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070189189 - Method and system for simplified network wide traffic and/or flow monitoring in a data network: Method and system for providing dynamic network data traffic monitoring including monitoring a data network, detecting a change in the data network, initiating a span session based on the detected change in the data network, and dynamically modifying network configuration based on the detected change in the data network is... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070189188 - Method for candidate access router capability discovery: A method of retrieving candidate access router discovery (CARD) information in a user terminal which is present in a many access systems. CARD information is exchanged on an IP control plane between access routers in the access systems, but the user terminal has no IP control plane. In accordance with... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070189190 - Topology discovery of a private network: The present invention relates to a method and system for determining devices connected to a private network through a gateway. A Network Management System (NMS) through the use of inquiries and Port Address Translation (PAT) commands is able to determine the topology of the network of devices within a private... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070189192 - Method and apparatus for transferring information on station in wireless mesh network: A method and apparatus of transferring information on a station to other nodes in a wireless mesh network if the station is associated in or disassociated from a mesh access point are provided. The apparatus includes detection unit which detects a disassociation or association of the station, a message generation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070189193 - Rerouting multicast traffic in response to detecting imminent network disruption: Various systems and method for rerouting multicast traffic in response to detecting imminent network disruption are disclosed. One method involves detecting an imminent topology change and, in response, identifying a new multicast distribution tree for a multicast group. A join message for the multicast group is then sent towards a... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070189194 - Method and system for wireless lan dynamic channel change with honeypot trap: A network security system includes a system data store capable of storing a variety of data associated with a wireless computer network and communication transmitted thereon, a communication interface supporting wireless communication over the wireless computer network and a system processor. Configuration data associated with an access point on a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070189196 - Dynamic loading for signaling variants: Methods and apparatus for dynamically loading signaling definition files for operations involving multiple signaling variants. Transmission links that transmit communications corresponding to one of several signaling variants are associated with one of several signaling definition files, where each signaling definition file corresponds to one of the signaling variants and, thus,... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070189195 - Method and apparatus for use in carrier recovery in a communications system: A receiver includes a digital phase locked loop (PLL) for performing carrier recovery. The digital PLL further includes a phase error estimator driven by hard decisions and an integrator, which accumulates a phase error signal provided by the phase error estimator. To reduce the acquisition time, the digital PLL is... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070189197 - Apparatus and method for allocating resources in an fdma wireless communication system: A method for resource allocation in an FDMA communication system is disclosed in which the resource allocation method includes distinguishing a dynamic resource allocation service, an amount of resource allocation for which changes every transmission time, and a static resource allocation service, an amount of resource allocation for which is... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070189198 - Determination of parameter values of an uplink transport channel: The invention relates to a method and a network element for determining cell-based values of a parameter of a selected active uplink transport channel multiplexed with other transport channels to a dedicated physical channel. It is proposed that a value for the parameter of the selected uplink transport channel is... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070189208 - Adaptive modulation and coding: A mobile communication system for transmitting or receiving a signal among a user equipment and a base station, includes the user equipment and the base station. The user equipment includes a unit operable to measure a received signal quality, and a unit operable to report the measuring received signal quality... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070189209 - Adaptive modulation and coding: A base station, for use in a wireless communication system, includes a report receiving unit operable to receive from a user equipment. of the system a report of a downlink received signal quality produced by the user equipment. The report receiving unit includes a unit operable to receive a report... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070189210 - Adaptive modulation and coding: A user equipment, for use in a wireless communication system, includes a unit operable to measure a received signal quality in a receiver, a unit operable to report the measuring received signal quality to the transmitter, or a unit operable to report a selected modulation and coding scheme to the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070189211 - Adaptive modulation and coding: An apparatus for reporting received signal quality to a transmitter includes a unit operable to measure a received signal quality in a receiver, a unit operable to report the measuring received signal quality to the transmitter, and a unit operable to report a selected modulation and coding scheme to the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070189212 - Adaptive modulation and coding: A method of reporting received signal quality to a transmitter includes measuring a received signal quality in a receiver, and selectively performing the steps of reporting the received signal quality to the transmitter, and reporting a selected modulation and coding scheme to the transmitter.... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070189199 - Base station apparatus, mobile station apparatus, and data channel scheduling method: A scheduling method capable of suppressing, in a multicarrier transmission for which a data channel is scheduled, interferences with adjacent cells to suppress reduction of the line capacity, while preventing reduction of the throughput. This method selects a mobile station, to which the data channel is to be assigned, based... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070189206 - Method and apparatus for dynamically configuring a hybrid automatic repeat request memory: A method and apparatus for dynamically configuring a memory for hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes in a receiving node to permit a more flexible H-ARQ memory configuration and improve the performance of H-ARQ processes. An H-ARQ memory in the receiving node is reserved for a plurality of H-ARQ processes.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070189205 - Method and apparatus for providing and utilizing a non-contention based channel in a wireless communication system: In a wireless communication system comprising at least one evolved Node-B (eNB) and a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units (WRTUs), a non-contention based (NCB) channel is established, maintained, and utilized. The NCB channel is allocated for use by one or more WTRUs in the system for utilization in a variety... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070189203 - Method and system for adding clients in push-to-talk over cellular network: A method allows an individual PoC client and a PoC client belonging to a specific PoC group to participate in a session as extended targets while a PoC group talk is proceeding. When the PoC client that is participating in the ad-hoc group talk intends to make the ad-hoc PoC... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070189213 - Method and system for controlling communication network and router used in the network: The present invention provides a communication network comprising a host network, a plurality of base stations, at least a mobile host capable of establishing links to the base stations, and a hierarchy-network of plural routers which are improved in transferring performances for ensuring continuous operations with a reduced load without... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070189204 - Method for communication in a wlan with a group of relay stations and radio access points: A first radio station of a group of radio stations identifies at least one adjacent radio station of the group while using a first radio interface. The first radio station then transmits information concerning the at least one adjacent radio station, which is determined by the first radio station, to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070189207 - Methods and systems for providing reliable multicast service in a wlan system: A method for acknowledged multicast operation in a wireless network having a base station and at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) includes the base station transmitting a first multicast signal during a first scheduled interval, the at least one WTRU receiving the first multicast signal during the first scheduled... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070189200 - Methods of distributing an installation program on a wireless link and supporting memory circuit and apparatus: A self-contained installation program having at least one payload condition is provided (314) and distributed (316) to a plurality of selected nodes, using a wireless link, that subsequently installs the self-contained program based, at least in part, on a correspondence with the at least one payload condition.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070189201 - Triggering migration of a network access agent associated with an access terminal: A method is provided for triggering migration of call session state information. The method includes determining whether to migrate a network access agent associated with an access terminal in a wireless communication system based on at least one of mobility information associated with the access terminal and status information associated... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070189202 - Wireless audio systems and related methods: Systems and methods are provided to facilitate the distribution of audio signals over wireless networks. In one implementation, an audio system includes a head end having an encoder and a wireless network interface. Audio signals associated with a plurality of audio channels are processed by the encoder to provide an... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070189214 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving signal in a communication system: A signal transmission/transmission apparatus and method in a communication system are provided, in which a BS groups MSs serviced by the BS into MS groups and allocates a DL dedicated channel and a UL dedicated channel to each of the MS groups.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070189220 - Method of providing session mobility: The invention concerns a method of providing session mobility to an IP based real-time session in a telecommunications network whereby the telecommunications network uses the session initiation protocol for the setup and control of the session. The session comprises a media stream between a first terminal associated to a first... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070189221 - Handover control apparatus, base station, edge router, relay router, radio terminal unit, mobile communication system, and handover control method: When a radio terminal unit 30 undergoes a handover between base stations 34, 36, a previous edge router 40 having been connected to the radio terminal unit 30, out of edge routers 40, 42 provided in respective base stations 34, 36, provides an instruction to instruct a relay router 48,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070189223 - Hsdpa cqi, ack, nack power offset known in node b and srnc: High speed data packet access (HSDPA) is facilitated by ensuring that power offsets are delivered to the base station (Node B) so that the new functions envisioned therefor having to do with scheduling and retransmission handling can be carried out effectively. A signal primitive having one or more information elements... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070189219 - Internet protocol tunneling on a mobile network: Systems and methods are provided for sending information in a first protocol over a network that supports a second protocol. A tunnel is used to provide a roaming mobile node with IPv6 packet data over an IPv4 core network. When the mobile node is handed off while roaming, the same... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070189217 - Method and system for signalling the transfer of voice calls between access points in a wireless local area network: A method for signalling a transfer of a voice call communicated between a wireless device and a second device from a first access point to a second access point in a wireless network, the second device coupled to the first and second access points through a server, the method comprising:... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070189216 - Method for performing a network handoff in a wireless network environment: A method for performing an efficient handoff of a wireless endpoint to an access point in a wireless network environment includes measuring a number of stations utilizing the access point, selecting a broadcast count of the wireless endpoint according to the number of stations, selecting a retry count of the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070189215 - Method for reducing interface load of home subscriber server: The present invention provides a method for reducing the load on Home Subscriber Server (HSS)'s interface. After receiving a request message from Serving Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF) comprising the request for storing the name of the S-CSCF and for downloading the user's subscription information, HSS first stores the name... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070189218 - Mpa with mobile ip foreign agent care-of address mode: In the preferred embodiments, a system and/or method is disclosed for performing an MPA proactive handover of a mobile node in a Mobile IP scenario which includes, employing a care-of address assigned by a previous foreign agent (pFA-CoA) as a mobile node's tunnel outer address of a forward proactive handover... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLC

20070189222 - Station mobility between access points: Various embodiments are discussed for approaches to transparent mobility, which attempts to permit a wireless station to be handed off between wireless access points without packet loss, without noticeable delay to the station user, and/or without loss of session continuity.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070189226 - Apparatus and method for processing bursts in a wireless communication system: Disclosed is a method for processing a burst by a receiver in a wireless communication system having the burst, which includes at least one Protocol Data Unit (PDU). The method includes performing error checking of a first PDU header from among received bursts; performing error checking of a second PDU... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070189227 - Method and apparatus optimizing a radio link: Optimizing a radio link is done by acquiring at least OSI layer one and two performance measurements, determining an optimum setting collection for at least OSI layer three to a top layer, then configuring at least the OSI layer three to the top layer based upon the optimum setting collection.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070189225 - System and method for rate shifting for wireless voip: A method of rate shifting specially suited for the voice traffic, which differentiates poor channel conditions from a heavily loaded channel of a WLAN and adapts to the network traffic condition and channel condition promptly with low rate of false shifting. Determining when to rate shift is based on a... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070189224 - Transmission power control method, mobile station, and radio network controller: A transmission power control method for controlling transmission power of an enhanced dedicated physical data channel for transmitting uplink user data, includes: storing, at a mobile station, a reference transmission format including a transmission data block size which is used in the enhanced dedicated physical data channel, and a gain... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070189236 - User equipment: The invention describes user equipment for communicating data in a communications system comprising a set of user equipment; comprising a transceiver arranged to receive a first data packet over a communications data channel and an associated second data packet over a communications control channel. The second data packet comprises a... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070189237 - Adaptive preamble length for continuous connectivity transmission: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for defining an adaptive preamble length of a preamble for a continuous connectivity transmission using a control channel, e.g., a UL (uplink) dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH), for transmitting the preamble. Such a preamble would reduce the... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070189233 - Apparatus and method for processing input/output data in communication system: An apparatus and method for processing input/output data in a communication system is disclosed. By adding a controller that adjusts timing intervals between a first buffer having a first timing interval and a second buffer having a second timing interval, buffer usage can be minimized.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070189238 - Cdma system transmission matrix coefficient calculation: A hermetian of a system response matrix is to be determined. Spreading codes, channel specific multipliers and channel impulse responses are provided. The channel code specific multipliers have real and imaginary values. Channel codes being a combination of a real spreading code, a complex scrambling code and a sign of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070189229 - Gain control method for the initial cell searching in td-scdma mobile communication system: The present invention discloses a gain control method used at the initial cell searching by the user terminal in TD-SCDMA mobile communication system. At each carrier frequency, the user terminal firstly receives and records the data of a plurality of subframes transmitted from a base station when the receiver is... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070189234 - Method and apparatus for open loop power control in frequency division multiple access system: A method and apparatus for efficient open loop power control in a packet data mobile communication system using Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) is disclosed. When a target Signal-to-Interference Ratio (SIR) required for the determination of transmission power using open loop power control is set, influence upon neighboring cells is... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070189232 - Method and system for data packer unit for accelerating stack functions: Methods and systems for data packer unit for accelerating stack functions may include packing payload bits for HSDPA packets in sequence, in hardware, for example, a multistage pipeline, to form a data packet. The data packet may be aligned to start on a n-bit boundary, regardless of a bit position... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070189231 - Method and system for implementing a bufferless harq processor: Certain aspects of a method and system for handling signals in a communication system are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include mapping of at least a portion of a plurality of information bits in a received HSDPA bitstream to particular memory addresses without buffering a portion of the plurality... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070189228 - Method for establishing an atm traffic channel path between a bsc and a bts in an ev-do system: The present invention generally relates to a method for establishing an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) traffic channel path between a SF block of a base station controller (BSC) and a channel card block (HCCA) of a base transceiver station (BTS). More particularly, the present invention is directed to a method... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070189235 - Quality of service based resource determination and allocation apparatus and procedure in high speed packet access evolution and long term evolution systems: A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) and method are provided that process communication data in a hierarchy of processing layers including a physical (PHY) layer, a medium access control (MAC) layer and higher layers. A MAC layer transport format selection device defines an assignment of higher layer transmission data to... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070189230 - Transmission power control method of uplink packet data transmission: A mobile station (MS) transmits a first data flow to a first group of base stations with a first power offset, transmits a second data flow to a second group of base stations, and further transmits a pilot signal. A radio network controller (RNC) controls the power of the pilot... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070189240 - Method and apparatus for controlling transmission and reception of dedicated pilots according to mcs level in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for controlling transmission and reception of dedicated pilots according to an MCS level in a wireless communication system are provided, in which an MCS level is determined for a data channel, the amount of resources for sending dedicated pilots is determined in inverse proportion to the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070189239 - System and method for transmitting uplink data in a broadband wireless communication system: An uplink packet data transmission system and method are provided which can reduce a collision probability in a contention period by assigning a priority to mobile stations when bandwidth allocation is rejected due to lack of resources of a base station from which a best effort service is provided. In... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070189253 - Method and apparatus for reducing transmission delay of down-link frame in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for reducing a transmission delay of a downlink frame in a wireless communication system are provided. A frame transmission method in an access point (AP) includes classifying each of a plurality of hosts as any one of a normal destination and a suspect destination according to... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070189246 - Buffering multimedia mobile devices and methods to operate the same: Buffering multimedia mobile devices and methods to operate the same are disclosed. A disclosed example mobile device comprises a user interface to initiate a call, an audio codec to receive an audio signal, a memory to store a first portion of the audio signal received before the call is established,... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070189249 - Discovery and authentication scheme for wireless mesh networks: Wireless network devices discover individual mesh nodes and networks of mesh nodes. An association is formed on the basis of peer-to-peer interactions at layer-1, layer-2 and/or higher layers of the Open System Interconnect (OSI) model. In particular, the system uses Beacon, Probe Request, Probe Response, Association Request, Association Response, and... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070189254 - General access network controller bypass to facilitate use of standard cellular handsets with a general access network: Enabling a standard cellular handset to be used to access a core mobile network via a generic access network is disclosed. A communication between a generic access network element and the core mobile network is intercepted. A modified version of the communication is generated. The modified communication is forwarded.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070189247 - Method and communication device for expanded coverage in a mesh network: An apparatus and method (200) are disclosed for expanded coverage in a mesh network (100). A communication device (140) incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a controller (302) managing operation of a transceiver (320) in communication with the mesh and programmed to acquire (202) a network... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070189248 - Method and system for hsdpa bit level processor engine: Methods and systems for processing signals in a communication system are disclosed and may include pipelining processing of a received HSDPA bitstream within a single chip. The pipelining may include calculating a memory address for a current portion of a plurality of information bits in the received HSDPA bitstream, while... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070189243 - Method for achieving load balance between access point devices in a wireless local area network: A method for achieving load balance between access point devices in a wireless local area network and it's applicable for a wireless local area network in which multiple access points provide wireless connection service for a plurality of wireless mobile stations. In the method, a master access point, which allows... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070189256 - Method for configuring wireless local area network in wireless metropolitan area network and wireless communication system supporting the same: A method for configuring a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) within a Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (WMAN) and a wireless communication system supporting the same are provided. A dual-mode terminal is used as a relay for relaying between the WMAN and the WLAN and the relay divides a total service... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070189257 - Mobile terminal, wireless communications system and mobile terminal control method: A mobile terminal configured to constitute an ad hoc network together with a plurality of other terminals, the mobile terminal includes a packet relay unit configured to execute a relay operation of relaying a packet transferred between the other terminals. A packet transmitter is configured to execute a transmission operation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070189258 - Network interconnection apparatus, network interconnection method, name resolution apparatus and computer program: A power source of a LAN terminal at a home such as home server is turned on from the outside the home via the Internet. A home gateway apparatus receives such a start request by proxy and transmits a start instruction packet to corresponding equipment on the home LAN. Although... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070189241 - Optimized interaction method of user terminal selecting access mobile network in wireless local area network: The present invention relates to an optimized interaction method of a WLAN user terminal selecting an access mobile communication network. In this method, after a wireless connection between the WLAN user terminal and a WLAN access network is established, the WLAN access network or the WLAN user terminal initiates an... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070189251 - Power saving method for mobile terminal: A device for controlling a power level received by a feature of a mobile terminal includes a control unit for setting the power level to a first power level as a function of time. The control unit may also be configured to set the power level to a second power... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070189250 - Providing anonymity to a mobile node in a session with a correspondent node: A method, a correspondent node and a mobile node provide anonymity and unlinkability to a mobile node in a session with a correspondent node. Sequence values, calculated based on secret data, are added to updates sent from the mobile node towards the correspondent node and are used by the correspondent... Agent: Sandra Beauchesne Ericsson Canada Inc.

20070189244 - System and method to enable wusb application in a distributed uwb mac: A system and method is provided for incorporating host-device communication in wireless USB (WUSB). A host (101) either uses a multicast Distributed Reservation Protocol (DRP) frame on behalf of connected devices (102) to reserve wireless channel resources, a unicast DRP frame or Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) with a Poll... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070189255 - Systems and methods for mobility management on wireless networks: Systems and methods to manage network access (e.g., IPv4 and IPv6) and layer 3 mobility are provided. This can allow mobility management to be moved from a mobile node's stack to the access gateway, simplifying the stack and providing fast handoffs. The mobility management at an access gateway further allows... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070189242 - Wireless communication device and wireless communication method: When a wireless communication apparatus is used indoors where discharge lamps are used, flickering of the discharge lamp can cause transmission path fluctuations in which the amplitude or phase of the reception signal changes suddenly. The effect of this discharge lamp fading is that communication data errors occur easily and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070189252 - Wireless node apparatus and multihop wireless lan system: Disclosed is a technique of avoiding a loop and re-constructing a tree while maintaining a tree structure of its own subordinates even in the case of a disconnection from a host connection-accepting wireless node. The technique comprises a storage means 101 for storing information on the number of hops when... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070189245 - Wlan device and method for numbering frames with sequence numbers: A method for numbering a plurality of frames with sequence numbers is implemented in a wireless network device having a plurality of data units, and includes the steps of: providing receiver addresses of the data units; and numbering each data unit with a respective sequence number according to the receiver... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070189260 - Method and apparatus for detecting channel types and method of employing same: A method for detecting channel types of a channel. The method includes begins with receiving a data stream from the channel. The data stream comprises a plurality of data sections, and each data section includes a training sequence and at least one data sequence. A training-sequence noise is formed according... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070189259 - Method and system for fast cell search using psync process in a multimode wcdma terminal: Certain aspects of a method and system for a fast cell search using a primary synchronization channel (PSYNC) process in a multimode wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) terminal are provided. A WCDMA frequency search or a global system for mobile communications (GSM) frequency search is performed based on a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070189261 - Method for controlling handoff in optical distributed network system using multi input multi output: A method for controlling a handoff in an optical distributed network system using MIMO (multi input multi output) is disclosed. The method includes steps of classifying a channel into a first channel and a second channel, and setting an active cell, receiving and measuring a signal strength of a predetermined... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070189262 - Voice over internet protocol (voip) downlink packet scheduling apparatus and method in a mobile communication base station (bs) system: A VoIP downlink packet scheduling apparatus and method in a mobile communication Base Station (BS) system are provided. The downlink packet scheduling apparatus includes a packet queue for storing a downlink packet when the downlink packet is received; a downlink scheduler for selecting a packet stored to the packet queue... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070189263 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method: A wireless communication apparatus for receiving a packet by detecting synchronization timing. The wireless communication apparatus includes: signal receiving means for receiving a transmission signal from a transmission source through an antenna; synchronization-timing detecting means for detecting synchronization timing using a timing detection field included in a header portion of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070189265 - Method for fast rerouting: A method for fast rerouting, wherein, in a router, a fast rerouting flag and bypass path information is set for forward information corresponding to a label switch path of an incoming interface board, the method including: receiving a packet, by an incoming interface of the router, determining whether the fast... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070189264 - Proxy telephone number system for communication network subscribers: A proxy telephone system and method is implemented on or as part of a communication network. Proxy telephone numbers are assigned to network users or subscribers. The phone numbers for a user's various communication terminals (e.g., GSM wireless unit, PHS wireless unit, home telephone, work telephone) are associated with the... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070189273 - Bi-planar network architecture: An electronic communication network includes a connectivity plane and a control plane. The control plane includes at least one control node for inspecting packets received by the control plane. The control plane is configured to perform network traffic control functions on the packets received by the at least one control... Agent: 3com Corporation

20070189272 - Device analysis system for tracking device operations within a wireless network: A system for tracking handset operations within a wireless network includes an interface with a database containing call data relating to handset operations wherein the call data is collected from various call data records. An extraction module analyzes the call data within the database to obtain mobile originating call data... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070189275 - System and method for connecting mobile devices: A system and a method connect mobile devices via channels which connect a first terminal and a second terminal. A bearer establishment of the connection is identified by the first terminal and/or the second terminal. The first terminal accesses information to identify the second terminal and/or to select a first... Agent: Patents+tms, P.C.

20070189271 - Computer-related devices and techniques for facilitating an emergency call: The claimed invention consists of integrating a wireless client with a network adapter in a single device which allows a telephone to connect to a network access point for the purpose of establishing Voice-over-IP (VoIP) calls. The user can attach his telephone to the network adapter and place it anywhere... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP Attn:IPDocketing Dept.

20070189266 - Image communication control method, image communication control program, and image communication apparatus: When image communication is conducted by using one of a plurality of different image communication systems via a sending/receiving path including an IP network (101), a transmitter (105) and receivers (108, 108a, 112, 115) or devices (gateway (111, 113) or an IP network interface (109)) for relaying the image communication... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070189268 - Intelligent media gateway selection for multimedia communication sessions: A method of operating a packet network includes the step of selecting one of a plurality of candidate gateways to connect a multimedia communication session between the packet network and a TDM network. The packet network has a source node of the multimedia communication session, and the TDM network has... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20070189269 - Method and system for multiple party telephone call: Provided is a method and system for multiple party telephone calls. The method includes receiving an incoming voice telephone call from a call network at a multi-party module, and allowing, by the multi-party module, for a plurality of terminal modules to participate in the incoming voice telephone call, each terminal... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070189274 - Method and system for resource reservation in customer request mode in next generation network, and an rm-pdf thereof: A resource reservation method in customer request mode in Next Generation Network (NGN) includes: a Resource Mediation Policy Decision Function (RM-PDF) receives a resource request containing resource request parameters through a Border Gateway Function (BGF); the RM-PDF sends an admission installation instruction to the BGF to set admission decision parameters... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070189270 - Network adapter: The claimed invention consists of integrating a wireless client with a network adapter in a single device which allows a telephone to connect to a network access point for the purpose of establishing Voice over IP (VoIP) calls. The user can attach his telephone to the network adapter and place... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP Attn:IPDocketing Dept.

20070189267 - Voice assisted click-to-talk: A link is associated with an icon attached to an email message or web site. When a person activates the link, a voice path is opened to a voice assistant. The voice assistant sets up a voice call between the client and a telephone number.... Agent: David L. Thomson

20070189279 - Access based internet protocol multimedia service authorization: The described embodiments of the present invention include a method for controlling authorization of a multimedia service requested by a user device. In one embodiment, the method includes examining an identity of an access network associated with the user device and an identity of the service requested to determine whether... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070189280 - Providing information relating to a telephone call: A client software application runs on a device, which can itself be used to make phone calls. Based on the phone number of the device, or the phone number of a called party, the client application interacts with a server, which is associated with a telephone gateway. The server sends... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070189276 - Secure ip address exchange in central and distributed server environments: Embodiments of the present invention provide a network infrastructure operable to support the exchange of communications, such as textual, image, video and voice communications, between a first client terminal having a first user identifier and service by a first service provider and a second (destination) client terminal having a second... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070189278 - System and method for compressing voice over ip headers: There is provided a system and method for compressing voice-over-IP headers. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided a method comprising receiving a voice-over-IP packet including at least one packet header that contains a set of one or more packet header field values, selecting a content identifier that corresponds... Agent: Michael G. Fletcher Fletcher Yoder

20070189277 - Virtual audio drivers and a virtual audio telephone interface: The present invention provides a system with virtual audio driver for the VoIP (voice over internet protocol) environment. The virtual audio driver is computer software, and it can be implemented by diverse possibilities. Including being implemented by different programming languages; supporting various operating systems (OS) and so on. It should... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070189281 - Voip terminal speech quality control system and method: A handover source AP among APs in a system has a RAM 203 storing a MAC address of a VoIP terminal performing a VoIP communication, holding status information indicative of a holding state, and data on the number of in-call terminals. A CPU 202 monitors all transmitting/receiving frames and packets... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070189282 - Base station synchronization during soft handover: A method of combining soft-handoff with a hybrid ARQ scheme to maximize throughput and gain in a communications system. After receiving a frame from the MS (110), the BTSs (104 and 106) will process the frame and communicate to the MS over a forward control channel whether the frame contained... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070189283 - Characterizing transmission of data segments within a switch fabric using multiple counters for each destination node: In one embodiment, data segments routed through a switch fabric are identified as being either a first or a second type. First and second counters are maintained for a destination node to characterize the transmission of data segments of the corresponding type within the switch fabric. For each first-type time... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20070189285 - Apparatus and method for transferring data bursts in optical burst switching network: An apparatus and method for transferring data bursts in an optical burst switching network are provided. In an optical burst switching network including a number of nodes, each node including demultiplexers and multiplexers connected to a plurality of input/output ports for transferring the data bursts through a number of wavelengths,... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070189286 - Method for depacketization of multimedia packet data: Disclosed is a method for depacketization of multimedia packet data, the method comprising: a context-aware step of parsing and recording a start code, which can identify each frame, in a first portion of a payload of a real-time transport protocol (RTP) packet; and a step of performing depacketization according to... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070189287 - Method of operating a network: For operating a network having a primary station and at least two secondary stations, the primary station communicates with the at least two secondary stations, and the at least two secondary stations communicate with one another to furnish a cross communication, and the cross communication is effected by telegrams which... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20070189284 - System and method for routing table computation and analysis: Described is a system and method for determining routing information for a network link, the network link including a plurality of subnets, each subnet having the same routing information as the network link, storing the routing information as an entry in a routing table, determining subnet information for each of... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070189290 - Dynamic multicasting scheme for mesh networks: The Dynamic Efficient Encapsulated Multicasting (DEEM) scheme described in this invention improves multicast packet transmissions in mobile mesh networks. An Efficient Encapsulation Criteria (EEC) is used by the DEEM that takes into account different hop-by-hop wireless interface communication conditions. In another embodiment, a Dynamic Efficient Tunnel Multicast (DETF) scheme reduces... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070189291 - Source routed multicast lsp: Source routed multicast LSP is described herein. In one embodiment, when a first node receives a first packet having a label stack including a plurality of labels compatible with MPLS (multi-protocol label switching), in response to a first label on a top of the label stack, the first packet is... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070189289 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing frequency domain multiplexed multicast and unicast transmissions: A method is provided for applying frequency domain multiplexing of unicast and multicast services on a single carrier, such that both services can operate at the same time, and may be received with the same RF front end and A/D converter. In order to reduce subcarrier interference between unicast and... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070189288 - Method and system for providing configuration of network elements through hierarchical inheritance: Method and system for providing dynamic configuration of network elements using hierarchical inheritance including monitoring a data network, detecting a change associated with a configuration of the data network, identifying one or more member groups affected by the detected change, and modifying the network configuration for the one or more... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070189296 - Data transmission circuit and method for controlling the data transmission circuit: A circuit connected to a data transmission path, said circuit comprising, a merge element which generates merged data by merging a plurality of incoming data; and a controller which transmits said merged data through said data transmission path when said data transmission path comes open.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070189292 - Bandwidth estimation of an underlying connection-oriented transport connection from higher layers: Estimating bandwidth of a transport connection from higher layers. In an embodiment, the bandwidth is estimated as a function of the window size, the time taken to transfer a transport payload of window size from the sender system to the receiver system, and a conclusion indicating whether the window size... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20070189294 - Methods and apparatus for signaling between independent control networks: An apparatus which enables first and second signaling networks to communicate with one another via one or more proxies. Each respective proxy can edit a received message and translate an included address to an address associated with a receiving signaling network.... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070189293 - Qos guarantee system in multidomain network and qos server applied to the same: Disclosed is a QoS guaranteeing method on a network path across a plurality of domains, among QoS servers linking the domains included in each of a plurality of domains, the QoS server included in the domain defined as a QoS guaranteeing resource request source performing the steps of generating a... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070189295 - Relay information setting method and relay information setting device: The present invention improves the reliability and safety of communication in a communications system wherein communication is relayed. When an on-premise terminal 100 sets relay information, such as NAT information or the setting information of a packet filter, in a gateway 110, the relay information is set after confirming whether... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070189297 - Method for establishing diameter session for packet flow based charging: A method for establishing a Diameter session for packet flow based charging with multiple ways for establishing the Diameter session between a TPF and a CRF. The Diameter session can be established for each bearer of each subscriber, which means that for GPRS the Diameter session is established for each... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070189298 - Distributed wireless network with dynamic bandwidth allocation: A communication network includes a plurality of communication nodes, each of which can transmit data at a variable bandwidth. Each communication node predicts its own bandwidth requirements, and communicates its predicted own bandwidth requirements to the network. The nodes acquire bandwidth requirement information of other communication nodes on the network,... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070189299 - Receiving data from virtual channels: A method for receiving data from a plurality of virtual channels begins by storing a stream of data as a plurality of data segments, wherein the stream of data includes multiplexed data fragments from at least one of the plurality of virtual channels, and wherein a data segment of the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070189301 - Representing network availability status information in presence information: A network element for handling network availability information represented as presence information, where the network element includes a receiving unit for receiving status information in a network availability element and a converting unit for converting the status information into a presence information data format. The network element also includes a... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070189300 - Charging for multimedia services: According to the present invention there is provided a method of charging for a combinational multimedia service making use of circuit switched and packet switched services between participating user terminals and an IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, responsible for setting-up and controlling packet switched sessions, the method comprising: sending packet switched... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20070189304 - Mac-driven transport block size selection at a physical layer: A network component for performing packet scheduling functions, the network component includes a medium access component and a physical component. The medium access component pre-calculates a set of transport blocks sizes based on predefined parameters and measurements for logical channel identifiers associated with a radio link identifier and signals the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070189305 - Packet sending apparatus and packet transmission system: A packet sending apparatus that improves packet transmission quality by preventing loss of packet information, while minimizing a reduction in transmission rate. A clock frequency deviation correction calculation section calculates a valid packet sending period in which valid packets packet information of which is not lost due to clock frequency... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070189302 - Method of data communication between plc stations belonging to different plc cells and apparatus thereof: A method of data communication between power line communication (PLC) stations belonging to different PLC cells includes transmitting a station ID of a PLC reception station to a PLC cell bridge (CB) of a first PLC cell to which a PLC transmission station belongs, receiving a group identification (GID) and... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070189303 - Storage medium having stored therein data management program, computer data signal, device and method for management of data, protocol switching device and method, and storage medium having stored therein protocol switching program: A computer readable medium stores a data management program that manages data, provides the data to a client connected over a network, and is capable of performing communications in accordance with a plurality of types of protocols, the data management program causing a computer to execute a process for the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070189306 - Method for supporting data framing protocols by an mstp device and an apparatus thereof: A method for supporting data framing protocols by an MSTP device comprises: extracting a POH byte identifying a type of data framing protocol and the corresponding logical port number after receiving the SDH frame; judging whether the POH byte matches the type of the data framing protocol corresponding to the... Agent: Robert Popa C/o Ladas & Parry

20070189307 - Predictive generation of a security network protocol configuration: A method, system and computer program product for predictively configuring a security services protocol implementation can be provided. The method can include providing a set of network topology descriptions and determining a selection of one of the network topology descriptions. The method further can include identifying configuration settings corresponding to... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070189308 - Virtual machine networking using wireless bridge emulation: Embodiments of multi-partition virtual machine networking mechanisms are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070189311 - Symmetric network address translation system using stun technique and method for implementing the same: In a symmetric network address translation system using a Simple Traversal of UDP over NAT (STUN) technique and a method for implementing the same, a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) network includes a STUN server for transmitting, to a private network terminal, a public Internet Protocol (IP) address and first... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070189312 - Method and apparatus for content-aware web switching: This invention provides methods and apparatus for web switching without connection termination while providing content routing functionality. Content-aware web switches terminate incoming TCP connections and inspect the HTTP header to recognize the URL (content) being requested from a web server farm. This invention maps application layer information (URLs) to MPLS... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20070189310 - Multi-network seamless roaming mobile router with auto-discovery and migration of downstream devices on the mobile network: A mobile router offers seamless roaming services to one or more locally connected mobile hosts over one or more simultaneously connected networks. The mobile router, as well as its local area network, roams across different subnets on similar networks, across networks that are dissimilar, or across a simultaneous combination of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070189309 - Route optimization at a packet data switch node: The present invention provides a method of route optimization. The method may include obtaining a packet associated with a first address associated, by a home agent, with a first mobile unit and routing the packet to a second address associated with a second mobile unit along a forward link of... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070189313 - Multi-node architecture with daisy chain communication link configurable to operate in unidirectional and bidirectional modes: A circuit arrangement, method and apparatus utilize communication links that are selectively configurable to operate in both unidirectional and bidirectional modes to communicate data between multiple nodes that are interconnected to one another in a daisy chain configuration. As a result, in many instances communications may be maintained with nodes... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20070189315 - Transmission rate adjustment device and method: A transmission rate adjustment device for supplying MPEG-TS at a desired transmission rate includes: a buffer; a buffer write unit for both sequentially writing to the buffer transport packets of the transport stream that have been read from an MPEG2-TS file and detecting time stamps in the transport stream; and... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070189314 - Frame buffer monitoring method and device: In a frame buffer monitoring method and device, information concerning a received frame is extracted, and a monitoring frame added to a start of the frame is written in a FIFO buffer. When the monitoring frame is read from the FIFO buffer, expectation information is generated from the information concerning... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070189316 - Method for ensuring reliability in network: A method for ensuring reliability in a network is disclosed, including: distributing, based on service flow, services to multiple home function entities of the coupled function entity, where the multiple home function entities have identical functional characteristics in the network; taking over, by a first home function entity operating normally,... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070189317 - Communication method for multi-mode wireless terminal: Provided is a receiving method for a terminal supporting at least two communication modes and at least one receiving algorithms. The receiving method includes the terminal recognizing at least one current communication mode and a channel status, selecting a receiving algorithm for each active communication mode according to the channel... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070189319 - Method and apparatus for reproducing data streams: In one embodiment, at least one supplementary data stream related to a main data stream is downloaded. A stream table defining reproducible data streams, in which a reproducing apparatus selects at least one data stream to be reproduced during presentation of a playitem and a subplayitem, is checked. The playitem... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070189318 - Recording medium having a data structure for managing reproduction of data streams recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses: In one embodiment, the data structure includes first navigation information managing reproduction of at least one main data stream, and second navigation information managing reproduction of at least one supplementary data stream related to the main data stream. The data structure further includes a stream table defining reproducible data streams... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070189320 - Adaptive scheduling of voice traffic in a multi-carrier communication environment: The present invention provides a technique for scheduling data, and in particular, scheduling real-time or voice data for transmissions during a transmit time interval in a multi-carrier communication environment. For each transmit time interval, channel condition indicia for multiple users is determined, and an iterative scheduling process is then implemented... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070189321 - Method and apparatus for executing an application automatically according to the approach of wireless device: A home system is provided. In a method of executing an application, information for executing the application is received from a device when accessing of the device is sensed, and the application is executed based on the received information. Accordingly, when a user merely brings a wireless guest device near... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070189322 - Communication device, communication method, control method for communication device, and communication system: A combination of devices in which communication parameters are to be set is selected on the basis of information indicating the capabilities of communication devices located on a network, and an unselected device is notified of termination of the setting of the communication parameters. Therefore, the communication parameters are set... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070189323 - Serial data bus, motion system and method for the event-driven transmission of messages: The invention relates to a serial data bus including a data line for transmitting electrical signals representing bit states and a plurality of multi-master subscribers between which messages can be exchanged via the data line in an event-driven manner according to the broadcast principle. At least two subscribers have a... Agent: Factor & Lake, Ltd

20070189324 - Method using virtual asic pins to reconfigure hardware: An apparatus comprising a printed circuit board. A first integrated circuit (IC) is mounted on the printed circuit board, wherein the first IC comprises a first memory device, and wherein the first IC is configured to operate in a first mode when a first value is stored in the first... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070189325 - Method and apparatus for antenna steering for wlan: A Station Management Entity (SME) steers a directional antenna for a station to communicate with an Access Point (AP) in an 802.11 protocol system. The SME can steer the antenna before or after an 802.11 station has authenticated and associated with the Access Point. During a passive scan, the steering... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070189326 - Method for data transmission via data netwoks: A method for data transmission via data networks, in particular via ethernet-based data networks, having at least two participants; the data networks have at least one topological real-time field and one topological non-real-time field, and data telegrams sent via the data networks have at least one real-time part and at... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20070189327 - Apparatus and method for increasing reliability of data sensitive to packet loss: An apparatus and method are provided which preferably increase reliability of data sensitive to packet loss. According to principles of the invention, a quality of service value may be dynamically assigned to network packets based on the contents of the network packets.... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070189328 - Enhanced system and method for air traffic control: A system and method for engaging in two-way communication between a pilot and an air traffic controller by speech and hearing processes wherein spoken messages are compared to a database of categorized messages for matching and selecting a categorized message for transmission between pilot and air traffic control.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070189329 - System for combining networks of different addressing schemes: A system for combining networks of different addressing schemes comprises the incorporation of at least one interstitial function between at least one address realm of the one network and at least one address realm of another network for mapping an address between the different addressing schemes. Preferably, the interstitial function... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070189330 - Access control method and system: An access control method applicable to a network including a plurality of communication terminals for achieving simplification in processing, improvement in response, and efficient use of bands is provided. In a terminal station 21, a transmission information generating section 213 generates predetermined transmission information based on the amount of data... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070189331 - Mobile radio communication system, communication apparatus applied in mobile radio communication system, and mobile radio communication method: In the mobile radio communication system where the UMTS and an another system coexist an idle slot for observing the frequency component of another system is inserted in one superframe of UMTS. The duration of this idle slot is at most half of the duration of one frame that form... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070189332 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing in-band signaling and data structures for adaptive control and operation of segmentation: Apparatus, methods, computer program products and data structures are provided that enable effective in-band signaling and data structures for adaptive control and operation of segmentation. An exemplary method includes: determining, during an ongoing wireless communication, that a current communication scheme is to be changed to a new communication scheme including... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070189333 - Time synchronization of digital media: Provided are methods, processing systems and media content devices for associating a device clock from a media content device and a reference time external to the media content device for: receiving media content containing a representation of the reference time; determining a timestamp derived from the device clock, wherein the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070189334 - Multi-carrier communication system: The present application relates to a communication method in which a succession of time domain symbols (TDS) are transmitted by a transmitter to one or more receivers. Each time domain symbol has a plurality of signals which are transmitted in parallel by the transmitter. The signals may comprise data signals... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070189335 - Integrated circuit for an asynchronous serial data transfer with a bit length counter: An integrated circuit for an asynchronous serial data transfer comprises a sampler to sample the asynchronous serial data using a sampling clock. A bit length counter determines a bit time by counting a number (m) of predetermined clock cycles, where the bit length terminal variably adjusts the number (m) of... Agent: Patrick J. O'shea, Esq. O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C.

20070189336 - Method and device for transmitting low speed signals in optical transport system: A method and device for transmitting low speed signals in an Optical Transport Network (OTN), including: mapping each channel of low speed signal into an ODU signal; dividing each OPUk payload area into one or more time slots, byte interleaving each channel of OPU payload into the time slots; frame... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070189337 - Next generation network system based on tcm isdn technique and control method thereof: A next generation network system based on a time compression multiplex integrated service digital network technique (TCM ISDN) and a control method thereof. The system includes a synchronous clock generator for generating a transmit timing reference (TTR) reference clock to be used in a TCM ISDN and an xDSL, using... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070183301 - Method and apparatus to reduce crosstalk in a mimo communication system: A method and apparatus to reduce crosstalk in a communication system are described.... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070183302 - Interoperability verification for implementation according to communication standard: A method for verifying interoperability of an implementation of a communication standard includes verifying the implementation against a standard. A communication stream, generated by an implementation that is interoperable with the standard, will contain expected pilot information. Using the implementation to be verified, a communication stream is generated, containing pilot... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070183303 - Method and apparatus for specifying channel state information for multiple carriers: An approach is provided for specifying channel state information in a multi-carrier communication system. A determination of either spectral locations of a first carrier and a second carrier, or correlation between the first carrier and the second carrier is made. A report format among a plurality of report formats is... Agent: Ditthavong & Mori, P.C.

20070183304 - Apparatus and method for digitally implementing a wideband multicarrier: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for implementing a wideband multicarrier by using complex digital modulation. With a conventional analog quadrature modulation, which has been used to modulate a complex digital signal into an intermediate frequency (IF) signal or a radio frequency signal, it is difficult... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070183305 - High-sensitivity detection of an anomaly in a quantized signal: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates high-sensitivity detection of an anomaly in a signal, wherein the signal is sampled to produce a set of possible quantized signal values. During operation, the system constructs a “reference distribution” for an “occurrence frequency” of a specific quantized signal... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070183306 - Method and apparatus for a synchronization channel in an ofdma system: A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting an orthogonal frequency domain multiple access (OFDMA) signal including a synchronization channel signal transmitted within a localized portion of a bandwidth of the OFDMA signal (818), the synchronization channel signal having predetermined time domain symmetry within the localized portion of the bandwidth... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070183307 - Method and apparatus for initial acquisition and cell search for an ofdma system: A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting an orthogonal frequency domain multiple access (OFDMA) signal including a synchronization channel signal transmitted within a localized portion of a bandwidth of the OFDMA signal (818), the synchronization channel signal having predetermined time domain symmetry within the localized portion of the bandwidth... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070183308 - Ofdm multiple sub-channel communication system: A transmitter for transmitting an OFDM signal in a communications channel, including: (a) a plurality of base-band OFDM modulators, each for modulating a respective baseband data signal onto a plurality of orthogonal sub-carriers and outputting a respective baseband sub-channel OFDM signal, and (b) a fast convolution filter and up-converter for... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20070183309 - Orthogonal frequency division multiplex transmission method: A communications system includes a first reception device and a transmission device. The transmission device includes a modulator operable to modulate a plurality of subcarriers using a signal series obtained by multiplexing a first signal series to be transmitted to the first reception device and a second signal series to... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070183310 - Orthogonal frequency division multiplex transmission method: A transmission method includes transmitting a signal using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, receiving the transmitted signal at a plurality of reception devices, and controlling a transmission power for first signals transmitted to the plurality of reception devices in an area formed by the transmitter to be greater than a... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070183312 - Apparatus and method for allocating radio frequency band resource in space division multiple access system: Provided is an apparatus and method for allocating a radio frequency band resource in a Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA) system. The scheduler allocates a data burst, extracts a surplus power resource from each channel band, redistributes the extracted surplus power resource to the data burst, outputs redistributed transmission power... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070183311 - Flat-spectrum and spectrum-shaped waveforms for digital communications: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a method of generating, for a given natural q, a set of q complex sequences of a constant envelope DFT-transformed into sequences also of a constant envelope. It is shown that these sequences are transformed into themselves upon applying the DFT... Agent: Vlad Mitlin

20070183313 - System and method for detecting and recovering from virtual switch link failures: A system and method detects and responds to failures occurring in a virtual switch. The virtual switch is formed from two or more physical switches interconnected by a Virtual Switch Link (VSL). One physical switch is elected the Master, and it executes a link aggregation protocol for the virtual switch.... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070183314 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing link redundancy in a media gateway: Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing link redundancy in a media gateway are provided according to one method, a media gateway link protection group is provisioned to associate with a common VLAN a common virtual local area network (VLAN) primary and secondary links associated with at least one... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070183315 - Connection system, in particular a plug-in connection system for the transmission of data and power supply signals: A connection system for the preferably contactless transmission of data and power supply signals between a sensor means and a base unit in a measuring and transmission system comprises a sensor-side and a base-side connection element. There is provided in at least one of the connection elements an optical diagnosis... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20070183316 - Method and apparatus for detection of port name in a loop network: A method and apparatus for detection of a port name in a loop network is provided, particularly a loop network in the form of a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL). The loop network (100) has a plurality of devices (120) each device (120) having at least one port (211, 212)... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070183318 - Outage notification, such as fixed network positive outage notification: Methods and systems of providing positive outage notification are described. In some examples, the system determines there is an outage at a facility and transmits multiple messages notifying a utility of the outage. In some examples, the messages are received at multiple message collectors. In some examples, the system determines... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070183317 - Technique for determining whether to reestablish fast rerouted primary tunnels based on backup tunnel path quality feedback: A technique dynamically determines whether to reestablish a Fast Rerouted primary tunnel based on path quality feedback of a utilized backup tunnel in a computer network. According to the novel technique, a head-end node establishes a primary tunnel to a destination, and a point of local repair (PLR) node along... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070183319 - Communication system with redundant communication: The invention relates to a subscriber (1) for using in a communication system, and to a communication system (5) which, at least in a partial section, has redundant communication for increasing the fault tolerance, the communication system being simultaneously highly dynamic. Said communication system comprises, at least in one section,... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20070183320 - Deficit fair priority queuing: A deficit fair priority queue scheduling technique includes arranging connections in a waiting queue according to a plurality of priority classes including a first class having a higher priority than a second class. Each time a scheduler visits a queue having waiting connections, a deficit value for each priority class... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070183321 - Mobile communication system, transmitting station, receiving station, relay station, communication path determining method, and communication path determining program: Provided is a mobile communication system capable of determining a communication path to implement fast communication by multihop connection. A mobile communication system (1) comprises a mobile station (10), at least one relay station (30), and a base station (20) and implements packet transmission from the mobile station (10) to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070183322 - System and method for automated network element database population: In an illustrative method for populating a database for use in automated administration of network elements, data that describes network elements in a telecommunication system is aggregated from existing systems. The aggregated network element data is validated and inserted into a database. Finally, a log is generated for each database... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070183325 - Data transfer device: In a cellular telephone, a music data transfer control unit and a remote control unit control a close-range radio communications unit to establish a remote control session and a data transfer session, between the music data transfer control unit, remote control unit and an audio device, and transfer audio data... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070183326 - Wireless communication device and wireless communication method: A wireless communication device that performs packet transmission in accordance with a packet transmission system that performs wireless bandwidth allocation by virtual carrier sensing has a time-point management section that manages the time-point and outputs current time-point information, and a parameter management section that manages a parameter relating to packet... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070183327 - Method and apparatus for scaling input bandwidth for bandwidth allocation technology: A method and apparatus are provided for scaling an input bandwidth for bandwidth allocation technology. An original bandwidth count value of an input flow is received. A bandwidth scaler constant is provided and used for scaling the received original bandwidth count value to provide a scaled bandwidth value between zero... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20070183324 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing supported dsl communications features as selections: A method of offering Digital Subscriber Link (DSL) communications features includes eliminating selections from a menu of features to be provided via a Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) to a customer premises prior to allowing selections from the menu.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070183323 - Selective redundancy for voice over internet transmissions: Adaptive redundancy is implemented (either switched on or off) for a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) packet connection by a basic two step approach. A first step of adaptive redundancy implementation involves monitoring relevant sources or indicators to determine when the need for redundancy (e.g., redundancy coding) may arise. The... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070183328 - Method of resetting radio link control entity in a mobile communications system and related apparatus: A method of resetting radio link control entity in a receiver of a wireless communications system includes receiving a reset protocol data unit (RESET PDU), and not resetting a radio link control (RLC) entity if a reset sequence number (RSN) value in the RESET PDU is the same as an... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070183329 - Networking of switchpacks: An switckpack network.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070183331 - 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

20070183330 - Methods, systems, and apparatus for reducing real time data traffic in a multi-layer network: Methods, systems, and apparatus for reducing real time data traffic in a multi-layer network. One aspect of the present invention provides a method for reducing data traffic in a data collection network comprising a first network layer and a second network layer, the data traffic comprising a plurality of data... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20070183332 - System and method for backward congestion notification in network: In a system and method for backward congestion notification (BcN) in a network, when it is determined in advance that congestion is imminent in the network, the system and method enable preventive reduction of packet transmission by transmitting a BcN message, requesting packet transmission reduction, to a network component transmitting... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070183333 - Method and system for media independent handover using operation, administration and maintenance protocol: A method and system for media independent handover (MIH) using an Ethernet operation, administration and maintenance (OAM) protocol are disclosed. Link connectivity between a user equipment (UE) and an MIH point of service (PoS) is monitored by using an OAM protocol. An OAM trigger indicating a link status is mapped... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070183334 - Techniques for decreasing queries to discover routes in an interior gateway protocol: Techniques for recovering lost routes include receiving reported costs for transmitting data to a destination from neighboring nodes; and determining total costs as a sum of costs for transmitting data packets to the neighboring nodes and a corresponding reported cost. A selected neighboring node with a minimum total cost is... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20070183335 - Method and apparatus for estimating and reporting the quality of a wireless communication channel: A method and apparatus for estimating and reporting the quality of a wireless communication channel between a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and a Node-B. A modulated signal is received from the Node-B over the communication channel and a channel estimation is performed on the modulated signal to provide a channel... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070183336 - Method and apparatus for managing a loop network: A method and apparatus for managing a loop network, the loop network (200) including at least one loop (206, 208), a plurality of devices (210) connected to the at least one loop (206, 208) via ports (211, 212), wherein at least two of the devices are initiators (207, 209). The... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070183337 - Fc-al cabling management system: An apparatus to detect a fiber channel miscabling event includes a module configured to identify a connection made between first and second unlike devices in a fiber channel topology. If an unlike connection identified to have been made the module enables an upstream port of the second device, leaving a... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070183338 - Method and apparatus for detecting interference in a wireless communication system: Techniques for classifying RF channels in a first system (e.g., a Bluetooth system) to mitigate the deleterious effects of interference from a second system (e.g., a WLAN system) are described. One or more metrics (e.g., PER and/or RSSI) are determined for the RF channels. Each RF channel may be classified... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070183340 - Power-line communication system to supply power and data to integrated services digital network (isdn) subscriber terminal and control method thereof: A power-line communication system and control method to supply power and data to an Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN) subscriber terminal includes: a subscriber terminal adapted to transmit a response message upon a connection request message being received; and a power supply switch adapted to transmit the connection request message... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070183342 - Peer-to-peer broadcast management system: A peer-to-peer broadcast management system is described. A system may include a peer detector to determine one or more peer computer systems associated with a predetermined locality; a peer list generator to generate a peer list of the determined peer computer systems; a communications module to receive a request for... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070183339 - System and method of producing statistical information about call durations: A method and system of evaluating network usage among signals experiencing varying enhancements or impairments collects data of network communications signals, which may describe parameters relating to the quality of the signal, such as noise level or echo level. Data, such as call durations data, is also collected describing the... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070183341 - Wusb burst acknowledgment management: A method is provided for processing data in accordance with protocol specifications. The method comprises the steps of determining a beginning transmit window, unwrapping the beginning transmit window, determining an end receive window, unwrapping the end receive window, and normalizing the unwrapped end receive window. Thereafter the unwrapped beginning transmit... Agent: Lecroy Corporation

20070183346 - Arrangement for router attachments between roaming mobile routers in a clustered network: A mobile router is configured for attaching to a selected router in a clustered network (e.g., a mobile ad hoc network) based on identifying a network topology model of the clustered network from received router advertisement messages that include tree information option fields specifying attributes of the network topology model.... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20070183345 - Managing a home or a small office network: A method and a system for managing a network are described. A plurality of agents is deployed in a plurality of devices in the network. A control device in the network controls the network through the plurality of agents. A remote manager, which is external to the network, controls the... Agent: William Botjer

20070183343 - Method and system for facilitating command of a group: A method and system for facilitating command of a group determines a present rank protocol associated with users of an ad hoc wireless communication network. The method includes identifying at a first wireless device a second wireless device in operative communication with the first wireless device (step 805). A physical... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070183344 - 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

20070183347 - Method for implementing dual-homing: The invention discloses a method for implementing dual-homing, including: setting each one of any two core control equipment as a standby for each other, connecting a network entity belonging to one of the core control equipment with the two core control equipment through a primary link and a standby link... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070183349 - Duplex mismatch detection: Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for both ends of a link suffering from duplex mismatch to correct the duplex mismatch. According to some embodiments, the half-duplex end of the link can detect that the other end of the link is in full-duplex mode by detecting late and/or very... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070183348 - High-frequency circuit apparatus and communication apparatus using the same: A high-frequency circuit has a duplexer and a filter. The duplexer performs wave separation of send and received signals as input thereto. The filter filters the input send signal. When the send and received signals of the first modulation method are input, the send signal and the received signal of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070183351 - Method and apparatus for providing service in a multi-ran communication network: To address the need for more resource efficient methods of providing service in multi-RAN communication systems (600), various embodiments are described for informing a cross-paging RAN that a targeted remote unit (601) is not accepting a service request, for informing a serving RAN that the targeted remote unit is accepting... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070183350 - Solving ip buffering delays in mobile multimedia applications with translayer optimization: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate relocating an IP buffer from a conventional location in a user device handset to a radio-access network (RAN) interface in order to reduce acquisition delay in the user device. By performing IP buffering at the transmission side of a forward link transmission, acquisition... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070183354 - Method and system for distributing contents to a plurality of users: A method for distributing contents to several users, wherein users are interconnected as members of one or more groups and wherein the group members can be pre-arranged from the user side is characterized in that based on his context a user can select one or more content from offered contents,... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070183353 - Method of multiplexing unicast and multicast transmissions: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate multiplexing of unicast and multicast transmissions in a wireless communication system, such as OFDMA. According to various aspects, the system and methods are employed for selecting an appropriate multiplexing scheme in light of limitations such as system bandwidth and mobile terminal reception bandwidth... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070183352 - Methods and apparatus for providing a shared server system for a platform of multiple wireless communication devices: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing a shared server system for a platform of multiple wireless communication devices are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070183355 - Method for aperiodic mobile assisted sleep mode: Disclosed is a method for mobile assisted sleep mode to reduce current drain in packet based mobile systems. The method comprising the step of receiving (102) from a network a channel condition threshold. Then, monitoring (104) a channel condition while in sleep mode. Then exiting (110) sleep mode in response... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070183356 - Mobile communication system using a downlink shared channel: A mobile station for mobile communication includes a receiver operable to receive data from a base station. The receiver includes a first receiving unit operable to receive identifying information for multicast data from a base station and a second receiving unit operable to receive the data on a shared channel... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070183361 - Apparatus and method for fast access in a wireless communication system: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate a fast access in a wireless communication system, such as OFDMA. According to various aspects, the system and methods are described for generating an access probe comprising an access signature having quality of service information and transmitting the access probe on a random... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070183359 - Serving-grant allocation method for high-speed uplink packet access systems: The present invention provides a serving-grant allocation method for a high-speed uplink packet access system. It includes these steps: a. Transmission of the serving-grant initial allocation message to mobile subscribers via network; b. The mobile subscriber decides whether setting the stored-secondary-grant is needed based on the initial allocation message description.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070183358 - Distributed architecture and methods for broadcast/multicast service: A distributed architecture and method for MBMS delivery is disclosed. The various embodiments enable selection combining and soft combining by UEs for MBMS transmissions. An MBMS service notification (509) is sent to all E-Nodes (503). The E-Nodes proceed to request counting (511) from the UEs (501). A transmission request (513)... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070183357 - Method and apparatus for the discovery of radio access network elements and exchange of capability and data attributes between those elements: The present apparatus comprises a radio access network element having at least one processor, and at least one memory operably connected to the at least one processor, whereby the radio access network element is adapted to execute instructions stored in the memory comprising discovery of at least one other element... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070183360 - Method of beacon exchange between devices with asymmetric links and system using the method: A method and a system for using the method are provided. The method and system allow a low power device having an asymmetric link to access a wireless network to exchange beacons with any one of a plurality of normal power devices in the wireless network. The method includes the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070183362 - Method and apparatus for performing spatial-division multiple access: A method and apparatus for performing spatial-division multiple access within a communication system is provided herein. During operation, nodes will return null subspace information along with their channel subspace information. The null subspace is similar to the channel subspace except that the null subspace information directs a base station to... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070183365 - Media-independent handover: session identifier: A system for media independent handover using a session identifier in which a session identifier is used for identifying a media independent handover registration session across different MIH transport instances between a pair of communicating MIHFs. A point of service maintains a single registration state for a mobile node across... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLC

20070183366 - Method and apparatus of performing handover using subnet information: A method of performing handover using subnet information includes: comparing subnet information for the current PoA with subnet information for the new PoA; and determining a layer in which handover is performed, according to whether the subnet information for the current PoA is equal to the subnet information for the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070183367 - Method and apparatus of searching for and acquiring handover information using dynamic host configuration protocol: Provided are a method and apparatus for searching for and acquiring handover information using a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (“DHCP”). The handover information searching and acquiring method includes: receiving the location information of an information server, which can provide the handover information, from a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server;... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070183364 - Anchoring a communication session in a multiple mode system: Anchoring a communication session for a target mobile phone includes identifying a current access node operable to provide the target mobile phone access to a first network of a first network type. Potential access nodes operable to provide a mobile phone access to a second network of a second network... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070183363 - Method for ipv4 mobility from ipv6 networks: A method for allowing a Mobile IPv4 Mobile Node (2) to communicate from an IPv6 visited network (5), and across IPv6 networks, back to a Mobile IPv4 Home Agent (1), in a Mobile IPv4 Network (4), comprising a Mobile Node supporting Mobile IPv4 registration procedures including IvPv6 addressing details to... Agent: Powell Goldstein LLP

20070183369 - System for verifying restored outages, such as in the field outage restoration of public utilities using automatic meter reading (amr): Systems and methods for verifying restored outages are described. In some examples, the system samples endpoints to determine an extent of a restoration. The system may compare positive indications received by endpoints to a list of endpoints that indicate utility outages, and provide guidance to a field worker based on... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070183368 - Test and debug method and apparatus: A method for performing wireless analyzer spatial position optimization for a network having a particular network topology. The method comprises the steps of recording one or more reference network topology measurements to perform an initial parameter calibration, estimating a plurality of possible relative positions for the particular network topology, and... Agent: Lecroy Corporation

20070183370 - Range extension techniques for a wireless local area network: Techniques for extending transmission range in a WLAN are described. In an aspect, a receiving station determines the frequency error between a transmitting station and the receiving station based on one or more initial packet transmissions and corrects this frequency error for subsequent packet transmissions received from the transmitting station.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070183371 - Communication system with mimo channel estimation using peak-limited pilot signals: In a collaborative, multiple input, multiple output wireless communication system, a transmitting device transmits a peak-limited pilot signal to a receiving device. The receiving device independently synthesizes the same pilot signal transmitted by the transmitting device. The synthesis process involves precoding the pilot signal and peak limiting the precoded pilot... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070183372 - Accelerated establishment of a connection between a number of mobile radio users: Disclosed is a method which allows for a fast and efficient establishment of a connection between members of a group, more specifically between a mobile radio user who triggers the establishment of the connection and additional mobile radio users of a group of mobile radio users via at least one... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070183379 - Access point: An access point diagnosis unit 201 controls a radio access terminal portion 213 included in the access point 100, to execute a test of connection with the access point 100. A switch within the access point selectively connects the radio access terminal portion 213, with any of an antenna and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070183382 - Auto-discovery of a non-advertised public network address: Providing a network address is disclosed. A communication indicating that a first node desires to communicate via a packet data network with a second node configured to provide access to a private resource is received. A non-publicly advertised packet data network address usable to communicate with the second node via... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070183376 - Data communication system and method for same: A Provider Edge PE3 replicates a received packet and relays these to virtual circuits VC1, VC2 respectively, and Provider Edges PE2, PE2 respectively receive the packets from the virtual circuits VC1, VC2, whereupon the Provider Edges PE2, PE2, on the basis of an agreement between them, decide to handle the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070183378 - Jitter management for packet data network backhaul of call data: Managing packet data network jitter is disclosed. A first call data associated with a mobile network communication session is received. A second call data that is older than the first call data is dropped from a buffer if required to make room in the buffer for the first call data.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070183380 - Method and system for scheduling users based on user-determined ranks in a mimo system: In a wireless network comprising a plurality of subscriber stations and a base station capable of providing service to the subscriber stations, a subscriber station is provided that includes a rank selector and a scheduling data reporter. The rank selector is operable to select a rank for the subscriber station.... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070183383 - Simultaneous operation of wireless lan and long-range wireless connections: A method for communication includes establishing a first connection between a wireless terminal and a base station of a long-range wireless data network, which operates in accordance with a first protocol that defines a sequence of time frames for transmission of data between the wireless terminal and the base station.... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070183384 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving uplink signaling information in a single carrier fdma system: A method and an apparatus for transmitting uplink information items having various characteristics by using a single Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) block. The method includes determining whether uplink signaling information exists to be transmitted when uplink data exists to be transmitted; multiplexing the uplink data and control information for the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070183373 - Method and device for determining routings and for allocating radio resources for the determined routing in a radio communications system: A method for radio communication between a device and radio stations of a radio communications system having a plurality of radio stations involves transmitting messages from the transmitting radio station to the receiving radio station either directly, or via a routing the passes through one or more radio stations that... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070183377 - Mobile network with packet data network backhaul: Mobile communication data received at the sending based transceiver station via a radio frequency transmission is received a packet data network from a sending base transceiver station. The mobile communication data is forwarded to a base station controller via an interface defined at least in part by a third party... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070183374 - Neighbor-assisted handover in mobile communications systems: A method is provided that comprises detecting, by a first user terminal of a wireless system, a second user terminal having wireless system information. The wireless system information has timely wireless system parameters. The timely wireless system parameters are collected from the second user terminal. The first user terminal communicates... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070183381 - Screen image presentation apparatus and method for mobile phone: An apparatus and method is provided for idle mode screen image presentation device, such as a mobile phone. The screen image presentation apparatus includes a memory for storing a character house including variable and selectable background and function items for executing functions of the mobile phone, a controller for presenting... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070183375 - System and method for network integrity: A technique for maintaining network integrity is disclosed. A system according to the technique may include a wired network, a switch, and a wireless access point. The switch can be coupled to the wired network and the wireless access point can be coupled to the switch. The system may further... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070183385 - Apparatus and method for distinguishing a frame on channel shared by multiple users: An apparatus and method of distinguishing a frame on a channel shared by a plurality of users. A unique identifier can be obtained for each of a set of mobile communication devices. A message intended for one of the mobile communication devices can be obtained. The message can be scrambled... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070183386 - Reference signal sequences and multi-user reference signal sequence allocation: Embodiments of the invention provide method for allocating CAZAC pilot (reference signal) sequences in multiple access OFDMA systems, or alternatively, in multiple access DFT-spread OFDM(A) systems (or SC-FDMA). Reference signal transmissions from different mobiles can either be distinguished by use of disjoint sub-carriers (frequency division orthogonality), or alternatively by use... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070183388 - Method for performing measurements by a mobile station of a radio-communication system, corresponding mobile station, and unit for a radio-communication system: A method performs measurements by a mobile station of a radio communication system. According to said method, the mobile station receives data via a first channel. Said mobile station temporarily interrupts the reception of the data, in order to perform measurements on at least one second channel. The interruption of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070183387 - Method, and associated apparatus, for communicating data at reduced transmission latency in radio communication system having slotted interface: A method, and associated apparatus, facilitates the communication of data of a radio block by a sending station to a receiving station, within a single time frame. Communication resources are allocated within a single time frame across a plurality of radio carriers. And, the data corresponding to a radio block... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070183389 - Method and system for identifying remote objects on a client system: A method and system for identifying remote objects on a client system is provided. A client system (101) has a connection means (302) to access a component (310) on a remote system (103). The client system (101) has a graphical user interface (308) including a user interface object (306) representing... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070183392 - Radio communication device, radio communication method, and radio communication program: A terminal station radio communication device belongs to a second radio communication system which shares a frequency channel with a first radio communication system in which a radio terminal station communicates with a radio base station in a predetermined time period using a predetermined frequency channel. The terminal station radio... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070183390 - Determination and use of adaptive thresholds for received messages: A method is disclosed that includes measuring, during a measurement period, values corresponding to noise and interference signals received from a channel. The measurement period coincides with a period when no signal is transmitted on the channel. The method also includes determining one or more thresholds based upon the measured... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070183391 - Method and apparatus for interleaving sequence elements of an ofdma synchronization channel: A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting an orthogonal frequency domain multiple access (OFDMA) signal including a synchronization channel signal transmitted including a plurality of sequence elements intereleaved in time and frequency (610, 640). The synchronization channel signal sequence elements enable an initial acquisition and cell search method with... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070183393 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for routing packets utilizing a unique identifier, included within a standard address, that identifies the destination host computer system: A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed in a data processing environment that includes host computer systems that are coupled to adapters utilizing a switched fabric for routing packets between the host computer systems and the adapters. A unique destination identifier is assigned to one of the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070183407 - Auxiliary bridging device supporting multiple pathway telephony bridging: An auxiliary bridging device operates within infrastructure that includes a packet data network (Internet) and the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) telephony network and supports a coupled POTS telephony device. The auxiliary bridging device is operable to bridge calls between every two of the POTS telephony device, the PSTN network,... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070183410 - Method for placing call in voice call continuity and terminal and server thereof: A method, server and terminal for providing a Voice Call Continuity (VCC) service, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the terminal includes a storage unit to store operator policy information and user preference information, the user preference information including domain selection information specifying a user-preferred domain to be used when... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070183394 - Automatic call origination for multiple wireless networks: Techniques for performing automatic call origination for multiple wireless networks are described. A terminal automatically originates a call and supports fallback in case of call origination failure. The terminal selects the most preferred wireless network for the call based on network availability and network selection information. The terminal attempts origination... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070183398 - Computing device supporting bridging between a packet switched network and the public switched telephone network: A bridging computing device includes processing circuitry communicatively coupled to a user interface, a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) interface, a packet data network interface. To service an incoming call, the processing circuitry obtains and executes bridging instructions that establish a pathway between the PSTN and packet data network interfaces.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070183397 - Computing device supporting selective local call termination and call bridging: A bridging computing device includes processing circuitry communicatively coupled to a user interface, a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) interface, a packet data network interface. The processing circuitry receives a first call setup request from the PSTN via the first interface, selectively prepares a second call setup request based upon... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070183406 - Digital cable network telephone service provider supporting premises wireless networks: A communication infrastructure includes a plurality of cable modem circuits communicatively coupled to a cable network and each associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of subscribers. A head end system communicatively couples to the cable network, to the public switched telephony network, and to the Internet network and... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070183405 - Distributed server function in a voip to telephony bridging network: An infrastructure that supports both Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony via the Internet and Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) telephony via the PSTN includes a plurality of client telephony bridging devices communicatively couple to both the Internet and to the PSTN that are operable to bridge calls between the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070183395 - Enhanced home location register: An apparatus in one example has: at least one circuit switching network; IMS network; and an enhanced home location register operatively coupled to each of the at least one circuit switching network and the IMS network, the enhanced home location register functioning as a home location register for the at... Agent: Carmen B. Patti & Associates, LLC

20070183409 - Facsimile servicing via peer-to-peer internet protocol telephony network: A telephony bridging device operates within infrastructure that includes a packet data network (Internet) and the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) telephony network and supports a coupled POTS telephony device. The telephony bridging device is operable to bridge calls between every two of the POTS telephony device, the PSTN network,... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070183412 - Facsimile servicing via peer-to-peer internet protocol telephony network: Servicing an incoming Facsimile (FAX) communication includes receiving the incoming FAX communication by a source telephony bridging device via a source PSTN connection, the incoming FAX communication having an incoming FAX number associated therewith. Based upon the incoming FAX number, the source telephony bridging device determines a user ID in... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070183411 - Method for controlling vcc functions in vcc initiated by terminal and terminal and network server thereof: A method, terminal and system for controlling VCC functions are discussed. According to an embodiment, the terminal includes a controller to generate a register message including VCC capability information of the terminal, a transmitting unit to transmit the register message including the VCC capability information to the first network server,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070183408 - Mobile network, station, server and method for assigning to a mobile station a fixed and public ip address: The present invention relates to a mobile communications network comprising package switched communication ability, the network comprising: one or several mobile stations, a service provider, providing communication with said mobile stations, a user, communicating with said mobile stations, wherein the mobile communications network is arranged to assign said mobile stations... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070183396 - Set top box supporting bridging between a packet switched network and the public switched telephone network: A Set Top Box includes processing circuitry, a tuner, a user interface, a remote control interface, a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) interface, and a packet data network interface. To service an incoming call, the processing circuitry obtains and executes bridging instructions that establish a pathway between the PSTN and... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070183401 - Set top box supporting selective local call termination and call bridging: A Set Top Box includes processing circuitry, a tuner, a user interface, a remote control interface, a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) interface, and a packet data network interface. The processing circuitry receives a first call setup request from the PSTN via the first interface, selectively prepares a second call... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070183404 - System, method and program for re-routing internet packets: A first site comprises a first ISP, a first server and a first router interposed between the first ISP and the first server. A second site comprises a second ISP, a second server and a second router interposed between the second ISP and the second server. While the second server... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070183400 - Telephone supporting bridging between a packet switched network and the public switched telephone network: A bridging telephone includes processing circuitry communicatively coupled to a user interface, a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) interface, a packet data network interface. To service an incoming call, the processing circuitry obtains and executes bridging instructions that establish a pathway between the PSTN and packet data network interfaces. With... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070183399 - Telephone supporting selective local call termination and call bridging: A bridging telephone includes processing circuitry communicatively coupled to a user interface, a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) interface, a packet data network interface. The processing circuitry receives a first call setup request from the PSTN via the first interface, selectively prepares a second call setup request based upon the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070183402 - Voice communication device with pstn and internet pathway analysis, selection and handoff: A voice communication device that supports both Internet telephony and public switched telephone network telephony, and maintains the quality of communication. The voice communication device consists of a user interface, a plurality of communication interfaces and a processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the user interface and to the plurality of... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070183403 - Wiretapping voip calls: A method, system and computer program for assisting law enforcement surveillance of a telephone call in accordance with the requirements of is presented. The method includes, but is not limited to, the steps of: receiving an indication of a call that is placed with a pre-identified telephonic unit that uses... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070183413 - Sealed control device with magnetically adjustable control parameter: A switch including a sealed housing; a magnetic sensor; and a control element configured to modify a control parameter for the switch in response to a signal from the sensor. In some aspects, the magnetic sensor is arranged to produce the signal in response to a magnetic field generated outside... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20070183414 - Communication device and communication method: A feedback information separating section (105) takes out information indicative of an eigenvector, eigenvalues, and the number of effective eigenvalues, i.e. the number of eigen values larger than a specified threshold value included in the feedback information sent from the communication party. A section (151) for controlling the number of... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070183419 - Bi-directional forwarding in ethernet-based service domains over networks: Techniques are described for providing hybrid forwarding within an Ethernet-based service domain established over one or more intermediate networks, such as a service provider (SP) network. For example, the Ethernet-based service domain may comprise a virtual private local area network service (VPLS) domain. A hybrid VPLS domain may transport layer... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070183420 - Method and apparatus for managing multiple user sessions in an internet protocol (ip) multi media system (ims): A method and system of managing one or more sessions in an Internet Protocol (IP) Multi-Media service (IMS) in which a session provides a stream of data of a specific protocol in order to provide a service to a user is provided. The method in one aspect includes storing details... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20070183417 - Data traffic router: Systems and methods are disclosed for routing data traffic along a specific route. The method is implemented by a data traffic router configured within a networked environment to appear as a standard network router that caused data to be transmitted through a prescribed data path. The disclosed systems and methods... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070183418 - Method and apparatus for multicast packet reception: Roughly described, incoming data packets are delivered by the NIC directly to at least two user level endpoints. In an aspect, only filters that cannot be ambiguous are created in the NIC. In another aspect, the NIC maintains a filter table supporting direct delivery of incoming unicast and multicast data... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070183415 - Method and system for internal data loop back in a high data rate switch: A method and system for internal data loop back in a packet switch is provided. In some instances, the switch may be required to process multiple layers of a header within the data packet, such as when data is transferred over the network encapsulated with a TCP header at the... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070183416 - Per-port penalty queue system for re-prioritization of network traffic sent to a processor: In an embodiment of the invention, a method and system for a per-port penalty queue system in a network device includes: selecting a state for a port in the network device; wherein the selected state comprises either a normal state or a restricted state; wherein the normal state permits a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070183421 - Router and methods using network addresses for virtualization: A router for use in a network includes a scalable architecture and performs methods for implementing quality of service on a logical unit behind a network port; and for implementing storage virtualization. The architecture includes a managing processor, a supervising processor; and a plurality of routing processors coupled to a... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070183422 - Method and apparatus to facilitate multicast transmissions using a shared infrastructure-supplied source: A process (100) may be implemented subsequent to facilitating (101), for a first end user, a transmission of at least one data packet for a first multicast transmission using an infrastructure-supplied source address. This process can generally comprise using (104) that infrastructure-supplied source address to facilitate transmission of at least... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070183423 - Transporting call data via a packet data network: Transporting call data is disclosed. A first call data associated with a first communication session and a second call data associated with a second communication session are received. The first call data and the second call data are bundled into a single data packet for transport over a packet data... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070183424 - Lan access by ultra-wideband system and method: An ultra-wideband (UWB) system and method provide a local area network (LAN) and/or LAN access. LAN access versions of the UWB system includes an emulator layer and bridge that allow data to be transmitted between a LAN-UWB hybrid device and a LAN network switch, such as an IEEE 802 network... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

20070183425 - Logical separation and accessing of descriptor memories: A packet header processing engine includes a memory having a number of distinct portions for respectively storing different types of descriptor information for a header of a packet. A packet header processing unit includes a number of pointers corresponding to the number of distinct memory portions. The packet header processing... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070183426 - Method and system for optimizing performance and availability of a dynamic host configuration protocol (dhcp) service: A method and system for monitoring and optimizing performance and availability of a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service provided by one or a plurality of DHCP servers (602) in an Internet Protocol (IP) network comprising one or a plurality of IP subnetworks. The method comprises in a DHCP server... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070183427 - Access control in radio access network having pico base stations: Methods and apparatus provide access control to a femto radio base station (28f) of a radio access network (24). The radio access network (24) maintains a database (44) of allowed user equipment units which are to be permitted access for use of a femto radio base station (28f). The database... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070183428 - Supporting applications sensitive to data loss on switched virtual circuits (svcs): An edge router receives datagrams to be forwarded an SVC. If the SVC is not already set up, the edge router buffers the datagrams until the SVC set up is complete. The buffered datagrams are forwarded once the SVC set up is complete. According to another aspect of the present... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20070183430 - Method and apparatus for locally targeting virtual objects within a terminal: A method and an apparatus are used to target virtual objects to subscribers in a television delivery system. Programs are selected and virtual object locations are defined in the selected programs. The virtual objects available for targeting are categorized and the categories are correlated to viewing population information to determine... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Sedna Patent Services, LLC

20070183431 - Method for transmitting packet from correspondent node to mobile node: A method is disclosed for transmitting a packet from a correspondent node to a mobile node when the mobile node moves from a home network to an external network equivalent to the correspondent node's local network. The method may include securing a Care Of Address (COA) for the mobile node.... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20070183429 - Aalo cell format of an atm protocol for communicating voice traffic in a cdma system: The present invention relates to an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) protocol, and more particularly to an ATM Adaptation Layer 0 (AAL0) cell format for increasing trunk path efficiency when communicating voice traffic data by using the ATM protocol in a CDMA system. In a conventional CDMA system, the ATM is... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070183432 - Method for performance enhancement in a cell edge region: A method for receiving data at different frequencies includes receiving a first transmission packet including data at a first carrier frequency, and receiving a second transmission packet comprising data at a second carrier frequency. The method further includes maintaining communication with transmission entities which transmit the first and second transmission... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070183434 - Handling multiple point-to-multipoint services: For enabling multiple point-to-multipoint (PTM) services in a radio communication network system, when joining sessions relating to multiple PTM services is requested by a user equipment first, a first context between the user equipment and network elements providing the multiple PTM services is created, wherein the first context relates to... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070183433 - Integrated security switch: An integrated security switch and related method for managing connectivity and security among networks. The integrated security switch includes a security function connectable with a first network and at least one switching function connectable with a second network. A common management interface driven by both command line interface and graphic... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070183438 - Method and terminal for restriction of domain transfer: A method and mobile terminal for controlling a voice call continuity (VCC) operation, are provided. According to an embodiment, the method includes receiving, by a terminal, a message from a network server, the message including domain transfer restriction information; checking, by the terminal, the domain transfer restriction information included in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070183435 - Methods and apparatus providing an airborne e-enabled architecture as a system of systems: A network architecture for implementation in a vehicle is described that comprises an Ethernet gateway module (EGM) and network interface module (NIM). The EGM comprises an Ethernet switch and router therein and is configured to provide an open data network (ODN) connection to the network architecture for a plurality of... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070183437 - System and method for transporting a call: A communication system receives a signaling message for a voice communication and processes the signaling message to select a route identifier. The system selects a processing technique for the voice communication, such as compression or encryption. The system processes the voice communication with the selected processing technique. The system adds... Agent: Sprint

20070183436 - System and method for web-based control of remotely located devices using ready on command architecture: A dynamically adaptable remote control and status system comprising a server computer comprising interface means for interfacing via a computer network with a remotely located client computer; at least one device interface adapted to provide control signals to and receive status signals from a remotely controllable device coupled thereto; processing... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20070183439 - Combined directional and mobile interleaved wireless mesh network: A combined fixed directional and mobile omnidirectional interleaved wireless mesh network is described where the fixed mesh nodes have directional antennas facing in horizontally orthogonal directions. The antennas can be focused to have a horizontal beam width of less than ninety degrees in order to achieve greater strength of signal... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070183440 - Communication device supporting both internet and public switched telephone network telephony: A voice communication device, supporting both Internet and public switched telephone network telephony, performs call session hand off between Internet and public switched telephone networks. Hand off, with or without user confirmation, may be half or full duplex, yielding common and differing incoming and outgoing call session pathways. In addition... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070183441 - Delivering multimedia services: Disclosed is a scalable, hierarchical, distributed network architecture and processes for the delivery of high-performance, end-to-end online multimedia services, including Internet services such as World Wide Web access. The network architecture connects a high-speed private backbone to multiple network access points of the Internet, to a network operation center, to... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070183442 - Communications system and communication control method: In a communications system for adaptively controlling a modulation mode and encoding rate for data transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver, the transmitter comprises adaptive modulation control means for controlling the modulation mode and encoding rate in accordance with the channel quality notified from the receiver, and transmission power... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070183443 - Apparatus and method for transmitting data frame in wlan terminal: A system and method for transmitting data in a wireless local area network (WLAN) are provided. The data transmission system in the WLAN includes: an access point for periodically transmitting beacon frame information; and a wireless terminal for determining the number of data frames depending on a transmission rate of... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070183444 - Systems and methods for providing and managing high-availability power infrastructures with flexible load prioritization: Systems and methods for providing and managing high-availability power infrastructures with flexible load prioritization are described. In one embodiment, a system comprises a switch control and monitoring center that monitors and controls a distributed array of remotely controllable switches to optimize power distribution in a high-availability infrastructure according to priority... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070183445 - Method for detecting hidden station in a wireless communication network and system therefor: Disclosed is a method for detecting a hidden station in a specific station constituting a wireless communication network that includes receiving a frame after a lapse of an idle state interval longer than a predetermined waiting time; determining that there is a hidden station, if a size of the received... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070183448 - Data processing apparatus and data processing system: A data processing apparatus that received destination information showing a data transfer destination through a network provides a destination ID as identification information for the destination information, and stores the destination ID together with the destination information. The user specifies the provided destination ID and instructs execution of processing at... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070183446 - Broadband and narrowband service processing apparatus in communication equipment and its implementation method: The present invention relates to a broadband and narrowband service processing apparatus in communication equipment and its implementation method. In the present invention, the LPF module, the HPF module, and the XDSL service processing module included in the broadband and narrowband service processing apparatus is disposed in one and the... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070183447 - Local area network of serial intelligent cells: A device for coupling signals between first and second coaxial cables, the first coaxial cable being connected to carry a first bi-directional digital data signal in a first digital data frequency band, and the second coaxial cable being connected to carry a second bi-directional digital data signal in a second... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070183449 - Radio frequency multiple protocol bridge: An apparatus for interfacing with devices using different communication protocols. The apparatus may scan a range of known frequencies for a communication protocol. The apparatus may decode and translate the communication protocol into a common interface language. The apparatus may include a pair of separate and co-located transceivers to accomplish... Agent: Grant R Clayton Clayton Howarth & Cannon, PC

20070183450 - Band allocation method, communication control unit and communication apparatus: A band allocation method is adapted to a communication system in which nodes and a managing apparatus are coupled via a network and each node requests a transfer band with respect to the managing apparatus. Tolerable values of a transfer rate and a compression rate are sent from each node... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070183451 - Method of harq retransmission timing control: The present invention relates to method for controlling the transmission timing of data retransmissions in a wireless communication system wherein a HARQ retransmission protocol, is used to retransmit data from a transmitting entity to a receiving entity via a data channel. Further the present invention relates to a base station,... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070183452 - Transport stream dejittering: An apparatus, configured to receive from a receiver a multiplexed data stream of multiplexed video data packets, the multiplexed data stream being produced from multiple input video streams received by the receiver. The apparatus includes a point-of-deployment (POD) module controller configured to use a POD module to decrypt the multiplexed... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20070183454 - System and method for digital multimedia broadcasting confinement service: Disclosed are a system and method for providing digital multimedia broadcasting confinement service. The system includes: a relay center side system, which is adopted to the relay center, according to the relay center side packet identification description (PID) key, for modifying the PID of transport stream and generating the distorted... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070183453 - System for intermediating a/v stream between data network and ieee 1394 network and method thereof: A system and method for intermediating an audio/video (A/V) stream between a data network and an IEEE 1394 network are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, an A/V stream of an IP network is provided to a device connected to the IEEE 1394 network in real time, or the A/V stream... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070183456 - Asymmetrical digital subscriber line system with improved data rate: An improved ADSL system with improved data rate is disclosed. In one embodiment, the upstream data bit rate is increased by extending the upstream transmission band. In another embodiment, the downstream data is also increased by extending the downstream transmission band.... Agent: HorizonIPPte Ltd

20070183455 - Method of inserting digital watermarks in one-bit audio files: There is described a method of processing a serial data signal to generate a corresponding transformed signal, for example encoded signal. The method includes steps of: (a) providing one or more signature sequences; (b) analysing the serial data signal to determine therein one or more signal sequences for which holds... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070183457 - Method for providing secure data transfer in a mesh network: A mesh network comprises a plurality of data nodes (a-g, e) configured to make direct data transfers to all other nodes (a-g, e) in the network within transmission range. The invention provides a method for making a secure data transfer from one node to another. Each node has already measured... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070183458 - System and method for using scalable session initiation and termination in mobile broadcast/multicast services: An improved system and method for scheduling Join or Leave operations in a MBMS system. When a Join operation or a Leave operation is initiated by user equipment, it is determined whether the current time is within a protection period. If the current time is within a protection period, a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070183459 - Timestamping signal monitor device: A signal monitor device that detects a signal propagating on a signal line and that generates a timestamp when the signal is detected. The timestamp may be used in a variety of applications including measuring the propagation delays on signal lines and determining the timing in a system.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070183461 - Apparatus for and method of time related communications between multiple devices having different time bases: A novel and useful apparatus for and method of communicating time related messages between multiple devices wherein each device operates using a different time base. The invention can be applied to multi-mode cellular handsets that implement multiple radio access technologies (RATs). Messages communicated between the RATs are time synchronized using... Agent: Zaretsky & Associates PC

20070183460 - Method for establishing a user of a data network as a pilot master: A method is described for establishing one user from multiple users of a data network as a pilot master for emitting a pilot signal, to which the other users of the data network may synchronize themselves. In the related art, a pilot signal is typically generated by a separate pilot... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070183462 - Method and apparatus for aligning source data streams in a communications network: One method includes detecting a frame boundary of a source data stream at a detected position at a first point in time (T1). An offset defined by the displacement of the frame boundary from a pre-determined position at a second point in time (T2) is computed. An alignment adjustment corresponding... Agent: Davis & Associates

20070183463 - Method and arrangement for combining time-division multiplex signals: In one aspect a method for combining time-division multiplex signals in order to obtain a time-division multiplex signal, all of the signals having the same number on the periodic time-division multiplexed channels is provided. According to the method, a novel allocation of the content in non-occupied channels of the time-division... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070177492 - Methods and tools for expanding coverage of an ofdm broadcast transmitter via transmit timing advance: Systems and methods are provided for determining transmitter phase adjustments that advance or delay transmissions from one or more transmitters to increase coverage of a wireless network and mitigate noise in the network. An analysis tool is provided that considers various parameters in a given network configuration and generates predictions... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070177493 - Carrier recovery circuit and method: A carrier recovery circuit of receiving an OFDM data, comprising a demodulator, a domain transformer, an equalizer, a frequency offset detector, and a compensator. The demodulator demodulates the OFDM data with a carrier signal. The domain transformer is coupled to the demodulator, and transforms the OFDM data to frequency domain.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070177494 - Cellular radio communication system, base station, radio terminal and radio communication method: There is provided with a radio communication method in which an OFDMA scheme is used for communication from a base station to radio terminals, including: transmitting classification information for classifying the radio terminals under any one of a plurality of groups from the radio terminals to the base station; determining... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070177495 - Lan by ultra-wideband system and method: An ultra-wideband (UWB) system and method provide a local area network (LAN) and/or LAN access. LAN access versions of the UWB system includes an emulator layer and bridge that allow data to be transmitted between a LAN-UWB hybrid device and a LAN network switch, such as an IEEE 802 network... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

20070177496 - Method for decoding channelisation code set information in a spread spectrum receiver:

20070177497 - Method and device for implementing broadcast or multicast on resilient packet ring: A method for implementing broadcast or multicast traffic on a resilient packet ring (RPR) and a device using the method, the method including: when broadcast or multicast traffic is transmitted, the source site of the broadcast or multicast traffic decides whether the RPR where the site is located works normally;... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070177502 - Communication system, communication apparatus, congestion control method used therefor, and program for the method: There is provided a communication apparatus capable of increasing throughput even when the loss rate is high, without special congestion information being notified from a network. A congestion determination section determines whether the current state is light/heavy congestion from ACK packets and the content stored in a session state storage... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070177500 - Fuzzy logic scheduler for radio resource management: The present invention provides a method of radio resource allocation. The method comprises associating a plurality of mobile units with a corresponding plurality of scheduling states based on at least one radio resource parameter and at least one rule, associating each mobile unit with one allocation state based on the... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070177501 - Signaling requirements to support interference coordination in ofdma based systems: The invention provide methods for classifying user equipments (UEs) communicating with a serving base station (Node B) according to their experienced average interference in subsets of frequency or time resources. The classification utilizes existing channel quality indication (CQI) reports the UEs send to their serving Node B for the purposes... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070177498 - Method and apparatus for implementing speculative credit flow control: A method and apparatus are provided for implementing speculative credit flow control in a data communications link. A receiving node selects and sends a number of speculative credits as part of a total number of credits sent to a transmitting node. The receiving node receives and processes communications from the... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20070177499 - Network connectivity determination: By reviewing incoming packets, the network connectivity of a network access site may be determined. The review can be passive where incoming packets are reviewed and no additional network traffic is generated or the review may be active where packet probes are sent to locations and the response are reviewed... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070177504 - Hub apparatus: A hub apparatus is disclosed that includes plural input ports; a policer unit that monitors the input bandwidth of the input ports and controls acquisition and discarding of input packet data input via the input ports, the policer unit including plural policers assigned to the input ports that have input... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070177505 - Method for creating a path for data transmission in a network: A method for creating a path for data transmission in a network determines the reliability rate of each of a plurality of network elements, and selects a network element with a reliability ability rate above a threshold value. The method enables a path including the selected network element for data... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20070177503 - Call admission to a wireless network based on application-specific quality of service information: The present invention provides a method of call admission to a wireless network. The method may include accessing quality of service information associated with a voice application associated with an access terminal in response to receiving a call session request from the access terminal. The method may also include determining... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070177507 - Intelligent application management strategy: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for providing a network-based software application to a customer that includes providing the application at a service provider's site, providing over the network access to the application to a customer's site, and providing traffic management function(s) at either, or... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070177506 - Method and system for network traffic matrix analysis: A method and system for calculating data traffic flow in a communications network are disclosed. The communications network comprises a plurality of nodes including a plurality of source nodes, a plurality of destination nodes, and a plurality of intermediate nodes. Each of the intermediate nodes includes at least one elbow... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20070177512 - Method of accelerating the shortest path problem: The solution to the shortest path between a source node and multiple destination nodes is accelerated using a grouping of nodes, where the nodes are grouped based on distance from the source node, and a corresponding set of memory locations that indicate when a group includes one or more nodes.... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP

20070177511 - Ad-hoc network and method employing globally optimized routes for packets: An ad-hoc network includes an ad-hoc network coordinator (NC) having a first processor, a first memory, and a first communication interface; and a plurality of ad-hoc network devices (NDs). Each of the NDs includes a second processor, a second memory, and a second communication interface structured to communicate with the... Agent: Martin J. Moran, Esq. Eaton Electrical, Inc.,technology & Quality Center

20070177508 - Method and apparatus for evaluating component costs in a communication network: A method and apparatus for calculating a cost index in a communication network. In one embodiment, a plurality of first cost factors associated with a first set of network elements is obtained. Subsequently, a plurality of second cost factors associated with a second set of network elements is obtained. A... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070177509 - Method and apparatus for evaluating network operation costs: A method and apparatus for calculating a cost index in a communication network are described. In one embodiment, a plurality of cost factors associated with a first network operation mode is obtained. A plurality of second cost factors associated with a second network operation mode is subsequently obtained. A first... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070177510 - Method and apparatus for handoff control in mobile communications systems: A mobile communications system includes a first base station to service a first set of connections from a first set of mobile communications devices to a communications network. A set of neighboring base stations is in communication with the first base station. In an embodiment of the invention, the first... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070177515 - Tdma controller for a wireless communication system and method of operating same: A time division multiple access (TDMA) controller and method for operating the same includes a frame position module that generates a frame position signal. The controller also includes a signal module that generates a signal-on signal and a signal-off signal and a comparison module that generates a timing control signal... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070177513 - Method, apparatus, computer program product and arrangement for testing radio network data connection: A method, apparatus, computer program product and arrangement for testing radio network data connections. The method comprises establishing, by means of radio network terminals, simultaneous data connections in accordance with the TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) protocol or the UDP/IP (User Datagram Protocol/Internet Protocol) protocol from the host computer to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070177514 - Voip verifier: VoIP verification is initiated by subscriber-side test VoIP appliance, or VoIP proxy agent. Test VoIP appliance is coupled to test node over a communications internetwork by upstream and downstream datapaths. VoIP verification request is transmitted to test node. Responsively, test node transmits VoIP verification signal to test VoIP appliance. Perceivable... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070177516 - Transmission device serially resetting each circuit included therein: A transmission apparatus includes: a plurality of signal transmission circuits on a transmission path; a monitoring unit that detects a fault by monitoring an operating status of each of the signal transmission circuits; a controlling unit that outputs a reset instruction when the monitoring unit detects the fault; and an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070177517 - Communication system, communication apparatus, and communication quality test method: A communication system according to the present invention includes a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus. The first communication apparatus includes a test data generation unit, a packet generation unit and a transmitter unit. The test data generation unit is configured to generate test data. The packet generation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070177522 - Complex information platform apparatus and communication band ensuring method of the same: There is a need for applying an appropriate QoS setting to a complex information platform apparatus capable of flexibly changing an apparatus configuration so as to ensure an intra-apparatus communication band and realize management communication independence. Multiple processing modules are combined to construct one or more processing units with different... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070177521 - Method for detecting communication condition, communication condition detecting system, and communication condition detecting apparatus: To detect the communication conditions of a communication path set in a packet network such as a VoIP network, a detection packet is periodically transmitted to the communication path and a load packet is transmitted to the communication path. Then, the time and loss conditions regarding a detection packet having... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070177524 - Network connectivity determination based on passive analysis of connection-oriented path information: Passive analysis connection detection architecture that leverages connection-oriented end-to-end stack protocol information. In a TCP/IP implementation, by passively leveraging TCP information, a given system can determine in a more realtime fashion the connectivity state of a TCP pathway. Additionally, other passive information from the TCP/IP stack such as send/receive packet... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070177523 - System and method for network monitoring: A network monitoring tool capable of effectively supporting a network administrator is provided. A monitoring apparatus includes a collecting unit that collects information on a network, a receiving unit that receives a notification indicating that an event has occurred on an element of the network, and an analyzing unit that... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070177520 - Traffic load density measuring system, traffic load density measuring method, transmitter, receiver, and recording medium: The traffic load density measuring system includes a transmitter connected to a communication network for transmitting a packet, and a receiver for receiving the packet, in which a packet for load density detection is transmitted and received to measure a traffic load density within a predetermined transmission interval. The transmitter... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070177518 - End-to-end service quality using source-routed probes: The need to monitor real time network services has prompted service providers to use new measurement technologies, such as service-specific probes. A service-specific probe is an active probe that closely mimics the service traffic so that it receives the same treatment from the network as the actual service traffic. Service-specific... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070177519 - Systems and methods for transcoding bit streams: A data processing system including a buffer for temporarily maintaining a portion of a plurality of compressed data streams and a switch. Each portion of the compressed stream comprises one or more units of an encoded media signal. The switch provides selective connectivity between the buffer and a plurality of... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20070177526 - Customer premise equipment device-specific access-limiting for a cable modem and a customer premise equipment device: A method of initializing, provisioning, and managing a cable modem and a customer premise equipment device includes, prior to receiving the configuration file for the cable modem, providing an equipment identification message containing a description of the customer premise equipment device connected to the cable modem. In the case where... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070177525 - Root node redundancy for multipoint-to-multipoint transport trees: A mechanism is provided to configure a plurality of transport trees in a transport network, each of which correspond to a native tree (e.g., a bidirectional multicast tree). In embodiments of the present invention, each of the plurality of transport trees has a unique root node so that in the... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070177527 - Planning routes and allocating identifiers to routes in a managed frame-forwarding network: A method is provided of planning routes and allocating route identifiers in a managed frame-forwarding network. The network comprises a plurality of nodes interconnected by links, with each node being arranged to forward data frames according to a combination of an identifier and a network address carried by a received... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070177529 - Apparatus and method for combining network conferences that are not co-located: An audio management apparatus manages simultaneous streams of packet-switched audio data for a network conference tool, and allows the combining of conferences that are not co-located. The apparatus uses at least two audio bridges, each of which receives audio inputs from a plurality of local connection points, does mixing of... Agent: Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070177528 - Providing an announcement for a multiparty communication session: Providing an announcement for a multiparty communication session involves establishing a communication session between at least two endpoints. A request to add an added endpoint to the communication session is received. A procedure to provide an announcement to the endpoints of the communication session is initiated. The announcement is played... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070177530 - Large-scale wide area network system having location information management function: A large-scale wide area network system includes wireless communication base devices respectively configuring access points covering wireless zones subordinate thereto; wireless communication base control devices performing integrated control of the corresponding wireless communication base devices, and managing IP addresses of the wireless communication base control devices of a home location... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070177531 - Frame processing apparatus and method in wireless lan: A frame processing method in a wireless local area network includes: confirming quality status according to signal level value of a frame received via a wireless medium, error status of a frame or receipt status of an acknowledgment frame in response to frame transmission; determining split size information of a... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070177532 - Terminal control system: Satisfactory failure determination and detection of the connection state are made possible in a terminal control system comprising a main control device, a terminal device controlled by the main control device, and a communication line connected so as to enable two-way communication between the devices. The terminal control system comprises... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070177533 - Surface and cordless transducer system: A smart surface is disclosed that can stand alone or be contained within a portable computer or other system, for powering and communicating with single or multiple cord-free transducers. Operating or charging power is transmitted by the surface using a carrier signal that is on/off keyed or amplitude modulated with... Agent: William C. Cahill

20070177534 - Power management method: A power management method. The power management method for a wireless network having a plurality of stations (STAs) comprises receiving a data frame, detecting a destination STA in accordance with the data frame, and entering a low power state if not the destination STA for a first power-save (PS) duration... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070177538 - Multi-speed mesh networks: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a communications facility that is adapted to communicate with at least one other mesh network node at a communication speed selected from a plurality of communication speeds.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070177540 - System and method for transmitting data in wireless local area network: In a system and method for transmitting data in a wireless local area network (WLAN), the system includes: a wireless station which, when a No Acknowledge (ACK) function of the WLAN is applied, transmits a No ACK request message based on a protection mechanism according to a frame transmission condition... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070177535 - Cell search process for wireless communication system: A method of performing a continuous cell search for new cells in a wireless communication systems having a plurality of base stations and a mobile station, the method including the steps of: (a) using (1) a primary synchronization code to acquire slot synchronization for identified cells; (b) using (2) a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070177537 - Method and apparatus for enabling transmission of communication response in a slotted radio data communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, that facilitates communication of data in a radio communication system that utilizes a slotted communication scheme. Multiple successive time slots are allocable upon which to communicate data to a receiving communication station. At selected intervals, a controller causes the mode of operation of the receiving... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070177536 - Method of scheduling uplink resource in a wireless communication system: In one embodiment, a target scheduling grant for a user is generated based on the uplink resource consumed by a plurality of users, and a scheduling grant for a user is generated based on the target scheduling grant and the uplink resource consumed by the user. More specifically, in one... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070177539 - Mobile communication system: The invention provides a cellular mobile communication system that efficiently performs high-speed communication with mobile terminals within the cell using a single frequency. The mobile communication system sequentially performs polling communication control to plural terminals within the own cell, based on a control of a base station positioned near the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070177541 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving signal in a communication system: Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving signals in a communication system. A base station allocates a quasi-dedicated control channel (QDCCH) to a first mobile station (MS), and allocates the QDCCH allocated to the first MS, to a second MS for a preset time. An MS receives a QDCCH... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070177542 - Arbitrating colocated transceivers associated with different systems: Systems and methods according to the present invention provide arbitration methods, systems and devices which enable a WLAN transceiver (30) and a Bluetooth (BT) transceiver (32) to share the transmission medium. Various arbitration signals (BT, WL, RXIND and PRI) enable the transceivers to indicate a seizure of ownership of the... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20070177543 - Method and apparatus for optimized assignment of abis transmission resources based on dynamic statistical time division multiplexing: The present invention relates to technique for optimized assignment of Abis transmission resources based on dynamic statistical time division multiplexing, the method comprising the steps of: assigning a set of 64 k TS's to GPRS/EGPRS services on an Abis link, the set of 64 k TS's shared among all BTS's... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070177548 - Call control system: To provide a technology of setting up a call at a high efficiency by a location management device's sending notification of a call setup request to a call control device corresponding to a location of a callee communication device. A call control device connected to a location management device via... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070177546 - Method and apparatus for efficiently managing power-up timer for high-speed inter-radio access technology handover in mobile communication device: A method of an Inter-RAT handover between a WCDMA service and a CDMA service of a mobile communication device having a WCDMA modem and a CDMA modem, the method including: performing the WCDMA service in a WCDMA network; move from the WCDMA network to a CDMA network; determining an Inter-RAT... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070177547 - Data state transition during handoff: Described herein are mechanisms and methods that facilitate seamless handoff of an access terminal between access points (transceiver modules). A first transceiver module can be providing forward link data services to an access terminal when it requests a handoff to a second transceiver module. In response, the first transceiver module... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070177550 - Method for providing virtual private network services to mobile node in ipv6 network and gateway using the same: Provided are a method for providing virtual private network (VPN) services to a mobile node (MN) in an IPv6 network and a gateway using the same. The method includes: performing IKE (Internet key exchange) negotiation with an MN (mobile node) which has performed handover, acquiring SA (security association) and then... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070177545 - System and method for allocating sub-channels in a network: At least one operating condition is determined for a first mobile subscriber station (104) that is operating in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) network. The first mobile subscriber station (104) is handed off from a base station (102) to a relay station (110). Based upon the at least... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070177549 - Systems and methods for handoff in wireless network: Methods performed by a mobile node (MN) in a secured network for handoff of communication from a serving access point (AP) to a target AP are provided. In a bounded delay channel switching (BDCS) method, the MN periodically switches between a first channel and one of multiple other channels during... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070177544 - Using the repetition of an erasure indicator bit to enhance a power control command during handoff: A wireless communication network (20) includes a power control technique that includes repeating an erasure indicator bit in a transmission from a mobile station (22) to a base station (24, 30, 36). The repeated erasure indicator bit is transmitted on the uplink to each base station. The base station then... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070177551 - Method for transmitting signals in a radiocommunication system and corresponding transmitter station and receiver station: A method transmits signals of a link between a transmitting station and a receiving station of a radiocommunication system, wherein at least one pilot signal is transmitted between the stations NB and UE in order to enable estimation of at least one channel of said link by the receiving station.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070177553 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing efficient signaling of user allocations in an optimum manner: An allocation of M network allocations (e.g., physical resource blocks) among N users is by a signaling word having a maximum number of bits given by ceil(M*log 2(N+1)). The signaling word is sent to users, who determine the resources allocated to them from the signaling word. In an embodiment, the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070177552 - Distributed based station system and method for networking thereof and base band unit: The present invention discloses a distributed base station system as well as its networking method and base band unit. In this system, the base band unit (BBU) and RF unit (RFU) of the base station are separated, and the RFU is equipped with base band RF interfaces for interconnecting the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070177554 - Automated service discovery and wireless network set-up: The present technique for automating service discovery and the set-up of a wireless network improves a user's experience when setting-up the wireless network and using one or more services. The technique includes automatic neighbor/service discovery using special beacons transmitted from wireless devices. Each special beacon identifies the wireless device (i.e.,... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070177558 - Location aware, on demand, media delivery to remote devices: A method, system and computer program and method for delivering a streaming data to a remote device from a wireless transmitter. In one embodiment, a transmitter is configured to send units of the streaming data to the remote device. A receiver is configured to receive usage data about the streaming... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (rsw)

20070177556 - Method and apparatus for reverse link control in a wireless communication network as a function of reverse link load characteristic: A method and apparatus for controlling one or more aspects of reverse link communications is based on determining reverse link load softness. Such control may be implemented in the network, such as in a base station controller. Control may be sector based, wherein the softness is determined on a per... Agent: Coats & Bennett/ericsson Wireless Comm''s., Inc.

20070177555 - Method of multicast service provisioning: A method of provisioning multicast services is provided. In an example, the method includes forming a plurality of multicast groups, each of the plurality of multicast groups associated with one of a plurality of first channel quality ranges. A request for a multicast service and an indicator (e.g., a channel... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070177557 - Method to dynamically provide link specific information to mobile clients: The disclosed embodiments enable a Mobile Node to select from or prioritize two or more Foreign Agents using information dynamically provided to the Mobile Node. When a Foreign Agent detects a Mobile Node, it composes an agent advertisement having one or more fields including one or more parameter values. The... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070177562 - Method, apparatus and article to remotely associate wireless communications devices with subscriber identities and/or proxy wireless communications devices: Apparatus and methods provide remote access to subscriber identity information and subscriber configuration information stored on one or more subscriber identity modules (SIMs), to allow remote configuration of wireless communications devices. A SIM server provides access to the SIMs, a SIM librarian catalogs the SIMs, and a SIM accounting system... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070177563 - Mobile communication system using a downlink shared channel: A method of mobile communication at a base station includes transmitting to a mobile station, identifying information for multicast data to be transmitted to the mobile station and transmitting the multicast data on a shared channel to the mobile station, wherein the data is identified by the information.... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070177564 - Mobile communication system using a downlink shared channel: A system for mobile communication includes a base station and a mobile station. The base station includes a first transmitting unit operable to transmit to a mobile station, identifying information for multicast data to be to the mobile station, and a second transmitting unit operable to transmit the data on... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070177559 - Mobile ip addressing: A system and method are provided for mobile Internet Protocol (IP) addressing, in a multi-mode wireless communications access terminal (AT). The method provides an AT with an IP address (ATA), and a care-of-address (CoA) in each of a plurality of networks. In one aspect, the AT selects a first network... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070177560 - System for digital radio communication between a wireless lan and a pbx: A wireless local area network for digital radio communication between remote devices and a PBX telephone system, wherein the remote devices can access and use the voice message features in the PBX and the data bases on a host computer and servers. A wireless phone is provided for voice and... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070177561 - System with a cell controller adapted to perform a management function: A wireless local area network is provided with simplified RF ports which are configured to provide lower level media access control functions. Higher level media access control functions and management functions are provided with a system having a cell controller, which may service one or more RF ports. Mobile units... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070177566 - Method and apparatus for coding of e-dch dedicated physical control channel: Embodiments of the present invention provide Method and apparatus for coding of an E-DCH Dedicated Physical Control Channel (E-DPCCH). The method includes encoding information bits of signalling on an E-DPCCH in a BLOCK coding manner. The apparatus includes a unit for encoding information bits of signalling on an E-DPCCH in... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070177565 - Method of controlling data rate for a forward data service in a cdma 2000-1x system: The present invention relates to a method for controlling a data rate for a forward data service in a CDMA 2000-1x system. Conventionally, the data rate from a base station to a mobile station is constant regardless of the wireless environment of the mobile station. As such, resources used in... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070177567 - Bluetooth polling with fewer poll packets: A Bluetooth master unit polls a slave unit to enable the slave to resynchronize to the master, by sending POLL packets with sufficient frequency to maintain a connection to the slave, and in the intervals between such packets, sending NULL packets with sufficient frequency to maintain synchronization of the slave.... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070177569 - Efficient transmission on a shared data channel for wireless communication: Techniques for efficient data transmission and reception in a wireless communication system are described. In an aspect, a Node B sends transmissions on a shared data channel to a user equipment (UE) based on at least one parameter assigned to the UE prior to the transmissions. The Node B sends... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070177570 - Frame structure for bridging operation in high-speed wireless personal area network and data transmitting method thereof: Disclosed is a frame structure in a high-speed wireless personal area network (WPAN) and a message transmitting method thereof which enable communications among devices existing in different piconets by using a device that provides a bridging function in the IEEE 802.15.3 WPAN. In a high-speed WPAN system which includes a... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

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