Multiplex communications inventions 09/07

20070223358 - Iterative vector equalization for cdma communications systems on the mimo channel: subtracting interference using an estimate of multi-antenna interference (MAI), intersymbol interference (ISI), and multi-user interference (MUI) previously regenerated on the basis of the vector (Ŝ) generated by previous filtering (202); processing to generate an interference estimate for the data received from information computed on the basis of the vector (Ŝ).... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070223359 - Method of ofdma tone interference cancellation: An improved method is provided for reducing inter-carrier interference in the CDMA subchannels of hybrid OFDMA-CDMA systems. The results of decoding OFDMA tones are used to at least partially cancel interference from CDMA tones. Then, the CDMA tones are decoded. In specific embodiments, control information is obtained by an initial... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20070223361 - Method for orderwire modulation: Methods for orderwire modulation are provided. In one embodiment, a method for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing multipoint-to-point communications system comprises: establishing communication between a first remote unit of a plurality of remote units and a host unit, the plurality of remote units communicatively coupled to the host unit in... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070223360 - Signal output circuit, communication apparatus and signal output control method: An OFDM signal generator performs inverse Fourier transform of frequency domain data of an OFDM signal, and generates and outputs time domain data. An output amplifier amplifies an analog signal transmitted via a delay unit and a D/A converter. Here, a comparator detects whether the amplitude of a signal has... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070223363 - Control modulation in multipoint-to-point communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing: Systems for control modulation in multipoint-to-point communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) are provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises a host; a plurality of remote units using a multiple access scheme to communicate at the same time with the host using OFDM; wherein the host allocates orthogonal tones... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070223362 - System for orderwire modulation: Systems for orderwire modulation are provided. In one embodiment, a bidirectional communication system comprises 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; wherein the first remote unit is... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070223365 - Apparatus for and method of minimizing backoff for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing transmission: A novel and useful mechanism for reducing the required backoff and the peak to average power ratio (PAPR) needed for an OFDM transmitter whiles still meeting spectral mask and EVM specifications. The mechanism searches, for each packet to be transmitted, for several possible scrambler and encryption sequences that would yield... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070223364 - Ofdm radio communications system, transmitter and receiver: Each of a general chunk to which pilot signals are allocated at a general density, and a high-density chunk to which pilot signals are allocated at a higher density than the density of the general chunk, is transmitted in a frequency band common to OFDM transmitters. Each of the OFDM... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070223366 - Ofdm symbol design for different channel conditions and for backward compatibility with 1xev-do and nxev-do: A method for generating a transmission slot includes receiving a transmission slot that includes a plurality of data regions and a plurality of control regions, in which each of the data regions include digital spread spectrum data. The method further includes substituting each of the plurality of data regions with... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070223368 - Failure recovery method and node, and network: The invention comprises emergency call management apparatus (31) and a mobile station (1). The emergency call management apparatus (31) monitors the emergency call generation rate, which is indicative of the rate of generation of emergency calls in a network, and on the basis of the result of this monitoring, transmits... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070223367 - Adaptive mimo wireless communicationsi system: A GMIMO-JD (Generalized Multiple Input Multiple Output—Joint Detection) method to be executed by a receiver for use in MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) wireless communication systems, comprising: receiving the radio signal sent form a transmitter; estimating the propagation channel quality of the radio signal; sending a feedback information to the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070223369 - Cable misconnection detection system and method: A duplex communication system provided with a first duplex apparatus (11) including two first apparatuses (12, 13) having the same functions and a second duplex apparatus (14) including two second apparatuses (15, 16) having the same functions, one of the first apparatuses of the first duplex apparatus and one of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070223370 - Methods and apparatus for data packet transmission on a network: A change in a client device is detected (306) during a transmission of a plurality of packets destined to at least one first destination used by at least one packet session. In response to the change, a determination (312) is made as to whether some but not all of the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070223371 - Flexible open ring optical network and method: A flexible open ring optical network includes a plurality of nodes connected by twin or other suitable optical rings. Each node is operable to passively add and passively drop traffic from the rings. The nodes may include a transport element for each ring. The transport elements include an optical splitter... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070223373 - Communication control apparatus and communication control method: A determining unit determines an allowable rate of data input permitted at a local node. A generating unit generates, when the allowable rate determined by the determining unit is equal to or greater than a target rate of the local node, extended control information including satisfaction information indicating that the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070223372 - Method and apparatus for preventing congestion in load-balancing networks: The invention includes a method and apparatus for processing traffic in a load-balancing network comprising a plurality of nodes. The method includes determining an egress node associated with each of a plurality of packets of a traffic flow received at an ingress node of the plurality of nodes, determining, for... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070223375 - Shaper circuit and shaper circuit combination: A shaper circuit for controlling input packets using a token bucket algorithm is disclosed. The shaper circuit includes a parameter storage part for storing a current token, an add token, and a max token, a dequeue subtraction part for subtracting a packet length of a dequeue target from the current... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070223376 - Arbiter for a serial bus system: An arbiter for a device arranged to be coupled to a serial bus, the arbiter comprising a means for obtaining identifier information associated with one more other devices coupled to the serial bus and; means for determining a priority level based upon an identifier associated with the device and identifier... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20070223374 - System and method for relaying signal in a communication system: A source node of a communication system selects one of a direct mode, a multi-hop mode, and a superposition mode as a transmission mode to be used for signal transmission from the source node to a destination node, taking into account data rates for a link between the source node... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070223378 - Internet traffic controller, internet-traffic controlling system, and internet-traffic controlling method: An internet traffic controller controls internet traffic in an internet protocol network through which packets are distributed for telephone calls between a first communication device and a second communication device. The internet traffic controller acquires call control packets and call packets flowing on a transmission line between the first communication... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070223380 - Mechanism for streaming media data over wideband wireless networks: A system is disclosed having a transmitter to Tirelessly transmit multi-media data. The transmitter includes a module to packetize phase units of a multimedia frame that is to be transmitted. The system also includes a receiver to receive the multimedia frame received from the transmitter. The receiver includes a post... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070223377 - Method and apparatus for improving traffic distribution in load-balancing networks: The invention includes a method and apparatus for balancing traffic in a load-balancing network having a plurality of nodes. The method includes splitting a traffic flow into a plurality of traffic flow parts associated with designated ones of the plurality of nodes and distributing the traffic flow parts to the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070223379 - Systems and methods of improving performance of transport protocols: Systems and methods of improving transport protocol performance are disclosed. One exemplary method includes: in a first state, non-linearly increasing a congestion window; in response to the congestion window exceeding a threshold value while in the first state, transitioning to a second state; and in the second state, linearly increasing... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070223382 - Programmable routing module: A programmable routing module is disclosed for interconnecting field wiring with a control system. The routing module includes a field connection to connect field signals from a controlled process to the routing module, an I/O connection to connect I/O signals from the control system to the routing module, and a... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./fay

20070223383 - Method and system for flow control between a base station controller and a base transceiver station: According to a disclosed embodiment, a flow indication counter is incremented each time a data packet is transmitted from a buffer. When the number of data packets transmitted equals or exceeds a threshold number, a flow indication message comprising the buffer window size is generated and transmitted to the base... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070223381 - Underground power line communication system and method: An underground power line is coupled to an overhead power line at a riser pole. In a power line communication system, a first and a second communication device are communicatively coupled to the underground power line at different locations. A third communication device is located in the vicinity of the... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20070223384 - Communication method for point-to-multipoint communication system and subsidiary transmission apparatus for the same system: The communication method and the subsidiary transmission apparatus for a point-to-multipoint communication system in which the subsidiary transmission apparatus autonomously establishes point-to-multipoint communication between one main transmission apparatus and multiple subsidiary transmission apparatuses, without manually operating switches of the subsidiary transmission apparatuses. The subsidiary transmission apparatus generates, during the absence... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070223386 - Monitoring device and system: In a monitoring device and system, a monitoring data inserter inserts monitoring data of a predetermined pattern into an idle period of input data to be transmitted to a transmission line. A monitoring data checker having received the monitoring data through the transmission line, when determining that the monitoring data... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070223385 - Method and system of using counters to monitor a system port buffer: Methods and systems for using counters to monitor port buffers are described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving data packets into a system port buffer having different queues. Also, counters are associated with the queues. Further, the method includes scanning the counters, in which the counters count the number... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070223394 - Band measurement device, band measurement method and computer program: A band measurement device that measures a residual idle band available for a wireless LAN communication is provided. A band measurement device (corresponding to one of access points AP1-N) transmits null data corresponding to a virtual idle band and measures a band of actually transmitted null data. Then, the measured... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070223390 - Communication apparatus and communication method: A communication apparatus transmits data by adaptively selecting at least one of an error-correction coding rate and a modulation method so that the error rate of data transmission is within a target error rate at a destination. In the communication apparatus, a transmission-parameter generating unit selects at least one of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070223388 - Hardware implementation of network testing and performance monitoring in a network device: An embodiment of the present invention offloads the generation and monitoring of test packets from a Central processing Unit (CPU) to a dedicated network integrated circuit, such as a router, bridge or switch chip associated with the CPU. The CPU may download test routines and test data to the network... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070223392 - Method and device for checking validity period of certificate and method and device for displaying content information: A method and a device for confirming a validity period of a certificate and a method and a device for displaying content information are provided. A certification error and displaying of wrong time information caused by wrong system time information can be prevented, and certification time can be reduced, by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070223387 - Device and method for determining a voice transmission delay over a packet switched network: A direct way to measure network delay of a packet switched network uses a ping signal injected into the voice stream at a source telephone. The ping signal travels together with the voice stream to a destination telephone. The destination telephone detects the ping signal and returns it to the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070223389 - Methods and apparatus for improving security while transmitting a data packet: In a first aspect, a first method of transmitting a data packet is provided. The first method includes the steps of (1) for each connection from which a data packet may be transmitted, storing header data corresponding to the connection; (2) employing a user application to form header and payload... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law Dept. 917

20070223395 - Methods and apparatus for optimizing a tcp session for a wireless network: A plurality of network characteristics of a wireless network are determined and a plurality of TCP session parameters are updated. The network characteristics may be determined based at least in part on a comparison of the estimated bandwidth and estimated propagation delay of the wireless network and the typical bandwidths... Agent: Albert Lee

20070223391 - Packet transmission system: A packet transmission system by which the occurrence of an overflow or an underflow can be prevented and by which a packet interval at a sending end can be reproduced with great accuracy at a receiving end. A packet gap extraction section extracts a packet gap from a packet stream.... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070223393 - Wireless communication apparatus and comunication quality estimating method: Based on a received signal of a wireless communication system currently used for communication, a communication quality in a case of switching to another wireless communication system for communication is efficiently and precisely estimated. A communication quality estimating part (201) subjects both a known signal received, by use of a... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070223399 - Method of configuring native vlan and processing ethernet messages for a gpon system: A method for ONT processing of Ethernet messages, comprising: A. the ONT receiving an Ethernet message from the UNI, and, if the Ethernet message doesn't contain a VLAN tag, adding the VLAN tag specified in the Native VLAN property of the UNI to the Ethernet message before forwarding it to... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070223396 - Apparatus, system, and method for aurally indicating progress: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for aurally indicating progress. In one embodiment, a node count module determines a node threshold. A discovery module searches for a plurality of nodes over a communications channel wherein each node is autonomously connected to the communications channel. In addition, the discovery module... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070223398 - Method for implementing grouping devices and interacting among grouped devices: The present invention discloses a method for implementing device grouping and interactions between grouped devices. In a network, a device creating a device group sends an advertisement message carrying identification information of a device group to which it belongs, to the network. After receiving the advertisement message, a network device... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070223397 - Network configuration: Where a manual protocol address for a computing device has been stored, the manual protocol address is acquired. Stateless network configuration for the computing device is performance in accordance with a protocol. Stateful network configuration for the computing device is performed in accordance with a policy for the protocol and... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070223400 - Connecting system, inverse multiplexer, data communication network, method and computer program: Throughput between nodes such as personal computer and a subnetwork such as the Internet is increased by using inverse multiplexing over multiple intersubnetwork connections such as local loop telephone lines of different users. The different nodes share the multiple intersubnetwork connections with each other, so that the efficiency of the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070223401 - Mobile device calls via private branch exchange: Communication systems and methods are described that enable mobile devices to route telephone calls via an enterprise telephone system. The communication system is configured to receive via a data channel a request from the mobile device. The mobile device corresponds to a user making a call. The server receiving the... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070223402 - Device, system and method of extended-range wireless communication: Some embodiments of the invention provide devices, systems and methods of extended-range wireless communication. For example, a method in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes receiving a probe request including an indication of a requested transmission scheme, and transmitting a data packet using the requested transmission scheme.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070223405 - Method and apparatus for activating hybrid automatic repeat request process in a wireless communications system: A method for activating a first Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process used in a mobile of a wireless communications system includes receiving a first Primary Absolute Grant (AG) message indicating to activate the first HARQ process, and only activating the first HARQ process and de-activating all HARQ processes other... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070223404 - Apparatus and method for asynchronous and adaptive hybrid arq scheme in a wireless network: A low overhead asynchronous and adaptive Hybrid Acknowledgment Request (HARQ) technique for use in wireless networks. First control information is transmitted with the first subpacket and subsequent control information is transmitted with transmissions of subsequent subpackets only if the retransmission is done asynchronously or if the duration of the retransmission... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070223406 - Communication system using ofdm for one direction and dsss for another direction: A method and apparatus for wireless communication are described. In one embodiment, a method for communicating with a subscriber comprises transmitting orthogonal frequency domain multiplexing (OFDM) signals to the subscriber, and receiving direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) signals from the subscriber.... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070223403 - Power control in a communication network and method: In a wireless network using a carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) scheme is provided a method, system, devices and instruction sets for detecting transmission levels and adjusting the transmission levels for both a connection point and mobile stations within the network in order to reduce power consumption in network devices... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070223407 - Far echo rejection for a facsimile modem control channel: A method and system for far echo rejection for a fax modem control channel is disclosed for eliminating far echo signals during a fax transmission with a fax modem using a control channel and a primary channel for transmitting data. The far echo rejection may be achieved even if the... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20070223411 - Iterative multi-stage detection technique for a diversity receiver having multiple antenna elements: An iterative multistage detection system and method for orthogonally multiplexing K channels onto a signal processing chain using N orthogonal sequences of length N. The K channels include a first set of N channels and a second set of M channels (the M channels being separate and distinct from the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070223408 - Method and apparatus for intelligent seamless network switching: A method and apparatus that enable a mobile electronic device to automatically and seamlessly maintain optimal network connectivity by selectively connecting to the most appropriate, currently available data or communications network. Guidelines for what constitutes optimal network connectivity are provided by pre-selected user preferences or objectives. These are combined into... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070223410 - Network mobility support and access control for movable networks: The invention relates to access control for a movable network (15) managed by a mobile router (10), wherein said mobile route is interconnected through a bi-directional link (40) with a mobility anchoring agent (20) that anchors the network mobility for the mobile router. According to the invention, access control enforcement... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070223409 - System, arrangement and method relating to packet switched communication: A communication system and method for prolonging a packet-switched connection between a core network node and a mobile station. When the mobile station sends a mobility management request to the core network node, the core network node decides whether or not to prolong the packet-switched connection. The core network node... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070223412 - Method for signal transmission in a radio communication system: The present disclosure relates to a method for signal transmission in a radio communication system, the method using at least two frequency channels and being designed for the transmission of communication between at least two asynchronously operated stations by means of the frequency channels. According to an exemplary method, the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070223413 - Wireless communication device and wireless communication method: A wireless communication device that transmits packets, on the basis of a packet transmission scheme for allocating wireless bands with virtual carrier sensing, has: monitoring module for monitoring packets communicated between other wireless communication devices and base stations for a local cell and another cell; determination module for determining whether... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070223414 - System and method for multi-source data communications: A system and method for multi-source data communications includes a receiver configured to receive a first data stream from a first data source, such as a satellite. Associated with the first data stream is an instruction to the receiver that causes the receiver to receive a second data stream from... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

20070223416 - Arq communication system and method with acknowledgment mapping: A method of operating a communication system in which transmissions in a first direction, say from a base station, comprise frames formed by data packets and transmissions in a second direction, say from a user equipment (U E), comprise substantially continuous transmissions having acknowledgement fields (ARQ-A, ARQ-B) for data packets... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070223418 - Determining the state of a station in a local area network: In a wireless local area network, transmissions exchanged between a station and an access point is received using a detector located adjacent to the station. The received transmissions are analyzed to determine the state of the station, where the state of the station indicates whether the station has authenticated and/or... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070223415 - Pattern-based polling of mobile stations for channel quality information: A channel quality information (CQI) polling controller for use in a wireless communication network is capable of causing a base station to poll a mobile station within its coverage area for CQI at an initial predetermined rate. The controller is also capable of recognizing a CQI variation pattern of the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070223417 - Wireless communication base station device configured to use plural communication schemes, and wireless communication system: A wireless communication base station device includes a measuring section and a communication period determining section. The device is configured to use a first wireless communication scheme and a second wireless communication scheme which use overlapping bands. The measuring section measures a first transmission and reception time spent on actual... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070223419 - Method and system for sharing spectrum in a wireless communications network: A method and system for sharing spectrum in a wireless communications network are disclosed. As one example, a method for sharing spectrum is disclosed, which includes the steps of determining if two base stations in the wireless communications network are to share a frequency spectrum, and if two base stations... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070223421 - Systems and methods for managing resources during handoff across communication systems having different grades of quality of service awareness: In a method for managing quality of service (QoS) resources during handoff across communication systems having different grades of QoS awareness, an access terminal (AT) determines that handoff has occurred from a QoS unaware system to a QoS aware system. The AT also determines whether there are any allocated, unrequested... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070223420 - Communication handover method, communication message processing method and program for executing these methods by use of a computer: Disclosed is a technique so arranged that, after handover, a mobile terminal can promptly and continuously accept an additional service (for example, QoS assurance), the mobile terminal has accepted before the handover. With this technique, when the mobile terminal (MN 10) carries out the handover, the MN selects, as a... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070223423 - Grouping of users for mimo transmission in a wireless communication system: Techniques for supporting MIMO transmission are described. User equipments (UEs) are classified into a first group of UEs to be scheduled individually and a second group of UEs that can be scheduled together. The classification may be based upon the number of transmit and receive antennas, sector loading, data requirements,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070223422 - Resource allocation to support single-user and multi-user mimo transmission: Techniques for supporting MIMO transmission are described. Users are classified into a first group of users to be scheduled individually for MIMO transmission and a second group of users that can be scheduled together for MIMO transmission. Transmission resources are allocated to the first and second groups, e.g., based upon... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070223425 - Cdma mobile communication system and communication method: A radio communication system having a base station and a plurality of radio terminals, wherein each radio terminal having a transmission request transmits a reservation packet at arbitrary timing through a reservation channel in accordance with a CDMA scheme, and the base station assigns a traffic channel and a time... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070223424 - System and method for restricting packet data services in a wireless communications network: A geographic Hot Zone service for restricting wireless packet data sessions transmitted to/from a restricted geographic Hot Zone created within the coverage area of a wireless packet data communications network is provided. The geographic Hot Zone service is activated to create the Hot Zone during an extraordinary event and reduces... Agent: Richard J. Minnich, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070223426 - Transmittal of heartbeat signal at a lower lever than heartbeat request: A communication system, such as a wireless CDMA system, detects markers with fewer errors by having field units transmit the markers at different power levels (e.g., 9 dB for one marker and 11 dB for another marker). The difference in power levels of the markers allows the base station to... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070223427 - Base station apparatus, terminal, and bandwidth control method: A terminal-type judging unit judges whether a terminal is a mobile terminal or a fixed terminal. For a connection with the fixed terminal, an acceptance judging unit and a scheduling unit convert a requested bandwidth into a first resource amount using a modulation scheme used at the time of receiving... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070223436 - Apparatus and method for community-based communication: An Apparatus and a method are for community-based communication between a first mobile node and at least one second mobile node. The apparatus and method for community-based communication allow to easily build a community, to recognize community members in communication range, to display symbols representing recognized community members on an... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070223438 - Cell network using friendly relay communication exchanges: A wireless access point and multiple wireless terminals exchange utilization, status, mobility and reception characteristics. Each wireless terminal generates reception characteristics based on transmissions received from the wireless access point and from other devices in the network. In one operating mode, the characteristics gathered by the wireless devices are forwarded... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070223439 - Wireless communication method, wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication program: A two-hop distant node is recognized by exchanging a Hello message, and an RTS message is transmitted through a doubled transmission distance prior to transmission of a data packet. Each node manages a channel available to a self node and an adjacent node in a channel status table based on... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070223434 - Adaptive communication management to accommodate hidden terminal conditions: A wireless access point and multiple wireless terminals exchange utilization, status, mobility and reception characteristics. Each wireless terminal generates reception characteristics based on transmissions received from the wireless access point and from other devices in the network. In one operating mode, the characteristics gathered by the wireless devices are forwarded... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070223435 - Association method, relay apparatus, communication management apparatus and bandwidth allocation management apparatus: An association method for associating a communication management apparatus, a bandwidth allocation management apparatus, a relay apparatus and a wireless terminal with each other is disclosed. In the method, the wireless terminal sends a request for terminal registration including a communication management apparatus identifier to the relay apparatus; the relay... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070223433 - Location managing apparatus and location managing method: A storing unit stores information on rejection of a request for connection to a desired network made by a mobile network, when congestion has occurred on a communication path of the desired network; a searching unit searches in the storing unit, when the congestion is resolved, to retrieve a mobile... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070223430 - Method and apparatus for enabling simultaneous vowlan and bluetooth audio in small form factor handheld devices: Certain aspects of a method and system for providing wireless communication may include a single integrated circuit (IC) that handles communication for at least a Bluetooth (BT) connection and a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) connection by controlling transmission of acknowledgement signals based on a measured voice quality for one... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070223429 - Method and apparatus to facilitate use of cable television coaxial cable for local area network services: A wireless local area network access point (200) has a data communication network input (201) (to provide, for example, broadband access via a digital subscriber line modem, a cable modem, or the like). The access point also has a wireless local area network output (202) to provide wireless access to... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070223437 - Method and system for inlining services within a network access device: An apparatus for providing network access and application session services includes a wireless network access device for receiving packet data streams from or transmitting packet data streams to one or more subscribers, and for conveying the packet data streams to or from a network or other subscribers. The wireless network... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070223428 - System and method of message delivery in a wireless communication network: A wireless communication system, comprising a host service, a wireless router system coupled to the host service, a wireless network coupling the wireless router system and a wireless mobile communication device (“mobile device”), adaptively delivers data to the mobile device in the wireless communication system using a notification message delivery... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070223432 - Wi-fi network connection management using location specific information: An embodiment of the present invention provides a wireless client capable of connection management using wireless client position specific information, wherein the position specific information is determined by the wireless client communicating with a mobile device in proximity to the wireless client that has knowledge of the mobile devices position.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070223431 - Wlan fast join: A new and unique method and apparatus to provide a mobile node, point, terminal or device with a technique to initiate a join operation with timing information received from a previous beacon and WLAN chipset's internal reference timestamp so that the WLAN chipset can synchronize itself with an access point... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070223440 - Wireless access network and method for allocating time and frequency resources: Embodiments of a wireless access network and method for allocation time and frequency resources are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, a base station allocates contiguous groups of data subcarriers of a downlink subframe to closed-loop user stations, and allocates the remaining data... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070223441 - Method and device for the concurrent operation of at least two wireless link paths: The present disclosure relates to the concurrent operation of at least two wireless link paths. At least one first link path has a first digital transmission method and at least one second link path has a second digital transmission method. The carrier frequencies of these transmission methods lie in frequency... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070223442 - Mobile radio communication system, communication apparatus applied in a 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.

20070223444 - System and method for selectively interfacing different types of network communications: A system for interfacing different types of network communications. In one embodiment, the system includes one or more gateways capable of converting messages from messages that are adapted for a first type of network and/or destination device to messages that are adapted for a second type of network and/or destination... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070223443 - Transmission of asset information in streaming services: This invention relates to a method, a computer program product, devices, a system and a session description protocol for transferring data (101, 106) and information on associated data asset information, comprising providing (307) session description information (110) that at least partially contains the information on the data asset information, wherein... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070223445 - Time synchronization apparatus and method of digital broadcasting reception terminal: Disclosed is a time synchronization apparatus and method of a digital broadcasting reception terminal. A Time and Data Table (TDT) is extracted from Program Specific Information and Service Information contained in received digital broadcasting data, and current Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) time is calculated form the extracted TDT. Current local... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070223448 - Routing apparatus and method: A routing apparatus includes a hardware routing process section, a validating section, a control section, and a holding buffer. The hardware routing process section performs a hardware routing process on a received frame to create a transmission frame, and which then holds the created transmission frame in a transmitting buffer.... Agent: Paul J. Esatto, Jr. Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20070223449 - Data transmission apparatus and method: A data transmission apparatus comprises an estimation device to estimate a transmission condition of the transmission channel in the transmitter based on at least Jitter information or a packet loss rate obtained from the receiver, and a controller to change at least one of a bit rate of transmission data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070223447 - Gateway device and control method thereof: A gateway device which judges whether a first terminal device and a second terminal device belong to a same network when a connection request from the first terminal device to the second terminal device is accepted, and performs control such that a packet transmitted from one of the first terminal... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20070223446 - System and method for maintaining a provisioned configuration for an endpoint in a communications network: A system and method for maintaining provisioned configuration for an endpoint in a packet switched communications network are disclosed, the communications network utilizing a signalling protocol between the endpoint and at least one gatekeeper. The gatekeeper receives a request from the endpoint, determines the addresses of an assigned gatekeeper and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070223455 - Method of switching between voip call and traditional call: A method of switching between a VoIP call and a traditional call, involving the use of a caller terminal, a call box device, a first computer device, a second computer device, and a receiver terminal. A VoIP connection has to be established before the caller terminal and the receiver terminal... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070223457 - Packet switch scheduling apparatus with output schedulers and input schedulers performing scheduling processes separately: A packet switch scheduling apparatus in a packet communication apparatus is disclosed. Output schedulers select respective input lines, which are to be connected to a crossbar switch, for respective output lines. If previously selected input lines overlap each other, input schedulers select respective output lines for respective input lines, and... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070223453 - Server and connection destination server switching control method: By providing a load measuring unit measuring the load of a cache server, an overflown load determination unit determining whether the measured load is overflown, by comparing the measured load with a predetermined value, a connection destination retrieval request information transmitting unit transmitting connection destination retrieval request information for requesting... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070223456 - Switching apparatus: A switching apparatus for use in a network includes a packet reception processing unit which generates a reply packet as a response to a request packet having a virtual local area network tag and transmitted for a ping test via a network to the switching apparatus, and sets the same... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070223454 - Voice-quality evaluating system, communication system, test management apparatus, and test communication apparatus: A voice-quality evaluating system, in a secure network that allows a voice packet to pass, transmits and receives communication information for a voice quality testing between a test management apparatus and a test communication apparatus connected to the network and between the test communication apparatuses, for the voice quality testing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070223458 - Method and apparatus for controlling telephone calls using a computer call assistant: Systems and methods for monitoring, making, managing and controlling telephone communications with a computer call assistant with an integrated voice/data communications system are disclosed. A call assistant computer application preferably runs on a personal computer (“PC”) coupled to the integrated system over a packet bus. The call assistant exchanges control... Agent: Loudermilk & Associates

20070223450 - Minimized setup time for ims multimedia telephony using pre provisioned resources reserve at answer: 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.

20070223451 - Mobile access node routing selections through a mesh network: An apparatus and method of a mobile access node selecting a routing path through a mesh network is disclosed. The method includes receiving routing packets from at least one upstream access node, the routing packets including information of at least one upstream access node along a path to a gateway... Agent: Tropos Patent Dept

20070223452 - Versatile system for radio access network session information retrieval: A session information retrieval system is disclosed that efficiently transfers mobile station session information among certain members of a radio access network. As a mobile station within the network—which is dormant in a first packet data zone of the network moves to a second packet data zone, a PCF for... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070223459 - Timing source: A timing source is provided for sending timing information via a packet network. The source comprises a clock for generating the timing information and a packet-forming section for forming a sequence of packets for transporting the timing information to a destination node. A time-stamping section inserts into each packet of... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070223462 - Enhanced service delivery platform that provides a common framework for use by ims and web applications in delivering services: A system for supporting Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) applications, Web based applications, and converged IMS/Web based applications that use a service delivery network includes an application services middle layer between the applications and the service delivery network that includes a plurality of common components that are usable by... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070223464 - Method for the synchronization of media gateways in an ip network: A method of providing synchronization of the clocks of all of the media gateways of an Ethernet, or equivalent, IP network used in the transmission of audio data between media gateways using a clock provided by the PSTN. The selection of one of the media gateways connected to the PSTN,... Agent: Milton S. Gerstein Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament&rubenstein,pc

20070223465 - System, method and article for voip and pstn communication: A VOIP/PSTN system is configured to allow analog telephones connected to an existing analog premises telephone network to place and receive VOIP and PSTN telephone calls through the analog premises telephone network. In one embodiment, the system is configured to selectively disconnect the premises telephone network from the PSTN.... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070223461 - Ip telephone terminal device: An internet protocol (IP) telephone device includes a plurality of IP modules and an IP-module selecting unit that selects an IP module based on a call command received from an opponent telephone terminal device.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070223463 - Method of identity-based intelligent routing, storage, and integration of multiple modes of communication among multiple devices linked through a client/server interaction: An architecture for unifying communication networks and protocols via a network of centralized servers, using multiple processes to intelligently route messages among various devices. Through Application Programming Interfaces the server can connect to Internet-ready devices, cell phones, and land-line phones.... Agent: Xepia Inc.

20070223460 - System and method for communicating voip module and telephone network: A communication system including a communication switch device for communicating a two-wired telephone device connected to a local computer with a local VoIP module and a remote computer with a remote VoIP module through an Internet network is disclosed. The communication switch device includes a two-wired speaker connection port connecting... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070223466 - Control system and instrument: There is provided a control system capable of being installed easily and controlling rapidly and sufficiently. The control system includes a remote controller and a plurality of remote-control adapters. The remote controller includes a light-emitting unit performing signal communication. The remote-control adapter includes a reception unit and a processing unit.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070223467 - Jitter buffer controller: It is an object of this invention to improve speech quality in voice communications. Provided is a jitter buffer controller for controlling a jitter buffer in which arrived packets are accumulated, including: a jitter measuring portion for measuring jitters in the arrived packets; a judging portion for judging whether or... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070223468 - Cell switch and readout method: The present invention provides a switching technology in which a complicated scheduler for all input/output ports as required in an input-buffer type switch is eliminated, a raise in the internal processing speed associated with an increased number of accommodated ports as involved in an output-buffer type switch or a shared-buffer... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070223471 - Device control using data communication: A data processing device connected with a data supply device for performing predetermined data processing includes: a communication control unit for controlling communication with the data supply device; a data processing unit for performing the data processing based on input data received from the data supply device; and a device... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070223473 - Information processing apparatus, control method for information processing apparatus, and program: The address of an image processing apparatus is set as the network address of an external network of an information processing apparatus, a network address different from the address of the image processing apparatus is set as the network address of a local network, and an address different from these... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070223472 - Network processing apparatus, multiprocessor system and network protocol processing method: A network processing apparatus is provided. A send buffer receives from a protocol stack a long packet with a data length exceeding a maximum transmission unit defined for a network and stores the long packet. A payload dividing unit divides the payload of the long packet into a plurality of... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070223474 - Method and apparatus for filtering packet data in a network device: A process of filtering packet data in a network device is disclosed. At least one mask is applied to a portion of an incoming packet and a field is extracted from the portion of the incoming packet. A rules table is searched for a matching value for the extracted field... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070223469 - Method and apparatus for supporting voice over ip services over a cellular wireless communication network: A method and system for supporting voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services over a wireless communication network are disclosed. Data is encoded at a coding rate specified by a controller for generating a VoIP packet. Among the encoded data, bits sensitive to errors and bits not sensitive to errors are... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070223470 - System and method for enhancing network quality of service: A data transfer network infrastructure device having a plurality of ingress ports for accepting data from a domain of a data network; and, a user interface for enabling a user to limit a rate at which data is accepted from the data network on at least one of the ingress... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070223475 - Access node with caching function for video channels: An access node (101) according to the invention is able to multicast a plurality of video channels to subscribers, and to cache N of these video channels. To select the N video channels for caching, the access node (101) determines for each video channel a weighted sum of the zapping... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070223479 - Communication processing apparatus and totalizing system: A communication processing apparatus appends group information representing a group to received communication frames. Group information to be appended to the communication frames is changed on a predetermined cycle. The communication frames processed in each processing unit are counted separately for each of the group information appended, and the count... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070223476 - Establishing directed communication based upon physical interaction between two devices: A method and system for establishing communication with a device is provided. Aspects of an exemplary embodiment include detecting, at a first device, a physical interaction between the first device and a second device; determining a network address usable for establishing communication between the first and second devices based on... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070223478 - First-arrival learning method, repeater, and computer product: When a packet arrives, a packet processing unit judges whether coincident information is present in an identity information table. When no coincident information is present, the packet processing unit registers the entire packet, a hash value of the entire packet, a predetermined part of the packet, or a hash value... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070223480 - Inter-domain router comprising a module for determining route aggregation: The invention relates to an inter-domain router (R), for an Internet Protocol (IP) communications network, comprising: (i) processing means (MT) for generating as a function of routing data outgoing messages intended for other routers which comprise information data representative of routes for routing IP datagrams and (ii) control means (MC)... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070223477 - Packet recognizer with hardware/software tradeoff: Techniques that enable a design tradeoff between performing packet recognition in hardware and software. A packet recognizer according to the present teachings includes a hardware portion having a functionality that is selected in response to a tradeoff in a relative complexity of the hardware portion and a software portion of... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070223482 - Port packet queuing: A port queue includes a first memory portion having a first memory access time and a second memory portion having a second memory access time. The first memory portion includes a cache row. The cache row includes a plurality of queue entries. A packet pointer is enqueued in the port... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070223481 - Systems and methods of network monitoring: Systems and methods of network monitoring are disclosed. One exemplary method includes receiving a first packet, creating a filter instance if the first received packet matches a filter template, receiving a second packet, and storing the second received packet if the second received packet matches the created filter instance. The... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070223483 - High performance memory based communications interface: Embodiments of the present invention include enhanced functionalities and components within a Communication Endpoint Processor (CEP) that act as an interface between computational and communications domains. The embodiments disclosed herein deliver a complete memory mapped high performance interface that has the ability to support the simultaneous transmission of multiple frames... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.C. Alan W. Young

20070223484 - Timing source: A timing source is provided for sending timing information via a packet network. The source comprises a first clock for generating the timing information and a packet forming section for forming a sequence of packets. An output section in the form of a packet launch control section transmits the packets... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070223485 - Method for providing functionality of an exchange termination unit and a line termination unit in a communication network: A method for providing the functionality of an exchange termination unit (ET) and a line termination unit (LT) in a communication network (NW) that on the subscriber side has at least one time-multiplex-oriented partial network (ISDN) and on the transport side at least one packet-oriented partial network (NGN), with a... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20070223488 - Mobile communication terminal having multicasting function and multicasting method using the same: A mobile communication terminal and multicasting method using the same are disclosed, by which an inter-multiuser multicasting function can be performed without using an access point. The present invention includes a user interface unit, a multicast group management module managing subscriber information based on information delivered via the interface unit,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070223486 - Method and system for generating route distinguishers and targets for a virtual private network: A method for generating a route distinguisher for a virtual private network, the virtual private network managed by a service provider through a network management system, the method comprising: receiving a signal from a user through a graphical user interface displayed on a display screen of the network management system... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070223487 - Method and system for removing dead access control entries (aces): Methods and systems have been provided for removing dead Access Control Entries (ACEs) in an Access Control List (ACL). In one embodiment, the dead ACEs can be detected for an egress as well as an ingress ACL. The ACEs that have a hit count above a user-specified hit count are... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070223491 - Apparatus and method for providing quality of service in wireless communication system: Provided are an apparatus and a method for providing a quality of service (QoS) in a wireless communication system. The method includes transmitting an enable media message that includes QoS information of the application layers from an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) server to a policy server, transforming and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070223489 - Method and portable device for dhcp address assignment: A portable device for performing DHCP address assignment is disclosed. The portable device includes an exterior housing, a lanyard ring attached to the exterior housing and a network device processor mounted within the exterior housing for performing DHCP assignment to an external device. The device also includes a network cable... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070223492 - Methods and apparatus for optimizing a tcp session for a wireless network: During a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) session, a congestion window and slow start threshold may be limited to a range defined by a minimum congestion window and a maximum congestion window based at least in part on the network type of a wireless network. The network type of a wireless... Agent: Albert Lee

20070223493 - Logical group endpoint discovery for data communication network: A method and system for logical group endpoint discovery in a data communication network is disclosed. A network endpoint receives from a source a request identifying a logical group and determines whether a port associated with the endpoint is a member of the logical group. If a port associated with... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20070223494 - Method for the resolution of addresses in a communication system: The invention relates to a method for address resolution in a communication system. Each node is configured with a management node physical address. A node assuming the role of a management node transmits a known management node physical address to a via a network segment. The management node physical address... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070223490 - Passive optical network (pon) system: A PON system capable of utilizing the bandwidth of an optical transmission channel in the PON section. In a PON system including an OLT and a plurality of ONUs, the OLT has: a downstream frame processing unit that removes at least part of the header information in a layer 2... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070223495 - Control station apparatus, base station apparatus, receiving method, transmitting method and communicating method: A control station apparatus capable of suppressing an increase of the traffic amount and also capable of preventing an increase of overheads during data transfer even when the transmission time interval is shortened. In this apparatus, a data frame processing part (102) makes up a MAC-d PDU from an EDCH... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070223496 - Transmission system: A transmission system is provided which multiplexes and transmits synchronous data and asynchronous data, while maintaining the communication quality required of synchronous data and of asynchronous data respectively. A tag having information used to identify the data as synchronous data or as asynchronous data is added to both synchronous data... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070223498 - Audio network system: A plurality of partial networks can work independently from each other, and each partial network connects together several nodes including a connection node for transmission of audio signals. A connection network connects respective connection nodes of the respective partial networks so as to connect the plurality of the partial networks... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070223499 - Device for processing data packets without use of a microprocessor and a memory: A method of processing data packets includes receiving a plurality of the data packets at a selected node. Pertinent information in the data packets is extracted. The pertinent information is pertinent to the selected node. A plurality of response data packets are generated based on the pertinent information. The extracting... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070223497 - Low-latency multi-hop ad hoc wireless network: A multi-radio sensor node is provided that includes two or more communication devices. The communication devices include radio frequency (RF) devices like radios. Each communication device supports simultaneous communications among multi-radio sensor nodes of respective independent network clusters. A network structure is provided that includes two or more local network... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070223500 - Home network system: The present invention discloses a home network system (40) which can provide a predetermined control protocol for connecting various home networks (46,48) for communication. The home network system (40) includes a first network (46), a second network (48) separated from the first network (46,48), a home appliance connectable to at... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070223502 - Method and apparatus for establishing metazones across dissimilar networks: A system and method for creating and enforcing meta-zones that cross the interface between different network protocols are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of enforcing meta-zones comprises: (a) receiving an Infiniband (IB) packet destined for a Fibre Channel (FC) target device; (b) comparing a partition key in the IB... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20070223501 - Method and system for bidirectional transmission of data between a data processing device and a router: In a method for bidirectional transmission of data between a data processing device and a router data is transmitted over a plurality of sections. Data is transmitted over a first section between the data processing device and an access point via an air interface in accordance with a predefined first... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20070223503 - Data transmission apparatus and method: A data transmission apparatus comprises an estimation device to estimate a transmission condition of the transmission channel in the transmitter based on at least Jitter information or a packet loss rate obtained from the receiver, and a controller to change at least one of a bit rate of transmission data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070223505 - Data transmission apparatus, data transmission method and data transmission system: A data transmission apparatus is disclosed, which includes a first terminal for use with variable-rate data, a second terminal for use with constant-rate data, a processing unit for input of data from the first and second terminals, a modulator unit for modulating the output of the processor unit, a control... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070223504 - Efficient sort scheme for a hierarchical scheduler: Scheduling of packets is performed by a scheduler based on departure times. If wrap up of departure times is possible, departure times are transposed based on a zone associated with the last departure time. By using the zone to transpose in order to sort departure times, cycles of independent checks... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070223506 - Data broadcast schedule system, and apparatus, method recording medium or program thereabout: The present invention makes arrangements for preventing data overflow from storage areas of store-type terminals in a data broadcast system distributing data over broadcast. There are provided a storage management part for managing storage areas of receiving machines, a database part for holding contents data and storage management information, which... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070223507 - Communication device and method for automatically switching channels: A communication device (20) for automatically switching channels, includes a transceiver module (200), a database (230), a channel determining module (210), and a channel switching module (220). The transceiver module is used for receiving an outside message including a communication field. The database is used for saving communication channel data.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070223508 - Method and apparatus to provide fair spectrum sharing in multiple physical transmission rate wireless systems: A method of providing spectrum allocation fairness in a wireless network includes providing an unlicensed communication spectrum. The method also includes co-locating a plurality of wireless systems (101, 102, 103), wherein at least two of the subsystems have different bandwidth requirements and channel capacities. In addition, the method includes determining... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070223509 - Mobile device conference calls via private branch exchange: Communication systems and methods are described that enable mobile devices to route telephone calls via an enterprise telephone system. The communication system is configured to receive via a data channel a request from the mobile device. The mobile device corresponds to a user making a call. The server receiving the... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070223510 - Method and apparatus for reducing the number of times of measurements for cell reselection in mobile communication terminal: Provided is a method and apparatus for reducing the number of times of measurements in a mobile communication terminal. According to the method, a signal receive level (“Srxlev”) and a signal quality (“Squal”) of a serving cell in an idle state are measured. When the serving-cell selection condition is not... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070223511 - Communication method, communication apparatus, and computer program: A method and apparatus for communicating between devices by selectively using a plurality of communication methods including a centralized control method, in which each communication apparatus sends and receives data under control of a control apparatus, and a distributed control method, in which each communication apparatus sends and receives data... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070223512 - Method and apparatus for configuring logical channels in a network: Logical channels in a network are automatically be configured by using measured network parameters. The measured network parameters are determined in cooperation with the network elements without interruption of active communication services. The network parameters include upstream or downstream modulation error ratio (MER), upstream or downstream signal to noise ratio... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070223513 - Multiple upstream channel descriptor messages pointing to single upstream channel id for more efficient operation of a docsis system: In a DOCSIS-based communications system, different upstream channel descriptors (UCDs) all identify a single logical upsteam channel identifier (UCID) regardless of the type of cable modem (CM) to which the UCDs are sent. Different CMs having different capabilities (e.g., CMs configured according to the different DOCSIS standards 1.x, 2.0, and... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070223514 - Preamble channel decoding: Rather than attaching a preamble to a data traffic subpacket, a preamble channel is transmitted along with a traffic channel. In a system wherein the data traffic subpackets are variably sized, preambles can also be variably sized if a target station can decode variably sized preambles. A method and apparatus... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070223515 - Storage device and method of controlling access: A storage device is provided. The storage device includes a plurality of ports for a first kind of access, a second kind of access having a band-secured access period longer than that of the first kind of access, and other kinds of access; and an access controller. The access controller... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070223516 - System selection method and arrangement for mobile wireless communication devices: An exemplary method for selecting one of a plurality of systems on a multi-mode device capable of communicating on a first air interface technology and a second air interface technology is disclosed. Initially, a carrier input associated with one of the first and second air interface technologies is received. The... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070223520 - Inband management for power over ethernet midspans using an embedded switch: Power over Ethernet (PoE) communication systems provide power and data communications over the same communications link, where a power source device (PSE) provides DC power (for example, 48 volts DC) to a powered device (PD). The DC power is transmitted simultaneously over the same communications medium with the high speed... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070223519 - Apparatus and method for tpm and lan power management: In Gigibit Ethernet Systems, the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is designed to provide trust and security to a platform through integrity measurement, protected storage, and other cryptographic functions. The present invention relates to a TPM-LAN chip with separate TPM and LAN power management. The TPM-LAN chip is designed such a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070223521 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus and integrated circuit chip: There is provided an information processing system, including an integrated circuit chip having stored therein a plurality of file systems, a first information processing apparatus that engages in communication with the integrated circuit chip; and a second information processing apparatus that engages in communication with the first information processing apparatus.... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070223518 - Interface and method for coupling different types of data between a pair of devices: A Single Photon Emission Computerize Tomography (SPECT) camera having an interface for coupling command data and image data between a master camera and a slave camera. The interface includes a category 5 cable having two pairs of twisted pairs connected between the master camera and the slave camera. The master... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070223517 - Method and apparatus for auto-protocol discrimination between fibre channel, sas and sata devices: Auto-discrimination between FC and SATA devices upon insertion of a device into a port of a FAST-compatible switch is disclosed. Without user intervention, the port is able to determine the type of device attached, set the appropriate data rate in the Phy or SERDES and, in the case of FC... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070223523 - Method and apparatus for customization of network services and applications: A communication system is provided that ensures that a rich variety and complexity of network offerings may be experienced by users without overloading terminals and clients by offering user-centric network services. When a user device first registers with a network, the user device notifies the network of its client capabilities,... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070223522 - Period division statistics device, method, and program product: A statistics system stores inputted statistical target information into storage. When each unit time period defined in a statistical calculation rule expires, the statistics system reads all pieces of statistical target information whose occurrence times are contained in the unit time period from the storage, executes statistical calculation, and registers... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070223524 - Protocol parameter negotiation: This invention relates to a method for negotiating at least one parameter of a protocol that is operated between a first protocol entity (1) and a second protocol entity (2), comprising receiving (301) a first negotiation message (3) that carries a first value for the at least one parameter, wherein... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070223526 - Method and apparatus for handling retransmissions in a wireless communications system: A method for handling retransmissions used in a transmitter of a wireless communications system includes initiating a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request process, transmitting a packet with a first sequence number, and transmitting the packet with a second sequence number and marking the packet as a new packet when a transmission... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070223527 - Method and system for transmission of different types of information in wireless communication: A method and system for wireless communication of different information types over a wireless channel, is provided. Information comprising different information types is formed into a composite aggregation of the different information types, and the composite aggregation is transmitted from a sender to a receiver over a wireless channel. A... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070223525 - Transmission of packets in a csma wireless network: A wireless device containing a physical layer (in a transceiver) which generates multiple status signals indicating the status of the wireless medium at different time instances. The status signals are examined to determine a time instance after which the medium is available to transmit the packets. In an embodiment, one... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070223529 - Methods and apparatus for estimating bandwidth of a data network: An inter-departure time of a pair of TCP segments, or a mean inter-departure time of a block of TCP segments, is determined and an inter-arrival time of a pair of non-duplicate acknowledgments is determined. The bandwidth of a data network may be estimated based at least in part on the... Agent: Albert Lee

20070223528 - System and method for persistence vector based rate assignment: In a system including a resource which is shared among a number of users, it is difficult to distribute the available capacity of the resources fairly among the users and still maximize resource utilization. Additionally, it is desirable to allow at least some of the control over usage rates to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070223532 - Method and system for data processing: A method and system for processing data between communication protocol layers are discussed. According to an embodiment, a memory is formed in a data link layer to store data received from a lower layer and to transmit the stored data to an upper layer, so that a data loss due... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070223531 - Packet transfer method and packet transfer node: The present invention provides a method of performing packet transfer among nodes on a network by a packet transfer node. When the network is divided into a plurality of network areas and routing within an individual network area and between network areas is performed, the method divides packet transfer processing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070223530 - Method and apparatus for managing network configuration, and computer product: A network-configuration management apparatus manages a configuration of a network in which a plurality of network devices including a plurality of servers is connected. An upper-layer-specification receiving unit receives an upper layer specification from a user. A grouping unit groups the servers based on the received upper layer specification. A... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070223533 - Reception of redundant and non-redundant frames: The present disclosure relates to highly available communication networks, e.g., for industrial or utility applications such as substation automation. The devices are connected to two redundant lines through two independent transceivers and bus controllers, i.e. the physical layer and the link layer of the corresponding protocol stack is duplicated. For... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

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