Multiplex communications inventions 10/07

20070248001 - Method and system for forward-looking tone allocation: Methods and systems for forward-looking tone allocation are provided. In one embodiment, a method for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) multipoint-to-point communications system comprises: establishing communication between a plurality of remote units and a host unit, the remote units communicatively coupled to the host in a multipoint-to-point configuration; transmitting... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070248002 - Demodulation apparatus for efficiently embodying adaptive modulation and coding method in ofdma based packet communication system and method thereof: Disclosed is a demodulation apparatus for receiving signals by an adaptive modulation and coding method, and demodulating the signals, in an OFDMA based packet communication system, comprising: a QAM demapper for performing QAM demapping to the received signals by a modulation method using a maximum modulation ratio, until modulation methods... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese

20070248003 - Branch element for operation in a communication network, network and method for operating the branch element: A branch element is specified for use in a communication network, whereby in the interplay of two branch elements designed according to the invention, a cleared fault in a communication medium stretching between the two branch elements, in particular a line, with a power supply cable and a current return... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070248004 - Transmission apparatus and data communication channel processing method: The present invention is a transmission apparatus and a data communication channel processing method that make it possible to realize construction of a monitoring and controlling data communication network in accordance with a network management form desired by a user or an already existing network management form in a network... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070248009 - Distributed congestion avoidance in a network switching system: According to an example embodiment, a total offered traffic load for a shared resource within a network switching system may be determined, the total offered traffic load may include, for example, a sum of offered traffic loads from one or more active virtual output queues (VOQs) of the network switching... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070248008 - Management support method, management support system, management support apparatus and recording medium: In the present invention, the communication quality of a communication network that provides a plurality of types of communication services is measured, and the measured communication quality is compared with a preset criterion to determine an abnormality type and whether or not management is necessary. When a determination is made... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070248011 - Method and system for connection control: A connection control method is achieved by receiving from a first terminal, a call request for a communication with a second terminal to notify the call request from a connection control server to an application server; and executing at least a program to receive the call request from the connection... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070248010 - Atm telecommunications systems and method for routingg narrow band traffic: A telecommunications system comprises an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network having uncommitted bandwidth, and a plurality of adaptive grooming routers (AGR) coupled to the network. The AGRs comprise a group adapted to function as a virtual transit exchange whose fabric and control are distributed over the group. The visual comprising... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070248007 - Broadband access network capacity management: A broadband access network (20) includes a plurality of access nodes (22-28) and at least one edge node (32). The total bandwidth associated with at least a link (34) associated with the edge node (32) is divided up into independently controlled portions. A central resource database (40) in one example... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070248006 - Communication traffic type determination devices and methods: Communication traffic type determination devices and methods are disclosed. A received block of communication traffic is concurrently analyzed relative to multiple traffic type definitions, and indications of whether the received block of communication traffic conforms to the traffic type definitions are provided. Concurrent analysis of the same traffic block relative... Agent: Arnold B. Silverman Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070248005 - Modification of policing methods to make them more tcp-friendly: Various improvements are provided for prior art policing methods, including token bucket methods and virtual time policing methods. Some preferred methods of the invention involve assigning a non-zero drop probability even when the packet would otherwise have been transmitted according to a prior art policing method. For example, a non-zero... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070248012 - Quality of service reporting for a communication device: A communication system includes a first communication device, the first communication device including a transceiver that receives information that characterizes quality of service for a second communication device that is remotely located relative to the first communication device with which the first communication device is in communication. The first communication... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070248014 - Access device and method for controlling the bandwidth: An access device for controlling a bandwidth includes a token bucket module and a processing module. The token bucket module is set for each service priority of each logical connection. The processing module is used for receiving a message from a logical connection, taking a token from corresponding token bucket... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070248013 - Enabling network devices to run multiple congestion control algorithms: Creating different congestion control modules (CCMs) that can be plugged into a network communications stack (e.g., a TCP/IP stack). Software abstractions defining transport control events, congestion control algorithms and other information may be exposed by an application programming interface, e.g., of an operating system, and these abstractions may be used... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070248015 - Transmission power control method for a wireless communication system: Transmission power relative to a propagation path having a variation in gain is controlled to increase communication channel capacity, and a data rate is controlled in accordance with the variation of the increased communication channel capacity. In order to increase the communication channel capacity, the transmission power is determined so... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070248017 - Storage system, path management method and path management device: Proposed are a storage system, a path management method and a path management device capable of ensuring the processing performance demanded by a user while seeking to improve the access performance from a host system to a storage apparatus. Path switching control for dynamically switching the path to be used... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070248016 - Method and apparatus for simplifying the computation of alternate network paths: An alternate path calculation process may be terminated after considering some of a source node's neighbors and without considering each of its neighbors, to reduce the amount of processing required to perform the alternate path calculations. The neighbors may be ranked according to the number of alternate paths that the... Agent: John C. Gorecki, Esq.

20070248018 - Bus analyzer system for ieee 1394 link/phy interface: A bus analyzer system comprises an input buffers module, a data memory module, a control detection module, a link request registers module, and a computer interface. The input buffers module is configured to receive data signals from a plurality of serial data, control, and clock lines at an interface between... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070248019 - Method for diagnosing the router which supports policy-based routing: A route diagnosis method which supports policy-based routing is applied in the network which includes a router supporting policy-based routing, which comprises: adding stream description information of service stream in diagnosis-protocol-message, and containing a router warning option in IP head of the said diagnosis-protocol-message; based on the router supporting policy-based... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070248020 - Method and apparatus to test a data path in a network: A method and apparatus for testing a data path in a network is described. The method may comprise creating a closed loop in the data path so that test data (e.g., fixed set of known data) sent from a local network device to a downstream network device is returned by... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070248021 - Measurement system: The objective is to realize a measurement system and measurement method enabling highly reliable communication. The present invention improves upon a measurement system comprising a setting apparatus which causes network address settings to be made in measurement instruments through a network. The measurement instruments of this system are characterized in... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070248024 - Method and system for extended reach copper transceiver: Aspects of a method and system for an extended range copper transceiver are provided. Reducing the communication rate provided by multi-rate physical (PHY) layer operations in an Ethernet transceiver may extend the range of the Ethernet transceiver over twisted-pair copper cabling from a standard connection length. The Ethernet transceiver may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070248025 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing selection of packet segmentation: A method, computer program, and apparatus adaptively select a segmentation option for service data units based on a bandwidth allocation. In general terms, one of a first segmentation option or a second segmentation option is selected based on a bandwidth allocation that is selected from among several possible bandwidth allocation... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070248023 - Method and apparatus for quality of service for packet communications: A packet communications system includes a method for maintaining quality of service by dynamically determining a maximum packet size for a communications system that transports at least one of real-time and time-sensitive data and other data in packets. Accordingly, a plurality of packets is received for transmission over a communications... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070248022 - Method and system for alert throttling in media quality monitoring: A method for alert throttling in media quality monitoring, includes monitoring a plurality of active communication sessions. Each active communication session is between at least two endpoints. The method also includes detecting at least one quality-impacted communication session out of the plurality of active communication sessions. The method also includes... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070248028 - Quality of service securing method and apparatus: A quality of service (QoS) securing apparatus and method using a communication protocol is provided. The QoS securing method is performed by a reception side that is receiving data from a transmission side. The method includes generating information about a changed communication environment according to a change in a communication... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070248027 - Providing a configuration utility for a remote terminal unit: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a configuration utility. The systems and methods may include receiving, at the remote terminal unit, a first request for a page. The page may include a link associated with the configuration utility that may be transmitted from the remote terminal unit. The configuration... Agent: Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070248026 - System, method, and computer program product for concept network based collaboration: A method including steps of receiving a first concept network having a plurality of connected nodes; receiving a second concept network having a plurality of connected nodes; and generating a third concept network, the third concept network having a plurality of connected nodes being a combination of the first and... Agent: Docket Clerk, Dm/eds

20070248029 - Method and apparatus for network packet capture distributed storage system: This is invention comprises a method an apparatus for Infinite Network Packet Capture System (INPCS). The INPCS is a high performance data capture recorder capable of capturing and archiving all network traffic present on a single network or multiple networks. This device can be attached to Ethernet networks via copper... Agent: J. Harrison Colter

20070248030 - Signal generator, signal generation method, and rf communication system using the same: A signal generator, a signal generation method, and a communication system using the same are provided. The signal generator includes a plurality of nonlinear elements which are connected in a ring; and a signal distributor which is arranged in the ring to form a closed loop, feeds part of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070248031 - Radio communication apparatus and traffic control method for extending drive-time of battery: A radio communication apparatus has a battery, a transmit buffer for temporarily accumulating packets to be sent, a battery state monitoring unit for monitoring a battery state of the battery, and a traffic control unit. The traffic control unit determines a packet burst length and an interval time between the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070248032 - Method of providing route update messages and paging access terminals: The present invention provides a method for providing route update messages paging access terminals. The method may include providing at least one route update message based upon at least one travel pattern associated with an access terminal. The method may also include providing at least one page based on at... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070248034 - Method for controlling a station and station using the same: A station connecting to an access point of a wireless local area network (WLAN) is disclosed. A radio frequency (RF) module demodulates received radio signals into baseband signals. A baseband module, coupled to the RF module, converts the baseband signals to a bit stream. A media access control (MAC) module,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070248033 - Methods and devices for balancing the load on access points in wireless local area networks: The load on access points (APs) in wireless, local area networks (WLANs) is minimized using a number of methods and associated devices. One method minimizes the load of the most congested APs while a second balances the load on both congested and uncongested APs using an optimal min-max (priority) load... Agent: Capitol Patent & Trademark Law Firm, PLLC Attn: John Curtin

20070248035 - Uplink scheduler for cellular packet access: A method includes constraining total power received from cellular users accessing a base station through any one of a TDMA access, CDMA access, and a derivation of a TDMA/CDMA access, and scheduling users for access to the base station within the constrained total power in response to an optimization that... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20070248040 - Method and device for requesting permission to send media, and method and device for controlling push-to service: A method, PT client device and PT server device for controlling transmission of media data, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes starting, by a PT server, a timer when a media burst revoke message is transmitted to a PT client; stopping, by the PT server, the timer... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070248037 - Apparatus and method for frequency hopping in a broadcast network: Disclose is a synchronized wireless communication network (100) operating in single frequency network mode comprising a first base station (502) broadcasting, on a first channel, broadcast data and a common sequence (508) that is generated from a first channel identifier, and wherein the first base station transmits data on a... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070248041 - Control channel transmitting method, base station and terminal: A step of selecting one control channel format from among a plurality of control channel formats having different information amounts according to a predetermined condition; and a step of transmitting a control channel with the use of the thus-selected control channel format are carried out.... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070248036 - Method and device for restricted execution of applications on a mobile terminal: During standard operation (40) of a mobile device, the system detects user input to start a game application (42). The system ten initiates a message transmission indicating the execution of the game (44). If the mobile device is within predetermined geographical limits,the system authorizes execution of the game. (48)... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070248039 - Wireless network architecture: 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

20070248038 - Wireless transmission system, wireless station used therein and method used therefor: A wireless transmission system capable of performing a multi-station simultaneous transmission of data, that is, simultaneously transmitting data by wireless to a plurality of stations. The wireless transmission system includes a plurality of wireless stations for transmitting/receiving data and it constitutes a system for path diversity by use of a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070248048 - Proportional fair scheduler for ofdma wireless systems with qos constraints: Available bandwidth and power for users demanding real time and non-real time data traffic are scheduled, while maximizing proportional fairness for the users over a plurality of time slots, and meeting quality of service constraints for real time data traffic users. The Lagrangian multipliers are used to define a function... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070248046 - System and method for subcarrier allocation signaling in a multicarrier wireless network: A base station for use in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) network that communicates with a plurality of subscriber stations in a coverage area of the OFDM network. The base station allocates subbands to the subscriber stations for communication in an uplink and in a downlink. Each subband comprises... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070248042 - Channel assignment in wireless communication: In a radio access network, an access terminal is assigned frequency channels for communication between the access terminal and a radio node of a radio access network based on a strength of a signal determined for the access terminal.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070248047 - Home electrical device control within a wireless mesh network: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for associating a first node in a mesh network with an electrical device, wherein the electrical device comprises a home control device, enabling the mesh network to perform channel adjustment, transmitting data through the mesh network between the first node... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070248045 - Method of scheduling mobile user transmissions and methods of decoding mobile user transmissions: In an example method of scheduling mobile users, mobile users are assigned to one of at least a first layer and a second layer, where each of the first and second layers are associated with a same frequency band. The mobile users are further assigned, in the first layer, to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070248043 - Method, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for dynamic resource allocation across fdd and tdd systems: A method, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for dynamically assigning radio resources between a frequency division duplexing (FDD) carrier and a time division duplexing (TDD) carrier is provided. The method includes monitoring radio frequency conditions and traffic load of the FDD and TDD carriers; allocating a resource assignment for a downlink... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20070248044 - Mobile access node channel selection within a mesh network: An apparatus and method of a mobile node selecting a transmission channel of a mesh network is disclosed. The method includes the mobile node detecting a quality of routing beacons received over a previously selected transmission channel. If the quality of the routing beacons is below a predetermined threshold, then... Agent: Tropos Patent Dept

20070248054 - Method for reconfiguring mobility platform, and device applying the method: A method for reconfiguring a mobility platform includes: enabling a mobile node to extract an advertisement signaling packet sent periodically by a network node, wherein the mobile node supports a plurality of client mobility management protocols, and the network node supports a plurality of network mobility management protocols; according to... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070248055 - Tagging language for broadcast radio: Apparatus, methods, processors and computer programs products for generating or processing a broadcast radio transmission comprising multimedia content and supplemental information corresponding to the multimedia content. The supplemental information comprises a selected data group from a plurality of predetermined data groups each comprising different data, wherein the selected data group... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070248056 - Application managed transition of ip connections: The present invention accomplishes smooth transition when the IP address in a mobile terminal changes. This Application Managed Transition of IP Connections solution maintains a stable session between a mobile terminal and a peer computing device before, during and after the mobile terminal roams from the coverage area of a... Agent: Shiang Yueng Feng

20070248053 - Method and arrangement for controlling cell change and a terminal of a cellular system: The invention relates to an improved method and arrangement for controlling a cell change performed by a terminal of a cellular radio system. In particular the invention relates to a cell change in a situation where the terminal is connected to a special service provided by its current cell, e.g.... Agent: Perman & Green

20070248050 - Method and system for propagating mutual authentication data in wireless communication networks: A method and system for propagating mutual authentication data in both a first wireless communication network and a second wireless communication network is useful for unifying wireless communication networks. The method includes mutually authenticating a first node operating in the first network and a second node operating in the second... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070248052 - Method to control the effects of out-of-cell interference in a wireless cellular system using backhaul transmission of decoded data and formats: Successfully decoded data received from a mobile terminal as well as the transmission format of that data is relayed over the backhaul from a base station receiver that successfully decoded the mobile terminal's transmission to the base stations in the mobile terminal's active set that presumably were unable to decode... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20070248051 - Method to control the effects of out-of-cell interference in a wireless cellular system using over-the-air feedback control: A mobile terminal is controlled via over-the-air feedback so as to enable its data transmissions to be independently and successfully decoded at each of the base stations in its active set absent a transmit power limitation or data retransmission limit. Using the decoded data, the channel is re-estimated and the... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20070248049 - Packet loss prevention during handoff using packet copy-and-forward: The present invention relates to the handing off without packet loss, from a mobile device traveling from a current point of attachment to a new point of attachment, by providing a copy and forward module in association with the current point of attachment. The copy and forward module copies and... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLC

20070248057 - Half-duplex terminal operation in a full-duplex network: A method for communication includes deploying a half-duplex terminal in a wireless full-duplex communication network configured to permit simultaneous transmission of downlink paging messages and uplink access messages between a base station and full-duplex mobile terminals in the network. The half-duplex terminal is assigned paging channel slots in a cyclical... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070248065 - 802.11 mesh architecture: A wireless network device comprises a forwarding table and a mesh routing module. The forwarding table stores direct and reverse entries, each including a destination address, a next hop address, and a metric. The metric of the direct entries corresponds to a route from the wireless network device to the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070248066 - 802.11 mesh architecture: A wireless network device comprises a physical layer (PHY) module that sends and receives packets wirelessly, a first media access control (MAC) module that wirelessly communicates with a second wireless network device in an ad-hoc mode via the PHY module, and a second MAC module that wirelessly communicates with an... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070248067 - 802.11 mesh architecture: A wireless network device comprises a physical layer (PHY) module that sends and receives packets wirelessly. A mesh routing module receives a first packet including a metric and a source address from a second wireless network device via the PHY module, transmits a second packet including a cumulative metric to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070248069 - Apparatus for protecting receiver in tdd wireless communication system: A Time Division Duplex (TDD) switch of a TDD wireless communication system is provided. By its unique arrangement, the TDD switch protects a receiver of the wireless system. The TDD switch includes an isolator connected to an output port of a transmitter, a first transmission line stub, connected between the... Agent: Stimson, Shin & Associates, LLP

20070248068 - Downlink synchronization channel and methods for cellular systems: The present invention provides a method of operating a base station transmitter. The method includes providing a cellular downlink synchronization signal having primary and secondary portions, wherein the primary portion employs a corresponding one of a plurality of different primary signals allocated to adjoining transmission cells. The method also includes... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070248064 - Method and apparatus for supporting routing area update procedures in a long term evolution general packet radio service tunneling protocol-based system: A method and apparatus for supporting routing area (RA) update in a long term evolution (LTE) general packet radio service (GPRS) tunneling protocol (GTP)-based system are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) sends an RA update request to a new evolved Node-B (eNodeB) and a mobility management entity (MME). The... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070248070 - Mobile communication terminal and method for transmission of image in mobile messenger service: Provided are a mobile communication terminal and a method capable of transmitting an image during the execution of a mobile messenger service. A host terminal acquires image data in response to a request for image transmission and creates a first transmission packet of the image data. The first packet is... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070248061 - Auto-configuration of spectrum use by wireless pre-planned or ad hoc networks: A wireless device capable of dynamically allocating radio spectrum access within a wireless communication system includes a wireless transceiver having at least a physical layer functionality to transmit and receive data across a wireless network. The device extracts measurements of radio spectrum conditions from a least one of a local... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070248063 - Distributed resource reservation in a wireless adhoc network: The invention relates to a method of communication in a wireless communication system comprising a first station and at least a second station wherein each of the station for at least a part of the time controls the communication within the system. The first station encodes and transmits messages having... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070248058 - Fast link-down detection systems and methods: The preferred embodiments describe an optimized method of determining “link down” indication from mobile or other non-access-point station (such as, e.g., an 802.11 non-access-point station) operating in managed mode. In the preferred embodiments, the method uses MAC layer operations for verifying communicability with an access point. This preferred methods can... Agent: Watchstone P + D

20070248060 - Method of providing access information to an access terminal: The present invention provides methods involving at least one access terminal and at least one access network. The methods may include providing or receiving information indicative of future accessibility of at least one access network.... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070248062 - Mobile network operator multihoming and enterprise vpn solution: The disclosed embodiments support mobility internal and external to enterprise networks. Service providers provide mobility by providing Home Agent functionality corresponding to each Enterprise network. In this manner, mobility may be provided to Mobile Nodes both internal and external to their enterprise networks. Moreover, data packets may be transmitted by... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070248059 - Wireless lan cell breathing: Utilization of wireless access points (APs) is optimized by dynamically managing transmitted AP power levels of beacon packets to control wireless AP coverage. This permits traffic congestion at one wireless AP to be reduced and shifted to other wireless APs. AP coverage management is provided by a centralized mechanism that... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070248072 - Wireless network system and method of transmitting/receiving data in wireless network: Provided are a wireless network system and a method of transmitting/receiving data in the wireless network system, which separately set a period where a packet for requesting and approving bandwidth allocation of a network in a super frame period is transmitted/received, and as a result, transmit/receive data through the allocated... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070248073 - Method and system for encapsulating time division multiplex data into individual packets of a packet based network: A method of encapsulating TDM data into individual data packets for transmission across a packet network includes delineating the TDM data into one or more signaling multiframes, wherein each signaling multiframe includes one period of a periodic signaling pattern. The method also includes appending a header that is associated with... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070248071 - System and method for low power radio operation in a wireless packet network: A system and method allows devices to send and receive packets while using power to do so to the extent needed, thereby conserving power.... Agent: Innovation Partners

20070248074 - Mobile communication system using a downlink shared channel: A base station for mobile communication including a transmitter operable to transmit data to a mobile station includes a first transmitting unit operable to transmit to a mobile station, identifying information for multicast data to be transmitted on a shared channel to the mobile station and a second transmitting unit... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070248075 - Apparatus and method for radio transmission of real-time ip packets using header compression technique: The present invention provides an apparatus and method of radio transmission of real-time IP packets using header compression technique. In the present invention, the size of a compressed header of an RTP packet can be adapted to length types required by the system by adding a radio link adaptation unit... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070248076 - Method and system for improving frame synchronization, channel estimation and access in wireless communication networks: A method and system for improving frame synchronization, channel estimation and access in a wireless network are disclosed. As one example, a method for improving frame synchronization and channel estimation in a wireless network is disclosed. The method includes the steps of generating a first preamble for a frame, generating... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070248079 - Method and apparatus for dynamic anchoring of cs calls for cs-to-voip handoffs: A mobile device that is capable of accessing different types of networks such as a circuit-switched network and a packet-switched network is disclosed. A dynamic anchoring mechanism is invoked when the mobile device determines that a circuit-switched call is to be handed over to a packet-switched network.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070248080 - Admission control and policing in wireless packet data communication system: A call flow is provided in a wireless communication system (100) to enable quality of service (QoS) parameters to be retrieved and provided to a base station (102) when a wireless device (101a) requests service. The QoS parameters may include or represent a QoS profile associated with the wireless device... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070248078 - Attribute driven mobile service control logic: The disclosed embodiments enable service policies to be provisioned for a Mobile Node dynamically. A network device receives a message including at least one of one or more attributes of a Mobile IP session and one or more user preferences associated with the Mobile Node. One or more rules to... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070248077 - Distributed voice over internet protocol apparatus and systems: In one embodiment, the invention relates to a telephony system. In one embodiment of the invention, the system includes a first communication device adapted to interface with a client application, a second communication device, the second communication device adapted to exchange voice over internet protocol (VoIP) data with the first... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (formerly Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham)

20070248081 - Portable voip service access module: A voice over IP (V0IP) softphone access module (VSAM) comprises a softphone client installed on a portable memory device (PMD). The softphone client is installed in its own read-only partition. The softphone client is adapted to autorun from the PMD when the PMD is connected to a computing device and... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20070248082 - Multicast switching in a credit based unicast and multicast switching architecture: A system and method of switching packets and/or cells, which includes a switching apparatus having a plurality of input units that receive at least one packet to be transferred by the switching apparatus. A plurality of output units transfer the packet out of the switching apparatus. A switch unit transfers... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070248086 - Network switching system having variable headers and addresses: According to an example embodiment, a method may include receiving a message, appending a header set to the message, and transmitting the message from an ingress port to an egress port of the network switching system based on the header set. In an example embodiment, the header set may include... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070248083 - Access router apparatus, communication handover system using the same, and communication handover method using the same: The present invention provides a technique to reduce time delay caused by message exchange or the like and to carry out fast handover. According to this technique, FBack is promptly returned by a mobile node (MN) without performing the processing (the processing to cause delay) that previous access router pAR... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070248085 - Method and apparatus for managing hardware address resolution: Disclosed herein is a network device, such as a host computer, that simultaneously has two IP identities: a local IP identity on a local network (e.g., a non-virtual private network) to which the host computer is connected; and a remote IP identity on a second network (e.g., virtual private network)... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070248084 - Symmetric connection detection: Symmetric Connection Detection (SCD) is a method of detecting when a connection has been fully established in a resource-constrained environment, and works in high-speed routers, at line speed. Many network monitoring applications are only interested in connections that become fully established, so other connection attempts, such as port scanning attempts,... Agent: Law Office Of Jim Zegeer

20070248087 - System and method for signal processing: A plurality of systems for routing signals are described. The system includes a cross point switch that can couple any one of a plurality of input terminals to a plurality of output processor terminals. Signals received at the input terminals are coupled to corresponding output terminals and are processed by... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070248088 - Method and apparatus for transmitting a multicast message: A method is provided of transmitting a multicast message in some of a set of cells of a network. The method comprises the steps of: (a) determining a first subset of cells in each of which resides at least one mobile terminal that subscribes to the multicast message service and... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20070248095 - Apparatus and method for structuring ip identification packets and alloting ip addresses: Provided is an apparatus and method for structuring IP identification packets and allotting IP addresses. The apparatus includes a IP control unit which reads out an IP address of a predetermined device contained in the IP identification packet, and determines if it is identical to IP address of the device... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070248093 - Context information collection system, processing method thereof, and program storage medium storing program thereof: A subscriber notifies a concentrator of a desired target identifier. An originator collects target identifiers received by a sensor which receives a target identifier transmitted from a target device. The originator transmits the collected target identifiers to the concentrator. The concentrator notifies the subscriber of the originator when the target... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070248094 - System and method for setting network parameters: A system for setting network parameters is provided. The system is arranged in a network device connected to a client, and includes a detecting module, a packet determining module, a transmission module, and a parameter setting module. The detecting module detects packets from the client at a port. The packet... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070248091 - Methods and apparatus for tunnel stitching in a network: An edge router (disposed between a packet-switched network and a label-switching network) is configured to receive an IKE message originating from a client on the Internet (e.g., packet-switched network) attempting to set up a tunnel. Upon receipt of the IKE message, the edge router utilizes a unique identifier in the... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070248092 - System and method for efficient traffic distribution in a network: A plurality of data messages is received. Each of the data messages has an associated source address and a destination address. A data link is selected to transfer each of the data messages based upon the source address and destination address of the data message. The data link is selected... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070248096 - System and program product for facilitating forwarding of data packets through a node of a data transfer network using multiple types of forwarding tables: Method, system and program product are provided for reducing size of memory required for a switching node's forwarding table by employing forwarding tables of different types to map received data packets addressed to downstream nodes and upstream nodes to appropriate output ports of the switching node. The method includes receiving... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070248089 - Systems and methods for incorporating information corresponding to an end-to-end transmission in determining access to a communication medium: Systems and methods for incorporating information corresponding to an end-to-end transmission in determining access to a communication medium include: receiving a first data packet, said first data packet comprising information corresponding to a destination node; determining an intermediate node for said first data packet; and transmitting, to said intermediate node,... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070248090 - Virtual inline configuration for a network device: A performance enhancing proxy network device is configured to operate in a virtual inline mode, in which selected network traffic is redirected to and through the network device by a router using simple routing policies. In this way, the network device can be coupled to the router in series but... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20070248097 - Message switching system: The message switching system (51) comprises at least two inputs (52, 53, 54, 55) and at least one output (56), first arbitration means (62) dedicated to said output (56), and management means (64) designed to determine a relative order OR(i,j) of one input relative to the other, for any pair... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070248098 - Device and method of multi-service ip-phone: The present invention relates to a device, as well as a method, of a multi-service IP-phone. The device and method comprise an IP-phone, to be used for making intercom and inbound/outbound phone calls through a LAN or the Internet, and a network control unit, to be used to control the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070248099 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing user equipment operation by considering scheduling information with regard to the use of relative grants: Disclosed is a method to operate a wireless user equipment, a wireless user equipment, a computer program product, and an apparatus. The method includes, in response to operation during a Baseline Procedure when no absolute grant (AG) is received from a wireless network node, determining if there was a scheduled... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070248101 - Efficient policer based weighted fair bandwidth method and system: An efficient policer based weighted fairness bandwidth distribution system is disclosed. The system is based on a plurality of policers and a single queue. To achieve fairness, the rate for queuing packets is adaptively controlled. Specifically, first the queue occupancy is determined and it then is used for computing an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070248100 - Quality of service support for a/v streams: An access control mechanism in a network connecting one or more sink devices to a server providing audio/visual data (A/V) in streams. As a sink device requests access, the server measures available bandwidth to the sink device. If the measurement of available bandwidth is completed before the sink device requests... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070248102 - Priority based load balancing when teaming: For improved performance of a network team having a plurality of communication ports, each one of the plurality of communication ports is assigned a priority, the priority being assigned is based on at least one criteria. A communications load of the network team is distributed between each one of the... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070248103 - Techniques for integrated routing of call circuit signaling and the internet protocol: Techniques for processing an IP packet at a router that supports SS7 signaling include receiving IP routing data that associates a network link and a destination IP address for a node in a signaling network that includes a plurality of signaling nodes. When an ingress IP data packet is received,... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20070248104 - High-throughput channel operation in a mesh wireless local area network: High throughput channel operation in a mesh wireless local area network (WLAN) is disclosed. A mesh network comprises a plurality of mesh points and a network management entity (NME). The NME is configured to retrieve capability and configuration data from the mesh points. The NME configures at least one mesh... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070248107 - Connection adapter for communication device: A connection adapter is disposed intervening between a communication module for connection to a radio packet communication network and high-level equipment. The connection adapter transmits in response to a TCP packet received from the high-level equipment a confirming response packet to the high-level equipment on behalf of a management computer,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070248105 - Data communication system, program, and storage medium: The invention provides a data communication system in which a private IP terminal (client terminal) 40 arranged on a private network within a firewall makes connection to a public server 50 by automatically searching for a communication path capable of passing through the firewall. The terminal arranged within the firewall... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070248106 - Method for implementing resources reservation in access configuration mode in next generation network: A method for implementing resources reservation in an access configuration mode in an NGN, including: when a subscriber accesses a network, an NAAF sending a resources request message to a resources mediation PDF; after receiving the resources request message, the resources mediation PDF making an admission decision according to network... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070248108 - System for highly available border gateway protocol: High availability BGP4 is based on redundant hardware as well as redundant software that replicates the RUN state of BGP4. There are two copies, respectively active and backup, of BGP4 running on two separate redundant hardware platforms. All BGP4 internal implementations apply various methods to replicate the running state of... Agent: Harold L. Novick The Nath Law Group

20070248110 - Dynamically switching streams of packets among dedicated and shared queues: Streams of packets are dynamically switched among dedicated and shared queues. For example, when a packet stream is in a maintenance mode (such as to keep a tunnel or packet stream associated with a server active) all packet traffic received over a packet stream is directed into the shared queue... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20070248109 - Enhanced upstream data traffic management for epon: To enhance the upstream data traffic management in an EPON, a scheme is employed to allocate transmission windows for upstream data transmitted from the subscribers' ONUs to an OLT. The queues of a logical link are grouped into queue containers, and the OLT allocates upstream transmission windows to the queue... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070248111 - System and method for clearing information in a stalled output queue of a crossbar: Various embodiments of a system and method that clears information in a stalled output queue of a crossbar are disclosed. Briefly described, one embodiment is a method comprising communicating a piece of information into an exit queue residing in the output queue, monitoring a time that the piece of information... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070248112 - Communication model, counter sign signal, method, and device: It is possible to detect communication partner state information between edge nodes without using a broker. Additional information is needed to achieve the aforementioned object.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070248113 - Method for allocating reference signals in mimo system: There is provided a method for placing reference signals in a wireless communication system. The method includes preparing a plurality of sub-frames for a plurality of antennas, placing a reference signal for one sub-frame and placing a reference signal for another sub-frame not to overlap with the reference signal for... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070248114 - Media access control for ultra-wide band communication: Media access control is provided for an ultra-wide band medium. The media access control may employ a peer-to-peer network topology. The media access control may employ a reduced addressing scheme. Concurrent ultra-wide band channels may be established through the use of a pulse division multiple access channelization scheme. Multiple media... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070248115 - Distributed routing system and method: Disclosed is a signal processing method and system for routing audio and/or video data. The signal processing system comprises an input device for receiving audio and/or video data over multiple input paths and for combining the data from the plural input paths into serial data of a serialized data block.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070248116 - Communication control apparatus and method of controlling same: If a request for communication-band allocation control that is based upon narrowband QoS control is issued during execution of communication-band allocation control by an access point based upon broadband QoS control, a response is issued to instruct that the request be issued again following elapse of a stipulated time. If... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070248117 - Method and signaling procedure for transmission opportunity usage in a wireless mesh network: In accordance with a preferred embodiment, the present invention comprises a method for using the remaining TxOP time by the peer node to forward traffic to a different destination, a method for using the remaining TxOP time by the original node to send traffic to a different destination, a method... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070248118 - Adaptive speed control for mac-phy interfaces: Apparatus having corresponding methods and computer programs comprise a first first-in first-out buffer (FIFO) to receive and store data from a media access controller (MAC); a physical-layer device (PHY) to transmit a signal representing the data; and a control circuit comprising a read circuit to transfer the data from the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070248119 - Transmission system: In order to increase the efficiency of large-capacity transmission, the continuity of divided signals generated by dividing a multiplexed signal is maintained and the original large-capacity multiplexed signal is restored. A signal dividing section divides a multiplexed signal to generate a plurality of divided signals in the STS or STM... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070248120 - Device for increasing bandwidth in a cable network: In one aspect, a device that communicates with a customer premises equipment of a subscriber via a coaxial cable is provided. The device increases the upstream traffic for the subscriber. Furthermore, the device is migrated into a network such that the subscriber does not have to change their customer premises... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070248121 - Method and device for transmitting low rate signals over an optical transport network: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for transmitting low rate signals over an optical transport network, including: adapting the low rate signals into low rate optical channel data units of the same rate level with the low rate signals; asynchronously mapping each of the low rate optical channel... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070248123 - Method and apparatus for compensating audio/video synchronization: An audio and video synchronization compensation method and apparatus for smoothly compensating audio and video synchronization in an audio and video system such as a DTV and a DVD player are provided. The apparatus includes a signal decoder unit which extracts time information for reproducing a video and/or audio signal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070248122 - Methods and systems relating to distributed time markers: Methods and devices for coordinating and displaying electronic signals are disclosed. For example, an exemplary apparatus configured a particular system can include a local timing device capable of receiving external real-time clock signals from a first time source, the timing device being capable of maintaining a synchronized local real-time clock... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070242597 - Scanning by remotes in multipoint-to-point communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing: Systems and methods for scanning by remotes in multipoint-to-point communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 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... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070242598 - Systems and methods for reducing the peak-to-average-power ratio in an ofdm-based system: In an exemplary embodiment, an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system includes an OFDM transmitter and an OFDM receiver that is configured to receive OFDM signals from the OFDM transmitter over a communication channel. The OFDM signals comprise a plurality of tones including data bearing tones that carry data and... Agent: Madson & Austin

20070242599 - Mitigation of dc distortion in ofdm receivers: A baseband receiver and corresponding methods are arranged and configured to mitigate effects of direct current (DC) distortion and process an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal as provided from a direct conversion radio or receiver. The baseband receiver includes an OFDM demodulator configured to demodulate the OFDM signal, a... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20070242600 - Methods and apparatus for multi-carrier communications with variable channel bandwidth: Methods and apparatus for multi-carrier communication with variable channel bandwidth are disclosed, where the time frame structure and the OFDM symbol structure are invariant and the frequency-domain signal structure is flexible. In one embodiment, a mobile station, upon entering a geographic area, uses a core-band to initiate communication and obtain... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070242602 - Blocked redundant link-aware spanning tree protocol enhancement: An exemplary embodiment provides for a method for use in a network device of a plurality of network devices configured to implement a link management protocol for blocking ports corresponding to redundant links between individual network devices of the plurality of network devices. The method is used for preventing delivery... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070242601 - Networked computer with gateway selection: A networked computer system in which a gateway is selected for efficient transmission over a network using a layered protocol. When a transmission over the network fails, information at multiple protocol layers indicates the usability of the gateway through which the failed transmission was made. In a layered protocol with... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070242603 - Sampling to a next hop: Samples from an addressed data forwarding devices, such as a router, are forwarded to a specified next hop address and/or out a specified next hop interface. However, the sampling and/or next hop forwarding is suppressed if the specified next hop address is unstable or unresolved.... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070242604 - Network system and node: The invention realizes defect indication on a multipoint logical path and switching of the logical path when the multipoint logical path is configured using a transfer protocol of configuring a logical path, typified by MPLS etc., in a ring network. Two routes of the multipoint logical paths, a working path... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070242605 - Method and system for implementing protection switching in multi-protocol label switching network: The embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a system for implementing protection switching in Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, the method includes: transmitting by a first Egress Label Switched Router (LSR) first probe packets to an Ingress LSR via a first Label Switching Path (LSP); switching by... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070242606 - Dynamic reverse link overhead control based load information: A method of controlling reverse link feedback in a mobile communication system comprises detecting reverse link load for at least one sector in the network; and dynamically updating a control setting for a reverse link control channel responsive to the detected load.... Agent: Coats & Bennett/ericsson Wireless Comm''s., Inc.

20070242607 - Method and system for controlling distribution of network topology information: In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a network topology management system is provided for managing distribution of network topology information between nodes within a network that performs a distributed source routing protocol. The system includes, nodes distributed throughout a network, that are interconnected by node-to-node links, each... Agent: The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20070242608 - System and method for providing topology and reliability constrained low cost routing in a network: Various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide methods and systems to generate node-disjoint routing paths from a root node to each node in a network node set, identify potential intermediate office node (IO) candidate pairs from the generated node-disjoint routing paths, generate a per central office node (CO) serving... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070242610 - Detecting a counterfeit access point in a wireless local area network: In a wireless local area network, beacon frames are transmitted over the wireless local area network by one or more access points. The beacon frames are received at a detector in the wireless local area network. The received beacon frames are analyzed at the detector to detect a counterfeit access... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070242609 - Locating hardware faults in a data communications network of a parallel computer: Locating hardware faults in a data communications network of a parallel computer. Such a parallel computer includes a plurality of compute nodes and a data communications network that couples the compute nodes for data communications and organizes the compute node as a tree. Locating hardware faults includes identifying a next... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20070242611 - Computer hardware fault diagnosis: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for computer hardware fault diagnosis carried out in a parallel computer, where the parallel computer includes a plurality of compute nodes. The compute nodes are coupled for data communications by at least two independent data communications networks, where each data communications network... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20070242612 - Electronic payment terminal diagnostics: The ‘IP Diagnostics’ software is a new and innovative method of aiding the deployment and troubleshooting of IP enabled POS terminals. Its purpose is to identify where a failure in the IP connection is occurring. The IP Diagnostics application does this by testing major failure points within the IP chain... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20070242613 - Communication device and communication status notification method: The communication device according to an aspect of the present invention comprises a contact part which contacts a human body, a communication section which performs data communication through the human:body in contact with the contact part, an energy generating section which generates energy including at least one of mechanical energy,... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070242614 - Data transfer method and automation system used in said data transfer method: A method transmits data packets on a data transmission link between two communication subscribers. The data packets respectively contain a check character which is calculated from the other data in the data packet. One communication subscriber uses the check character from the last data packet received by the other communication... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070242615 - Transmission characteristics analyzing device and program: A transmission characteristics analyzing device includes a transmission characteristics calculating unit for determining a direction in which a signal flows in each component of a communication network on the basis of a transmitting point and a receiving point of the signal, which are specified in the communication network, and for... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070242619 - Communication device and network selection method for use in same: The present invention provides a communication device which can perform a routing process by selecting the optimum network without preparing a statically generated connection profile. A communication detection unit detects the start of communication by a communication unit, and activates a network selection unit. The network selection unit checks an... Agent: Paul J. Esatto, Jr. Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070242617 - Network device connecting apparatus and network device connecting method: When having received data from a network device that is currently connected, an FC switch converts a WWPN set in the received data to a WWPN that is used in connection settings based on a connected-device management list in which device identification information used in the connection settings is associated... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070242618 - Communication system, transmission device and method thereof, and reception device and method thereof: A communication system includes a transmission device and a reception device. The transmission device includes a first software processor that performs, if a first information portion has been updated, software processing on the first information portion, a first hardware processor that performs hardware processing on a second information portion, a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070242616 - Estimating available bandwith and enhancing narrow link bandwith estimations in telecommunications networks using existing user traffic: Without using additional probing packets, estimates of the narrow link bandwidth and available bandwidth of a network path are computed based on existing traffic. The network can be of different types such as a wireless battlefield network context or a wired or wireless commercial network environment. “Fast packets”, i.e. those... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20070242620 - Method, system and device for measuring performance parameters of multiprotocol label switching network: Embodiments of the present invention provides a method for measuring performance parameters of MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, including: sending a performance parameter measurement packet carrying first information for measuring a performance parameter of the MPLS network to a second party; measuring the performance parameter of the MPLS network according... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070242623 - Communication apparatus and control method of the apparatus: When a destination address specified by a client is to be registered as a destination, determination is made as to whether name resolution of the destination address is possible or not. If it is determined that name resolution is impossible, registration of the destination address that requires name resolution is... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070242622 - Method and device for determining a list of at least one first node of a telecommunication network to which a message has to be transferred: The present invention concerns a method and device for determining a list of at least one first node of a telecommunication network to which, a message received by a second node of the telecommunication network from a third node of the telecommunication network, has to be transferred. It is obtained,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070242621 - Dynamic carrier sensing thresholds: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate communication in a wireless network environment. In particular, access points can dynamically adjust transmit power and/or carrier-sensing thresholds to allow multiple access points to communicate concurrently. In aspects, access points exchange node information, including RSSI and node addresses, of nearby nodes. The node... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070242624 - Method and system for displaying messages in context: The present disclosure is directed to a method and system for displaying messages in context. In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present disclosure at least one transaction notification is received. At least one node for the at least one transaction notification is generated. The node is stored in... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070242625 - Method and system for a distributed wavelength (lambda) routed (dlr) network: The invention relates to a method and network for providing an optical fibre wavelength routed network comprising a plurality of nodes on a network ring where each node can drop and add a wavelength, control means to control the wavelength to be transmitted on the network ring, and access means... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070242626 - Methods and apparatuses to connect people for real time communications via voice over internet protocol (voip): Methods and systems to facilitate real time communications via a telephonic apparatuses that support data communications. In one embodiment, a telephonic apparatus includes: a user interface to receive a search criterion; a network interface coupled to the user interface to submit a query from the telephonic apparatus over a data... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070242627 - Uplink and bi-directional traffic classification for wireless communication: Techniques for performing traffic classification for uplink and bi-directional traffic streams are described. A station receives packets for transmission on the uplink to an access point. The station identifies packets for each uplink traffic stream and packets for each bi-directional traffic stream based on at least one classification parameter for... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070242628 - Method for handling the simultaneous mobility of mobile hosts in infrastructure-based networks: In infrastructure-based networks devices often move from one attachment point in the network or a sub-network thereof to another attachment point. Communications sessions may be established between Mobile Hosts attached to such nodes. Communications sessions between nodes established using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Mobile Internet Protocol with Location Registers (MIP-LR)... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20070242630 - Mobile communication terminal and method for calculating media play time of the mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terminal and a method for calculating a media play time of media file on the mobile communication terminal are disclosed. In one example embodiment, a mobile communication terminal includes a communication unit, a controller, and a display. The communication unit is capable of downloading a media file... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070242629 - System and method for process control using wireless devices: An apparatus includes at least one process element and a first transceiver configured to communicate with the at least one process element. The apparatus also includes a second transceiver configured to communicate wirelessly with the first transceiver and to communicate with a process control system. The process control system may... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070242631 - Control - hold mode: Methods and apparatus are presented for implementing an improved Control-Hold Mode that reduces the load of the reverse link and reduces the battery consumption of remote stations. While a remote station is in the improved Control-Hold Mode, the circuitry that monitors the forward packet data channels and the associated control... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070242632 - Receiver for receiving a spectrum dispersion signal: A receiver for the CDMA system which reduces power consumption during a suspension period of intermittent receiving operation by monitoring a suspension period by a low-power timer so that a VC-TCXO, reference signal group generation and receiving units are turned off and a modem unit is set to a sleep... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070242633 - Supporting multiple disecq master devices in a video distribution system: A bridge is provided for connecting multiple satellite receivers to multiple accessories in a video distribution system such as a direct broadcast satellite system. The bridge is designed for interposition between multiple satellite receivers (set top boxes or STBs) and controllable accessories (e.g. LNBs or multi-switches) of the video distribution... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070242634 - Method and apparatus for message transmission within a communication system: The proposed method and apparatus reduces an amount of power required for nodes to both transmit and receive messages. In particular, broadcast packets are sent in an awake period (ATIM window) if the length of these messages is small. Because these packets do not need acknowledgment or they do not... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070242635 - Method and apparatus for prediction of a connection identifier in a downlink burst: An apparatus for processing a downlink frame is provided which includes receiver circuitry (324), a physical layer processor (346) coupled to the receiver circuitry (324) and a MAC layer processor (348) coupled to the physical layer processor (346) is provided. The receiver circuitry (324) receives radio frequency (RF) signals and... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070242636 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing efficient and flexible control signal for resource allocation: A number N physical resource blocks PRBs are allocated among M users in a single control signal, in which some PRBs are allocated as localized to only one user UE and some PRBs are allocated as distributed among multiple UEs. The control signal includes M allocation entries, allocation type bits... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070242637 - Pseudo wires for mobility management: Embodiments describe mobility management utilizing neighbor discovery and at least two pseudo wires. When a wireless device desires to handoff to a detected access router, such handoff may not be configured until such time as a current access router receives routing information of the target access router. In order to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070242638 - Fast network attachment: A method of facilitating Internet Protocol access by a mobile node to an access Network, the method comprising: sending an attachment request from the mobile node to an access router of the access network, the request containing a mobile node identifier and an Interface Identifier or means for deriving an... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070242639 - Overhead signaling in a wireless communication system: Improved ways of communicating assignment signals using flash signaling are described, e.g., for wireless terminals with low SNR, that are more robust against large variation of channel gains due to e.g., frequency selective fading and fast fading in time. Coding and modulation methods and apparatus that have excellent properties against... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070242641 - Rake reception apparatus and method in a mobile terminal: A rake reception apparatus for determining whether a paging channel is received in a mobile terminal using a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) mode. A searcher searches for a multi-path signal using a received signal output from a Radio Frequency (RF) part, and calculates an energy value for each hypothesis. A demodulator... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070242640 - Mobile packet communication system: A radio base station allocates, when performing a real-time Internet-protocol data communication, up-link radio resources, based on basic information of transmission data, so that the transmission data is transmitted in synchronization with a codec cycle of a mobile communication terminal in a concentrated manner, and notifies a result of allocating... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070242646 - Computer-readable recording medium storing data communication program, data communication method, and mobile terminal: A computer-readable recording medium storing a data communication program capable of transmitting desired data quickly. The mobile terminal (computer) has the following functions: A data accumulating section accumulates accumulation data to be uploaded to a server 7. A transmission data-generating section generates transmission data that is to be transmitted to... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070242645 - Battery-efficient generic advertising service for wireless mobile devices: In one embodiment, a method for acquiring service provider information includes querying a wireless network for service provider information, receiving an advertisement response containing advertising service scheduling information, and configuring a power conservation mode responsive to the advertising service scheduling information.... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070242647 - Cell network selectively applying proxy mode to minimize power: 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

20070242644 - Load-based voltage control wireless transmission system: A wireless transmission system with its voltage controllable depending on the load by increasing or decreasing the wireless transmission system related circuit drive voltage and selecting a drive voltage of the wireless transmission system related circuit to improve or reduce the strength of the wireless transmission signals as required according... Agent: Bacon & Thomas

20070242642 - Reliable neighbor node discovery: Methods and systems for reliable neighbor discovery in wireless ad hoc networks are provided herein. In one aspect, embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for analyzing the quality of a communication link. In embodiments, several factors affecting link quality may be incorporated in the analysis, and basic... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070242643 - Using a wireless beacon broadcast to provide a media message: A system and method for using a wireless beacon broadcast to provide a media message is disclosed. A first beacon broadcast is provided from a wireless access point, the first beacon broadcast having a first beacon component with a first portion of media. A second beacon broadcast is provided from... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070242649 - Integrating camp-on telephony feature with wlan resource management and admission control: In one embodiment, a method for requesting wireless network resources includes transmitting a network resource request to a wireless network in response to a session initiation message from a session signaling node and, responsive to an indication that the wireless network lacks sufficient resources, conditionally transmitting a camp-on information message... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070242648 - Managing dormant handoffs in radio access networks: In a radio access network including subnets, enabling a radio node of a first subnet to receive a communication over an access channel from an access terminal that is in a dormant state and to send information about the communication to a radio node controller of a second subnet. In... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070242650 - Radio frequency assigning apparatus, wireless communication system, and radio frequency assigning method: A radio channel allocation apparatus of a node in a radio communication system which controls to allocate a radio channel between nodes by a virtual carrier sense is disclosed. The radio channel allocation apparatus includes a node information collecting unit which collects information of a neighboring node to which the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070242653 - Method and apparatus for sharing radio resources in an ofdma-based communication system: A physical layer packet format and signaling method is provided to minimize signaling overhead wherein multiple users share air interface resources to improve efficiency in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) communication systems.... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

20070242651 - Method and system for a rfic master: Methods and systems for a RFIC master are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include configuring an on-chip programmable device that may function as a master on a bus that has at least one device interface, for example, RFIC interface, coupled to the bus. The on-chip programmable device may generate... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070242652 - Methods for improving uplink communications in a wideband code division multiple access (wcdma) communication system: Methods for improving uplink communications in a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) communication system, wherein mobile terminals can transmit at various transmission power levels. In a mobile terminal, the method includes the steps of receiving a configuration message having at least one of a power offset parameter and a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070242654 - Radio communication system, and base station and terminal for use in the system: The radio communication system, comprises: a base station; and a plurality of terminals which perform reservation request for radio resources necessary for data transmission to said base station at random, wherein each of the plurality of terminals are allocated with individualized radio resources for reservation request necessary for the terminal... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070242663 - Media stream relay device and method: When media communication is relayed through a circuit switching network and a packet switching network, packet congestion and packet loss is inhibited by limiting the bandwidth and the number of packets on the packet switching network. Audio packets received from the packet switching network are stored in a buffer for... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070242660 - Determining a physical location of a voip endpoint device utilized to originate an emergency call: In one embodiment, a method and system for enabling determination of a physical location of a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) endpoint device utilized to originate an emergency call are described. A network location associated with the VoIP endpoint device is automatically detected. The VoIP endpoint device is coupled with... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070242662 - Device and method for estimating audiovisual quality impairment in packet networks: An audio and/or visual transmission quality device estimates transmission quality as perceived by a user based on observation and processing of objective metrics. The device preferably includes a primary integrator to generate an instantaneous estimate of user annoyance based on occurrence of frame loss events in a received signal. The... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070242656 - Im conversation management: A method and apparatus for managing IM conversations is provided. In response to idle time and, preferably, read message status, particular current conversations are removed from a list of current conversations. The removed conversations may be moved to an archive which may be automatically maintained in response to size constraints.... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070242661 - Mesh network telephone system: Systems and methods are disclosed having one or more mesh network appliances (such as ZigBee appliances); a mesh network telephone base station in communication with the mesh network appliances, the mesh network telephone base station including a telephone jack wired to a plain old telephone service (POTS) or a public... Agent: Tran & Associates

20070242655 - Method and apparatus for managing quality of service for multimedia applications: A system and method (200) are disclosed for managing quality of service for multimedia applications. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network management system (NMS) (106) having a controller (107) that manages operations of a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) (109)... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070242664 - Methods and systems for making telephone calls: Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for making a call. Such methods and systems may request the call using a network, initiate a first leg to a caller device based on the request, initiate a second leg to a receiver device based on the request, connect... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070242657 - System and method for linking existing wi-fi access points into a single unified network: The present invention comprises a system and method for providing a distributed wireless network. In a preferred embodiment, at least one information processor is coupled to and accessible over a communication network, such as the internet. Network bandwidth is provided to a first user of at least two end users... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070242659 - System and methods for control of a set top box: According to one example embodiment disclosed herein, there is provided system and method allowing a set top box to be controlled from an interactive voice response unit, such as a connection to a public switched telephone network or an Internet Protocol (IP) telephone system. A system according to an example... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070242658 - Unauthorized call activity detection and prevention systems and methods for a voice over internet protocol environment: Embodiments connect a call in which at least one party is a VoIP call party and monitoring resulting VoIP signals for unauthorized call activity, such as three-way call activity. The monitoring may include monitoring the call for suspend and/or resume events to detect the unauthorized call activity, the suspend and... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070242666 - Apparatus for managing requests for data in a communication network: An apparatus for managing requests for media data such as video data for effecting rapid channel change in IPTV services comprises an interface for receiving data requests addressed for processing by a particular data request service device, and an agent operatively coupled to the interface and configured for selecting which... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC.

20070242665 - Method for derect communication between a first station and a second station of a wireless network: In an Access Point controlled wireless network, wherein one channel communication is ruled by an identifier associated with the Access Point, method for direct communication between a first station and a second station, comprises the steps of: generating a second identifier by said first station, different from the identifier associated... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070242667 - System and method for choosing an outgoing path for a media flow in a next generation network: A system and a method for choosing an outgoing path for a media flow in a Next Generation Network (NGN) are disclosed. First, an application layer signalling resolving module in a Service Control Function (SCF) resolves an application layer signalling to determine requirement of a media flow on forwarding and... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070242669 - Method for broadcasting multimedia data by controlled synchronization of the broadcasting times of the base stations of an fdma/tdma network and use of a common carrier frequency: A method is dedicated to broadcasting multimedia data in multimedia sessions set up in an FDMA/TDMA type communication network comprising cells associated with base stations adapted to broadcast the multimedia data to mobile communication terminals. This method consists in, on the one hand, controlled synchronization, relative to a reference clock,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070242668 - Device and method for dynamically storing media data: A device and a method for enabling access to data from a channel are provided. The device comprises a storage medium for storing the data from the channel as it is received at a network element and a controller. The controller enables commencing storage of at least a portion of... Agent: Arnold B. Silverman Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070242670 - System and method for multicast communications using real time transport protocol (rtp): An Internet protocol (IP) packet switching communication system using real time transport protocol (RTP). Control packets map group identification codes to a multicast address on a network. Control packets are distributed on the network using simple object access protocol (SOAP) messages with extensible markup language (XML) payloads. Mapping may include... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070242671 - Method and apparatus for routing data packets between different internet communications stack instances: A computer system contains multiple Internet communications stack instances, which may or may not share a common hardware network adapter. Packets are routed between different Internet communications stack instances internally within the computer system using Internet Protocol (IP) addressing. A packet arriving in one stack and having a destination IP... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070242673 - Methods of allocating packets in a wireless communication system: In a wireless communication system, a multi-source data multiplexing system (e.g., a media access control (MAC)) accepts information packets from a plurality of signal sources, evaluates the relative efficiencies of data transmission, and transmits the information packets in provided grant regions for maximum efficiency. The multi-source data multiplexing system may... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070242672 - Unlicensed mobile access (uma) communications using decentralized security gateway: Systems and methods are provided to facilitate efficient routing of unlicensed mobile access (UMA) communications. In one implementation, a method of providing a communication link between a first mobile station and a second mobile station through a customer premises equipment (CPE) device includes intercepting a call setup request provided by... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070242674 - Method for assigning a number of m data links located on the subscriber side to a number of n data links located on the transporter side: In a method for assigning a number of M data links located on a subscriber side to a number of N data links located on a transport side, each of the M data links located on the subscriber side is initially assigned to one of the N data links located... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20070242677 - Utilizing session initiation protocol for identifying user equipment resource reservation setup protocol capabilities: In a communication between a mobile unit (UE) and a gateway general packet radio system (GGRS) support node (GGSN) wherein resource reservations setup protocol (RSVP) capabilities are shared by a session setup mechanism, preferably session initiation protocol (SIP) in which RSVP capabilities of the originating UE and GGSN are defined... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070242675 - Dual scheduling for efficient network traffic management: Data traffic is scheduled by, in a first scheduler, selecting a source of traffic from a plurality of sources of traffic, each source being associated with a second scheduler, in a second scheduler associated with the selected source of traffic, selecting a type of traffic from a plurality of types... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20070242676 - Interface between a synchronous network and high-speed ethernet: A method for communication includes receiving over a synchronous optical network link a flow of encapsulated Ethernet data frames. Two or more of the Ethernet data frames are concatenated to form an extended frame having a single start frame delimiter (SFD) and a single end frame delimiter (EFD) in compliance... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070242678 - Method for reconstructing system time clock (stc) without carrying pcr: In conventional packet communications systems, such as MPEG-2, the data stream includes a program clock reference (PCR) so that the receiver decoder can lock on to the data stream. The invention eliminates the need to send the PCR by transferring a data transport rate explicitly in the header of the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070242679 - Method for moving network elements with minimal network outages in an active atm network: A method for moving permanent virtual circuits in an ATM network with minimal downtime includes creating a list of the permanent virtual circuits to be moved; building a set of shadow permanent virtual circuits using the new ATM port and a temporary set of virtual path identifier and virtual circuit... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070242680 - Highly adaptable proxy traversal and authentication: Systems and methods are disclosed for transporting multimedia protocol traffic over a proxy server using a commonly-used proxy protocol. Multimedia protocol traffic from a first endpoint is received and then converted. The converted data is then transmitted using a commonly-used protocol across a network. The traffic is received and reconverted... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070242682 - Information processing device, information processing method, program, and recording medium: An information processing device is provided. The information processing device includes a frame acquiring unit for acquiring a frame using a signal transmitted via a network, a computing unit for computing a check sequence on the basis of data included in the frame, a checking unit for checking whether the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070242683 - Plural telecommunications functions having sharing transaction(s): A node of a telecommunications network comprises a first function configured to perform a first operation on a first portion of a packet handled by the node and a second function configured to perform a second operation on a second portion of the packet. The first function and the second... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070242681 - Relay device, packet filtering method, and packet feltering program: A relay device 10 is a relay device for relaying a communication message on a packet-by-packet basis, which comprises an order determiner 13 for determining whether a packet received is one received in an order to be received, a packet holder 14 for, when it is determined that the packet... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070242684 - Packet communication network and packet communication method: Full-mesh WDM transmission units, each of which includes n number of interfaces and is capable of establishing a bidirectional full-mesh communication between all of the interfaces using wavelength paths based on a wavelength division multiplexing technique, are connected in a multistage tree-shaped structure by internetwork connection units through edge-packet transfer... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070242685 - Locating hardware faults in a parallel computer: Locating hardware faults in a parallel computer, including defining within a tree network of the parallel computer two or more sets of non-overlapping test levels of compute nodes of the network that together include all the data communications links of the network, each non-overlapping test level comprising two or more... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20070242686 - Method and apparatus for reordering fragments within a mac layer service data unit within a downlink frame: A method and apparatus for processes a downlink frame within a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer (348) where the downlink frame includes a plurality of fragments constituting one or more MAC Service Data Unit (MSDU)s. The MAC layer pre-processes the plurality of fragments of the downlink frame by reordering the... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070242687 - Methods to utilize multiple protocols in a wireless communication system: A wireless communication system is adapted for compatible inter-operation of a plurality of devices operating in accordance with a plurality of protocols. The wireless communication system includes a first group of one or more subscriber stations that interface with a base station in accordance with a first protocol and a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070242688 - Dynamic value reporting for wireless automated systems: A wireless automation device monitors a condition and wirelessly reports an event over an automation network in response to detecting a change in the condition. The condition is sampled at a variable periodic interval, and the event reported during intervals when a change in the condition is determined. The change... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070242689 - System and method for remotely restoring inoperative data communications: A system and method for remotely restoring inoperative data communications are disclosed, which causes the transmitter to transmit over the physical link a predetermined sequence of signals that can be detected at the receiver. Responsive to the detected sequence of signals, the receiver can initiate an internal reset command to... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070242691 - Apparatus and method for transferring optical data in optical switching system: An apparatus and method for transferring optical data in an optical switching system are provided. When optical data input to a node are in contention, the optical data are converted from optical signals to electrical signals and temporarily stored. When an output resource is available, the stored optical data are... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070242693 - Allocation of packets in a wireless communication system: In a wireless communication system, a multi-source data multiplexing system (e.g., a media access control (MAC)) accepts information packets from a plurality of signal sources, evaluates the relative efficiencies of data transmission, and transmits the information packets in provided grant regions for maximum efficiency. The multi-source data multiplexing system may... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070242692 - Apparatuses to utilize multiple protocols in a wireless communication system: A wireless communication system is adapted for compatible inter-operation of a plurality of devices operating in accordance with a plurality of protocols. The wireless communication system includes a first group of one or more subscriber stations that interface with a base station in accordance with a first protocol and a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070242690 - System and method for monitoring valve status and performance in a process control system: A process control system includes at least one controller and at least one wireless valve element capable of being controlled by the at least one controller. The process control system also includes a first transceiver configured to communicate with the at least one wireless valve element and a second transceiver... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070242694 - System and method for cross protocol communication: A multimedia communication system and method are described where a communication controller receives a multimedia data stream from a communication device in a first protocol. The controller detects a type of the first protocol, such as text-based protocol or a binary protocol and then converts the first protocol into an... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070242695 - Multiple broadcast channels for wireless networks: An access point of a wireless network broadcasts directory information including a schedule on a first broadcast channel about media programs being broadcast on other channels by the access point. The broadcast on the first channel provides for sleep-mode clients to receive the broadcast. A client receives the schedule, and... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070242697 - Method and apparatus for processing data at physical layer: A data packet processing system for processing data at a network interface using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) allows processing of data packets with lower processing delays. The data packet processing system immediately applies a plurality of processes to an incoming data packet in a concurrent manner so as to... Agent: Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd.

20070242698 - Ppp terminating equipment, network equipment and method of responding to lcp echo requirement: In a PPP terminating equipment 100 connected with a switch fabric and terminating PPP link, the PPP terminating equipment 100 has an LCP echo requirement detecting section 20 detecting whether or not a received packet is the LCP echo requirement packet, and an LCP echo response producing section 40 producing... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070242696 - System and method for traversing a firewall with multimedia communication: Systems and methods are disclosed for transporting multiport protocol traffic using a single-port protocol. Multiport protocol traffic from a first endpoint is converted into a single-port protocol for transport across a network. The traffic is sent over a commonly-open port and received at a second endpoint before being dispersed to... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070242699 - Multi-carrier signal transmitting apparatus and multi-carrier signal receiving apparatus: In transmitting first information necessary for gaining synchronism of transmission signal and second information which is the other information by determining a break of a single modulation unit with a simple structure and processing prior to Fourier transformation on the side receiving a signal transmitted as a multi-carrier signal, a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070242700 - System and method for controlling content and delivery of internet protocol television (iptv) services: A system and method supplies internet protocol television (IPTV) services to a subscriber. A content management subsystem processes and executes integrated workflow functionality for content management of video data to be delivered from a video headend to a subscriber premises. An infrastructure subsystem performs signal processing and routing of the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070242701 - Apparatus and method for transforming a digital tv broadcasting signal to a digital radio broadcasting signal: The present invention relates to an apparatus for transforming digital TV broadcasting signals into digital radio broadcasting signals and a method thereof. The apparatus includes: a transport stream generator for transforming TV broadcasting signals outputted from outside into digital TV broadcasting transport streams; a broadcasting transport format transformer for generating... Agent: Eric S Hyman Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070242702 - Apparatus and method for monitoring quality metrics associated with a wireless network: An apparatus and method for measuring metrics associated with a wireless network is described. One embodiment includes capturing, at a capturing device, a packet transmitted in a wireless network. A congestion indicator is calculated based on a delay associated with the packet.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070242703 - Binding/combining of plural telecommunications functions: A node of a telecommunications network comprises a first function configured to perform a first operation on a first portion of a packet handled by the node and a second function configured to perform a second operation on a second portion of the packet. The first function and the second... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070242704 - Method, system and device for speech codec negotiation in communication system: The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for speech Codec negotiation in a communication system in which a calling user initiates the speech Codec negotiation with a called mobile station. The method includes: receiving by a mobile switching center emulation in the communication system an originating call signal... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070237065 - M-ary orthogonal coded/balanced uwb transmitted reference systems: A novel transceiver structure is proposed to increase the achievable data rate for ultra wideband transmitted reference (UWB-TR) systems. For every Ns pulse pairs during one symbol transmission, the data pulses are weighted by one of the M-ary orthogonal sequences, thus carrying additional log2 M-bit information. Furthermore, by utilizing a... Agent: Brown & Michaels, PC 400 M & T Bank Building

20070237066 - Systems for contention-based bandwidth requests in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems: Systems for contention-based bandwidth requests in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems are provided. In one embodiment, a bi-directional communication system comprises: a multipoint-to-point host unit; and a plurality of remote units communicatively coupled to the multipoint-to-point host unit through an OFDM waveform. The multipoint-to-point host unit is configured to... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070237069 - Multi-step channel prediction apparatus and method for adaptive transmission in ofdm/fdd system: Provided are a multi-step channel prediction apparatus and method for adaptive transmission in an OFDM/FDD system. A channel prediction is preformed considering a time-varying characteristic of a channel changing within one slot, in addition to feedback and processing delay time between a transmitter and a receiver, and an adaptive transmission... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070237067 - Apparatus and method for improved performance in mc-cdma radio telecommunication systems that use pulse-shaping filters: A apparatus and method for improved performance in radio telecommunications systems, and in particular multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) networks that employ pulse-shaping filters on the transmit side of a radio link. In order to more accurately transmit a radio signal bearing a symbol sequence, the modulated and spread... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070237068 - Method of providing pilot signals for uplink power control: The present invention provides a method of communication involving a plurality of orthogonal tones. The method includes transmitting at least one first pilot symbol using at least one first tone selected from the plurality of orthogonal tones. The first pilot symbol is associated with data transmitted using at least one... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070237070 - Methods for contention-based bandwidth requests in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems: Methods for contention-based bandwidth requests in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems 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... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070237071 - Input-output fabric conflict detection and resolution in a blade compute module system: Determining whether there exists an input-output (I/O) fabric conflict (mismatch) between a blade I/O fabric daughter card of a blade compute module and an I/O interface module of a blade compute module system, and if a conflicts does exit then taking action to correct this I/O fabric mismatch. An I/O... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20070237072 - Resilient ip ring protocol and architecture: A system and method are disclosed for a resilient IP ring protocol. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device using a resilient internet protocol (IP) ring protocol, including a controller (602) that manages operations of a transceiver (620) for exchanging messages... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070237074 - Configuration of congestion thresholds for a network traffic management system: A hierarchical congestion management system improves the performance of traffic through a communications system. In one embodiment of the invention, a first subset of thresholds is configured so as to guarantee the passage of a certain high-priority or other selected communications traffic. Further, a second subset of thresholds is configured... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070237075 - Method and apparatus for dynamic adjustment of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing during congested conditions: A base station has a transmission element to wirelessly transmit at least one data frame. The at least one data frame has a predetermined uplink allocation and a predetermined downlink allocation. A detection element detects a congestion condition. When the congestion condition is detected, the transmission element transmits a request... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070237073 - Method and apparatus for improved isochronous data delivery over non-isochronous communication fabric: Data buffer management logic transfers a segment of a data stream over a communication fabric and stores it in a buffer. Then, while data is consumed from the buffer, the rate of consumption and communication fabric status are monitored, and a target minimum level of data in the buffer may... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070237076 - Node: A node arranged to communicate with at least one further node; comprising: a buffer arranged to receive data transmitted from the at least one further node; an output arranged to transmit data to the at least one further network element, wherein the data comprises information about the ability for the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070237077 - Controlling the transfer of terminal server data: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling the transfer of terminal server data. In some embodiments, contending request to send terminal server data are resolved by a flow control module situated between a terminal server protocol and a transport/network protocol. The flow control module... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070237079 - Binned duration flow tracking: Binned Duration Flow Tracking (BDFT) method tracks the duration of packet flows in a resource limited environment by storing packets identifying the beginning and the end of a flow in bins, with each bin covering an independent and arbitrary length of time. Bins are “aged” periodically, based on the range... Agent: Law Office Of Jim Zegeer Suite 108

20070237083 - Congestion control access gateway and congestion control method for the same: A congestion control access gateway and a congestion control method for the same are provided. The congestion control access gateway interfaces between a broadband convergence network and a ubiquitous sensor network including sensors and terminals. The congestion control access gateway receives data from the ubiquitous sensor network. When a congestion... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070237081 - Method and apparatus for link transmission scheduling for handling traffic variation in wireless mesh networks: The invention includes a method and apparatus for generating a link transmission schedule for handling traffic variation in wireless networks without dynamic scheduling or routing. The method includes determining fixed traffic capacities associated with respective wireless links of a wireless network according to a routing algorithm, and generating, using the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070237078 - Method for the distribution of a network traffic according to sla and qos parameters: The invention relates to a method, a bandwidth broker and an edge node for providing a predefined quality of service between two communication partners, wherein the quality of service is provided by means of a plurality of connections and a decentralised admission control.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070237080 - Platform-based method and apparatus for containing worms using multi-timescale heuristics: A processing unit analyzes network traffic using a multi-timescale heuristic having multiple traffic windows. Each traffic window has a respective threshold value and a respective timescale. When a threshold value is exceeded, the processing unit triggers a network circuit breaker, causing a host platform to be isolated from the network.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070237082 - Techniques for sharing connection queues and performing congestion management: Various embodiments for sharing connection queues and/or performing congestion management in an Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI) switched fabric network are described. In one embodiment, an ASI endpoint may comprise a plurality of connection queues including at least one sharable connection queue to be shared among multiple traffic flows to the... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070237084 - Data communication using multiple input/output devices: Methods and devices that facilitate transmission and/or reception of data packets in a platform through a first and a second input/output (I/O) device are described herein. The platform may be a partitioned platform that includes a main and a service partition, wherein the first I/O device may be an in-band... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070237085 - System and methodology for fast link failover based on remote upstream failures: A method and apparatus that promote expedited fast link failover decisions by and end station with redundant multilayer switching paths to a network are disclosed. In response to detecting a change in connectivity with an upstream link to a network, an upstream switch may send a notification to an intermediate... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20070237086 - Transient data facility for database applications: In one embodiment, a method for providing a transient data facility for database applications includes creating a definition of transient data that corresponds to a unit of work to be performed by an application, and mapping the definition of transient data to a temporary storage table. The method further includes... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070237087 - Communication medium, communication medium processing apparatus, and communication medium processing system: A communication medium according to this embodiment is a communication medium which transmits read data in accordance with a read command from a communication medium processing apparatus and stores write data transmitted in accordance with a write command from the communication medium processing apparatus. This communication medium includes a storage... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070237091 - Method for monitoring upstream burst performance in a point to multi-point access network: The present disclosure is related to a method for monitoring upstream burst performance in a point to multi-point access network. The method comprises: determining the expected time of the upstream data burst from the current terminal end (TE) reaching the head end (HE) using the timeslot assigned to the current... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070237088 - Apparatus and method for providing network security: Devices, systems and methods for network traffic monitoring for a network are disclosed. The exemplary device may include a connection to a physical media and a connection to a media access controller of the Ethernet network. The exemplary device may have a sensor for identifying a disconnect in the local... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070237090 - Method for transforming contents in the dlna system: A Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) system and method transform multimedia contents in a manner adaptive to the available data processing capability of the digital media renderer (DMR) of the DLNA network. A digital media server (DMS) and a digital media renderer (DMR) are discovered. A list of contents provided... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070237089 - Self-stabilizing and fast-convergent structured peer-to-peer overlays: A self-stabilizing overlay maintenance protocol in structured peer-to-peer overlay system stabilizes any initially connected overlay topology to a correct topology. According to the protocol, a node in the overlay system periodically pings neighboring nodes in the leafset of its routing table, who respond with a pong message containing the recipient's... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070237094 - Method for enhancing the communication capability in a wireless telecommunication system: A method (400) for establishing a first communication link between a communications network (105) and a network node (115) in accordance with a first wireless communications protocol. The method also can include evaluating a signal parameter for a signal transmitted between a station (110) and the network node. In response... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070237092 - Method of establishing and maintaining distributed spectral awareness in a wireless communication system: In an ad hoc network in which nodes communicate directly with each other or through another node, hole exchange messages are transmitted on an ongoing basis from one node to one or more other nodes. The spectrum hole message transmitted by a node provides a current view of the frequency... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20070237093 - Methods and apparatus for providing an access profile system associated with a broadband wireless access network: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing an access profile system associated with a broadband wireless access network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070237096 - Proximity-based user interaction: Techniques are described for providing location-based information and functionality to people and computing devices in various ways. In at least some situations, the techniques include enabling multiple people in a common geographic area to interact in various ways, such as via devices capable of communications (e.g., cellular telephones, computing devices... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070237095 - System and method for improving network performance and security by controlling topology information: A system for optimizing the performance of a network. In an illustrative embodiment, the system includes a memory containing one or more data structures data structures. A first module determines transit-only information. A second module selectively omits the transit-only information from the one or more data structures. In a more... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070237097 - Method and apparatus for generating a degree-constrained minimum spanning tree: A method and apparatus for generating a degree-constrained minimum spanning tree (MST) may include a plurality of point-to-point (P2P) packet switching nodes for receiving and sending data packets; a plurality of point-to-multi-point (P2MP) packet switching nodes for sending and receiving the data packets; and a plurality of transmission links coupling... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070237098 - Classified media quality of experience: A method for reporting a streaming quality is shown, wherein at least one continuous media stream is streamed to a client (601), and wherein said streaming is controlled by a protocol (109) that is operated between said client (601) and a server (600), the method including selecting at least one... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070237099 - Decentralized architecture and protocol for voice conferencing: A decentralized computer network architecture and method that gathers metadata from local and remote clients and, based on that metadata, locally makes a decision whether to send a packet over the network. Each client listens to what other clients are doing, and only sends when the total number of concurrent... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070237100 - Device for processing data to be transmitted on a return channel of a communication network and not necessitating systematic acknowledgement on a go channel: A processor device (D) is intended to be installed in a radio communication terminal (UE) adapted to be connected to a radio communication network having a go channel for broadcasting data from said network to terminals (UE) and a return channel dedicated to transmitting data from the terminals (UE) to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070237101 - Heading-dependent routing method and network subsystem: Apparatuses, methods and systems are described that are configured to act on a heading-dependent suitability indicator of a channel through a mobile communication system that can have a defined heading, such as a passenger vehicle or other motor-propelled vehicle. The indicator may also use other determinants such as a latitude... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070237102 - System and method for transferring data to and from mobile devices: Mobile devices, such as cameras and cellular telephones, can be equipped with a high-speed low power system for transferring data to a commonly available intermediary receiver. The intermediary receiver would then transfer the received data into a computer for storage or subsequent processing. In one embodiment, the commonly available receiver... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070237103 - Systems and methods of controlling one or more characteristics of a service: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling one or more characteristics of a service received by a mobile station in a mobile communications network across a radio communications link with a dynamically varying bandwidth. Bandwidth-sensing data packets are created for the purpose of determining changes in the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070237104 - Device, system and method of adjustment of a delivery mechanism according to access categories: Embodiments of the invention provide devices, systems and methods of selecting one or more power save parameters of a wireless device according to an expected traffic pattern. For example, a method according to embodiments of the invention includes selecting either an automatic power save delivery mechanism or a legacy power... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070237105 - Broadcast receiving apparatus: Disclosed is a broadcast receiving apparatus including an analog time information extracting member to extract time information included in an analog broadcast signal; a digital time information extracting member to extract time information included in a digital broadcast signal; a time setting member to automatically set time of the clock... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070237107 - Apparatus and method for transmitting packets in wireless access communication system using relay stations: Provided is an apparatus and method for efficiently transmitting packets to MSs in a BWA system using RSs. A BS uses an ESH to combines packets, which are to be transmitted through RSs to MSs, into a larger packet prior to transmission. Alternatively, the BS transmits packets, which are to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070237106 - Systems and methods for delivering contents using broadcast networks: Systems and methods for delivering program related contents to electronic devices using existing broadcast networks. The methods include receiving a program signal of a program content and supplementary content which is associated thereto, combining the supplementary content with the program signal to form a data-augmented signal which is subsequently modulated... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070237108 - Simplified access to messaging services: A method for enabling direct provision of a message handling area at a server of a messaging service provider is provided. The method includes associating, in the portable communication device, a first user input unit with a function to be used for connecting to the messaging service provider, sending a... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070237109 - Mobile communication system, radio base station device, radio network control device, mobile communication method and mobile communication program: There is provided a mobile communication system capable of improving the throughput. In this system, a radio base station device (1022) waits for an upstream retransmission packet for a predetermined period of time before the moment when the retransmission time out expiration time has come and transmits a retransmission wait... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070237110 - Network nodes exchanging addresses and detachment information to support detachment: An end-point device that is attached to a primary access point delivers a detachment logic and network address of at least a secondary access point to the primary access point. The end-point device informs the primary access point about intended detachment. The detachment logic directs the primary access point to... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070237111 - System and method for data packet transport in hybrid wireless communication system: Computer data is transferred between a CDMA radio access network and a GSM core infrastructure using a switch that acts on the CDMA side as a packet data serving node (PDSN) element and on the GSM side as a serving GPRS service node (SGSN) element. Switching message sequences and protocol... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070237112 - Method for call setup time improvement: A method for providing fast and flexible call setup, the method comprising establishing a plurality of phantom channels over a bearer channel, wherein at least one of the plurality of phantom channels is pre-assigned to a first session negotiation method, at least one of remaining phantom channels of the plurality... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070237115 - Apparatus and method for sharing content using digital living network alliance (dlna) network and computer-readable medium thereof: A method for sharing content using a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) network is disclosed. The method includes the steps of creating a DLNA VPN (Virtual Private Network) between an inside-home DLNA network and at least one outside-home DLNA device, and delivering content from an inside-home DLNA device connected to... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070237114 - Wireless data session handoff using location update message: A High Rate Packet Data (HRPD) wireless access network station (400) that accepting a data session handoff from a CDMA2000 1x base station. The wireless access network station (400) receives, from an access terminal (120), a location notification message with a valid Previous Access Network Identifier (PANID). The wireless access... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070237113 - Method and apparatus for fast cell search: The GCL sequence index of each cell/sector is assigned so that a difference of the indices between adjacent cells/sectors is more than N, where N≧1. During GCL index detection, the adjacent N−1 indices of an index with the largest magnitude can be deleted from handoff candidate cell indices.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070237119 - Apparatus and methods for controlling effective communication traffic rates: Apparatus and methods for controlling effective communication traffic rates are disclosed. Communication signals that include communication traffic are generated for transfer on a wireless communication link based on fixed signalling characteristics. An effective communication traffic rate of the wireless communication link is controlled by controlling a rate at which communication... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20070237117 - Apparatus and method for transmitting message in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting a message in a mobile communication system are provided, in which a short message is generated to be sent together with a preamble signal on the RACH, for uplink transmission, the short message and the preamble signal are spread with different orthogonal spreading codes,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070237116 - Method and apparatus for efficient gold code generation and management in wcdma systems: A method and an apparatus for efficient Gold code generation and management in WCDMA systems are presented. Aspects of the method may include simultaneously generating, based on the codeword sequence, a plurality of scrambling code segments associated with a scrambling code. A plurality of scrambling code segments, where each is... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070237118 - Method and apparatus of acquiring time information in a mobile communication terminal: Provided is a method and apparatus for acquiring time information from a CDMA system in a mobile communication terminal. The method includes: searching for a CDMA channel in a predetermined manner when a CDMA modem or module is activated; receiving a sync channel signal via the searched CDMA channel and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070237124 - Communication access apparatus: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a communication access apparatus, the communication access apparatus includes a wired service processing unit, for processing wired services; a wireless service processing unit, for processing wireless services; and a converging and controlling unit connected to both the wired service processing unit and the wireless... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070237125 - System and information processing method and apparatus: A plurality of access points for wireless communications and a management apparatus that manages the plurality of access points hold management information that indicates channels used by each of the plurality of access points and an assigning status of bandwidth for each channel. Then, a bandwidth assigning request issued from... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070237121 - Method and apparatus for operating in a wireless local area network based on information from a wireless wide area network: Techniques to efficiently search for a WLAN are described. A terminal receives country information from a wireless wide area network (WWAN), which may be a cellular network or a broadcast network. This country information may be a Mobile Country Code (MCC) that is broadcast by the WWAN. The MCC identifies... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070237122 - Power-saving wireless network, packet transmitting method for use in the wireless network and computer readable media: A power-saving wireless network, a packet transmitting method for use in the wireless network, and computer readable medium therefor are provided. The wireless network comprises a PAN coordinator, a receiving node and a transferring node. When the transmitting node has a packet planed to be transmitted to the receiving node... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070237120 - Voice over internet protocol favoring aggregating technology in a wlan: A system for aggregating packet in a Medium Access control layer of a router to improve effective bandwidth of transmission over a network. The system begins by receiving Medium Access Control Service Data Unit packets in a Medium Access Control unit of a router wherein each of the Medium Access... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070237123 - Wireless communication system, cradle apparatus, and portable device: A cradle apparatus and a portable device are interconnected employing reflected wave transmission without interfering with an adjacent wireless system or impairing ease of use of the portable device. The cradle is provided with a function of a reflected wave reader and a digital camera is provided with a function... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070237126 - Generic service request procedure in a multimode system: Generic service request signalling is defined where a multimode terminal is allowed to request any service that it supports in any of the modes (e.g., access technology like GERAN/UTRAN/CDMA2000/BlueTooth/WLAN/. . . ) supported by the terminal. The network may then decide to move the terminal to other system if possible... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070237128 - Portable multi-media automatic authenticating router and method for automatically routing stored data: A computer program product and automatic authenticating router device for automatically routing stored data from a single device to at least one remote storage location is provided. The router device includes the computer program product. The computer program product includes a computer readable medium bearing software instructions for enabling predetermined... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070237127 - Using a dual purpose physical layer interface for a flexible chassis-based server: Methods and apparatus for selectively routing traffic from a port in a switch for use in a chassis-based server are provided. The switch may include a flexible physical layer component, allowing traffic from a channel (e.g., an Ethernet channel) to be routed to a connector on a front panel of... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20070237132 - Apparatuses, methods and systems to design, generate and order customized sheet metal materials: The disclosure details the implementation of an apparatuses, methods, and systems to design, generate, and order customized sheet metal materials based on price sensitive attributes as well as a pricing method therefor. The Customized Sheet Metal Materials Order System (CSMMOS) enables the specification various metal products with regard to price,... Agent: Robert Baschnagel Iii

20070237129 - Method and system for automatic intruder blocking on an internet protocol based network: A system and method for automatic blocking of Internet Protocol addresses based on analysis of information provided by various security systems by different vendors.... Agent: Dennis Sych

20070237134 - Packet-based conversational service for a multimedia session in a mobile communications system: An important objective for third generation mobile communications systems is to provide IP services, and a very important part of these services will be the conversational voice. The conversational voice service includes three distinct information flows: session control, the voice media, and the media control messages. In a preferred embodiment,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070237130 - Providing contextual information with a voicemail message: Aspects of the present invention are directed at obtaining contextual information with a voicemail message. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided that obtains additional contextual information that is not obtained automatically when a voicemail message is received. More specifically, the method includes automatically obtaining a first set... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070237133 - System and method for providing content, applications, services and digital media to users in a peer-to-peer network: A device, a software product, and a method for obtaining content in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network are provided. A request is received for content from a device. For example, using a browser, a user at the device selects a hyperlink indicating content that can be obtained by the user. The... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070237131 - Voip client information: A method and system for collecting and providing required information to a VoIP client or other service providers is provided. The inquiry for information will be received and processed to identify appropriate contextual information which will be transmitted to the information inquiring party. For example, an inquiry for location information... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070237135 - Method and apparatus for routing communications: A communication, such as a telephonic or data communication, is routed between an initiator (1) and a recipient (5) based on the preferences of the initiator, or of both the initiator and the recipient. A virtual end-point (61,66) is allocated for each user (1,5). Each virtual end-point (61,66) stores one... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070237136 - Content using method, content using apparatus, content recording method, content recording apparatus, content providing system, content receiving method, content receiving apparatus, and content data format: A method of using contents includes the steps of setting public time information and private time information, the public time information being associated with each content and defined universally for use by a large number of unspecified users, the private time being associated with the content and defined for use... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070237141 - Network device detection, identification, and management: A method for identifying devices on a network using a two-step process of first scanning a range network addresses for devices and then acquiring device information from each of the accessible devices. The method involves scanning the network for devices by sending a request to each of a plurality of... Agent: James D. Stevens Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20070237139 - Node: This invention relates to a node for providing peer-to-peer services in a communication network, the network comprising of at least one further node. The node comprises; an input arranged to receive at least one SIP peer-to-peer request; an output arranged to transmit the at least one SIP peer-to-peer request from... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070237137 - Apparatus, system, and method for integration of wireless devices with a distributed control system: A wireless marshalling panel includes a field device protocol communication link. The wireless marshalling panel is capable of receiving a message from a wireless device and transmitting a corresponding message to a process controller via the communication link. The panel is also capable of receiving a message from the process... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070237140 - Packet communication system: A packet communication system includes a communication control apparatus 8 for searching for an IP address corresponding to a destination telephone number when receiving a connection request including the destination telephone number from a VoIP terminal, and a multiplexing control apparatus 9 for identifying both a multiplexing transmission apparatus 11... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070237138 - Selective voice switching of multiparty communications: A method for processing speech data packets passed between a plurality of devices in a conversation is disclosed. The method associates priorities with each of the devices in the conversation and processes speech data packets received from the devices according to the priorities. Devices in the conversation are identified, a... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070237142 - Techniques to support asymmetrical static/dynamic adjacency in routers: A static neighbor configured network device is configured with a static neighbor feature including a static neighbor list of network devices. The static neighbor configured network device is in a network segment that includes a dynamically configured network device. The static neighbor configured network device receives a multicast packet from... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070237150 - Self-routed layer 4 packet network system and method: The embodiment discloses a connection oriented packet network using an MPLS-type label switching technology. The network uses a very fast hardware-oriented self-routing protocol that can expose a path right-of-way and program a connection between a calling and called party at wire speed. The embodiment requires no provisioning and is well... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070237145 - Comparison based authentication in rtp: A method of authenticating a communications between a sender and a receiver includes agreeing, by a sender and receiver, on a shared secret, computing a first sequence of numbers at the sender using the shared secret, and computing a second sequence of numbers at the receiver using the shared secret.... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070237148 - Method for ip routing when using dynamic vlans with web based authentication: A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing IP Routing when using dynamic virtual local area networks (VLANs) with web based authentication. A downstream VLAN is assigned to a first switch port of a first network device. A first upstream VLAN is also assigned to the first switch port... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070237146 - Methods and apparatus for modeling and synthesizing packet processing pipelines: Methods and apparatus are provided for modeling and synthesizing circuits for packet processing that transform one or more fields of a packet. A circuit for packet processing that transforms one or more fields of a packet is modeled by representing the transformation using a packet editing graph having at least... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070237149 - Mining data for services: Generally described, the present invention provides the ability to process digital voice conversations to identify data packets containing content of interest and to further process the identified data packets. More specifically, mining profiles may be developed identifying particular types of content that is to be mined and further identifying what... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070237152 - Path searching system using multiple groups of cooperating agents and method thereof: A path searching system (10) based on ACO with a graph generator (12), a path-searching engine (14), a storage medium (16), and a path optimizer (18). Output (20) of the system (10) is an optimal path containing a list of nodes and node links from a start node to a... Agent: Lawrence Y.d. Ho & Associates Pte Ltd

20070237151 - Reordering sequence based channels: System for reordering packet segments in a switching network. A system is provided for reordering packet segments in a packet switch network, wherein a plurality of source processors transmit the packet segments to a destination processor via one or more network fabrics. The system comprises encoder logic at each source... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070237143 - System and method for demultiplexing different stream types in a programmable transport demultiplexer: In one embodiment, there is presented a method for processing data. The method comprises receiving a plurality of packets, wherein each packet comprises a payload, and wherein the plurality of packets carry video data encoded in accordance with an encoding standard from a plurality of encoding standards; identifying encoding standards... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070237147 - System and method for selectively applying a service to a network packet using a preexisting packet header: A system for selectively applying a service to a packet in a network. In a specific embodiment, the system includes a mechanism for encoding service information in a network-compatible packet header and providing encoded data in response thereto. In a more specific embodiment, the network-compatible header includes a Multi-Protocol Label... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070237153 - Topology and routing model for a computer network: Various embodiments of a system and method related to a topology and routing model for a peer-to-peer network are disclosed. A plurality of nodes may be coupled to each other to form a peer-to-peer network. A routing table may be created on each node in the peer-to-peer network. Each node... Agent: B. Noel Kivlin Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070237144 - Transporting authentication information in rtp: A method of transporting authentication information in a media stream packet includes embedding the authentication information in one of a heading and a payload of the media stream packet.... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070237155 - Determination of sip transport to reduce call setup delays: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are presented for determining an appropriate transport protocol for supporting Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) communication, which may involve repeatedly sending SIP requests from a first device destined for a second device using at least one transport protocol, attempting to receive responses to the SIP requests at... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070237154 - Instant messaging with audio connection formation: Instant messaging with audio connection formation is described. In an implementation, a method includes forming a communication to authenticate a client with a proxy during an instant messaging session and forming an invitation by the client for communication to the proxy that identifies another client, with which, to communicate via... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070237156 - Performance management system, apparatus and method between residential gateway and broadband remote access server: The present invention discloses a performance management system, apparatus and method between a Residential Gateway (RG) and a Broadband Remote Access Server (BRAS), the method thereof includes: configuring an OAM IWF for the protocol conversion between the performance management message of the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Operation, Administration and Maintenance... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070237157 - Methods of resolving datagram corruption over an internetworking protocol: Systems and methods ensure that datagrams retain integrity in light of the problems associated with the internetworking protocol's use of datagram identifiers drawn from a first pool of datagram identifiers. The methods involve controlling the use of datagram identifiers to ensure that only certain identifiers are allowable. A second pool... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP. Hani Z. Sayed

20070237159 - Communication equipment: A user's home is connected to a plurality of service providers by a plurality of VPNs, and traffic sent and received by a home terminal is filtered to an appropriate VPN so as to avoid communication disturbance due to IP address duplication by reducing unnecessary traffic. A terminal sends terminal... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070237158 - Method and apparatus for providing a logical separation of a customer device and a service device connected to a data storage system: A data storage system includes storage array and a switch that is configurable to create numerous network topologies within the system and to maintain separate communications paths between different computerized devices or networks and the storage array. For example, a user device and a service device, such as a system... Agent: David E. Huang, Esq. Bainwood Huang And Associates LLC

20070237160 - Dynamic traffic rearrangement to enforce policy changes in mpls networks: A system and method of rearranging Label Switched Paths (LSPs) and rerouting traffic in a DiffServ-enabled Multi-Protocol Label Switched (MPLS) network is disclosed. The system periodically monitors network performance, and rearranges LSPs and reroutes traffic through existing or new Label Switched Paths (LSPs) based on network performance and network bandwidth... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20070237161 - Multiple logical node apparatus: A multiple logical node apparatus includes: an OS operated in the multiple logical node apparatus; an application operated under the OS; a physical network device for performing communication with a network medium, which is mounted on the multiple logical node apparatus; a virtual network device implemented by software; a first... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070237162 - Method, apparatus, and computer product for processing resource change: A software RM and a network RM read out information from a system resource DB, and perform a software install or a network setting corresponding to a server group to which a server is to be added on a server in a pool based on read information. When a server... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070237163 - Multiple virtual channels for use in network devices: A method for establishing a virtual channel between network devices is disclosed. In the case of a local network device establishing a virtual channel with a remote network device, a virtual channel request message is sent from the local network device to the remote network device. A virtual channel acknowledgement... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070237165 - Displaying system with distributor function: The invention provides a displaying system with distributor function. The displaying system, according to the invention, includes two bi-directional ports, two switch devices, and a signal processing device. Each of the switch devices has three terminals, two of which are coupled to the bi-directional ports, and the other one of... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20070237164 - Multi-functional line card for metro optical applications: Methods and apparatus for allowing a dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) line card w to function as an add/drop multiplexer (ADM), a transponder, and a muxponder are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a line card suitable for use in a network to aggregate signals of different... Agent: Aka Chan LLP / Cisco

20070237166 - Dynamic cable assignment on gigabit infrastructure: A method and corresponding network interface device for communicating between devices connected to a LAN includes attempting to communicate between the network devices over an initial subset of the network media wires. If the communication fails, a subsequent subset of media wires is selected. The wires of this subsequent subset... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070237167 - Method for transmitting/receiving data in communication system: A method is provided for transmitting/receiving data in a communication system. The method includes measuring, by a Mobile Station (MS), states of channels which are allocated in a scheme prearranged with a Base Station (BS), and encoding measured channel state information in a scheme corresponding to an allocation scheme of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070237168 - Process and devices for selective collision detection: The present invention concerns a method in a network comprising at least a first device and a second device, where the sending of a packet by two devices simultaneously generates a collision. The method comprises the steps of emitting by the first device a packet comprising a first part, and... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070237169 - Apparatus and method of controlling transmission in reverse direction: Briefly, a wireless communication system that includes an Initiator and a Responder to transmit an aggregation of data units in a reverse direction is provided. The Initiator includes a medium access controller capable of allocating a time slot for exchanging one or more transmissions of aggregation of data units with... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070237170 - Cable user interface: A cable user interface, such as a cable for audio headphones, enables control of one or more aspects of operation of a device to which such cable is connected. A user touches/applies pressure to the cable user interface, either along the full length of the cable, or to a localized... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070237171 - Systems and methods for low power multi-rate data paths: Various systems and methods for low power multi-rate data paths are disclosed. As one example, a semiconductor device that includes a multi-rate data path is discussed. The multi-rate data path includes at least two register circuits with an output of one of the register circuits electrically coupled to an input... Agent: Hamilton And Desanctis

20070237173 - Apparatus for transmitting an anisochronic data stream on an isochronic transmission route: To transmit an anisochronic data stream on an isochronic transmission route with a plurality of channels over a transmission network, a number of channels is reserved by the transmitter before beginning the transmission, where the sum of the transmission capacities of the reserved channels just exceeds the bandwidth of the... Agent: Patrick J. O'shea O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C.

20070237172 - Two-way link aggregation: A method for communication includes coupling a network node to one or more interface modules using a first group of first physical links arranged in parallel. Each of the one or more interface modules is coupled to a communication network using a second group of second physical links arranged in... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070237174 - Host port redundancy selection: A bridge for translating a first storage protocol to a second protocol includes an affiliation manager. The affiliation manager accepts a connection from a host and establishes a connection between a device that uses the second protocol and the host that uses the second protocol. The affiliation manager monitors commands... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070237175 - Scalable call processing node: A scalable call processing node includes link interface modules capable of processing n calls per second and call server modules capable of processing m calls per second, n is variable relative to m by changing the relative numbers of call server and link interface modules. In addition, call server modules... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070237177 - Pon system: Disclosed herewith is a PON system and a bandwidth controlling method capable of controlling congestion with use of an upstream bandwidth in a PON section efficiently when congestion occurs in a gateway (GW) connected to an OLT. An OLT connected to a plurality of ONUs through a passive optical network... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070237178 - Band control system for a digital subscriber network and band control method transfer: A band control system for a digital subscriber line network in which a first apparatus and a second apparatus situated at a subscriber station and a center, respectively, are interconnected by a cable for interchanging at least a digital data signal with each other. The system may cause one of... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070237176 - System and method for enhancing data speed over communication lines: The present disclosure provides a system and method for compressing data in a communications network. The downstream data is compressed at a network element and sent to a customer premises over a data communication link, and is decompressed by a device at the customer end. The upstream data is compressed... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070237179 - Combined header processing for network packets: A computer system to efficiently process packets received over a network operating in accordance with a layered protocol. The system includes logic that provides combined processing to determine whether a received packet complies with multiple requirements of the layered protocol. Combined processing determines compliance with requirements at more than one... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070237180 - Method and apparatus for generating transport frame, and method and apparatus for processing transport frame: An apparatus and method for generating a transport frame, and an apparatus and method for processing a transport frame are provided. The method of generating a transport frame includes: selecting an operation mode of a sub-transport frame, which is a transmission unit of an input packetized frame; generating a sub-transport... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070237181 - Method and system for generating switching timing signal for separating transmitting and receiving signal in optical 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 an optical repeater of a mobile telecommunication network by using a Time Division Duplex (hereinafter, referred to as “TDD”) scheme and an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (hereinafter, referred to as... Agent: Anderson, Kill & Olick, P.C.

20070237182 - Contention-based access in multipoint-to-point communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing: Systems for contention-based access in multipoint-to-point communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing are provided. In one embodiment, a 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 orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); wherein... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070237184 - Method and apparatus for providing internet protocol datacasting service in digital audio broadcasting system: Provided are an apparatus and method for providing an Internet Protocol Datacasting (IPDC) service in a Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) system. A digital broadcasting transmission apparatus for providing an IPDC service includes an IPDC processing unit which generates IP packet data by packetizing data to be transmitted and generates information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070237183 - Method, system and storage medium for channel changing: A method, system and storage medium for channel changing. The method comprises the following steps: obtains a current channel number, receives an instruction to determine a channel change direction, searches a first lookup table to find a target channel number according to the direction, searches a second lookup table to... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070237185 - Synchronizing redundant video streams encapsulated in ip/udp packets: An apparatus, e.g., in a network edge device, a method, and a software program product for synchronizing two or more redundant media streams, e.g., MPEG video streams. The method includes receiving network packets encapsulating redundant media streams representing the same media program, buffering the received streams, learning a program identifier... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070237187 - Multiplexer and multiplexing method: A multiplexer according to an embodiment of the present invention multiplexes a video ES and an audio ES to generate a transport stream TS, and includes a video buffer, an audio buffer, and a multiplexing unit. A multiplexing unit executes simulation of a buffer occupation necessary for a video ES... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070237186 - Heterogeneous transceiver architecture for wide range programmability of programmable logic devices: High-speed serial data transceiver circuitry on a programmable logic device (“PLD”) includes some channels that are able to operate at data rates up to a first, relatively low maximum data rate, and other channels that are able to operate at data rates up to a second, relatively high maximum data... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070237189 - Method and apparatus for ont ranging with improved noise immunity: A method and corresponding apparatus for ranging an Optical Network Terminal (ONT) in a Passive Optical Network (PON) is provided. An example method may include: (i) transmitting a ranging request from an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) to an ONT in connection with a transport layer ranging window; (ii) monitoring for... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070237188 - Method and apparatus for ont ranging with improved noise immunity: A method and corresponding apparatus for ranging an Optical Network Terminal (ONT) in a Passive Optical Network (PON) is provided. An example method may include: (i) transmitting a ranging request from an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) to an ONT in connection with a transport layer ranging window; (ii) monitoring for... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070230325 - Method and system for training sequences: Methods and systems for training sequences are provided. In one embodiment, a bi-directional communication system comprises: a multipoint-to-point host unit; and a plurality of remote units communicatively coupled to the multipoint-to-point host unit through an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing waveform. The multipoint-to-point host unit is configured to receive the orthogonal... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070230324 - Methods and apparatus for multi-carrier communication systems with adaptive transmission and feedback: An arrangement is disclosed where in a multi-carrier communication system (FIG. 1), the modulation scheme (FIG. 5, 504), coding attributes (FIG. 5, 502), training pilots (FIG. 5, 506), and signal power (FIG. 508) may be adjusted to adapt to channel conditions in order to maximize the overall system capacity and... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070230326 - Method constructing a downlink frame for a communication system: A method constructing a downlink frame for a communication system using a plurality of coding schemes and a quality metric. The method includes: (a) In no particular order: (1) establishing stripes along a first axis; (2) establishing slots within each stripe; and (3) assigning each flow to a group according... Agent: Law Office Of Donald D. Mondul C/o Portfolioip

20070230327 - Transmitting apparatus and method in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system: A transmitting apparatus and method in an OFDM system are provided. In the transmitting apparatus, a channel information receiver receives channel information. A rate allocator calculates a variable data rate. A scheduler allocates channel resources according to the channel information and the variable data rate.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070230329 - Ofdm reception apparatus and ofdm reception method: A time from the start of a reception operation to the output of video, audio or the like is shortened. An OFDM reception apparatus is provided for receiving an OFDM signal composed of a plurality of carriers, comprising a fast Fourier transform section for converting a received time-domain OFDM signal... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070230328 - Radio communication apparatus and radio communication unit: The radio communication apparatus includes: one or more radio units each with one or more antennas; a plurality of baseband processing units which perform baseband signal processing of signals, transceived by said radio units, in a frequency domain; and a connection interface which interfaces between said radio unit and any... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070230330 - System and method for redundant switched communications: Apparatus, systems, and methods are provided for redundant switched communications among end users in a network. The apparatus includes an interface for coupling to a corresponding end user, a first channel for processing a communication from the end user, a second channel for processing the communication, and a multiplexer coupled... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070230332 - Apparatus, network configuration method for the apparatus, and computer-readable control program for causing a computer to execute the method: An apparatus capable of performing, without the apparatus being isolated from a network, automatic switching to a previous network interface if there is an error in setting set values for a different network interface to which the previous network interface has been switched. When set values for a first network... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070230333 - Information processing apparatus: A network system includes a service providing apparatus; first and second backup apparatuses, each of which is configured to back up at least a part of a function of the service providing apparatus, and is connected with the service providing apparatus through a WAN; and a terminal connected with the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070230331 - Power line communication network and method: A power line communication (PLC) network and method, in which a coordinator can be changed. The PLC network includes a coordinator and a standby coordinator. The coordinator performs scheduling coordination in a PLC cell and periodically transmits scheduling information about the scheduling coordination to stations in the PLC cell. The... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070230334 - Master communication circuit, slave communication circuit, and data communicating method: A master communication circuit communicatively connected to a slave communication circuit, comprises a timer circuit that can detect a first time; a first output circuit that outputs a first output signal of one logical level for starting a detecting operation of the first time in the timer circuit, when a... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070230338 - Method and system for channel access control for transmission of video information over wireless channels: A method and system for channel access control for transmission of uncompressed video information over wireless channels. A contention-free period (CFP) for high-rate and low-rate channels is divided into schedules in which one or multiple periodical channel time blocks are reserved for wireless transmission of isochronous streams.... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070230339 - Network system capable of dynamically controlling data flow and its method: m

20070230336 - Reconfigurable circuit: A reconfigurable circuit includes a network circuit for controlling connections between the output terminal and the input terminal of an arithmetic unit group, and a first selector connected between the arithmetic unit group and the network circuit. When a first control signal is in a first state, the first selector... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070230337 - Communication terminal and retransmission control method: A retransmission control method of the present invention includes the steps in which a receiving terminal: measures a round trip time (RTT) between the receiving terminal and a sending terminal; calculates an RTO by using the measured RTT; and starts a time counting operation of the RTO upon reception from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070230335 - Measurement-based admission control for wireless packet data services: A call admission control technique is described which is well-suited for wireless systems providing real-time services over a shared downlink. The call admission control technique considers both multiplexing and multi-user diversity gain. The technique accurately determines the multi-user diversity gain by measuring per-user resource allocation and advantageously maximizes user accommodations... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC (necl)

20070230340 - System and method for measurement-based adaptive caching of virtual connections: Virtual circuits are dynamically established in a telecommunications network. A cache duration is adaptively determined based on at least one characteristic of the telecommunications network. A virtual circuit is established for a connection between a source and a destination. The virtual circuit is cached when the connection between the source... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070230341 - Method and apparatus for improved multicast streaming in wireless networks: The invention includes a method and apparatus for providing multimedia content. The method includes receiving, at a network element having a first buffer, a data stream conveying a media clip having an associated media bit rate, the media clip intended for transmission toward a wireless terminal having a second buffer,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070230342 - Methods and devices for supplying quality of service parameters in http messages: The present invention relates to changing of Quality of Service parameters to adapt a transmission to varying transmission capacity demands. According to the method of the present invention a message from a second network node 320 is received by a first network node 310 as a response of the content... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070230349 - Adjustment of the number of burst frames transmitted over wireless network: The invention relates to a system and a method for adjusting the number of burst frame transmitted through a channel from a transmitting device to a receiving device, wherein the number of burst frame is predetermined. A parameter associated with the frames received is first calculated, and then compared with... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20070230347 - Communication interface device and communication method: A node computer includes a communication I/F unit that performs the synchronization process of the packet related to the synchronization process that is conventionally performed by a processor. An interrupt generated every time a packet including the message related to the synchronization process is received can be reduced to one... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070230348 - Method for protecting digital subscriber line access multiplexer, dslam and xdsl single service board: A method for protecting a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) includes: capturing specific protocol packets at an XDSL port by hardware of an XDSL single service board; and sending the captured specific protocol packets to a CPU of the XDSL single service board; determining whether the traffic amount of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070230343 - System and method for translating messages: A system for translating messages includes a local exchange (20), a terminal (30), and an access node (10) connecting the local exchange and the terminal. The access node includes a translation system (100) connectable to the local exchange, and a terminal management module (120) connectable to the terminal and the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070230350 - Method and apparatus for allocating and identifying frequency resources in a frequency division multiple access system: A method is provided for allocating and identifying frequency resources to a terminal in a Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) system. The method includes receiving from a base station a scheduling message including frequency resource information; and calculating the allocated frequency resource based on relative information if the scheduling message... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070230344 - Method for changing ethernet mtu size on demand with no data loss: A method and system for substantially avoiding loss of data and enabling continuing connection to the application during an MTU size changing operation in an active network computing device. Logic is added to the device driver, which logic provides several enhancements to the MTU size changing operation/process. Among these enhancements... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070230346 - Service quality management device and service quality management method: A service quality management device, preventing deterioration of a quality of a communication service provided on a network while effectively utilizing network resources by managing the quality of the communication, comprises an information acquiring unit acquiring service information containing information about each of sessions for the communication service and the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070230345 - Systems and methods for capturing multimedia communication signals: Systems and methods for capturing communication signals are provided. An exemplary method comprises the steps of: receiving communication signals of various types; determining whether to record the received communication signals; responsive to determining that the received communication signals are to be recorded, determining types of communication signals associated with the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070230351 - Method, system and apparatus for providing modulaion and coding mode used by multicast service macro diversity: The invention discloses a method, a system and apparatus for providing modulation and coding mode used by multicast service macro diversity. In this method, a message containing relevant information of modulation and coding mode(s) used by an MBS zone is sent in the MBS zone at first; the MS receives... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070230352 - Multipath routing architecture for large data transfers: A multipath routing architecture for large data transfers is disclosed. The architecture employs an overlay network that provides diverse paths for packets from communicating end hosts to utilize as much capacity as available across multiple paths while ensuring network-wide fair allocation of resources across competing data transfers. A set of... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20070230354 - Communication apparatus, communication method and memory medium: The invention provides a communication apparatus with plural communication functions, which, in case of importing plural address information, judges whether the communication function corresponding to each address information is effective or not and selectively importing only the address information of which the corresponding communication function is effective.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070230353 - Method and apparatus for cost-effective design of large-scale sensor networks: Arrangements and methods for developing a software toolkit that can be used to design or obtain parameters for a sensor network. High-level guidelines on the basic relations between sensor network parameters like number of sensors, degree of quantization at each sensor, and the distortion requirements, based on a deep analysis... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20070230356 - Method and apparatus for enabling flo device certification: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate certifying Forward Link Only (FLO) mobile devices. According to various aspects, systems and/or methods are described that facilitate simulating a FLO network to enable device qualification, certification, testing, measuring, etc. Such systems and/or methods may employ a captured asynchronous serial interface (ASI) stream... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070230355 - Test apparatus and test method: A test apparatus for testing a device under test including a receiving circuit for receiving signals transmitted through a communication cable is provided. The test apparatus includes: an waveform generating section for outputting waveform data to define an waveform to be provided to an input terminal of a receiving circuit;... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070230357 - Loop detection in a communications network: A first node includes ports and a controller to receive a test packet at a first one of the ports. The first node determines whether the received test packet has a destination address that matches one or more predefined addresses associated with a second node. Presence of a loop in... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070230358 - Facilitating application synchronization with a reservation protocol at a sender without application receiver participation: A technique that facilitates application synchronization with a reservation protocol at a sender without application receiver participation in a computer network. According to the novel technique, the sender sends a path request message to a reservation receiver and may include a request for fast path failure notification to be returned... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070230359 - Path alarm processing method and device: A path alarm processing method and device perform an alarm mask designation for an ADMIN_STATUS object of a GMPLS path message used upon path setup, and an alarm mask release designation for unused bits of a Sub-TLV object additionally generated. When an alarm generation and its recovery are recognized during... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070230360 - Loop locating apparatus and loop locating method in layer 3 network: A loop locating apparatus and method enabling simple and fast identification of a Layer 3 loop fault occurring in a network, wherein, when the possibility of a Layer 3 loop is detected, a loop locating command function unit makes a packet transmission/reception function unit send a series of inspection packets... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070230361 - Sniffing-based network monitoring: A method is provided of monitoring a packet-switched network via which real-time data is transmitted. Data packets containing real-time data are sniffed by a monitor subagent to monitor a quality-of-service parameter. A monitor agent is notified in response to a breach of the threshold of the quality-of-service parameter about the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070230365 - Server apparatus: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory which stores a management table in which the user IDs are associated with communication bands and treatable data sizes in the communication network with one another, a comparator which refers to the management table in occurring communication requests, and compares... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070230364 - Signal degrade detecting method, signal restoration detecting method, devices for those methods, and traffic transmission system: A method of detecting a signal degrade of transmission data, a method of detecting a restoration from a signal degrade, and a signal restoration detecting device are provided. The method of detecting a signal degrade includes measuring a discarded data rate of traffic; and comparing said discarded data rate with... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070230362 - Generating a path inventory for a communication network: Generating a path inventory for a communication network includes sending a path message through a sequence of nodes of the communication network. The sequence of nodes comprises an initiating node, a set of intermediate nodes, and a terminating node. The path message is sent from the initiating node, through the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070230363 - Methods and devices for computing paths to assure the inter-domain transport of qos sensitive information: Information can be transported over domains operated by different service providers at required Quality-of-Service (QoS) levels without disclosing inter- and/or intra-domain information to ensure that the topology of a given service provider's domain (e.g., network) is not disclosed.... Agent: Capitol Patent & Trademark Law Firm, PLLC Attn: John Curtin

20070230366 - Bridge device, method of controlling bridge device, and control program: The bridge device is connected to a layer-2 network. The Query message distribution unit discriminates, distributes, and outputs the normal Query messages and abnormal Query messages among the received Query messages. The abnormal message processing unit counts the number of received abnormal Query messages, and the normal message processing unit... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070230367 - Method and system for determining the topology of a network: The present invention relates to a method for determining the topology of a network. The method, including the step of a generic agent 2 communicating with a plurality of network devices 3, using a network management protocol, in order to extract data about the network; wherein the generic agent 2... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070230368 - Method and node for discovering topology structure in multiprotocol label switching ring network: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a node for discovering topology structure automatically in a Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) ring network. The method includes: when receiving a topology discovering message, determining, by a node in the MPLS ring network, whether the topology discovering message is sent... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070230370 - Method for implementing multicast in rapid spanning tree protocol ring network: The present invention discloses a method for implementing multicast in RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol) ring network. In the method, the port mode of a program is con figured to a fixed port mode, a root port binding mode or an upper layer querier port following mode; a multicast module... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070230369 - Route selection in a network: An input port of a switch in a network receives a discover packet specifying an address of an endpoint in the network, selects one of a spanning-tree-protocol (STP) route or an alternate route from the switch to the endpoint, and forwards the discover packet to an output port of the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070230371 - Data communications over voice channel with mobile consumer communications devices: Mobile consumer communications devices can communicate their program application data over the voice channel of a wireless communications network. Structured by a protocol suitable for the voice channel, the data are encoded into tones which are transmitted over the voice channel. A server receives the tones over the voice channel,... Agent: Aka Chan LLP

20070230372 - Peer-aware ranking of voice streams: A peer-aware voice stream ranking method that makes decisions based on information about participants of a voice conference over a network. Whether to send a participant's own audio packet out on the network is based both on information about the participant's own voice packet and voice packets that the participant... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070230373 - Efficient training schemes for mimo based wireless networks: Schemes are disclosed for efficiently training MIMO channels in wireless networks. In at least one embodiment, multiple STAs in a network may share a single channel sounding packet to develop corresponding beamforming matrices or CSI.... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Portfolioip

20070230374 - Methods and apparatuses to track information via telephonic apparatuses: Methods and systems to facilitate real time communications via a telephonic apparatuses that support data communications. In one embodiment, a telephonic apparatus includes: a network interface to submit a query through a data communication network and to receive a listing with embedded information about the query; and a call module... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070230375 - Method and system for controlling power in a communication system: A method is provided for controlling power in a communication system. The power control method includes allocating a first data transmission region and a second data transmission region corresponding to a first communication scheme and second communication scheme; providing a communication service to a receiver through the first data transmission... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070230377 - Communication apparatus for enabling coexistence of communication systems: Provided is a communication apparatus which prevents, when two or more communication systems share a single communication medium in a time-division manner, an occurrence of situation where only a particular communication system suffers an influence of noise synchronizing with an AC power supply cycle or a half cycle thereof. When... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070230376 - Method of allocating resources using hybrid duplexing technique: A resource allocation method in a wireless communication system for providing a communication service in a given system frequency band to access terminals (ATs) within a broad-band service area around an access point (AP) and to ATs within a narrow-band service area having a radius larger than the radius of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070230382 - Method and system for decoding data streams in a mimo system: A method for decoding a plurality of data streams from a combined data stream in a Multiple Input/Multiple Output (MIMO) system is provided. The method includes selecting a decoding order for the data streams based on a decoding prediction metric for each of the data streams and decoding the data... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070230379 - Adaptive associated control channel messaging: An optional short SACCH is used when the network detects high error rate in the normal SACCH channel. The communication returns to normal mode when the network detects that the link quality has improved. In the short SACCH message only the most relevant information fields are sent. The extra bits... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070230383 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system. The wireless communication system includes a transmitter with at least four transmit antennas and a receiver with at least one receive antenna. Space Frequency Block Coding (SFBC) processes are performed for input signals on a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070230384 - Method for controlling retransmission of information using state variables in radio communication system: A method for re-transmitting data or control information in a radio link control layer relates to determining whether re-transmission will be ended by comparing a number of transmission with a critical value when the transmission of data or control information has successively failed. The retransmission cycle is comprised of the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070230381 - Multimode communication apparatus: A multimode communication apparatus capable of varying a function of a signal processing portion without external resource control is provided. The multimode communication apparatus includes a radio portion 103 for conducting a radio communication, a plurality of signal processing devices 105, 106 whose function can be varied by resource control,... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070230380 - System and method for selecting a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint transmission mode: A system and method in a wireless telecommunication system such as a Universal Mobile Telephone System, UMTS, for selecting whether to utilize either a point-to-multipoint, PTM, or a point-to-point, PTP, connection to send media content to User Equipments, UEs, (11) present in a cell in the wireless telecommunication system. A... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070230378 - Traffic prediction in wireless communication networks: A method in a first station comprises monitoring a network allocation vector in a wireless network; using the network allocation vector to predict an access pattern, e.g., periodic access for a given duration, by a second station in the wireless network; and performing a response based on the predicted access... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070230385 - Location-based communication control system: A communication system for limiting communication between communication terminals based, at least in part, upon a separation between communication terminals is disclosed. A first communication channel is coupled with a first communication terminal, where the first communication terminal includes a transmitter. A second communication channel coupled with a second communication... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070230387 - Apparatus and method for receiving data in a mobile broadcasting terminal: An apparatus for receiving and processing a broadcast signal in a mobile broadcasting terminal is provided. A preprocessor receives a broadcast signal, converts the broadcast signal into a baseband signal, and then performs OFDM demodulation, Viterbi decoding, and convolutional deinterleaving thereon. A first Reed-Solomon (RS) decoder RS-decodes the signal output... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070230386 - Power saving function for wireless lans: methods, system and program products: A wireless data communication system has a first station or mobile unit is linked to a second station configured as an access unit to support packet communication, voice or data, where the voice packets are transmitted in the Continuously Aware Mode (CAM) mode while other packets are buffered by the... Agent: Scott F. Diring Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20070230388 - Methods and apparatus for multi-carrier, multi-cell wireless communication networks: A multi-carrier cellular wireless network (400) employs base stations (404) that transmit two different groups of pilot subcarriers: (1) cell-specific pilot subcarriers, which are used by a receiver to extract information unique to each individual cell (402), and (2) common pilots subcarriers, which are designed to possess a set of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070230389 - Apparatus & method for enhanced quality of service in a wireless communications network: A wireless LAN having a plurality of wireless phones with enhanced medium access control which enables QoS functionality and being further modified to provide priority transmission of frames of information are associated with one or more access points that have also been enhanced with QoS functionality. The wireless phones are... Agent: Robert C. Schuler

20070230390 - Wireless communication apparatus: The number of wasteful attempts at wireless data transmission to any wireless terminal with which communication is impossible is to be reduced. The wireless terminal constantly monitors the state of communication between wireless terminals and, when any change in the state of communication is found, one set or plural sets... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070230391 - Device and method for exchanging information over terrestrial and satellite links: A method includes: defining groups of devices within an area covered by a satellite beam to multiple groups, in response to a propagation delay associated with transmissions between a base station and different devices; and defining a transmission frame that includes an uplink frame that is followed by a downlink... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070230392 - Minimization of in-band noise in a wlan network: A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for minimizing in-band noise in a WLAN network is presented. The method includes the steps of detecting, at a first wireless client device that communicates with a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) via a first access point, a signal interference that is caused by... Agent: Dillion & Yudell LLP

20070230394 - Method and apparatus for maintaining uplink synchronization and reducing battery power consumption: A Node-B sends a polling message to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The WTRU sends an uplink synchronization burst in response to the polling message without contention. The Node-B estimates an uplink timing shift based on the synchronization burst and sends an uplink timing adjustment command to the WTRU. The... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070230393 - Wake on wireless network techniques: Wake on wireless network techniques are described. An apparatus may include a wireless transceiver, a processor coupled to said transceiver, and a connection management module for execution by the processor. The connection management module may establish a connection with a client device, receive a sleep preparation message with at least... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070230397 - Base station, radio terminal and radio communication method: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided with a base station which communicates with radio terminals through time frames for transmission by using a plurality of frequency channels, including: a reception section configured to receive communication quality information indicating communication quality of one or more frequency... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070230398 - Method and apparatus for handling uplink transmission start in a wireless communications system: A method for handling uplink transmission start used in a mobile of a wireless communications system includes when an uplink transmission is started, if a predefined information element (IE) is not received, setting a primary state variable to “none” to indicate that a Serving Grant (SG) value can be affected... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070230396 - Wireless base station and wireless terminal: A wireless base station receiving packet signals at every timeslot from a plurality of wireless terminals, has a calculating unit calculating, from one packet signal, a parameter used for a process of demodulating the packet signal, a storage unit stored with the parameter, and an averaging processing unit calculating, when... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070230395 - Method and apparatus for improved multicast streaming in wireless networks: The invention includes a method and apparatus for scheduling packet transmissions on a data channel from a base transceiver station to a plurality of wireless terminals. The method includes, in response to detecting an available timeslot, computing utilization evaluation values for the respective media sub-streams using data rate feedback information... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070230402 - Packet switched radio telecommunication system supporting hard handover and method for hard handover: A packet switched radio telecommunication system supporting hard handover adapts Always_on technology to a link between a target packet data serving node (PDSN) and a support PDSN. The support PDSN assigns a temporary IP address to a mobile terminal in its service area, and transmits handover data and the mobile... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20070230401 - Device, system and method of layer 2 handover between hetreogenous networks: Embodiments of the present invention provide devices, systems and methods of seamless layer 2 handover between heterogeneous networks for a hybrid wireless communication device. For example, an apparatus includes a first wireless transceiver able to operate in accordance with a first wireless communication protocol, a second, collocated, wireless transceiver able... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070230400 - Method for data transfer with a mobile station while in discontinuous reception state: A method for sleep mode during an impending handover is disclosed. The method comprises receiving (104) from a network a handover threshold value. Then once in sleep mode, monitoring (128) a channel condition of a handover candidate cell and determining that the handover threshold value of the handover candidate cell... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070230399 - Predicting movement of a mobile node from a current access location to next access locations: Facilitating mobile node mobility includes facilitating at a current access location a communication session for a mobile node. Context information for the communication session is managed, where the context information comprises information for supporting the communication session. A predictive set comprising one or more predicted next access locations is established... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070230403 - Start of packet detection for multiple receiver combining and multiple input multiple output radio receivers: A method and an apparatus for detecting the start-of-packet in a wireless receiver operating in a packetized wireless network. One method embodiment includes calculating a plurality of start of packet (SOP) indicators, each for one or more of a plurality of receive chains in the receiver; determining one or more... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070230406 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving packet data in a mobile communication system: A packet data transmitting/receiving method in a mobile communication system. The transmission method includes determining whether to transmit a plurality of packet data in one slot; and transmitting a Primary Control Preamble (PCP) having a specific preamble pattern, a coded control channel, and packet data, if it is determined to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070230404 - Method of controlling power in a cdma-2000 system: The present invention is directed to a method of controlling power in a CDMA-2000 system. In a conventional CDMA-2000 system, a reverse-link power control algorithm has been employed, which is optimized only for voice communication. The purpose of the reverse-link power control for voice communication is to maintain the error... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070230405 - System and method for allocating subchannels among mobile stations in a wireless access network: Embodiments of base station and method for allocating subchannels of a time-slot in a wireless access network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, the assignment of subchannels may be based on subchannel quality and average throughput for mobile stations currently associated with... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070230407 - Dynamic, adaptive power control for a half-duplex wireless communication system: The power of a signal transmitted from a mobile terminal of a half-duplex TDMA communication system to a base station is controlled by collecting data relating to bit errors in the transmitted signal received on an inbound channel, generating a time-varying statistic of the data. If the time varying statistic... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070230425 - Method of sending data: A method of sending data from a source node in a wireless communications network is provided. In an example, the method includes selecting one of a plurality of available routing paths, from the source node to a destination node, on which to send data based on routing criteria specified by... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070230422 - Terminal position managing server, access point, and call control server: Access points are grouped into access point groups. An access point group table that stores correlation between the access point groups and the access points and a terminal position table that manages the correlation between the access point groups and a terminal are provided for a position managing server that... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070230424 - Wireless local area network receiver and associated method: A wireless local area network (WLAN) includes a server and receiver, which includes a radio frequency (RF) front-end circuit that receives wireless signals from the mobile nodes within the WLAN and detects baseband signals. A signal waveform detector edge detects a signal waveform and generates a trigger signal indicative of... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070230421 - Ad hoc network: A method of operating an ad hoc network comprising a plurality of devices (11-16). Each device includes communication means for communicating with other ones of the plurality of devices when they are in range. The method involves storing on each device one or more nodal policies (1-6) which specify rules... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070230417 - Gateway: A gateway includes a local area network (LAN) port, a mobile communication interface and a controlling module. The gateway uses the LAN port to communicate with a LAN outside the gateway, and uses the mobile communication interface connecting to an mobile communication apparatus to communicate with a telecommunication network outside... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell Suite 1404

20070230413 - Method for measuring airlink transmission latency in a 1x-evdo wireless network: In a method for determining transmission latency in a wireless network, data packets addressed to a wireless unit are received at a radio network controller (RNC) and forwarded to a base station in communication with the wireless unit for transmission over the forward link. The RNC keeps track of when... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070230414 - Method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for asymmetric frequency division duplexing operation: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for performing asymmetric frequency division duplexing (FDD) are provided. The method includes allocating a first bandwidth for an uplink portion of an FDD data transmission; and allocating a second bandwidth for a downlink portion of the FDD data transmission; wherein the first bandwidth and... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20070230415 - Methods and apparatus for cluster management using a common configuration file: Wireless switches in a cluster are managed by providing a configuration server for storing common configuration files and a DHCP server for storing cluster-specific configuration files corresponding to each cluster. A method for configuring the wireless switches then includes requesting, from the DHCP server, an IP address for the wireless... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070230419 - Qos signaling to support fairness: A radio network controller allocates a share of network resources to an access terminal that may be used by more than one user. The share is based on a parameter received from the access terminal and that identifies a number of users using the access terminal.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070230410 - Route optimization for a mobile ip network node in a mobile ad hoc network: A clusterhead of a tree-based, mobile ad hoc network includes a mobile IP proxy resource for registering a received binding update request from a mobile ad hoc router within the network, creating a first mobile IP tunnel with the mobile ad hoc router, sending a second binding update request to... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20070230412 - Scheduling in wireless communication systems: A wireless communication infrastructure entity assigns a plurality of schedulable wireless communication entities to a group wherein each entity is assigned a location within the group. The infrastructure entity indicates which of the plurality of schedulable wireless communication entities assigned to the group have been assigned a radio resource, for... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070230420 - System and method for facilitating determination of mode and configuration of a wireless user equipment (ue) device: A system and method for facilitating determination of mode and configuration of a wireless user equipment (UE) device operable with a plurality of radio access technologies (RATs) in a radio network environment. In one exemplary embodiment, the wireless UE device is operable to determine its geographic area location. A logic... Agent: Danamraj & Youst, P.C.

20070230411 - System and method for providing differentiated service levels to wireless devices in a wireless network: Described is a system and method for providing differentiated service levels to wireless devices in a wireless network. The method comprises receiving, on a first network arrangement connected to a network, an authentication request from a wireless device. The network uses a first access protocol having a plurality of access... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070230418 - Triggering rule for energy efficient data delivery: A new and unique method or apparatus for implementing an unscheduled automatic power save delivery (U-APSD) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) terminal, comprising maintaining a timer for defining a triggering interval between sending of subsequent trigger frames to a WLAN access point, wherein the value of the timer... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070230409 - Versatile system for wlan/cdma2000 interworking: A system for providing architecture and signaling, by which a mobile communications device—active within a WLAN environment—may be effectively and efficiently interfaced with a CDMA2000 network to provide cooperative and concurrent VoIP and over-the-air (OTA) communications, is disclosed. A wireless communications system comprises a mobile station, operating in a wireless... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070230416 - Voice frame communication in wireless communication system: A wireless communication system where voice frames are transmitted in sub-frames, wherein multiple sub-frames constitute a single radio frame, at least one of the sub-frames not having a negative acknowledgement associated therewith, including at a radio access network (120), decoding a voice frame in sub-frame of a received radio frame,... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070230408 - Wireless communication device and method for communicating voice over a wireless network using bidirectional multiple receiver aggregation: Embodiments of a wireless communication device and a method for the communication of voice or video within a wireless network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, aggregated traffic is transmitted to multiple mobile stations as part of a multiple destination burst, and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070230423 - Wireless communication system: A wireless communication system, a wireless terminal and a wireless communication method which can realize a high throughput even when communication is performed between plural terminal pairs are provided. A wireless communication system according to the present invention includes a wireless LAN base station and plural terminals which mutually communicate... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070230426 - Wireless local area networks: A wireless local area network is provided with simplified RF ports which are configured to provide lower level media access control functions. Higher level media access control functions are provided in a cell controller, which may service one or more RF ports that are capable operating with at least two... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070230427 - Smart ethernet mesh edge device: A system is provided for making connections in a telecommunications system that includes a network for transporting communications between selected subscriber connections, and a wireless network for coupling connections to the network. The network and wireless network are interfaced with a traffic management element and at least one radio controller... Agent: Stephen G. Rudisill Jenkens & Gilchrist

20070230428 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus that enhances throughput even in a multi-cell environment without limiting a frequency band which can be used in each cell. A classification section divides terminals in a cell into classes. A channel information receiving section receives channel information according to a plurality of frequency bands from each... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070230430 - Apparatus and method for transmitting reverse packet data in mobile communication system: In an apparatus for controlling reply signal transmission in a reply signal transmitter that generates and transmits a reply signal according to an error check in packet data received through a radio channel in a mobile communication system, an error detection part generates a reply signal corresponding to the error... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070230429 - On-board cdma communication networkforecast: The present invention relates to a CDMA communication network on board a carrier, the network connecting a plurality of equipment on board the carrier and grouped into domains, each piece of equipment comprising at least one partition, the partitions being able to intercommunicate via digital message exchanges conveyed on at... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20070230431 - Methods and apparatus for backwards compatible communication in a multiple antenna communication system using fmd-based preamble structures: A method and apparatus are disclosed for transmitting symbols in a multiple antenna communication system according to a frame structure, such that the symbols can be interpreted by a lower order receiver (i.e., a receiver having a fewer number of antennas than the transmitter). The disclosed frame structure comprises a... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070230432 - Portable internet terminal, method for providing position information of portable internet terminal and repeater using the method: A repeater including a downlink signal processor, which receives a downlink frame from a radio access station (RAS) and transmits the downlink frame to a portable Internet terminal, and an uplink signal processor, which receives an uplink frame from the portable Internet-terminal and transmits the uplink frame to the RAS,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070230433 - Wireless terminal and wireless communication method: A wireless terminal and wireless communication method that can improve data transfer efficiency and reduce traffic. A frame transmitter of a wireless terminal transmits a frame by wireless. A wireless terminal receives the frame transmitted from the frame transmitter and transmits the received frame by wireless to a wireless terminal.... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070230434 - Distributed synchronization method and system: A distributed synchronization method in a communication network comprising a number of stations exchanging messages between themselves comprising at least the following steps: inserting into each message transmitted by a sender a synchronization pattern characteristic of the clock reference of the sender, updating the clock reference of each station with... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20070230435 - Packet relaying apparatus: A packet relaying apparatus which relays packets with a guaranteed bandwidth between terminals is comprised of a session control information analyzing section which identifies a required bandwidth required for a session to be established between the terminals by analyzing session control information contained in packets of control session protocols between... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070230436 - Atm telecommunications systems and method for routing narrow band traffic: A telecommunications system comprises an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network having uncommitted bandwidth, and a plurality of adaptive grooming routers (AGR) coupled to the network. The AGRs comprise a group adapted to function as a virtual transit exchange whose fabric and control are distributed over the group. The visual comprising... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070230448 - Method and media gateway for realizing packet-packet model session: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a media gateway for realizing a packet-packet model session. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the media gateway determines whether the session meets the TrFO protocol. In the case that the session doesn't meet the TrFO protocol, the media... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070230444 - Systems and methods for endpoint recording using gateways: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for recording media communications an exemplary method is comprised of the following steps: receiving instructions at a gateway to record an incoming call; receiving the incoming call from a calling communication device; determining whether to record the incoming call based on... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070230446 - Systems and methods for endpoint recording using recorders: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for recording media communications. An exemplary method is comprised of the following steps: configuring an endpoint recording device for relaying an incoming call to an endpoint component; receiving the incoming call from a communication system; determining whether to relay the incoming... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070230449 - Telephone system and telephone terminal apparatus: According to one embodiment, a telephone system includes a first telephone terminal and a second telephone terminal, wherein the first telephone terminal includes an acquisition unit to selectively acquire arbitrary music data from among a plurality of different music data, a request transmitter which transmits a reception request for the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070230447 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for a cordless voice over ip phone: An apparatus, system, method and computer program product for cordless radio frequency and voice over Internet protocol protocol includes a cordless component and a VOIP component. The cordless component is operable to communicate with one or more wireless handsets over a cordless radio frequency connection. The VOIP component is operable... Agent: Venable LLP

20070230440 - Geographical restriction of services in a packet data telecommunications network: A method and a Packet Data Service Node (PDSN) of restricting geographical use of a service for a mobile terminal (MT) in a packet data telecommunications network. The PDSN receives from an access node (AN), a registration request message having a cell information for requesting. The PDSN translates the cell... Agent: Alex Nicolaescu Ericsson Canada Inc.

20070230445 - 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

20070230437 - Load control method in a packet data network: A method is provided for controlling the load in a packet data network at an interface between the packet data network and a connection-oriented telecommunications network that is connected to the data network, according to which a traffic volume of data of one type, which is routed through the packet... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070230438 - Method and system for providing credit for participation in an ad hoc network: A method and system for providing credit for participation in an ad hoc wireless communication network is useful for improving network efficiency. The method includes receiving at a first network node a first data packet transmitted from a second network node (step 305). The first data packet includes payload data... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070230442 - Switchable voice source network interface device module: A system and method for switching between voice signals. The system includes a network interface device and a digital logic device. The network interface device may include a splitter and a switch. The splitter includes a network input configured to receive a combined voice and digital signal. The splitter generates... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070230441 - System and method for optimizing throughput in a wireless network: Described is a device and method for receiving a data packet, the data packet addressed to a plurality of mobile units and determining an operating mode of each of the plurality of mobile units, each of the plurality of mobile units having a first operating mode and a second operating... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070230443 - Voip packet prioritization: A method and system for prioritizing data packets relating to a conversation over a VoIP communication channel is provided. An individual client or a service provider may specify priority information corresponding to incoming conversations. When several calling clients send data packets to one called client, the predefine priority information of... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070230439 - Voip variable metadata: A method and system for communicating a variable set of contextual information relating to a conversation over a communication channel is provided. When the contextual information is exchanged, any authorized sending party of the contextual information can change the scope, content, or amount of the contextual information that is transmitted... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070230451 - Communication link for rotating turret: Communication system for a rotating turret having a plurality of electronic components, comprises: a first aggregated communication link connecting between the turret and external electronics, and a first internal communication switch located within the turret for connecting each of the plurality of electronic devices to a channel of the aggregated... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070230450 - Signal switching device: A signal switching device including a plurality of transmission paths connected to an input path, the signal switching device outputting a signal from the input path through one of the transmission paths, including a first variable impedance unit connected to a first transmission path, the first variable impedance unit including... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070230452 - Intelligent patching system and method: A telecommunications network manager includes a network scanner, a scanner interface unit, and intelligence activation units. The intelligence activation units are used with cable connection modules including insulation displacement contacts for connecting to cables. The intelligence activation units provide visual signals to a technician about which cable connection modules should... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070230462 - Audio network system: An audio network system allows any two nodes among a plurality of nodes to transmit and receive audio data to and from each other. The plurality of the nodes are connected in loop so as to allow transmission of the audio data in loop manner through the plurality of the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070230457 - Authentication vlan management apparatus: An authentication VLAN management apparatus acquires from the standard LAN switch a MAC address or an IP address of a terminal connected to a standard LAN switch, and authenticates the terminal based on the acquired MAC address or IP address. Based on the above authentication result, the authentication VLAN management... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070230463 - Monitoring technique of a device connected to a network: The invention provides a technique improving the reliability of acquisition of management information from a network device. A monitoring apparatus has a network device identifier extraction unit configured to extract a network device identifier to identify a network device in the network from communication data sent over the network by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070230455 - Network device and method for mirroring packets: A network device for forwarding packets includes a plurality of interfaces including at least a source interface and a destination interface and a bridge module. The bridge module includes a receiving sub-module, a parsing sub-module, and a sending sub-module. The receiving sub-module receives a packet via the source interface. The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070230458 - Communication network, communication apparatus, communication control method and communication control program: [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A temporary bundled link forming device (13) associates data links having the same port attributes within own communication apparatus with the identical temporary bundle link ID. A data link neighbor discovery device (11) obtains the neighboring node IDs of the data links. A bundled link forming... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070230456 - Digital broadcasting system and data processing method thereof: A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method thereof are provided. An apparatus for generating a transport stream includes a packet generator for generating a plurality of packets by compressing video and audio signals; a counter for counting the number of the generated packets and outputting the count result;... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070230453 - Method and system for the secure and transparent provision of mobile ip services in an aaa environment: A system for negotiating the provision of a mobile IP service, such as, MIPv4 or MIPv6, between a mobile node and a server in a network includes the steps of providing an authentication protocol establishing a pass-through transport between the mobile node and the server and negotiating the provision of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070230461 - Method and system for video data packetization for transmission over wireless channels: A method and system for transmitting video information from a sender to a receiver over wireless channels, by inputting a frame of video information at the sender, packetizing the video information and transmitting the video packet from the sender to the receiver over a wireless channel. Packetizing the video information... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070230454 - Method for aggregation of a number of media access control (mac) frames into a single phyical layer frame in a distributed mac layer: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for aggregating a plurality of media access control-layer frames into a single physical layer frame are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070230460 - Method of and apparatus for transmitting digital broadcasting signal in advanced-vsb (a-vsb) system in which transport packet without adaptation field is provided at fixed location in data field slices: A method of processing a digital broadcasting signal includes generating a transport stream including a plurality of transport packets; selecting one of the transport packets as a starting packet to be mapped into a first data segment of an encoded data frame; and constructing deterministic data frames in the transport... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070230459 - Routing method, system, corresponding network and computer program product: A system for controlling the routing of the traffic relating to a mobile node associated with a provider's network, the mobile node being capable of communicating with at least one correspondent node associated with an additional network. For the mobile node and the correspondent node, there is the possibility of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070230466 - Broadcast receiving apparatus and broadcast receiving method: According to one embodiment, there is provided a broadcast receiving apparatus including an IP communication section which acquires, via a network, standard time information, time correction information obtained by delaying a broadcast signal of a specific broadcast channel by IP retransmission, and stream information, a time management section which obtains... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070230465 - Tcp multicast system and method: A method, computer program product, system (including a circuit card), and integrated circuit for identifying a plurality of recipients to receive a single data payload. An identifier concerning each of the plurality of recipients is provided to an offload engine. The single data payload is provided to the offload engine.... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Intellevate

20070230464 - Data transmission path including a device for checking the data integrity: Described is a data transmission path including a device for checking the data integrity of data transmitted from the sender side to the receiver side of the data transmission path, in a motor vehicle in particular, having a first data modification device on the sender side and a second data... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070230473 - Communication device: A communication device 1 that communicates with other devices connected to a communication network includes an operation unit 12b, a memory 14, a determination unit 15a, and a display unit 12a. The operation unit 12b receives the input of an IP address from the exterior. The memory 14 stores a... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070230471 - Storage function method and apparatus in a passive optical network: A method and an apparatus for implementing a storage function in a passive optical network (PON) system. On the basis of a LINK ID held by the data, data requiring storage, e.g. data making exclusive use of a wide bandwidth such as audiovisual data and large-volume data packages, are determined... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070230470 - Virtual collapsed backbone network architecture: A system and method for implementing an overlay network architecture called a Virtual Collapsed Backbone (VCB) are described herein. In one embodiment, a VCB provides a framework for consolidating campus network service elements in a centralized fashion, instead of distributing them at the edges of the campus network. End stations... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070230474 - Local routing system and method: A communication network element determines a service provider's routing preference for routing communications and routes these communications from an originating connection address to a destination connection address over a network. The communication network element includes a receiver configured to receive a signal, which comprises the originating connection address and the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070230472 - Method and apparatus for learning vrrp backup routers: A method and apparatus for learning the identity of VRRP backup router(s) for a VRRP master router enables the identity of VRRP backup routers to be determined quickly on demand, or enables a table of VRRP master and backup routers to be established over time. A VRRP query message type... Agent: John C. Gorecki, Esq.

20070230467 - Method and system for packet-based tandem free operation: A method and system are provided for enabling packet-based tandem free operation C(FO). In one example, the method includes monitoring packets sent between network elements to identify a TFO request message and a TFO acknowledgement message. A substitute TFO acknowledgement message is sent from an intermediate network element if no... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20070230468 - Method to support mobile devices in a peer-to-peer network: A method for managing communications between or among nodes of a P2P network includes establishing a node ID, an IP address and a node type for each respective node to be joined or linked to the P2P network, the node type including at least a fixed node type or a... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070230469 - Transmission apparatus: A disclosed searching unit searches learning tables corresponding to ports other than a first port that receives a first packet using a source address and a destination address of the first packet whose source address and destination address are not registered in a first learning table corresponding to the first... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070230476 - Method for information transmission: A method for information transmission is disclosed, includes: at the sender of a radio communication system, processing the information that needs to be periodically sent and the information that need not be periodically sent, respectively, reassembling the information into data units, setting sequence numbers for the reassembled data units with... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070230475 - Switch-based network processor: A network processor comprises an input interface, an output interface, a switch coupled between the input and output interfaces, and a plurality of processing elements coupled to respective bidirectional ports of the switch. Such processing elements include, in an illustrative embodiment, a scheduler, a security engine, a classification engine, a... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070230477 - Method and system for managing computational resources: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to an efficient and flexible method and system for managing a pool of computational resources that can be allocated from a resource pool, used for varying periods of time, and eventually returned to the resource pool. Certain embodiments of the present invention... Agent: Olympic Patent Works PLLC

20070230478 - Systems and methods for endpoint recording using a media application server: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for recording media communication. An exemplary method comprises the steps of: receiving an incoming communication from a first communication device; routing the incoming communication to a second communication device in a call center; transmitting media communications associated with the incoming media... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070230479 - Method and apparatus for providing adaptive acknowledgement signaling in a communication system: An approach is provided for adaptive acknowledgement signaling. Data is received over a communication link. Condition of the communication link is determined. Determining treatment of acknowledgement signaling based on the determined link condition.... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20070230480 - Method and system for controlling quality of service of ip packet in passive optical network system: A method and system for controlling service of quality of an IP packet in a passive optical network system. An optical line terminal (OLT) in the passive optical network system having an optical distribution network (ODN) and at least one optical network unit (ONU), has a processing unit for determining... Agent: Reed Smith LLP Suite 1400

20070230481 - Passive optical network system for supporting virtual ethernet service and method for the same: A passive optical network (PON) system includes at least one optical line terminal (OLT), a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) connected to each OLT, and an OLT management server used to manage the OLT. The OLT management server creates a VLAN access control table in response to a user's... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070230482 - Method for on demand distributed hash table update: A method for managing communication in a peer-to-peer network in which overlay information is updated on-demand such that neighboring node information is updated at least periodically and other overlay information is updated on-demand (from standard communications). For example, in one aspect, the network includes a plurality of nodes, and the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070230486 - Communication and compliance monitoring system: A system monitors packet data communications passing a network hub or port mirror, for example running on a network server or an appliance or as a set of distributed processes. A processor effects a programmed network probe method as a passive listener or sniffer. Packet data is selectively processed based... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20070230483 - Hybrid ip/atm dslam and method of providing hybrid ip/atm dsl access multiplexing: A hybrid IP/ATM DSLAM and method are provided for hybrid IP/ATM DSL access multiplexing. While traversing a DSLAM, ATM traffic over ATM network infrastructure and GigE/IP traffic over GigE/IP network infrastructure may be recast into crossover GigE/IP traffic and crossover ATM traffic respectively, and routed to the opposite kind of... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070230484 - Message buffer for a receiver apparatus on a communications bus: A Controller Area Network (CAN) node consists of a high-powered microcontroller, a low standby power regulator, a CAN bus transceiver, and a minimal CAN message buffer for storing received messages. Low power standby operation allows for the controller to power off, while the transceiver and regulator are operated in standby.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070230485 - Service providing method, computer-readable recording medium containing service providing program, and service providing apparatus: A service providing method for allowing a user to select services matching his/her tastes with less personal data. When a service request arrives, a service category presenter extracts and transmits a plurality of service category information from a service category storage unit to a terminal device. When the identification information... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070230487 - Ring network, communication device, and operational management method used for the ring network and communication device: Frame-transfer functional units function as a switch for transferring a frame to a destination retrieved from an FDB. In transferring a frame to a ring selecting unit, the frame-transfer functional units transfers the frame with the frame added with a header in device. RPR functional units execute processing on an... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070230488 - Space and time efficient xml graph labeling: There is provided a method for determining reachability between any two nodes within a graph. The inventive method utilizes a dual-labeling scheme. Initially, a spanning tree is defined for a group of nodes within a graph. Each node in the spanning tree is assigned a unique interval-based label, that describes... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco Pl

20070230494 - Audio network system having lag correction function of audio samples: In an audio network system connecting a plurality of nodes in a ring form, a master node transmits a packet of frame data regularly every sampling cycle, such that the packet circulates through the nodes during the sampling cycle. The packet is provided with a plurality of regions for containing... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070230492 - Frame multiplexing device: A frame multiplexer includes a plurality of counters each of which is provided for each of the lines. A flow monitoring unit monitors frame flow of each line by referring to the counter of the line, and adds length of a passed frame to a value of the counter. A... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070230491 - Group tag caching of memory contents: A method according to one embodiment may include receiving one or more packets from at least one external device and storing one or more packets in at least one queue in memory, the memory includes a plurality of queues and a plurality of queue descriptors having pointer information to point... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Portfolio Ip

20070230495 - Add drop multiplexing method, apparatus and system based on gfp: The present invention relates to network transmission technologies, and provide a Generic Framing Procedure (GFP)-based add/drop multiplexing (add/drop multiplexing) method, apparatus and system to improve add/drop multiplexing utilization, in which multiple Gigabyte Ethernet (GE) connections among multiple nodes are multiplexed in GFP to a byte synchronous interface for transmission, wherein... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070230493 - Memory management for high speed media access control: Aspects disclosed herein address the need in the art for memory management for high speed media access control. A packet buffer may store packets with a first data structure, comprising the packet length, sequence number, and a pointer to a second data structure. Packet data may be stored in a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070230490 - Methods and apparatus for dynamic packet mapping: Methods and apparatus for dynamic packet mapping. A method is provided for mapping metric data to produce a decodable packet associated with a channel. The method includes obtaining a channel identifier associated with metric data, determining an available buffer from a plurality of buffers based on the channel identifier, writing... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070230489 - Scaling egress network traffic: In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides generating one or more packets of data, the one or more packets of data being associated with a connection; and associating the one or more packets with one of a plurality of transmit queues based, at least... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070230496 - Method and apparatus for improved multicast streaming in wireless networks: The invention includes a method and apparatus for providing media content. The method includes duplicating each packet of an original packet stream for which an associated importance level satisfies an importance condition, inserting each duplicate packet within the original packet stream to form thereby a modified packet stream, and transmitting... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070230497 - Method and apparatus to negotiate channel sharing in plc network: A method of negotiating channel sharing between adjacent cells when there are a plurality of cells in a power line communication (PLC) network. The method includes attempting to negotiate the channel sharing during a minimum contention access period (CAP) which starts after a maximum beacon period ends and ends before... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070230498 - Communication apparatus enabling temporal coexistence of systems: A communication apparatus, which is capable of allowing a plurality of communication systems respectively having different types of communication modes to coexist with one another on a single communication medium, satisfying Qos requirements with the use of only a simple configuration thereof, and minutely setting an exclusive use rate of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070230499 - Hybrid access to a contention-free period channel: To increase bandwidth, a channel, which normally is limited to contention-free transmissions, is used for other purposes during times when it is not needed for contention-free transmissions. Although the channel is located in a contention-free portion of a beacon cycle, supplemental uses of this channel include the contention-based transmission of... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20070230500 - Methods and apparatus for resource selection using detected data throughput: A method for detecting a data throughput and selecting a combination of resources for communicating is performed by a wireless cell having at least two resources. The method includes in any practical order, establishing communication between the wireless cell and a provided wireless client; transmitting a data pattern; receiving the... Agent: Letham Law Firm, LLC

20070230502 - Apparatus and method for internet protocol allocation: An apparatus and method for bandwidth control is provided to keep the bandwidth more stable. The apparatus includes an interval signal generator, a storage unit, and a control circuit. The interval signal generator outputs a plurality of interval signals which are evenly or approximately evenly distributed over a time interval.... Agent: Ipr Works, LLC

20070230501 - System and method for supporting synchronous system communications and operations: Apparatus and methods are provided for controlling synchronous and asynchronous communications in an avionic network. The method includes receiving one or more asynchronous messages and one or more synchronous messages, allocating each of the synchronous messages to a corresponding predetermined time slot while producing an unoccupied portion in at least... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070230503 - Data transfer system and associated products: The first set incorporates within the data signals to be transmitted, read requests (rd_req1) for reading the data signals from the first data consuming set. The transfer means carry those read requests with the data signals, and the second set receives them for synchronization between the first and second sets.... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070230504 - Generating a chain of trust for a virtual endpoint: A method includes generating a chain of trust for a virtual endpoint. The virtual endpoint is associated with a layered architecture that includes layers, which include a physical layer. For each layer, a code image of a process of the layer is measured before the process is loaded to form... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070230505 - Method and system for multi-layer signaling across multiple control networks: An aspect of the present invention provides a method of establishing call controller communication in a multi-layer transport network where a plurality of signaling communications networks may exist within each layer. An interlayer call controller association is enhanced to provide associations of multiple client call controllers to a single server... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070230506 - Method, device and system for transmitting very-long short message: The embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a device and a system for transmitting a very-long short message, where when a sender determines that a very-long short message has a length exceeding a short message length allowed currently, the sender divides the very-long short message into a plurality... Agent: Clifford J. Mass Ladas & Parry LLP

20070230507 - Bundled internet protocol packets: A system and method in which network packets sharing a common destination are bundled into one or more larger packets. In one embodiment, an originating server, gateway, or other network device recognizes the presence of multiple, small IP packets having a common IP address. The network device according to the... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Personal Systems Group Dept. 9cca/002/2

20070230508 - Method and system for switching between video sources: A network convergence component switches an output to a viewing device from a first source to a preferred source during periods when an event such as a commercial is detected. In some embodiments, the network convergence component is under local control. In other embodiments, the network convergence component is under... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070230511 - Cell search method for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing based cellular communication system: A method for synchronizing and identifying the cell code (scrambling code) of a cell in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based cellular communication system is provided. In this method, desired cell is found by utilizing a frame structure of OFDM symbols and through a corresponding cell search procedure, where... Agent: Supreme Patent Services

20070230509 - Disparate clock domain synchronization: Disparate clock domains are resynchronized after circuits in one of the clock domains awake from a reduced power state. Parallel test data is routed from a core circuit to a parallel-to-serial converter in an input/output (I/O) circuit. The parallel-to-serial converter clocks the parallel test data in response to a load... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC C/o Portfolioip

20070230510 - System and method for synchronizing base stations in communication system: Disclosed is a method and system for synchronizing base stations in a communication system. A mobile station receives reference base station information and base station group information, selects a synchronization correction-requiring base station from among a plurality of base stations included in a base station group corresponding to the base... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070230512 - Receiving apparatus and transmitting/receiving method: According to one embodiment, there is provided a receiving apparatus including an interface section which receives a TTS (Transport stream with Time Stamp) packet via a network, a TTS packet buffer section which temporarily stores the TTS packet, a clock section which counts a clock signal, a monitor adjustment section... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070230513 - Transmitter voltage and receiver time margining: A technique for characterizing a communications interface includes determining a voltage margin and a timing margin of the interface based on data sampled by a sampling device of a receiver of the interface. In at least one embodiment of the invention, a method for determining margin associated with a receiver... Agent: Zagorin O'brien Graham LLP

20070230514 - Temporal drift correction: Temporal drift correction may be provided in a real-time audio communication system by measuring a size of a receiving data buffer and comparing that size to a predetermined nominal data buffer size. An amount of temporal drift is characterized as a number of samples per audio playback data block based... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070230515 - Quad rate transmitter equalization: An integrated circuit provides equalized outputs. Main data and equalization data is produced at one fourth of the output data rate, and multiplexed onto an output node at the output data rate.... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC C/o Portfolioip

20070230516 - Method and system for providing autonomous retransmissions in a wireless communication system: A transmitter that may have marginal power availability is enabled to autonomously retransmit previously transmitted frames containing the same data. The transmitter sends an initial frame to a base transceiver station (BTS) and immediately retransmits the same frame without regard to any ACK/NAK transmission from the BTS. The retransmissions are... Agent: Ericsson Inc.