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 allocat