Multiplex communications inventions 11/07

20070274197 - Method and apparatus for performing stream weighting in an sdma communication system: A method and apparatus for performing stream weighting in a spatial-division multiple access communication system is provided herein. During operation the base station receiver receives channel information from mobiles (also known as users or nodes) and calculates transmit antenna weights that that maximize the power delivered to each mobile while... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070274198 - Electronic circuit: The invention provides an electronic circuit capable of reducing crosstalk to such a degree that the crosstalk can be substantially disregarded even where a plurality of communications channels are juxtaposed in close proximity to each other when achieving communications between substrates by inductive coupling. The transmitter coils 11 are placed... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070274201 - Communications system, transmitter, receiver, and communications method thereof: Sample signals P0(0) to P0(N−1) are input for each symbol of a multiplexed transmission sample or transmission chip. The sum of a particular pair of sample signals (for example, a pair of P0(0) and P0(N/2)) is obtained by an adder for each pair of sample signals, and a signal the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070274199 - Method and system for modifying modulation of power line communications signals for maximizing data throughput rate: Data throughput rate in a power line communications (“PLC”) system is controlled by generating PLC carrier signals in accordance with a PLC signal frame structure containing payload symbols where orders of modulation are selected for the individual PLC carriers based on evaluation of at least one of a PLC system... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo

20070274200 - Remote band scanning in multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division mulitiplexing communication: Methods and systems for remote band scanning in multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication are provided. In one embodiment, a method for a remote unit of 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... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070274202 - Forward-looking tone allocation in multipoint-to-point communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing: Forward-looking tone allocation in multipoint-to-point communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing is 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 the... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070274203 - Radio communication apparatus and communication method: In a radio communication apparatus for forming a frame with a plurality of slots, and inserting a guard interval into each slot along with data for a mobile station to perform communication, a receive state acquisition section acquires a receive state of each mobile station, a frame format decision section... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070274204 - Methods and apparatus for fast ethernet link switchover in the event of a link failure: An apparatus for fast failure switch over in an ETHERNET switch includes redundant switch (trunk) ports (a main and a backup) and hardware and software logic for redirecting traffic to the backup port when the main port (or the link associated with it) fails. The switchover is immediate and is... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20070274205 - Versatile system for interference tolerant packet detection in wireless communication systems: The present invention provides a system for obviating interference effects in packet detection within a wireless communications network. A plurality of reference signals is provided—a first of which corresponds to desired packets, and the remainder of which correspond to undesired packets or interference. A plurality of cross-correlation constructs corresponds, respectively,... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070274206 - Distributed beaconing periods for ad-hoc networks: In a distributed Mac protocol having a slotted superframe (102) comprising at least one slotted beacon period (104) followed by a data transfer period (103), a system and method is provided for creating and maintaining several beacon periods (104) at different positions in the superframe (102). When joining the network... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070274207 - Method for implementing network protection combining network element dual homing and ring network protection: A method for protecting a network comprising a first network element, which homes to a second network element and a third network element on the same ring network, the method comprising the steps of: establishing and transporting on the second network element a service from the first network element to... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070274208 - System for transmitting data and user of the system: A system having at least three users for transmitting data is provided, the system including two transmission paths among the users, the transmission paths forming a first ring and a second ring having opposite transmission directions. In each user, a first connection by which the first ring is connectible to... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070274211 - Access control device, wireless device, and network: An access control device is provided to a wireless device of a network which is constituted with a plurality of wireless devices connecting with one or a plurality of wireless terminals. The access control device includes: a connection severance terminal selection section which, when a bandwidth employed by a wireless... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070274209 - Prioritizing data in a wireless transmission: Various embodiments of the invention may organize prioritized data segments that are to be included in the same transmission, such that higher priority segments are sent earlier in the transmission. If a data error occurs during the transmission that renders the remainder of the transmission unusable, the higher priority segments... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070274210 - Quality of service securing method and apparatus: A quality of service (QoS) securing apparatus and method using a communication protocol are provided. The method of securing a QoS of a mobile terminal that receives data while the mobile terminal moves from a first network to a second network includes generating a datagram congestion control protocol (DCCP) packet... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070274212 - Traffic-triggered setup of label switched paths: An automated Label Switched Path (LSP) control mechanism in a packet-switched network. A metering device in an Ingress Label Edge Router (LER) determines whether a data rate for a packet flow class exceeds a predefined limit. If so, the metering device sends an LSP-setup message to a Multi-Protocol Label Switching... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070274215 - Method and a system for flow control in a communication network: The present invention relates to a method and a system of flow control in a communication network. The method comprises determining if at least one sender buffer has a sufficient number of credits. The sufficient number of credits informs the sender buffer if the receiver buffer has an available buffer... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20070274217 - Method for establishing hrpd network packet data service in 1x network: A method for an Access Terminal (AT) in a 1x network to establish an High Rate Packet Data (HRPD) network packet data service includes: initiating, by the AT, a session establishment request to a target Access Network/Packet Control Function (AN/PCF) of an HRPD network; establishing, by the target AN/PCF, an... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070274216 - Signal processing system in wireless mobile communication system: In a wireless mobile communication system, functions of a base transceiver station is divided and served by transmission/reception devices for communicating with mobile stations, and a signal processing device for performing base band signal processes of a plurality of channels. A plurality of transmission/reception devices and a plurality of signal... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070274218 - High speed bus with flow control and extended burst enhancements: In a networked system, in which high speed busses interconnect sources and destinations of data, systems for and methods of flow control and extended burst transfers are described. The present invention is directed to a system for selectively varying the number of burst transfers used to transmit a block of... Agent: Howrey LLP

20070274213 - Method and system for the transfer of communication network administration information: In order to minimize a bandwidth required for the transfers of communication network administration information, said information relating to objects pertaining to hardware, software or network operation elements, catalogued in an administration information base (11) and with each of which is associated a formal language specification, the system comprises a... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070274214 - System and method for combining synchronous and asynchronous communications on a communications network: Management and control of the distribution of multiple, synchronous and asynchronous, simultaneously occurring audio and video data content in a communications network, as well as the bandwidth used for distributing the content on the network, is performed by all of the content source and content rendering devices operating in unison.... Agent: James Reeber

20070274219 - Method and system for routing network communications: A method and system of routing information packets through a network is presented. The method may include receiving an information packet at a node in a network, wherein the information packet contains information relating to a new metric, forming a new routing protocol based on the new metric information contained... Agent: Mr. Ronald E. Prass, Jr. Irving, Prass & Stelacone, LLP

20070274220 - Method and apparatus for optimizing a queue based cross layer in a wireless ad-hoc network: A method and apparatus for optimizing a cross layer in an ad-hoc wireless network are provided. A link price is set using the number of packets of a queue. A flow rate is set using the link price. A channel access rank is set by comparing the link price with... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070274221 - Resource reservation system and method in wireless network: A resource reservation system and a method for managing resources under consideration of the mobility of an MN are provided where an old refresh interval for an old resource reservation state is changed in response to handoff. The changed refresh interval propagates through at least one of a path supporting... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070274223 - Broadcast receiver, data structure and method for providing diagnostic information: A host includes a controller configured to receive a request external to the host, wherein the request is for diagnostic information associated with central processing unit (CPU) for an application. The controller is further configured to collect the requested diagnostic information.... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070274222 - Receiver apparatus: [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] In the receiver apparatus, power is supplied to a receiver circuit in accordance with an operation start time. A signal is received through the receiver circuit, and a quality of the received signal is evaluated by a signal quality evaluation unit 109. Control is exercised to... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070274224 - Path setting method, node device, and monitoring/control device: In a network in which GMPLS-implemented nodes and GMPLS-not-implemented nodes coexist, the GMPLS-implemented nodes cannot control the GMPLS-not-implemented nodes. To solve this, the GMPLS-implemented nodes suspend GMPLS control when the GMPLS control is started, and transmit a GMPLS control start message to a monitoring/control device. The monitoring/control device determines whether... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070274225 - Electronic commerce transaction audit system, electronic commerce transaction audit method, and storage medium recording electronic commerce transaction audit program thereon: The present invention comprises agent for gathering transaction log means for automatically collecting all exchange messages notarized and recorded depressively by a plurality of electronic notarize means in connection with the electronic commerce transaction so as to reproduce them as an event of the entire wide network area, agent for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070274226 - Method and system for controlling a network for power beam transmission: A method of providing power beams via a network of source nodes. Source nodes are configured to receive requests for power beam service from airborne user nodes such as aircraft equipped with photovoltaic receivers. User nodes are configured to communicate a set of parameters, such as location, mobility, field of... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20070274227 - Network latency analysis packet and method: A packet and a method for analyzing network latency are disclosed. The disclosed systems and methods measure the latency between nodes in a network and do so while using less bandwidth and processing than traditional methods by using a packet to traverse a network and collect timestamps at various nodes... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070274228 - Routing in a mesh network: An apparatus includes a processing system configured to establish a link with any one of a plurality of access points in a mesh network, each of the access points providing the apparatus with a different data path through the mesh network. The processing system is further configured to compute a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070274229 - Method and apparatus for reliable communications in a packet network: A system and method are disclosed for reliable communications in a packet network. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network management system (NMS) having a controller programmed to establish between first and second customer edge (CE) routers in a full mesh packet... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070274233 - Method, apparatus and system for multi peer to peer services: Methods and systems for techniques to enable multi peer-to-peer services are described. Terminals are enabled to recognize their peer terminals and create multipoint to multipoint peer to peer services in each of the related network protocol layers. Presence and recognition of the peers can be done by means of pre-configuration,... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070274234 - Network management method: The present invention provides a method in which the physical connection information and the logical network configuration information are kinked to the status of spanning tree, and the status of spanning tree is displayed with the physical connection and the logical network configurations. The method can provide the better recognition... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070274231 - System and method for improving the performance and stability of serial attached scsi networks: A system and method is disclosed for managing configuration discovery following a loss or acquisition of link synchronization on a link in a network having a SAS architecture with one or more expanders. When a loss or acquisition of link synchronization on a link is identified, the IDENTIFY address frame... Agent: Roger Fulghum Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070274230 - System and method for modifying router firmware: A method of modifying a current version of a configuration of a router includes receiving a modified version of the configuration, loading the modified version of the configuration into memory, and operating the router using the modified version of the router, without rebooting the router.... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20070274232 - Method, communication device and system for detecting neighboring nodes in a wireless multihop network using ndp: A method is presented for neighbor discovery in a wireless multihop packet based communication network using Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) wherein the network is built up by client and/or server devices and/or infrastructure devices, network traffic is based on using NDP forwarding and rebroadcasting to locate devices in such... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070274235 - Techniques for reliable switchover to a date multicast distribution tree (mdt): Techniques reliably provide the switchover from a default MDT to the data MDT by using reliable signaling and reliable building of a data MDT. The message notifying of the pending switchover to the data MDT is reliably sent using signaling that is reliable. Also, the switchover from the default MDT... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070274236 - Gateway apparatus and renegotiation method: According to one embodiment, a gateway apparatus includes a memory which stores information showing a plurality of codecs notified from an end point to be an originating call side in a communication connection through peer-to-peer among the first, the second and the third end points prior to the conference connection,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070274237 - Method for regulating the output power of a radio access point: A radio communication system has a first and a second radio access point and a plurality of radio stations. The first radio access point broadcasts signals having an increasing output power. The first radio access point stops increasing the output power based on a message by at least one radio... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070274238 - Tdd switch of tdd wireless communication system: A Time Division Duplex (TDD) wireless communication system includes a switch connected to an output port of a transmitter, a first transmission line for transmitting a transmission signal and for isolating a transmission path according to a mode, a first transmission line stub connected between the isolator and the first... Agent: Stimson, Shin & Associates, LLP

20070274239 - System and method for automatic detection of network port configuration mismatch: A method for automatically detecting a port configuration mismatch between a switch and its peer switch comprises listening, by the switch, to its peer switch's advertisement of its duplex setting, generating a warning notification in response to the peer switch advertising as capable of only operating at half duplex and... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070274241 - Method and apparatus for accessing network isolated devices: A first communication device without direct network access sends a message to a second communication device connected to a remote network by relaying the message through one or more mobile communication devices. In one embodiment, a mobile communication device comprises a wireless communication circuit configured to establish a temporary wireless... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070274243 - Management device, output device, method and computer readable medium: There is provided with a management device including: a communication unit configured to receive input function information indicating input functions provided by input devices through a wireless network and receive reception level information indicating reception levels of signals which an output device connected to the wireless network has received from... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070274242 - Multi-tag emulator: The invention provides both a system, device and method for emulating a plurality of RF data storage devices in a single device, for example a hand held device such as a mobile phone. The system comprises a means for emulating a plurality of RF data storage devices each having a... Agent: Lackenbach Siegel, LLP

20070274240 - Upnp terminal for ad hoc wireless networks: The invention relates to a wireless network comprising at least two terminals which each contain a UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) software component and a UPnP controller software component. According to the invention, the UPnP controller software component of a terminal forwards specific messages from the associated UPnP software component... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070274245 - Method and apparatus for recording information in battery operated devices: A technique for recording information in a battery operated device is provided such that quality level of the recorded information may be changed “on the fly.” In one embodiment, while persistently recording information at a first quality level, the battery operated device may, in response to an input a desire... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070274244 - Method and apparatus for controlling powder saving mode in wireless portable internet system: Disclosed is a method and device for controlling a power saving mode for applying the sleep mode for saving power consumption to the mobility of subscriber stations in a mobile communication network and a wireless Internet system. Subscriber stations entering the sleep mode are constantly grouped, listening intervals of the... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese

20070274246 - Reliable multicast in a network having a power saving protocol: A reliable multicast for a power saving protocol such as IEEE 801.11n is described. A TSPEC frame is modified to carry the multicast address, which address can be represented in a short-hand form with, for instance, and AID. During the downlink times, the AID may also be used to identify... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070274248 - Communication device and communication system: A wireless multi-hop network of a communication system is structured with a number of the communication devices and the collecting communication device. Transmission information from each communication devices is sequentially relayed to reach the collecting communication device. Each communication device features a function for on/off control of a transmission/reception processing... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070274247 - Sleep-mode statistics apparatus, systems, and methods: Embodiments of sleep-mode statistics apparatus, systems, and methods are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070274249 - Method of communication in a time division duplex (tdd) satellite communication system: A method of communication in a time division duplex (TDD) satellite communication system comprising at least one satellite and a plurality of terrestrial terminals comprises allocating time division multiple access (TDMA) time slots for transmission between the satellite and any one of the plurality of terminals, such that for any... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070274251 - Communication device for time zone calculation and method thereof: A method for displaying entries of a contact list on a first communication device is disclosed. The method includes: associating at least a specific time zone with an entry in the contact list; and when the entry is referenced, determining a specific local time associated with the entry according to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070274254 - Connection adapter for communication device: A connection adapter is arranged to intervene between a communication device for connection to a radio packet communication network and high-level equipment which performs communication via the communication device. The connection adapter controls to switch the communication speed of the communication device on the radio packet section, based on radio... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070274255 - Mobile node, network system, and network roaming method: A mobile node (10) roams from a home network to a foreign network, and comprises an address detection module (101) and an address conversion request module (107). The address detection module detects a current address of the mobile node. The address conversion request module transmits an address conversion request message... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070274252 - Ofdm system and method for supporting a wide range of mobility speeds: A method and apparatus for wireless communication in which groups of expected mobile device mobility speed ranges are established. A first sub-carrier block arrangement for the group having the lowest expected mobility speed range is determined. The first sub-carrier block arrangement is comprised of a plurality of sub-carriers. A second... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070274256 - Systems and methods for wireless communication: In a wireless communication system for communicating with a plurality of stations at the same point of time with the same frequency using a Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA), wireless resources are allocated by a first decision unit which evaluates performance of each station obtained when the SDMA is used... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas LLP

20070274257 - Apparatus and method for controlling reverse link data rate of packet data in mobile communication system: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for controlling a reverse link data rate of packet data in a mobile communication system. There is provided an apparatus and method for controlling a reverse data rate of packet data taking into consideration the state of a mobile terminal, which is capable of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070274250 - Method and system for detecting network connection in ipv6 radio access network: The technology is disclosed to attain the prompt processing and reduction of signaling volume in network attachment detection for IPv6 wireless access networks. According to this technology, a mobile node reports the identifier of a new wireless access point to its on-link access routers (ARs) and the ARs disseminate the... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070274253 - Methods for supporting mimo transmission in ofdm applications: Aspects of the present invention provide MAC enhancements to support the PHY features of a MIMO-OFDMA framework. The MAC enhancements involve DL burst assignment to support adaptive MIMO transmission, UL burst assignment to support adaptive MIMO transmission, fast feedback channel operation to support wireless terminal dynamic feedback of MIMO mode... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20070274258 - Radiotelephone apparatus and method: An apparatus and methods for a wireless telecommunication system to provide a wireless interface. A plurality of modems is used for processing wireless communications with a plurality of subscriber line circuits, each for providing a telecommunication connection. A control processor assigns a modem for each communication, selects one of the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070274262 - Home agent, registration method, network system and network roaming method: A home agent (200) for registering with a serving node (400) in a home network (10) includes a packet filter module (210), an agent control module (220), and a registration module (240). The packet filter module detects a mobile registration packet transmitted from a mobile node (100) and informs the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070274260 - Method for transmitting a communications packet in a wireless communications network: A method and apparatus for transmitting a packet in a wireless communications network is presented. A packet is constructed to include synchronization header, a physical layer header, and a payload. A preamble and a start of frame delimiter is inserted in the synchronization header. Multiple pairs of cores and of... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070274261 - Method for transmitting a communications packet in a wireless communications network: A method and apparatus for transmitting a packet in a wireless communications network is presented. A packet is constructed to include synchronization header, a physical layer header, and a payload. A preamble and a start of frame delimiter are inserted in the synchronization header. Multiple fixed length ternary sequences are... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070274259 - Reducing handoff latency for a mobile station: A mobile station is assisted to perform a handoff from a current access point in a current extended service set (ESS) to a new access point in a target ESS. A HandOver Mediator, possibly in conjunction with a handover server, performs an authentication process and an association process with an... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20070274263 - Slot allocation method for use in cellular radio communication system and base station for use in the same system: In the base station for use in a cellular radio communication system, cell-reuse factors are set in a mixed manner. The base station has a use permission slot information storing unit which stores use permission slot information about slots whose use is permitted to the base station, and a slot... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070274264 - Method and apparatus of handling packet data in a wireless communications system: A method of handling packets for a user equipment in a wireless communications system includes activating a hybrid automatic repeat request procedure, receiving and storing data of a first packet into a buffer, receiving a second packet following the first packet, and utilizing a predefined process to determine whether the... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070274267 - Apparatus and method for reducing message collision between mobile stations simultaneously accessing a base station in a cdma cellular communications system: Collisions between messages simultaneously transmitted by multiple spread-spectrum transmitters are reduced by distributing the transmissions over the available resources of the receiver. Each mobile station in a CDMA system uses one or more randomization methods to distribute its transmissions. In the first randomization, the mobile station time-delays its transmissions by... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070274265 - Method for preamble-based bandwidth request in wireless portable internet system: Disclosed is a method for a preamble-based bandwidth request. The present invention enables state control of a subscriber station based on the latest environment in a portable Internet system requesting a bandwidth using a preamble, and hence allows a subsequent more efficient transmission of user data. In addition, the present... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese

20070274266 - Method, system and apparatus to support mobile ip version 6 services in cdma systems: The invention provides authentication and authorization support for MIPv6 in a CDMA framework by transferring MIPv6-related information in an, preferably extended, authentication protocol in an end-to-end procedure between a mobile node in a visited network and the home network of the mobile node over an AAA infrastructure. Preferably, the end-to-end... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070274273 - Method and system for auto coexistence priority selection for a sco link: Methods and systems for auto coexistence priority selection for a SCO link are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include a first Bluetooth device communicating with a collocated WLAN device via a coexistence method. The first Bluetooth device, prior to executing a non-SCO task, which may comprise tasks that do... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070274270 - Network pairing of wireless communication devices through one or more intermediate devices: A system and method for network pairing with two or more wireless communication devices, in which each device includes a wireless transceiver. For each device, the wireless transceiver has indirect communication with the other communication device via a first ad hoc connection to an intermediate communication device, and is capable... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070274274 - Open wireless access point detection and identification: Automatically identifying a user of an open wireless access point in a communications network may be provided. A wireless signal may be transmitted to detect the status of a wireless network connected to a wireless access point. If the status of the wireless network connection is open, then a connection... Agent: Merchant & Gould, P.C.

20070274272 - Systems, methods and apparatus for detecting time slot interference and recovering from time slot interference in an ad hoc wireless communication network: In a network comprising a source, a destination, and intermediate nodes along a route between the source and the destination, techniques are provided for allocating one or more time slots to transmit a particular data stream along the route based on the QoS requirements to transmit the particular data stream.... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070274271 - Wireless communication device having dual transceivers for network pairing with another device: A system and method for network pairing with two or more wireless communication devices, in which each device includes at least two wireless transceivers. For each device, one wireless transceiver has indirect communication with the other communication device via a first connection, and another wireless transceiver that is capable of... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070274277 - Control method of mobile communication device: Mobile communication device recognizes a control area without using a communication line and performs control corresponding to the control area. In the case of communication with other device through the communication line, control information of the control area where communication is to be controlled is read, control contents of the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070274269 - Device for converting umts signals: The present invention relates to a device for converting UMTS-FDD signals into WLAN signals, comprising a receiver unit for receiving the UMTS-FDD signals, means for converting the signals received into WLAN signals as well as means for providing or transmitting the WLAN signals. The invention furthermore relates to a device... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20070274268 - Predictive ad-hoc: The present invention relates to a system for efficient routing in a multiple hop wireless communication network comprising a plurality of network nodes is presented. The system comprises means (3001) for acquiring quality information indicating link status between said infrastructure nodes, means (3002) for using said link quality information in... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070274275 - Wireless communication methods and apparatus supporting multiple modes: Wireless terminal operation is coordinated to be responsive to dynamic communications frequency spectrum reallocation between infrastructure based communications usage and peer to peer communications usage. Methods and apparatus in which mobile nodes switch between cellular and peer to peer communication modes of operation are described. Broadcast signals, e.g., beacon signals,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070274276 - Wireless communication methods and apparatus supporting wireless terminal mode control signaling: A wireless terminal determines a desired mode of base station operation with regard to whether the base station is to function as a network access node or is to function in a peer to peer mode with regard to a frequency band, and communicates a change signal to the base... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070274278 - Method of assigning an uplink random access channel in a cdma mobile communication system: Disclosed is an uplink random access procedure in an NB-TDD (Narrow Band Time Division Duplexing) system. To achieve an acknowledgement for data transmission from a UTRAN (UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network), a UE selects one of a plurality of sync codes by which the UTRAN identifies UEs that request data... Agent: Paul J. Farrell, Esq. Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070274279 - Distributed antenna system employing digital forward deployment of wireless transmit/receive locations: A communication system implements a method of bidirectional communication of signals to/from one or more wireless transmit locations. Transmitting signals to one or more wireless transmit locations includes obtaining a plurality of signals having different protocols, from a plurality of base stations, then converting the plurality of signals into common... Agent: David L. Henty Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman LLP

20070274280 - Communications network using reservation indicator: The present invention relates to a communications network comprising a plurality of transmitting stations and receiving stations for transmitting and receiving signals, said transmitting stations being adapted for transmitting a data signal as a series of data packets, wherein a data packet is scheduled to be transmitted by use of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070274281 - Method of establishing a communication link in a digital communication system: A method of establishing a communication between at least two communication units in a digital communication system, wherein a first communication unit operates on a long delay link and a second communication unit operates on a short delay link, wherein transmission of audio data blocks is delayed on the short... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070274286 - Overhead reduction in an ad-hoc wireless network: Embodiments describe reducing overhead in a multihop ad-hoc wireless network. According to an embodiment is a method for routing communication in a multihop ad-hoc network. The method can include receiving an incoming label value and communication, accessing a table that includes node routing information, and identifying a destination device for... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070274288 - Sharing resources in a wireless communication system: During operation a wireless terminal will receive instructions assigning it to a group of wireless terminals sharing a common set of resources. The terminal will also receive an overflow allocation policy indicating resources that are to be utilized if there are more assigned resources that group resources.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070274285 - System and method for configuring a router: A method of configuring a router includes storing in a memory of the router an address associated with the router and a domain name associated with a server. The method also includes connecting the router to the network and communicating the address from the router to the server over the... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20070274290 - Apparatus and method for packet forwarding in layer 2 network: A packet forwarding apparatus with a function of registering packet forwarding control information for each user terminal into a user management table during PPPoE connection and authentication phases in which the apparatus carries out predetermined communication procedures with each user terminal. During DHCP and IP forwarding phases following the authentication... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070274287 - Integrated wireless/wireline registration: A system and method are disclosed for routing telephone calls directed to a wireless unit located in the wireless network to a landline device located in the landline network. The system utilizes a location register in the form of a service control point (SCP) located in the landline network to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Bls Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070274284 - Media inactivity detection in voip networks: Systems and techniques to determine that a VoIP call is an inactive media call. One or more counters may be used to determine information indicative of an elapsed time since the last valid media packet sent/received. When the elapsed time exceeds a threshold time, the call is determined to be... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070274282 - Method for managing a group of network access servers: Disclosed is a method for managing a group of network access servers (ZSI, ZS2, . . . ZSN) wherein the Multichassis Multilink Point to Point Protocol (MMP) is used. An address list of the other network servers of a group (ZS1, ZS2, ZSN) is managed for each network access server... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070274283 - Setting up a conference call with a hashed address: A method and apparatus to arrange for and to set up a conference call are disclosed. The party who arranges for a conference call provides all of the details of the conference call to a conferencing server through an encoded public address. The arranging party's telecommunications endpoint then transmits the... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20070274289 - System and methods for originating a sip call via a circuit-switched network from a user equipment device: Methods and apparatus for originating a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) call from a user equipment (UE) device in a network environment including a circuit-switched (CS) network and IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) network to a called party are disclosed. In one illustrative example, when the SIP call is originated by the... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070274293 - Archiving voip conversations: Generally described, the present invention is directed to a method and system that provides the ability to record and store a digital conversation exchanged among mutually agreed parties in a specified archive database. In some instances, content of a digital conversations may be stored (e.g., for legal and/or medical purposes)... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070274295 - First-arrival learning method, relay apparatus, and computer product: A learning-target packet to be used for a path learning is selected from among a plurality of packets queued by a relay apparatus. A relationship between a transmission-source address and a first-arrival port for the selected learning-target packet is registered as learning information. A packet corresponding to the registered learning... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070274292 - Method and apparatus for migrating between terminals: An apparatus and method are disclosed for migrating between terminals. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network proxy having a controller that manages a communications interface in a communication system. The controller can be programmed to receive a request to migrate a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070274294 - Sip exchange system: The total system, which is operated by SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) call sequence and SIP call replacement sequence, comprises control part which includes sequence part for immediately performing the SIP call replacement sequence upon detecting communication of call forwarding or proxy response, SIP exchange equipment which includes storage part for... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070274291 - Method and apparatus for unified management of different type of communications over lan, wan and internet networks, using a web browser: A method, and apparatus, for the unified management of all types of communications, such as: telephone calls, faxes, SMS and MMS, video, e-mails, CHAT and multimedia communications in general, allows to interface various communications/telecommunications networks and their related transmission protocols. All outbound and inbound communications are controlled and globally managed... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070274300 - Hover to call: When the user hovers on a telephone number (or other indication of a target of a voice communication) on a web page (or other interface), the telephone number will be highlighted and the user will be provided with the opportunity to make a call using the highlighted number. If the... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070274299 - Methods, computer programs, and apparatus for providing emergency number compliant voip devices: An emergency number compliant device is capable of implementing a VoIP call from a registered geographic location with access to an emergency services operator. A power source applied to the device is detected, and an automated prompt is issued asking if a user of the device is at the registered... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070274297 - Streaming audio from a full-duplex network through a half-duplex device: Streaming audio from a full-duplex network through a half-duplex device, including buffering, in the half-duplex device, input audio from the full-duplex network, where the input audio includes audio data for output through the half-duplex device; playing, through the half-duplex device, the buffered input audio; pausing, during voice activity on the... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070274298 - Voice over ip adapter: A headset and adapter that converts between Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network of a contact center and an audio signal received and generated by an agent of the contact center wearing the headset is disclosed. A VoIP terminal receives and transmits VoIP instructions and application program interface instructions over... Agent: Bourque & Associates Intellectual Property Attorneys, P.A.

20070274296 - Voip barge-in support for half-duplex dsr client on a full-duplex network: Providing VOIP barge-in support for a half-duplex DSR client on a full-duplex network by buffering, in a half-duplex DSR client, input audio from the full-duplex network; playing, through the half-duplex DSR client, the buffered input audio; pausing, during voice activity on the half-duplex DSR client, the playing of the buffered... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070274301 - Method, system and user equipment in a combination of a cs call and an ims session: A method and system of providing an unambiguous connection between a first user equipment and a second user equipment in a combination of a circuit switched call and a packet switched multimedia session. The method comprises to construct an equipment identifier by a first user equipment, wherein the equipment identifier... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070274302 - Data storage device, memory managing method, and program: A data storage device includes a memory, a record controller, and a management area setting unit. The method has first and second management areas for recording address information indicative of valid data areas, and a security area for recording information corresponding to address information recorded in either one of the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070274303 - Buffer management method based on a bitmap table: A buffer management method based on a bitmap table includes: dividing the bitmap table into a plurality of areas each containing at least one bit; determining and recording an idleness status of each of the areas in accordance with an unoccupied status of the bit in the area; and performing... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070274304 - Fail rate method for fast measurement of equipment reliabiliy: In an embodiment of an Fast Fail Rate method, a failure rate is determined for a population of pieces of equipment in use over a period of time. The method comprises selecting a period of time, segmenting the period of time into multiple time intervals; obtaining data for the population... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070274305 - System and method for remotely controlling device: A method for wireless remote control of a device is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes: transmitting a current data message to the device, the current data message including at least one data bit to control movement associated with a first positional characteristic of the device; detecting and receiving... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20070274308 - Ip phone system and ip phone terminal registration method: An IP phone terminal registration method capable of reducing the workload as to telephone terminal setup and excluding working mistakes by achieving automated phone terminal registration is provided. Upon connection of a telephone terminal to IP network, a DHCP device issues a terminal registration request to a main apparatus. The... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070274307 - Cluster system, cluster member, and program: Each of cluster members (1-1) constituting a cluster system which functions as a router includes a session processor (15) and session state synchronization unit (16). If the session state of a session to which a packet input via a spare processing packet filter (13) belongs is not held in a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070274306 - Method for establishing a call in a telecommunications network; telecommunications network; and controlling device for packet networks: The present inventions relates to a method for establishing a call in a telecommunications network (100), the telecommunications network (100) comprising first and packet network sections (110, 120), a wide area packet network (130), and a TDM transit network section (140). Subscribers' terminal equipment (112, 122) is addressable by directory... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070274309 - Personal area network with automatic attachment and detachment: A network (100) includes a hub device (110) and at least one unattached peripheral device (120). The unattached peripheral device (120) transmits an attach request to the hub device (110) with a selected address, receives a new address from the hub device to identify the unattached peripheral device (120), and... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/41

20070274310 - Method and system for processing abnormally becoming power off of a terminal of multicast user: A method and a system for processing abnormally becoming power off of a multicast user terminal are disclosed, and the method includes: a multicast device deletes multicast group(s) corresponding to the multicast user terminal and not watched by any multicast user terminal, upon receipt of a notification from the multicast... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070274313 - Method for routing data frames from a data content source to a destination device with buffering of specific data and device thereof: A method for routing data frames from a data source to a destination device via a communications network is disclosed. The method includes receiving a source data stream including data frames of a plurality of source data channels from the data source; buffering a plurality of data groups corresponding to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070274314 - System and method for creating application groups: A method of forming an application group includes selecting a plurality of applications to be associated with an identifier and determining at least one rule associated with the identifier. The rule is operable to define at least one operation of a network device that is conducted in response to the... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20070274315 - System for and method of securing a network utilizing credentials: A system for and method of securing a network are described herein. A receiving device listens for packets with proper credentials. If a transmitting device sends the correct credentials, the receiving device will respond with an acknowledgment and further data is able to be transmitted. However, if the transmitting device... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070274312 - Addressing method and method and apparatus for establishing host identity protocol (hip) connections between legacy and hip nodes: A method is provided of at least partially securing communications, via a HIP proxy (16), between a first host (12) which is not HIP enabled and a second host (14) which is HIP enabled, the method comprising: sending (A) a query from the first host (12) to resolve the IP... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070274311 - Method for preventing ethernet from being attacked: A method for preventing Ethernet from being attacked is provided. The method comprises the steps as follows: after detecting a new connection between a port and a terminal device and receiving a data packet from the terminal device, an Ethernet communication device establishing and storing a fixed map between the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070274316 - Method for switching a communication connection from a first connection path to a second connection path: There are described packets transmitted via the first connection path comprise a first packet propagation time. Said packets are temporarily stored in a first intermediate memory of a receiver unit. The packets transmitted via the second connection path comprise a second packet propagation time and are temporarily stored in a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070274318 - Interleaver, deinterleaver, communication device, and method for interleaving and deinterleaving: A communication device carries out communication using N number of communication channels, where N is an integer not less than 2. The communication device includes interleavers that shuffle a data series, which is meant to be transmitted over the N number of communication channels, in at least two directions from... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070274317 - Methods for increased tolerance against packet reordering for the secure reference principle in robust header compression: A header compression method which uses a secure reference principle over channels that can reordering packets between a compressor and a decompressor without the risk of generating erroneously decompressed packets. The method adapting —the robustness properties of said secure reference principle—and, the characteristics of said reordering.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070274319 - Communication apparatus managing other node and communication apparatus managed by other node: A communication apparatus as a node of a communication network comprises a reading device that reads management information representing management status of a dominated node stored in the dominated node connected via the communication network, a writing device that writes identification information for managing the dominated node into the dominated... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070274320 - Systems, methods and apparatus for allocating time slots in an ad hoc wireless communication network: In a network comprising a source, a destination, and intermediate nodes along a route between the source and the destination, techniques are provided for allocating one or more time slots to transmit a particular data stream along the route based on the QoS requirements to transmit the particular data stream.... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070274322 - Power supply status driven enabling and disabling of power over ethernet software subsystem: An Ethernet switch includes 12-Volt and 48-Volt power sourcing modules, system software, Ethernet interface modules and optional power over Ethernet (PoE) modules. The Ethernet interface modules are motherboards that include the circuitry required to implement a non-PoE system. The PoE modules are daughter boards that include the circuitry required to... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP Tri-valley Office

20070274323 - User access control method and apparatus in bus network and bus network system: A method and apparatus capable of implementing user access control in a bus network at a low cost, and a bus network system in which low-cost security is implemented. A value of an FCS field in an Ethernet frame transmitted between a client U1 that is permitted to communicate with... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20070274321 - Vlan mapping for multi-service provisioning: A Virtual Local Area Network, VLAN, Mapping Point enables an end user to simultaneously access multiple services through a single broadband connection. The VLAN Mapping Point is implemented at a border between first and second independently tagged VLAN regions, and includes a mapping function that receives traffic packets from each... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070274324 - Local network coding for wireless networks: A local network coding framework and method including techniques to improve efficiency in a wireless network by reducing overhead. The local network coding method includes exchanging data availability between nodes on the wireless network by sending Bloom filters of lists of packets to neighboring nodes. Based on data availability, optimized... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070274325 - Data transmission method and terminal used for data transmission method: The present invention discloses a data transmission method for transmitting real-time data from a server to plural terminals via a network having plural local area networks connected to a wide area network. The method includes the steps of grouping plural terminals connected to a same switching hub into a single... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070274327 - Bridging between ad hoc local networks and internet-based peer-to-peer networks: Bridging between ad hoc local networks and Internet based peer-to-peer networks involves coupling a bridge device to a local network using an ad-hoc, peer-to-peer protocol used for exchanging data between consumer electronics devices. The bridge device is coupled to a public network using an Internet-based peer-to-peer networking protocol. In one... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20070274328 - Relay connection unit and junction connector: This invention provides a relay connection unit that relay message and make sufficient number of branches to be able to connect a plurality of ECUs. The relay connection unit includes: reception connectors to which a plurality of insertion connectors of communication lines can respectively be connected; a branch connection unit... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070274329 - Connection support apparatus and gateway apparatus: A problem is to provide a connection support apparatus and a gateway apparatus in which management of information is easy and remote access from a user terminal to the gateway apparatus can be performed easily and securely, and the problem is solved by including a control unit configured to perform... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070274326 - Network bridge: In a network bridge, means are provided for configuration and control of the network bridge, access being provided, via interfaces, to some or all functional blocks of the network bridge for the polling and evaluation of useful data, operating data, and/or parameters, and for manipulation of those data and/or parameters,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070274330 - Network bridge: In a network bridge, means are provided for monitoring the contents and/or volume of incoming and/or outgoing data that are flowing through the network bridge or its memory. The means can be configurable and/or controllable by a higher-level instance, or can be predefined.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070274331 - On-chip bandwidth allocator: A bandwidth allocator to allocate in real time shared resources of a network on-chip is disclosed. The bandwidth allocator routes data packets between elements of the network in response to requests to access the shared resources. The bandwidth allocator could include a plurality of network interfaces to process the data... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070274332 - Method of minimising dead time of a path set-up and tear-down process in a centrally controlled network: In one aspect, a method of minimising dead time of a path set-up and tear-down process in a centrally controlled network comprises receiving at a central controller a path setup message from a node is provided. The controller sends a tear-down signal to a node which is sending information on... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070274333 - Linecard and method for telecommunication: Linecards and methods for processing signals are provided.... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20070274334 - Contention resolution protocol for a shared channel: A method of controlling a window in a contention resolution protocol for a shared channel between at least three contending stations, according to which a station contends for a channel over a number of steps by generating a number, x, within an interval with a lower bound, l, initially equal... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070274335 - Channel allocation method for allocating channels to terminal apparatuses to be communicated and base station apparatus utilizing the same: The quality of signals during SDMA is raised. In an uplink, a signal processing unit receives signals respectively from a plurality of terminal apparatuses which have been multiple-accessed by division of time. It derives receiving channel characteristics corresponding to the plurality of terminal apparatuses, respectively, for each time slot. In... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070274336 - Local area network for distributing data communication, sensing and control signals: A network for carrying out control, sensing and data communications, comprising a plurality of nodes. Each node may be connected to a payload, which comprises sensors, actuators and DTE's. The network is formed by using a plurality of independent communication links, each based on electrically-conducting communication media comprising at least... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070274337 - Supporting network self-healing and optimization: A method of managing a network includes configuring nodes and applications of the network to refer to the same framework of predefined network capabilities. Each of the applications is configured to implement one or more of the capabilities. Each of the applications also is configured to negotiate, as to each... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20070274338 - Method and arrangement for implementing minimum activity during discontinous transmission: A method and a device are considered for implementing minimum activity during discontinuous transmission in a telecommunication connection used to carry a service. The service is allowed to involve transmitting upper-level scheduled silence-breaking transmissions at predetermined regular intervals during otherwise silent periods. There is determined (407, 408, 409) a maximum... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070274339 - Method and system for fairly allocating differentiated bandwidth based on shared multicast traffic in time division multiplexed passive optical network: A method for fairly allocating a differentiated bandwidth based on shared multicast traffic in transmission of downstream traffic in a Time Division Multiplexed-Passive Optical Network (TDM-PON) is provided. The method includes the steps of: deciding a total number of multicast groups to which services are currently provided, and a number... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070274340 - Methods and systems for resizing multimedia content based on quality and rate information: In general, this disclosure describes techniques for exchanging information between a plurality of encoder modules and a multiplex module to combine segments of data from the encoder modules with an improved overall quality. In particular, the encoder modules associate their respective segments of data with quality and rate information and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070274341 - Method and system for managing software image downloads to onts over a pon network: A method and system are provided for managing transfer of software images to ONTs over a PON network. The method includes dividing a software image into multiple segments, where each segment is divided into sections. The sections of each segment include at least one unacknowledged section and at least one... Agent: The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20070274342 - Retransmission apparatus and method for high-speed data processing: A method for retransmitting high-speed packet data in a transmission apparatus of a mobile communication system that simultaneously performs Automatic Retransmission reQuest (ARQ) that retransmits an ARQ packet reconfigured by allocating a sequence number to data delivered from an upper layer, and Hybrid Automatic Retransmission reQuest (HARQ) that multiplexes a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070274343 - Base station device, mobile station device, and data channel allocation method: There is provided a base station capable of preventing lowering of throughput while suppressing interference to an adjacent cell and reduction of the line capacity in a high-speed packet transmission. In this base station, from mobile stations 1 to 7, firstly, mobile stations 1, 4, 6 having the downlink control... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070274344 - Method and system for replacing media stream in a communication process of a terminal: A method and a system for replacing media stream in a communication process of a terminal are disclosed. The method includes: a terminal issuing a request for replacing media stream to a communication server in a communication process; the communication server obtaining a corresponding replacing media source from a multimedia... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070274345 - Method and system for out-of -band messaging between customer premises equipment and a cabel modem termination system: Method and system for Out-Of-Band (OOB) massaging with Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) configured to receive OOB messaging signals from a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS). The method and system include determining whether a DCD message identifying data tunnels includes a DCD message identifier matching with a CPE identifier such that... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070274346 - Methods and apparatus for network joining using a multiple message per tdma control slot methodology: A method for transmitting network joining message packets during control slots of a time division multiple access (TDMA) frame sequence is described. The method includes determining a size of the network joining packet to be processed for transmission, recognizing which slots of the TDMA frame sequence are control slots, subdividing... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070274347 - Method and terminal for controlling multimedia connections: In one aspect, multimedia connections are enabled between terminals coupled to a first communication network with a power characteristic control system and to a second communication network for transmitting multimedia data to be controlled in a simple manner. When a switching-oriented power characteristic is activated, the power characteristic control system... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070274348 - Link layer device with clock processing hardware resources shared among multiple ingress and egress links: In a communication system comprising a link layer device connectable to one or more physical layer devices, the link layer device is configured using an efficient shared architecture for processing data associated with a plurality of links including at least one ingress link and at least one egress link. The... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070274349 - Detector and method for detecting abnormality in time synchronization: A transmitting and receiving section transmits data to which a time measured in a first device is attached, from the first device through a communication line, and receives the data in a second device. A communication abnormality detecting section detects an abnormality in a communication between the first device and... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070274350 - Multiple high-speed bit stream interface circuit: A high-speed bit stream interface module interfaces a high-speed communication media to a communication Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) via a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) or the communication ASIC to another communication ASIC. The high-speed bit stream interface includes a plurality of signal conditioning circuits. The signal conditioning circuits service... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070274351 - Multiple fiber optic gigabit ethernet liniks channelized over single optical link: A method, an apparatus, and a system where multiple lower bandwidth optic Ethernet (e.g. 1000Base-FX) signals can be interleaved or encoded onto a single fiber optic link by overclocking the physical layer elements in such a manner as to be transparent to the data link layer and other higher network... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20070274352 - Demultiplexing digital data into a 3x mode: An apparatus and method for demultiplexing sampled data at a first data rate on a data line using a non-standard demultiplex mode is achieved by first demultiplexing the sampled data using a standard, factor of two, demultiplex mode, to produce n data lines at 1/n time the first data rate,... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20070268811 - Telecommunication system and method: An arrangement for use in a telecommunication system includes a binder of subscriber lines, a local transceiver circuit, and a far-end crosstalk cancellation circuit. Each of the subscriber lines ends at one of a plurality of remote user terminals. The local transceiver circuit is associated with the binder of subscriber... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck Chase Tower

20070268812 - Method of configuring wireless resource for effective and efficient transmission in a wireless communication system: A method of transmitting a data packet in a orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes receiving feedback information from an access terminal (AT), configuring the data packet for indoor environment or outdoor environment with at least one of variable duration of cyclic prefix... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070268813 - Method of decoding a spatially multiplexed signal and its corresponding receiver: estimating the value of the second symbol s2 to generate an estimated value of the second symbol; calculating an Euclidean distance between the received signal and a noiseless signal defined by the first symbol with said selected value and by the second symbol with said estimated value; selecting the minimal... Agent: Graybeal Jacson Haley LLP

20070268814 - Method for adaptive quadrature amplitude modulation signal constellation remapping for data packet retransmissions: A simplified QAM signal constellation symbol-wise remapping scheme for data packet retransmissions to improve performance at a high coding rate. The simplified QAM signal constellation symbol-wise remapping scheme takes advantage of the separate I and Q labeling bits in a QAM signal to reduce the complexity of a receiving node.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070268815 - Method for estimating a weighting vector for an adaptive phased array antenna system: The present invention discloses a low-complexity estimation method for obtaining a weighting vector for an antenna system with adaptive phased arrays. A first matrix is generated from a plurality of statistically independent symbols of the receiving signals. The plurality of statistically independent symbols is received from two or more antennas... Agent: L. Howard Chen Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP

20070268816 - System for supporting consecutive and distributed subcarrier channels in ofdma networks: A system and method of downlink resource allocation to both Distributed Resource Channel (DRCH) and Localized Resource Channel (LRCH) users in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) network. A utility function is provided for each LRCH and DRCH user, wherein the utility function is concave and non-decreasing; a resource... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

20070268819 - Fault tolerant data bus node and system: A data bus node, being a control node or a sensor node and being arranged to communicate over a TDMA data bus. The node includes a time signal processing device being configured to define a TDMA time slot transmission schedule for at least the node. A switch is configured to... Agent: Venable LLP

20070268817 - Method and system for protecting a sub-domain within a broadcast domain: A method and system for protecting a service available on a broadcast domain. A sub-domain is established within the broadcast domain. The sub-domain includes a group of nodes used to provide a communication path to the service. A primary sub-domain maintenance association and a back-up sub-domain maintenance association are monitored.... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070268818 - Station side transmission unit, operation control method for station side transmission unit, and optical network using station side transmission unit: A station side transmission unit in an optical network includes two redundant modules. An interface of each of the redundant modules for connection to an outside of the station side transmission unit includes a function of releasing closure of the interface. One of the redundant modules serves as an active... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070268820 - Failover of multicast traffic flows using nic teaming: A method of operating a network computer system provides redundant Internet Protocol (IP) Multicast traffic flow on a group of physical ports and comprises virtualizing the group of physical ports into a single virtual Network Interface Controller (NIC), validating network connectivity in a logical group comprising at least one of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070268821 - Rpr representation in ospf-te: A method for communication includes representing a layer 2 ring network, which includes two or more ring nodes interconnected by two unidirectional ringlets, as a plurality of unidirectional point-to-point links connecting respective pairs of the ring nodes and having respective traffic engineering (TE) related attributes. The TE-related attributes of the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070268822 - Conformance control module: Systems, methods and computer readable media are provided for the conformance testing of services through the utilization of a conformance control module. In one exemplary embodiment, the method may include comparing meta-data returned by the service to predetermined parameters to determine whether the meta-data conforms to the predetermined parameters. The... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070268823 - Device and method for managing oversubscription in a network: A device and a method for aggregating and managing large quantities of data are disclosed. The received data are prioritized into high and low priority queues. The device receive memory is partitioned into blocks which are further divided into free list and allocation list. The low priority queues occupy between... Agent: Foothill Law Group

20070268824 - Thin client system: In a thin client system which provides a high-quality picture reproduction method and which makes it possible to use a thin client terminal as a TeleVision (TV) phone terminal and a TV conference terminal, a video reproducing module is disposed in a thin client server device and a graphics module... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070268825 - Fine-grain fairness in a hierarchical switched system: A scalable solution to managing fairness in a congested hierarchical switched system is disclosed. The solution comprises a means for managing fairness during congestion in a hierarchical switched system comprising a first level arbitration system and a second level arbitration system of a stage. The first level arbitration system comprises... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20070268826 - Method and system for managing traffic within a data communication network: A flow control method and system including an algorithm for deciding to transmit an arriving packet into a processing queue or to discard it, or, in the case of instructions or packets that must not be discarded, a similar method and system for deciding at a service event to transmit... Agent: Driggs, Hogg & Fry Co. L.p.a.

20070268827 - Congestion handling in a packet switched network domain: A system a core (104), an edge node (102, 103) and a method are provided for congestion handling in a packet switched network domain. In case of congestion overload is measured, the data packets in proportion to the overload are marked and the signaled overload is stored. At least one... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070268828 - Closed loop control system and method of dynamically changing the loop bandwidth: The invention provides a method for dynamically changing the loop bandwidth of a closed loop control system. At least one loop bandwidth parameter controls the loop bandwidth of the closed loop control system. An error signal reflecting the convergence status of the output signal of the closed loop control system... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070268829 - Congestion management groups: A scalable solution to managing congestion in a network is disclosed. In one implementation, such a solution comprises a means for managing traffic including at least one flow monitor and a plurality of flow control regulators that together manage congestion within a network. Each of the flow control regulators monitor... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20070268830 - Flow based flow control in an ethernet switch backplane: In one embodiment, a method includes detecting packet congestion in a network device that includes a switch, and a plurality of components operable to transmit and receive data packets from and to the switch. The method includes, in response to detecting packet congestion, transmitting an Ethernet pause frame to at... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070268831 - Method for network load shaping in a mobile radio network: A method for network load shaping in a mobile radio network classifies data packets in a packet data stream according to a leaky bucket classi