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 classification system and optionally delays the data packets in a network device within the mobile radio core network, in order to smooth burst and hence to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070268832 - System and method to achieve sub-second routing performance: A system and method for routing data, the system having a processor, an interface in communication with the processor and capable of being in communication with a second system for routing data, a memory unit in communication with the processor, the memory unit having a network routing table having a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070268833 - Systems and methods for measuring two or more input signals using a single input on a measuring device: A method for measuring two or more input signals using a single-input measuring device is described. Test equipment that comprises a single-input measuring device is provided. A first input is received. A second input is received. The second input is delayed by a time delay T to provide a delayed... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20070268834 - Information encoding on a codeword in wireless communication networks: A wireless communication network entity 400 and a method therein wherein data is encoded using an error correcting code to form a first codeword, for example, a cyclic redundancy code, including redundancy. A second codeword is generated by encoding additional data on a portion of the first codeword, wherein the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070268835 - Redundancy communication control system and redundancy communication control method: A control unit for transmitting data to control the operation of a controlled unit transmits a command via a main control channel and a sub control channel. The controlled unit distinguishes via which channel of the main control channel and the sub control channel received data is received and determines... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070268837 - Method and apparatus for simply configuring a subscriber appliance for performing a service controlled by a separate service provider: A method and apparatus for configuring an appliance, such as a network node, for performing s service, such as communicating with a network, controlled by a service provider include inserting into an Ethernet port on the appliance an Ethernet couple on a device that is usually small compared to the... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20070268836 - Method and system for quality monitoring of media over internet protocol (moip): In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an internet protocol (IP) packet including encoded media content. A media-quality-value is calculated based on a value of at least one parameter associated with the IP packet and based on a quality equation. The quality equation includes at least one parameter and at... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070268839 - Method and apparatus for autoconfiguring a high speed serial port: A method and apparatus for automatically configuring a high-speed serial port is provided. Configuration parameters are automatically configured for a particular serial protocol, for example, T1/J1/E1 based on the result of analyzing data transmitted from the high-speed serial port that is received by the high-speed serial port.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070268838 - System and method for facilitating an internet protocol based personal area network: A technique for facilitating an Internet Protocol (IP) based Personal Area Network (PAN) includes a personal communications device operable to initiate a discovery request to determine one or more available endpoints in a PAN. The personal communications device receives a discovery reply from one or more available endpoints in the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070268840 - Association of a multi-access terminal to a communication network: A method of associating a multi-access terminal (STA) with a communications network. The method includes sending data about the connection of the terminal to other networks from the terminal to an access point (AP) of the network.... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070268841 - Methods and systems for configuring voice over internet protocol network quality of service: Automated methods and systems for determining and setting router QoS adjustments to control the service level of VoIP voice communications in a packet switching network supporting both voice and data communications. Network topology and service level requirements are processed to determine QoS settings for each of the routers. The QoS... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070268842 - Method for switching communication networks: A method for switching communication network used in a first electronic device which is able to access many kinds of communication networks is disclosed. If the first electronic device receives a switching instruction at a time when a communication link and a data transmission have been established between the first... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070268843 - Segmented code division multiple access: The present disclosure provides for methods and systems for segmented spread-spectrum communication according to one embodiment of the invention. Segmented spread-spectrum communication may include replicating a signal, spreading each of the replicated signals with a code, and modulating each of the coded signals within a unique spectral segment. The spectral... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20070268844 - Controlling the state of duplexing of coupling facility structures: A coupling facility is coupled to one or more other coupling facilities via one or more peer links. The coupling of the facilities enables various functions to be supported, including the duplexing of structures of the coupling facilities. Duplexing is performed on a structure basis, and thus, a coupling facility... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070268845 - System and method for selecting a communication band: A system and method for making a band selection in a wireless communications device is provided. The available bands include a first-communication band, a second communication band, and an auxiliary band. A wideband diplexer provides a wideband path, which includes the first-communication band and the auxiliary band, and a second-communication... Agent: William J. Kolegraff

20070268846 - Enhanced physical layer repeater for operation in wimax systems: A method and repeater are described for repeating using a time division duplex (TDD) radio protocol. A signal is transmitted from a first station to a second station using a downlink and an uplink. The signal can be detected on the uplink or the downlink. The repeater can synchronize to... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070268847 - Signal processing network: A system, method, and device for generating a signal processing network for deployment on a motion control system are disclosed. The exemplary system may have a module that supplies one or more signal processing units represented in data format using existing compiled and linked code. Another module provides a dedicated... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070268848 - Half-duplex communication in a frequency division duplex system: Systems and methodologies are described that provide half-duplex communication in a frequency division duplex (FDD) system. Communications in an FDD system may be divided into half-duplex interlaces, wherein a terminal may receive at one time period and transmit at another time period. An access network in an FDD system may... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070268849 - Communications system providing adaptive polling based upon positive and negative polling events and related methods: A communications system may include at least one data storage device for storing messages for respective users, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices each associated with a respective user for accessing the messages stored on the at least one data storage device. Moreover, the communications system may further... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070268850 - Method, a computer program product, and a carrier for indicating one-way latency in a data network: Disclosed herein is a method, a computer program product, and a carrier for indicating one-way latency in a data network (N) between a first node (A) and a second node (B), wherein the data network (N) lacks continuous clock synchronization, comprising: a pre-synchronisation step, a measuring step, a post-synchronisation step,... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter

20070268851 - Mobile communication system, radio control station, base station and mobile station for the system, and parameter determination method employing parallel combinatory spread-spectrum scheme: System includes CS, BS connected to CS, and MS performing, with BS, data communication in PCSS scheme. CS comprises storage storing data rates and ratios, parameters indicating numbers of assignment codes and multicoding schemes, acquired one of parameters from storage corresponding to number of assignment codes and ratio, data rate... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070268856 - Beacon broadcaster methods and systems for wireless networks: Various embodiments are described relating to changing the role of the beacon broadcaster among nodes in a wireless network, such as a wireless meshed network. In an example embodiment, a message, for example, a beacon message, including a connectivity report description, may be sent from a current beacon broadcaster to... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070268855 - Enhanced unlicensed mobile access network architecture: An Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) network architecture. In a specific embodiment, the network architecture includes a mobile station and an access point in communication with the mobile station. A UMA Controller (UNC) communicates with the access point. A Service GateWay (SGW) communicates with the UMA controller. The SGW includes functionality... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070268853 - Identification of base stations: The identification of wireless communication base stations in a region of high base station density is effected using a specific identification signal pattern transmitted by the base stations. In particular, each base station transmits a signal having a pattern with at least two time phase shifts relative to at least... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070268857 - Mobile terminal and method of reducing interfering phase-noise in the mobile terminal: A mobile terminal capable of breaking a phase-noise signal caused by a high power transmission signal of a mobile phone such as GSM when receiving digital TV broadcasting such as DVB-H and a method of reducing interfering phase-noise in the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a first RF transmitter/receiver;... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070268854 - Optimizing communications throughput in a wireless networking environment that supports a plurality of communications channel topologies: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for optimizing communications throughput in a wireless networking environment that supports a plurality of communications channel topologies that include identifying a plurality of clients having wireless network adapters supporting disparate channel bandwidths in the wireless networking environment, and periodically switching from one... Agent: Lenovo Company C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20070268858 - Virtual gateway node for dual-mode wireless phones: The invention is a virtual gateway that mediates between a dual-mode subscriber device and an IP-based PBX. In particular, the virtual gateway includes a WLAN interface for communicating with the dual-mode subscriber device and a network interface (wired or wireless) for communicating with the IP-based PBX over the Internet. As... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner LLP-agere

20070268859 - Method and apparatus for controlling handoff: Disclosed is a method for controlling handoff by a network infrastructure, which includes collecting channel information and transmitting the channel information to a Mobile Terminal (MT) and a method for controlling handoff by a MT, which includes receiving channel information collected by a network infrastructure and making a handoff decision... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070268852 - Method and apparatus of managing wireless communication in a worksite: A method of controlling wireless messaging between mobile apparatuses and an onsite office in a worksite comprises the steps of: dividing the worksite area into elementary cells (C) mapped in correspondence with the topology of the area and into and communication zones (CZ), for a given communication zone of the... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070268861 - Bi-directional rlc non-persistent mode for low delay services: The transfer delay QoS attribute for delay-sensitive applications is enforced in radio access networks by determining the ongoing validity of incomplete data packets based on a maximum data transfer delay constraint. According to one embodiment, upper-layer packet data units (PDUs) associated with an application having a maximum data transfer delay... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070268862 - Method and system for establishing a connection on a secondary frequency channel for wireless communication: A method and system for establishing a subnet in a wireless network is provided for wireless transmission of information between two stations in the network. A subnet access process in a wireless communication system establishes a subnet comprising a direct wireless link on a secondary frequency channel for wireless transmission... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070268860 - Optimal allocation of resources in a wireless communication system: Optimal allocation of a number of sub carriers to applications having diverse QoS requirements and executing on terminal devices (e.g., mobile stations). A base station (BS) considers the QoS requirements and the observed QoS for each of the applications in computing the number of sub carriers allocated to each terminal... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070268867 - Access point polling systems and methods: Embodiments of AP polling systems and methods are disclosed. One method embodiment, among others, comprises soliciting by a station a response from an access point (AP), and determining whether data for the station is stored at the AP based on the response.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, L.L.P.

20070268866 - Ieee 802.15.4 network system providing mobility and operating method thereof: An IEEE 802.15.4 network system capable of directly controlling a stationary device without through a coordinator. The IEEE 802.15.4 network system includes: at least one stationary device allocated with an address and an ID indicating a preset device type to be associated with the IEEE 802.15.4 network; and a coordinator... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070268868 - Method and system for reliable broadcast or multicast communication in wireless networks: A method and system for communicating information over a wireless channel in a communication system including a coordinator and receivers, involves controlling channel access by dividing a contention-free period (CFP) into one or more schedules, wherein each schedule includes one or more periodical channel time blocks (CTBs) for wireless communication,... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070268864 - Method and system to enhance social networking through random location connectivity: A system (100) and method (500, 600, or 700) of enhancing social networking through random location connectivity can include a transceiver (212) and a processor (210) operatively coupled to the transceiver. The transceiver can be a part of a cellular or camera phone for example. The processor can be programmed... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070268863 - Wireless access network and method for handover of mobile terminals in idle mode: Embodiments of a wireless access network and methods for maintaining current location information for mobile terminals in idle mode are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070268865 - Communications system, mobile node apparatus, and method of performing a handover: A communications system comprises a first network node (102) and a second network node (110). A mobile node (108) attached to the first network node (102) hands over from communicating with the first network node (102) at a link layer (208) of a protocol stack to communicating with the second... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070268869 - Method and apparatus for communications of data in a communication system: A method and apparatus provides for efficient data rate control and power control processes by transmitting a primary and a secondary pilot channel associated with a data channel. The primary and secondary pilot channels are used for decoding the data. A ratio of power levels of the primary and secondary... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070268870 - Communicating non-scheduling information in wireless networks: A wireless communication infrastructure entity 200 and methods therein including assigning a first wireless communication terminal to one or more resources, and sending non-scheduling information to the first wireless communication terminal on an RRBP field in a downlink block based on whether information is received from the first wireless communication... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070268871 - Carrier frequency offset estimation preamble symbols: Carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation from preamble symbols. Any communication receiver may be adapted to perform the CFO estimation. The CFO estimation is performed using a low complexity, high accuracy CFO estimation method. The operation may be described as follows: each element of a received sequence is divided by the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070268872 - Handling the use of multiple 802.11n channels in a location where there are a small number of available channels: A method, computer program product and system for handling the use of multiple 802.11n channels in a location where there are a small number of available channels. An access point (“access point A”) having a client (“client A”) located solely within its coverage area and another client (“client B”) located... Agent: Lenovo (us)IPLaw

20070268874 - Method and system for providing quick service access: Provided are apparatuses and methods for transmitting and receiving quick access services. For example, a mobile terminal may receive a data stream containing a quick access service of a particular type. The quick access service may have a fixed Packet Identification (PID) and/or fixed IP address. The fixed PID and/or... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070268879 - Method, communication system, central interface device and mobile terminal for operating a wireless communication connection: A method for operating a wireless communication connection comprising a first device using a first standard for LANs and providing a first radio coverage area, a second device operating according to a second standard and providing a second radio coverage area, the first and the second coverage areas overlapping, a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070268878 - Nomadic internet: The invention relates to shared internet access for both hosts and guests, whereby the host operates or owns the hotspot. The traffic from guests is separated from the traffic from a serving host in the communication path towards the service provider and treated separately by the service provider with regards... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20070268875 - Role exchange method for bluetooth system: The present invention discloses a role exchange method for Bluetooth system. It comprises the steps of: a first slave asking role exchange and transmitting a FHS packet to a first master at a first time point t1; the first master exchanging as a second slave at the second time point... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070268876 - System, apparatus and method to route radio frequency signals: Briefly, a wireless communication device having two or more different wireless radio frequency (RF) units operably coupled to a router by two or more respective buses. The router is able to route bit streams of radio frequency signals from a digital baseband unit to one of the two or more... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070268873 - Wireless communication session handover method and apparatus for use with different wireless access technologies: A first and a second, different wireless access technology are supported (101 and 102) via an access gateway (200). The first wireless access technology, for example, can serve to facilitate provision of a wireless communication session with a given mobile station (104). Using (105) a received first identifier that correlates... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070268881 - High data throughput wlan frame format: A frame format for high data throughput wireless local area network transmissions includes a first preamble segment, a second preamble segment, and a variable length data segment. The first preamble segment includes at least one training sequence and a high throughput channel indication. The second preamble segment includes a high... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070268880 - Interference mitigation and adaptive routing in wireless ad-hoc packet-switched networks: Described are an apparatus and method for routing packets through a multiple-hop wireless communications network. Interference with packet switched communications carried by radio frequency (RF) over the multiple-hop wireless communications network is detected. In response to information related to the detected interference, a route is adaptively determined for transmitting packets... Agent: Patent Administrator Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP

20070268877 - System and method for facilitating accelerated network selection using a weighted network list: A scheme for facilitating accelerated network selection by a wireless user equipment (UE) device. In one exemplary embodiment, prior to performing a full band scan, the wireless UE device is operable to interrogate a list of networks with which the wireless UE device has registered at least once in a... Agent: Danamraj & Emanuelson, P.C.

20070268882 - Method for implementing and reporting one-way network measurements: A method is disclosed for implementing and reporting network measurements between a source of probe packets and an element, such as a router. The invention exploits commonly implemented features on commercial elements. By exploiting these features, the expense of deploying special purpose measurement devices can be avoided. In one aspect... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070268883 - Radio text plus over digital video broadcast-handheld: Provided are apparatuses and methods for transmitting radiotext plus data (e.g., RT+ data) to a mobile terminal. In one example, radiotext plus data is received and transmitted to the mobile terminal in a Digital Video Broadcast—Handheld (DVB-H) data stream. Program or service data corresponding to a program may be endoded... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070268884 - Integrated infrastructure for coexistence of wi-fi networks with other networks: A wireless communications method and system includes an industrial sensor network that comprises a plurality of industrial sensors, which communicates with the industrial sensor network at a particular operating frequency band through one or more infrastructure nodes associated with the industrial sensor network. A wireless communications network is established, which... Agent: Kris Fredrick Honeywell International Inc.

20070268885 - Method and system for two stage forwarding information base: A method and system for data packet forwarding is provided. A forwarding information base is stored. The forwarding information base has a first stage with a first lookup key and a second stage with a second lookup key. The first lookup key is a portion of the second lookup key.... Agent: Alan M. Weisberg Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070268887 - Method and system for communicating and processing voip packets using a jitter buffer: A method and system for communicating and processing VOIP packets using a jitter buffer. The method includes receiving VOIP packets from a plurality of base stations, buffering the received VOIP packets in a jitter buffer and playing the VOIP packets from the jitter buffer. The VOIP packets received from the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070268888 - System and method employing strategic communications between a network controller and a security gateway: A system for enhancing functionality of a network. In a specific embodiment, the system employs strategic communications between a network controller and a security gateway. The strategic communications occur via a feedback communications channel between the network controller and the security gateway. The feedback communications channel facilitates transferring security information,... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070268889 - Access method in a wlan for an ip mobile telephone with authentication by means of an hlr: A method and a system for IP-based telephony and video conferencing between at least one IP node and a second terminal. According to the method, authentication data is transmitted from an identification module of the IP nodes and registration data is transmitted to a registration module. The IP node is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070268890 - Integrated telecommunication service system: An integrated telecommunication service system, including one or more digital signal processing (DSP) modules processing voice signals and signaling and independent from each other. The DSP modules are connected to each other via communication and each of them is also connected to PSTN via communication. Each DSP module is also... Agent: Eric Chan

20070268892 - Internet caller identification system and method: The present invention is an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) based system and method that allows a subscriber connected to the Internet via a dial-up connection to receive caller identification information concerning an incoming telephone call. The information may be provided via a pop-up dialog box on the subscriber's display, which... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070268886 - Method and apparatus for distributed indication of voip telephone calls: A telecommunications device includes a housing including a pronged plug for insertion into a standard electrical wall outlet; a controller mounted within said housing and including a wireless local area network controller configured to receive incoming call indicia from a voice over IP telephony client; and a speaker operably coupled... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070268891 - Method and entities for providing call enrichment of voice calls and semantic combination of several service sessions to a virtual combined service session: A method for controlling communication between a number of first terminal modules connected to a multimedia IP network in particular with the first communication session being a call session already running, includes the steps of establishing a first communication session between the first terminal modules, establishing at least one second... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070268893 - Internet telephony gateway and method for detecting connection error thereof: A method is provided for detecting connection errors in an Internet telephony gateway (ITG) including a subscriber line interface controller (SLIC). The method includes initializing the SLIC for enabling the SLIC to operate in a forward active state; determining a connection status of the port; enabling the SLIC to operate... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070268896 - Communication system and management device and relay device used therein: The present invention provides a communication system facilitating introduction into an existing network and improving a quality of service of communications. The communication system is configured by connecting a relay device performing wireless communications with a terminal, a management device managing the relay device and a server to each other... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070268895 - Method and apparatus for switching data: An apparatus is provided for switching data between input and output lines. The input and output lines are coupled to a number of line termination boards which are interconnected by a network. The line termination boards comprise a data block processor which for each switch interval combines data from the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070268898 - Advanced routing: Included are embodiments for advanced routing. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving a message from a first device at a first backbone controller. The message may be configured to indicate a second device as a desired recipient and sending the message to a network controller. The message... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070268897 - Communication apparatus, transmission control method, and transmission control program: A communication apparatus includes a storage unit having a plurality of storage areas corresponding to a plurality of candidates of a destination of data to be transmitted, a detecting unit for detecting the amount of data stored in each of the storage areas, a destination selecting unit for selecting one... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070268894 - Packet communication system and packet communication method: User communication apparatus 110 in packet communication system 100 has internal network 111, base station apparatus 112, internal server 113, radio network control apparatus 114 and mobile communication terminal apparatus 151. Radio network control apparatus 114 receives an IP packet from mobile communication terminal apparatus 115 via base station apparatus... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070268900 - Apparatus and method for allocating resources in multi-carrier telecommunication system: An apparatus and method for allocating resources in multi-carrier wireless telecommunication system is provided. The apparatus comprises a scheduler for configuring a multicast channel by combining sub-carriers according to a multicast preference for each sub-carrier, and controlling resource allocation according to the configured multicast channel, and a sub-carrier mapper for... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070268899 - Proactively providing a redundant multicast tree in an internet protocol television (iptv) network: In certain embodiments, an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) network comprises an operating multicast tree comprising a first set of nodes and components. The first set of nodes and components are operable to process an operating data stream to facilitate delivery of one or more channels to one or more endpoints.... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20070268901 - Technique for deallocation of memory in a multicasting environment: A technique deallocates memory in a multicasting environment, such as within a network device. The technique involves tracking the slowest member of a plurality of multicast members designated to receive an input packet or flow and, other than a deallocation request presented by the slowest member, blocking all deallocation requests... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070268902 - Generation of valid program clock reference time stamps for duplicate transport stream packets: The present invention is suitable for use in a communications system that transmits a transport stream, such as an MPEG stream. The present invention addresses the need of generating a valid value for a duplicated packet in the transport stream. A first embodiment of the present invention interpolates between a... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20070268906 - Information processing apparatus matching respective address data input at plurality of apparatuses and computer program embodies in a computer readable medium executed in information processing apparatus: To register address data in relation with its registration-source identification information, MFP includes: a obtaining portion for obtaining address data from an apparatus, the address data including destination user identification information identifying a destination user and destination information identifying a destination; a obtaining portion for obtaining apparatus identification information identifying... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070268904 - Method and apparatus for detecting forwarding loops: The invention includes a method and apparatus for detecting a forwarding loop at a network element. The method includes determining whether a received message was previously received by the first network element, and, if the received message was previously received, calculating a current routing digest and determining whether a header... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070268905 - Non-volatile memory error correction system and method: A non-volatile memory has a first payload data region and a first redundant memory area associated with the first payload data region. The first redundant memory area has a first portion, a second portion and a third portion. The first portion includes first payload error correction code (ECC) data associated... Agent: Daniel G. Gabriel

20070268903 - System and method for assigning packets to output queues: In particular embodiments of the present invention, a method for assigning packets to output queues of a switch is provided. In a particular embodiment, a method for assigning packets to output queues of a switch includes receiving a packet at an input port of a switch, the packet associated with... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070268907 - Method and apparatus for rendering a cell-based switch useful for frame based application protocols: A method for providing an early packet termination such that prior to the complete transmission of the number of cells specified in the first cell of a packet, a crossbar connection is released. The act of releasing the connection is triggered on recognition of an End of Packet bit (EOP)... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20070268908 - System and method for authorizing access to a uma network based on access point identifier: A system and method are arranged to evaluate registration requests associated with a mobile subscriber (MS) in a fixed-mobile converged network. The fixed-mobile converged network consists of at least one fixed network topology (e.g., IP) and at least one mobile network topology (e.g., CDMA, TDMA, GSM, etc.). Registration request are... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070268910 - Recovering a pool of connections: In an embodiment, in response to a request, a connection is selected from a pool of connections to a server. If the connection is stale and the number of stale connections encountered is greater than an adaptive threshold, then recovery is performed on all of the connections in the pool.... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070268909 - Method, device and system for realizing qos guarantee in a mpls network: A method for realizing QoS guarantee in a MPLS network, a method for establishing a QoS data path, a method for terminating QoS data transmission, an edge router for a MPLS network and a MPLS network for realizing QoS guarantee are provided. The method for realizing QoS guarantee in a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070268911 - Proximity enforcement in heterogeneous network environments: The invention provides an enforcement mechanism for limiting the propagation of content to a predefined proximity in a heterogeneous network. The protection mechanism determines the distance associated with wireless links of the heterogeneous networks and verifies that the distance is within the predefined proximity limits. The distance may be measured... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070268912 - Communication server network for computer networks: The invention relates to a communication server network for computer networks that are based on the Internet protocol. Said communication server network supports data exchange according to the session initiation protocol and is provided with at least two conventional SIP servers as well as an SIP distributor server for distributing... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070268913 - System and method for communicating on a virtual ring in an internet protocol network: A node within a network comprising a transport layer protocol for multicasting datagrams on a virtual ring. Each node on the virtual ring is logically connected to two neighbour nodes through virtual connections. A virtual ring datagram is sent to a downstream neighbour node on the virtual ring and a... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20070268914 - Tenant network controller apparatus and method: A tenant LAN controller includes an association of an MAC address with a geographic location in a first memory; a router connecting a WAN to a plurality of individual computers and a processor. The processor is configured to turn off an individual computer's internet access upon the individual computer being... Agent: Husch & Eppenberger, LLC

20070268920 - Communication gateway between wireless communication networks: The invention relates to a communication gateway comprising means for transmission (11) and means for reception (12) of messages in order to communicate with at least one remote node (30) on a first wireless communication network (5) according to a protocol which includes network access control. The reception means (12)... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070268921 - 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 includes a communication controller which controls relay of communication via the radio packet communication network between the high-level... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070268915 - Mac address learning in a distributed bridge: A method for communication includes configuring a network node having at least first and second line cards, the line cards having respective ports, to operate as a distributed media access control (MAC) bridge in a Layer 2 network. Each of the line cards has a respective forwarding database (FDB). Upon... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070268917 - Methods and systems for enabling remote booting of remote boot clients in a switched network defining a plurality of virtual local area networks (vlans): A method of enabling remote booting of a remote boot client in a switched network defining a plurality of virtual local area networks (VLANs). The switched network may include a first trunking aware switch, a first remote boot client and a remote boot server and the method may include setting... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.C.

20070268918 - Packet tunneling for wireless clients using maximum transmission unit reduction: Apparatus having corresponding methods and computer programs comprise a first port comprising a first transmitter to transmit a first packet to a first network, wherein the first packet identifies a first maximum size; a first receiver to receive second packets from the first network, wherein each second packet has a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070268916 - System and method of interface association for interface operational status event monitoring: A system and method for interface association between an ATM interface and a GigE/IP interface of a routing switch platform (RSP) to enable network management of a redundant pair of RSPs which serve as an interface between GigE/IP and ATM are provided.... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070268919 - Using dhcpv6 and aaa for mobile station prefix delegation and enhanced neighbor discovery: A network component comprising a processor configured to implement a method comprising promoting transmission of a request for an address prefix to a prefix issuing party, identifying a reply comprising the address prefix from the prefix issuing party, and promoting transmission of a router advertisement comprising the address prefix to... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070268922 - Gateway: A work flow manager (1) of a gateway comprises a process automation component (2), a policy engine (3), and a traffic gateway (4). The work flow manager (1) communicates via the internet (5) over IP with content providers (6) and content aggregators (7). On the other side it communicates over... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070268923 - Assigning a data channel to multiple data links for simultaneous data transmission via a single data channel: A method for data transmission via several data channels in a network linking several units to one another, where the units can function as data sources, data sinks or transceivers, includes the steps of arbitrarily assigning a first data channel to a first predetermined one or more connection segments; arbitrarily... Agent: O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C.

20070268925 - Input buffer device and control method thereof: An input buffer device and control method of the input buffer device. The input buffer device includes a virtual output queuing (VOQ) buffering section which has a plurality of VOQ buffers. The input buffer device stores data which is input to an input port to a VOQ buffer corresponding to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070268924 - System and method for recognition and cyclic service of partial sequences of communication requests: A system for servicing a telecommunications conversation comprising one or more messages includes a sequence recognition engine for processing an incoming message, a queue for storing a sequence of messages of said conversation, a length indicator for a message subsequence eligible for processing, a state indicator of said message sequence,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070268926 - System and method for allocating memory resources in a switching environment: In particular embodiments of the present invention, a system for allocating memory resources in a switching environment is provided. In particular embodiments, the system includes a plurality of port modules each associated with a port. In these embodiments, the system also includes a data memory logically divided into a plurality... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070268927 - Multiplexing apparatus and receiving apparatus: Provided are: a multiplexing apparatus for comparing priorities, selecting multiplexed data in an arbitrary output rate, and outputting the multiplexed data; and a receiving apparatus for combining data outputted from the multiplexing apparatus in a time sequential order, and thereafter outputting the data. A multiplexing apparatus (1) includes: a multiplexing... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman

20070268928 - Generic trau frame structure: There is disclosed a TRAU frame comprising, in sequence, a set of control bits, a set of class A bits, a set of error check bits, and a set of Class B bits, the set of control bits including at least one bit identifying the location of the other sets... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070268929 - Method and apparatus for bridging network protocols: Methods and apparatus for bridging network protocols are disclosed. A protocol bridge may be used to function as a target for a network processor while performing a target mode operation, while functioning as an initiator on behalf of the network processor while performing an initiator mode operation. In one embodiment,... Agent: Law Office Of Gerald Maliszewski

20070268930 - Telecommunication network system and method in communication services using session initiation protocol: An implementation of a voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) system for accomplishing two-way, three-way and conference calling between two or more parties is disclosed, in which new call features are readily adapted. The VoIP system is implemented in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) framework in which aspects of Distributed Feature Composition (DFC)... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070268931 - Packets transfer device that intelligently accounts for variable egress channel widths when scheduling use of dispatch bus by egressing packet streams: In PCI-Express and alike communications systems, data bandwidth per channel can vary as a result of negotiated port aggregation and/or bifurcation during network bring-up. Disclosed are systems and methods for opportunistically interleaving dispatches of packet data for secondary egress channels when the data bandwidth of a primary egress channel is... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070268932 - Apparatus and method for moving a receive window in a radio access network: A method of moving a receiving window in a wireless mobile communication system, wherein the AM RLC of the transmitting side sends information of the last discarded SDU regardless of continuity of the discarded SDUs. The AM RLC of the receiving side checks whether all SDUs from the start point... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070268933 - Method, system and apparatus for receiving multicast and broadcast service: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for receiving Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS), includes: adding information of a next MBS_MAP message in a current MBS_MAP message; determining receiving information of the next MBS_MAP message according to the current MBS_MAP message and the information added in the current MBS_MAP... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070268934 - Digital wireless voice and data modem: Simultaneous transmission of voice and data over the voice channel of a digital wireless communications network, such as a “cell phone” network, is reconfigurable on the fly among multiple operating modes, including a lull detection mode in which data is transferred during a lull or quiet period in the voice... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20070268935 - Digital broadcast receiving apparatus and method of reducing output time of broadcast content: A digital broadcast receiving apparatus and method of reducing an output time of broadcast content, includes for the apparatus, a transport stream generator generating a transport stream from a digital broadcast signal, a transport stream buffer buffering the transport stream, a controller determining whether the buffered transport stream is reliable;... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070268936 - Method for providing video source list and video apparatus: A method for providing a video source list and a video apparatus are provided. The video apparatus comprises a combiner which combines an external input list with a video to be displayed, the external input list including information regarding external inputs of the video apparatus and a controller which generates... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070268937 - System and method for linking at least two multimedia terminals connected to each other via a landline or cellular network: The invention relates to linking Linking at least two multimedia terminals connected to each other via a landline or cellular network. Before a call from the terminal of a calling person to the terminal of a called person, the calling person chooses a multimedia content to be sent to the... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070268938 - Network time protocol precision timestamping service: Embodiments of the present invention set forth a method and system for reducing uncertainty in receive and transmit timestamps created by an NTP server. The uncertainty in the receive timestamps is removed by recording the time-of-arrival in the hardware clock of the NTP server before the incoming packets may be... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070263528 - Methods and systems for scheduling ofdm frames: System and methods for scheduling OFDM frames are provided. Each packet is assigned to a frame bucket, this amounting to a temporary decision of when to transmit the packet. Each packet is marked with one or more metrics. The metrics are used to sort packets and make scheduling decisions. Packets... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20070263529 - Receiver apparatus and transmitter apparatus: In a wireless communication system based on an OFDM technology, a control channel and a low-speed data channel can be multiplexed without a reduction in the transmission speed of a traffic channel. In a communication system that is operated by multiplexing a traffic channel for performing high-speed data transmission and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070263530 - Telephone communication system and method over local area network wiring: A method and apparatus for enabling a local area network wiring structure to simultaneously carry digital data and analog telephone signals on the same transmission medium. It is particularly applicable to a network in star topology, in which remote data units (e.g. personal computers) are each connected to a hub... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070263531 - System, apparatus for switching networks and method therefor: An apparatus for switching between a first network and a second network comprises a generator, a processor and a switch. The generator generates a table, wherein the table stores first connection information for the first network and second connection information for the second network. The processor checks a status of... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070263532 - Backup path convergence in the aps environment: A SONET network terminated by routers includes working paths and backup paths. The routers pre-establishes in their link state data bases the links in both for both the working and backup paths. However, the links involved in the backup paths are given higher costs, then the links working paths, that... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070263533 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and recovering multi-lane encoded data streams using a reduced number of lanes: A method includes receiving first encoded data associated with one or more first lanes and decoding the first encoded data to produce decoded data. The method also includes encoding the decoded data to produce second encoded data associated with one or more second lanes and transmitting the second encoded data.... Agent: Lisa K. Jorgenson Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20070263535 - Policy aware frame loss measurement: A novel mechanism for performing policy aware frame loss measurements that overcomes the problems of the prior art. The mechanism permits OAM frames to travel through the network in the same way data frames travel marked as green or yellow. The frame loss measurement is policy aware (i.e. SLA aware),... Agent: Zaretsky & Associates PC

20070263534 - Virtualized computing architecture having multiple realms: An architecture and method for implementing a nodal complex (NC) supporting multiple quality of service (QoS) realms is provided. The disclosed architecture includes: a first set of extended enterprise service bus (EESB) rules for supporting nodes operating in a sub-second QoS realm; a second set of EESB rules for supporting... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070263536 - Network communication system wherein multiple controllers communicate so that one node contacting a first controller can communicate with another node contacting a second controller and acknowledge back that communication is successful: A communication system is provided for communication between network nodes and multiple communication controllers. The communication method provides for request timeslot management, assigning request timeslots to individual nodes. In the network, when an individual node has data to transmit, the node transmits a request signal to a communication controller over... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070263537 - Network having multiple qos levels: In a multi-QoS network, a scheduling mechanism, such as Weighted Fair Queueing, is configured to meet the multiple QoS guarantees. For each link with n classes and n fixed weights, the traffic is assigned to the various classes to meet end-to-end delay constraints.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070263538 - Directed pppoe session initiation over a switched ethernet: Disclosed is a method and system performing load distribution among a plurality of access concentrators, the method includes: receiving information regarding the load status of each access concentrator, building a database of the load status of each access concentrator based on the received information, receiving a session initiation message from... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070263540 - Method and device for the automatic readjustment of limits for access controls used to restrict traffic in a communication network: There is described a method and a configuration system for the automatic readjustment of limits for access controls used to restrict the traffic in a communication network formed by links, said communication network comprising control bodies for performing the access controls. The readjustment of limits for access controls is triggered... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070263539 - Method for monitoring service performance and quality level in a telecommunications network: The invention discloses a method for monitoring service performance and quality level in a telecommunications network. The method comprises the use of Traffic Streams as the objects which are observed and used for said monitoring. The Traffic Streams are defined as objects which comprise: A Traffic Stream Type, which defines... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070263541 - Automatic correlation of service level agreement and operating level agreement: Data collected during runtime and associated with a service level agreement and operating level agreement for a network service are automatically correlated together. A network monitoring system monitors the network service during runtime to determine SLA and OLA violations. An SLA is tested against traffic monitoring data derived from monitoring... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20070263542 - Method for transmitting data available in the form of data packets: In a system in which several data links are available for the transmission while one respective sending unit is allocated to the data links to temporarily store data that is to be transmitted via the respective data link, data packets containing non-real-time critical data are subdivided into fragments of variable... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070263544 - System and method for finding shortest paths between nodes included in a network: There is provided a system that uses a network matrix to carry out a search for shortest paths from a starting node included in a network having a plurality of nodes to other nodes. The network matrix includes link costs of links and each link has a root end that... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070263543 - Information entry for network optimization: A telecommunications network model receives data regarding a telecommunications network and a customer's use of that network. The data includes information about nodes, link between nodes, tariffs, and customer usage. The received data is utilized to create a model of the telecommunications network. The model may then be utilized to... Agent: Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070263545 - Network diagnostic systems and methods for using network configuration data: A network diagnostic module may use network configuration data in performing network diagnostic methods. The network diagnostic module may use network configuration data to generate baseline network activity data. The network diagnostic module may use network configuration data to identify network components and aggregate network activity data for the components.... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070263546 - Automated network testing: A test case management subsystem includes a data store, the data store including data relating to a network device. A network testing subsystem is configured to receive an instruction from said test case management subsystem, wherein the instruction includes the data relating to the network device, and execute an automated... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070263547 - Method for error detection in a packet-based message distribution system: In one aspect, a method for error detection in a packet-based message distribution system, according to which messages are distributed via a plurality of nodes and other system components, and each node comprises at least two addressable interfaces is provided. For the security of the system, the message distribution paths... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070263548 - Communication control system: A community control server stores in a community defining table, data of a correspondence between Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) routers that are connected to a community and another community. The community control server collects prefix data that is included in routing information that is received by the IGP routers and... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070263550 - Identification of relevant metrics: A method and system for identifying relevant metrics among metrics that are measured to determine conformance with a service level agreement. The method includes selecting two sets of points, each set representing a given number of measurements for an individual metric and setting a separate threshold for each of the... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco Pl

20070263549 - Optimization for network utilization: A network optimization application receives as input information about a telecommunications network and the current use of that network. An optimization is performed in order to generate a preferred network use configuration which minimizes price for one or more customers of the telecommunications network. Information utilized as input into the... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070263553 - Efficient discovery and verification of paths through a meshed overlay network: The present invention provides an efficient system and method for routing information through a dynamic network. The system includes at least one ingress point and one egress point. The ingress and egress point cooperate to form a virtual circuit for routing packets to destination subnets directly reachable by the egress... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20070263552 - Method and system for bidirectional data transfer: A system and method for managing data transfer between a configurable device and a management system including generating device data, detecting a polling request, transmitting, in a first common communications session and in response to the polling request, at least a portion of the device data and a configuration request,... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070263551 - Range equalization transceiver system and method of using same: A range equalization transceiver system (100) for increasing efficiency of a continuous duty communications link includes a first transceiver (105) for transmitting data traffic over a broadband traffic channel and a second transceiver (107) for determining routing information using a discovery channel based on link quality. A controller (103) is... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070263554 - technique for efficiently managing bandwidth registration for multiple spanning tree options: A technique efficiently manages bandwidth (BW) registration for multiple spanning tree options in a computer network. According to the novel technique, an entry bridge determines multiple spanning tree paths to other bridges of the network (namely, one or more available spanning trees rooted at one or more bridges of the... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070263555 - Mobile station used for cdma mobile communication systems: A mobile station for a CDMA communication system which comprises a transmitting section that transmits a location registration request signal to a base station, and a receiving section that receives an acknowledge signal transmitted from the base station after the location registration request signal from the transmitting section is received... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070263556 - Providing access to information of multiple types via coordination of distinct information services: Techniques are described for providing users of client devices with coordinated access to information and/or functionality of multiple types, such as by using multiple types of connections to multiple information services of distinct types that exchange context information related to activities of the users and/or clients. The client devices can... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070263557 - Apparatus for eliminating interference from broadcast signals with satellite signals: An apparatus is provided for reception of satellite signals without interference from broadcast signals. An audio receiver-player is connected to a broadcast antenna by an antenna cable. A switch is located in the antenna cable to disconnect the broadcast antenna from the audio receiver player. A satellite receiver transmits satellite... Agent: John Maier, Iii

20070263558 - Adjustment of background scanning interval based on network usage: In a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), roaming from one access point to another by a mobile station without interruption to network service may be facilitated by frequently performing background scans to find neighboring access points while the mobile station is associated to the WLAN. Frequent background scanning, however, depletes... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070263563 - Power efficient communication system: A monitoring system comprises a specific remote unit or monitor and a plurality of base stations that are capable of communicating with one another. A designated one of the plurality of base stations transmits a message via a wireless medium to the specific remote unit on behalf of the plurality... Agent: Joyce E. Lauer

20070263562 - Wireless device and method for identifying management frames: A method for identifying management frames includes: receiving a management frame; determining a new state according to the management frame; transmitting a class frame to an expected source device according to the new state, wherein a class of the class frame is higher than that of a frame corresponding to... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070263565 - H.323 user, service and service provider mobility framework for the multimedia intelligent networking: The present invention provides a method and system for assuring H.323 alias address portability to an H.323 user in real-time H.323 multimedia communications where the H.323 user is registered with a home gatekeeper for the home zone of the H.323 user. Alias address portability may be obtained using a central... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070263564 - Mimo wireless communication greenfield preamble formats: A method for multiple input multiple output wireless communication begins by determining protocols of wireless communication devices within a proximal region. The method continues by determining whether the protocols of the wireless communication devices within the proximal region are of a like protocol. The method continues by determining the number... Agent: Timothy W. Markison

20070263560 - Push-to-talk over cellular group set-up and handling using near field communication (nfc): A system, apparatus and method for creating and managing group services in a cellular network for easy, fast and reliable connection of a subscriber(s) to one or more group services. A first terminal device stores service descriptions records for a first group of services in a cellular network. The first... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070263559 - System and method for groupcast packet forwarding in a wireless network: A multi-hop wireless network includes an originator node, a proxy node, and at least one other node. The originator node generates a data packet and transmits the data packet to the proxy node. The proxy node receives and forwards to the at least one other node the data packet including... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070263561 - Techniques to control access point transmissions in wireless networks: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising an access point (AP) operable in a wireless local area network, wherein transmissions by the AP are capable of being controlled by a wireless station (STA) in communication with the AP.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070263566 - Method and system for determining spectrum availability within a network: A method and transceiver for determining spectrum availability within a give area is disclosed. The given area includes cells in a grid. A belief evaluator receives a measurement from a signal and assigns an instantaneous belief indicator, an instantaneous disbelief indicator and an instantaneous ignorance indicator based on a detection... Agent: Clark & Brody

20070263567 - System and method to free unused time-slots in a distributed mac protocol: The system and method of the present invention provide a protocol for a device (400) to announce that a previously reserved time-period or time-slot is not (completely) used and becomes available, so that other devices can transmit during the unused time. The system and method are especially intended for systems... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070263568 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving packet in mobile communication system: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a packet in a mobile communication system. When upper layer packets are multiplexed into a packet whose overall size is informed via a separate path, the size of the upper layer packet is not signaled if it can be calculated from the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070263569 - Detection complexity reducing apparatus and method in multiple input multiple output (mimo) antenna system: An apparatus and method for lowering a tree searching complexity in a Spatial Multiplexing (SM) Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna system are provided. A transmitting apparatus includes a generator for generating a plurality of transmit streams by spatial-multiplexing a transmit data, a determiner for determining modulation schemes to be... Agent: Stimson, Shin & Associates, LLP

20070263570 - System, method and apparatus for determining if data from a source has arrived properly at a destination in a time division multiplex (tdm) communication network: A first time division multiplex (TDM) time slot is provided which is defined as a bi-directional channel for use in a TDM network including a source node and a destination node. The source node can transmit data to the destination node in a first portion of a first TDM time... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070263574 - Method and apparatus for battery management in a converged wireless transmit/receive unit: The present invention is a method and apparatus for minimizing power consumption in a converged WTRU. In a preferred embodiment, power consumption is minimized by coordinating battery management of the various RATs supported by the converged WTRU. A coordinated multi-RAT battery management (CMRBM) unit is used by the converged WTRU... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070263575 - Method and apparatus for securing quality of service of data communication: A method and apparatus for securing a quality of service (QoS) of data communication is provided. The method of securing the QoS of data being received by a mobile terminal at a reception side that performs a handover from a first network to a second network comprises generating a packet... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070263580 - Method of performing resource allocation, base station, central node, and computer program product for ofdm transmission: m

20070263582 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication control method for wireless communication system: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication apparatus includes a reserved period ensuring unit which ensures a reserved period to be occupied for communication in a communicable period time-shared in a group by adjustment in a periodic beacon period, a wireless communication unit which performs wireless communication using the reserved... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070263581 - \"shield\": protecting high priority channel access attempts in overlapped wireless cells: A method and system reduce interference between overlapping first and second wireless LAN cells contending for the same medium. Each cell includes a respective plurality of member stations. An inter-cell contention-free period value is assigned to a first access point station in the first cell, associated with an accessing order... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070263583 - Apparatus and method for allocating channel using auction algorithm in wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for allocating a channel using an auction algorithm in a wireless communication system. The method includes measuring a data rate of each channel; selecting one of the channels, when information on the channels is received from a base station, using the received information on the channels... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070263571 - Dynamic and traffic-driven optimization of message routing to geographical addresses: Messages are delivered in a communications network by monitoring an arrival rate of messages destined for a geographical area within a short time period. Then, upon reaching a threshold, a multicast group is established for routing the messages to the geographical area. Network devices responsible for delivering the messages join... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070263577 - Method for enrolling a user terminal in a wireless local area network: A method for enrolling a user terminal in a network includes an access point for the user terminal, the access point performing the following steps: detecting the performance of a first pressure of a registration button on the access point; detecting the reception of a request for enrollment from the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070263572 - Mobile node data transmission rate selection: An apparatus and method of a mobile access node selecting a data transmission rate is disclosed. The method includes the mobile access node receiving beacons from a plurality of wireless clusters. Each beacon advertises a data transmission rate a gateway of the wireless cluster that originates the beacon. The mobile... Agent: Tropos Networks

20070263576 - Multicarrier radio communication system, control station, base station and method: There is provided with a control station which controls a plurality of base stations whose respective communication areas partially overlap one another and each of which uses same frequency band dividing into one or more divided bands, including: a division pattern receiver configured to receive information indicating a division pattern... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070263573 - On-device radio logging in smartphone: Radio logging data of a smartphone is collected on the smartphone itself using an on-device radio logging application that runs on the smartphone itself. The collected radio logging data is provided to a host computer at a later time after the radio logging data is saved, or as the radio... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070263579 - Random access channel for ofdm-mimo system: In orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) selects a random access channel (RACH) and a phase for a constant amplitude zero auto correlation (CAZAC) sequence for RACH transmission. The WTRU then transmits a RACH transmission to a Node B via the selected... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070263578 - Wireless lan transmission system and wireless communication terminal: Provided in a wireless LAN transmission system, having convenience and improved security, in which a wireless communication terminal located in a wireless communication area is capable of changing a setting of a connection, and capable of disconnecting the wireless communication terminal from the connection if the connection is unnecessary. A... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070263584 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving uncompressed audio/video data: Provided is a radio communication technique, more particularly, a method and apparatus for formatting a transmission packet according to significance of data. A method of transmitting uncompressed AV data includes receiving bits constituting the uncompressed AV data; separating the received bits into a plurality of bit levels according to significance;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070263586 - Method of transferring and/or receiving data in communication system and apparatus thereof: The present invention relates to Walsh Code Allocation (WCA) field in the Packet Data Control Channel. One of the embodiments of the WCA field is use of the WCA field as Last Walsh Code Index (LWCI) field in the message format of the PDCCH. The LWCI field indicates the corresponding... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070263585 - Mobile station device, base station device, and transmission rate control method: A mobile device, a base station device, and a transmission rate control method for preventing the reception power at all the base station devices of an active set from exceeding an RoT threshold and preventing an excessive load. A transmission rate command acquiring section (304) of the mobile station device... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070263587 - Adaptive rate and reach optimization for wireless access networks: A wireless local area network (WLAN) control system includes network elements (such as access points and clients) and a centralized dynamic performance management system. The network elements measure signal attenuation in communications with other WLAN network elements. The dynamic performance management system receives signal attenuation data from the network elements,... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070263588 - Information processing apparatus and connection control method: According to one embodiment, there is an information processing apparatus comprising a load check portion which checks communication loads at a plurality of radio relay stations, and a connection processing portion which executes wireless connection with a radio relay station of a lowest communication load of the communication loads checked... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070263589 - Method for synchronizing the bi-directional transmission of data: The invention relates to a method for synchronizing a bi-directional transmission of data between a transmitter and a receiver based on the transmission of frames (10) having a predefined bit length, with a predefined first bit length (20) being provided in each frame (10) for the transmission of data from... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070263593 - Accumulative decision point data analysis system for telephony and electronic communications operations: A system for generating usage statistics for a communications routing system from data generated at routing points and at end points of the system has a processor having access to the communications routing system for analyzing the data and generating the statistics, and a server having access to the processor... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070263596 - Method for routing incoming and outgoing data in an nfc chipset: A method for routing data in a chipset comprising at least two host processors and one RFID-type contactless data send/receive interface configurable according to several operating modes and according to several contactless communication protocols includes routing, to at least one of the host processors, data received by the contactless data... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070263595 - Method for routing outgoing and incoming data in an nfc chipset: A method for routing data in a chipset comprising at least one host processor and an RFID-type contactless data send/receive interface includes, in response to a command for opening a data path sent by a source point located in the host processor and designating a destination point located in the... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070263592 - Method and apparatus for improved routing in connectionless networks: The invention includes a method and apparatus for determining a routing table for use in a network comprising a plurality of type-one nodes and a plurality of type-two nodes where the type-two nodes use respective type-two routing tables having one next-hop node associated with each of a plurality of destination... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070263594 - Method for the administration of a telecommunications network: In order to ensure end-to-end quality of service in a telecommunications network, a process entrusted with managing the QoS by level is installed on each node/device. This process is capable of achieving inter-level communications and inter-device communications for a given level. A total configuration of the network can thus be... Agent: Perman & Green

20070263590 - Optimization scheme for routing based on data latency: The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for optimizing generation of routes within a topology by providing for latency during data retrieval. Frequently, topologies are maintained in multiple data stores, such as cache, local data stores and remote data stores. Delays due to latency in retrieving data from the... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070263591 - Packet data support node and method of activating packet flow contexts during handover: A method and packet data support node in a radio telecommunications network supporting packet data communication between a packet data network and a mobile terminal in radio communication with a first packet control unit. The packet data support node receives a message from the mobile terminal requesting handover to a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070263597 - Relay method, relay device, communication system, and computer program: The present invention enables accurate simulation of the state of communication over a communication network in which a communication channel of different communication characteristic is set for each protocol and session, such as a VoIP network built in a multi-vender environment, and evaluation of communication quality of communications between IP... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070263600 - Remote control of network appliances using voice over internet protocol phone: A Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) phone comprises a network interface that communicates with a medium. A control module communicates with the network interface and controls operation of the VOIP phone. A coder/decoder module communicates with the control module. A microphone outputs audio signals to the coder/decoder module. An audio... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070263601 - Computer, internet and telecommunications based network: A method and apparatus for a computer and telecommunication network which can receive, send and manage information from or to a subscriber of the network, based on the subscriber's configuration. The network is made up of at least one cluster containing voice servers which allow for telephony, speech recognition, text-to-speech... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070263599 - Delivering sip-based call services to circuit-switched terminals: A method for communication in a communication system includes predefining a plurality of service delivery modes having different signaling and media path configurations in circuit-switched and packet-switched networks. A request to place a call is accepted in the circuit-switched network, and a call service to be provided to the call... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070263598 - Method, system, and computer-readable medium for simulating a converged network with a single media gateway and media gateway controller: A method, system, and computer-readable medium for emulating a converged network are provided. A media gateway receives a call at a first interface of a first network type. The call is processed for distribution on a second network type. The processed call is transmitted to a second interface of a... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070263608 - Data conversion: Voice communication between a mobile station and a packet-based voice communication system is handled. A communication interface for mobile station access to a telecommunication network over a public data network according to a first protocol is emulated at a gateway system. Communications pass between the gateway and the packet-based voice... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070263614 - Ip telephone system: An IP telephone system equipped with a plurality of telephone terminals and a file server, wherein the file server comprises notification unit notifies an occurrence of update data of the software to the telephone terminals and transfer unit transfers the update data to a telephone terminal of a request source... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070263615 - Method, apparatus and system for session adding: A method for session adding during interworking between a CSI terminal and an IMS terminal in a packet network is disclosed, which includes the following steps: a calling terminal initiating a session request to a called terminal, and a home domain S-CSCF of the called terminal forwarding the session request... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070263612 - Packet-switched network telephone system with enhanced portability: A packet-switched network telephone system includes at least one set of telephone equipment adapted for connection with the packet-switched network and electronic registration upon connection, wherein the electronic registration is based on registration information stored on a portable data storage device. The portable data storage device includes a data storage... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070263613 - System for connecting information processing devices associated with ip telephones: An information processing apparatus for call control and management stores a first telephone identification and a first IP address of a first IP telephone, a first device identification and a second IP address of a first information processing device associated with the first IP telephone by a first association identification,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070263607 - Extensible metadata structure: Structured hierarchies for communicating contextual information relating to a VoIP conversation are provided. The structured hierarchies are utilized for efficient communications of various amounts and types of contextual information over a VoIP conversation channel. Information identifying at least one structured hierarchy, which will be used to carry the contextual information,... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070263606 - Pre-processing and packetizing data in accordance with telecommunication protocol: Embodiments of apparatuses, articles, methods, and systems for pre-processing and packetizing data for transmission in accordance with a transmission protocol are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070263604 - Ring back notification system and method therefor: A system and method of ring back notification for the EP phone is provided. A caller and a receiver communicate in the IP network through the respective connected nodes. When the receiver's network is busy, a request message is sent to the server of the IP network. The server receives... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070263605 - Sms-initiated voip: A system comprising a first communication device and a second communication device which transmits a text-based message to the first communication device. The message comprises an internet protocol (IP) address associated with the second communication device. If VoIP telephony is possible between the first and second communication devices, the first... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070263609 - Ss7 ansi-41 to sip based call signaling conversion gateway for wireless voip e911: An SS7-based call protocol conversion gateway that translates between circuit-switched SS7 protocols and session initiation protocol (SIP) oriented protocol, allowing an E911 call initiated over a switched network to be routed by a VoIP network. The SS7-based call protocol conversion gateway provides a PSAP with MSAG quality (street address) information... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20070263611 - Ss7 isup to sip based call signaling conversion gateway for wireless voip e911: An SS7-based call protocol conversion gateway that translates between circuit-switched SS7 protocols and session initiation protocol (SIP) oriented protocol, allowing an E911 call initiated over a switched network to be routed by a VoIP network. The SS7-based call protocol conversion gateway provides a PSAP with MSAG quality (street address) information... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20070263610 - Ss7 map/lg+ to sip based call signaling conversion gateway for wireless voip e911: An SS7-based call protocol conversion gateway that translates between circuit-switched SS7 protocols and session initiation protocol (SIP) oriented protocol, allowing an E911 call initiated over a switched network to be routed by a VoIP network. The SS7-based call protocol conversion gateway provides a PSAP with MSAG quality (street address) information... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20070263602 - Voip and associated data delivery: Implementations are described that are capable of adding information associated with one or more items and/or products to a virtual shopping cart associated with an entity, such as a customer browsing a website. The described implementations may detect a request to establish a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications session,... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070263603 - Voip personal call recorder: Methods and systems are presented allowing VoIP phone users and other packet-based telecommunications service subscribers to have conference call content recorded live during conference calls involving three or more parties, with the subscriber being able to selectively pause the conference to answer other calls or perform other tasks while the... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20070263616 - Increasing link capacity via traffic distribution over multiple wi-fi access points: A method and system for combining the bandwidth available to a user communications device from multiple access points by switching output requests and corresponding replies to such requests among a plurality of such access points. In the simplest implementation the switching can be on a round-robin basis, but the switching... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20070263617 - Switching regulator control circuit, switching regulator using the circuit, and switching signal generating apparatus: A switching regulator includes a first switching regulator corresponding to a master channel, and a second switching regulator corresponding to a slave channel. The first switching regulator generates first output voltage Vout1 by a constant on-time system in which on-time is constant. On the other hand, the second switching regulator... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070263618 - Programmably sliceable switch-fabric unit and methods of use: A programmably sliceable switch-fabric unit (PSSU) and methods of use are disclosed. An N×N′ switch matrix is programmably made to operate as if it were a plurality of S×S′ virtual switch slices, where S<N and S′<N′. Ingressing requests each specify an egress path (unicast mode) or plural egress paths (multicast... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070263622 - Communication system, distribution element and network device: There is disclosed a communication system comprising a distribution element, which is coupled to a power supply unit and to which a plurality of network devices can be connected. Each network device that is connected to the distribution element comprises at least one network element and each network device is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070263620 - Method and network device for fast look-up in a connection-oriented communication: A method for fast look-up in a connection-oriented communication includes generating a connection associated information according to peer information of a first peer and a second peer, storing the connection associated information into the first peer and the second peer, and building a connection between the first peer and the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070263623 - Method for receiving mpe-fec data dvb-h receiver using the same: Disclosed are a method for receiving MPE-FEC data and a DVB-H receiver using the same. While receiving packet data for digital broadcasting from a DVB-H network, a digital broadcasting reception unit PID-demultiplexes and outputs the packet data to the controller. The controller receives and stores the PID-demultiplexed packet data in... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070263619 - Methods and apparatus for performing network operations in network devices: A network device comprises a plurality of lookup tables and a processor. Each of the plurality of lookup tables comprises a plurality of table inputs that are associated with a plurality of processor instructions. The processor is operative to perform a network operation on a packet of data comprising a... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070263624 - Methods for specialized data transfer in a wireless communication system: A wireless communication system and method is provided for the transfer and processing of data in accordance with specialized data transfer protocols while utilizing conventional base station equipment. For example, the wireless communication system may include a subscriber station that provides for the modification of data packets in accordance with... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070263621 - Network plug-and-play compliant network relay control: A network relay device compliant with network plug-and-play protocols is presented. The relay device relays messages between a network and a device unit having N service devices that provide a service in response to a request from a client on the network. In one embodiment the relay device has a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070263626 - A system for session-oriented reliable multicast transmission.: The present invention is a system for reliably and efficiently transmitting data shared among several computers simultaneously. The system makes use of concurrent multicast and unicast connections following a server-controlled session-oriented protocol. By using the system support for late-joining is available, and repairs after long connectivity losses can be made.... Agent: David Warden

20070263625 - Access control for multicast channel request: The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for access control in a multicast system when data is distributed from a source VS on a common link L3 to at least two users U1-U12 via a node BN21 that comprises a request arbiter ARB21. The arbiter is arranged to distribute... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070263627 - Method and system for controlling communication network and router used in the network: The present invention provides a communication network comprising a host network, a plurality of base stations, at least a mobile host capable of establishing links to the base stations, and a hierarchy-network of plural routers which are improved in transferring performances for ensuring continuous operations with a reduced load without... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070263628 - Method and system for efficient routing in ad hoc networks: The present invention relates to a method for efficient routing in a multiple hop wireless communication network. The invention is characterized in that data packets are routed over transmission paths using the following steps providing link status information by acquiring link status quality between nodes in the network, updating a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070263629 - Techniques to generate network protocol units: A first logic offloads some network protocol unit formation tasks to a second logic. The first logic may request that data be transmitted using a Direct Data Placement (DDP) compatible network protocol unit. The first logic may provide the data as well as other information relevant to forming the DDP... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate

20070263631 - Limited automatic repeat request protocol for frame-based communication channels: In a frame-switched network, a sender sends frames to a receiver over a possibly unreliable channel. Sent frames include frame identifiers that can be used for a limited automatic repeat request. Upon receipt of a frame, the receiver determines, from the frame identifier, if frames prior to the received frame... Agent: Brake Hughes PLC C/o Intellevate

20070263630 - System and method for fault tolerant tcp offload: Systems and methods that provide fault tolerant transmission control protocol (TCP) offloading are provided. In one example, a method that provides fault tolerant TCP offloading is provided. The method may include one or more of the following steps: receiving TCP segment via a TCP offload engine (TOE); calculating a TCP... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070263633 - Method and system for intercommunicating between private network user and network with qos guarantee: A method and a system for intercommunicating between a private network user and a network with QoS guarantee are provided. The bearer control layer entity and the application layer entity obtain the address (port) translation information in the network with independent bearer control layer, and then allocate the resources for... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070263634 - Mpls implementation of an atm platform: A method of timing an attempt to establish a connection path between a first and second node in a communications network is provided. The method initiates the attempt to establish a connection path after a period of time has elapsed wherein the period of time is greater than another period... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070263632 - System and method for mediating information: A mediation server acquires information on a regular basis from an information provider terminal unit. Upon receiving a request from a user terminal unit, the mediation server discloses information to the user terminal after converting the information into dummy information so that computer-assisted name identification cannot be applied to combination... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070263635 - Wlan scheduler: A system comprises a plurality of wireless stations for exchanging data over a wireless network and a coordinator station such an access point. The coordinator station receives a request for a traffic specification from one of the wireless stations. The traffic request comprises a traffic parameter (202) representative of the... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20070263636 - Ip switching based distributed radio network controller: The invention provides an IP switching based radio network controller. The radio network controller comprises a plurality of functional modules, at least comprising: an ATM interface module, an interface management module, a radio signaling management module and a radio bearer processing module, characterized in that, the radio network controller replaces... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070263637 - On-line data migration of a logical/virtual storage array: Data is transparently migrated between groups of logical units of storage presented as virtual arrays. A source virtual array has at least one source virtual port coupled to a fabric. Each source virtual port having a source virtual port name and a source virtual port address. A destination virtual array... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20070263639 - Ip telephone remote control system: An IP telephone, a main apparatus, and a PC are connected to a network. The PC is installed with a PC application for remote-controlling the IP telephone. The IP telephone has a port for communication with the PC application via the network. The PC recognizes the IP telephone as a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070263638 - Setting up of a wireless network by determining and utilizing local topology information: When setting up a wireless network formed of several communication terminals, it is usual for the communication terminals to be devoid of information on local topology. In large wireless mobile environment networks it is advisable to create an independent large-network setup, wherein individual communication terminals which are not yet connected... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070263641 - Determining physical location of network devices: Determining a physical location of a network device includes determining a network address associated with the network device and correlating the network address with a physical location. The network address associated with the network device is an address of the network device, an address of a router coupled to the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070263644 - Gateway system to interface different communication networks: A first communication network transfers a signaling message for a call to a second communication network. The signaling message indicates a first identifier that represents a connection through the first communication network to the second communication network. The second communication network processes the signaling message to select a second identifier.... Agent: Sprint

20070263642 - Mechanism to flexibly support multiple device numbers on point-to-point interconnect upstream ports: A method and apparatus for supporting multiple device numbers on point-to-point interconnect upstream ports. In one embodiment, the method includes a downstream component (DC) that performs discovery of internal device components of the DC during initialization of the DC. Subsequent to the discovery of internal devices of the DC, the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070263645 - Multi-path gateway communications device: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed for enabling a virtual personalized network. Communications are established with a personal digital gateway to control access, sharing, security, and/or management of up-to-date personalized data exchanged between or among a plurality of associated communications devices and/or communications networks. The associated communications devices are owned,... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070263640 - Technique for efficiently managing bandwidth for multipoint-to-multipoint services in a provider network: A technique efficiently manages bandwidth (BW) for multipoint-to-multipoint (MP2MP) services in a provider network of a computer network. According to the novel technique, each bridge having a user-network interface (UNI) port of an MP2MP service generates a registration for the service that carries maximum BW values for each port direction... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070263643 - Transfer of electrical data with auto-discovery of system configuration: Automatic discovery of configuration or identification information published by a local computer (publisher) connected to electrical monitoring devices in a power monitoring system and to a server that determines whether to approve data packets sent by the publisher. The publisher attempts to send a data packet including identification information to... Agent: Schneider Electric / Square D Company Legal Dept. - I.p. Group (np)

20070263646 - Plug-in card for optical transmission apparatus: A plug-in card for an optical transmission apparatus includes a J1 byte generating unit. The J1 byte generating unit sends information on on-use side J1 byte data to a plug-in card at a spare side in a redundant structure when the plug-in card operates as an on-use side plug-in card.... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070263647 - Using battery-powered nodes in a mesh network: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for configuring a constant powered mesh network node to control the configuration of an intermittently powered mesh network node, wherein the intermittently powered mesh network node periodically powers down to conserve energy; and causing the intermittently powered mesh network node... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070263648 - Method for searching and managing planned community information: The present invention is a web-based method for collecting and searching data about a plurality of planned communities that enables buyers to search the data by one or more desired planned community characteristics, particularly those amenities that are peculiar to luxury homes and homesites. In the preferred embodiment, the planned... Agent: Etherton Law Group, LLC

20070263650 - Method for prioritizing web service requests: A method for prioritizing web service requests in a web service container is provided. The method includes receiving a web service request, identifying a web service requested by the web service request, determining any parameter of the web service request, determining a priority for the web service request and adding... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070263649 - Network diagnostic systems and methods for capturing network messages: A network diagnostic system may include one or more network diagnostic components. The network diagnostic components may be configured to capture at least a portion of one or more network messages. The network diagnostic components may include a plurality of buffers, and the network diagnostic components may be configured to... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070263651 - Distributed dslam architecture: DSLAMs and associated methods of installing DSLAMs are disclosed where the components of a DSLAM are distributed in a DSL network. A distributed DSLAM as provided herein includes digital signal processing components implemented in a centralized system (e.g., a central office) on the DSL network. The distributed DSLAM also includes... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070263652 - Local area network of serial intelligent cells: A serial intelligent cell (SIC) and a connection topology for local area networks using Electrically-conducting media. A local area network can be configured from a plurality of SIC's interconnected so that all communications between two adjacent SIC's is both point-to-point and bidirectional. Each SIC can be connected to one or... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070263653 - Stack signaling to application with lack of requested bandwidth: A system for signaling an application when a requested data rate and Quality of Service cannot be achieved using OFDM wireless data transmission, and the application proceeds by either renegotiating QoS and data rate, or waiting until they requested rate and QoS are met.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070263654 - Pro-active congestion mitigation for wireless networks: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to pro-active congestion mitigation in wireless networks. In an example embodiment, a wireless node may make a determination that an amount of previous channel usage by the wireless node is greater than a threshold value, and then delay an acquisition of a transmission opportunity based... Agent: Brake Hughes PLC C/o Intellevate

20070263655 - Method and apparatus for fast closed-loop rate adaptation in a high rate packet data transmission: In a high data rate communication system capable of variable rate transmission, an open loop rate control can be adjusted with a closed loop rate control to maximize throughput. An access point generates interleaved multi-slot packets that allow an access terminal to transmit indicator messages to the access point in... Agent: Sarah Kirkpatrick, Manager Intellectual Property Administration

20070263656 - Passive optical network system and method of the master configuring the slaves in the system: The present disclosure provides a method for the master to configure the slaves for use in a passive optical network (PON) system, comprising: the slaves generating a managed entity (ME) Support List ME based on their individual hardware configuration; the master obtaining the ME Support List ME; and the master... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070263657 - Throughput in multi-rate wireless networks using variable-length packets and other techniques: In a wireless communication network having a plurality of devices operating at different data rates that contend for access to the network, a method is provided that assigns network access parameters to one or more of the devices so as to control throughput on the network. Examples of network access... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070263658 - Multiple level security adapter: In exemplary embodiments, data with a format compatible with a first protocol standard is received on behalf of a first application. When the format of the data is not compatible with a second protocol standard, the format of the data is automatically transformed to a format that is compatible with... Agent: Robert R. Richardson, P.s.

20070263659 - Time setting method for a portable device: A time-setting method for a portable device is provided by the presented invention. The time-setting method includes creating a time list based on the time of an incoming-call displayed, and selecting a time item on the time list by an input device. A time interval between two time items is... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20070263660 - Packet transmission apparatus, packet forwarding method and packet transmission system: A packet transmission system enabling VLAN packet forwarding of the MAC layer at the RPR layer. An address translation table associates with a VLAN identifier a MAC address and a flag showing validity of the VLAN identifier. A flag set valid means that an own node belongs to a VLAN... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070263661 - Wide area multi-service communication networks based on connection-oriented packet switching: Packet switching techniques that provide a quality of service comparable to a quality of service associated with circuit switching are disclosed. Internet Protocol (IP) packets are transported through a network based on labels attached to the packets. Control and signaling protocols set up virtual connections through the network and allocate... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20070263662 - Receiver set, information apparatus and receiving system: For providing a receiving contract service being convenient or friendly to both the broadcast service providers and the viewers, and in particular, for providing a digital broadcast receiver set, an information apparatus and a digital broadcasting receiving system, there is provided a system in which a digital broadcast receiver set... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070263663 - Specialized data transfer in a wireless communication system: A wireless communication system and method is provided for the transfer and processing of data in accordance with specialized data transfer protocols while utilizing conventional base station equipment. For example, the wireless communication system may include a subscriber station that provides for the modification of data packets in accordance with... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070263664 - Network bandwidth monitoring & regulating system: A network bandwidth monitoring and regulating system to retrieve a optimal bandwidth area for reducing risk of losing the packet and upgrading network quality including a packet loss rate and a jitter of packet delayed variance value complying with RFC 3550; and a network bandwidth of the system being divided... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070263665 - Systems for contention-based bandwidth requests in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems: Systems for contention-based bandwidth requests in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems are provided. In one embodiment, a bidirectional communication system comprises: a multipoint-to-point host; and a plurality of remotes communicatively coupled to the multipoint-to-point host through an OFDM waveform; wherein the multipoint-to-point host is configured to receive the OFDM... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070263666 - Radio transmitting apparatus, radio receiving apparatus, radio transmitting method and radio receiving method: A radio transmitting apparatus and the like for improving the reception error rate characteristic. In this apparatus, a data modulating part (121) modulates a data signal to provide a modulated symbol. A Q-inverting part (125) generates a symbol that corresponds to the modulated symbol provided by the data modulating part... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070263667 - System and method for i/q imbalance compensation: A transmitter (102) generates a first set of data symbols and a first pilot symbol (601) at a first time, and a second set of data symbols and a second pilot symbol (602) at a different, second time. The first (601) and second (602) pilot. symbols are each represented by... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20070263670 - State synchronization apparatuses and methods: A method for state synchronization, performed by a first electronic apparatus, comprises the following steps. A local cache of the first electronic apparatus stores a first service state value. It is determined whether the first service state value has expired before receiving a next event notification. A second service state... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070263671 - State synchronization apparatuses and methods: A method for state synchronization, performed by a first electronic apparatus, comprises the following steps. A first service state version identification (ID) is acquired from a local cache of the first electronic apparatus. A second service state version ID is received from a second electronic apparatus. It is determined whether... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070263669 - Networkable decoder: A method and apparatus for delivering a decoded first signal related to a current or predicted condition of a geographic area across a network serving the geographical area to user apparatus. The network includes a headend, at least one source for providing an undecoded first signal related to the current... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070263668 - System, method and computer program for evaluating the audio quality of a received audio record: In one embodiment, an audio record is received over a communication link and buffered. A data window is aligned with a portion of a buffer that contains the buffered audio record; and a portion of the buffered audio record to which the data window is aligned is compared with a... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070263672 - Adaptive jitter management control in decoder: A method, a chipset, a receiver, a transmitter, an electronic device and a system for enabling a control of jitter management of an audio signal is described, wherein the audio signal is distributed to a sequence of frames that are received via a packet switched network, the received frames comprising... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070263673 - Methods and systems for dsp-based receivers: Digital signal processing based methods and systems for receiving data signals include parallel receivers, multi-channel receivers, timing recovery schemes, and, without limitation, equalization schemes. The present invention is implemented as a multi-path parallel receiver in which an analog-to-digital converter (“ADC”) and/or a digital signal processor (“DSP”) are implemented with parallel... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070263674 - Survey controller multiplexer: The processor on the device also runs software to parse user selected data streams for the purpose of filtering out unnecessary data from the incoming streams, thereby reducing the volume of data, in particular unwanted data, from being processed and/or logged from the device. The Integration of a multimeter for... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.

20070263675 - Method and apparatus for current sharing ethernet power across four conductor pairs using a midspan device: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for balancing power across all conductors of an Ethernet connection. Balancing circuitry is disclosed to allow an Ethernet midspan device to receive power from an Ethernet Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) on the signal pairs of an Ethernet connection. The balancing circuitry is configured to sense... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070258352 - Subcarrier truncating data transmission scheme in ofdm system: A multicarrier data transmission scheme is provided. According to the provided scheme, a radio transmitter encodes data bits with different degrees, the degree of an encoded data bit being defined by the number of parity check equations protecting the data bit. The data bits are preferably encoded with an irregular... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20070258353 - Method and apparatus for blindly separating mixed signals, and a transmission method and apparatus of mixed: A method of blindly separating a signal, wherein, for at least one source, a filter uniquely defined for a source is determined for each source, the method comprising the steps of: applying an inverse filter corresponding to inverse of the filter to one or more of multiple outputs of the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070258356 - Signal quality measuring apparatus for wibro system and the method thereof: Disclosed herein are a signal quality measuring apparatus for the WiBro system and a method thereof. The signal quality measuring apparatus for a WiBro system includes a WiBro signal reception unit, a preamble code correlation unit, a channel compensation/demodulation unit, and a control unit. The WiBro signal reception unit receives... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070258355 - Fast power detector: A method for detecting a-condition, where the signal level of an information signal, particularly of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) digital information signal, exceeds at least one upper predetermined signal level and/or underruns at least one lower predetermined signal level for at least a predetermined time interval by feeding... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070258354 - Iterative multi-stage detection technique for a diversity receiver having multiple antenna elements: An iterative multistage detection system and method for orthogonally multiplexing K channels onto a signal processing chain using N orthogonal sequences of length N. The K channels include a first set of N channels and a second set of M channels (the M channels being separate and distinct from the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070258358 - Method and apparatus for enhancing the detection of common control channel in orthogonal frequency division multiple access-based cellular communication system: Improvement of reception downlink common control channels in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)-based cellular wireless communication system is provided by User Equipment (UE) using a downlink synchronization channel transmitted in an adjacent OFDM symbol as a pilot channel for channel estimation upon common control channel demodulation. When providing both... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070258357 - Method of transmitting ofdm signal and transmitter and receiver thereof: A method of transmitting OFDM signals including, allocating a first pilot signal and a first data signal which are both common among OFDM transmitters respectively to at least one first pilot subcarrier and first data subcarriers within a specific time-frequency domain that is common among the OFDM transmitters and different... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070258359 - Network system, node, node control program, and network control method: A network system in which a network adopting a node redundancy protocol and a network adopting an STP protocol as other protocol for managing a state of a port coexist, which is configured to manage, by the STP protocol as other protocol, a state of a port which belongs to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070258360 - Radio base station device, radio control system, and operation control method: A radio base station device (3) comprises: a call processing control unit for transferring a signaling control signal, and transmitting a failure detection packet to a plurality of transmission paths (5) connected to a radio network controller so as to detect failure of each of the transmission paths (5); a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070258361 - System and method of providing bandwidth on demand: An improved system and method of providing bandwidth on demand for an end user and/or enterprise is disclosed. The method includes: sending a request from the user to a control system for a quality of connection service for a specific time limit and either a specific bandwidth or a codec... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

20070258362 - Data flow control apparatus and method of mobile terminal for reverse communication from high speed communication device to wireless network: A data flow control apparatus of a mobile terminal that performs reverse communication from a high speed communication device to a wireless network. An Rm interface unit receives data from the high speed communication device and buffers the received data in a byte stream format. An Operating System (OS) device... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070258367 - Communication apparatus and control method thereof: In a communication apparatus which can directly wirelessly communicate with another communicate apparatus, whether or not a terminal connected to the communication apparatus supports a real-time transmission protocol is checked. As a result of checking, if it is determined that the terminal does not support the real-time transmission protocol, communication... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070258368 - Network device user control interface: Disclosed herein are user interfaces for configuring network devices for wired and wireless networks and methods thereof. The network device is configured via a user interface with a communications channel selector and a node selector, where each channel is associated with a predetermined parameter, and each node is associated with... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070258364 - Resource control for scheduled and non-scheduled traffic: A method, network device and computer program product for controlling resources for scheduled and non-scheduled transmissions in a communication network are disclosed, wherein at least one threshold for a combined through-put of the scheduled and non-scheduled transmissions is determined, and at least two throughput areas are determined based on the... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20070258363 - Application-aware atm buffer management method and system: A database stores a plurality of asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) profiles for a plurality of different potential usage patterns for a digital subscriber line (DSL) service. The database associates each of the ATM profiles with a respective buffer size for a network element that is to communicate ATM traffic associated... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070258365 - Methods and apparatus for communicating backlog related information: Methods and apparatus for efficient communication of backlog information, e.g., backlog information indicating amounts of uplink traffic waiting to transmitted by a wireless terminal are described. Delta backlog reports are used in addition to absolute backlog reports, thus reducing control signaling overhead, at least some information communicated in a delta... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070258369 - Network equipment management device, network equipment management method, network equipment, and program used therein: In order to perform update processing with high reliability while preventing occurrence of an error in the update order, reduce a load on a management device, and reduce the time required to complete the update processing, according to the present invention, there is provided a network equipment management program that... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070258366 - Transmission control frame generation device, transmission control frame processing device, transmission control frame generation method, and transmission control frame processing method: There is provided a transmission control frame generation device capable of reducing the data amount of feedback information while maintaining the quality of the feedback information. In this device, an average quality level calculation unit (182) calculates a reference line state level between sub-carriers from the line state levels corresponding... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070258370 - Packet sampling using rate-limiting mechanisms: Apparatus having related methods and computer programs comprises an input circuit and one or more output circuits; a forwarding engine to transfer packets to the output circuits; and a rate limiting circuit to selectively pass packets from the input circuit to the forwarding engine, the rate limiting circuit comprising a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070258373 - Optimized signalling of scheduling decisions: A method, terminal device, network element, and computer program product for signalling a scheduling information used for indicating resource allocation states of a plurality of available resource blocks to a plurality of scheduled devices are disclosed, wherein a resource allocation state is set for each of the available resource blocks... Agent: Ditthavong & Mori, P.C.

20070258372 - Methods and apparatus providing vpn traffic matrix construction: A system receives a packet at a router, and pushes a label onto a label stack. The label stack is associated with the packet. The system provides a forwarding record containing label bindings for the router, and transmits the forwarding record to a collector. A system receives a forwarding record... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070258374 - Scheduling by a fraction of remaining time to be allocated over remaining service interval: A method of scheduling by a fraction of remaining time to be allocated over a remaining service interval, wherein with respect to a minimum of delay bound or a maximum service interval for a traffic stream, servicing first a particular stream “i” with the highest ratio of the remaining channel... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070258371 - Scheduling method for use in a mesh network: A scheduling technique useful in a mesh network includes scheduling a selected amount of traffic in the mesh network using a linear program approach that minimizes a time for the selected amount of traffic to reach its intended destination. The linear program is subject to a plurality of constraints that... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070258375 - Method for reducing congestion in packet-switched networks: The present invention permits a network service provider to detect an operational condition—such as congestion—in a packet-switched network and to alleviate such congestion by providing customer incentives to avoid use of the network. The detection mechanism triggers an incentive such as the modification of the user's access charges and the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070258376 - Scalable methods for distributing routing information to border gateway protocol (bgp) devices: Described are a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) network device and method for distributing routing information to a plurality of BGP peers over a network. The BGP network device dynamically calculates a number of groups and a number of BGP peers in each group based on routing information to be distributed.... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20070258378 - Methods and systems relating to distributed time markers: Methods and devices for coordinating and displaying electronic signals are disclosed. For example, an example of a 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... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070258377 - Multi mode host interface for and remote register and memory access of a wireless communication module: Techniques and systems are provided for a wireless communication module to identify whether a host is present and may configure the module in response. Different modes of operation in a wireless communication module enable a full host mode, a simplified host mode, or a host-less mode of operation of a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070258379 - Monitoring in a telecommunication network: The present invention relates to a method for monitoring media flow in a telecommunication network. The network comprises a media-handling node (MHN) through which, sessions between subscribers are transported via first ports (PI1-PI5) and second ports (PO1-PO5). An extra port (XP1-XP5) is assigned to the media-handling node (MHN) for each... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070258385 - Apparatus and method for recovering voice packet: An apparatus and method for recovering lost voice packets are provided, in which a packet loss detector determines whether a received packet has been lost, packet information storage stores voice information of previous voice packets and voice information of the received voice packet, a packet error corrector measures the voice... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070258382 - System and method for monitoring a data network segment: The invention relates to a monitoring system and method for performing a connectivity check and a trace routing test in Ethernet based networks built around VLAN switching. For the connectivity check, a beacon frame is inserted at an originating point by an initiating test unit for transmission to a destination... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070258380 - Fault detection, isolation and recovery for a switch system of a computer network: A method, system or switch device, the switch device being one of a ported and a non-ported switch device, either of which including a housing containing an ASIC providing a switching system within the switch device, the housing further including a plurality of extender ports communicating with the ASIC and... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20070258384 - Method and system for enhanced basic service set transition for a high throughput wireless local area network: A wireless local area network (WLAN) includes at least one high throughput-enabled access point (AP) and at least one high throughput-enabled station (STA). A STA and a target AP communicate high throughput-related information and the STA performs a basic service set (BSS) transition to the target AP based on the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070258383 - Packet loss measurement device and error rate measurement device using the same: It is an object of the present invention to provide a packet loss measurement device capable of preventing a packet from being erroneously judged as being lost when packets transmitted through the same transmission path are received in an order different from the transmission order. In a packet loss measurement... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070258381 - System and method for managing distribution frames in a telephone network: This disclosure provides a system and method for managing inventory of and space assignment in main distributing frames associated with a telephone network. The system includes a database that stores frame information and a server that uses the database and executes instructions contained in a computer program to maintain current... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070258388 - Virtual server cloning: In one embodiment, a system preparation application may be executed on a source storage device to prepare a reference system for image creation. The reference system may include at least one application for customization. The image of the prepared reference may be automatically deployed to a target storage device. The... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070258386 - Zigbee network system, method with roaming function, and computer readable medium thereof: A ZigBee network system, method with roaming function, and computer readable medium thereof are provided. The ZigBee network system comprises a first node, a second node, a coordinator and a first roaming node. The first node, the second node and the coordinator are connected directly or indirectly. The first roaming... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070258387 - Network element discovery using a network routing protocol: A data processing apparatus comprises instructions to perform sending and receiving one or more messages conforming to a network routing protocol, such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF); obtaining one or more information elements that specify one or more capabilities of the apparatus; creating a particular routing protocol message comprising... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070258389 - Node device, information transfer processing program, and network participation processing method and the like: A node device which participates in an overlay network formed by participation of all or part of a plurality of node devices which are connected each other via a communication means, including: a search information transmission means for transmitting search information to thereby search a node device transmitted to an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070258390 - System and method for running a multiple spanning tree protocol with a very large number of domains: A system and method runs a multiple spanning tree protocol (MSTP) in a computer network having a very large number of bridge domains. The computer network includes a plurality of intermediate network devices, each having a plurality of ports for forwarding network messages. Within each device, a plurality of bridge... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070258391 - 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

20070258395 - Wireless data communication protocols for a medical device network: A fluid infusion system as described herein includes a number of local “body network” devices, such as an infusion pump, a handheld monitor or controller, a physiological sensor, and a bedside or hospital monitor. The body network devices can be configured to support communication of status data, physiological information, alerts,... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070258394 - Communication method and radio transmitter: Radio transmission is performed even to a communication party whose bandwidth that can be used for transmission and reception is limited without having an influence of an offset of a DC component. A radio transmitter applied to an OFDMA communication system in which a plurality of different terminals performs communication... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070258392 - Method and apparatus in a mimo based communication system: Communication in a MIMO network is optimized by selecting a first set of users comprising at least one user, selecting a second set of users not comprised in the first set, adapting communication parameters for the first set of users according to a first principle suitable, e.g. SVD, adapting communication... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070258393 - System and method for pruning a neighbor list using motion vectors: In one embodiment, a system and method for optimizing a neighbor AP list for a wireless station. The list is optimized based on the current location of the wireless station and the direction of motion. Neighbor APs that are not near the wireless station and/or not in the direction of... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070258400 - Method and related apparatus of default timer configurations of wireless communications system: A method for setting default values of timers in a wireless communications system includes setting default values of timers Timer_RST and Timer_Poll to be a first value. The timers Timer_RST and Timer_Poll are used to respectively hold retransmission of a reset signaling packet and a polling until an expected response... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070258401 - Information distribution and processing system: An information distribution and processing system contains a remote site, a sender and a receiving apparatus. The remote site contains a first set of digital data. The sender delivers a second set of digital data to the receiving device. In one embodiment of the present invention, the receiving device contain... Agent: Martin & Ferraro, LLP

20070258398 - Method for data communication via a voice channel of a wireless communication network: A system and method for data communication over a cellular communications network that allows the transmission of digital data over a voice channel using a vocoder that operates in different modes depending upon characteristics of the inputted signal it receives. To prepare the digital data for transmission, one or more... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20070258396 - Mobile telephone-based peer-to-peer sharing: Mobile telephone-based peer-to-peer sharing is disclosed. One method includes storing a content in a first mobile telephone and allowing a second mobile telephone to obtain the content from the first mobile telephone.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070258397 - Network device for implementing multiple access points and multiple client stations: A wireless network device includes N access point (AP) modules having N BSSID's, where N is an integer greater than 1. The wireless network device includes a control module that communicates with the N AP modules. The control module stores the N BSSID's, a BSSID of an (N+1)th external AP... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070258399 - Telecommunications system: According to the present invention there is provided a telecommunications system for providing a facility for communicating internet packet data in accordance with a first internet protocol (IPV6). The system comprises a user equipment, the user equipment including a first internet protocol stack operable in accordance with a first internet... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070258404 - Method for indicating and detecting transmission resource allocations in a multi-user communication system: The invention relates to a method for indicating the allocation of a set of transmission resources between user stations in a communication system comprising at least a control entity, a transceiver entity and at least one user stations. In the method in the control entity is determined the number of... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070258403 - Method of transmission: A method of transmission comprises receiving at a first destination, a transmission from a first source; determining from the transmission from the first source, the maximum permitted additional interference subject to which the first destination can still communicate; sending an acknowledgement of the transmission and including in the acknowledgement an... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070258402 - User equipment: User equipment for communicating data in a communications system comprising a set of user equipment; comprising: a transceiver arranged to receive at least one data packet over a communications channel, wherein the data packet comprises an identifier; and a processor arranged to determine from the identifier if the said user... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070258410 - Capacity-based compressed mode control method for inter-system handover in universal mobile telecommunication system: The Inter-System handover is one of the key features in the third generation cellular systems. The compressed mode, with variable transmission gaps and power levels, is standardized to support the inter-frequency system handover. To minimize the use of system resources while maintaining the border-cell handover quality, a capacity-based compressed mode... Agent: Bucknam And Archer

20070258408 - Estimation of speed and direction of travel in a wlan positioning system using multiple position estimations: A method for estimating the speed and bearing of a Wi-Fi enabled device using WLAN radio signals in a WLAN based location service is provided. A method used to estimate a speed of travel of a Wi-Fi enabled device comprises the Wi-Fi enabled device receiving signals transmitted by Wi-Fi access... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070258407 - Handover optimization in a wireless network: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to the optimization of handovers and ranging in a wireless network. According to an example embodiment, an information request may be received, which may include a handover information request, such as a ranging request for handover. Resources for handover information requests may be allocated or... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070258405 - Method for handover between asynchronous communication network and synchronous communication network: A handover method for a mobile communication terminal is disclosed. In the handover method, a radio network controller periodically measures the wireless environment of a mobile communication terminal, determines whether handover is required, and informs the asynchronous mobile switching center of the asynchronous communication system that the handover is required.... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070258406 - Method for handover in a wireless communication network: A method for carrying out a handover of servicing a mobile terminal from a currently serving base station to another base station in a cellular network, comprising the following steps. The currently serving base transmits information associated with the mobile terminal to one or more of its neighboring base stations.... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070258409 - Methods of filtering and determining cofidence factors for reference points for use in triangulation systems based on wi-fi access points: Methods and systems for classifying WLAN access points according to the quality of estimation of characteristics of the WLAN access points are provided. The classifications may be used to scale a reference database and quantify an expected error of estimation of the characteristics of the access points. WLAN access points... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070258411 - Adaptive null streering for frequency hopping networks: A method and apparatus for performing adaptive null steering in a slow frequency hopping environment. Where base stations have smart beamforming antenna capability and are interconnected by a base station controller, thus accommodating cyclic and pseudo-random frequency hopping, each base station forwards information on arrival time, frequency and received power... Agent: Lawrence G. Kurland, Esq. Bryan Cave LLP

20070258412 - Method for recovering data transmitted over a plurality of channels employing wireless code division multiple access communication: A method for recovering data transmitted over a plurality of channels employing wireless code division multiple access communication, comprises receiving the plurality of channels as a received signal, each channel associated with a code. Others from the plurality of channels from the received signal is subtracted for each for each... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070258413 - Method and a device for transferring signalling information in a tdma based system: A method and a device for transferring signalling information in a TDMA based system. Temporal alignment of values for a retransmission number parameter (R) with the TDMA frame structure is determined on the basis of which a first radio packet to be sent in a number of first TDMA frames... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070258429 - Method for transmission of high speed uplink packet access data information in a cellular communication system: The invention relates to a method for transmission of high speed uplink packet access data information in a cellular communications system comprising a mobile network in which a first network element sends data through a network connection to a second network element using IP transport, the method comprising determining information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070258425 - Method of assigning address in wireless personal area network: A method of allocating an address to a mobile node constituting a wireless network in a tree structure. A mobile node receives a wireless network identification (ID) and sets an address of the mobile node, based on the wireless network ID. Accordingly, an address is set based on a PAN... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070258427 - Wireless communication method and system for activating multiple service bearers via efficient packet data protocol context activation procedures: A method and apparatus for executing attachment procedures in a long term evolution (LTE) system to accommodate a single tunnel approach. Third Generation Partnership Program (3GPP) packet data protocol (PDP) context activation procedures are used for the allocation of an Internet protocol (IP) address and the establishment of tunneling between... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070258416 - Assigning an access terminal identifier to a mobile node: Assigning an access terminal identifier to a mobile node includes receiving a request at an access terminal home agent of a radio access network. The request requests an access terminal identifier for the mobile node. An access terminal identifier is assigned to the mobile node. The access terminal identifier identifies... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070258421 - Estimation of position using wlan access point radio propagation characteristics in a wlan positioning system: A method for estimating position using WLAN access point radio propagation characteristics in a WLAN location based service is provided. A location-based services system has a plurality of Wi-Fi access points in a target area. The Wi-Fi access points are positioned at geographic locations and have signal coverage areas. A... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070258420 - Estimation of speed of travel using the dynamic signal strength variation of multiple wlan access points: A method for estimating the speed and bearing of a Wi-Fi enabled device using WLAN radio signals in a WLAN based location service is provided. A method used to estimate a speed of travel of a Wi-Fi enabled device comprises the Wi-Fi enabled device receiving signals transmitted by Wi-Fi access... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070258417 - Frequency overlay technique for a pico cell system: To ameliorate interference between an indoor wireless pico cell system, for example in an aircraft, and public wireless communications systems operating in a surrounding or over-flown area, frequencies of operation of the indoor system are coordinated with those used by the public wireless systems in the surrounding area. The pico... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070258415 - Handshake method for wireless client: A method for the wireless client automatically updates the security setting of its own in order to access the specified wireless local area network (LAN) by the wireless server. The method comprises several processes, including a wireless client trying to build a wireless connection with a wireless server of the... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20070258430 - Internet-based information distribution and processing system: An information distribution and processing system contains a remote site, a sender and a receiving apparatus. The remote site contains a first set of digital data. The sender delivers a second set of digital data to the receiving device. In one embodiment of the present invention, the receiving device contain... Agent: Martin & Ferraro, LLP

20070258428 - Method and apparatus for coordinating timing in a wireless local area network: In a wireless communication system including a (STA) including a basic service set (BSS) timer and in communication with a mesh access point (MAP), and a network management (NM) entity wherein the MAP and NM entity include a mesh timer, a method and apparatus for coordinating timing comprises the STA... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070258418 - Method and system for controlling streaming of media to wireless communication devices: A method and system for controlling a streaming media session in which a media server streams media to a wireless communication device via a radio access network. The radio access network controls the streaming media session by (i) generating a media control signal based, at least in part, on an... Agent: Sprint

20070258426 - Method for the spontaneous distribution of data, and corresponding data network: In one aspect, a data network is provided. The data network includes a first user and a second user, a central device, data and a spontaneous communication connection. The first and second users are each ad hoc capable. The central device provides a distribution of data such that data is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070258423 - Method of operating radio communications systems using sdr (software defined radio) radio stations: Authorization data is sent to radio stations so that the radio stations are temporarily authorized, by way of the authorization data, to communicate using radio access technology. Messages can be transmitted between a first radio station and a second radio station via a path that runs via one or more... Agent: Richard A Gollhofer Staas & Halsey

20070258424 - Method of route optimization with dual mobile node in ipv4-only network: A method of achieving route optimization (RO) when a dual capable mobile Internet protocol version 6 (MIPv6) mobile node is connected with an IPv4-only network allows RO of packets to traverse a shorter route than the default one through the home agent (HA) using bidirectional tunneling, and leads to better... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070258419 - Network adaptive priority management in wireless local area networks: A method comprises determining whether there is an unused access category higher than a pending access category in a wireless network; and upgrading the pending access category to use at least one MAC layer parameter, e.g., an EDCA parameter, of the higher access category. The method may determine whether an... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070258422 - Quality of service control for a data transmission in a wireless comunication network using configuration messages: In UMTS, quality of service attributes, which a user equipment can prescribe for an end-to-end service to be set up in order to meet a specific quality of service, in most cases have to be processed by a central call and admission control function in the network. These quality of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070258414 - System and method for negotiation of wlan entity: A method for negotiations between various entities of a wireless local area network (WLAN) including negotiations between controlling nodes (CNs) and wireless access points (WAPs) and negotiations between WAPs is disclosed. These negotiations are used for the purpose of establishing the capabilities of the various entities, determining how such capabilities... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070258431 - Wireless network system and method for transmitting and receiving data in the wireless network: Provided is a wireless network system and a method for transmitting and receiving data in the wireless network, which have a particular time period for a beam search in a superframe thereof in order to enable stations, which carry out directional communications with a high frequency bandwidth, to efficiently perform... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070258432 - Single wavelength bi-directional rof link apparatus for signal transmission in tdd wireless system: A single wavelength bi-directional RoF link apparatus for signal transmission in a TDD wireless system includes a main donor for receiving an RF signal of downstream data from an upper layer, electrooptic converting the received RF signal to an optical signal, and transmitting the converted optical signal via an optical... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070258433 - Wireless communication system, apparatus for supporting data flow and method therefor: An apparatus for use in allocating resource in a wireless communication system, where the apparatus comprises mapping logic arranged to map one or more services to individual radio bearers of a plurality of radio bearers; reporting logic arranged to indicate buffer occupancy for the plurality of radio bearers; and prioritization... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070258439 - Hyperlink-based softphone call and management: A hyperlink is added to user interface code to provide a user with an easy way to access various functions of a communication application. The hyperlink can provide target telephone numbers in different formats, specify a web page to be displayed during a call, specify rules to be used to... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070258438 - Switching network employing a user challenge mechanism to counter denial of service attacks: A communication infrastructure includes an intermediate routing node that routes a plurality of packets between a source device and a plurality of destination devices, a plurality of templates stored on the intermediate routing node and a service function. The intermediate routing node, e.g., a switch, router, access point, bridge, or... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070258437 - Switching network employing server quarantine functionality: In a communication infrastructure, an intermediate node supports delivery of packets from source devices to destination devices if the source device contains no notorious content (e.g., malware or illegal content, services or distribution). The intermediate node, e.g., a switch, router, access point, bridge or gateway, contains a plurality of predefined... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070258440 - Communication control system: The present invention relates to a communication control system, and provides specifically a peer-to-peer (P2P) communication control system making it possible to effectively exploit P2P communication within an organizational network. The communication control system includes: an authentication server that authenticates a terminal which requests subscription to a network, sends communication... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070258434 - Duplicate media stream: Included are embodiments of a method for recording in an Internet Protocol (IP) environment. At least one embodiment includes receiving data related to a communication, generating a copied version of at least a portion of the received data, and modifying the copied version of the received data. Other embodiments include... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070258435 - Maintenance device, terminal device and ip telephone system: A maintenance device connected to a terminal device having an IP address via a network, comprising generation means for generating a packet storing a predetermined maintenance information for the terminal device in a data format according to a predetermined call control protocol, and transmission means for transmitting a packet generated... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20070258436 - Measurement data record method for detecting hybrid mobile tune away: An apparatus in one example has: a first communication network optimized for high-speed packet data services; a first database operatively coupled to the first communication network; a second communication network for providing both voice and slow data-rate data services; a second database operatively coupled to the second communication network; and... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20070258441 - Managing packet-based telephony: A system for assisting a user in selecting a packet-based telephony service provider (“PBTSP”) from a group of PBTSPs, and in registering the user with the selected PBTSP for outbound and/or inbound calling. The selection of a particular PBTSP may be stored in a database, and this stored information may... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070258442 - Customer owned telephone numbers: According to various embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods for routing telephone calls from host switch to remote switch in a Voice Over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) network. In one embodiment, a system includes a host switch in a voice over internet protocol (“VoIP”) network communicably coupled with a... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20070258443 - Switch hardware and architecture for a computer network: A method, system or switch device, the switch device being one of a ported and a non-ported switch device, both including a housing containing an ASIC providing a switching system within the switch device; the housing further including a plurality of extender ports communicating with the ASIC and being connectable... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20070258452 - Apparatus and method for detecting network address translation device: The method is that of detecting a network address translation device which transfers network data to a first device. This method includes: obtaining an address of a second device connected to the network; generating pseudo network data in which an address is set as a destination address, and in which... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070258444 - Integrated cross exchange unit and a method of the service dispatching: An integrated cross-switching unit and a service scheduling method thereof are provided. The integrated cross-switching unit includes: a bus identification module, a cross-connecting module, a mapping/de-mapping module, an encapsulation/de-encapsulation module, and a packet scheduling module; the bus identification module identifies service source, transmits service from a line unit to the... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070258447 - Inter-area summarization of edge-device addresses using rfc3107: A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing inter-area summarization for edge-device addressing are presented. A network is established, the network including a first ABR, an ingress Provider Edge (PE) device in communication with the first ABR, a second ABR in communication with the first ABR, and an egress... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070258451 - Message-based processing: According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided a method in a text-based message-based communication system of sending messages from a first network element to a destination network element for processing thereby. The method comprises at the first element obtaining a message to be sent to the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070258453 - Packet based video display interface enumeration method: An enumeration method providing the link rate and a pixel/audio clock rate is described.... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070258450 - Packet routing and vectoring based on payload comparison with spatially related templates: An Internet infrastructure with network devices and end point devices containing service module manager and service modules, that supports packet routing and vectoring based on payload comparison with spatially related templates. The network device that supports packet content analysis on arriving packet, consists of a plurality of packet switched interface... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070258449 - Packet routing with payload analysis, encapsulation and service module vectoring: An Internet infrastructure with network devices and end point devices containing service module manager and service modules, that supports packet analysis, encapsulation and vectoring, and interleaving applications. The network device that supports packet content analysis on arriving packet, consists of a plurality of packet switched interface circuitries, user interface circuitry,... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070258446 - Support of a large number of vlans in a bridged network: Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, mechanisms, and means for supporting a large number of virtual local area networks (VLANS) in a bridged network. Packets are received that include 802.1Q Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) identifiers (VIDs). However, rather than accessing the VLAN forwarding information directly... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20070258448 - System and method for restricting network access using forwarding databases: This specification describes a system that can offer, among other advantages, dynamically allowing or rejecting non-DHCP packets entering a switch. In addition, a FDB is commonly used by a bridge or switch to store an incoming packet's source MAC address and its port number, then later on if the destination... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070258445 - Systems and methods for protocol filtering for quality of service: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide for a method for data communication including determining protocol information for a block of data, prioritizing the block of data, and communicating the block of data. The protocol information may include information used by a protocol to communicate the block of data. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070258455 - System for distributed architecture for multicast access control: A method of multicast access control in an IP multicast system is disclosed. The method provides a distributed architecture separating a session control in a service stratum from an access control in a transport stratum.... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

20070258454 - Techniques for distributing replication points for traffic using point-to-point links: Techniques for dynamically distribute replication points based on routing metrics are provided. A receiver list may be split based on the routing metrics. For example, the receiver list may be split based on unicast reachability over an interface. If portions of egress routers are reachable over different interfaces, the portions... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070258456 - Network-based call interface device for real-time packet protocol calls: Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, mechanisms, and means for applying features to packets in an order specified by a selected feature order template. By providing multiple feature order templates, a network device manufacturer can provide the user of the network device the ability to select... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20070258457 - Vpn composing method, interwork router, packet communication method, data communication apparatus, and packet relaying apparatus: A method serves to compose a VPN (Virtual Private Network) over a plurality of networks, each of which is managed by a different Internet Service Provider (ISP). When a packet with a first capsule header used for composing a VPN in a first ISP network is transmitted to a second... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070258458 - Methods and systems for enhancing local repair in robust header compression: Methods and systems to enhance local repair in robust header compression (RoHC) decompressors (110, 114), which may improve network transmission efficiency and quality. One method uses lower layer information to enhance local repair at the decompressor (110, 114). Another method uses a user datagram protocol (UDP) checksum to enhance local... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070258460 - Content capability clearing house systems and methods: A content capability clearing house that can act as a trusted and neutral mediator among network providers to manage rich content capabilities among multiple networks is provided. Content capabilities that can be brokered include, but are not limited to, quality of service and content screening. In an embodiment, a content... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070258459 - Method and system for qos by proxy: The presently described technology provides a method for selectively applying one or more QoS algorithms. The method comprises receiving data transmitted to a destination node in one or more of a first network and a second network and applying at least one of the QoS algorithms to the data based... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070258461 - System and method for controlling bandwidth at a wireless endpoint: Described is a system and method for controlling bandwidth at a wireless endpoint. The method comprises receiving a bandwidth request from a device and placing the device in a bundle which includes a plurality of radios to communicate with the device. A packet addressed to the device is received and... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070258462 - Network node unit and method for forwarding data packets: A network node unit and a method for forwarding data packets are provided. The network node unit is designed for forwarding data packets provided with a virtual network tag and comprises an identified cascading depth of the virtual network tag in the data packets which exceeds a predefined cascading depth,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070258463 - Load balancing for network server: Embodiments of the invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to load balancing for servers having multiple blades and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for load balancing at the blade level for servers having multiple blades. In one embodiment of the present invention,... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070258464 - Method and system for ip addressing: A method and system for IP addressing is provided. A home network user receives a plurality of broadband services from a broadband network through a gateway device. The gateway device obtains a single IP address to allow the home network to receive a plurality of broadband services through a single... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070258466 - Reliable multicast/broadcast in a wireless network: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to reliable multicast/broadcast in a wireless network. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus is provided in a wireless station. The apparatus may be adapted or configured to transmit a message in a wireless network from a recipient station to a transmitter station. The message... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070258465 - System and method for server farm resource allocation: Techniques and systems for server farm load balancing and resource allocation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of load balancing can include: arranging servers into service groups; receiving an access request with information related to a differentiation between the service groups; selecting one of the service groups based on... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070258468 - Intermediate network node supporting packet analysis of encrypted payload: An Internet infrastructure with network nodes (access points/routers/switches) and end point devices containing encryption, decryption pipes and encryption/decryption manager analyzes encrypted packets and applies service modules when required. The network node includes processing circuitry, encryption pipe circuitry, decryption pipe circuitry, storage, an encryption/decryption manager and optionally, a proxy flow manager... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070258469 - Switching network employing adware quarantine techniques: A communication infrastructure that communicates a plurality of packets from a source device having a source address to a client device having a destination address, consisting a communication pathway with plurality of switching devices, plurality of predefined templates and associated logic and plurality of adware quarantine service functions. The source... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070258467 - Open component manipulation system: A messaging system and method for creating a messaging hierarchy in a computer network are described. The network is made up of multiple network entities, which include both publishing entities and subscribing entities, where the publishing entities have data of which the subscribing entities may have need. The messaging system... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070258474 - Method and system of providing rss content by dms to devices in dlna network: A method of providing RSS content by a DMS to devices in a DLNA network, and more particularly, a method, system, computer program product and device is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of converting RSS content data to an image, storing the image, and sharing the image with devices... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070258473 - Method for controlling routing operations in a network, related network and computer program product thereof: A communication network with controlled routing operations, including a set of nodes, wherein topological information on the network is broadcast to all the nodes in the set. The network is associated with an external network, such as, a standard public network, and certain nodes are configured to perform a gateway... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070258475 - Multi-protocol network interface card: A method and apparatus for a communications network that executes a medium access control (MAC) protocol that permits multiple access to a shared medium or shared switching fabric. The MAC protocol uses a BANDWIDTH_ALLOCATOR to regulate access to the network by sending a permission message to a NODE, allowing it... Agent: Network Appliance/blakely

20070258472 - System and method for initiating auxiliary communication interfaces via a membership-based network: A system, apparatus and method for utilizing a first communication interface(s) to initiate communications via a second communication interface(s). Auxiliary communication information (104A) is communicated from an initiating device (100) to a target device(s) (110) via a first membership-based communication interface (112). In response to the auxiliary communication information (104A),... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk

20070258470 - System for communication between private and public ip networks: A system for communication between a first computer terminal (1) in a private IP network (7) and a second computer terminal (5) in a public IP network includes a network boundary equipment (3). The communications system further includes a mediation system (2) in the private IP network that is associated... Agent: Thomas Langer Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20070258471 - Techniques for measuring media statistics on forked media using a dsp: Techniques for determining media statistics for a communication from a first device to a second device are provided. The techniques include receiving media traffic for the communication at a network device configured to receive the media traffic from the first device. The network device is also configured to transmit the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070258476 - Apparatus and method for locating trouble occurrence position in communication network: When a communication abnormality has occurred, links that are included in the communication path on which the communication abnormality has occurred and that are included in communication paths between nodes that allow communication are excluded while referring to information on physical links between nodes in the communication network and path... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070258477 - Method and terminal for establishing pt session in order to use pt box: A PT (Push-To) service among SIP based session services, and particularly, a method and terminal for establishing a PT session in order to allow a certain user to use a PT box service under control of a PT server in a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) based service, are discussed. According... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070258478 - Methods and/or apparatus for link optimization: An apparatus comprising at least two controllers and one or more links. Each controller may be configured to control one or more transmitters and one or more receivers in response to a control state signal. The one or more links may be configured to allow communication between the controllers to... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20070258479 - Magnetic resonance apparatus with structurally separate rf transmit and rf reception devices: A magnetic resonance system has a first installation unit, in which a control processor device is arranged, as well as a radio-frequency coil arrangement for transmitting and receiving magnetic resonance signals. The radio-frequency coil arrangement is controlled or read out by a transmit device, having a digital transmit unit built... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070258481 - Apparatus and method for upgrading codec: An apparatus, system, and method for upgrading to a new codec used in a digital broadcasting environment are provided. The apparatus includes a first transceiver that receives a transport stream; a first parser that parses the transport stream to determine a codec packet, and decodes codec information contained therein; and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070258480 - Resource management system and method: The invention relates to a resource management system and method for handling of devices with features incorporated in an apparatus, such as a mobile telephone, but implemented as separate entities and controlled through interfaces. The resource management system includes an interface proxy arranged to manage the availability of features and... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20070258482 - Multi-protocol remote control device: A control device (10) is provided for control of an apparatus (12). The device is configured for communication with the apparatus using a one-way protocol or a two-way protocol. The device is configured to communicate a message for triggering a response from the apparatus, and to continue (31, 32; 608,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070258483 - Network profiling system having nonphysical layer test system: A network profiling system is provided including providing a base station tester having both a spectrum analyzer and a vector network analyzer, inserting a protocol test system in the base station tester, and operating a touch screen display of the base station tester for testing a cellular base station having... Agent: Ishimaru & Zahrt LLP

20070258484 - Network profiling system having physical layer test system: A network profiling system is provided including providing a base station tester having both a spectrum analyzer and a vector network analyzer, inserting an optical time domain reflectometer system in the base station tester, and operating a touch screen display of the base station tester for testing a cellular base... Agent: Ishimaru & Zahrt LLP

20070258485 - Satellite based positioning of a wireless terminal: At least one set of values of parameters is determined, each set of values defining a respective troposphere model. The at least one determined set of parameter values is then assembled for transmission via a wireless communication network to a wireless terminal as assistance data for an assisted satellite based... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070258486 - Systems and methods for close queuing to support quality of service: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for enqueuing transport protocol commands with data in a low-bandwidth network environment. The method may include receiving data for transmission via a network connection, enqueuing the data, enqueuing a transport protocol command related to the network connection, transmitting the data... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070258487 - Signalling service information data and service information fec data in a communication network: A multiprotocol encapsulation (MPE) encapsulator (6) receives or generates a copy or partial copy (10′) of service information data (10) and generates associated forward error correction (FEC) data. In addition to transmitting service information data in a conventional way via a first set of channels, the MPE encapsulator transmits the... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070258488 - Method of early starting the operation of a descrambler: The present invention provides a method of early starting the operation of a descrambler. The method comprises the steps of receiving a, synchronous byte of a transport packet in a group of m packets, where m is an integer, generating an alignment index to indicate a location of the synchronous... Agent: John Chen Room303, 3f., No 25, Sec. 1

20070258489 - Method and apparatus of handling variable of rlc reset procedure during receiver-side-only re-establishment in wireless communications system: A method of handling a variable of a Radio Link Control reset procedure during receiver-side-only re-establishment in a wireless communications system includes resetting a reset state variable, used for counting the number of times a RESET protocol data unit is scheduled to be transmitted, during receiver-side-only re-establishment.... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070258490 - Method and system for reducing sychronization of data in a network: In one embodiment, a method and a system for reducing synchronization of data in a network is disclosed. The method includes generating a string based on the configuration in a first network device. Thereafter, the generated string is hashed to form a first integer. The first integer is used to... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070258491 - Programmable asynchronous first-in-first-out (fifo) structure with merging capability: Where high speed communication between a host and memory devices is carried over serial bit lanes, memory buffers are required for converting buffering the serial bit lanes, and for converting between serial and parallel formats. In addition, jitter, wander, and skew between the bit lanes need to be accommodated. The... Agent: Allan Williams

20070253320 - Apparatus and method for efficiently transmitting/receiving a control channel in a mobile communication system simultaneously supporting a synchronous hrpd system and an ofdm system: An apparatus and method for efficiently transmitting/receiving a control channel in a mobile communication system simultaneously supporting a synchronous High-Rate Packet Data (HRPD) system and an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system. Power of a control channel to be transmitted is measured. The measured power is compared with marginal maximum... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070253321 - Method of transmitting ofdm signal and transmitter and receiver thereof: An OFDM transmitter includes, a data signal generator which generates a data signal by modulating a bit string obtained by channel coding, a pilot signal generator which generates a pilot signal, an allocation unit which allocates the pilot signal and data signal to a pilot subcarrier and a data subcarrier,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070253323 - Multiuse subcarriers in multipoint-to-point communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing: Systems and methods for bidirectional communication are provided. In one embodiment, a multipoint-to-point, orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communication system comprises: a plurality of remote units, a host unit; wherein the host sends an adjustment signal to a remote instructing the remote to adjust the timing of transmissions from the... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070253324 - Scattered pilot pattern and channel estimation method for mimo-ofdm systems: A method and apparatus are provided for reducing the number of pilot symbols within a MIMO-OFDM communication system, and for improving channel estimation within such a system. For each transmitting antenna in an OFDM transmitter, pilot symbols are encoded so as to be unique to the transmitting antenna. The encoded... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20070253319 - Signal detection in ofdm system: A solution for signal detection in a radio receiver receiving multicarrier signals is disclosed. According to the provided solution, the radio receiver receives a radio signal and converts the received radio signal into digital samples. Since a desired signal being detected occupies only a portion of subcarriers of a signal... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20070253322 - System for multiple use subchannels: Systems for multiple use subchannels are provided. In one embodiment, a bidirectional communication system comprises: a first remote for communicating with a host using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), the host communicatively coupled to a plurality of remotes in a multipoint-to-point configuration; wherein the first remote is configured to transmit... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070253325 - System and method for automatic reset of pre-programmed circuits in case of failures in transport networks: A network system comprises at least one input TNE (10) and one output TNE (11) interconnected by circuits in the network (20). Each TNE in the protection step comprises a traffic selector (22, 23) switchable between listening to the traffic input from a work circuit (13, 14) and listening to... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070253326 - System and method for resilient vpls over multi-nodal aps protected provider edge nodes: A system and method for multi-nodal APS (MN-APS) protection switching for a virtual private LAN service (VPLS) using a redundant pair of PE (provider edge) nodes is provided. In the event of an APS switchover, the previously active node of the redundant pair sends explicit requests to the other provider... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070253327 - System and method of multi-nodal aps control protocol signalling: A system and method for providing APS (automatic protection switching) redundant pair control protocol signaling for multi-nodal APS (MN-APS) is provided. Periodic liveliness messages are exchanged between each node of a redundant pair. Each liveliness message contains an IHY (I heard you) message which indicates whether or not the sender... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070253328 - System and method for active geographic redundancy: Systems and methods are provided that allow voice and data traffic to be shifted from one chassis to other chassis without interrupting service. Geographic Redundancy (GR) is an inter-chassis redundancy, where the chassis may be a home agent, a packet data serving node, or any combination of wireless networking devices.... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070253329 - Fabric manager failure detection: In a switch fabric including an active fabric manager and a standby fabric manager, a method that includes setting a timer for a duration and resetting the timer based on detection of a heartbeat message from the standby fabric manager via a path in the switch fabric. If the heartbeat... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070253330 - Node setting apparatus, network system, node setting method, and computer product: A plurality of nodes are connected to one another so as to form a ring network. A pseudo master node blocks relay of user data on one side, and transmits in the ring network a health packet that contains information about a priority order in which the pseudo master node... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070253331 - Communications system, apparatus and method of communicating sub-channel data: A communications system comprises a first network node coupled to a second network node so as to support a first main channel and a second main channel. A communications apparatus is coupled in-line between the first and second network nodes to support a first sub-channel in the first main channel... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070253332 - Quality guarantee for real-time applications over shared networks: A shared wireless channel may serve real-time traffic and non-real-time traffic. Depending on channel conditions, the real-time traffic may experience variable levels of quality. The present invention contemplates systems and methods for guaranteeing bounded access time for real-time applications in a shared wireless network in the presence of non-real-time traffic.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070253333 - Pulsed backpressure mechanism for reduced fifo utilization: The backpressure mechanism and method described here do not completely shut off the traffic when a queue is experiencing congestion. Instead of completely shutting off the traffic and waiting for the effects, a series of backpressure pulses are sent to the upstream stage for intermittently slowing the traffic between the... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070253334 - Switch routing algorithm for improved congestion control & load balancing: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable program code are provided for routing a packet in a switch system. A set of paths through the switch system to a destination address are determined. The set of paths are analyzed to identify a path with a least used... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070253335 - Computer system with black hole management: A computer system with black hole management. The black hole management system shares black hole status information among connections that employ the same path. The black hole status information may indicate either that a black hole exists on the path or that communications have been performed successfully on the path,... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070253336 - Method and system for providing passive status messaging: Disclosed embodiments are generally directed to systems and methods for providing passive status messaging for a network communications device at a remote node of a network. A disclosed method includes detecting a status condition at the remote node, selecting a message from a plurality of messages stored in the network... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070253337 - Communication quality evaluation method, derivation device, communication quality evaluation system and computer program: When simulating communication using a communication network such as a VoIP network, an actual communication state is accurately simulated, and communication is simulated. The distribution of delay times of packets is transformed by a predetermined transformation method, packet transmission timings to which delay times are added, are calculated based on... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070253341 - Method and apparatus for identifying network connectivity changes in dynamic networks: The invention comprises a method and apparatus for determining a network connectivity in a network having a plurality of nodes. In particular, one embodiment of the method includes generating a candidate link for each of a plurality of node pairs, predicting a performance of each candidate link by evaluating an... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070253340 - Method and apparatus for selective presence notification: A method and apparatus for reducing network resources from presence notification traffic. This invention assumes a standard presence architecture of presentities, watchers, and a presence server involved in pushing (notifying) watchers when a presentity's state changes. In addition, there exists a source of past communication data (or other data providing... Agent: Richard J. Minnich, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070253338 - Method of collecting consistent flow statistics through multiple congestion points within a multi-service switch/router and multi-service switches/routers provisioned with same: A method of collecting consistent flow statistics through multiple congestion points within a multi-service switch/router is enabled by computing a payload length of each traffic unit received from a fabric of the switch/router. A PHY-level header containing the payload length, a class of service and a service ID is appended... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070253339 - Methods and systems for heterogeneous wireless network discovery and selection: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for a mobile client device to discover and obtain the parameters of a heterogeneous wireless network, within a plurality of heterogeneous wireless networks.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070253344 - Auto-configuring operation modes for network elements: A method to automatically configure a network device is provided. Without user intervention, configuration messages are generated and transmitted on physical interfaces associated with the network device. Acknowledgements to the configuration messages provide connectivity information that is utilized to instruct the network device to operate in a first, second, or... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070253345 - Method of connecting a new device to existing network: In a centralised radio network consisting of several devices one device acts as master or network coordinator and has a transmission range. Basically, other devices of the network are able to adopt the role of a coordinator. This ability is used to enlarge the area of the network to a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070253343 - Methods and apparatus for managing rf elements over a network: A graphical management system includes a web browser application communicatively coupled to a web service and a graphical management module over a network and a plurality of wireless devices (e.g., RFID readers, access ports, etc.) coupled to the network and having one or more associated antennae. The wireless devices are... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070253342 - System for automatically configuring a communication interface module: A system for automatically configuring a communication interface module is disclosed. The communication interface module may include a plurality of data link ports and auto-configuration logic. The auto-configuration logic may be configured to determine a data link type for a data link connected to at least one of the plurality... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070253346 - Detection of potential forwarding loops in bridged networks: Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, mechanisms, and means for detecting potential forwarding loops in bridged networks. A switch monitors the movement of packet addresses in the forwarding table to different ports. If the port associated with an address changes multiple times in a short time... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20070253347 - Advanced features on a real-time exchange system: A real-time exchange (RTX) interfaces to a wireless communications system to provide enhanced features for advanced voice services (AVS), which include Voice Activated Floor Management, Voice Short Message Services (SMS) and Address Book Backup.... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20070253348 - System and method of conferencing endpoints: A wireless communications device is a hub for a conference call between a user of the device, a first remote party, and a second remote party. The wireless communications device communicates with the first remote party over a first connection and with the second remote party over a second concurrently... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070253349 - Passive network tap with bidirectional coupler and associated splitting methods: The principles of the present invention relate to passive full-duplex bidirectional Zero Packet Loss (ZPL) network taps that include single, dual, or dual differential couplers that are placed in the communication path between two network devices that communicate using a full-duplex bidirectional data stream that include a first and a... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070253350 - Method and process for electronically posting bulletin board messages: A method of electronically broadcasting messages to a general or targeted audience. A message sender can post messages on electronic bulletin boards by accessing a website or calling a phone number. The user has control of the design and content of the message including font, background, pictures and sound; there... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

20070253354 - Device and method for receiving digital multimedia broadcasting signal in wireless terminal: Disclosed are a device and a method for receiving a Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) signal in a wireless terminal, which can receive a DMB signal corresponding to each channel. The apparatus includes an automatic matching unit resonating at a frequency band corresponding to a selected channel; a DMB reception unit... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070253359 - Network initiated mobility management for mobile terminals: The present invention provides a system, apparatus and method wherein the network initiates a PDP context activation for a second PDP context using a new IP address that can be used for new transport sessions whenever one or more operator configured criteria apply. For example, the present invention can be... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070253356 - Wireless device and method of communicating data through a wireless device: A wireless device including a controller controlling operations of the wireless device based on the operating mode of the wireless device for data services. The operating mode is one of a normal mode and a serving mode. The normal mode being where the wireless device acts as a normal endpoint... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070253351 - Automatically discovering devices of a wimax network system: Facilitating discovery of a device in a communication network comprising a WiMax network includes the device entering the communication network. An announcement message is sent to one or more multicast groups. The announcement message announces the presence of the device to the members of the multicast groups. An operation may... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070253352 - Deterministic power-aware wireless network: A method to manage an application-layer-managed network. The method includes receiving a received signal strength indication at an application layer of an access node from a media access control layer of the access node, determining if the received signal strength indication or an averaged received signal strength indication are within... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070253353 - Method and a system for managing information in a wireless network: A system and method are provided for managing information in a wireless network. The information can be utilized during handoff of a client from an access point to an access point. The method includes a first frame being generated and transmitted by the client to the access point through the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070253360 - Method and system for communicating a plurality of packets in multicast broadcast service (mbs) communication network: A method and system for communicating a plurality of packets in the MBS communication network is provided. The method includes determining if one or more packets in the plurality of packets received at one or more controllers are MBS packets. The method further includes encoding one or more MBS frames... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20070253355 - Methods and apparatus for broadcasting loading information corresponding to neighboring base stations: Methods and apparatus are described where loading information regarding loading conditions at a neighboring base station is received at a first base station and then communicated, e.g., broadcast, by the first base station to mobiles within the cell in which the first base station is located. Since the neighbor base... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070253357 - Methods and apparatus related to selecting a request group for a request report: Methods and apparatus related to reporting transmission backlog information are described. A wireless communications device maintains and updates transmission backlog information corresponding to a plurality of different transmission request groups. Different request groups may correspond to different uplink traffic queues. For a request reporting opportunity, the communications device selects a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070253358 - Methods and apparatus related to selecting reporting alternative in a request report: Methods and apparatus related to wireless terminal reporting alternative selection for a fixed bit size control information request report, e.g., a 4 bit uplink traffic channel request report, are described. A wireless terminal maintains a plurality of different request groups corresponding to uplink traffic to be transmitted. The same request... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070253365 - Service-aware quality monitoring and control in a radio access network: A system and method for monitoring performance of an identified end-user service in a radio access network (RAN) in which multiple services utilize the same bearer service. A core network node such as an SGSN includes an operator-configurable mapping table for mapping end-user services to Service Identifiers. The SGSN sends... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070253368 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating initiation of channel allocation to communicate data in a radio communication system: Apparatus (48), and an associated method, for facilitating operation of a mobile node (12) operable in a communication system (10) to request allocation of communication capacity upon which to communicate data pursuant to a communication service. A channel allocation request generator (52) is selectably operable to generate requests for allocation... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070253361 - Channel allocation for a multi-device communication system: A channel allocation method for a communication network defines a definite purpose channel group that carries signals for definite purpose system devices, such as non-flight critical applications in an aircraft, and a public channel group that carries signals for user devices, such as wireless PDAs, phones and computers used by... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070253364 - Data burst communication techniques for mobile communication devices operating in packet data sessions: Data burst communication techniques for mobile communication devices operating in packet data sessions are disclosed. A mobile communication device is adapted to receive and decode packet data of a plurality of packet data bursts of a data block over a packet data channel during a packet data session. The mobile... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070253362 - Method and system to improve transmission and receipt of channel descriptors: The invention concerns a method (200) and system for improving transmission or receipt of channel descriptors. The method can include the steps of—in a wireless communication system (100) that periodically broadcasts regular channel descriptors (310) at a set interval (312)—changing (212) a modulation scheme and transmitting (216) one or more... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070253367 - Method, system and apparatus of realizing indicating resource of multicast and broadcast service (mbs): The present invention discloses a method, a system and apparatus of realizing indicating resource of MBS. The method comprises: a Down Link-MAP (DL-MAP) message sent by a Base Station (BS) carries resource information associated Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS); receiving the DL-MAP message sent by BS, Mobile station (MS) judges... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070253366 - Process for assigning radio resources between a number of multiplexed transport channels in a physical channel: The invention concerns a process for assigning radio resources between a number M of multiplexed transport channels in a physical channel, each transport channel carrying a service and/or data having a requirement of a specific QoS between a user terminal and a base station of a cellular telecommunications network. The... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070253363 - Uplink load control including individual measurements: A technique is disclosed for determining values of different portions of a total uplink interference, which can be used for scheduling and load control at a base station, for example. A disclosed example includes obtaining measurements from individual users and using those measurements to determine corresponding portions of a total... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070253370 - Apparatus and method for transmitting ack/nack messages in a wireless communication system: A base station for use in wireless network that communicates with subscriber stations according to a multicarrier protocol. The base station receives an uplink subframe comprising a plurality of blocks. Each of the blocks comprises up to N subcarriers transmitted by the subscriber stations. The base station receives a first... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070253372 - Wireless base station and method for controlling operations of the same and mobile communication system using the same: Information on each wireless environment of an adjacent cell is exchanged between adjacent wireless base station in a mobile communication system, where the system enables a plurality of wireless base stations to communicate with each other by using a link between the base stations. Then, the latest information of the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070253369 - Coordinating a transition of a roaming client between wireless access points using another client in physical proximity: Systems and methods for handling a transition of a roaming mobile user device (i.e., a roaming client) from one access point (AP) to a target AP, referred to herein as soft inter-AP handoff. This technique involves a second mobile user device that is already connected with the target AP, called... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070253371 - System and method for traffic localization: Systems and methods for bridging packet flows to bypass call legs and/or tunnels are provided. A tunnel initiator, which can be an access gateway, a foreign agent, and a mobility anchor point, for example, provides a bypass for certain packets that have a destination serviced by the same tunnel initiator.... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070253374 - Method of transmitting control signals in a digital communications system: A method is provided by which an information-bearing message may be inferred by the receiver on the basis of which one of the M communication channels was used for transmission.... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20070253373 - Method of using a shared control channel in wireless communications: In an improved method for using an HSDPA control channel HS-SCCH, all k+m bits carried on the HS-SCCH are encoded together to form a single codeword, which is transmitted over the entire duration, i.e., three slots, or 2 ms, of the transmission time interval TTI. At the receiving end, the... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20070253375 - High-throughput scheduler with guaranteed fairness for wireless networks and other applications: A scheduler is adapted to schedule packets or other data blocks for transmission from a plurality of transmission elements in timeslots of a frame in a communication system. In scheduling for a given frame, the scheduler initially designates each of the transmission elements as eligible to transmit one or more... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070253382 - Arrangement for synchronizing access points in wlan using direct-sequence spread spectrum signaling: An arrangement for providing synchronization between a number of overlapping area access points within a wireless LAN utilizes a Power over Ethernet (PoE) cable connection to transmit synchronization signals from a centralized hub/switch to each of the access points connected to the cable. The synchronization signal takes the form of... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070253383 - Enhanced multi-user packets with extended mac index space for wireless communications: The present invention provides methods for identifying the target mobile stations for data transmission in a wireless communication network. An enhanced Multi-User Packet format that supports both the legacy MAC Index and the new extended MAC Index in the same packet is described. The length of extended MAC Index can... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070253388 - Method and apparatus for selecting link adaptation parameters for cdma-based wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus enhance the selection of transport block set size (TBSS), number of spreading codes, and modulation type, referred to collectively as transport format resource combination (TFRC), in a medium access control (MAC) layer for transmission of data in a code division multiple access (CDMA) wireless communication system,... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070253393 - Method of handling packet data in a wireless communications system and related apparatus: A method of handling packets for a user end in a wireless communications system includes activating a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) procedure, receiving a first packet and decoding the first packet successfully, receiving a second packet following the first packet, and decoding the second packet if the second packet... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070253392 - Process for the generation of packets for at least one mobile receiver: According to a second variant, the process includes the steps of reception of an encrypted stream representing a service, this stream comprising at least a data channel and a control message ECM channel; cutting of said stream to send it in packets to the mobile receiver; formation from said cut... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070253386 - Providing cqi feedback to a transmitter station in a closed-loop mimo system: Methods and apparatuses for reducing an amount of bandwidth required for feedback to a transmitter station in a closed-loop multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system are described herein. The methods may include initially measuring at a receiver station channel qualities associated with receiving signals from a transmitter station for a first and... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070253384 - Wireless switch with bootable flash memory storage device: A wireless switch for a wireless local area network (WLAN) as disclosed herein includes an integrated nonvolatile memory card interface that enables communication with compliant portable nonvolatile memory cards such as CompactFlash memory cards. A portable memory card can be utilized by the wireless switch and/or by other network components... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070253377 - Apparatus and method for name resolution in an aggregation of mobile networks: A method and apparatus are provided for establishing internet protocol (IP) communication with a node in an aggregation of one or more mobile networks each having a name server. The method includes multicasting (105) at least one message to the mobile networks indicating a name resolution of at least one... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070253387 - Apparatus and method for provisioning wireless data communication devices: A system for provisioning wireless data communication devices for a plurality of users is provided in which the system includes a configuration server having an authorization program and a configuration program, and a database. The configuration server is connectable to a network for providing a network portal for the plurality... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20070253394 - Cognitive radio system: A cognitive radio system includes: a state detecting device that scans a frequency band allocated to another radio system than the cognitive radio system to detect a first use-state of the frequency band; a first server including a first gathering unit that receives first information relating to the first use-state... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070253380 - Data translation device with nonvolatile memory for a networked medical device system: A fluid infusion system as described herein includes a number of local “body network” devices, such as an infusion pump, a handheld monitor or controller, a physiological sensor, and a bedside or hospital monitor. The body network devices can be configured to support communication of status data, physiological information, alerts,... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070253379 - Method and apparatus for uplink allocation placement in an uplink frame: Various embodiments are described to address the need for a method and apparatus that could reduce the start-up delay for uplink data transfers in multiple-access technologies. A time-symbol threshold (551) is introduced for an uplink frame (550) in order to create a partition of the frame that includes the earlier... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070253391 - Method and system for channel time allocation and access control in wireless networks: A channel time allocation and access control process for communication in wireless networks is provided. The channel time is divided into channel time blocks (CTBs), including one or more reserved CTBs and one or more unreserved CTBs. Schedules are implemented, wherein one or more periodic, equal-sized CTBs are reserved for... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070253376 - Method and system for providing cellular assisted secure communications of a plurality of ad hoc devices: A method for providing secure communications among a plurality of ad hoc devices includes authenticating one or more first devices within a first network; authenticating one or more second devices within a second network; transmitting a group key to the authenticated first devices and to the authenticated second devices; establishing... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070253381 - Method for increasing spectrum efficiency in an ofdm based multi-bandwidth wireless system: A method is provided for operating a multi-bandwidth OFDMA system that can achieve an enhanced bandwidth efficiency due to windowing without significantly impacting the underlying physical design of the receive filters. The method comprises establishing a bandwidth over which the radio resources transmit signals, the bandwidth being comprised of an... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070253378 - Method of optimizing use of high-rate packet data resources: A method of optimizing use of a plurality of high-rate packet data (HRPD) resources may include assigning one of the plurality of HRPD resources to each of a plurality of mobile stations that is coupled to a radio access network, where the one of the plurality of HRPD resources is... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070253385 - Methods and apparatus for controlling a base stations's transmission power: A base station receives loading information indicative of the loading of other base stations and determines a downlink transmission power budget as a function of the received loading factor information. The base station may decrease/increase a current power budget dedicated to downlink traffic channel segments in response to detecting an... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070253389 - Mobile telecommunications network with distributed base stations: A mobile telecommunications local area network (20) is described with a concentrator (32) connected to a plurality of radio heads (36, 38) via a local area network (LAN, 20). The concentrator (32) provides remote control of a local timing signal individually in each radio head. The control may be open... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070253390 - Station for wireless network: A wireless network device, such as a printer, to enter an infrastructure-type user wireless LAN as a station, has an additional access point function. A printer having an ESS-ID ‘MM’ as an initial setting is connected with a user wireless LAN, which includes an access point and a personal computer... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070253395 - Wireless network detector: There is provided a wireless network detector that easily and conveniently enables a user to scan and find access points for one or more wireless network present in a scanned location. The detector can provide visual and audio feedback about the detected wireless networks. The wireless network detector can provide... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP

20070253396 - Method and apparatus for reducing the processing rate of a chip-level equalization receiver: A method and apparatus for reducing the processing rate when performing chip-level equalization (CLE) in a code division multiple access (CDMA) receiver which includes an equalizer filter. Signals received by at least one antenna of the receiver are sampled at M times the chip rate. Each sample stream is split... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070253397 - Variable delay buffer: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system including a first buffer and a second buffer. The first buffer and the second buffer may temporarily store communication data in a communication system, as it is being processed. The output of the first buffer may be coupled to an input... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070253399 - Method and system for selecting a sleep interval to improve battery life: The disclosure is directed to a mobile communication device that is capable of accessing different types of networks such as a circuit-switched network and a packet-switched network. While communicating over the packet-switched network, the device negotiates a sleep interval that is longer than the ordinary interval available using the packet-switched... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070253398 - Method of carrier type preemption: A method and apparatus are provided for allocating radio frequency carriers in a radio service area having a plurality of radio frequency TDMA carriers and FDMA carriers. The method includes the steps of receiving a call, when the received call is a FDMA call and a FDMA carrier is not... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070253401 - Method and apparatus of deciphering parameter synchronization in a wireless communications device: A method of deciphering parameter synchronization in a reception end of a wireless communications system includes setting a receiving window of a first entity as a Push Type window with a window size greater than or equal to a window size of a receiving window of a second entity when... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070253400 - Sub-frame synchronized ranging: A method of determining distances between communication nodes. The method includes transmitting an initial communication frame from a first node to at least one second node. The initial communication frame includes a frame preamble, first data and a first switch point. The method further includes synchronizing a local clock of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070253403 - Maximum-throughput routing of traffic in the hose model: A computer-implemented method of computing throughput of a data-routing scheme for a network of nodes interconnected by links and having at least one ingress point and at least one egress point. The method includes: deriving a polynomial-size linear program from a combination of a first linear program and a second... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20070253402 - Systems and methods for ordering network messages: The networking system may include a routing module. The routing module may receive one or more network messages, may reorder the network messages, and may route the network messages to a desired destination. The routing module may include a routing data structure. The routing module may include a transaction data... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070253407 - Enhanced voip services: A method and system for providing enhanced VoIP services relating to the use of callee rules and/or caller rules is provided. A callee may specify callee rules defining the callee preferences such as which VoIP device of the callee is appropriate for responding to an incoming communication from a specified... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070253405 - Method and apparatus for initiating a user selected service when establishing a packet data connection: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for initiating a user selected service, which makes use of a packet data connection, in conjunction with establishing the packet data connection. The method includes receiving a request to initiate a user selected service, which uses a packet data connection, prior to... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070253406 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for provisioning subscriber line service on ip enabled network elements: A subscriber line is provisioned using a circuit identification such that services are associated with the subscriber line using the circuit identification and the services are disassociated with a telephone number assigned to the subscriber line.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070253404 - Remote-dialing system and method thereof for saving call tolls: A remote-dialing system and method thereof for saving call tolls, wherein the remote-dialing system comprises a first computer for executing a remote-dialing means and an Internet communicating means, a second computer for executing a controlling means and the Internet communicating means, and a telephone integrating device. The first computer and... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070253408 - Sonet add/drop multiplexer with packet over sonet capability: An advanced SONET add/drop multiplexer capable of supporting packet over SONET and multiprotocol label switching. The add/drop multiplexer is capable of adding and/or dropping both STM and packet traffic, such as Internet Protocol traffic. This SONET add/drop multiplexer allows Internet Protocol streams which are added or dropped at different nodes... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070253411 - Efficient management of queueing resources for diffserv-aware switches: Resources allocated to a group of ports include a plurality of storage regions. Each storage region includes a committed area and a shared area. A destination storage region is identified for a packet. A packet queuing engine stores the packet in the committed area of the determined destination storage region... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070253415 - Frame relay switched data service: A new type of data transport service which uses a frame relay layer 2 data link connection identifier (DLCI) to select among various service types, feature sets, and/or closed user groups (CUGs). A layer 3 address may be extracted from a layer 2 frame, and the layer 3 address information... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20070253410 - Integrated circuit and method for packet switching control: An integrated circuit having a plurality of processing modules (M, S) and an interconnect means (N) for coupling said plurality of processing modules (M, S) and for enabling a packet based communication based on transactions between said plurality of processing modules (M, S) is provided. Each packet comprises a first... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070253412 - Method and apparatus for sip message prioritization: The invention includes a method and apparatus for providing SIP message prioritization between network elements along at least a portion of an end-to-end path between a SIP client and a SIP server. The method includes determining a SIP message prioritization policy and distributing the SIP message prioritization policy toward a... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070253413 - Method and system for detecting a change in device attachment: A method and system are disclosed to detect a change in location of a device attached to a communications network including identifying a first address of a device attached to a communications network, identifying the removal of the device from the communications network, identifying when the device is reconnected to... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070253414 - Method for preventing data packet losses when updating an address table: In one aspect, a method for preventing data packet losses when updating of an address table that is stored in a computer of a local area network and comprises allocations of computer addresses valid in the local area network to computer addresses valid in the Internet to mail data packets... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070253409 - Method for realizing the multicast service: The present invention discloses a method for implementing multicast services, which includes: preset a mapping relation between a multicast user address and a multicast group address; acquire a request packet sent by the multicast user who requests to join in the multicast group; determine whether the multicast group address in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070253416 - Method and apparatus for forwarding label distribution protocol multicast traffic during fast reroute: A computer apparatus comprising a processor and a forwarding engine arranged to forward LDP multicast traffic along a multicast tree having a primary and a backup path in a converged network topology, the processor being configured to cause the forwarding engine to forward traffic via the backup path upon a... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070253419 - Communication terminal apparatus and image printing apparatus: A communication terminal apparatus that transmits image data to a destination according to destination information when an RF reader retrieves the destination information from an RFID tag attached to an original document having acquired image, data.... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070253418 - Routing path optimization between sip endpoints: Methods and systems for optimized routing of real time media session data between session initiation protocol SIP endpoints. In one embodiment of the invention, first and second SIP endpoints each provide notification of network address translation NAT topology thereof and based on the NAT topologies of the two endpoints an... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070253417 - Address translation in a communication system: A controller for a communications system comprises an input and an output for communicating with nodes connected to the communications system. The controller is provided with a processor for determining presence of an address translator entity between a first node and a second node. The controller is further configured for... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070253420 - Backplane interface adapter: A backplane interface adapter for a network switch. The backplane interface adapter includes at least one receiver that receives input cells carrying packets of data; at least one cell generator that generates encoded cells which include the packets of data from the input cells; and at least one transmitter that... Agent: Foundry Networks, Inc.

20070253422 - Block-based seeking method for windows media audio stream: A block-based seeking method for Windows Media Audio (WMA) stream can be implemented in a portable electronic device with a first processor and a second processor. The first processor initially reads a WMA stream from a block-based storage device. Next, the WMA stream is transmitted to a memory of a... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20070253423 - Embedded retransmission scheme with cross-packet coding: An H-ARQ system wherein the transmission of two consecutive, or sequential, blocks of information bits are considered jointly; i.e., one of the blocks of information being embedded within the other one of the blocks of information. If a retransmission for the first block is necessary, the system processes both blocks... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070253421 - Selective reception of multi user joint coded packets: Methods and corresponding systems for communicating data include concatenating sub-packets designated, respectively, for a first user device and a second user device to form a multiplexed data frame. A control channel message is produced to indicate that the first and second user devices have sub-packets in the multiplexed data frame.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070253424 - Web-based system and method of establishing an on-line meeting or teleconference: A real-time communications system for initiating a real-time communications session involving a plurality of users that brings together the most appropriate individuals to participate in an on-line meeting or teleconference. A user who is a prospective participant in an on-line meeting or teleconference clicks on a hyperlink contained in a... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20070253427 - System, method and computer program product for providing quality of service during remote access to a plug-and-play network: A network entity for providing QoS during remote access to a PnP network includes a QoS manager for receiving in-band device capabilities of a PnP-enabled in-band correspondent and a PnP-enabled out-of-band remote node, the remote node being in communication with the PnP network over a secure tunnel. As presented, the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070253428 - Techniques for bulk refresh of sessions in ip networks: Techniques for providing a bulk refresh of sessions in a network are provided. A plurality of session identifiers for sessions that were created are determined. These session identifiers may be included in a bulk refresh message. The bulk refresh message is sent to a device configured to determine if sessions... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070253425 - Wireless network scheduling methods and apparatus based on both waiting time and occupancy: A scheduler is adapted to schedule packets or other data blocks for transmission from a plurality of transmission elements in timeslots in a communication system. The scheduler determines scaled capacity measures for respective ones of the transmission elements, with each of the scaled capacity measures being scaled by a combination... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070253429 - System, method and apparatus for supporting e911 emergency services in a data communications network: A system, method and apparatus for supporting enhanced 911 (E911) emergency services, in a data communications network that includes Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephones. A network system includes a host network communicatively coupled to an E911 database management system, a network access device, and a VoIP telephone communicatively coupled... Agent: David B. Ritchie Thelen Reid & Priest LLP

20070253431 - Method and apparatus for generating ipv6 unique local address: A method and apparatus for generating an IPv6 unique local address (ULA) are provided. The method includes generating a 64-bit first value using unique information on a UPnP device used by a router; generating a modified 64-bit EUI-64 using unique information on an interface device used by the router; generating... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070253430 - Gigabit ethernet adapter: A gigabit Ethernet adapter provides a provides a low-cost, low-power, easily manufacturable, small form-factor network access module which has a low memory demand and provides a highly efficient protocol decode. The invention comprises a hardware-integrated system that both decodes multiple network protocols byte-streaming manner concurrently and processes packet data in... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070253432 - Network device providing access to both layer 2 and layer 3 services on a single physical interface: A network node includes a first port and a second port, the second port being operable to carry a first type of data traffic over a main physical interface, the first type of data traffic including Layer 2 services. The second port is operable to simultaneously carry a second type... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20070253426 - Reliable global broadcasting in a multistage network: Efficient, reliable broadcast support is provided to clients of a network built using switching elements that have the capability to replicate packets. Replication patterns are generated and used in broadcasting data in the network. The replication patterns are provided in hardware of the network to enable broadcasting from one node... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070253433 - Network apparatus and network address translation configuration method: A network apparatus (10) for network address translation (NAT) configuration includes a web server (200), a wide area network (WAN) setting module (300), a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) setting module (400), and an NAT setting module (500). The web server receives a WAN protocol message and an easy-mode enable... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070253436 - Communicating in a virtual environment: A computer system and method for communicating in a virtual environment. The computer system may include a first partition and a virtual service client implemented at a first position in the first partition. The computer system may also include a second partition, and a virtual service provider implemented at a... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070253435 - Method for providing reliable session communication within a network: A method of network operation provides reliable session communication within a communication network. A communication session is initiated by an endpoint using a transactional protocol to send a communication session request to a server. The server sends a second communication session request to the at least one other endpoint. An... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070253434 - Performing a graceful restart operation for wimax network protocols: Facilitating a graceful restart operation includes initiating the graceful restart operation at a gateway of an access service network. A graceful restart request is sent to a helper device. The graceful restart request requests that the helper device recognize the gateway as adjacent during a specified grace period. If the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070253437 - System and method for intelligent information handling system cluster switches: Information is more efficiently distributed between master and slave information handling systems interfaced through a blocking network of switches by storing the information on switches within the blocking network and distributing the information from the switches. As an example, an application distribution module located on a leaf switch distributes an... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070253438 - Differentiated services using weighted quality of service (qos): Differentiated services for network traffic using weighted quality of service is provided. Network traffic is queued into separate per flow queues, and traffic is scheduled from the per flow queues into a group queue. Congestion management is performed on traffic in the group queue. Traffic is marked with priority values,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070253439 - Method, device and system of scheduling data transport over a fabric: Embodiments of the invention provide systems, devices and methods to schedule data transport across a fabric, e.g., prior to actual transmission of the data across the fabric. In some demonstrative embodiments, a packet switch may include an input controller to schedule transport of at least one data packet to an... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20070253440 - Internet communication system and method: An internet communication system includes a subscriber line interface circuit (SLIC), a switch unit, an audio Codec unit, and a control unit. The SLIC comprises a first interface for receiving an analog signal and transforming the analog signal into a digital signal. The switch unit connecting with the first interface... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070253442 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving control channel in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system: A transmission/reception method for transmitting a control channel in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system. The transmission method includes generating a plurality of control channels such that control information for demodulation of the plurality of control channels is distributed over information of other control channels; and modulating a data... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070253441 - Communications system, apparatus for creating a sub-channel and method therefor: A communications apparatus includes an input for receiving a data stream being transmitted from a first network node to a second network node using a main channel. A processing resource of the communications apparatus identifies data signifying an idle period within the data stream and determines whether the idle period... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070253443 - Data services over g.shdsl transport infrastructure: The present disclosure provides a system, method and computer-readable medium for providing a network service. In one aspect, the disclosure provides a system for providing a network service that includes a network device for providing the network service over a network loop using Symmetric High Bit Rate Digital Subscriber Loop... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070253444 - Communications in relay networks: A system and method for transmitting data in a communication system. First encapsulated data is received at a first node, and second encapsulated data associated with the first encapsulated data is generated at the first node. The first encapsulated data and the second encapsulated data are transmitted independently to one... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070253445 - Method for the bandwidth detection: The present invention provides a method for detecting the bandwidth and other useful parameters of the network status. With these detected result, especially the upstream bandwidth and the downstream bandwidth, the setting of the on-line service or application, which is usually sensitive to the network status, could be appropriately determined.... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20070253446 - Method of reducing buffer usage by detecting missing fragments and idle links for multilink protocols and devices incorporating same: A method of detecting missing fragments and idle links in a link bundle for a multilink protocol, and devices provisioned with program instructions for performing the method, employs a plurality of masks to track the links in the bundle that are active. Idle links are excluded from a determination about... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070253447 - Methods and apparatus for handling segmentation and numbering of sdus in wireless communication systems: A method for handling segmentation and numbering of protocol data units (PDUs) in a radio link control (RLC) entity of a wireless communications system includes handling a plurality of service data units (SDUs), an SDU of the plurality of SDUs comprising at least a first sequence number (SN) field and... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070253448 - Method and apparatus for implementing bandwidth control in a communications link: A method and apparatus are provided for implementing bandwidth control in a communication link. A set link configuration for the communications link establishes a number of clock cycles required to transmit a data envelope. A control function aligns a start of a data packet on a fixed cycle boundary for... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20070253449 - Methods and apparatus related to determining, communicating, and/or using delay information: Methods and apparatus related to determining, communicating, and/or using delay information and described. A wireless terminal determines delay information corresponding to queued information that it intends to transmits. The delay information includes a minimum time to a transmission deadline indicating a minimum amount of time remaining before information will be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070253450 - Pilot signal transmission method and radio communication system for enabling measurement of reception quality with high accurancy: In a pilot signal transmission method for raising the SIR measurement accuracy for transmission power control during high-speed transmission and thus reducing the block error rate and improving the throughput, a first SIR value measured by first pilot signals and second SIR value measured by second pilot signals are first... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070253451 - Two dimensional timeout table mechanism with optimized delay characteristics: Improved timeout table mechanism are disclosed. By way of example, a method for providing timeout delays for data queues in a processing system includes the following steps. A timeout structure is maintained. The timeout structure includes two or more groups, each group including two or more bins, each bin having... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP