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Multiplex communications February patents and inventions 02/08

20080049596 - Quantized precoding over a set of parallel channels: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for applying successive multi-rank beamforming strategies (e.g., successive preceding strategies) for the design of precoders over a set of parallel channels. Successive beamforming is applied to a narrow band channel model and is also applied for finer quantization of a single beamforming vector (e.g., recursive... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080049597 - Content-adaptive multimedia coding and physical layer modulation: This disclosure describes content-adaptive coding and modulation techniques. In particular, this disclosure describes techniques in which both a multimedia coding mode and a physical layer modulation scheme are adaptively selected based on content of a multimedia sequence. When the content changes such that either the coding or the modulation scheme... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080049600 - Channel estimation method and system using linear correlation based interference cancellation (lcic) combined with decision-feedback-equalization (dfe): A channel estimation method and system using linear correlation based interference cancellation combined with decision-feedback-equalization (LCIC-DFE) are provided. The channel estimation method includes generating a first correlation sequence by calculating a linear correlation between a baseband sampled complex signal and a locally stored pseudo-noise signal and obtaining a second correlation... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080049598 - Ofdm channel estimation: A receiver for receiving an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) digital video broadcast (DVB) signal including OFDM symbol sets including data symbols and pilot symbols transmitted using a plurality of sub-carriers, the OFDM DVB signal being transmitted toward the receiver via a transmission channel, the receiver including an input module... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20080049601 - Systems and methods for high rate ofdm communications: Messages transmitted between a receiver and a transmitter are used to maximize a communication data rate. In particular, a multicarrier modulation system uses messages that are sent from the receiver to the transmitter to exchange one or more sets of optimized communication parameters. The transmitter then stores these communication parameters... Agent: Jason H. Vick Sheridan Ross, PC

20080049599 - Tone hopping in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication system: Systems for tone hopping in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication system are provided. In one embodiment, a bidirectional communication system comprises: a first remote unit for communicating with a host unit using OFDM, the host unit communicatively coupled to a plurality of remote units in a multipoint-to-point... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080049602 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving side information of a partial transmit sequence in an ofdm communication system: An Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication system that multiplexes data with a plurality of orthogonal sub-carrier frequencies, which includes a transmitter for converting a serial data stream into parallel data, and segmenting the parallel data into a plurality of blocks having a plurality of data blocks; inserting reference data... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080049603 - System and method for multiframe alignment in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system: Systems and methods for multiframe alignment in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM system are provided. In one embodiment, an (OFDM) communication system comprises: a host unit; a plurality of remote units that access the host unit using an orthogonal frequency division multiple access scheme; wherein each of the... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080049604 - Systems and method for orthogonal frequency divisional multiplexing: Systems and methods for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing are provided. In one embodiment, a multi-carrier modem comprising: a receiver configured to de-modulate symbols from at least one of a plurality of spectrally overlapping carrier signals; a transmitter configured to modulate symbols onto at least one of a plurality of the... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080049605 - Out of sight light: “The Out of Sight Light” is a mechanism, which can elevate itself through the use of air pressure, in the base unit being contained by the use of multiple O-rings and lower itself through the use of a spring expanding; which becomes compressed as the cylinder elevates out of the... Agent: John M. Balger

20080049606 - Bidirectional communication: x

20080049607 - Method and apparatus for checking maintenance association integrity and method and apparatus for adding maintenance end point: The present invention discloses a method for checking MA integrity, including: creating an MEP a; determining, by an MEP c in an MA, whether an MEP b with the same source port information as the MEP a exists in the MA; if there exists an MEP b with the same... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080049608 - Process for securing communication connections and associated billing in a redundant communication network: In a process for securing communication connections and associated billing in a communication network with a redundant structure, terminals communicate via brokers preferably an IP bearer, by means of messages, the correct operation of the terminals and/or hardware units being monitored by a monitoring function and the physical functions of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080049609 - Determining rerouting information for single-link failure recovery in an internet protocol network: For a survivable portion of a network, a backup port for a first router of the survivable network, to reach a destination node in the event of a single link failure, may be determined by (a) accepting a routing path graph having the destination node, wherein the routing path graph... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080049610 - Routing failure recovery mechanism for network systems: A network unit for exchanging control messages with a remote network unit through a communication path to be established in a network. The network unit enables recovery of failures whether they occur in any of one way links, both-way links. The network unit also enables recovery of node failures to... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080049611 - Data transmission method and apparatus: In a data transmission method and apparatus which can perform a switchover of all of the main lines without requiring much construction cost, a transmission apparatus sets, upon frame transmission or reception, combinations of a plurality of main lines with virtual paths established so as to include at least a... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080049612 - Maintaining filtering database consistency: Information is shared between switches such as bridges to facilitate efficient forwarding of data. In some embodiments consistency is maintained between information stored in filtering databases for IEEE 802.1D or 802.1Q bridges. When a switch does not have an entry in a filtering database that matches a destination address in... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080049614 - Capacity management for data networks: A method of processing capacity information is disclosed, The capacity information relates to data capacity in a data network in which a consumer circuit is carried on, and consumes bandwidth made available by, a bearer circuit. The method comprises storing, in a network information database, an entity representing the bearer... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080049613 - Method and system for providing a quality of service change warning at a user equipment: A method and system for providing a Quality of Service (QoS) change warning at a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The method includes predicting (304) a change in radio access resources that will provide an associated new QoS that is significantly different than a current QoS being provided by the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080049615 - System and method for dynamically shaping network traffic: A system for dynamically shaping data packet traffic on a packet network including at least one customer access node for communicating the data packets on the packet network; at least one customer premises equipment in communication with the at least one customer access node; at least one Internet gateway for... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049618 - Data flow amount control device and method: The present invention relates to a data flow amount control device in a mobile communication system, which includes a plurality of mobile stations, a control station relaying packets to each of the plurality of mobile stations, and a base station temporarily storing the packets transmitted from the control station in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080049617 - System for fine grained flow-control concurrency to prevent excessive packet loss: A system for flow-control concurrency to prevent excessive packet loss, including at least one transmitter node. Each transmitter node is configured to transmit data. A first flow-control device is coupled to the at least one transmitter node. The first flow-control device is configured to limit the number of concurrent data... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080049616 - Systems and methods for providing dynamic connection spillover among virtual servers: A method for an appliance to switch handling of transport layer connection requests from a first virtual server of the appliance managing a first plurality of services to a second virtual server of the appliance managing a second plurality of services upon exceeding, by the first virtual server, a maximum... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080049619 - Methods and apparatus for routing in a network: The invention generally relates to methods and apparatus for routing data in networks, in particular packet data routing in TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol). Application of the invention include routing of peer-to-peer (P2P) network data. A method of controlling traffic on a data network, said traffic comprising payload data and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080049620 - Systems and methods for energy-conscious communication in wireless ad-hoc networks: The invention relates to a transport protocol and associated methods and stack architectures for improving the energy efficiency of transmitting packets through an ad hoc network. The protocol controls transmissions by taking into account per-packet energy limits, per-node loss tolerances, and/or minimum availability rates determined based on path quality measurements... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/41

20080049621 - Connection-oriented communications scheme for connection-less communications traffic: A communications scheme for configuring a network comprising a plurality of connected switching apparatus, each switching apparatus having functionality for implementing connectionless forwarding of received communications traffic to selectively provide a connection-oriented service for said received communications traffic, the scheme comprising: determining in a control plane index header field values... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080049622 - Technique for protecting against failure of a network element using multi-topology repair routing (mtrr): A technique protects against failure of a network element using Multi-Topology Repair Routing (MTRR) in a computer network. According to the novel technique, a protecting node (e.g., a router) maintains Multi-Topology Routing (MTR) databases for a first topology and at least a second topology. The protecting node determines whether any... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080049623 - Methods and apparatus to provide service assurance for communication networks: Methods and apparatus to provide service assurance for communication networks are disclosed. An example apparatus comprises a service provisioning server to initiate provisioning of a service to a user device, and a service testing server to perform a test of the service and to report a service test result to... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080049624 - System and method for adjusting the window size of a tcp packet through network elements: A system for adjusting the window size of a TCP packet on a packet network including a sending network element in communication with a receiving network element for transmitting and receiving data packets between the sending network element and the receiving network element on the packet network, wherein at least... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049625 - System and method for collecting and managing network performance information: A system and method for collecting network performance information from a packet network. The method may include requesting network performance information from network communications devices on a packet network, collecting the network performance information from the network communications devices, where the network performance information is indicative of communications of real-time... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049626 - System and method for communicating network performance information over a packet network: A system and method for communicating network performance information of a node segment of a packet network may include generating network performance information indicative of transmission characteristics of a node segment on a packet network. The network performance information may be included in a data packet and communicated using in-band... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049627 - Method and apparatus for monitoring physical network topology information: A method and apparatus are provided for monitoring the physical topology of a network on a real-time basis. For patch panel systems, the approach is based upon a distributed architecture that may be modularly scalable and may allow each patch panel to determine port level connectivity by independently monitoring an... Agent: Panduit Corp.

20080049628 - System and method for modifying connectivity fault management packets: A system and method for modifying connectivity fault management packets. Network performance information is extracted from a communications network using connectivity fault management packets. The connectivity fault management packets are received. The configuration of the connectivity fault management packets is modified to obtain additional network performance information from the communications... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049632 - System and method for adjusting the window size of a tcp packet through remote network elements: A system for adjusting the window size of a TCP packet on a packet network including a receiving transport layer device configured to determine network performance information of the packet network; concatenate the network performance information into the data packets; adjust the window size of the TCP packet based on... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049630 - System and method for monitoring and optimizing network performance to a wireless device: A system for monitoring and optimizing network performance to a wireless device including a wireless router in communication with the wireless device for transmitting and receiving RF signals between the wireless router and the wireless device, the wireless router configured to determine network performance information of the wireless network; concatenate... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049629 - System and method for monitoring data link layer devices and optimizing interlayer network performance: A method for monitoring and optimizing interlayer network performance including generating network performance information data indicative of network transmission characteristics from a data link layer device; including the network performance information data in a data packet; communicating the network performance information data in the data packet from the data link... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049631 - System and method for monitoring interlayer devices and optimizing network performance: A method for monitoring and optimizing interlayer network performance including generating network performance information data indicative of network transmission characteristics from one of a data link layer device, physical layer device, network layer device, transport layer device, session layer device, presentation layer device, and application layer device; including the network... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049636 - Communication device and sir estimation method thereof: A SIR estimation method for a communication apparatus that performs communication by a single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) transmission method, wherein estimated channel values for each sub carrier within a signal bandwidth and weight coefficients used in frequency equalization are used to estimate an SIR, which is a ratio... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080049635 - Method and system for determining one-way packet travel time using rtcp: A method of measuring a one-way packet travel time from a first communication system to a second communication system comprises receiving a Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP) packet outputted by the second communication system. A Network Time Protocol (NTP) timestamp value is extracted from the RTCP packet, and a time... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080049634 - Method and system to identify a network device associated with poor qos: A method and apparatus to analyze real-time data transmissions across a network is described. The method may comprise transmitting a sample data stream between source and destination endpoints across a test data path which includes network devices. The method may then compare a measured quality of the received sample data... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080049637 - System and method for establishing calls over a call path having best path metrics: A system and method for determining a call path to assign a call over a packet network. A call request may be received, and at least two potential call paths over a packet network over which a call associated with the call request may be placed may be determined. Network... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049639 - System and method for managing a service level agreement: A system and method for managing communications services of users of a packet network Parameters associated with service agreements of users of a packet network may be stored. Network performance information associated with the users may also be stored. The network performance information may be accessed to read a quality... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049638 - System and method for monitoring and optimizing network performance with user datagram protocol network performance information packets: A method for monitoring and optimizing performance of a packet network utilizing user datagram protocol including determining network performance information between a sending user datagram protocol network element and a receiving user datagram protocol network element; concatenating the network performance information into data packets; transmitting the data packets to at... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049640 - System and method for provisioning resources of a packet network based on collected network performance information: A system and method for provisioning resources of a packet network, including monitoring at least one network performance information parameter associated with communications of data packets. The at least one network performance information parameter(s) may be compared with at least one respective threshold value indicative of degradation of communications of... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049633 - Time monitor: A method and system for measuring latency is provided. A monitor node is used to measure latency in a computer network or in a computing device by time stamping signal messages sent from nodes in the computer network and/or tasks in a particular node or device. The time stamps are... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080049641 - System and method for displaying a graph representative of network performance over a time period: A system and method for monitoring performance of a packet network may include storing network performance information collected from a packet network, where the network performance information may distinguish network performance information associated with communications of data packets including real-time content and data packets including non-real-time content. A graphic user... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049642 - Method and system for classifying devices in a wireless network: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for classifying devices in a wireless network includes discovering, by a managing device, devices in the wireless network in accordance with discovery parameters. The discovery parameters include a parameter indicative of an IP address range. The method also includes retrieving, by... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080049643 - Method, system and computer program product for routing information across firewalls: For routing information in a network across firewalls, virtual sessions between two remote nodes are implemented by means of multiple point-to-point sessions between pairs of adjacent nodes connected through a tunnel crossing the corresponding firewall. Each node stores a routing table that is used to pass the information to be... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080049644 - Network device inventory system: A network device identification process and system where a centralized global master is coupled to multiple local masters that locally retain a portion of the data from the global master, and that coordinate the dynamic performance of discovery and identification processes within the domains assigned to those local masters. The... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20080049645 - System and method for inferring connectivity among network segments in the absence of configuration information: The present system includes a system, method and device for inferring connectivity between unconnected network segments. In operation, unconnected network segments are identified. Configuration data related to the unconnected network segments may be examined to facilitate inferring configuration data for an external network connected between the unconnected network segments. The... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20080049646 - Communication network apparatus and method: A communication network apparatus and method for routing communication signals from a source device to a receiving device. The apparatus performs only local processing on communication signals to thereby increase the speed of processing the signals. A plurality of the processing nodes are combined into a plurality of sub-networks that... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080049647 - Voice-activity detection based on far-end and near-end statistics: Methods and apparatus of managing a communication system, wherein a decision regarding a level of activity at a first end is made based at least in part on the level of activity at the second end. In one embodiment, the energy level of a first-end audio signal is measured. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080049648 - Method and apparatus for policy management for an internet protocol multimedia subsystem based wireless communication system: An Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-based communication system comprising multiple access networks, wherein each access network of the multiple access networks implements a different transport protocol than the other access networks of the multiple access networks, includes an application plane Quality of Service (QoS) policy server that, with the support... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080049650 - System and method for managing radio frequency windows: A system for managing radio frequency windows including a wireless router in communication with the wireless device for transmitting and receiving RF signals between the wireless router and the wireless device, the wireless router configured to determine network performance information of the wireless network; concatenate the network performance information into... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049649 - System and method for selecting an access point: A system for selecting an access point for a wireless device on a wireless network including a first wireless router in communication with the wireless device for transmitting and receiving RF signals between said first wireless router and the wireless device; a second wireless router in communication with the wireless... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049651 - Output controller systems, method, software, and device for wireless data output: An information apparatus with access to content is managed by establishing a communication channel between the information apparatus and an output device and receiving over the communication channel an output device profile associated with the output device. The information apparatus obtains one or more image attributes associated with the output... Agent: William Ho Chang

20080049652 - Systems and methods for wireless communication over a wide bandwidth channel using a plurality of sub-channels: A method of communicating over a wideband communication channel divided into a plurality of sub-channels comprises dividing a single serial message intended for one of the plurality of communication devices into a plurality of parallel messages, encoding each of the plurality of parallel messages onto at least some of the... Agent: Pulse-link, Inc.

20080049653 - Battery level based configuration of a mobile station by a base station: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for battery level based configuration of a mobile station by a base station. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080049654 - Muliple receiver aggregation (mra) with different data rates for ieee 802.11n: Method, frame definitions (300 400 500 700 800 1000 1200 1300 1400) and system for transmission of an aggregation of packets which includes a plurality of Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Units (MPDUs) or PLCP (Physical Layer Convergence Protocol) Protocol Data Units (PPDUs) intended for one or several receivers... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080049655 - Systems and methods for increasing the capacity of a channel in a communications system: In accordance with a method for increasing the capacity of a channel in a communications system, characteristics of a channel may be evaluated. The channel may include a plurality of slots, and the slots may have a slot format among a set of slot formats. A slot format among the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080049656 - Apparatus and method for filtering broadcast message: An apparatus and a method for filtering a broadcast message in a wireless network access equipment is discussed. The method includes searching for a registered communication terminal that should respond to a received broadcast message; checking whether the received broadcast message forwarding to the searched communication terminal requires a response;... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080049657 - Method, apparatus and system for data transmission in radio communication network: The embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus and a system for data transmission, the method comprises: reusing, when the hop number of a branch in a radio communication network is greater than a predetermined hop number, resources of the predetermined hop number on links with different... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080049658 - Relay node and relay method: To improve the channel capacity of an entire communication system in accordance with transmission quality of the channels of each node. A relay node has: a receiving section that receives a received signal from a source node; a channel estimation section that measures SNR of a backward channel between the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080049659 - Packing data over an adaptive rate link: A system and method for packing data over User Packets and packing the User Packets over DVB-S2 Frames, using the DVB-S2-ACM satellite transmission standard.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080049660 - Method & apparatus for content delivery to devices: A technique for adjusting or modifying content delivery to devices is provided, thereby offering a degree of power consumption control in such devices. The device can determine a need to modify power consumption, either in response to an input or via detection of an unfavorable power supply condition. In response,... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080049661 - System and method for adaptive multi-rate (amr) vocoder rate adaptation: The present invention includes a time-division-multiple-access (TDMA) communication system having a base station and at least one mobile station, each transmitting and receiving an analog radio-frequency signal carrying digitally coded speech. The speech is encoded using a vocoder which samples a voice signal at variable encoding rates. During periods when... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080049662 - Apparatus, and associated method, for releasing a data-service radio resource allocated to a data-service-capable mobile node: A method, system, and apparatus for selectably releasing radio resources allocated to a UE, or other mobile node, that is capable of operating pursuant to multiple, concurrent packet services. A radio resource release indication is generated and sent by the UE when radio resources for a selected packet service are... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080049663 - Method and device for setting up the transfer of a multimedia content in a cell of a wireless cellular telecommunication network: The invention concerns a method and a device for setting up the transfer of a multimedia content in a cell of a wireless cellular telecommunication network constituted of plural cells, the cells being neighbour of at least one other cell, each cell being managed by a base station. A first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080049665 - Wireless communication and wireless communication apparatus: A wireless communication system which transmits and receives a signal by using a plurality of wireless apparatuses, comprising: a first wireless apparatus group having a plurality of transmitting apparatuses, each transmitting a wireless signal based on a first control signal, said first wireless apparatus group forming a first ad-hoc network... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080049664 - Wireless frequency re-use determination systems and methods: A method of measuring frequency interference between adjacent cell sites in a wireless telecommunications system. The method includes selecting a frequency in a cell site to be used as a beacon frequency. The method also includes activating the beacon frequency in the cell site and recording, at a telecommunications switch,... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080049669 - Method and apparatus for monitoring grant channels in wireless communication: Techniques for monitoring grant channels in a wireless communication network are described. In one design, a user equipment (UE) determines whether a monitoring condition is satisfied, monitors at least one grant channel for grants of radio resources if the monitoring condition is satisfied, and stops monitoring the at least one... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080049670 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving data in a wireless access communication system: An apparatus for transmitting data in a wireless access communication system includes a rate request code selector for selecting a corresponding rate request code from among rate request codes predefined according to a traffic rate, and a transmitter for transmitting the selected rate request code to a Base Station (BS).... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080049666 - Method and system for managing channels in a wireless network: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing channels in a wireless network includes retrieving device parameters from a wireless network device communicating on a channel in the wireless network. The device parameters include a parameter indicative of a location of the wireless network device and a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080049668 - Reference signal multiplexing and resource allocation: A reference signal of a user equipment to which a resource (LB#1) is allocated for a L1/L2 control signal, is allocated a resource (SB#1) that is closer on the time axis to the resource (LB#1), which the L1/L2 control signal is allocated, within the same frequency band as the L1/L2... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080049667 - System for packet-error triggered control channel transmissions: A method to provide timely and accurate control channel information to an Access Network is disclosed to facilitate power control and data packet transmission. Upon receiving a packet error from the Access Network, an Access Terminal transmits a Packet-Error-Triggered (PET) control channel information to the Access Network. The PET control... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

20080049671 - Method for requesting radio resources for uplink packet transmission in gprs system: A method of enabling a mobile station (MS) to request radio resources for uplink packet transmission is provided. The method includes starting a supervision timer at the beginning of a packet access procedure, the packet access procedure initiated by scheduling the sending of a packet channel request message and performing... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080049672 - Point to point communication method with interference mitagation: A mobile broadband wireless system including at least two pairs of nodes arranged in a cluster, each pair coupled to form a link for wireless communication; each node including: an RF transceiver with associated modem; an antenna array arrangement, each antenna having a beam pattern selected to improve quality of... Agent: Deborah A. Gador

20080049679 - Apparatus and method for filtering packet in a network system using mobile ip: A packet filtering apparatus for filtering a packet transmitted from a mobile node to a correspondent node in a network system using Mobile Internet Protocol (IP). The packet filtering apparatus includes a next header reader for reading a next header of the received packet to determine whether it is a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080049674 - Handover method in wireless portable internet system: Disclosed is a handover method in a wireless portable Internet system. When a mobile subscriber station is in a drop state, a ranging request message including an identifier of a previous base station and a string generated by encoding the ranging request message using an authentication key of the previous... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080049675 - Method and system for hand-off based on network load: A system (100), mobile device (102), and method (300) for network handoff of a mobile device in a multi-mode system is provided. The mobile device can include a first transceiver (210) and a second transceiver (220) for providing multi-mode communication. The method can include identifying (310) a first network load... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080049676 - Method and system for resource allocation in a wireless communication network: Method and system for resource allocation in a wireless communication network. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for providing allocation of resources in a wireless communication network. The method includes providing network access to a wireless device by a first access network. The method includes sending... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080049673 - Method of switching multi-mode multi-ban mobile communication terminal in multi access communication nerwork: The present invention relates to a mode switching method for a multi-mode multiband mobile communication terminal in a multi-access communication network, which is capable of effectively providing handoff to the user mobile communication terminal in heterogeneous communication networks. The method includes the first step of calculating the link quality of... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080049677 - Mobile communication system, core network node selection method, and base station and mobile station used therefor: A mobile communication system in which a plurality of base stations and a plurality of core network nodes are distributed in a plurality of areas, wherein a source base station or a mobile station in a handover procedure of the mobile station transmits information for selecting a core network node... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080049678 - Relay-assisted channel condition measurements for connection setup and maintenance: A method is provided wherein communication channel conditions are communicated between a relay station and a mobile station to a base station, comprising: transmitting from the mobile station to the relay station information indicating the communication channel conditions between the relay station and the mobile station, such information including pilots... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080049680 - Method and apparatus for supporting access network (an) authentication: Methods and apparatus are presented herein for allowing a keyless access terminal (AT) to access a packet serving data node (PSDN) over a service network stream without deactivating the authentication functions of the authentication network stream.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080049681 - Method of configuring default values for cell re-selection in a wireless communication system: A method of configuring values of cell re-selection parameters for cell re-selection from a serving cell to a neighboring cell in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving from a network a first message via a first control channel, wherein the first message includes values of a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080049683 - Apparatus, methods and computer program products providing support for packet data user continuous uplink connectivity: The exemplary embodiments of this invention include apparatus, methods and computer program products that provide a signaling scheme that enables the execution of an uplink gating feature. In one non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, the signaling scheme is an Iub/Iur signaling scheme and the uplink gating feature is an uplink dedicated physical... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080049682 - Method for acquiring multimedia broadcast/multicast service access information: The invention discloses a method for acquiring MBMS access information comprising: in a modification period, upon receiving an MBMS access information message transmitted from a network a UE initiating a corresponding procedure according to its state; if completing the corresponding procedure successfully, the UE stopping receiving a further MBMS access... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080049684 - Tdma/cdma user equipment: A wireless hybrid time division multiple access/code division multiple access (TDMA/CDMA) user equipment (UE) includes a signaling receiver and a data detection device in communication with the signaling receiver. The signaling receiver is configured to receive and recover signaled information of code and timeslot assignments of the UE to support... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080049685 - Process for operation of a data link: ABSTRACT The invention relates to a process for the operation of a data link between a base station and one or several mobile stations. According to said process data packets are transmitted between the base station and the mobile stations within transmission phases. The start of each transmission phase is... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080049692 - Apparatus and method for resource allocation and data transmission using heterogeneous modulation formats in a wireless packet communication system: A base station (103) assigns a set of mobile stations (101) to a group wherein the group will share a set of radio resources (770). A control field (1103) may be sent with a payload field (1105) wherein the control field (1103) and payload field (1105) are sent using a... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080049691 - Database management in a wireless communication system: An apparatus, system, and method provide database management within a wireless communication system by maintaining a database within wireless communication devices transmitting changes using wireless messages. An initiating slave wireless communication device, maintaining a first data version of a database, transmits a database modification request message to a master wireless... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080049690 - Downlink control channel signaling in wireless communication systems: A method in a wireless communication terminal (103) including receiving a plurality of sub-frames having time-frequency resource elements and resource allocation fields associated with a corresponding sub-frame, wherein the resource allocation fields indicate a resource assignment. In another embodiment, terminal receives a radio frame comprising a plurality of sub-frames and... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080049688 - Formation of wireless local area networks based on movement direction of nodes: Mobile nodes without connectivity to a wireless network form mobile ad hoc networks with mobile nodes with connectivity to the wireless network. The moving directions for the mobile nodes are determined. If the mobile nodes are traveling in substantially the same direction the ad hoc network is formed. The mobile... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080049693 - Method and apparatus for facilitating a conveyance of informational content using wireless addresses: A plurality of wireless addresses to be transmitted using a shared message and at least one item of informational content are provided (101 and 102). At least some of the plurality of wireless address are then arranged (103) into an order that represents the at least one item of informational... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080049687 - Method and system for load balancing traffic in a wireless network: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for load balancing traffic in a wireless network includes identifying a respective operational parameter from wireless network devices in the wireless network. The respective operational parameter indicates a number of endpoint associations for the wireless network devices. The method also includes... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080049686 - Method and system for managing devices in a wireless network: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing devices in a wireless network includes defining, by a managing device, assignment rules for geographic areas in the wireless network. The method also includes retrieving, by the managing device, device parameters from a device, the device located in a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080049689 - Tunneling data to multiple wireless networks from device without connectivity through employment of device with connectivity: A mobile node or mobile device connects to a wireless network including at least one other mobile node that can connect to a plurality of other wireless networks. A target wireless network is selected with which to exchange data. It is determined whether or not the at least one mobile... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080049696 - Method and apparatus for geographic-based communications service: A geographic-based communications service system has a mobile unit for transmitting/receiving information, and access points connected to a network. The access points are arranged in a known geographic locations and transmit and receive information from the mobile unit. When one of the access points detects the presence of the mobile... Agent: B. Noel Kivlin Conley, Rose & Tayon, P.C.

20080049694 - Third-generation mobile-communication/wireless-lan integration system and third-generation mobile-communication/wireless-lan integration method: An access network unit of a third-generation mobile communication system controls a wireless LAN system by regarding the wireless LAN system as a packet communication channel. The access network unit includes a radio network controller connected to a base transceiver station that is capable of performing a wireless communication with... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080049695 - Wireless local area network system: A mapping table holds correspondence relation between quality of service information of wired sections and quality of service information of wireless sections. A quality of service information converter, upon receiving encapsulated packets directed from a mobile communication network to a wireless local area network terminal, acquires quality of service information... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080049697 - Method and radio communication system for transmitting user information as a service to several user stations: A method and a radio communication system transmit user information as a service to several user stations in a radio communication system comprising at least one base station and user stations which are connected to each other via a radio communication interface. The base station signals to the user stations... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080049706 - Cdma wireless communication systems: In a communication system wherein a CDMA segment at each access point consists of multiple sub-segments a three frame transmission time interval (TTI) with eight retransmissions is utilized for data transmission. The access point not only specifies the interlaces to be utilized for data transmission it also assigns packet start... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080049698 - Method of controlling power in a w-cdma mobile communication system: The present invention is related to a backward outer-loop power control method in a wideband CDMA mobile communication system for improving backward call quality and capacity of an IMT-2000 asynchronous system. In accordance with the present invention, the power control is optimized by examining the field transmitted through the backward... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080049699 - Method of increasing the capacity of the forward link mac channel in a wireless communication system: In an H-ARQ system, when the AN is receiving packet data traffic on the RL from an AT and is generating ACKs and NAKs according to the ability of the AN to properly decode such data, the AN gates-off a DRCLock bit within in a sub-packet duration in which an... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20080049703 - Multicast-only data transmission mode for access points and virtual access points in a wireless network: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to a multicast-only data transmission mode in a wireless network. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus for wireless communications may include a controller. The apparatus, which may include an AP or a virtual AP may be configured to operate in a multicast-only data transmission... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080049704 - Phone-based broadcast audio identification: This specification describes technologies relating to a phone-based system for identifying broadcast audio streams, and methods of providing such a system. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a plurality of broadcast streams, each from a corresponding broadcast source and generating a first broadcast audio identifier based on a first... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080049700 - Reduced power network association in a wireless sensor network: In some embodiments of the invention, an unassociated node in a low-duty-cycle wireless sensor network may determine when the next network operational period begins, so that the node may go into a power-saving sleep mode until the start of that operational period.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080049702 - Selection of an access point in a communications system: The disclosure is directed to an access terminal, and method for selecting an access point in a communications system. The access terminal may include memory and a processor. The processor may be configured to maintain in the memory a database containing a list of access points that have previously served... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080049701 - System and method for calculating a bandwidth requirement between two elements in a communications network: A system and method for calculating a bandwidth requirement between two elements in a communications network are described. The method determines data stream information comprising a total number of data streams available for transmission within at least a portion of a communications network. Endpoint information is determined regarding a number... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080049705 - Method for implementing media gateway function, radio access control device and radio access system: A method for implementing the media gateway function is disclosed by the embodiment of the present invention, including: receiving a first signalling message; determining to perform a processing of a base station application layer or a processing of a media gateway control application layer according to a Simple Control Transmission... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080049708 - System and method for random access in a wireless communication system: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for random access in a wireless communication system. In one example, the method includes allocating first and second random access orthogonal frequency subbands to first and second subdivisions, respectively, in a wireless communication network. The first subband is assigned to a... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss

20080049707 - Transmission packet for wireless transmission in a high frequency band, and method and apparatus for transmission/receiving using the same: A wireless communication technology, and more particularly, a transmission packet for wireless transmission in a high frequency band, and a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving using the same, are described. The structure of a transmission packet may include an MPDU composed of a plurality of transmission data units,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080049709 - Method and apparatus for providing efficient precoding feedback in a mimo wireless communication system: A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) scheme uses precoding and feedback in a wireless communication system including a transmitter and a receiver. The system may use either a single codeword (SCW) or a double codeword (DCW). The precoding scheme is based on transmit beamforming (TxBF). Combined differential and non-differential feedback with periodic... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080049710 - Method and apparatus for improving link reliability for continuous packet connectivity for high speed packet access: When a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) is using a reduced dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH) frame, the WTRU may periodically send a normal DPCCH frame. The WTRU may periodically increase the transmit power or send a normal DPCCH frame if there is a transmit power control (TPC) error or... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080049711 - System and method for terminating a voice call in any burst within a multi-burst superframe: A system and method for effectively and reliably terminating a voice call in any burst within a multi-burst superframe. A transmitting unit generates a termination burst upon detecting a dekey event. The termination burst includes a data synchronization pattern, a slot type field indicating an end of a call, and... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080049712 - Radio apparatus, radio communication system, and radio communication method: A mobile station measures channel variation in a time direction and channel variation in a frequency direction, and selects a CQI compression method to be actually applied, on the basis of a CQI updating cycle, a CQI channel size, the channel variation in the time direction and the channel variation... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080049713 - Systems, methods, and apparatus with a common wireless communications protocol: A Common Wireless Communications Protocol (CWCP) below the TCP/IP layer is a part of OSI layer 3a (SNDCF-Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Functions). CWCP serves as a common Application Program Interface (API) to the upper application layers. CWCP supports different call processing standards (GSM, WCDMA, CDMA2000) and provides seamless Web or e-mail... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080049714 - A technique for synchronizing data with a mobile device based on a synchronization context: The present invention discloses a technique for a user to control a manner in which a data store of a mobile device synchronizes with a remotely located data store. More specifically, synchronization actions can be automatically executed by comparing combinations of user modifiable device settings against device-specific conditions. Device conditions... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080049715 - System and method for sub-frame id and frame boundary detection in long term evolution: The present invention provides a unique manner of identifying the Frame boundaries in multiple identical/non-identical Synchronization Channels (SCHs) in different sub-frames via a new sub frame position difference method. The method implements the differences between the different sub-frames carried by the SCH. The sub frame identity, and hence the frame... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080049716 - Error rate based power management of a high-speed serial link: A method, circuit, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises dynamically adjusting the output voltage of the output drivers of one side of a bi-directional serial link down to the lowest voltage level that is able to maintain compliance with the error rate allowance threshold of the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080049717 - Method and system for enhanced internet protocol address aggregation: The present invention advantageously provides a method, system and apparatus for aggregating multiple site-specific routes, by determining a first aggregate-aware route that includes a prefix of a site-specific address and a prefix length of an aggregate route address of a first service provider. The method and system can be implemented... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20080049718 - Relay-assisted harq transmission system: A method for transmitting data from a source to a destination. The method includes: transmitting the data from the source to both the destination and a relay station within a first transmission; decoding the data in the first transmitting at both the relay station and the destination wherein the destination... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080049719 - Memory mapping for parallel turbo decoding: A routing multiplexer system provides p outputs based on a selected permutation of p inputs. Each of a plurality of modules has two inputs, two outputs and a control input and is arranged to supply signals at the two inputs to the two outputs in a direct or transposed order... Agent: Lsi Corporation Peter R. Scott

20080049721 - 3-in-1 automatic call forward system: A 3-in-1 automatic call forward system integrates the domestic phone, the mobile phone and the internet phone for switching the communication method automatically and choosing an appropriate method to transmit or receive a phone call. The users also can choose the same telecom service provider to perform communication with each... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080049725 - Method, system and terminal for multimedia session establishment: The described method, system and terminals may allow the sending capability information from a first terminal to a second terminal in a capability exchange performed without, or prior to, conducting a call between the first and second terminals. The capability information may include at least one of multimedia call related... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080049722 - Mobile phone related indirect communication system and method: An indirect communication system and a method of indirect communication include a mobile phone as either a calling device or receiving device. The mobile phone calls another device to set up a prospective communication, and then uses Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to communicate with the other device over the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080049720 - System and method of delivering data via a network: A system and method for delivering data via an internet protocol television (IPTV) network are disclosed. In a method disclosed, a first data packet of a first data stream is received. The method determines whether a corresponding second data packet of a second data stream has been forwarded. The corresponding... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080049734 - Call transfer using session initiation protocol (sip): A system is provided for providing communication event routing and transfer capability in a multi-site communication-center environment. The system utilizes a presence protocol application and a routing application for determining availability of an agent or system and for setting up the transfer from a point of transfer on a network... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080049723 - Generating multiple data streams from a single data source: A switch having a first communications interface to receive a stream of data units, a buffer to store the payload portion of the data unit, a replicator to duplicate at least the payload portion of the data unit, and a second communications interface to enable access to the stream of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080049736 - Method for transmitting signaling messages using alternate path: User data is transmitted between an interconnected data transmission network and a data package transmission network. A receiver of an original signaling message generates a partner signaling message, which has been defined for a data package transmission and is suitable for transporting the original signaling message. The partner signaling message... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080049732 - Method of and system for providing intelligent network control services in ip telephony: A method and system for providing intelligent network control services in IP telephony, wherein the system includes a location manager and an IP telephony proxy server. The location manager includes an interface to a legacy telephony service control entity and the IP telephony proxy server includes an IP interface to... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080049735 - Methods and apparatus for accomplishing call-state synchronization and event notification between multiple private branch exchanges involved in a multiparty call: A software suite is disclosed for routing communication events over a data-packet-network using an IP session initiation and management protocol. The software suite comprises, a server application running on the network for computing and serving routing determinations per request, a session management application running on the network for initiating and... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080049733 - Telecommunication system for automatically locating by network connection and selectively delivering calls to mobile client devices: A communication system for an organization having multiple sites uses a dual-mode device capable of both cell phone communication and telephone communication on a local area network (LAN). IP LANS are established at organization sites such that a temporary IP address is assigned to a dual-mode device that logs onto... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080049724 - Telephone apparatus: The object is to realize a multi-line service with proprietary messages/procedures only between telephone apparatuses such as IP telephones, and to use a connection management server complying with a standard connection protocol without using proprietary messages/procedures between the connection management server such as the SIP server and the telephone apparatus.... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080049731 - Telephone network interface bridge between data telephony networks and dedicated connection telephony networks: A computerized telephony bridge unit has a Data Network Telephony (DNT) Port and a Connection Oriented/Switched Telephony (COST) trunk port, each associated with circuitry for receiving a placing calls in the data format required by connected networks. The bridge unit further comprises conversion circuitry for converting data dynamically between network... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080049726 - Voice communication system and voice communication method: A voice communication system, which is connected to a LAN to which communication terminals are connected and to a public network to which telephones are connected, is provided with a communication server between the LAN and public network having different protocols from each other. The communication server enables a voice... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080049727 - Voice communication system and voice communication method: A voice communication system, which is connected to a LAN to which communication terminals are connected and to a public network to which telephones are connected, is provided with a communication server between the LAN and public network having different protocols from each other. The communication server enables a voice... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080049728 - Voice communication system and voice communication method: A voice communication system, which is connected to a LAN to which communication terminals are connected and to a public network to which telephones are connected, is provided with a communication server between the LAN and public network having different protocols from each other. The communication server enables a voice... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080049729 - Voice communication system and voice communication method: A voice communication system, which is connected to a LAN to which communication terminals are connected and to a public network to which telephones are connected, is provided with a communication server between the LAN and public network having different protocols from each other. The communication server enables a voice... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080049730 - Voice communication system and voice communication method: A voice communication system, which is connected to a LAN to which communication terminals are connected and to a public network to which telephones are connected, is provided with a communication server between the LAN and public network having different protocols from each other. The communication server enables a voice... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080049737 - Telephony intelligence in a data packet network: A packet-data network is made intelligent in the sense of a connection-oriented, switched telephony (COST) network by enhancing one or more interconnected IP routers in the network with computer-telephony integration (CTI) processors executing CTI applications. No-charge-to-calling-party IP addresses are assigned and sponsored by various enterprises, who may also maintain call... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080049738 - Monitoring system and method for trunk gateway: Accordingly, the present invention relates to a monitoring system and method for a trunk gateway. In the monitoring system of the present invention, a trunk gateway is interposed between the Internet and a PSTN and is adapted to packetize a trunk line into packets and to transmit the packets to... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080049739 - Device and method for restricting and managing data transmission: A data transmission controlling device for controlling a data transmission of an electronic device is provided. The data transmission controlling device includes a switch generating a code and a switching signal; a bias circuit generating a bias voltage for the electronic device; and a body controlling the bias voltage generated... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080049740 - Device for updating configuration information in a wireless network: In one aspect, a digital device comprises a wireless station, a universal serial bus (USB) port, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to detect a coupling of a flash device to the USB port and obtain wireless network configuration information from the flash device. The wireless network... Agent: J. Dennis Moore Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080049741 - System and method for determining that a maximum number of ip sessions have been established: Systems and methods for determining that a maximum number of IP sessions have been established are provided. There are instances when the mobile device transmits a request to the wireless network. According to an aspect, in the event that the maximum number of IP sessions is already established for the... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20080049742 - System and method for ecmp load sharing: A packet classifier and a method for routing a data packet are provided. The packet classifier includes a content addressable memory, a translation table and a parameter memory. The method includes looking up a content addressable memory for a base address into a parameter memory using a header of the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080049745 - System and method for enabling reciprocal billing for different types of communications over a packet network: A system and method for determining inter-carrier network usage may be used. The method may include determining network usage of a first packet network managed by a first communications carrier by subscribers of a second communications carrier that manages a second packet network. The network usage may distinguish communications of... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049747 - System and method for handling reservation requests with a connection admission control engine: A system and method for handling reservation requests. Network performance information of a communications network is gathered using performance information packet data packets. Available bandwidth is determined based on the PIP data packets of a data stream. The available bandwidth is allocated for a number of customers based on reservations.... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049748 - System and method for routing communications between packet networks based on intercarrier agreements: A system and method for communicating data packets over packet network owned by different communications carriers. Rate information may be stored in a first packet network for communicating data packets over at least two other packet networks. A determination over which of the at least two other packet networks to... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049746 - System and method for routing data on a packet network: A system and method for routing non-real-time content over a packet network. A call request to communicate data packets including non-real-time content over a packet network may be received. A determination of at least one network node over which a call path for a call to be established for the... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049744 - Transmission packet structure for transmitting uncompressed a/v data and transceiver using the same: A transmission packet structure for transmitting uncompressed AV data is provided. The transmission packet structure includes a payload including multiple TDUs error-correction coded at a predetermined coding rate, wherein the payload is classified according to importance of bits constituting the uncompressed AV data; a MAC header added to the payload,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080049743 - Enhanced clock control in packet networks: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for autonomously validating the time and frequency data obtained from multiple sources, and generating a suitable estimate of the frequency difference between the client clock and the source. The method includes the steps of protocol data unit validation, offset measurement,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080049749 - Method and apparatus for providing and obtaining broadcast multicast service feedback: Embodiments of the present invention provide a manner in which feedback from remote units (120-122) involved in a broadcast/multicast service session can be obtained using shared wireless resources and/or shared signaling sequences. Having feedback information from at least some of the remote units involved in the session enables the network... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080049750 - Methods and apparatus for updating subsource addressing multicast routing records in a communications network: Methods and arrangements for facilitating subscription among at least two nodes in a distributed network, involving the designation of one of the nodes as a publisher node, the designation of one of the nodes as a subscriber node, and the recordation of a path between the subscriber node and the... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080049751 - Method and system for computing as-disjoint inter-as traffic engineering-label switched paths (te-lsps): Methods and systems have been provided for constructing autonomous system (AS)-disjoint Traffic Engineering LSPs for load-balancing and protection purposes using AS-Level topology information in a network. The constructed network paths through a plurality of domains may be disjoint or partially disjoint.... Agent: Craig E. Shinners Law Office Of Craig E. Shinners

20080049752 - Nat processing in a vrf environment: A method for packet routing includes receiving packets over a plurality of virtual private networks (VPNs). Each of the packets includes a respective virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) identifier indicative of a respective VPN over which the packet was transmitted. Each of the packets is assigned to a respective service... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080049753 - System and method for load balancing network resources using a connection admission control engine: A system and method for load balancing network resources. Network performance information regarding data flow through a network is gathered using performance information packet data packets. The data flow is distributed through access points of the network using connection control admission control engines. The distributing includes routing the data flow... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049754 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving packet in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting a packet in a mobile communication system. A transmitting side allocates a short sequence number for an initial transmission packet using some bits among bits of a predetermined length for expressing a sequence number of the packet, and sets a first flag indicating use... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080049755 - Method and system for optimizing resource allocations based on quality of service needs of one or more applications: A method and system for optimizing a Quality of Service (QoS) for an application is provided. The method comprises generating (205) a dynamic database (110 or 150) of statistical information regarding at least one of the applications and one or more communication network (115, 120 and 125). Further, the method... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080049756 - Switching system: An ATM switching system 1 is provided with an ATM switch 11, a reserved connection memory 12 for storing reserved connection information, a call history memory 13 for maintaining call histories of requests for connection from subscriber's terminal units 21 to 2n, and a call-signal processing section 15. The call-signal... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20080049757 - System and method for synchronizing counters on an asynchronous packet communications network: A system and method for monitoring performance of an asynchronous network may include communicating a first network performance data packet including a first indicia over an asynchronous network from a first network node to a second network node. A second network performance data packet including a second indicia may be... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049760 - Oversubscription in broadband network: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for oversubscription in a broadband network. A computer-implemented method includes enabling maximum over subscription ratio (MOSR) parameters as part of Quality of Service (QoS) parameters defining a service class, and determining a minimum amount of resources (MAR) value required to be allotted to... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080049761 - in-band qos signaling reference model for qos-driven wireless lans: A station, such as a point coordinator (PC) or a non-PC station, in a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) is disclosed. The station includes a frame classification entity (FCE), a frame scheduling entity (FSE) and a QoS management entity (QME). The FCE is logically... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080049758 - Method of scheduling and accessing requests and system using the same: A request scheduling method is provided in a request accessing system having a processing unit, an upstream unit coupled to the processing unit, a downstream unit coupled to the processing unit and the upstream unit, and at least one endpoint device coupled to the upstream unit and the downstream unit,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080049759 - System and method for inter-working in a multi protocol revision based evolution data only/evolution data optimized (evdo) communication systems: Interworking in a multi-protocol revision based Evolution Data Only/Evolution Data Optimized (EVDO) communication system is described. In this scheme, an access terminal (AT) and an access network (AN) perform session configuration in multi-protocol scenarios. The AT maintains a set indicating all the protocol revisions it supports. The AT and AN... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080049762 - Switch device and communication network comprising such switch device as well as method for transmiting data within at least one virtual channel: In order to provide a switch device (100; 100′) connecting at least one first point (10, 12), in particular connecting at least one source device and/or at least another switch device, to at least one second point (20, 22, 24), in particular to at least one destination device and/or to... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080049763 - Bridge/router and method for avoiding packet replication during a failure in a network: A bridge/router and method are described herein that are capable of avoiding packet replication at layer 2 where there is a failure in a network. In one embodiment, the bridge/router is informed about a fault which occurred within the network. Then, the bridge/router makes a determination about whether or not... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080049766 - Apparatus and method for range-confined communications: Range-confined security management adapter and method simplify security deployment in a network. First RC security information, including nearest- and k-neighbor information, is transmitted between authenticating neighbor and supplicant neighbor using a predetermined transmission adaptation technique. The adapter can evoke a response from the neighbor by adapting the initial transmitted signal... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080049769 - Application-specific integrated circuit for monitoring and optimizing interlayer network performance: An application-specific integrated circuit for use in optimizing a packet network including a processing unit that processes defined sequences of assembler language and executes defined sequences of assembler instructions; program and data memory that stores the defined sequences of assembler instructions; an internal data bus; and an input/output (I/O) interface... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049768 - Data processing apparatus and data sending/receiving method thereof: A data processing apparatus includes a wireless broadband module; a wireless local area network module; a wireless broadband module driver to drive the wireless broadband module; an antenna to communicate with an external device; a switch to connect/disconnect the antenna to/from the wireless broadband module and the wireless local area... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080049765 - Method and system for inter working a point-to-point link and a lan service: An interworking device is provided that affords an interface between a point-to-point (P2P) environment and a local access network (LAN) environment. The interworking device comprises a P2P frame transceiver adapted to communicate with a P2P host utilizing P2P frames formatted in accordance with a P2P protocol. A LAN frame transceiver... Agent: The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080049767 - Method for controlling multiple network services based on a user profile: Disclosed is a method and system for controlling multiple network services based on a common user profile. A plurality of user profiles, each specifying access and delivery settings for a plurality of network services, are maintained. When a user uses any of the network services, a login request is received,... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080049764 - Point-to-multipoint functionality in a bridged network: A method for communication includes coupling a group of switches in a Layer-2 bridged network. The interfaces of the switches are configured so that at least one interface of at least one of the switches is configured as a first interface type, and a plurality of other interfaces are configured... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080049770 - Method and apparatus for merging call components during call reconstruction: m

20080049771 - Method and system for efficient and reliable mac-layer multicast wireless transmissions: A method and system for reliable multicasting on a communication network includes sending Request-to-Send (RTS) signals from a sender node of the network to the receiver nodes, the RTS signals include a set of identifiers corresponding to the receiver nodes. The Clear-to-Send (CTS) signals and Acknowledgment (ACK) signals are sent... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080049772 - Method of managing multiple traffic flows: Disclosed is a method of transmitting data from a plurality of traffic flows based on a quality of service indicator which indicates a manner of partitioning a rate grant such that more than one traffic flow, if desired, may simultaneously use the rate grant thereby avoiding rate grant starvation by... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20080049773 - Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method: A radio communication apparatus includes a first processing unit which performs physical layer protocol processing in order to make a radio communication using at least one first channel having a first frequency bandwidth and a second processing unit which performs physical layer protocol processing in order to make a radio... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080049774 - System and method for assembling a data packet: Disclosed is a system and method for assembling a data packet. The system can be implemented as four memory elements associated with one or more processors. The first memory element stores a sequence number and a sub-channel identifier for an incoming data packet. The second memory element stores a revised... Agent: Howrey LLP

20080049775 - System and method for monitoring and optimizing network performance with vector performance tables and engines: A system for monitoring and optimizing performance on a packet network with vector performance tables including a network element including an input/output (I/O) unit configured to communicate data packets with at least one other network element on the packet network the data packets including network performance information; a processing unit... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049776 - System and method for using centralized network performance tables to manage network communications: A system for centrally controlling packet network communications may include an input/output (I/O) unit configured to communicate data packets over a packet network with multiple network communications devices, a processing unit in communication with the I/O unit and configured to communicate with the network communications devices via respective node segments,... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049777 - System and method for using distributed network performance information tables to manage network communications: A network communications device may include an input/output (I/O) unit configured to communicate first data packets with at least two network communications devices over respective node segments on a packet network A processing unit may be configured to receive second data packets from the network communications devices. The second data... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049778 - Device and method for relaying packets: Packets are relayed using a network relay device including a plurality of interface units. Each of the interface units includes one or more physical ports for connection to a line, and a bandwidth controller configured to control transmission bandwidth for packets received by the physical ports. Furthermore, a single specific... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080049779 - Network administration tool employing a network administration protocol: A tool for managing a network of interconnected devices. The tool may provide a user with an interface that allows the user to view the type and status of each network device (that is, each device connected to the network), and even the status of the network itself. The tool... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080049780 - Xfi-xaui integrated circuit for use with 10gbase-lx4 optical transceivers: A single chip integrated circuit for use in an optical transceiver for converting and coupling an information containing electrical signal with an optical fiber having an XFI interface for coupling with an external electrical cable or information system device, and an XAUI interface for coupling with a laser transmitter subassembly... Agent: Casey Toohey Emcore Corporation

20080049781 - System and method for integrated service access: A method of operating a service provider system comprising receiving first traffic, determining a first traffic type of the first traffic from a plurality of traffic types, selecting the first communication link from a plurality of communication links based on the first traffic type, and transmitting the first traffic on... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049783 - Network controller and method to support format negotiation between interfaces of a network: A controller of a communications network enables endpoints or multiple networks to intercommunicate using multiple types of bearer format (IP, TDM, ATM, Frame Relay, etc.), and enables a bearer format conversion when necessary to carry bearer channel information across an interface of the network. The network may be packet-based or... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080049782 - Providing third party content to media devices: A method and system for interfacing between a portable media device and one or more media content providers. The method may be practiced, for example, in a system including the portable media device that receives content from one or more media content providers. The method can include identifying a first... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080049784 - Method and apparatus for gateway control protocol message transmission: A method of interface communication between entities in soft switch system in NGN, and a method and apparatus for Gateway Control Protocol (GCP) message transmission are disclosed, so that H.248 messages can be transmitted between Media Gateway Controller and Media Gateway over MTP3B/ATM, hence full advantages of resources are taken... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080049785 - Discontinuous transmission of speech signals: Packets for a discontinuous transmission of a speech signal via a packet switched network may be provided in shorter transmission intervals during an active state and in longer transmission intervals during an inactive state. The active state may be selected whenever a speech signal comprises a speech burst, optionally with... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080049787 - System and method for controlling network bandwidth with a connection admission control engine: A system and method for controlling network bandwidth. Network performance information that includes information regarding real-time data packets using performance information packet data packets is gathered. The network bandwidth is throttled for each of a number of customers in a communications network using one or more connection admission control (CAC)... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080049786 - Systems and methods for providing dynamic spillover of virtual servers based on bandwidth: The present solution provides a spillover management technique for virtual servers of an appliance based on bandwidth. A network administrator may configure a bandwidth threshold for one or more virtual servers, such as virtual servers providing acceleration or load balancing for one or more services. The bandwidth threshold may be... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080049788 - Method and system for a multi-rate gigabit media independent interface: Disclosed is a UGMII system to interface multirate devices including 10 gigabit per second data exchange rates. Mode selection is enabled to provide for automatic detection and adaptation to any transmit rate including 10M, 100M, 1 G, and 10 G. Mode selection comprises the negotiation between the UGMII extension sublayers... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20080049789 - Method and device for assembling forward error correction frames in multimedia streaming: In a RTP stream having a plurality of FEC frames containing source blocks of media packets, random access points are inserted in front of the source blocks so as to allow a media decoder to decode the media packets as soon as FEC decoding is finished. In particular, the media... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080049790 - System to guide and monitor the installation and revision of network cabling of an active jack network system: Systems and methods for directing and facilitating the installation and revision of communications connections use indicators on active jacks to inform installers and revisors of installation and revision instructions forwarded by a network installation, monitoring, and/or revising system. Cross-connect and interconnect systems utilize patch panels populated with active jacks having... Agent: Panduit Corp.

20080049791 - Pilot design for long term evolution uplink multi-input multi-output antenna system: A pilot transmission in a multiple antenna closed loop transmission time multiplexes a beam-specific pilot and an antenna-specific pilot in two short blocks of one uplink sub-frame. The beam-specific pilot is transmitted as an in-band pilot with the same beam as data to provide optimal data demodulation/estimation. The antenna-specific pilot... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080049792 - Interconnecting network locations between premises network and central office using ethernet on loop plant: A communication system includes a network office and at least one twisted pair loop plant wiring path between the network office and a first premises network. The network office is transmits first data over the twisted pair loop plant wiring using Ethernet protocol to the first premises network, and receives... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080049793 - Method of transmitting or receiving a data packet in packet data communication system using hybrid automatic repeat request: A method of transmitting/receiving a packet using a hybrid automatic repeat request in the mobile communication system is disclosed. The packet data transmitting method includes transmitting at least one sub packet divided from plurality of encoded packets generated by repeating a bit stream that is made by encoding information desired... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080049794 - Device, system and method of communicating between circuit switch interfaces over an analog modulation communication network: Some demonstrative embodiments of the invention include a method device and/or system of communicating circuit switch information, e.g., between two or more circuit switch interfaces, over an analog modulation communication network. The method, according to some demonstrative embodiments may include synchronizing at least one slave clock of at least one... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080049795 - Jitter buffer adjustment: For enhancing the performance of an adaptive jitter buffer, a desired amount of adjustment of a jitter buffer is determined at a first device using as a parameter an estimated delay. The delay comprises at least an end-to-end delay in at least one direction in a conversation. For this conversation,... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080043610 - Multi-carrier communications with group-based subcarrier allocation: A method and apparatus for subcarrier selection for systems is described. In one embodiment, the system employs orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA). In one embodiment, a method for subcarrier selection comprises a subscriber measuring channel and interference information for subcarriers based on pilot symbols received from a base station,... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080043613 - System for flexible cyclic prefix length for preamble symbols in an ofdm based communication system: A system providing flexible cyclic prefix length in a preamble (i.e., superframe preamble) is disclosed. The preamble comprises a first section and a second section. The first section contains at least one broadcast channel and occupies the first number of OFDM symbols in the preamble. The second section contains acquisition... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

20080043614 - Advanced internet protocol with flash-ofdm methods and systems: In various embodiments, communication apparatuses and methods for providing robust communications are disclosed. For example, an apparatus may establish an air interface in accordance with an orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) protocol. According to another particular aspect, the apparatus establishes an air interface in accordance with a Fast Low-Latency Access... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080043612 - Coarse and fine synchronization adjustments: Systems and methods for course and fine synchronization are provided. In one embodiment, a method comprises establishing communication between a first remote of a plurality of remote units and a host, the plurality of remote units coupled to the host in a multipoint-to-point configuration; transmitting up to a plurality of... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080043611 - Method and system for dynamic bandwidth allocation: Systems and methods for bidirectional communication are provided. In one embodiment, a bidirectional communication comprises a multipoint-to-point host unit and a plurality of remote units communicatively coupled to the multipoint-to-point host unit through an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing waveform. The multipoint-to-point host unit is configured to receive the orthogonal frequency... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080043615 - Multi-rate wireless communication apparatus and code distributing method: A multi-rate wireless communication apparatus wherein a low complexity is exhibited for a problem of code congestion occurring when a system supports an application of a variable multimedia and wherein a dynamic code distribution is performed, thereby significantly reducing the number of re-distributions and hence reducing the system load. In... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080043616 - Method and circuit for reducing the crest factor: m

20080043617 - Systems and methods for weighted monitoring of network services: A method for determining service availability using a plurality of weighted monitoring agents includes: establishing, by an appliance, a plurality of agents, the plurality of agents monitoring a service executing on a server, and each agent having an assigned weight; computing, by the appliance, a sum of the assigned weights... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080043618 - Method and system for selective buffering: A method for selective buffering includes establishing a first connection with a mobile endpoint. The first connection provides for an exchange of data with the mobile endpoint via a first point of connection. The mobile endpoint is coupled to the first point of connection via a second connection. The method... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080043619 - Method and apparatus for controlling arq and harq transmissions and retransmissions in a wireless communication system: A transmitter may instruct a receiver to move a receive window if the transmitter cannot retransmit a packet in response to an automatic repeat request (ARQ) status report and a hybrid ARQ (HARQ) feedback error report. The transmitter may advance a transmit window upon receipt of a local acknowledgement if... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080043620 - Early traffic regulation techniques to protect against network flooding: Methods and apparatus for providing an Anti-Flooding Flow-Control (AFFC) mechanism suitable for use in defending against flooding network Denial-of-Service (N-DoS) attacks is described. Features of the AFFC mechanism include (1) traffic baseline generation, (2) dynamic buffer management, (3) packet scheduling, and (4) optional early traffic regulation. Baseline statistics on the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080043621 - Systems and methods for improving network performance: Systems and methods for improving network throughput in a packet ties to network communication environment. In one aspect here of, delays associated with retransmission of a packet or reduced to improve total performance and bandwidth utilization on the communication network medium. A roundtrip time parameter of TCP/IP communications networks may... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080043622 - Systems and methods for dynamic decentralized load balancing across multiple sites: A method for enabling decentralized dynamic load balancing among a plurality of appliances providing access to a plurality of sites, each site comprising a local area network and at least one server includes: determining, by a first appliance, a first number of services currently available for access via a local... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080043624 - Technology for rate adaptation in a multi-line data transmission system: A method is described for rate adaptation in a telecommunication system comprising a group of bonded transmission links carrying together a binary traffic stream, wherein each of the bonded links is adapted to carry a sub-stream of binary information allocated in a number of bins. In case of changing conditions... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080043623 - Method and system for managing radio resources in mobile communication networks, related network and computer program product therefor: A method for managing radio resources in a mobile communications network having a plurality of cells, wherein the radio resources are managed by a plurality of radio resources management procedures arranged for having available at least one maximum downlink total load value representative of the maximum total load level of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080043625 - End-system dynamic rate limiting of background traffic: Dynamic rate limiting of background traffic to alleviate congestion in the access network is enabled. ICMP echo round-trip times and ICMP losses to a nearby node outside the local area and just beyond the divergence in end-to-end paths are measured, allowing unambiguous discrimination of nearby from distant congestion points. Using... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080043627 - Network simulation and analysis using operational forwarding data: A hybrid approach to populating forwarding tables in a virtual network obtains forwarding data both by simulating routing protocol behavior in the virtual network to build forwarding tables, and by importing operational forwarding data from corresponding physical nodes in a physical network. The use of operational forwarding data improves the... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080043626 - Networking hardware element to couple computer network elements and method of displaying a network layout map thereon: In one embodiment, a networking hardware element (1100, 3100) capable of coupling computer network elements (1010) comprises a network diagnostic mechanism (2140) that is capable of mapping the computer network elements and that is also capable of determining a connection status for the computer network elements. The networking hardware element... Agent: George C. Chen Bryan Cave LLP

20080043628 - Packet processing system architecture and method: A packet processing system architecture and method are provided. According to a first aspect of the invention, packet parser functions are distributed throughout a packet processing system comprising a packet classification system and a packet modification system. According to a second aspect of the invention, an egress mirroring function is... Agent: Howrey LLP

20080043629 - System and method for detecting and locating faults in electronic communication bus systems: System and method for detecting a fault in a faulty network element of a bus network comprising two or more transmitters. The method comprises transmitting from one of the transmitter a signal of predetermined parameters to the bus network; receiving the signal; and determining if the first signal is followed... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080043630 - Network device test system and method for testing network device: A network device test method is provided. The network device test method comprises providing at least one leasing module, at least one monitoring module, at least one saving module, at least one displaying module, and at least one agent module, disposed in the network device; providing a controller comprising a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080043631 - Method and apparatus for documenting network paths: Methods and apparatus for documenting network path connectivity are described that allow a network management system/revision management system (NMS/RMS) to determine what equipment and ports support a network path by interrupting and restoring Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) service on the network path. Upon detecting a loss of PoE service, communication active jacks... Agent: Panduit Corp.

20080043632 - Low impact network debugging: A method for debugging network connections that involves receiving a packet for a first destination by a network interface card (NIC), classifying the packet, sending the packet to a first receive ring associated with the NIC, and sending the packet from the first receive ring to a first virtual NIC,... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080043633 - Method and system for performing emta loop diagnostics: Diagnostic testing of a telephony line card device and corresponding line card is initiated using an initiation MIB. Responding to an instruction from a main processor that a query has determined that an initiation MID is Set, line card processor circuitry begins a predetermined series of diagnostic testing. Results for... Agent: Arris International, Inc

20080043636 - Apparatus for size-dependent sampling for managing a data network: The present invention provides apparatus for sampling data flows in a data network in order to estimate a total data volume in the network. Sampling the data flows in the data network reduces the network resources that must be expended by the network to support the associated activity. The present... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At &t Corp.

20080043634 - Peer-to-peer networks: A station used as a node in a peer-to-peer communications system keeps a list of stations to which requests for resources may be sent. The list includes for each member a performance parameter. When a station receives a request for resources it selects at least one station from the list... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080043635 - System and method for controlling the flooding of information in a network environment: An apparatus for communicating packets in a network environment is provided that includes a first network element that includes a first neighbor list, the first network element being coupled to a second network element and a third network element. The first network element is operable to receive a second neighbor... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080043638 - Content throughput on wireless mesh networks: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an inbound data packet over a wireless link at a wireless intermediate network node. The inbound data packet indicates the packet was transmitted by a node at an edge of the mesh. The inbound data packet is associated with a low priority minimum... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20080043639 - Management server having function confirming status information of devices, method for confirming status information of devices, and device and system capable of providing status information: A management server having a function of confirming status information of devices, a method of confirming status information of devices, and a device capable of providing status information. A first writer writes a status information request list necessary to confirm statuses of devices if the management server is turned on.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080043637 - Route tree building in a wireless mesh network: In one embodiment, a tree-topology building method for a wireless mesh network includes using a centralized parent selection process to select a parent and join offer messages to a selected child of the selected parent.... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20080043640 - Systems and methods for automatically reconfiguring virtual private networks: Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically configuring, managing, and maintaining a network device or VPN using a public network such as the Internet. Initial configuration of a network device or VPN occurs upon a user entering minimal information via a simple HTML page. After receipt of this minimal information,... Agent: Flaster/greenberg P.C. 8 Penn Center

20080043641 - Method and apparatus for emergency remote video monitoring: A method is disclosed for sending video data over an internet protocol (IPTV) network. The method includes receiving an emergency call from a remote client IPTV device over the IPTV network at a video monitoring system (VMS), receiving over the IPTV network at VMS video data from a video camera... Agent: G. Michael Roebuck, PC

20080043642 - Method and system for terminal codec setup of multimedia ring back tone service: Disclosed is a method and a system for setup of a multimedia codec and a voice codec between a mobile phone system and a terminal, in providing a multimedia RBT service capable of operating a multimedia codec allowing high quality music playback during an RBT interval and operating a voice... Agent: Anderson, Kill & Olick, P.C.

20080043643 - Video encoder adjustment based on latency: Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with video encoder adjustment based on latency are described. One exemplary controller embodiment includes a latency determination logic to determine latency between a first video conference node and a second video conference node, and, an encoder adjustment logic to adjust latency of a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080043644 - Techniques to perform rate matching for multimedia conference calls: Techniques to perform rate matching for multimedia conference calls are described. An apparatus may comprise a conferencing server and a rate matching module. The rate matching module may be arranged to adjust bit rates between media communications channels for client terminals in a conference call, with the rate matching module... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080043645 - Method and apparatus for expanding conference sizes: Techniques are disclosed for conference expansion in a conferencing system. For example, a method of providing for conference expansion in a conferencing system includes the following steps. At least one port is reserved in an original conference allocated in the conferencing system. A hub conference is allocated, when a maximum... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080043646 - Telephone communication system over a single telephone line: A module and kit for coupling at least one telephone service signal to at least one telephone device over a wiring. The network includes: a wiring having at least two conductors for carrying multiple time-domain multiplexed digitized voice channels; an exchange side device coupled to the wiring and operative to... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080043647 - Radio relay system and radio relay station: A radio relay system which relays a signal between a radio base station and a mobile terminal via a radio relay station is disclosed. The radio relay station stores a relay signal MS#1 burst received from the radio base station in a time slot of a BS→RS zone, and transmits... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080043650 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving frame in broadband wireless access system: An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a frame in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system are provided. In the BWA system for transmitting and receiving a super frame including one or more sub-frames, a base station includes a first generator for generating resource allocation information on a circuit... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080043652 - Radio receiving apparatus: A radio receiving apparatus for receiving the variable-length RLC PDU data in an RLC layer includes the buffer memory sectioned into a plurality of areas having a predetermined maximum data length of the RLC PDU data. By referring to a sequence number SN included in each received RLC PDU data,... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080043649 - Reliable packet detection in a wireless receiver when packets contain a known repetitive sequence: A wireless receiver operating in a wireless communication environment in which a beginning of a packet contains a repetitive sequence. The wireless receiver may compute a variance (example of a measure of variations in the cross correlation values) of cross-correlation values obtained by cross correlating a received signal and a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080043651 - Radio communication apparatus: On the transmission side, the RLC PDUs divided from the RLC SDU are transmitted after retransmission identification information is attached thereto. On the reception side, the retransmission identification information attached to each received RLC PDU is referred to, and only the RLC PDUs having an identical retransmission identification information to... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080043653 - Systems and methods for wireless communication over a wide bandwidth channel using a plurality of sub-channels: A method of communicating over a wideband communication channel divided into a plurality of sub-channels comprises dividing a single serial message intended for one of the plurality of communication devices into a plurality of parallel messages, encoding each of the plurality of parallel messages onto at least some of the... Agent: Pulse-link, Inc.

20080043654 - Systems and methods for wireless communication over a wide bandwidth channel using a plurality of sub-channels: A method of communicating over a wideband communication channel divided into a plurality of sub-channels comprises dividing a single serial message intended for one of the plurality of communication devices into a plurality of parallel messages, encoding each of the plurality of parallel messages onto at least some of the... Agent: Pulse-link, Inc.

20080043648 - Systems and methods for wireless resource management: Systems and methods for management of resources in wireless networks such as IEEE 802.11 and 802.16 networks are described. Wireless resource management within a network specific configuration may be implemented in a combination of hardware and software based on knowledge of network and device specific parameters. Management of resources may... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080043655 - System and method of authenticating mobile devices: Systems and methods for providing network access to mobile devices that travel with a vehicle, such as a train, a bus, a boat, etc. along or adjacent to a relatively fixed path that may extend over a large geographic area. Mobile devices access the network through stationary access points arranged... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080043656 - System and method for controlling power saving mode in wireless portable network system: Disclosed is a power saving mode control system (200) and method in a wireless portable Internet system. Stations in the sleep mode are grouped by aligning listening intervals of the stations which enter the sleep mode in the power saving management system wherein the sleep interval for receiving no traffic... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080043657 - Packet transmission control device and packet transmission control method: A packet transmission control device relating to the present invention includes: a storage unit configured to store a transmission resource available for use in the packet transmission, radio quality information on the downlink, and a transmission method to be used in the packet transmission while associating them with one another;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080043658 - Cellular communication system, network controller and method for obtaining feedback from subscriber communication units: A method for obtaining feedback from one or more wireless subscriber communication unit(s) related to a broadcast service in a wireless communication system comprising at least one communication cell. The method comprises transmitting a request message by a network controller to one or more wireless subscriber communication unit(s); receiving and... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080043659 - Method and system for directed call establishment to facilitate the provision of enhanced communications services: A method and system for directed call establishment to anchor selected cellular calls in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) or an IP Multi-Media Subsystem (IMS) network employs a mobile handset application client to interrupt selected cellular call initiations and request a directed call establishment number from a converged services... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080043660 - Method of transferring data to a handheld personal electronic device: A method for transferring data to a handheld personal electronic device is disclosed. Information is collected from a user of the handheld personal electronic device, and select information from among the collected information is identified as data to be transferred to the handheld personal electronic device. The data is then... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080043661 - Wireless communication system capable of saving time for mutual data communication in sniff mode: A wireless communication system capable of saving time for mutual data communication in a sniff mode. The wireless communication system has: a master apparatus for calculating a sniff parameter including a time of a sniff period capable of performing the communication by allowing a corresponding device to commonly have the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080043662 - Method of controlling uplink output power in a wireless communication system: A method of calculating uplink output power in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes receiving a message which includes a command to a mobile station (MS) to perform handover from a current serving cell to a target cell, which is one of neighbor cells, performing... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080043663 - Satellite communication with multiple active gateways: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to enable a fixed or a mobile ground based slave stations (VSAT: Very Small Aperture Terminal) in a communication network to receive TDM transmissions from and transmit TDMA burst transmissions to one or more ground-based gateway stations in a networking system that employs one or... Agent: C/o Ata Arjomand

20080043665 - Ipv6 neighbor discovery support method on wireless communications system: The present invention relates to method supporting an IPv6 neighbor discovery in an IEEE 802.16 based wireless communication system. More specifically, the invention relates to an IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) neighbor discovery support method in a wireless communication system where all attached subscriber stations share a common network prefix,... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080043664 - Method and system for reducing transmission route of packet in internet based nested mobile network: A method and system for reducing transmission route of packet in Internet based nested mobile network are provided. In the method, a plurality of routers in an Internet based nested mobile network register location information using a top-level mobile router. Then, each of the mobile routers creates NEMO routing information.... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080043666 - Mobile communication system, core network apparatus, and mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication system for relaying user data includes a plurality of base station apparatus and a core network apparatus. Each of the base station apparatus forms a cell for connecting to a terminal through a wireless link. The core network apparatus can be connected to the base station apparatus.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080043667 - Apparatus and method of providing packet service status using access class barred list in mobile communication system: A packet service status providing method using an access class barred list in a mobile communication system, includes inspecting, by a mobile communication terminal whether there exists information which matches access class restriction information pre-stored to the mobile communication terminal in access class barred list information contained in a system... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080043670 - Method and apparatus for preventing transmission blocking in an hsupa wireless communication system: In a wireless communication system including at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and at least on Node-B (NB), a method and apparatus for preventing transmission blocking comprise triggering transmission of scheduling information (SI) when transmission of a medium access control-d (MAC-d) flow is stopped. The SI is transmitted when... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080043671 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving preamble of random access channel in a broadband wireless communication system: A method for transmitting a preamble over a Random Access CHannel (RACH) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes generating a preamble having a length longer than a basic transmission unit, and dividing the preamble into preambles having a length less than the basic transmission unit; and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080043668 - System and method for assigning channels in a wireless network: A method for assigning channels in a wireless network includes receiving from each of a plurality of a first type of wireless components a total average data rate. Each total average data rate is based on an average data rate for each of a first plurality of a second type... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080043669 - Generic access to the iu interface: Some embodiments provide a method of activating a packet transport channel (PTC) in a communication system that includes a first licensed wireless communication system and a second generic access network (GAN) that has a generic access network controller (GANC). The GANC is communicatively coupled to the first communication system through... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080043673 - Cellular mobile gateway with signal quality indicator: An output device in a cellular mobile gateway provides an indication of the signal quality of a cellular communication link between a cellular communication system and the cellular mobile gateway. The cellular mobile gateway includes a local area network (LAN) interface that exchanges data with at least one user device... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080043672 - Handovers in a communication system: A method for handover is disclosed. The method comprises generation of mobility information that associates with a mobile device attached to a first access node. The mobility information is then communicated to a second access node for use in a handover of the mobile device from the first access node... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080043674 - Method and system for performing handoff for mobile station in a mobile communication system using proxy mobile ip: A method and system for supporting a handoff of an MS in a PMIP mobile communication system are provided. The method includes a target node transmitting a first registration request message to an HA in order to request registration of the MS, when the MS moves from the service area... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080043675 - System and method for redirecting data to a wireless device over a plurality of communication paths: A scheme for redirecting data to a mobile communication device capable of communicating via at least one short-range wireless communication path and at least one long-range wireless communication path. An embodiment comprises one or more of the following: receiving data at a host system; determining whether the mobile communication device... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080043676 - System and method for redirecting data to a wireless device over a plurality of communication paths: A scheme for redirecting data to a mobile communication device capable of communicating via at least one short-range wireless communication path and at least one long-range wireless communication path. An embodiment comprises one or more of the following: a structure for setting a redirection flag configured for a user associated... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080043677 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving feedback information representing channel quality in a mimo-ofdm system: A method of transmitting/receiving feedback information representing channel quality in a MIMO-OFDM system, in which a receiver measures channel qualities of signals transmitted on a plurality of subbands through a plurality of transmitting antennas by a transmitter, selects a predetermined number of subbands having a highest transmission performance based on... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080043681 - Gap and preamble parameters for control channel transmission: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for defining parameters for a control signal (e.g., discontinuous signal) for an uplink control channel using a predetermined criterion depending on a maximum allowed data rate and/or an actual data rate of a data signal on an... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080043683 - Apparatus and method for communicating packet data control channel in a mobile communication system: A base station transmission apparatus for transmitting MAC (Medium Access Control) ID (Identification) information indicating a terminal to receive transmission packet data and length information of the transmission packet data in a mobile communication system for high-speed packet transmission, having an encoder for encoding a bit stream indicating the MAC... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080043682 - Method and apparatus for allocating data streams onto a single channel: A method and system that enables multiplexing a plurality of data streams onto one data stream based on data stream priorities and available transport frame combinations (TFCs) is disclosed. A mobile station has applications that produce separate data streams. Example applications include voice, signaling E-mail and web applications. The data... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080043680 - Receiver processing systems: Space-time transmit diversity spread spectrum receiver architectures and methods are described for reducing interference, particularly the interference observed at a user-end terminal in a W-CDMA 3G mobile communications system. Interpath interference which arises due to non-zero cross and auto correlation of more than one spreading code is suppressed by estimating... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080043679 - Resource allocation and network sharing between a multiple of 3g-service providers: A method for setting up a radio traffic channel in a 3G-network shared between at least two operators. The network's traffic channel resources are divided into operator specific parts, the parts not sharing any common traffic channels. User equipment is allocated channel resources in accordance with it's associated operator, according... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080043678 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication control apparatus, wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method: Information, which has a frame structure and is to be transmitted from a line control apparatus (101) through a control channel to a mobile transmitting/receiving apparatus (102), includes function channel identifying information indicative of the type of information transmitted in an area of control information. When no message is existent... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080043684 - Lightweight protocol for use in a tcp/ip communications network: A lightweight communications protocol optimized for wireless transfer of data across a TCP/IP network that connects a vehicle communications device to a remote entity, such as a call center. The lightweight protocol utilizes messages that include header, trailer, and payload elements, where the payload element is optimized for the transmission... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080043687 - System and method of wirelessly communicating with mobile devices: Systems and methods for providing network access to mobile devices that travel with a vehicle, such as a train, a bus, a boat, etc. along or adjacent to a relatively fixed path that may extend over a large geographic area. Mobile devices access the network through stationary access points arranged... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080043688 - Wireless communication terminal and wireless communication method: A wireless communication terminal comprises: a packet receiving unit for receiving a packet from a wireless base station; module for obtaining a transmission rate and a required transmission time from the received packet; module for calculating a time required to perform a packet transmission/reception procedure on the basis of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080043685 - Wireless communication terminals, systems, methods, and computer program products for media file playback: A wireless communication terminal includes a wireless communication module and a controller. The wireless communication module is configured to communicate with other communication terminals over a wireless interface. The controller is configured to establish a connection with at least one participant wireless communication terminal via the wireless communication module, and... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080043690 - Method and apparatus for delivering ipp2t (ip-push-to-talk) wireless lan mobile radio service: A wireless subscriber terminal (ST) for use with IP push-to-talk (PP2T) service using a wireless local area network (WLAN) operating in a plurality of modes, including a mobile terminal having an ability to communicate over the air to a wireless Access Point (AP), the mobile terminal further programmable to use... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080043691 - Method and apparatus for delivering ipp2t (ip-push-to-talk) wireless lan mobile radio service: A wireless subscriber terminal (ST) for use with IP push-to-talk (PP2T) service using a wireless local area network (WLAN) operating in a plurality of modes, including a mobile terminal having an ability to communicate over the air to a wireless Access Point (AP), the mobile terminal further programmable to use... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080043686 - Method and system for detecting attacks in wireless data communications networks: A method of detecting attacks in a wireless data communications network, includes: monitoring wireless traffic over the wireless data communications network; deriving a first network state from the monitored wireless traffic; acquiring trusted information indicative of a wireless network state from at least one apparatus of a network infrastructure; establishing... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080043689 - System and method for location based policy management: In a particular embodiment, a policy server is disclosed that includes a network device interface adapted to communicate with a set of wireless access points via a short range wireless network. Each of the wireless access points has a coverage area. The policy server also includes a processor and a... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080043694 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device: A scheme for message status indicator synchronization. An embodiment comprises one or more of the following: automatically detecting arrival of a message at a messaging server for a user having a mail address thereat, the message being displayable on a computer for the user with a status indicator icon associated... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080043693 - System and method for redirecting message attachments between a host system and a mobile data communication device: In one embodiment, a mobile data communication device operable to process redirected data items from a messaging system, wherein the data items include message attachments. The mobile data communication device includes one or more of the following: a structure for generating a command towards a redirector component associated with a... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080043695 - Wireless perimeter security device and network using same: A Radio Frequency based security system for providing security for wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) that allows the creation and maintenance of arbitrarily shaped secure wireless access areas with boundaries around said wireless Local Area Network and prevents access to the said wireless LAN from outside the perimeter of the... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080043692 - Wireless transmission system: A wireless transmission device makes it possible to access the internet from a wireless LAN terminal, and notifies the state of wireless connection to a public wireless transmission network to the wireless LAN terminal, thereby alleviating uncertainty and disquiet on the part of the user when connecting to this network.... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080043696 - Method and system for mobile terminals to share storage space: A method and a system for mobile terminals to share a storage space, in which a mobile terminal may apply for a shared file space on the network side, and the shared file space may be accessed by the mobile terminal itself or other mobile terminals. In the invention, a... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080043701 - Devices and methods of transmitting data, source drivers using the same, and liquid crystal display (lcd) devices having the same: A data transmission device for reducing power consumption includes a data source configured to provide data, a data transmission line having a plurality of data transmission sections, and data storage units respectively coupled to the data transmission sections. The respective data storage units determine whether the data storage units store... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080043700 - Method of inputting data in a wireless terminal and wireless terminal implementing the same: A method of inputting data into a wireless terminal and wireless terminal implementing the same are provided, in which first data is input in data input mode, at least one pixel value of the first data detected is registered at a predetermined reference position, second data is input, at least... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080043698 - Mobile network backward compatibility support: In one embodiment, a method for supporting backward compatibility in a mobile network can include: receiving a packet in a first device that can support a first protocol; forming a modified packet by adding a field to the packet, where the field is related to a context for a second... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080043703 - Retransmission method and apparatus using multiple mother codes in a system using harq: An apparatus and method for retransmitting a codeword packet in a system using Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) are provided. The HARQ retransmission method includes defining multiple mother codes, and selecting one of code rates of the mother codes as an initial transmission code rate according to channel condition, determining... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080043697 - Streaming quality optimization: An apparatus and method thereof include a service support node. The service support node is configured to read an override feature defined therein by an operator indicative of whether a maximum bitrate requested by a mobile station is to be used in a quality of service negotiation or whether the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080043702 - Method and apparatus for cell search in a communication system: A cell search using a Primary Synchronization Channel (P-SCH) and an Secondary Synchronization Channel (S-SCH) received from a Base Station (BS) are provided, in which a Mobile Station (MS) receives a P-SCH signal including at least two different P-SCH synchronization codes in different slots of a frame and detects slot... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080043699 - Method and system for providing interworking with portable internet network and other kinds of networks: Disclosed is a method for acquiring an Access Network Identification (ANID) of a currently connected portable Internet network when a mobile communication terminal connects to the portable Internet network. The method includes the steps of (a) receiving an MAC management message from a base station when the mobile communication terminal... Agent: Anderson, Kill & Olick, P.C.

20080043704 - System and method for orderwire modulation in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system: Systems and methods for orderwire modulation in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system are provided. In one embodiment, a method comprises: receiving baseband user data; modulating the baseband user data onto a first plurality of parallel streams based on a first modulation constellation; modulating non-user data onto a... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080043705 - Systems and methods for enabling coexistence of multiple wireless components operating in the same frequency band: Methods and systems for enabling coexistence of multiple potentially interfering wireless components in a device are provided. A device may include a wireless module using a proprietary protocol and one or more modules using standardized protocols. The device further includes a coexistence arbitration module configured to arbitrate access to a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080043706 - Method and apparatus for controlling transmission of a channel quality indicator: A method and apparatus for controlling transmission of a channel quality indicator (CQI) in a wireless communication system are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) determines, at each transmission time interval (TTI), whether a CQI timer has expired. The CQI timer is reset each time a CQI is sent out... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080043711 - Communication systems: A transmission method for use in a multi-hop wireless communication system is provided. The system includes a source apparatus, a destination apparatus and one or more intermediate apparatuses. The system has access to at least one predetermined transmission introduction sequence and also having access to a time-frequency format for use... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080043708 - Uplink reference signal for time and frequency scheduling of transmissions: A method for multiplexing reference signal (RS) transmissions from user equipments (UEs), with the RS having a bandwidth larger than the data signal bandwidth (distributed RS) is provided. A transmission time interval (TTI) comprises of one or more sub-frames and each sub-frame comprises of at least two RS transmission periods... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080043707 - Wireless mesh network channel selection: An apparatus and method of a gateway selecting transmission channels of a cluster of a wireless mesh network is disclosed. The cluster includes the gateway and a plurality of access nodes. The method includes the gateway cycling through a plurality of available transmission channels, evaluating channel each of the available... Agent: Tropos Networks Patent Dept

20080043709 - Communication systems: In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a wireless transmission method for use in a multi-hop wireless communication system includes determining for a particular transmission at least one measure of the expected link characteristics for at least two links of a communication path, and for each of those... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080043710 - Communication systems: A transmission method for use in a multi-hop wireless communication system is provided. The method includes, for two apparatuses having overlapping transmission coverage areas, one of the two said apparatuses being an intermediate apparatus, transmitting a first transmission signal from a first one of those apparatuses in a first transmission... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080043712 - Communication systems: A transmission method for use in a multi-hop wireless communication system is provided. The system includes a source apparatus, a destination apparatus and one or more intermediate apparatuses. The system has access to at least one predetermined transmission introduction sequence and also has access to a time-frequency format for use... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080043713 - Communication system, data retransmission control method thereof, and wireless transmitting/receiving apparatus used therein: In a data retransmission system, wherein when a response signal (ACK/NACK) from a receiving end is NACK in response to a block data transmitted from a transmitting end, the block data is retransmitted, the transmission efficiency is improved by avoiding unnecessary retransmission of the block data. There is provided a... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080043714 - Multiradio scheduling including clock synchronization validity protection: A system for managing the simultaneous operation of a plurality of radio modems in a single wireless communication device (WCD). The multiradio control may be integrated into the WCD as a subsystem responsible for scheduling wireless communications by temporarily enabling or disabling the plurality of radio modems within the device.... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080043715 - Mobile object information sharing system: In a system where mobile stations use one frequency to transmit/receive and share position information data, synchronization has been made in a shared time resulting from GPS and the mobile stations transmit the data at mutually different timings that are predetermined, whereby overlapping of the transmissions is avoided. However, the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080043716 - Telemetry stream performance analysis and optimization: A computer-based method for improving the timely delivery of telemetry or other application-to-application data. A telemetry routing table is stored in memory that includes entries for a plurality of communication pathways for delivering a telemetry message from a telemetry application running on a first computer system to a telemetry reception... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080043723 - Arrangement and method for reducing required memory usage between communication servers: An arrangement and method for reducing memory usage for communications between servers in a communication network utilizing the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) by controlling establishment of SIP dialogues. A single SIP dialogue for a certain event package is utilized for multiple subscriptions between one instance of a requesting server such... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080043724 - Arrangement and method for reducing required memory usage between communication servers: An image forming device that supports a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call function, the image forming device including an interface that communicates with external devices, the external devices including a VoIP call recipient's communication device; and a controller that converts voice data received through the interface of the image... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080043717 - Exchange protocol for combinational multimedia services: A method of transporting information between end user terminals via a packet switched network whilst a circuit switched connection is established between the end users, the method comprising: using the Message Session Relay Protocol, MSRP, to encapsulate information transmitted between users.... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20080043722 - Extension network system and dialing and answering processes of the same: A user self-expandable extension network system and its dialing and answering processes are applied to an extension network which consists of a plurality of extensions. An extension will send a detecting signal to locate the host phone and regard the host phone as a session initiation protocol (SIP) proxy server... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080043721 - H.323 to sip interworking for call transfers: In one embodiment, a first end device associated with a first user and a second end device associated with a second user may be participating in a call. During the call, the second user may wish to transfer the call to a third user. The second user has the choice... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080043718 - Intelligent formatting of voip telephone numbers: A system and method are disclosed for intelligent formatting of VoIP telephone numbers. The intelligent VoIP formatting system includes a presentation and user interface layer, an E.164 formatting engine, a location routine, and a database of telephone number data which are used to deconstruct input telephone numbers and reconstruct them... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080043719 - Method and apparatus for generating configuration information for a communication system: A method and apparatus for generating configuration information for a communication system is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network policy manager can have a collection element that receives a plurality of service component definitions associated with a corresponding plurality of... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080043725 - Method for placing voip calls through a web-based interface and system of the same: The present invention provides a novel method and system for placing VoIP calls through a web-based interface. With the present invention, the enterprise can easily build up their VoIP telecom system, and manage it with high security. Furthermore, the method may help the enterprise reduce the telecommunication cost. The method... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080043726 - Selective control of user equipment capabilities: Services to user equipment in communication networks, and in particular basic operational services, are controlled through a device management object through which services are selectively disabled and enabled.... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20080043720 - Telecommunications system and method of session initiation protocol (sip) based communications between endpoints: A communications system and method of managing communications with multiple appearance endpoints, e.g. Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) endpoints in the communications system. At least one SIP endpoint includes a keyset with multiple lines, at least a primary line and one or more secondary and/or phantom lines. A Back to Back... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080043728 - Apparatus and methods for coordinating telephone and data communications: A computerized telephony call center for serving a customer base has a central switch connected to a plurality of telephones at operator workstations and adapted to route calls to individual ones of the telephones, and also connected to a public switched telephone network, and a first processor connected to the... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080043727 - Method and apparatus for visual message indication in a voip system: Method and apparatus to provide a numerical verification of new and existing voice messages as it relates to subscribers of VOIP services. The apparatus is placed on the subscriber's telephone line; the subscriber's VOIP voice message servers call and update the device with the subscriber's current voice message status including... Agent: Vonage

20080043729 - Automated packet switch carrier health monitoring process: A system, method and computer program product are provided for determining the status of a packet-switched network by a computing device monitoring components that comprise the packet-switched network including a call-server, one or more gate-keepers, a TDM voice gateway, and one or more packet-switched routers. The computing device is configured... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080043730 - Intergrated interface device: Disclosed herein is an integrated interface device. The integrated interface device includes an input terminal configured to have a plurality of input ports and to receive data from the input ports, an interface unit for processing data input from each of the input ports, according to a corresponding interface algorithm,... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080043731 - Method and apparatus for generating packet frames for carrying data: A conventional packet frame includes a MAC header, one MAC service data unit (MSDU) and a frame FCS. This frame is repeated to send a plurality of MSDUs. A proposed packet frame includes a MAC header, a plurality of MSDUs and a frame FCS. A unique bit pattern is provided... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080043732 - Network direct memory access: In one embodiment, a system comprises at least a first node and a second node coupled to a network. The second node comprises a local memory and a direct memory access (DMA) controller coupled to the local memory. The first node is configured to transmit at least a first packet... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080043733 - System and a method for carrying out personal and business transactions: The present invention relates to a system and a method for carrying out personal transactions including financial transactions, e-mail transactions, and voice messaging transactions. A user of the system is issued a ten digit identification number in the form of a telephone number. The identification number may be the user's... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20080043734 - Data processing system, data processing apparatus, and data processing method: When a new data relaying device that has yet to have configuration information set therein is incorporated, the configuration information of an existing data relaying device is copied to the new data relaying device.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080043735 - Dynamic bias control circuit and related apparatus for digital-to-analog converters: A dynamic bias control circuit includes a current source, a first switch, a differential amplifier, and a third switch. The current source outputs a first current. The first switch is coupled to an output end of the current source for generating the first current. The differential amplifier includes a first... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080043739 - Apparatus and method for filtering packet in a network system using mobile ip: A network system using Mobile Internet Protocol (IP). The network system includes a correspondent node for transmitting a packet in which information passing a packet filter rule is included, and a packet filtering apparatus for determining whether an address included in information of the packet received from the correspondent node... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080043737 - Creation and transmission of part of protocol information corresponding to network packets or datalink frames separately: Datalink frames or networking packets contain protocol information in the header and optionally in the trailer of a frame or a packet. We are proposing a method in which part of or all of the protocol information corresponding to a frame or a packet is transmitted separately in another datalink... Agent: George M. George 405d, Purva Park

20080043736 - Data transfer system and method: A data transfer system and method allows data files to be transmitted from a user device through a private network and a public network to a destination server without requiring write permission at an intermediate server of the private network. A configurable segment of data is read from a file... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080043738 - Remote management apparatus and method of setting ip address thereof: A remote management apparatus and a method of setting an IP address thereof. The remote management apparatus includes a determination unit to determine whether an IP address of a server connected through a network coincides with an IP address intended to be used for communications with the server, and a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080043740 - Method for unidirectional and bidirectional label switched path setup in a label switched network: Label contention in a label switched network is resolved by applying a contention resolution scheme that reconciles policies for handling unidirectional and bidirectional label switched path setup.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080043741 - Network device and method for processing fragmented packet: A network device including a receiving module, a packet determining module, a conversion module, a storage module and a processing module is provided. The receiving module is for receiving fragmented packets. The packet determining module is for determining packet types of the fragmented packets, the packet types comprising a special... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080043743 - Received packet processing method and received packet processing apparatus: Packets each including a sequence number and a time stamp are sequentially received, and a linear expression representing a correspondence between the sequence number and the time stamp is calculated based on the received packets. If a packet including a sequence number discontinuous to sequence numbers of the previously received... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080043742 - Transmission using multiple physical interface: A System On Chip (SOC) unit enabled to transmit data via one or more physical interfaces is provided. The SOC comprises a processor and a network interface including multiple physical input/output (I/O) interfaces coupled to the processor. In response to receiving data for transmission, the processor is enabled to select... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080043744 - Method and system for floor control in a wireless network: A method and system for establishing floor control in a communication session enables remote control of devices in a network and provides a status update concerning floor ownership. The method includes processing at a floor controller a floor request message received from a first endpoint, where the floor request message... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080043745 - Method and apparatus for calculating bandwidth requirements: Embodiments of the invention relate to bandwidth requirements within a packet data network. A method and system for analysing traffic is described herein. The method may utilise an estimation of a concave hull function of the arrived traffic within the buffer. The use of such a concave hull representation may... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080043746 - Signal processing device, method, program, and recording medium: To provide a signal processing section of a software radio device or the like which can dynamically change connection itself of an internal function structure at the time of execution. A switching module ISM1(2) or the like selects and uses one of the plurality of the routing tables (60) or... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080043747 - Apparatus, method, system and software product for a scheduling synchronization mechanism in a multi-hop environment: A method is disclosed for commencing distributed scheduling of uplink communication, in a component of a multihop relay system of a wireless network. The component sends information that is related to the scheduling, to a direct downlink neighbor along a multihop path. This information at least indicates a time interval... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080043749 - Methods for associating an ip address to a user via an appliance: The intranet IP address management solution of the appliance and/or client described herein provides an environment for efficiently assigning, managing and querying virtual private network addresses, referred to as intranet IP (IIP) addresses of virtual private network users, such as a multitude of SSL VPN users on an enterprise network.... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080043748 - Multi-scale network traffic generator: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for multi-scale network traffic generation. In one embodiment of the invention, a network traffic generation method can be provided. The method can include defining multiple, different scales in an n-state MMPP model to accommodate a full characteristic... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080043750 - Apparatus and method for in-line insertion and removal of markers: An apparatus is provided, for performing a direct memory access (DMA) operation between a host memory in a first server and a network adapter. The apparatus includes a host frame parser and a protocol engine. The host frame parser is configured to receive data corresponding to the DMA operation from... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20080043751 - Changing of channel capabilities: In a telecommunications system, in which a connection comprises a part with an interworking function at both ends, a channel is allocated to the connection between the interworking functions. The required channel capabilities may vary during the connection, whereby the channel capabilities should be changed. When the first interworking function... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080043752 - System and method for clock domain management: A source clock system clock domain is selected by communication of the desired clock domain from a receiver clock system through a clock line, such as through a clock differential pair. For instance, the source clock system signals available clock domains by selectively altering the polarity of a first clock... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080043753 - Dual aal1 device and synchronization method used therewith: Upon receipt of a synchronization request from the CPU, the AAL1 device of the act system causes its cell forming section to extract the allocation position information for the SAR-PDU payload about a particular time slot in the current frame and, via the synchronization information send/receive section, transfers the information... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080043754 - Method and system for determining independent authorization levels in a vpn: A system and method are disclosed for determining independent authorization levels. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a controlling element that manages operations of a virtual private network. The controlling element manages operations of a virtual private network (VPN) by validating that a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080043755 - Shared and separate network stack instances: A method for configuring a packet destination, that includes creating the packet destination on a host, obtaining a network configuration for the packet destination, determining whether the host comprises a virtual network stack, where the virtual network stack includes the network configuration, and assigning the packet destination to the virtual... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080043756 - Method and system for network configuration for virtual machines: A method for changing network configuration parameters that includes generating a request to change a network configuration parameter, where the request is generated by a virtual machine, sending the request to a virtual network interface card (VNIC) associated with the virtual machine, sending the request to a VNIC configuration database... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080043757 - Integrated circuit and method for packet switching control: The present invention relates to an integrated circuit comprising 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). Each packet... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080043758 - Method and system for controlling mobility in a communication network, related network and computer program product therefor: A communication network, such as a mobile IP network, includes at least one mobile terminal and a plurality of home agents adapted to provide, within working sessions, communication services to the above mobile terminal. In the network, there is an authentication, authorization and accounting platform configured for identifying, within the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080043759 - System, apparatus, method and computer program product for an intercom system: A network gateway, method and computer program product for providing data translation between dissimilar networks capable of communication at a unit includes a translation element and a routing element. The translation element is configured to translate packet data between different formats of an internal network and a shared network via... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080043761 - Systems and methods for pinging a user's intranet ip address: The intranet IP address management solution of the appliance and/or client described herein provides an environment for efficiently assigning, managing and querying virtual private network addresses, referred to as intranet IP (IIP) addresses of virtual private network users, such as a multitude of SSL VPN users on an enterprise network.... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080043760 - Systems and methods of providing server initiated connections on a virtual private network: The present invention is related to a method for establishing via an appliance a transport layer protocol connection initiated by a server on a first network to a client connected from a second network to the first network via a secure socket layer virtual private network (SSL VPN) connection. The... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080043763 - Gateway application to support use of a single internet address domain for routing messages to multiple multimedia message service centers: Wireless carrier networks can utilize multiple MMSCs all accessed by a message sender with a message addressed to a single Internet domain, providing a single point of entry for messages into the network of MMSCs and maintaining routing information sufficient to route messages to all subscribers via the MMSC.... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20080043764 - Integrated service management system: The present invention provides techniques for creation, operation, management, and access control of network-based storage services. Specific embodiments provide improved efficiency of the service management tasks used for designing, operating and accounting the robust and profitable network services, for example. In representative embodiments, techniques for constructing integrated network and storage... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080043762 - Translator for ip networks, network system using the translator, and ip network coupling method therefor: A translator for coupling a first IPv4 network and a second IPv6 network having different addressing architectures for IP addresses so as not to exhaust the IP addresses of one of the two networks, a network system using the translator, and a network coupling method. When a packet is transferred... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080043765 - Method and system for automatically reflecting hardware resource allocation modifications: A method is disclosed that includes assigning a portion of network hardware resources of a host to a virtual network interface card (VNIC), and configuring a virtual machine network stack (VMNS) in a virtual machine (VM) bound to the VNIC to use the portion of network hardware resources assigned to... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080043768 - Afdx network supporting a plurality of service classes: The invention relates to a frame switch for an AFDX network, including a plurality of input ports (615), a plurality of output ports (645), multiplexing means (630) to multiplex the frames arriving at an input port towards one or more of said output ports, control means (620) for controlling said... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080043767 - Arbiter, crossbar, request selection method and information processing device: A plurality of units (processing units) connected to a crossbar are divided into a plurality of groups and one is selected from requests selected for each group according to priority among the groups that changes at prescribed time intervals. Thus, the number of times per unit time requests issued from... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080043766 - Method and system of message prioritization in a control system: A method and related system of message prioritization in a control system. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising receiving a first packet-based message from a first software package across a high bandwidth channel (the first packet-based message directed to a first software port), receiving a second... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20080043769 - Clustering system and system management architecture thereof: A system management architecture is provided to manage plural compute nodes in a clustering system. Each of the compute nodes basically includes a BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) for local management. Among the compute nodes, a preset one has its BMC connecting with a management network switch through an extra network... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC Tracy M Heims

20080043770 - Substantially synchronous deposit of messages into multiple communication modalities: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for storing messages using multiple communication modalities, in which a first communication is received from a first communication system. One embodiment of a method includes receiving a message in a first protocol and converting the message from the first protocol to the second... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080043771 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving rach: A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a Random Access Channel (RACH) signal in a communication system. A User Equipment (UE) selects one of Contention Resolution (CR) channels allocated for collision detection, and transmits the selected CR channel and a connection request message to an Evolved Node B (E-NB), and receives... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080043772 - Digital subscriber line access multiplexer and data transmission method for achieving the multicast bandwidth expansion: The invention discloses a bandwidth expanded DSLAM and a data transmission method thereof. In the invention, a video bus that is specialized for multicasting video data transmission is added in the DSLAM; the video bus with original data bus together perform data transmission for the DSLAM, so the bandwidth is... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080043773 - Communication device, communication method and program: The communication device according to the present invention includes a communication condition detection unit that detects communication conditions with regard to communication with other communication devices, a link adaptation decision-making unit that makes a decision as to whether or not link adaptation needs to be executed in correspondence to the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080043774 - Method, system and program product for determining an initial number of connections for a multi-source file download: A method of determining a number of connections to initially utilize for a download of a target data file from a set of one or more servers includes determining a maximum number of initial connections based at least in part upon a number of servers available to serve a target... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080043775 - Data processing device, data processing method, program, program recording medium, and data structure: The present invention relates to a data processing device and a data processing method, a program and a program recording medium, and a data recording medium and a data structure, capable of controlling output of data according to the playing point-in-time of the data. A Clip( ), which is meta... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080043776 - Method of transmitting or receiving a data packet in packet data communication system using hybrid automatic repeat request: A method of transmitting/receiving a packet using a hybrid automatic repeat request in the mobile communication system is disclosed. The packet data transmitting method includes transmitting at least one sub packet divided from plurality of encoded packets generated by repeating a bit stream that is made by encoding information desired... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080043777 - Method of transmitting or receiving a data packet in packet data communication system using hybrid automatic repeat request: A method of transmitting/receiving a packet using a hybrid automatic repeat request in the mobile communication system is disclosed. The packet data transmitting method includes transmitting at least one sub packet divided from plurality of encoded packets generated by repeating a bit stream that is made by encoding information desired... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080043778 - Detection of stations for wireless communication: Techniques for detecting other stations in a power efficient manner are described. A station may operate in a passive mode or a search mode. In the passive mode, the station receives for one receive period in each time interval. In the search mode, the station transmits for a series of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080043779 - Synchronization code methods: A system, method and computer software product are provided. One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for generating and employing numerical sequences that may be used for synchronization codes. In one embodiment of the present invention, the derivation of numerical sequences, or codes is based on an encoding... Agent: Pulse-link, Inc.

20080043780 - Semiconductor memory and system: To fully evaluate a real signal line and a real memory cell adjacent to a dummy signal line and utilize dummy signal line as real signal line, a semiconductor memory includes at least one real signal line connected to real memory cells driven by a real driver and at least... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080043781 - Remote flash access: A system, method, and computer program product for allowing a first processor to access flash or other non-volatile memory that is associated with a second processor. The first processor obtains parameters that allow the initialization of an internet protocol (IP) stack. The parameters can be obtained using the trivial file... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080043782 - Method and apparatus for checking the position of a receive window: A method checks a position of a receive window. The method includes checking whether a signal to be received within the receive window is within a reduced window within the receive window and shorter in length than the receive window.... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080043783 - Netphone and communication method therefor: A netphone and a communication method therefor are provided. The netphone comprises a main central processing unit, a video output module, an audio receiver, an audio output module, a ring generator, a command processing module, an input interface, a video capture module, a hang-up detection module, a storage module, a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080037409 - Wireless transmitting station and wireless receiving station: A wireless terminal receives a signal from a first BTS as a communication party and a signal from a second BTS when receiving the signal from the first BTS by using a communication slot that is assigned to the terminal, the terminal comprises receiving antennas; a demodulator unit that estimates... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080037410 - Wireless communication method using ofdm, ofdm receiving method and apparatus thereof: A receiving method receiving an OFDM signal including a first OFDM symbol having first and second pilot signals allocated to first and second subcarriers positioned symmetric on the frequency axis, and a second OFDM symbol having third and fourth pilot signals allocated to the first and the second subcarriers, a... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt , Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080037412 - System and method for round trip delay adjustment in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system: Systems and methods for round-trip-delay adjustment in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system are provided. In one embodiment, a method for multipoint-to-point communication comprises: receiving at a host a plurality of upstream symbols transmitted from a plurality of remote units, the upstream symbols transmitted on a plurality of... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080037411 - Variable filtering for radio evolution: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for variable filtering of a mobile station (MS) for supporting uplink communications using available capabilities of a network element in wireless communication systems (e.g., evolved GERAN). The MS may have at least two different pulse shaping filter... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080037413 - Method and apparatus for uplink scheduling in a mobile communication system: A method and an apparatus for improving power efficiency of a User Equipment (UE) by using channel state information between a Node B and the UE and power headroom information of the UE in a mobile communication system. The method includes acquiring power information in relation to transmission powers of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080037414 - System and method for multiframe alignment in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system: Systems and methods for multiframe alignment in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system are provided. In one embodiment, a method for communicating a multiframe comprises: receiving at a host a plurality of upstream symbols transmitted from a plurality of remote units, the upstream symbols transmitted on a plurality... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080037415 - System and method for ranging in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system: Systems and methods for ranging in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system are provided. In one embodiment, a method for ranging comprises: receiving at a host a plurality of upstream symbols transmitted from a plurality of remote units, the upstream symbols transmitted on a plurality of orthogonal carriers... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080037416 - Portable terminal and method for multitasking: Provided are a portable terminal and method for multitasking for executing application programs of the portable terminal together with reception of digital broadcasting. The multitasking method of the present invention includes receiving and reproducing digital broadcast data requested by a user, and providing multitasking of executing at least one application... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080037417 - Duplex system for setting route of telecommand and method thereof: The present invention provides a duplex system for setting a route of telecommand and a method thereof. A duplex system for setting a route of telecommand, including: a first telecommand processing unit and a second telecommand processing unit for changing a format of a telecommand into a predetermined format; an... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080037418 - Method, system, apparatus, and program to link aggregate over independent redundant switches: A method to link aggregate over independent redundant switches is provided for use in an apparatus including first, second, and third switches in a local area network (LAN). A first port of the first switch is connected to a first port of the second switch, a second port of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080037419 - System for improving igp convergence in an aps environment by using multi-hop adjacency: A system for switching from a working path to a protected path when the working path becomes inoperable. In accordance with this system, point to multi-point adjacency is established between interfaces on two directly connected routing systems. This improves the speed at which the switch may occur.... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20080037420 - Immediate ready implementation of virtually congestion free guaranteed service capable network: external internet nextgentcp (square waveform) tcp friendly san: Various techniques of simple modifications to TCP/IP protocol and other susceptible protocols and related network's switches/routers configurations, are presented for immediate ready implementations over external Internet of virtually congestion free guaranteed service capable network, without requiring use of existing QoS/MPLS techniques nor requiring any of the switches/routers softwares within the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080037423 - Mapping off-network traffic to an administered network: Traffic flows through an administered network from an off-network source and/or to an off-network destination are simulated and analyzed by selecting an ingress and/or egress node within the administered network, the ingress node capable of collecting traffic from an off-network source, and the egress node capable of routing traffic to... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080037421 - State transitions in flow control protocol: A method and system for transitioning a flow control protocol (FCP) in an access terminal (AT-FCP) from an Open state to a Close state when a transmission-off response (XoffResponse) message gets lost during a transmission, the method and system comprising sending a first transmission-off request (XoffRequest) message by the AT-FCP,... Agent: L. Howard Chen, Esq. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20080037422 - 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

20080037424 - Method and system to aggregate evaluation of at least one metric across a plurality of resources: A method to aggregate evaluation of at least one metric across a plurality of resources may include determining an aggregate evaluation of a selected metric for a group of resources of the plurality of resources. The method may also include adjusting the aggregate evaluation of the selected metric in response... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20080037426 - Network system of recovering routing information: When protection processing is applied after a fault in the optical switching unit while the path control unit is restarting. In network systems comprising a path control unit for setting the paths, and a data transmission unit coupled to the path control unit; the data transmission unit changes the path... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080037425 - Control plane to data plane binding: Binding a control plane to a data plane is disclosed. Binding includes receiving a request to initiate a session, wherein the request is sent via a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based protocol and transmitting a set of one or more service parameters associated with the request to an edge node configured... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080037427 - Estimating bandwidth: The present invention resides in a method of transmitting data packets between a first node coupled to be in communication with a first network and a second node coupled to be in communication with a second network, the first network and the second network coupled to be in communication with... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20080037429 - Method for dropping lower priority packets that are slated for wireless transmission: A method for dropping lower priority packets for transmission over a wireless communication medium is provided. A central device receives one or more packets to be transferred to one or more data providers, each packet having a priority. Then, based on the priority, a media access controller stores each of... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080037428 - Methods and structures for improved buffer management and dynamic adaptation of flow control status in high-speed communication networks: Methods and structure for standardized, high-speed serial communication to reduce memory capacity requirements within receiving elements of a high-speed serial communication channel. In an exemplary SPI compliant embodiment of the invention, the semantic meaning of the STARVING, HUNGRY and SATISFIED flow control states is modified to allow the transmitting and... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080037430 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for hairpin condition elimination in a telecommunications network: Methods, systems, and computer program products for hairpin condition elimination in a telecommunications network are disclosed. A method is disclosed herein for eliminating a hairpin condition at a network node. According to one method, a first and second call leg, each using packet processing resources in a bearer node, are... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080037432 - Organizing, displaying, and/or manipulating network traffic data: A system for analyzing network activity by displaying in a first portion of a display, network objects according to an activity characteristic, receiving a selection of one or more of the network objects, and displaying in a second portion of the display, a further activity characteristic of the selected network... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20080037431 - Method and apparatus for wireless communication in a mesh network with trackable randomized schedule: A method and apparatus for communication in a wireless sensor network. In one embodiment, one or more routers in a network may be available for communication with one or more star nodes at a randomized time and/or frequency. A connectivity assessment, which may be performed at several different frequencies and/or... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080037433 - Detection of whether a user is in peril and situational awareness enhancement: A method for determining whether a user having a communications device has encountered a perilous situation includes detecting a sound with the communications device and determining whether the sound is indicative of the perilous situation. The method generates a query with the communications device for the user when the sound... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080037434 - Modeling of residue errors using models that adapt on the basis of link quality indicators: A method is provided for adapting models on the basis of link quality indicators. A plurality of statistical models which predict whether a given data bit in a stream of data bits is in error are first defined, where each model includes an indicator of bit errors in the bit... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080037435 - Method and device arrangement for debugging telecommunication network connections: The invention relates to a method, measurement arrangement, analyser and analyser program for debugging transmission failures in a telecommunication network. In the method, the analyser utilizes both internal events of a telecommunication component and signalling messages transmitted in the telecommunication network. Internal events and external signalling messages are combined or... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080037436 - Method and system for detecting link failure between nodes in a hybrid network: A method for detecting link failures between nodes in hybrid networks includes: establishing sub-BFD connections between nodes and edge nodes and establishing an end-to-end BFD connection. When a failure occurs in the sub-BFD connection of IP network segment, notify a peer node of the failure via the end-to-end BFD connection.... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080037438 - Content delivery system for digital object: A network and method for the delivery of digital data is disclosed having at least one peer (102a) downloading the digital data from a plurality of data sources (102, 312), at least one data monitoring device (800) for monitoring at least one quality of service parameter for the delivery of... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080037437 - Bearer selection method and apparatus: Bearer attribute information (20) indicating at least one bearer usable by an application and the priority of the bearer is compared with the characteristic information (21) of a communication terminal, thereby generating a bearer list (23) including, of bearers of the bearer attribute information, bearers usable by the communication terminal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080037439 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for compensating for interference: A method and apparatus which determine the minimum transmission power level of an access point (AP) for reliably communicating with at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) in a wireless communication system. The apparatus obtains the range of the AP and estimates the interference to the AP by executing a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080037440 - Detecting voice over internet protocol traffic: A method of detecting voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) traffic utilizes filtering criteria based on assumed packet header information. In a disclosed example, a combination of filtering criteria is based upon an assumption that VoIP traffic will be transported using the Real time Transport Protocol (RTP). In one example, if... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20080037444 - Ad-hoc simple configuration: A protocol governing the operation of an ad-hoc WLAN enables each device in the WLAN to be configured as a registrar and/or an enrollee. Accordingly, each device is configurable to support both the registrar as well as enrollee modes of operations. In response to a time-driven user action, the device... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/marvell

20080037442 - Content distribution tracking through wireless mesh networks: A distribution of a content selection being distributed throughout a wireless mesh network may be tracked. A wireless device in the wireless mesh network enables the content selection to be exchanged. Wireless devices then exchange the content, and a network topology is recorded in response. Finally, the network topology is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080037443 - Method and system for automated call troubleshooting and resolution: A method and apparatus for call quality troubleshooting and mitigation may include polling network communication path elements to determine network performance data, receiving a call quality alert from at least one communication unit, the call quality alert indicating degraded call quality of a call session, and analyzing the network performance... Agent: Alan M. Weisberg Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20080037441 - Methods and apparatus for prevention of excessive control message traffic in a digital networking system: Methods and apparatus for use with an integrated circuit device of a processing device of a network node of a digital networking system, configured to monitor one or more control messages received at the processing device from each of a plurality of CPE devices, and limiting the one or more... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080037445 - Switch name, ip address, and hardware serial number as part of the topology database: A switch of a network. The switch includes a topology database having configuration information. The switch includes a mechanism for sending the configuration information from the topology database to the network and for receiving configuration information from the network and storing it in the topology database. A telecommunications system. A... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Attorney At Law

20080037446 - Facilitating connection to a conference call: In one embodiment, a user can send a message to all available, scheduled participants in a conference call by pressing a conference notification softkey. When this conference notification softkey is pressed, a message concerning the conference call appears on the display screen of the available scheduled participants. The available scheduled... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080037447 - Sip out-of-dialog refer mechanism for handoff between front-end and back-end services: In one embodiment, a method includes steps of verifying, by a first server, that a user associated with an endpoint is authorized to access a service provided by a second server. The first server then sends a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) out-of-dialog REFER with a Replaces header to the second... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080037448 - Establishing a floor grant in a push-to-talk over cellular communication network: A method and system establishing a floor grant in a Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) communication network includes a first step of initiating a PoC session. A next step includes associating a floor grant parameter with the PoC session. A next step includes determining the floor grant parameter associated with the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080037449 - Method and system for power control during the traffic channel initialization period in a cdma network: A method and system of controlling transmit power of a forward link signal between a basestation and a mobile device in a communications network, the method comprising the steps of: sending a first signal from the basestation to the mobile device, the first signal having a first signal transmit power;... Agent: Scheef & Stone, L.L.P.

20080037450 - Information processing apparatus and communication apparatus: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and a communication apparatus for accurately recognizing at the base station the current receiving quality of the mobile terminals for improving the throughput of the base station. A mobile terminal 61 determines its own receiving quality based on the signal received... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080037451 - Neutralization of acoustic echo cancellation in presence of signal clipping: A method and a system for implementing echo cancellation. The method (300, 400) can include, on a first communication device (200), generating an acoustic signal (130) corresponding to an audio signal (110) received from a second communication device. Responsive to receiving a portion of the acoustic signal and detecting it... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20080037453 - Systems and methods for facilitating communication between transceivers using different protocols: Systems and methods are provided for communicating data content using different protocols. The systems and methods may include intercepting a transmission from a first transceiver containing a first data content, using a first protocol. The first protocol may be identified and an assessment made whether the first protocol is compatible... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080037455 - 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

20080037454 - Method and apparatus for wireless communication in a mesh network with software downloaded to nodes: A method and apparatus for communication in a wireless sensor network. In one embodiment, one or more routers in a network may be available for communication with one or more star nodes at a randomized time and/or frequency. A connectivity assessment, which may be performed at several different frequencies and/or... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080037452 - Method supplying content to a device: A method of delivering content updates for user interfaces to devices is disclosed. The content data comprises metadata that determines how upgrades to the content data is delivered, for example locations of the updates, the frequency at which updates are accessed, etc. The metadata may also locate a further data... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080037456 - System of establishing voip connection by mobile phone: A system of establishing a VoIP connection has a network device linking to Internet and building at least one VoIP connection software, a mobile phone having a blue tooth device and an antenna adapted to link to a base station, and a blue tooth headset linked to the blue tooth... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080037457 - Relay apparatus, relay method, and relay program: A relay apparatus 1 includes: a priority table 14 for storing a higher priority transmission identifier and transmission condition data; a bandwidth management part 12 for determining whether or not a received transmission identifier should be recorded in the priority table 14 as a higher priority transmission identifier; a priority... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080037458 - Dynamic adjustment of frame detection sensitivity in wireless devices: Methods and apparatuses for dynamically adjusting the sensitivity of a receiver for detecting air frames destined for the receiver may generally include determining a number of false frames previously detected by a wireless receiver in a period of time and adjusting a threshold to be compared with correlation output used... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080037460 - Broadband wireless access network and method for providing multicast broadcast services within multicast broadcast service zones: Embodiments of a wireless access network and method for providing multicast broadcast services within multicast broadcast service zones are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, a multicast broadcast service controller within a network gateway creates a multicast broadcast service zone of base stations... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080037459 - Enabling dynamic registration of mobile stations at an access network in a high data rate wireless network: A method and an apparatus are provided for obtaining dynamic registration by at least one mobile station to an access network in a high data rate wireless network. The method may include reporting location information of the at least one mobile station to the access network based on strength of... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080037463 - Qos enhancements on the access channel: A method comprising modifying a plurality of access channel (AC) probe parameters using a plurality of intra-user service classes, and accessing an AC using the modified AC probe parameters. The disclosure includes a communications component comprising a processor configured to implement a method comprising recognizing a registration request from an... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080037462 - Wireless station and method for controlling wireless station: A wireless station communicates with a plurality of wireless apparatuses by air and connects to other wireless stations via a network. The wireless station creates a supplementary table in which wireless apparatuses are associated with corresponding wireless stations on the basis of the status of wireless apparatuses that are connecting... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080037461 - System and method for managing communication interoperability switches: A method and system (100) can automatically configure a communication interoperability switch (10) and communication devices associated with the switch (10) to support first responder agency communications based on the type of event for which response is required and the jurisdictions in which the event occurs. The method and system... Agent: Tiffany & Bosco Camelback Esplanade Ii, Third Floor

20080037465 - System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having acknowledgement (ack) frames: A wireless communication system and method for wireless communication are disclosed. One embodiment of the system includes a wireless communication device. The device includes a receiver configured to receive a data packet via a channel. The device further includes a transmitter configured to send an acknowledgment (ACK) signal via a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080037466 - System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having acknowledgment (ack) frames: A system and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video data are disclosed. One embodiment of the system includes a wireless communication device. The device includes a receiver configured to receive a data packet, and a transmitter configured to send an acknowledgment (ACK) signal upon receiving a data packet. The... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080037464 - Method of allocating resource in base station: A base station using multiple antennas receives channel quality information from a terminal so as to allocate uplink/downlink resources to the terminal. Herein, the channel quality information is measured on the basis of a downlink preamble or pilot signal, and may include a received CINR or received signal strength. In... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080037467 - Wireless local area network apparatus: A wireless local area network apparatus includes a transmitter and a receiver in which operation of the receiver is accurately synchronized with periodic signals from the transmitter. The periodic signals contain timing data indicating the state of a timer in the transmitter at the time the signal containing that data... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20080037468 - Direct user plane tunnel delivery of broadcast and multicast traffic: The establishment and reception of a service, such as a multimedia service, over different networks is described. A first and second network coupled by a home gateway may respectively employ first and second radio access technologies. An interface between the radio access technologies may communicate downlink channel setup requests. Uplink... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080037469 - Handoff method in a wireless lan in the presence of a radar signal: A wireless local area communications network that includes one or more access points each of which may have associated wireless communications devices in communication with it over a plurality of channels, some of which may be shared with a radar signal. The wireless communications devices are able to roam from... Agent: Robert C. Schluer

20080037470 - Hand over method for dual band/dual mode mobile communication terminal: The handover method includes the steps of the base stations of the synchronous mobile communication network transmitting dummy pilot signals for the asynchronous mobile communication network, the mobile communication terminal, for which call connection with the asynchronous mobile communication network is performed through the asynchronous wireless device, determining whether the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080037471 - Method and apparatus for handing off control of service access over a cable ip network: In a communication network that provides a path through a cable IP network between sending and receiving terminals residing on respective networks (e.g., an HFC, and/or PSTN network) controlled by different network managers or service providers, a controller hands off control of service access of the terminals between the service... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080037473 - Communication device controlled call handoffs between communication networks: Methods, apparatuses, and articles of manufacture for determining, by a first communication device communicatively coupled with a second communication device by a first communication connection of a first communication network, whether to establish a second communication connection of a second communication network to the second communication device, are described herein.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080037472 - Method of providing and receiving multicast and broadcasting service during handover in boadband wireless access system: The present invention discloses a method of providing and receiving an MBS during handover in a broadband wireless access system enabling a mobile subscriber station (MSS) in a handover state to seamlessly receive the MBS. The MSS receives MBS-related information with which at least one neighbor BS provides the MBS... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080037475 - Data rate controller: The present invention provides a data rate controller system for determining the coder used, and hence the data rate, for a plurality of channels in an associated network. Each channel provides statistical information about an associated signal to a central controller (or call/resource manager). The controller considers the information and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080037474 - Mobile station, base station, communication system, and communication method: A mobile station includes a radio link control unit for outputting or inputting data that are transmitted or received via a radio channel to or from a higher-level protocol layer, a media access control unit for outputting or inputting the data via a logical channel to or from the radio... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080037476 - Method to achieve coexistence between centralized tdma mac and a second mac in wireless communication systems: Wireless networks and their method of implementation include a first network and one or more networks. The first network assigns designated time slots to each of the one or more networks during which at least one device of at least one of the networks may communicate with at least one... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080037480 - Broadband wireless access network and method for internet protocol (ip) multicasting: Embodiments of a wireless access network and method for IP multicasting are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, a serving base station receives a dynamic service addition request from a mobile station on a primary management connection identifier (CID) to join an existing... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080037483 - Managing mobility of different communication technologies: The present disclosure includes a system and method for managing wireless devices. In some embodiments, a method includes identifying a mobile device including a cellular technology module configured to communicate with a cellular network using a cellular technology and a broadband technology module configured to communicate with a broadband network... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080037481 - Method and apparatus for mobility management in communication networks: A communication network for use in mobile communications may include at least one mobile device configured to communicate with a corresponding host through the communication network. The communication network may also include a packet data gateway configured to detect an attachment of the mobile device roaming into a wireless local... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080037482 - Method and apparatus for transferring network management information to wireless nodes: Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to providing network management information to wireless access points in a wireless network. In one implementation, a wireless client interrogates a wireless access point for its MAC address, for service set identifier (SSID) information, and/or for authentication-related information. If the wireless client determines that the... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080037477 - Method and system for routing traffic in ad hoc networks: The present invention relates to a method for efficient routing in a multiple hop wireless communication network. The routing method comprise the steps of providing link status information by acquiring link status quality between nodes in the network, updating a routing element (101) with said link status information, determining an... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080037489 - System and method for intelligent media recording and playback on a mobile device: A system and a method for intelligent media recording and playback on a mobile device are provided. The system and the method for intelligent media recording and playback on a mobile device have a transmitter for receiving the media and/or metadata which is associated with the media. The transmitter sends... Agent: Patents+tms, P.C.

20080037479 - System and method for routing and domain name system support of a mobile node: System and method are provided for establishing internet protocol (IP) communication between a mobile node (MN) and one or more mobile networks. The method includes receiving (100) a request from a MN when the MN joins a first mobile network, creating (105) routing information indicating a home address of the... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20080037484 - Access point, access point controller and wireless lan system: The throughput of a network system as a whole is improved in the case where there is a wireless terminal not good in radio wave condition. An AP control device 12 includes a communication portion 27 serving as a unit for transmitting/receiving Ethernet frames, a packet storage portion 25 serving... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080037490 - Apparatus and method for wireless local area networks of different countries: Described are apparatus and methods for adapting a mobile unit to communication requirements of a particular country or geographic region. A wireless local area network communications system may include access points and remote terminals. Remote terminals may use country-specific information in messages from an access point to adapt to the... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080037494 - Cell change in a communication system: The invention provides a method, system, and user equipment for requesting a call in a communication system. When sending a request for setting-up a packet switched call to a first network, a timer is started for waiting for a response to the request. When detecting a change from the first... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080037495 - Efficient piconet formation and maintenance in a bluetooth wireless network: The invention is addressing the problem of efficient formation and maintenance of piconets with assistance from the master of an already existing piconet. The master of an existing piconet initiates the formation of a new helper piconet by at least two of its slaves. One of the slaves of the... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20080037487 - Encoding beacon signals to provide identification in peer-to-peer communication: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate encoding and/or decoding signals utilized to identify a wireless terminal during peer discovery interval(s). Substantially any type of function that constrains encoding and/or decoding within a peer-to-peer network may be utilized. For example, a reversible function may be employed that enables a receiving... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080037491 - Mapping multiple services into a single radio bearer in lte and single tunnel gprs: In a wireless communication system, a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) adapted to bundle a plurality of services into radio access bearer (RAB) in an uplink signal and unbundle a plurality of services from a RAB in a downlink signal. The WTRU is adapted to communicate with a plurality of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080037478 - Method for dynamic address allocation using mobile ip in wireless portable internet system: In the method for dynamic IP allocation using a mobile IP in a wireless portable Internet system, a MAC message used to register a mobile subscriber station contains a flag including a mobile IP version parameter. Upon checking the mobile IP version, the mobile subscriber terminal transmits a mobile IP... Agent: Dilworth & Barrwae

20080037486 - Methods and apparatus managing access to virtual private network for portable devices without vpn client: A portable communications device advantageously can access an enterprise network through a Virtual Private Network link without the need for a VPN client. To accomplish communications, the portable communications device establishes a communication link with a wireless access point using one or several well-known secure wireless protocols. The wireless access... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20080037492 - Network control apparatus, wireless terminal and communication control method: A wireless control apparatus which performs a wireless communication with a plurality of wireless terminals, comprising: an evaluation signal receiver configured to receive evaluation signals relating to received signals in the respective wireless terminals, which are transmitted from the plurality of wireless terminals; a supplement signal deciding unit which decides... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080037485 - System and method for adaptively controlling a network of distributed devices: The present invention provide apparatus, systems and/or methods for use in controlling a distributed network of main powered devices and battery powered devices. The devices control the operation of one or more appliances. In one embodiment, an adaptive network comprises a main powered device, a battery powered device and a... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080037493 - System and method for servicing communications using both fixed and mobile wireless networks: Mobile wireless device(s) roam within and between premises and a vehicle or other mobile platform and interface to wireless local area networks within the premises or vehicle. When using the intra-vehicular network, a communication relay within the vehicle routes communications from the wireless device to a wide area wireless network... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080037488 - Wireless communication system: A network controller for facilitating roaming of a mobile wireless communications device between access points communicates with at least one access point over a wired network which, in turn, communicate with a mobile wireless communications device over a wireless network. The network controller includes a data processing system including a... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080037496 - Apparatus and method for automatic repeat request with reduced resource allocation overhead in a wireless voip communication system: A base station (103) assigns a set of mobile stations (101) to a group wherein the group will share a set of radio resources (770). A shared control channel information element (501) is sent to the group of mobile stations (101) and provides a bitmap having fields for group ordering... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080037497 - Radio station site in a telecommunications network: A method for selecting a subset of sites within a set of candidate sites for activating one or more radio stations of a telecommunications network includes building an initial solution of a subset of sites starting from a network configuration having the whole set of active candidate sites; and optimising... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080037500 - Access terminal conditionally opening a data session: The access terminal is configured to wirelessly send to a data system a request that the data system assign an access terminal identifier (ATI) to the access terminal. The access terminal delays transmission of the request until after a user of the access terminal has employed the access terminal to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080037502 - Communication terminal device, base station, and communication method: In a communication terminal that performs bidirectional communication using different frequencies for transmission and reception, a receiving unit receives reception signals transmitted from the base station, a detecting unit detects the timing of DL when the receiving unit receives the reception signals, an adjusting unit adjusts the timing of UL... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080037501 - Managing mobility of different communication technologies: The present disclosure provides a system and method for managing wireless devices. In some embodiments, a communications network includes a network plane having a core network. An access plane includes a radio access network (RAN) and a broadband network. A node is located at an edge of the access plane.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080037499 - Method and system for incentive-based ad hoc networking: A system (100) and method (300) for mesh/ad hoc participation is provided. The method can include providing (310) an incentive to a user operating a device in an ad hoc network and determining (320) network resources associated with providing the incentive. The method can establish a credit system for devices... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20080037503 - Method for selecting multiple customer premises equipments to share a channel in a wireless communications network: A method is proposed for selecting multiple customer premises equipments (CPEs) to share a channel in a wireless communications network. The method includes calculating a correlation between spatial signatures of every two CPEs subscribing to a base transceiver station (BTS) of the wireless communications network, wherein two CPEs constitute channel-sharing... Agent: L. Howard Chen Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP

20080037498 - Optimized tunneling methods in a network: A method for minimizing tunnels in a network, apparatus and computer-readable storage medium having computer readable code stored thereon for programming a computer to perform the method. The method includes the steps of: obtaining state information associated with a first node connected to a mobile network behind a mobile node;... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080037504 - Vehicle management system and method using ecu: Disclosed is a vehicle management system using a wireless network system the system comprising, a WCDMA service unit having a specified ID and obtaining access to a network wirelessly, an ECU system associated with the WCDMA service module for controlling all kinds of interfaces in a vehicle, a service provider... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080037505 - Apparatus and method for allocating resource in broadband wireless communication system: Provided is an apparatus and method for allocating radio resources in a broadband wireless communication system by adaptively grouping the radio resources. In the method, the amount of resources necessary for a transmission of data to a user terminal and the amount of the remaining allocable resources are detected. A... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080037506 - Wireless architecture for a traditional wire-based protocol: Embodiments are described in connection with transferring data traditionally communicated through a wired link over a high-speed wireless link. The disclosed embodiments provide the wired and/or wireless data communication with minimal changes on the existing wired architecture. According to an embodiment is an apparatus for communicating wirelessly over a traditional... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080037507 - Wireless communication device: Existing modems of time division duplex (TDD) type can be utilized without modification to perform a high speed wireless communication with stable communication quality in other frequency bands such as quasi-millimeter to millimeter wave bands. There are included a circulator (11) connected to TDD modems (1, 2) and receives signals... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080037508 - Method and system for improving timing position estimation in wireless communications networks: A method for determining timing positions in a wireless communications system comprises creating a time-domain timing detection window from a preamble of a receiving signal, generating a first vector of correlations between sampling points in the time-domain timing detection window and sampling points of a known preamble, identifying a pivot... Agent: L. Howard Chen Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP

20080037509 - Method and communications node for creation and transmission of user specific dictionary for compression and decompression of messages: A method for exchanging compression/decompression dictionaries, and a communications node, which comprises a client module issuing and receiving messages, a compression/decompression module for compression/decompression of messages issued and received by the client module, a first dictionary for use by the compression/decompression module, and a second dictionary for use by the... Agent: Alex Nicolaescu Ericsson Canada Inc.

20080037510 - Wireless system, wireless communication apparatus and communication method: A wireless communication system complying with a CSMA scheme includes one or more wireless communication apparatuses and a communication terminal that performs communication via the one or more wireless communication apparatuses. Each wireless communication apparatus includes: a transmission buffer configured to store a packet and output the packet according to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080037512 - Multi-channel tdoa system: A wireless network has at least one wireless unit which transmits messages in multiple channels. The messages are synchronously transmitted using a transmit clock signal. The at least one wireless unit starting transmission of the messages at intervals consisting of at least one of one or multiple periods of the... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20080037511 - Supporting coordinated communication services: A communication system includes a decentralized, flat architecture where a plurality of base nodes each include controller capabilities so that a centralized base node such as a radio network controller is not required. At least one of the base nodes acts as an anchor node. The anchor node associates a... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20080037521 - Apparatus and method for end-to-end adaptive frame packing and redundancy in a heterogeneous network environment: A mobile station having a Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol client sends a message proposing a frame packing and frame repeating parameter set (1001). The called client may either accept the proposal or offer a revision (1003). If accepted the VoIP call is established (1009). If a revised proposal is received, it is determined... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080037513 - Call jump system, method & apparatus: A call jump establishes a jump from a call of a traditional telephone carrier established with audio signals. When it is determined that video should be added to the call, a packetized network is connected. The audio and video are transmitted over the packetized network. There is provided standard telephone... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080037517 - Device for and method of terminating a voip call: The invention relates to the field of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and more specifically to a system and method of terminating a VoIP call. In certain exemplary embodiments, the present solution provides in a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) network, a method of terminating a call received from a... Agent: Kirby Eades Gale Baker

20080037516 - Gateway providing third party call control: In one embodiment, a gateway orchestrates a call between an IP device and a PSTN device. As a result, third party call control features such as Click-to-Dial together with various call features in operator services and conferencing service are available for the call with the PSTN device.... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080037519 - Ip cellular phone with a remote function for controlling a briefing system in a personal computer: An IP cellular phone with a remote function for controlling a briefing system in a personal computer includes a CPU disposed therein. The CPU is electrically connected to a dial module, a voice control module, a remote control module, a trackball module, a laser project module and a wireless transmitter/receiver... Agent: G.link Co.,ltd

20080037522 - Method and apparatus for interworking with media fallback: An approach is provided for enabling interworking between a first network domain which does not support downgrading of media compositions, and a second network domain which supports downgrading of media compositions. The call with the first media composition is released and a call with a downgraded second media composition is... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080037518 - Method and apparatus for voice over internet protocol call signaling and media tracing: Various embodiments provide methods and systems operable to receive a VoIP signaling packet, the VoIP signaling packet including information indicative of a request for trace information, to append trace information to the VoIP signaling packet; and to route the VoIP signaling packet with the trace information to a next network... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080037514 - Method, system, and computer program product for controlling a voice over internet protocol (voip) communication session: A method, system, and computer program product for controlling a VoIP communication session is provided. The method includes accessing user-defined settings for a live VoIP communication session representing a first audio stream between at least two parties. The method includes recording the live VoIP communication session resulting in a second... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20080037515 - Network node, method, and mobile terminal for providing voice calls to a mobile terminal in a packet-switched-only network: A network node, method, and mobile terminal for providing circuit-switched (CS) voice calls to a mobile terminal operating in a packet-switched (PS)-only network. A control node such as an EPC node in an SAE/LTE PS-only network is modified to mimic the messaging functionality of a Serving GPRS Service Node (SGSN).... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080037520 - Residential gateway translating call signaling text received with a packet-switched telephony call: A method and apparatus is provided for presenting information associated with a packet-switched telephony call received over a broadband communications network. The method includes receiving a packet-switched telephony call that includes an incoming machine-readable text string incorporated in a signal that conforms to a packet-switched telephony signaling protocol. The incoming... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080037525 - Location-aware application based quality of service (qos) via a broadband access gateway: A system and method supporting access to multimedia information based upon user-defined quality of service criteria is disclosed. A broadband access gateway may coordinate network behavior during the transition of an access device among communication pathways having different available capacities. Adjustments in bit rates and levels of compression may be... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080037526 - Method for fault detect, report, and maintenance negotiation control of multi-segment pseudo wire: A method for fault detect, report and maintenance negotiation control of the multi-segment pseudo wire. The method of detect is that an end-to-end detection message which is transmitted by a source node is transparently transmitted by a switching node to an ultimate node, thereby realizing the end-to-end detection. The method... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080037523 - Pots extender for voice fallback in a subscriber line: A full services access multiplexer is described. A master DSL modem is coupled to a conductor pair. A POTS extender is coupled to the conductor pair and may sense the operation of a fallback or other signal on the conductor pair. A suppression signal may be transmitted to the master... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080037524 - Remote control telephone dialing system and method: An apparatus for allowing a calling party to initiate a telephone call from an Internet-enabled device. The apparatus includes a server for receiving an originating telephone number and a destination telephone number in response to a command from the Internet-enabled device, for generating a call request, and for transmitting the... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080037527 - Peer-to-peer interactive media-on-demand: A scalable Media-on-Demand (MoD) method to a large group of users in the Internet. This method makes use of peer buffering capabilities to collaborate in the distribution and downloading of media, facilitated by a central repository for the search of optimal peers as parent nodes to connect to and for... Agent: Groover & Associates

20080037529 - Message delivery and playback: Messages can be delivered to end-user communication devices for playback to users of the end-user communication devices during call progress events by selecting messages to deliver and delivering the selected messages to the end-user communication device, where the end-user communication device stores the messages and plays back the stored messages... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080037530 - Method for automatic address allocation to a communication partner and a communication partner: There is described a method for automatic address allocation to at least one communication partner encompassed by a network, whereby a primary communication partner likewise encompassed by the network transfers a data item to the, or one of the, communication partner(s) and whereby the communication partner in question performs a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080037528 - Persistent confirmed configuration method: The invention relates to systems and methods for remote configuration updating of network elements. One of the features of the invention being the classification of configuration changes/updates to the equipment. Depending on the class of the configuration change it is handled in a different way, i.e. non-volatile storage directly or... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080037531 - Cascade system for network units: A network stack includes a plurality of network units each of which includes a multiplicity of ports for receiving and forwarding addressed data packets, at least two cascade ports and a switching engine for forwarding received packets to at least one port in accordance with address data in the packets... Agent: 3com Corporation

20080037533 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for associating independent legs of a call in a telecommunications network: Methods, systems, and computer program products for making call association across elements of a converged network are disclosed. A method is disclosed herein for associating independent legs of a call at a network node. According to one method, a first signaling message for setting up a first call leg is... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080037534 - Push-type telecommunications accompanied by a telephone call: Method for Solution: When each telephone caller uses a telephone (including a cellular telephone), the computer connects the public Internet network and the Telecommunications with the exclusive software carried at each device, and the server performs Push-Type Telecommunications on the network, with which any information that is selected and transmitted... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20080037532 - Managing service levels on a shared network: Devices and methods for modeling and analysis of services provided over a common network include a processor configured to track services connected to the common network through nodes and links; run service models associated with the services under selected conditions, the selected conditions including failure and repair of one of... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20080037538 - Method and system for a pendant bus protocol: A communication protocol for use between serially chained portable pendant peripherals and a portable host device. The bus communications system protocol enables multiple low power input/output peripherals to communicate over a bi-directional data line with a portable host device such as a PDA or cellular phone. A message packet data... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080037537 - Method and system for traversing network address translation or firewall device: The present invention discloses a method for traversing Network Address Translation (NAT) or Firewall (FW) devices, including: setting up a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) tunnel between a first device and a second device, wherein the first device and the second device are on the two sides of the NAT or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080037536 - System and method for determining the geographic location of internet hosts: A system and methodologies are disclosed for determining the geographic location of an Internet host. A first method infers host location based on the DNS names of the host of interest or other nearby network nodes. A second method employs network delay measurements from geographically distributed locations to triangulate the... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080037535 - Tdma passive optical network olt system for broadcast service: Provided is a TDMA (time division multiple access) PON (passive optical network) OLT (optical line terminal) system for a broadcast service, including packet processor determining information according to types of frames (unicast, multicast, and broadcast frames) and a switch output port using header information (an IP address of a packet... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080037544 - Device and method for relaying packets: Computing process with a computational expression is executed using seed information including at least one of destination information and source information associated with a received packet. It is preferable to select a physical port for transmission of the received packet based on the result of the computation. It is also... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080037540 - Method and apparatus of fixed size mac header with an extension in wirelesshd: A data structure of a MAC header for a WirelessHD communication system including an application layer, a media access controller (MAC) layer, and a physical (PHY) layer, includes, a payload data packet from the application layer; a MAC header of a fixed length; a MAC header extension of a variable... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080037539 - Method and system for classifying packets in a network based on meta rules: In one embodiment, a packet in a network is classified. A header of the packet includes various fields. Single-dimensional lookups are performed for each header field, based on a plurality of packet-classification rules. The results obtained from the single-dimensional lookups are merged to obtain a Resultant Bit Vector (RBV). Thereafter,... Agent: Craig E. Shinners Law Office Of Craig E. Shinners

20080037546 - Device for flow classifying and packet forwarding device with flow classify function: A flow classifier having a flow CAM having plural flow entries, a search key generator for generating a search key of a format which differs by a flow condition, and a table holding a flow search result corresponding to an address of respective flow entry of CAM, in which access... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080037542 - Method and apparatus for classifying ip data: A method and methodology are provided for classifying Internet Protocol (IP) data in a packet switch network. Data may be received at a first node and classified based on source routing information of said data. The source routing information may be provided within LSRR/SSRR of IPv4 data or may be... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080037541 - Method and apparatus for distributed data transfer over multiple independent wireless networks: The present invention provides for methods and apparatus for fragmenting a single message and sending the message fragments over multiple independent networks to a single receiving unit. The receiving unit then reassembles the message fragments to generate the original message. The preferred apparatus embodiment is a wireless radio frequency modem... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080037545 - Method for hardware payload header suppression, expansion, and verification in a wireless network: The present invention provides methods for performing payload header suppression (PHS), expansion, and verification in hardware. A PHS verify circuit reads a data packet until it reaches the location where the first byte must be compared to PHS rule verify bytes. Next, all the relevant bytes in the payload header... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080037543 - System for a generalized packet header suppression mechanism using a wireless communications medium: A system for reducing the bandwidth required to wirelessly transmit a packet via a wireless network is provided. In an embodiment, the system includes a transmitting node configured to generate a packet to be transmitted via the wireless network, to select a suppression rule from a table of suppression rules... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080037547 - Method for segmenting and reassembling packet based on tree structure, and method for transmitting/receiving packet using the same: Provided is a method of segmenting a packet using a tree structure in order to reduce headers in the packet when the packet is transmitted or received in a wireless communication system using an adaptive modulation and coding (AMC), and a method of transmitting/receiving a packet using the same. The... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080037548 - Packet data service in radio communication system: Disclosed are a method and a device for offering a packet data service during to a handover of a user terminal from one radio network controller to another. To avoid the loss of data during SRNS relocation, there is provided a method for checking the validity of the next expected... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080037552 - Methods and systems for providing quality of service in packet-based core transport networks: In the event of a violation of certain link threshold settings, dynamic adjustment of the bandwidth management policies on affected Access Controllers is enforced. Various algorithms in determining the correlation between the link nearing congestion and the source or destination of traffic streams are also discussed. This invention implements a... Agent: Rene Maria B. Dos Remedios

20080037549 - System and process for qos-based packet scheduling:

20080037550 - Two-dimensional pipelined scheduling technique: A scheduler allowing high-speed scheduling scalable with the number of input and output ports of a crosspoint switch and suppressed unfairness among inputs is disclosed. The scheduler includes an M×M matrix of scheduling modules, each of which schedules packet forwarding connections from a corresponding input group of input ports to... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20080037553 - Systems and methods for allocating bandwidth to ports in a computer network: A system and a method for allocating bandwidth to ports in a computer network are provided. The method includes generating a default global parameter template having a first set of control parameters that indicate a first desired allocation of bandwidth for queues associated with each port of a plurality of... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080037554 - Communication device having a cost saving operation mode: A method (200) for communicating messages (170, 175). A priority level can be associated with a message, and a time in which to communicate the message can be automatically selected based on the associated priority level and a communication rate plan (165). The message can be automatically communicated at the... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20080037555 - Completion coalescing by tcp receiver: A method and system for completion coalescing by a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) receiver (e.g., in a TCP/IP offload engine (TOE)). The method comprises: processing inbound TCP segments; and performing completion processing of received TCP ACKS and/or RDMA Read Requests independently of the processing of the inbound TCP segments.... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080037556 - Method for upstream priority lookup at physical interface within a wireless device: A traffic prioritization system and method performs a coarse classification of upstream bursts at the physical interface of a wireless communications device. The wireless device monitors and controls communications with a plurality of remote wireless communications devices throughout a widely distributed network, including the Internet. The traffic prioritization system includes... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080037551 - Zapping stream generating apparatus and method: The zapping stream is transmitted in the same band as the time slice, and therefore the consumption of the transmission band is desirably suppressed to not more than a predetermined amount as far as possible. After restoring the contents from the high-quality contents stream, a specified portion corrected in timing... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080037558 - Access network system and subscriber data route control method: There is disclosed an access network system capable of improving throughput even when a single relay device is arranged for different communication routes between an ISP device and a plurality of subscriber terminal devices. In this system, each of the subscribers (111 to 114) and relay stations (105) sets a... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080037559 - Arrangements for connection-oriented transport in a packet switched communications network: The present invention relates to a control system and communications systems that make it possible to transport traffic in a connection-oriented mode using the network infrastructure (30) and hardware of a traditionally connectionless network (34). According to the invention a traditionally connectionless network is complemented with a connection-oriented control plane... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080037557 - Vpn getaway device and hosting system: A VPN gateway (A11) includes a WAN interface (A111) for exchanging packets with client nodes (C1, C2, D1, D2) via IPsec tunnels (B11-B14) set on the WAN side, a LAN interface (A112) for exchanging packets with server nodes (A131-A136) connected to the LAN side, a session relay unit (A114) for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080037560 - Solution for routing scheme in wireless communication: The present invention proposes a routing method performed by a mobile terminal in wireless communication systems, comprising: (i) receiving route probing signals to the destination mobile terminal from another mobile terminal; (ii) calculating the route cost to the destination mobile terminal via said mobile terminal according to said route probing... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080037562 - Method for routing information over a network employing centralized control: A method and apparatus for centralized control of a network is described. The network includes a number of nodes. The method includes creating a database and storing the database on a master node of the network. The database contains topology information regarding a topology of the network. Each of the... Agent: Samuel G. Campbell Iii Skjerven Morrill Macpherson LLP

20080037561 - Method for transmitting layer 2 packet and access device thereof: A method for Layer 2 packet transmission is disclosed, wherein a corresponding relationship between packet attribute information and public MAC addresses is configured in an access device such that the access device could find a corresponding public MAC address in the corresponding relationship when receiving a packet from a user... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080037566 - Interworking control between different communication parties: An interworking control mechanism for a communication connection between at least two parties located in different networks provides the following functions: a parameter may be added in a signalling towards one party, which interprets the parameter and shows/indicates a message to the user that a media composition change is not... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080037565 - Messaging systems and methods: Apparatus, methods, and machine-readable articles of manufacture improve reliability and scalability of a messaging system. In some embodiments, the system's configuration data and subscriber information are stored in a central repository of a core node, and replicated to one or more non-core nodes. Data replication may be performed in real-time... Agent: Anatoly S. Weiser

20080037563 - Method and apparatus for automatically detecting and configuring service ports of an optical network terminal (ont): A method and corresponding apparatus is provided for automatically configuring a Network Interface Device (NID). The NID enables automatic detection of communications on multiple service ports. When the NID detects communications, it configures at least one of the multiple service ports and informs the supervisory unit of the service port(s)... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080037567 - Method and apparatus for guaranteeing quality of service in a residential ethernet system: A method and apparatus for ensuring QoS in a synchronous Ethernet bridge are disclosed, in which a classifier classifies an ingress packet according to a PHB mapped to a DSCP value of the packet and provides the classified packet to one of a predetermined synchronous packet queue and a predetermined... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080037564 - Network device and method for starting v5 connection thereof: An access node connected to a local exchange is provided, the access node including a V5 interface, a first timer and a first detection module. The V5 interface starts a V5 connection between the access node and the local exchange. The first timer times according to a first timing period... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080037568 - Method and apparatus for translating data packets from one network protocol to another: A method for translating data packets from one network protocol to another is disclosed. A set of translation templates is constructed. The translation templates are then loaded into a translation template cache. In response to a data packet from a first network arriving at a translation router, an appropriate translation... Agent: Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P.

20080037570 - Power saving method and apparatus using multiple channels in a mesh network: A power saving method and apparatus are provided for saving power by reducing the number of changes between active mode and sleep mode using multiple channels. A process for negotiating which of multiple channels will be assigned a transmission opportunity (TXOP) is performed. A TXOP MAP is configured by exchanging... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080037569 - Method and apparatus for wireless communication in a mesh network using software proxies: A method and apparatus for communication in a wireless sensor network. In one embodiment, one or more routers in a network may be available for communication with one or more star nodes at a randomized time and/or frequency. A connectivity assessment, which may be performed at several different frequencies and/or... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080037571 - Distributed network system with hierarchical management of resources: Network devices of a digital network for communication between a plurality of devices have a source for transmitting data into the network, and sinks for receiving data from the network. Managers (logical controllers) to which priorities are assigned in a hierarchical order manage connections between sources and sinks. Before setting... Agent: Daffer Mcdaniel LLP

20080037573 - Method and apparatus for encoding and distributing media data: A method and apparatus for encoding and distributing media signals comprising a module for receiving and distributing media data through a communications network, wherein the module performs an encoding process in response to a control signal generated by a controller operating in collaboration with the module.... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20080037572 - Differentiated services code point and logical channels: Provided are apparatuses and methods for determining a logical channel for transmission of a data packet in a network. A logical channel may provide a corresponding Quality of Service (QoS). Data traffic may be identified based on class of service (CoS) and each CoS may be handled through a default... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080037574 - Method for securing privacy in automatic answer mode of push-to service: A method of securing an invited Push-To (PT) user's privacy in an automatic answer mode of a PT service is discussed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for performing a PT (Push-To) service setting procedure, includes transmitting PT service setting information of a PT client to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080037575 - System, method, and computer program product for scheduling burst profile changes based on minislot count: A system and method are presented for changing physical layer (PHY) parameters in a PHY device of a communications system. New parameters are written to a first-in first-out queue in a serial interface, while the scheduled time for the changeover is written to a control register in the serial interface.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080037576 - Media broadcast over an internet protocol (ip) network: A multimedia communication system in an Internet Protocol (IP) network includes broadcast capabilities. A system-wide emergency broadcast initiated by a user with the appropriate authority interrupts all teleconferences in progress. A group-wide high priority broadcast initiated by a user with the appropriate authority may interrupt some teleconferences in progress in... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080037577 - Inter-vehicle communication apparatus and method capable of detecting packet collision: In inter-vehicle communication, a communication apparatus may not normally receive a packet having a sufficient reception power level. Under such circumstances, a control circuit in the apparatus determines that the received packet has collided with other packet if a condition is met that a time period for a receiver circuit... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080037579 - Network adapter: The present invention discloses a network adapter which can allow an electric device which does not have a networking function to access various networks and perform a control operation. The network adapter includes a first interface for sending a sound/image signal to one electric device, a second interface for receiving... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20080037578 - Apparatus and methods for incorporating bandwidth forecasting and dynamic bandwidth allocation into a broadband communication system: A method for providing network access to a shared access communications medium for a plurality of users includes the steps of conducting predictive admission control by arbitrating user requests for access to the shared medium based on predicted aggregate demands, conducting lookahead scheduling for use in making user channel assignments... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20080037580 - System for disambiguating voice collisions: In one embodiment, techniques for processing voice collisions are provided. A voice collision of two or more voice streams associated with two or more speakers is determined. The voice collision of the two or more voice streams is dynamically disambiguated. The two or more voice streams are then rendered such... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080037581 - Transmission apparatus: The present invention provides a transmission apparatus including transmitting side line interfaces which convert packet format data sent from an asynchronous network to a SONET/SDH frame format and then transmit the data, multiple receiving side line interfaces which receive the SONET/SDH frame format data and convert the data to packet... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080037582 - System and method for message converting: A message converting method is disclosed, including: recognizing a type of a received message, sending the message to a message parsing module matching the type of the message; acquiring recipient information and the content of the message carried in the message; selecting an destination communication manner supporting the content of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080037583 - Unified management policy for multiple format electronic communications: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for applying unified management policies to monitor, store, search and otherwise manage electronic communications, no matter what format those electronic communications take. Such unified management policy or policies are based on an integrated true identity of a user, typically a person. In one embodiment,... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080037584 - Multimode xdsl line card adaptive activation method and its system: This invention presents a multimode xDSL line card adaptive activation method, comprising the following steps: A) A master controller is installed and configured with multiple templates based on the modes of operation supported by a line card, and forwards templates to said line card; B) The line card receives templates... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080037585 - Interface and related methods for rate pacing in an ethernet architecture: An interface and related methods for rate pacing in an Ethernet architecture are described herein.... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate

20080037586 - One-to-one relationship between nsapi and user-data sapi: A communication interface and a method for establishing the communication interface for communications between a mobile station and a serving network node over a Gb interface in a GSM network are described herein. The communication interface comprises control logic, a network layer having a plurality of NSAPIs, and a link... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080037587 - Device, system and method for analysis of fragments in a transmission control protocol (tcp) session: A method performed in an intrusion detection/prevention system, a system or a device for analyzing segments in a transmission in a communication network. The transmission includes segments in the same transmission control protocol (TCP) session. Segments in a transmission are monitored. Data in the segments in the transmission are reassembled... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080037588 - Radio communication system and method having a radio link control layer: Disclosed are a radio link control (RLC) entity and a data processing method for the RLC entity. The RLC entity includes a transmission data storing module that stores PDUs corresponding to SDUs transmitted from a first upper layer and outputs the stored PDUs by SDU units, a ciphering module that... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080037589 - Home network system and method: A home network, in one embodiment including a home wiring system; a demarcation point unit in electrical communication with the home wiring system; and a home network module in electrical communication with the home wiring system. The home network module is adapted for connection to a home electronic device. The... Agent: Weiss & Arons, LLP

20080037590 - Multiplexer and wireless receiver: A multiplexer includes: a first band-pass filter for a first channel, which is formed in a microstrip line on a dielectric substrate and has a first branching characteristic having a center frequency of f1 and an attenuation pole at a frequency of fa1; and a second band-pass filter for a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080037591 - Data recording and reproducing apparatus: A data recording and reproducing apparatus includes a separation unit configured to separate a program clock reference (PCR) from a received transport stream packet (TS packet), a counter to count system time clocks (STCs) generated corresponding to the clock frequency, a comparison unit configured to compare the PCR with the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080037592 - Transmission device: A transmission device in which a bus of a central processing unit is used to synchronize timing signals between units, thereby restraining enlargement in scale of wiring. A reference signal generator generates a reference signal. A reference signal receiver is mounted on a unit set as an active or standby... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080037593 - Adaptive synchronization of service data: Techniques are disclosed for synchronizing service data between a data store and a device using the service data. These synchronization techniques may be used with a synchronization method and device that adaptively adjust synchronization parameters, such as the synchronization interval and quantity of synchronized data, on a per-end-user basis in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080037594 - Highly integrated, high-speed, low-power serdes and systems: High-speed, high-performance, low-power transponders, serializers and deserializers are disclosed. A transponder may include a transmitter and a receiver. A serializer may include (i) a serdes framer interface (SFI) circuit for receiving data channels and a reference channel from a framer and realigning the data channels, (ii) a clock multiplier unit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080031125 - Apparatus for receiving signals via channels: An apparatus (1) comprising a receiver (20) for receiving signals via channels defined by a channel transfer matrix H and a transmitter (10) is provided with a channel estimator (30) for generating first and second channel estimation information and a correlator estimator (31) for correlating the first and second channel... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080031126 - Mis-matched modulation-demodulation format selectable filters: Modulation-demodulation format selectable (MFS) processor, cross-correlator and transmit filter for processing, cross-correlating and filtering in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband signal and providing a first bit rate and a second bit rate baseband signal to a modulator and a transmitter for modulation and transmission of the processed filtered baseband signal. Transmit amplifier... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20080031127 - System and method for orderwire modulation in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system: Systems and methods for orderwire modulation in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) system are provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises: a host; a plurality of remotes using an orthogonal frequency division multiple access scheme to communicate at the same time with the host; wherein the host sends... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080031128 - Apparatus and method for transmitting uplink data in broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting uplink data by a subscriber station in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a generator for generating a random access message including uplink bandwidth allocation request information when in an idle mode, a processor for determining an uplink bandwidth allocated... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080031129 - Smart ethernet edge networking system: A telecommunications system includes a network for transporting packets on a path between selected subscriber end points. The network has multiple nodes connected by links, with each node (a) pairing the forward and backward paths of a connection and (b) allowing for the injection of messages in the backward direction... Agent: Stephen G. Rudisill Jenkens & Gilchrist, A Professional Corporation

20080031130 - Methods and apparatus for minimizing duplicate traffic during point to multipoint tree switching in a network: A method, apparatus and computer program product for minimizing or preventing duplicate traffic during point to multipoint tree switching in a network. In its operation, embodiments disclosed herein utilize control plane trigger mechanisms to handle the receipt of duplicate traffic by network entities after the occurrence of a network failure... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080031131 - System and method for detecting and regulating congestion in a communications environment: An apparatus for communicating data is provided that includes a cell site element associated with a base transceiver station and operable to receive a plurality of packets associated with a communications flow, the packets including a plurality of subrates. The cell site element is further operable to detect a congestion... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080031132 - Methods for packet network traffic regulation: A method of traffic regulation in a packet communication network involves a token bucket associated with a subscriber. Packets arriving at the regulator are handled in accordance with the token bucket configuration. The method involves measuring a demand placed on the network by the subscriber. The token bucket configuration is... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080031133 - Transmission of time-dependant data: A system and method for dynamically timing the sending of an acknowledgment packet across a network. In one example embodiment, such a method includes determining that a receive data window contains unacknowledged data, determining whether the time since receiving the earliest unacknowledged data packet in the receive data window is... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080031134 - Method, device and software for controlling the data traffic between a first computer network and a second computer network: The method for controlling the data traffic between a first computer network and a second computer network connected to each other through the internet comprises the steps of classifying the data to be transmitted as high and low priority data and of transmitting the high priority data within a pre-fixed... Agent: Ladas & Parry Suite 2100

20080031135 - Method and apparatus for managing services in a communication system: A method and apparatus for managing services in a communication system is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a collection element that receives a plurality of service component definitions associated with a corresponding plurality of services of a communication... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080031136 - Round trip time (rtt) proximity detection testing: The embodiments of the present invention provide for methods, devices, and systems for proximity detection with forced delays within networks providing quality of service. In some embodiments, the size of one or more contention-based access regions is modified.... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, PC

20080031137 - Traffic metering in data networks: Methods and apparatus are provided for metering data packets having a plurality of different packet lengths in a data communications network. A token count TC is incremented at a token increment rate CIR subject to an upper limit CBS on the token count. On arrival of a packet of length... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080031138 - Data communication system: In a data communication system which reduces traffic on a wireless network by reducing Ack responses, on a transmitting side, an Ack request provided within a wireless data frame is validated (turned “ON”) to be transmitted; and an Ack request cycle is extended when an Ack in response to the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080031139 - Sensor network system and data processing method for sensor network: An overload on a communication path in a sensor network system is prevented while transferring information from a sensor node as close to real time as possible. When the transfer rate of events transferred from a boundary node (DR) toward a gateway (GW) exceeds a limit transfer rate (VL), one... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080031140 - Method for calculating hop count of mobile ip in an ip network: Disclosed is a method for calculating a routing cost or a hop count of a mobile IP (Internet Protocol) in an IP network. The IP network can communicate with the MN having a mobile IP and includes a plurality of access routers. If the MN moves to a new access... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080031141 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for monitoring tunneled internet protocol (ip) traffic on a high bandwidth ip network: Methods, systems, and computer program products for monitoring tunneled Internet protocol (IP) traffic on a high bandwidth IP network are disclosed. According to one method, a copy of a tunneled IP packet traversing an IP communications network is generated. The packet may include a payload having tunneled protocol address information.... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080031142 - Channel diagnostic systems and methods: A system includes at least one adaptive filter coupled to a first communication channel and at least one other communications channel. The at least one adaptive filter includes at least one set of adaptive filter coefficients. A memory stores at least one predetermined set of filter coefficient thresholds. The filter... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080031144 - Radio access point testing apparatus: In a case where reception power in a radio access point is high by external noise, the normalcy of the radio access point is tested. In order to judge the normalcy of the radio characteristic of the radio access point, a test is performed through the calling connection between a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080031143 - Voice over internet protocol (voip) quality testing over hybrid fiber/coax (hfc) network: First and second test devices communicatively coupled to a hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) plant are operative for transmitting data packets of a simulated Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone call therebetween without the use of a physical telephone at either test device. Each test device is operative for analyzing data packets... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080031145 - Method and system for initiating a remote trace route: A method for initiating a remote trace route includes establishing a communication session between a first endpoint and a second endpoint. The method also includes detecting at the first endpoint a quality impairment in a communication sent from the second endpoint. In response to detecting the quality impairment, the method... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080031146 - Method and apparatus for measuring label switch path performance parameters using performance monitoring operation and management packet in multi-protocol label switching network: Provided is a method and apparatus for measuring performance parameters of a Label Switch Path (LSP) using an Operation & Maintenance (OAM) performance monitoring packet in a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, and more particularly, a method and apparatus for measuring packet loss, packet transfer delay, and jitter of an... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080031149 - Communications scheduler: A System for providing communications over a communications network includes a communications interface and processor. The communications interface communicates over the communications network. The processor directs a communications scheduler to determine at least one metric for a path within the communications network. The processor also selects a data flow for... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080031152 - Method of measuring variance of data payload in wireless communications system and related apparatus: In order to prevent traffic volume measurement errors, especially variance measurement errors, the present invention provides a method of measuring variance of a data payload in a wireless communications system. The method includes the following steps. Plural variance reference values are predetermined. A variance measurement result related to data payload... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080031147 - Network status determination: In the event of a non-responsive endpoint, a system can determine network health by querying a network agent located on the same subnet or branch of the network. If a response is received from the network agent, a device failure or absence may be assumed. If no response is received... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080031148 - Prevention of protocol imitation in peer-to-peer systems: A method for allocating a resource in a computer network includes accepting from a peer a request to download a data item using a P2P protocol via the computer network from one or more other peers that store the data item, and determining whether the P2P protocol used by the... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080031153 - Testing and monitoring voice over internet protocol (voip) service using instrumented test streams to determine the quality, capacity and utilization of the voip network: The present invention enables testing of a VoIP network using various instrumented test streams. The testing can determine the quality of the transmission network before an internet VoIP service is put into production. The testing also enables regular diagnostic audits of a VoIP network to maintain the quality of the... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20080031151 - Triple play services tester: A portable tester for testing mutual effects of multiple services received via a shared network access link includes service signaling means for simulating user premises devices. In one embodiment, the tester is a triple play services tester supporting three IP addresses at the same time.... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080031150 - Process and device for the wireless transmission of dental process data: A dental apparatus and process for the transmission of dental data by means of a transmitter and a receiver in a wireless manner.... Agent: Dentsply International Inc

20080031156 - Link inference in large networks based on incomplete data: A network is partitioned into a set of independent partitions, and the topology of each partition is determined, then merged to form a topology of the entire network. Preferably, the partitioning is hierarchical, wherein the network is partitioned to form individual VLAN partitions, and each of the VLAN partitions is... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20080031155 - Managing establishment and removal of security associations in a wireless mesh network: Techniques and technologies are provided for managing establishment, maintenance and removal of security associations (SAs) between nodes in an ad hoc network, such as a wireless mesh network.... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20080031157 - Method and system for analyzing the topology of a multiprotocol label switching (mpls)/virtual private network (vpn) network: In general, embodiments of the invention relates to a method for analyzing a topology of a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)/Virtual Private Network (VPN) network. The method includes obtaining logical communication channel information for a plurality of virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) instances, wherein each of the plurality of VRF instances... Agent: Osha . Liang L.L.P. / Slb

20080031154 - Method and system for identifying instability or a spanning tree protocol loop in a network: Methods and systems for identifying instability or a loop in a network. In one method, a first BPDU message is received at a switch indicating a topology change. The message includes a bridge identifier identifying a network device originating the first BPDU message. A second BPDU is generated at the... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20080031158 - Communication network apparatus and method: A communication network apparatus and method for routing communication signals from a source device to a receiving device. The apparatus performs only local processing on communication signals to thereby increase the speed of processing the signals. A plurality of the processing nodes are combined into a plurality of sub-networks that... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080031159 - Changing lte specific anchor with simple tunnel switching: Embodiments of the invention may further provide a method for transferring an LTE anchor in an idle mode. The method includes an MME (control plane entity) initiating an LTE anchor change procedure, the MME first commands the selected new LTE anchor to set up a user plane tunnel towards the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080031160 - Method for allocating paging cycle in mobile communication: A paging method in a broadcast wireless access system, and more particularly, a method of allocating a paging cycle to a mobile subscriber station in idle mode is disclosed, by which various paging cycles can be allocated to mobile subscriber stations in idle mode. In allocating a paging cycle to... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080031161 - Method and system for establishing a conference call between a remote and a local endpoint: The present invention provides a method and a system for establishing a conference call between a first conference endpoint and a second conference endpoint. This is achieved by means of a soft client residing on a portable communication terminal, which is able to receive and initiate calls from/to the first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080031162 - System and method for voice over internet protocol audio conferencing: An embodiment of a conference bridge adapted for voice-over-IP applications has a modular, scalable architecture and establishes and internally relocates conference calls using SIP protocol commands for efficient processing. Further embodiments of the conference bridge support a plurality of conference access numbers. Dialed Number Identification Service groups may be programmed... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080031163 - Method and apparatus for transmitting high rate packet data over underutilized virtual circuits: A method for communicating data in a wireless communications system having a base station communicating to at least one of a plurality of terminals over a set of carrier frequencies, the method comprising periodically monitoring the carrier energy level of each said carrier frequency received at a given terminal to... Agent: H.t. Brendzel, General Attorney At&t Corp.

20080031164 - Method and system for selective usage of broadband forward link: A radio access network has a reverse link frequency band for receiving signals from mobile stations and has first and second forward link frequency bands for transmitting signals to mobile stations. The second forward link frequency band has a greater frequency bandwidth than the first forward link frequency band and... Agent: Sprint

20080031165 - Rs-232 data through a half duplex differential link: RS-232 data flow over a half duplex differential link between a KVM switch and a SCIM, which is attached to a RS-232 serial communication port of a target device. The half duplex differential link is a data communication link of two wires that carry one pair of half duplex differential... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20080031166 - Bidirectional transmission circuit and sending/receiving element: According to the present invention, in order to simultaneously realize high-speed transmission suppressing signal reflection and reduction of power consumption, a bidirectional transmission circuit, in which a plurality of sending/receiving elements send and receive signals via a transmission bus, is constructed so that, when a first sending/receiving element operates as... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080031167 - Single-wire asynchronous serial interface: The present invention discloses a single-wire asynchronous serial interface, and a method for transmitting commands and data through one transmission wire, wherein the transmission wire is capable of transmitting signals of three level states. The disclosed interface comprises a signal level extraction circuit receiving signals transmitted through the wire and... Agent: Tung & Associates

20080031170 - Packet communication system and its communication method, base station, and mobile station: mobile station selection unit which selects a mobile station intended to transmit or receive signals based on a result of multiplying reception quality obtained by reception quality obtaining unit, by weighting coefficient corresponding to location information of a mobile station which is obtained from the location information data base.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080031169 - Systems and methods for voice and video communication over a wireless network: Systems and methods for communicating voice and video over a wireless network. A signal, formatted as Internet protocol (VoIP, IPTV, etc.) data, is received from a device. The signal is adapted for a wireless network and then transmitted to the wireless network. Signals are also received from the wireless network... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080031171 - Method of extracting wap data using mobile identification number: The present invention relates to a method of extracting WAP data using a mobile identification number, which uses a mobile identification number, which is a static factor, so that there is no need to personally inquire of a manager about an IP address assigned to a given mobile station in... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080031168 - Method, system and station for communicating data packets using arq: A system (50) for communicating data packets from a first station (100) to a destination (400) via at least one of a plurality of second stations (200) which are coupled to the destination (400), in which the second stations (200) acknowledge receipt of the data packets. The first station (100)... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080031172 - Conditional scheduling for asynchronous wireless communication: A wireless media access control supports asynchronous communication and overlapping transmissions. Here, a wireless node may determine whether to request or schedule a transmission based on control messages it receives from neighboring nodes. In some implementations a scheduled transmission may be divided up into several segments so that a transmitting... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080031173 - Method and apparatus for transmitting traffic indication message in sleep mode: A method and apparatus for transmitting a Traffic Indication message from a BS to a MSS in Sleep Mode is provided in embodiments of the present invention. The method includes: transmitting, by the BS, a Traffic Indication message to the MSS, and setting a flag in the Traffic Indication message... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080031174 - Relay: A relay for use in a communications network. The relay is configured to receive data from and transmit data to at least one higher level node and receive data from and transmit data to at least one lower level node. The relay includes a processor configured to control the relay... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080031175 - System and method for medium access control in a power-save network: A method and apparatus for accessing, controlling and utilizing a network communication medium. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise a first networked device with power-save capability. The first networked device may acquire control of a communication medium utilizing a medium access protocol, which may be contention-based. The first... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080031177 - Multicast packet transmitting method over wireless communication network and wireless communication network system using the method: A multicast packet transmitting and receiving method over a wireless communication network is provided. The method includes: transmitting a multicast packet from a sender to a plurality of receivers via a wireless channel; receiving the multicast packet at each of the receivers, determining whether a transmission error occurs in the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080031178 - Method and system for controlling transmission of multicast packets over a local area network, related network and computer program product therefor: Transmission of multicast packets over a local area network is controlled by: identifying the condition where only a single receiver exists within the local area network for a given multicast group of packets, and allowing, upon occurrence of that condition, Automatic Repeat Request of the packets multicast towards said single... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080031179 - Method for supporting scalable and reliable multicast in tdma/tdd systems using feedback suppression techniques: A method supports scalable and reliable multicast in a wireless network with a large bandwidth-delay product. In this method, acknowledgement packets from different receivers experiencing the same number of data packets lost are assigned the same time slots. This method can be combined with other loss recovery techniques, such as... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080031176 - Radio communications gateway and radio communications terminal: A mobile telephone 12 acts as a radio communications gateway between a 3G network 10 and a Bluetooth® network 11. A video conference call in the 3G network 10 is relayed over the Bluetooth® network 11 to and from a Bluetooth® enabled laptop Personal Computer (PC) 13, which therefore acts... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080031180 - Frame structure, wireless communication apparatus, and method for assigning the same: A frame structure for an IEEE 802.16j standard, a wireless communication apparatus and a method for assigning the same in a wireless communication system are provided. The wireless communication system comprises a base station (BS), a mobile station (MS), and a relay station (RS). The frame structure comprises an MS... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080031181 - Wireless communication system, method, and tangible machine-readable medium thereof for transmitting data based on a frame structure of a multi-hop relay standard: A wireless communication system, a method, and a tangible machine-readable medium thereof for transmitting data based on a frame structure of a multi-hop relay standard are provided. The wireless communication system comprises a base station (BS), a relay station (RS), and a mobile station (MS). The frame structure comprises a... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080031182 - Relay: A relay for use in a communications network, the relay being arranged receive data from and transmit data to at least one user equipment, wherein the relay includes a processor arranged to process received configuration data from the user equipment and to transmit data to the user equipment in dependence... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080031184 - Bluetooth-based communication system and method: A Bluetooth®-based communication system and method are disclosed. A communication method for a short range wireless communication system includes generating, at a first terminal, a list of second terminals supporting a chat function; establishing at least one asynchronous connectionless link between the first terminal and at least one second terminal;... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080031186 - Low complexity design of primary synchronization sequence for ofdma: The present disclosure provides a base station transmitter, a user equipment receiver and methods of operating a base station transmitter and a user equipment receiver. In one embodiment, the base station transmitter is for use with a cellular communication system and includes a scheduling unit configured to provide a primary... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080031183 - Communication network management method, access router, and mobile communication device: Disclosed is a technique which reduces or omits the time needed for DAD processing solicited when a mobile communication device establishes a connection with a new subnetwork, thereby reducing the packet loss and delay to improve the communication efficiency. According to this technique, in a network in which a plurality... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080031187 - System and method for link quality source routing: Systems and methods for routing packets by nodes in an ad hoc network in accordance with a link quality source routing protocol are disclosed. Route discovery, route maintenance, and metric maintenance are designed to propagate and keep current link quality measurements. Metric maintenance includes a reactive approach for links that... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080031185 - Tracking multiple interface connections by mobile stations: A method and apparatus for communicating between devices is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises allowing a mobile station to have a first connection to a network over a first interface and determining that the mobile station is attempting to have a second connection to the network over a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080031189 - Method and mobile terminal for allocating ip address in wireless network: A method and mobile terminal for allocating an Internet protocol (IP) address in a wireless network. A method of allocating an IP address in a wireless network which is applied to a system including a mobile terminal and an access router (AR) storing IP addresses, which are used on a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080031188 - Multiple access communications over diverse access technologies: The present invention relates to communications. More especially it relates to multiple access communications over diverse access technologies. Particularly it relates to multiple radio access technologies and heterogeneous networks and admission control for multi-technology access, the admission control serving one or more communication sessions over more than one access technology... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080031191 - Shared control channel structure for multi-user mimo resource allocation: An allocation of radio resources is signaled with a multi-user multiple-input-multiple-output MU-MIMO field indicating whether MU-MIMO is enabled in the allocation. The structure of the signal allocating the resources changes depending on whether the MU-MIMO field indicates enabled or not. For downlink signaling, an additional length field indicates a length... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080031190 - Method for resource allocation with rectangular bursts: A method is provided for allocation downlink bursts in a data region of a OFDMA data system, such data region having along one axis thereof increasing logical sub channel numbers and along another axis thereof increasing OFDMA symbol numbers, and wherein the burst are allocated into rectangular shaped sub regions... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080031195 - Apparatus and method for handover of digital broadcasting reception terminal: Disclosed is a method for a handover of a digital broadcasting reception terminal employing a time division multiplexing scheme, which periodically receives broadcast data through each of one or more broadcasting channels provided in a predetermined frequency band, the method including the steps of: when broadcast data of a channel... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080031198 - Bridge-based radio access station backbone network and a method of treating signals thereof: A method of treating signals in a bridge-based radio access station backbone network including a plurality of base station bridges (BSBs), with each BSB having a 2-tiered switch connected with a plurality of radio access stations. A plurality of SCBs (Site Core Bridges), each of having a 2-tiered switch for... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080031194 - Distribution of session keys to the selected multiple access points based on geo-location of aps: In the public WLAN systems, reliable user re-authentication for mobility support is an essential step. However, re-authentication during handoff procedures causes long handoff latency which deteriorates the quality of service specifically for real-time multimedia applications. One possible solution is to authenticate the Mobile Node (MN) in advance with all the... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLC

20080031192 - Method and apparatus for enabling operators with unused bandwidth to acquire users: A first access network [500] has a servicing element [525] for servicing a mobile station 105]. A negotiation element [530] negotiates with a second access network [115] for a right for the second access network [115] to provide wireless service to the mobile station [105]. The negotiation comprises sending an... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080031197 - Relay-station assignment/re-assignment and frequency re-use: A prospective relay station sends a report indicative of radio resource sets/preamble sequences used by its neighbors. Where the reported radio resource sets comprise less than all available radio resource sets, a radio resource set that is not indicated in the report is assigned; else where the reported radio resource... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080031196 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for offloading call control services from a first network of a first type to a second network of a second type: Methods, systems, and computer program products for offloading call control services from a first network of a first type to a second network of a second type are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes detecting a call originating from a calling party in a first network of a... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080031193 - Wireless communication methods and apparatus supporting different types of wireless communciation approaches: A wireless terminal supports both peer to peer communications and access node based communications. The wireless terminal considers and evaluates communications link alternatives and selects between (i) communication using a peer to peer link and (ii) communications using a link, with a base station serving as an access node, Received... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080031199 - Beacon transmission method and beacon transmission apparatus: A communication apparatus, wherein the communication apparatus selects a superframe from W consecutive superframes, and starts each of the W consecutive superframes without transmitting a beacon in a first time period of each of the W consecutive superframes when a superframe to be started is different from the selected superframe.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080031202 - Accounting for telecommunications terminal mobility in call admission control: A technique is disclosed to optimize the call admission control algorithm that governs a shared-communications channel, in which the algorithm accounts for the levels of mobility, on an individual basis, of one or more terminals that need to use the channel. Instead of determining the variation in the distribution of... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080031209 - Managing associations in ad hoc networks: A first wireless devices establishes an association with a second wireless device by sending a connection request packet to a previously-discovered second wireless device. The second wireless device identifies the received packet as a connection request and responds with a connection response packet, thereby establishing an association between the first... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080031206 - Method and apparatus for using infrared sensors to transfer data within a security system: A security system comprises a system control panel for monitoring at least one device on a network. An infrared (IF) sensor located on the network has an IR transmitter and an IR receiver. The IR transmitter transmits control data packets and the IR receiver detects received data packets and IR... Agent: Gerald Bluhm Tyco Fire And Security

20080031207 - Multiple protocol land mobile radio system: A multiple protocol land mobile radio (LMR) and a method for communicating LMR content are provided. The method includes communicating the LMR content using a plurality of LMR transport protocols within a single LMR network. The method further includes encapsulating the LMR content based on an LMR application layer protocol... Agent: Brian C. Oakes Tyco Electronics

20080031201 - Plug and play network telephone communication apparatus: A plug and play network telephone communication apparatus includes a universal serial bus (USB) port, a USB controller, a memory and a network telephone communication controlling unit. The USB controller is connected to other components respectively for determining whether the USB port is connected to a computer. A network telephone... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai And Associates, P.C.

20080031204 - Quality of service resource negotiation: Embodiments of apparatuses, articles, methods, and systems for negotiating quality of service resources in wireless networks are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080031205 - Scalable wlan wireless communications device and radio for wpan and wran operation: An apparatus and method for wireless devices have a scalable bandwidth allocation for operating in different bands at different data rates and provide interference prevention between co-existing modes of operation. MAC frame logic selectively defines first characteristics of a first operational mode corresponding to a first wireless link type and... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, LLP

20080031208 - Synchronization between wireless devices while saving power: A wireless device in an ad hoc network detects other wireless devices within radio range and establishes synchronization with the detected wireless devices. The wireless device operates in a power save mode and wakes up, or turns on, periodically or on demand to implement discoverability. A received probe request packet... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080031212 - Wireless lan network system and load control method: A plurality of access points enables communication between a higher network and a terminal, and also transmits a connection notice for notifying a connection with the terminal by establishing a wireless connection with the terminal within the coverage area. A policy control apparatus manages load state of each of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080031203 - Wireless social networking: A first device may communicate by joining a wireless mesh network that includes at least one wireless device configured to operate a wireless routing protocol, discovering a group of other wireless devices configured to participate in the wireless mesh network, and accessing an interest metric for a second wireless device... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080031210 - Wireless support for portable media player devices: A portable media player device is capable of operating in a wireless network. The wireless portable media player device can bootstrap and synchronize with an ad hoc network with low power consumption. Neighbor portable media player devices in an ad hoc network can be discovered by the wireless portable media... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080031200 - Wlan device and method for numbering frames with sequence numbers: A method for numbering a plurality of frames with sequence numbers, implemented in a wireless network having a plurality of data units, includes steps of: providing receiver addresses and transmit rates of the data units; and numbering each data unit with a respective sequence number according to the receiver address... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080031213 - Autonomous tracking wireless imaging sensor network: A wireless integrated network sensor (WINS) system is provided that integrates articulating tracking systems with WINS network components including visual or infrared sensors and imaging devices to enable precise tracking and targeting of objects moving through a sensor field or past a single integrated sensing and targeting unit. Further, arrays... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080031211 - Method and apparatus for converging local area and wide area wireless data networks: A converged network accessible by wireless client devices includes a wide area wireless network, a local area wireless network, and a gateway linked to the wide area and local area wireless networks for integrating access to the networks by the wireless client devices... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080031214 - Gsm access point realization using a uma proxy: In one embodiment an apparatus comprises a wireless interface operable to communicate with a mobile endpoint over one or more wireless links in one or more licensed frequency bands, the communication between the wireless interface and the mobile endpoint comprising voice information and signaling information, a network interface coupled to... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080031215 - Method of collecting data using mobile identification number in wcdma network: Disclosed herein is a method of collecting data using a Mobile Identification Number (MIN) in a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) network. The method includes the steps of (a) reassembling ATM/AAL5 data into SCCP and higher layer data in an Iu-PS interface link, and capturing the reassembled data; (b)... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080031216 - Apparatus and method for allocating resources in mobile communication system: Provided are an apparatus and method for allocating resources in a mobile communication system. The apparatus includes a modulating/coding unit for modulating transmission data of one or more users according to a predetermined modulation scheme and for outputting a complex signal; a 2-Dimensional (2D)/1-Dimensional (1D) converter for converting the complex... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080031218 - Wireless telecommunication apparatus and wireless telecommunication method: In a wireless telecommunication system employing a time division multiple access (TDMA) system, a scheduler of a base station determines an allocation of a first frame and a second frame for a first data set to be transmitted to a terminal and a second data set to be transmitted thereto... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080031217 - Method for selecting receiving stations in a data radio transmitting system: A method of selecting destination receiver stations in a system for radio transmission of data from a sender station to a plurality of receiver stations, said radio transmitting system using a time division multiple access (TDMA) mechanism with joint coding. The method comprises the steps of establishing a list of... Agent: Thomas Langer Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane

20080031219 - Accessing an access network to enable grade of service in calls or flow requests for target users of access terminals: A method and an apparatus are provided for accessing an access network to call at least one target access terminal on a wireless network. The method includes associating an indication of priority with a call for a caller at a source access terminal that initiates the call. The method further... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080031222 - Conditional requests for asynchronous wireless communication: A wireless media access control supports asynchronous communication and overlapping transmissions. Here, a wireless node may determine whether to request or schedule a transmission based on control messages it receives from neighboring nodes. In some implementations a scheduled transmission may be divided up into several segments so that a transmitting... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080031224 - Message exchange scheme for asynchronous wireless communication: A message exchange scheme for wireless communication employs a request, a grant, and a confirmation. In some implementations wireless media access control supports asynchronous communication and overlapping transmissions. Here, a wireless node may determine whether to request or schedule a transmission based on control messages it receives from neighboring nodes.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080031223 - Monitor period for asynchronous wireless communication: A monitoring period is defined after a scheduled transmission period to enable a transmitting node to acquire control information that may otherwise have been transmitted during the scheduled transmission period. In some implementations the scheduled transmission may be divided up into several segments so that a transmitting node may receive... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080031221 - Transmit time segments for asynchronous wireless communication: A scheduled transmission may be divided up into several segments so that a transmitting node may receive and transmit control messages between segments. In some implementations a monitoring period is defined after a scheduled transmission period to enable the transmitting node to acquire control information that may otherwise have been... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080031220 - Ofdm control signaling in the presence of timing asynchronization in a peer-to-peer network: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitates mitigating the affects of asynchronous behavior when transmitting a data signal. According to various aspects, the system and methods are employed for selectively appending an appropriate time-shifting mechanism to a data signal in order to rectify the negative affects of asynchronous time behavior... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080031225 - Aggregating endpoint capabilities for a user: A method and system for aggregating capabilities from multiple endpoints associated with a user are provided. The system aggregates the capabilities of the endpoints associated with a user into an aggregate view of available modes of communication for reaching the user. Then, the system publishes the aggregate view so that... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080031227 - Method for delivering multimedia greeting data to calling party in ims or other ip network: A system is implemented on an IMS network for automatically delivering multimedia greetings to calling terminals. A user configures a greeting profile stored on a called terminal, which includes at least one multimedia greeting file. The greeting file contains executable data configured for automatic execution (e.g., playback) on a mobile... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080031226 - Scalable, high-availability network: A multiplicity of users is connected to a network, as are m servers. The users are organized into n user groups, each including a plurality of users, such that all the users in a group are part of a common database which permits intercommunication between them. That database is duplicated... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080031231 - System and method for handling media streams: A mechanism for managing and enhancing communication streams in a VOIP service using SIP is discussed. SIP is used to manage and enhance a communication stream at a centralized switching element in the VoIP environment rather than at the communication stream endpoints. The communication stream set up by SIP is... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20080031230 - System and method for object registration in a voip environment: A mechanism for managing software modules in a VOIP service is discussed. A component management agent is provided for each VOIP software component in the VOIP environment. The component management agent registers with a session management agent which is in communication with a session management software facility. The component management... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20080031232 - Web services and plug-in framework in voip environment: A remote plug-in framework is provided in a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) environment. One or more remote plug-ins may communicate with the call control engine of the VoIP environment. The remote plug-ins may provide a customized call processing logic so that a user can implement a customized call processing... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20080031229 - Method of sizing packets for routing over a communication network for voip calls on a per call basis: A method for reducing latency of VoIP communications while efficiently using network resources and maintaining voice quality. This is achieved by managing packet size on a per-call basis, using factors such as distance between gateways, current backbone network status, service requested or access mechanism for a given call is disclosed.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080031228 - Selective feature blocking in a communications network: In the context of a communications system, means are disclosed for ensuring that invocation of redirect features, such as call forwarding, do not circumvent call blocking settings. User profile information associated with a party controls the invocation of features for the party and controls the screening of redirect contacts resulting... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080031233 - Network device and computer product: A filter-information transmitting/receiving unit transmits path information with the filter information when the filter information is set by a filter setting unit, and receives the path information when the filter information is set in other network device. A filter-combining determining unit determines whether redundant filter information with the other network... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080031234 - Centralized service control for a telecommunication system: A communication system includes a switching system and a service control system. The switching system receives and processes a communication request to transfer a query message. The service control system receives and processes the query message to generate and transfer a response message indicating a route. The switching system receives... Agent: Sprint

20080031240 - Data matching using flow based packet data storage: A system for processing packets includes a communications interface and a processor. A communications interface receives a packet between a source and a destination. The processor identifies a flow between the source and the destination based on the packet. The processor determines whether some of packet data of the packet... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080031237 - Internet media server finding and playing methodologies: The invention relates to Internet media server finding and playing methodologies, wherein media client can find out media server in the Internet under NAT or not under NAT by using conventional Domain Name Server and SIP Proxy Server. And the methodology especially has valid media streaming played by media client... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080031238 - Systems and methods for configuring multiple network interfaces: In one embodiment, systems and methods are provided for configuring multiple network interfaces based on a network profile. In one embodiment, a user interface module manages the creation, modification, and deletion of active and inactive profiles, which may be stored to a configuration file accessible to computers with network interfaces... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080031235 - Systems and methods of fine grained interception of network communications on a virtual private network: A method for intercepting communication of a client to a destination on a virtual private network includes an agent executing on the client that intercepts a network communication of the client. The agent provides a virtual private network connection from a first network to a second network. The decision to... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080031239 - Techniques for graceful restart in a multi-process operating system: A method and apparatus is disclosed for graceful restart in a multi-process operating system. A transport protocol process, which is capable of restarting independently from the operating system, is executed in a network element. The network element executes a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) process, which installs one or more routes... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080031236 - Techniques for one-way synchronization of routing information among intermediate nodes: Techniques for synchronizing routing data include determining whether conditions are satisfied for one-way transfer with an adjacent router. If it is determined that conditions are satisfied for one-way transfer of routing table data with the adjacent router, then a refresh-notice message is sent from the initiating router to the adjacent... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20080031241 - Techniques to map switch and router ports to physical locations: Techniques for associating a physical location with a network interface on an intermediate network node include receiving a data packet from a device connected to a network. Based on data in the data packet, a particular network interface is determined on a first hop intermediate network node. An identity for... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20080031242 - Fully distributed, scalable infrastructure, communication system: A fully distributed, scalable infrastructure, communication system. The system comprises at least on Space, at least one double agent and at least one non-space specific double agent. Devices and applications that wish to communicate with other members of the Community or outside of the Community insert objects into the Space.... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080031243 - Migration of message topics over multicast streams and groups: A method for migrating data transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver over a first stream to a second stream in a reliable multicast system is provided. The method comprises transmitting a first message from the transmitter to the receiver over the first stream to notify the receiver that a... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080031244 - Techniques for distributing routing information using multicasts: Techniques for sending routing data include sending first routing data in a first multicast packet to a number N of adjacent nodes. It is determined whether different routing data is ready to be sent in a different multicast packet. If so, then a number M of adjacent nodes from which... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20080031245 - Uplink signaling for multicast transmission: The present invention relates to a method, system, terminal device and network element for signaling uplink control data for a multicast transmission of a cellular network, wherein an identification of a serving multicast cell is added to an uplink message which is transmitted in a transparent manner over a serving... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080031246 - Allocating and reclaiming resources within a rendezvous federation: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for allocating and reclaiming resources within a rendezvous federation. Embodiments of the invention include formulating and routing messages in accordance with cached two-way agreements between adjacent nodes on a ring of nodes. Cached two-way agreements divide responsibility for at... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080031248 - Method and system for controlling transmission of multicast packets over a local area network, related network and computer program product therefor: Transmission of multicast packets over a local area network is controlled by: identifying the condition where only a single receiver exists within the local area network for a given multicast group of packets, and allowing, upon occurrence of that condition, Automatic Repeat Request of the packets multicast towards said single... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080031247 - Network device and data control program: A network device is connected to another network device over a network and performs multicast transmission and reception over the network. The network device stores in a storage unit in a corresponding manner a drop address that uniquely identifies data to be dropped from the network and control data that... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080031251 - Apparatus and methods for code-enhanced messaging: Apparatus and methods for messaging comprise obtaining a communication message including at least one messaging code, determining an authority-specific action corresponding to each messaging code, and initiating performance of each authority-specific action by execution of a software component. Each authority-specific action may vary depending on a controlling authority associated with... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080031250 - Energy accumulation in destination nodes of wireless relay networks: A method for transmitting packets from a source node to a destination node via relay nodes of a wireless network. Packets are transmitted from the source node, along a route of relays nodes, to the destination node in a wireless network. Energy of the packets is accumulated only in the... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080031249 - Method and system for providing load balanced traffic in redundant infiniband ethernet gateways network: Method and system for providing load balancing in Infiniband-to-Ethernet networks including detecting a data traffic request, determining a network interface port information associated with the detected data traffic request, and selecting a network gateway based on the network interface port information is disclosed.... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080031252 - In-line packet processing: A method and device for in-line processing a data packet is provided. The data packet is received at a first buffer. The data packet is divided into a number of cells that are stored in a first queue. For each cell, a cell state code is stored that indicates an... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20080031253 - Apparatus and method for efficiently processing voice packet data in mobile communication system providing voice service using packet network: Disclosed are apparatus and method for efficiently processing voice packet data in a mobile communication system providing voice service using a packet network. The method includes: receiving a voice packet from an upper layer and generating a header including information about voice packet type and information for checking of voice... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese

20080031254 - Two-pronged receive fragment processing in a wireless network: During a receive fragment reassembly procedure, two separate reassembly operations may be active at the same time. One operation may be used to track fragments that are received in-sequence, while the other operation may be initiated when a first fragment is received out-of-sequence. By supporting two separate reassembly operations concurrently,... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Intellevate

20080031255 - Module for network interface card: A telecommunications interface network card, such as the type which is inserted into a suitable slot in a rack forming a network node, to provide an interface to the node for telecommunications traffic entering and leaving the node, typically carries a receptacle to receive a plugable module which contains a... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080031257 - Method of operating a system: A method of operating a data network, of the type in which a number of inter-connected router devices forward received packets of data towards a destination node in accordance with a routing table associated with each router. The method comprises: receiving routing information at one of said routers, determining if... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080031256 - Apparatus and method to coordinate calendar searches in a network scheduler given limited resources: A system that indicates which frame should next be removed by a scheduler from flow queues within a network device, such as a router, network processor, and like devices is disclosed. The system includes a search engine that searches a set of calendars under the control of a Finite State... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080031258 - Overload protection for sip servers: Classifying each request comprises running a classification algorithm. The classification algorithm comprising steps of: receiving a rule set, each rule comprising headers and conditions; creating a condition table by taking a union of all conditions in the rules; creating a header table by extracting a common set of headers from... Agent: Michael J. Buchenhorner

20080031259 - Method and system for replicating traffic at a data link layer of a router: A router provides a respective primary IP termination point for each of a plurality of users including a first user and a second user. The router comprises a data-link-layer component to replicate IP traffic between the first user and the second user.... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080031260 - Mapping external port using virtual local area network: A program product comprising program instructions, embodied on a storage medium that are operable to cause a processor to switch input data packets for ingress to at least one internal-device port of an internal device from all external ports using virtual local area network identifiers and port virtual local area... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080031261 - Method and network node for monitoring traffic in a private vlan: It is disclosed a method for monitoring traffic in a private VLAN, the traffic bidirectionally propagating across the private VLAN through a sequence of nodes sequentially connected by a primary VLAN and a secondary VLAN, the sequence of nodes comprising a first node and a second node, wherein the method... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080031262 - Load-balanced switch architecture for reducing cell delay time: A switch apparatus is provided with a plurality of input interfaces, a plurality of intermediate buffers; a plurality of output interfaces; an input-side switch providing connections between the input interfaces and the intermediate buffers; and an output-side switch providing connections between the intermediate buffers and the output interfaces. Each of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080031263 - Method and apparatus for load balancing over virtual network links: Techniques for load balancing network traffic over virtual point-to-point data links at a data-link layer include determining a particular group of virtual point-to-point data links that reach a particular local area network of one or more network nodes. A particular data-link address for a particular node of the particular local... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20080031264 - Communication network apparatus and method: A communication network apparatus and method for routing communication signals from a source device to a receiving device. The apparatus performs only local processing on communication signals to thereby increase the speed of processing the signals. A plurality of the processing nodes are combined into a plurality of sub-networks that... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080031267 - Communication apparatus and communication control method: An application device includes a network communication unit and an application system unit. The application system unit executes application communication utilizing one of a first TCP/IP protocol processing performed by the network communication unit and a second TCP/IP protocol processing performed by the application system unit. The network communication unit... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080031265 - Systems and methods for using a client agent to manage icmp traffic in a virtual private network environment: Systems and methods are described for using a client agent executing on a client to send ICMP messages to an appliance connected via a virtual private network Methods include: establishing, via a client agent executing on a client, a transport layer virtual private network connection with an appliance; intercepting, by... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080031266 - Technique for sharing a physical port among a plurality of virtual bridges on a switch in a computer network: A technique shares a port (e.g., a physical port) among a plurality of virtual bridges on a switch in a computer network. According to the novel technique, two or more virtual bridges are established on the switch, and are each assigned respective sets of Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs). Each... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080031268 - Method for traffic engineering of connectionless virtual private network services: A method for traffic engineering of connectionless virtual private network (VPN) services that includes receiving physical connectivity data for a connectionless VPN. The data includes service nodes and links between the service nodes. One or more of the service nodes are also edge nodes. Logical connectivity data for the edge... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080031269 - System and method for bypassing an output queue structure of a switch: In particular embodiments of the present invention, a method for bypassing an output queue structure of a switch is provided. In a particular embodiment, a method for bypassing an output queue structure of a switch includes receiving a packet at an input port of a switch, storing the packet in... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080031270 - Integrated switch: Switching between communication ports of a notebook is typically accomplished using an off-chip local area network (LAN) switch or an off-chip high speed analog multiplexer. This off-chip component is disadvantageous for several reasons, including: added cost of an additional component; increased overall power consumption because transmit amplitude loss; and reduced... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080031271 - Frame forwarding apparatus: A frame forwarding apparatus comprises a receiving unit receiving a frame including a source address, a destination address and a VWAN identifier; a converting unit converting a VWAN identifier in the frame into one of degenerate VWAN identifiers that the number of adoptable values thereof is smaller than the number... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080031272 - Determining a profile for an interface of a network device: Selecting a profile for an interface of a network device includes accessing profile sequences, where each profile sequence corresponds to an interface. Each profile sequence includes profiles that provide parameters for communicating data. The following are repeated for a profile sequence for an interface until a link satisfies a sequence... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080031273 - Determining priority of bearer channels in a wireless telecommunications network: A method is provided of determining priorities of radio bearer channels in a wireless telecommunications network that offers various predetermined levels of quality of service. The method involves determining a numerical value representing a priority rating to be applied to a radio bearer channel. This is done by assigning each... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20080031274 - Technique for controlling selection of a peek adapter or a read adapter from multiple adapters of a high speed switch: A technique is provided for facilitating peeking and reading of messages from multiple adapters connected, for example, to a high speed switch in a distributed computing environment. The technique employs a first, relatively quick filter to initially test whether a previously used adapter of the multiple adapters should be used... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080031275 - Transcoder architecture for land mobile radio systems: A transcoder architecture and method for transcoding in land mobile radio (LMR) systems are provided. The LMR system includes a first communication site configured to communicate using a first LMR communication protocol and a second communication site configured to communicate using a second LMR communication protocol. The LMR system further... Agent: Brian C. Oakes Tyco Electronics

20080031276 - Methods and systems for a customer premise equipment to reverse the upstream speed and downstream speed of a network connection: Methods and systems for customer premise equipment (CPE) to reverse the upstream speed and downstream speed of a network connection (e.g., ADSL connection) are described. The CPE is communicating with a network device via the network connection. Originally, the CPE's downstream speed with the network device significantly exceeds the CPE's... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080031277 - Methods and apparatus to determine communication carrier capabilities: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to enable a service provider to determine capabilities of a communication carrier. An example method disclosed herein includes transmitting a metric information request to at least one of a layer two open standards interconnect (OSI) device or a layer three OSI device, the at least... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080031278 - Apparatus and method for supporting establishment of network address of communication apparatus: An apparatus and method of setting an address of a communication apparatus is provided where when an access router transmits a Router Advertisement (RA) message to the communication apparatus, the communication apparatus sets an address establishment scheme of the communication apparatus according to a first field of the RA message.... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080031279 - Network chip and network transmission/reception device: Provided is a network chip that controls issuance of interrupts based on the contents of the received packets. The network chip receives a data packet containing a type that indicates a realtime packet or a not-realtime packet, where the realtime packet needs consideration of delay time, and the not-realtime packet... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080031280 - System and method for neighborhood optimization for content recommendation: A cost function is stochastically optimized using, e.g., simulated annealing to render a neighborhood of entities based on which content recommendations can be provided to a user of a home entertainment system. The cost function represents a normalized sum of rating similarity scores from entities of the neighborhood that are... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080031281 - Method and device for the demodulation of satellite radio navigation signals: For demodulating radio navigation signals (s(t)) transmitted in spread spectrum and comprising a data channel modulated by a navigation message and a pilot channel not modulated by a navigation message, the data channel and the pilot channel are combined into one multiplexing scheme so as to modulate a carrier, this... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080031282 - End system scheduling for switched networks: A method for scheduling one or more data packet transfers over a computer-based distributed network is disclosed. The method involves constructing a cyclic schedule from a plurality of data packets, wherein the cyclic schedule is constructed to ensure that each data packet transfer is substantially free of jitter. The method... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080031284 - System and method of processing compressed audio data: A system and method of synchronizing to a frame sequence in an input signal includes tolerating data errors within certain error thresholds. In an embodiment, a Hamming distance between data included in a frame alignment word field and an expected value is compared to a predetermined Hamming distance to determine... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080031283 - Time synchronization for network aware devices: Time synchronization for network devices with reduced processing requirements for slaves. A master sends a time request message to the slave, including the time T1 at which it sent the message. The slave receives the time request message and records the time T2 at which it received the message. The... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080031285 - Method of notifying reconfiguration of the ip/mac platform and a dvb system therefor: Disclosed is a method of notifying reconfiguration of the IP/MAC platform in a Digital Video Broadcasting DVB system. This method requires a Program Map Table (PMT) including a warning data field for representing reconfiguration of the IP/MAC platform and a time data field for representing the time of the reconfiguration.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080031286 - Multiplexed rf isolator: A system for providing multiple communication channels over a single voltage isolation link includes first circuitry for multiplexing a plurality of digital data inputs from a plurality of communication channels onto the single voltage isolation link. Second circuitry de-multiplexes the plurality of digital data inputs from the single voltage isolation... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20080031287 - Packet transmission device and control method thereof: In a packet transmission device and control method thereof which can improve the transmission rate of a packet without adding a high speed user data-conversion card, when packet data is inputted through a single arbitrary channel among a plurality of channels, from among a predetermined number of low speed user... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP