Multiplex communications 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 -