Multiplex communications inventions 03/08

20080074991 - Guard section length detection method and system: A guard section length detection method is disclosed. In the method, a guard section length detection method is used in an OFDM system. The OFDM symbol includes a data interval having a first length, and a guard section having a guard section length. The method detects a first symbol boundary... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080074992 - Apparatus and method for point-to-point interconnect testing: A method and apparatus for point-to-point interconnect testing are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the determination of an expected behavior of a point-to-point link according to initial link training/configuration values of the link. The expected link behavior is determined according to link behavior during initial link configuration. A... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080074994 - Method for detecting radio link failure in wireless communications system and related apparatus: To provide services having different QoS requirements with different timers or parameters for detecting radio link failure in a wireless communications system, detecting the radio link failure includes utilizing at least one timer of a packet switching domain of a communications device to detect the radio link failure, and utilizing... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080074993 - Uma classmark information: A network controller device provides an inter-working function between a core network and an access network. The device comprises a first gateway configured to be connected with a switching center server over an interface which enables real-time communication streams, and a second gateway configured to be connected with a terminal... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080075010 - Opportunistic wireless mesh network methods: The invention relates to opportunistic wireless mesh networks which operate under random networking conditions. Such random network conditions typically limit the effectiveness of prior art wireless mesh networks, and more particularly to those supporting low power devices within the wireless network. Random network conditions include: random power supply, random node... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080075008 - Transmission apparatus and path establishing method: A transmission apparatus for establishing a path between a start point node and an end point node is disclosed. The transmission apparatus is used as a boundary node between a first area and a second area in a network which is divided into at least the first area and the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080075011 - Method and system for multi-layer network routing: Each node of a telecommunications network determines a connection type attributes available for each signal type supported by the node. Each signal type represents a different connection routing layer within the telecommunications network. Adaptation costs involved in traversing from one connection routing layer to another connection routing layer in the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080075009 - Use of minimal propagation delay path to optimize a mesh network: The present technology relates to protocols relative to utility meters associated with an open operational framework. More particularly, the present subject matter relates to protocol subject matter for advanced metering infrastructure, adaptable to various international standards, while economically supporting a 2-way mesh network solution in a wireless environment, such as... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080075023 - Apparatus and method for providing domain information: An apparatus for providing domain information is disclosed. The apparatus includes a storage module that stores domain information, a device-connection module that connects to a device intending to join a domain, and a control module that extracts domain information stored in the storage module, and provides the extracted domain information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080075022 - Method and system, for mimo detection: A method for determining a signal vector comprising a plurality of components from a received signal vector is described, wherein a component of the plurality of components is selected and for each candidate symbol of a list of candidate symbols, wherein each candidate symbol represents a possible symbol for the... Agent: Crockett & Crockett

20080075024 - Portable electronic apparatus: The invention discloses a portable electronic apparatus selectively electrically connecting with a dock, wherein the dock comprises a network interface coupled to an internet. The portable electronic apparatus includes a micro controller unit and a wireless communication module. The micro controller unit is selectively electrically connected to the network interface... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080075025 - Intelligent network and method for providing voice telephony over atm and point-to-multipoint connectivity: An illustrative intelligent network and method for providing voice telephony over ATM and point-to-multipoint connectivity are provided that can provide significant advantages. A method for providing a point-to-multipoint service to control point-to-multipoint connections using an intelligent network and a switched virtual circuit over an ATM network includes receiving a request... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080075029 - Apparatus for opportunistic wireless mesh networks: The invention relates to opportunistic wireless mesh networks which operate under random networking conditions. Such random network conditions typically limit the effectiveness of prior art wireless mesh networks, and more particularly to those supporting low power devices within the wireless network. Random network conditions include: random power supply, random node... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080075028 - Energy-aware routing apparatus and method: An energy-aware routing method and energy-aware routing system, the energy-aware routing apparatus for use with a multi-hop system including at least one terminal and at least one base station, the apparatus includes a transceiving unit for receiving a route request message including battery information from each of the at least... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080075027 - Method and apparatus for scheduling data considering its power in a communication system: A method for scheduling data in a communication system having a downlink frame structure including power control regions of a boosting region for boosting power of a data burst, a normal region for keeping power of the data burst, and a deboosting region for deboosting power of the data burst.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080075026 - Method for controlling sleep-mode operation in a communication system: A method for controlling a sleep-mode operation in a communication system is provided, in which a Mobile Station (MS) transitions to an awake state in a listening interval of the sleep mode, performs one of a first operation, a second operation, and a third operation in the awake state, and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080075030 - Power control method: Methods for downlink power control in wireless communication systems are provided. In response to a transmitter power change request from a mobile terminal (110) over a wireless connection, a base station (122) determines a power control parameter based on its current total transmitter power PDL. The power control parameter preferably... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080075060 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing multiplexing for data-non-associated control channel: A method is provided for block spreading individual control symbol sequences, mapping the block spread control symbol sequences, adding a cyclic prefix to the block spread control symbol sequences to form a data-non-associated control signaling information, and transmitting the data-non-associated control signaling information.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080075061 - Synchronising base stations: A method for synchronising a clock signal in a basestation of a wireless telecommunications system is described. The basestation has a reference clock signal and is operable to communicate with wireless mobile terminals and with a packet switched network. The method comprises detecting a radio frequency clock synchronisation signal from... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080075062 - Compression of data transmitted between server and mobile device: A remote wireless device receives a compressed message including an application definition file. The application definition file is associated with an application executing at a computing device and contains definitions for: a user interface format; a format for network messages; and a format for storing data. Using these definitions, the... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080075063 - Integrated system and method routing optimized communication path of multimedia data under user's configuration of communication: A multimedia integrated communication system for analyzing a fittest communication routing is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes i) communication means for transmitting and receiving multimedia communication data of the users, ii) a multimedia routing platform for transmitting and receiving the multimedia communication data to/from the communication means, and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080075072 - Wlan packet control protocol for video streaming: A wireless LAN packet control protocol for a video streaming is disclosed herein, which operates on or below the IP layer, and checks the continuity of a number of streaming packets received based on the continuous serial numbers assigned to the packets. If discontinuity is detected, the receiver will request... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080075075 - Method for establishing a multimedia connection: In one aspect a method for establishing a multimedia connection between at least one calling user and at least one called user via packet-oriented computer networks is provided. The call is established via at least one additional user while the at least one called user signals his state to the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080075078 - Frame transfer system: When are multiplexed to a line for connecting a router and a LAN switch, another VLAN is set between the router and the LAN switch. The router receives affiliation requests containing the identifiers of desired groups from a client terminal belonging to VLAN and a client terminal belonging to VLAN.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080075077 - Search and intelligent selection in multicast network: A method of distributing data in a multicast network comprising one or more multicast groups. The method uses a remote advertisement server adapted to make available to one or more receivers useful data relating to one or more data source servers, each data source server being adapted to deliver data... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080068978 - Method and apparatus for data transmission: A first device receives a first signal transmitted over a transmission line from a second device. The first signal is processed and information is generated that is related to crosstalk from other transmission lines. The information is modulated onto at least one carrier of a plurality of carriers of a... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag Patent Department

20080068979 - Adaptive and preemptive scheduling of transmissions: A method and apparatus for adaptive and preemptive scheduling of transmissions is provided that reduces the end-to-end delay for ARQ transmissions in centrally controlled multi-hop communication systems. During operation, a base station provisions resources for possible future ARQ retransmissions in advance, thereby obviating the need to wait for allocations from... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080068980 - Method and apparatus for positioning pilot in an ofdma mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for positioning a pilot in a transmitter for an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) mobile communication system. In the apparatus, a consecutive block assignment determiner determines whether it will assign a consecutive block or a single block in a frequency axis or a time axis.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080068981 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for assigning cell and resource blocks: A method and apparatus for assigning cell and resource blocks to a wireless transmit/receive units (WTRU) in a wireless communication system including a resource management unit and a plurality of cells having resource blocks are disclosed. The WTRU is currently associated with a particular one of the cells. Path losses... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080068983 - Faults propagation and protection for connection oriented data paths in packet networks: A communications network comprising components configured to implement a method comprising analyzing a path between a first end point and a second end point, and identifying a partial fault along the path is disclosed. Also disclosed is a method for communicating information within a network, the method comprising: defining a... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080068982 - System of routing path for redundancy ring and method thereof: The invention presents a system of a static routing path for a redundancy ring in an Ethernet network and a method thereof. Meanwhile the method includes the steps of a) providing plural switches connected with each other to form communication links, wherein each of the plural switches has a forwarding... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080068985 - Network redundancy method and middle switch apparatus: Each of an upper switch apparatus and lower switch apparatuses is connected to ports of a same port number of a pair of middle switch apparatuses by setting link aggregation, the pair of the middle switches are connected to each other via redundancy ports. When failure occurs at a port,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080068984 - Transmission device: A transmission device capable of detecting and discarding duplicate data transmitted over Work and Protection paths of a ring network. An add/drop multiplexer adds/drops and cross-connects signals. When an FS-R control signal, for example, is received, a bridge distributes the signal output from the add/drop multiplexer to the Work and... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080068986 - Method and system for optimized switchover of redundant forwarding engines: A method of failure recovery in a network element is disclosed. The method includes indicating to a number of forwarding engines that a forwarding engine has completed a switchover operation and causing at least one of the forwarding engines to acknowledge that the forwarding engine has completed the switchover operation... Agent: Samuel G. Campbell Iii Campbell Stephenson Ascolese LLP

20080068987 - Loop network system and data storage devices included therein: Embodiments of the present invention provide a loop network system and data storage devices connected thereto where the data storage devices (nodes) can perform effective pieces of processing and the probability of error occurrence can be reduced. One embodiment according to the present invention includes a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080068988 - Packet communication method and packet communication device: In a 1:1 redundant communication system, the present invention enables flexible communication in the backup communication path and the effective use of communication bandwidth of the backup communication path by controlling traffic in the backup communication path on the basis of information on the condition of the working communication path... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080068989 - Cell size management: The present technology relates to protocols relative to utility meters associated with an open operational framework. More particularly, the present subject matter relates to protocol subject matter for advanced metering infrastructure, adaptable to various international standards, while economically supporting a 2-way mesh network solution in a wireless environment, such as... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080068990 - Method and apparatus for implementing multicast service: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for implementing a multicast service. The method includes: constructing a multicast service notification packet, and sending the multicast service notification packet to a user terminal; the multicast service notification packet may be a return notification packet for responding a... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080068991 - Wireless roaming with qos and dynamic call capacity management: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for assistance in roaming and call capacity comprises the transmission of a first message to obtain information regarding access point capacity prior to transmitting a data flow. The first message identifies the priority level of the data flow and a requested... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080068994 - Distributing metering responses for load balancing an amr network: Disclosed are methodology and corresponding apparatus subject matters for providing improved efficiency in the collection of data from a large number of metrology devices associated with an Automated Meter reading (AMR) network. AMR network operation produces randomly spaced transmissions from individual nodes in the network. When an AMR system wishes... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080068993 - Method and an apparatus for data streaming: An apparatus and a method for data streaming, as well as a combination, of an apparatus for data streaming and a plurality of user devices, are presented. The apparatus is adapted to receive media data in the form of a plurality of payload data sets from at least one data... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080068992 - Method and device for shaping traffic flow transmitted in network: A method and device for shaping the traffic flow transmitted in the network. The method mainly includes: after the traffic flow (TF) sent from the video source server is received, scheduling and shaping the TF respectively according to the type of the received TF, and sending the shaped TF to... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080068995 - Devices and methods for push message initiated service: The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal (102a), a method in a mobile communication terminal, a network node (106a) and a method in network node which allows a service provider to influence the quality of service that is requested for a bearer service for delivery of a service... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080068996 - Downlink routing mechanism: The present technology relates to protocols relative to utility meters associated with an open operational framework. More particularly, the present subject matter relates to protocol subject matter for advanced metering infrastructure, adaptable to various international standards, while economically supporting a 2-way mesh network solution in a wireless environment, such as... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080068997 - Methods and apparatus for rate estimation and predictive rate control: The present invention provides a balanced video distribution system, as well as corresponding methods and apparatus, which utilize feedback from the channel multiplexers as well as rate estimation and predictive rate control. Packets of a video stream are received at an input buffer. A transmission deadline is determined for the... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20080068998 - Reducing latency associated with initiating real-time internet communications: A switch including circuitry and methods for decreasing latency associated with initiating Internet communications are disclosed. The switch includes a host processor and a transport subsystem that receives incoming data and sends outgoing data. The switch also has a semantic processor. The semantic processor anticipates real-time communication by analyzing the... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080068999 - Data flow amount control device and data flow amount control 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 addressed to each of the plurality of mobile stations, and a base station temporarily storing the packets transmitted from the control station... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069000 - Methods for determining turning rates in a road network: Methods for determining turning rates in a road network are provided. Traffic volumes are recorded at measurement cross-sections at predefinable measuring intervals. For at least one forward-related subnetwork of the road network in which measurement cross-sections are taken into account at an exit and at entries of the subnetwork, a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080069001 - Method for determining a leading subscriber in a network: In one aspect, a method for determining a leading subscriber in a network consisting of a plurality of network elements, with initially the same privileges and tasks is provided. A request message is sent to all network elements, the request message being marked by a sequence number taken randomly from... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080069002 - In-band media performance monitoring: A method including receiving data packets encapsulating at least part of a media stream, extracting a decoder-ready packet from the data packets, processing the decoder-ready packet; and substantially synchronously with the processing of the decoder-ready packet, generating delivery performance information for the at least part of the media stream, data... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080069004 - Auto detection of copper and fiber mode: Methods and systems for operating a physical layer device (“PHY”) in an Ethernet network include methods and systems for detecting active link partners and for selecting a mode of operation based on detected active link partners. The PHY monitors fiber link media and copper link media for active link partners.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080069003 - Testing apparatus and testing method: A testing apparatus capable of testing the reception performance of a communication terminal apparatus to be tested, while determining whether a selecting/combining function is implemented in the communication terminal apparatus. In the testing apparatus, a transmission control part (103) designates, to a selecting part (104), a timing at which to... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080069006 - Methods and apparatus to provide services over integrated broadband communication systems: Methods and apparatus to provide services over integrated broadband communication systems are disclosed. An example method to manage access to a communication link provided to a customer premises disclosed herein comprises determining a data rate for the communication link, determining whether the customer premises utilizes a predetermined service, identifying the... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080069005 - Methods for providing performance improvement recommendations: In a method of providing a performance improvement recommendation for a connection between a first network node in communication with a second network node, information is transmitted from the first node to the second node to provide communication between the nodes, via a number of transmission components. An elapsed time... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP

20080069007 - Dynamically and efficiently forming hierarchical tunnels: In one embodiment, a node (e.g., a grooming node) determines a set of attribute groups (AGs) of existing child tunnels through the network, where an AG is a group of one or more compatible attributes among child tunnels, e.g., excluding bandwidth. The grooming node also determines a set of corresponding... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080069008 - Node for self localization, clustering method using the same, and localization method: A node for self localization, a clustering method using the same, and a localization method are provided. The node, which is located in a specific space so as to constitute a sensor network, includes a location information messaging unit which receives one or more location information messages including information on... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080069009 - Method and mobile node for packet transmission in mobile internet protocol network: A method for packet transmission in an MIP network is disclosed. A mobile node sends to a Home Agent (HA) a first Firewall Detection (FD) packet encapsulated with IP security (IPsec) protocol and a second FD packet encapsulated with the IPsec protocol and User Datagram Payload (UDP) protocol. The mobile... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080069010 - Method for processing the distributed path information request: A method for processing distributed path computation requests includes: storing all path computation requests in an autonomous system, in each of Path Computation Elements (PCEs); and performing a path computation by a PCE in accordance with a path computation request obtained from the all path computation requests.... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080069011 - Distributable, scalable, pluggable conferencing architecture: Architecture for a scalable, pluggable multi-party, and distributed multimedia conferencing. A centralized policy and control conferencing component allows the seamless plug-in of different distributed media components (e.g., data, audio/video, messaging) to accommodate client participation in a conference session. The centralized conference control component includes the following: a conference notification service... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080069012 - System and method for providing reservationless conferencing: A video teleconferencing system and method for providing reservationless conferencing is disclosed. The method involves creating a conference profile identifying selected connection parameters; allocating a dial-in number; notifying participants of the dial-in number; detecting a call from a requesting participant; determining if sufficient resources for the participant are available; and... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080069013 - Beacon requests and rs bit resolving circular routes: The present technology relates to protocols relative to utility meters associated with an open operational framework. More particularly, the present subject matter relates to protocol while economically supporting a 2-way mesh network solution in a wireless environment, such as for operating in a residential electricity meter field. The present subject... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080069014 - Method and system for an extended range ethernet link discovery signaling: Aspects of a method and system for extended range Ethernet link discovery signaling are provided. A local PHY may detect of one or more active twisted-pair wires in a remote PHY in extended range applications. The local PHY may determine whether to operate as a master or slave based on... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080069015 - Multi-mode terminal in a wireless mimo system: A user terminal supports multiple spatial multiplexing (SM) modes such as a steered mode and a non-steered mode. For data transmission, multiple data streams are coded and modulated in accordance with their selected rates to obtain multiple data symbol streams. These streams are then spatially processed in accordance with a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080069016 - Packet based echo cancellation and suppression: In a method for echo suppression or cancellation, a reference voice packet is selected from a plurality of reference voice packets based on at least one encoded voice parameter associated with each of the plurality of reference voice packets and the targeted voice packet. Echo in the targeted packet is... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080069017 - Methods and systems for adaptive communication: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of limiting data loss in a point-to-multipoint communication system. Data is transferred on a communication channel among network nodes of the point-to-multipoint communication system according to an initial frequency band plan. If a characteristic of the communication channel changes, then... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20080069019 - Method for performing synchronisation for multicast broadcast services in a wireless access communication network, corresponding multicast broadcast server and base station: The present invention relates to a method for performing data synchronization in a wireless access communication network, said data to be synchronized coming from an access network gateway and being sent to at least two base stations, said data being further sent from said base stations to user terminals over... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080069018 - Quality of service provisioning for wireless networks: A technique for improving quality of service involves dynamically provisioning quality of service parameters. An example according to this technique is a system including a server and an access point. The server provisions quality of service parameters restricting the station's transmission of data through the access point to one or... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080069021 - Ad-hoc network power save system and method: Symmetrical and asymmetrical ad-hoc, wireless networks and a method for saving power in the same may include causing a first station to determine whether a second station has a master capability to buffer data traffic for the first station. A first station requests the second station to buffer the data... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20080069022 - Method and apparatus for dormant mode support with paging: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed herein for implementing dormant mode with paging in a WLAN. Power savings in the computing device and reduction in traffic across the network are achieved by requiring a computing device to inform the WLAN of its location only when it crosses a paging area boundary... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080069020 - Signal transmission method from a local network node: A transmitter is provided having transmission methods that minimize the power needed to ensure reliable reception in a coverage area. In one aspect, data that requires re-transmission as acknowledged mode data is re-transmitted when the power level of the transmission link is higher than a pre-determined level set for reliable... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080069023 - Method for communicating with multiple network nodes: A method for communicating with multiple network nodes is provided in which each node of a network has a wireless link that allows data to travel to and from the nodes in parallel, thereby taking advantage of the inherent broadcast capabilities of wireless media. The wireless link may be used... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080069024 - Communication system, wireless lan base station controller, and wireless lan base station device: A communication system, wireless LAN base station controller, and a wireless LAN base station device for efficiently communicating a broadcast frame or multicast frame through a downstream channel. The communication system (10) comprises an AP controller (100) and a wireless LAN base station device (200). A frame converting section (102)... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080069026 - Repeater for wusb applications: c

20080069025 - Signal repeater system: Analogue signal repeater system, (1) where frequency converting repeaters (6-9, 10-13) of super-heterodyne or superregenerative type realised with any of discrete semiconductors, MMIC semiconductors, ASIC semiconductors are applied to optimize signal dynamics by avoiding echo between repeaters (6-9, 10-13) and where each information channel (15, 16) in the system only... Agent: Geir M. Vavik

20080069034 - Interference aware routing in multi-radio wireless mesh networks: A method and system using inter-node interference data to improve the routing of data within a wireless mesh network.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080069036 - Method for implementing clear channel assessment function in wireless mesh network and mobile terminal thereof: A system and method are provided for performing a clear channel assessment (CCA) function in a wireless mesh network. In doing so, a method is provided for performing a CCA function to detect a hidden node in a wireless mesh network and includes varying a predetermined default threshold value according... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080069027 - Method of interference cancellation in communication systems: A method and apparatus thereof for processing a composite signal by removing a plurality of multipaths of one or more stealth signals from the composite signal prior to decoding one or more user signals from the composite signal. The method and apparatus being operable to decode a stealth signal from... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20080069033 - Methods and apparatus related to peer to peer device: Methods and apparatus related to the sharing of wide area network (WAN) uplink bandwidth with peer to peer communication signaling usage are described. Typically, a base station uses its WAN uplink band to receive uplink signals from wireless terminals using the base station as a point of network attachment. In... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080069031 - Methods and systems for enabling feedback in wireless communication networks: Aspects of the present invention provide additional MAC functionality to support the PHY features of a wireless communication system framework. The additional MAC functionality aids in enabling feedback from wireless terminals to base stations. In some aspects of the invention the feedback is provided on an allocated feedback channel. In... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20080069038 - Mimo antenna apparatus controlling number of streams and modulation and demodulation method: A MIMO antenna apparatus receives a plurality of radio signals modulated and transmitted by a sender-side radio station apparatus using a MIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output) communication method with a number of data streams and a modulation and demodulation method. The MIMO antenna apparatus includes a plurality of antenna elements, detection means,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069030 - Mobile terminal managing device, mobile terminal, and communication system: A method where home agents dynamically communicate their availability to serve as alternate home agents to each other, and a technology where the registered home agent proactively informs the mobile node to switch home agents are disclosed. According to the technique, a home agent (1000) has new functional blocks to... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080069032 - Packet transmission method for wireless signals in a wireless base station system: a method of transmitting one or more branches of wireless signals between a channel processing unit and a remote radio frequency unit in a centralized base station, or between base stations through a packet network, each of said branches of wireless signals being a signal flow having a wireless frame... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080069028 - Power control in a local network node (lln): The invention relates to a method and system of setting transmitter power levels, particularly in a Local Network Node transmitter, providing a pico cell for private use. A User Equipment (UE) is used to make measurements of the transmission link properties, such as downlink power and round trip time. Based... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080069037 - Process method about the service connection between the wireless local area network and user terminal: Disclosed is a method for processing the service connection between a user terminal and a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) applicable to a WLAN interactive network that at least comprises: a WLAN user terminal, a WLAN access unit, a service control unit and a user information storage unit. The method... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080069035 - Wireless communication method of selecting an enhanced uplink transport format combination by setting a scheduling grant payload to the highest payload that can be transmitted: where SG is a serving grant, Le,ref is the number of EU dedicated physical data channels (E-DPDCHs) used for a selected reference E-TFC, Ke,ref is the number of data bits of the reference E-TFC, Δharq is a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) offset for a specific data flow to be... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080069029 - Wireless transit link discovery and establishment: The present invention provides a technique for allowing neighboring nodes to dynamically discover the existence of each other and establish transit links therebetween. The discovery process includes providing a channel assessment among a number of communication channels based on channel traffic or characteristics of the channel traffic. Based on the... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080069039 - Methods and apparatus related to power control and/or interference management in a mixed wireless communications system supporting wan signaling and peer to peer signaling: Methods and apparatus related to the sharing of wide area network (WAN) uplink bandwidth with peer to peer communication signaling usage are described. The base station regulates the level of interference from the peer to peer signaling by generating and transmitting peer to peer transmission power control signals intended for... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080069044 - Mobile communication system and communication method thereof: A communication method in a mobile communication system that transmits different data to which transmission sequence numbers have been attached, over each of a plurality of paths from a mobile station to a radio network controller via a plurality of base stations; where the radio network controller monitors the communication... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080069041 - Radio communication apparatus and program: A radio communication apparatus includes a first detection unit configured to detect a first signal in a first carrier sense period contained in a pre assigned reception slot, a relaying unit configured to relay the detected first signal, a second detection unit configured to detect a second signal in a... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080069040 - Station and access point for edca communication, system thereof and communication method thereof: The present invention relates to a method of setting wireless communication channel contention mode considering terminal state information. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a contention-based data communication system in a wireless communication where a plurality of terminals contend to obtain data transmission resources. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080069042 - Method and system for centralized radio resource allocation in communication networks, related network and computer program product: A method for centralized radio resource allocation in a communication network including a Network Control and Management System and at least one Base Station Cluster having a set of Base Station Entities to which respective permutation zones and radio resources are to be allocated. The Network Control and Management System... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080069043 - Mobile communication system and communication method thereof: A communication method in a mobile communication system that copies and transmits data, to which transmission sequence numbers have been attached, over a plurality of paths from a mobile station to a radio network controller via a plurality of base stations; where the radio network controller monitors the communication state... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080069045 - Device for allocating shared resources of a communication network, by assignment of time slots of a dynamically adaptable time/frequency plan: A device (D) is dedicated to the allocation of shared resources on a return link between terminals (UE) and a communication management equipment (GW) of a communication network. It comprises processing means (MT) adapted, firstly, to determine a set of time/frequency plans as a function of at least one symbol... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080069046 - Packet transmission control device and packet transmission control method: The present invention relates to a packet transmission control device which controls transmission of packets to a plurality of mobile stations. A scheduling unit of the packet transmission control device according to the present invention is configured to schedule the packets to each of the plurality of mobile stations, based... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069047 - Direct link setup mechanisms for wireless lans: Apparatus having corresponding methods and computer programs comprise a communication circuit to establish an infrastructure mode wireless connection with a wireless client through a wireless access point, and to establish a direct link setup (DLS) mode wireless connection with the wireless client; and a control circuit to select either infrastructure... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080069048 - Methods and apparatus for supporting tunneling related to wireless downlink signaling flows: Methods and apparatus for communicating packets from a remote access node assembly by way of a serving access node assembly are described. An inter-route tunneling protocol module which interfaces with a radio link protocol module is used to recover a tunneled route protocol packet. Information to be communicated to the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080069051 - Mobile radio communication system, communication apparatus applied in a mobile radio communication system, and mobile radio communication method: In the mobile radio communication system where the UMTS and an another system coexist an idle slot for observing the frequency component of another system is inserted in one superframe of UMTS. The duration of this idle slot is at most half of the duration of one frame that form... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069050 - P-cscf fast handoff for ims/mms architecture: A mechanism by which handoff delay can be minimized while not compromising the IMS/MMD security and also protecting the media if required by certain applications is presented. One proactive method includes proactive authentication. Another proactive method includes proactive security association, such as transferring SA keys from old proxy to new... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20080069049 - Switching multiple link layer resources for media independent handover: A method for controlling behavior of lower layer links related to media independent handover (MIH) of a mobile user comprises sending a MIH link actions request primitive from a MIH User entity to a MIH function (MIHF) for requesting actions to be executed on a set of lower layer links... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080069052 - Techniques for decoding information from signals received over multiple channels: Techniques are described herein that can be used to decode signals received over multiple channels. The received signals may be processed using noise reducing logic. Signal-to-noise ratio information per channel for signals received over each of the multiple channels may be considered to determine reliability information concerning the slicer input... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate

20080069053 - Handover method and apparatus in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for minimizing data forwarding between Evolved Node Bs (ENBs) during a handover. A User Equipment (UE) sends a status report to an ENB of a source cell immediately before the handover occurs. In this manner, a target cell avoids retransmission of the RLC PDUs, which were... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080069054 - Communication system and method for selecting codeword thereof: A method for selecting a codeword in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communication system is disclosed. The method comprises steps providing a transmitter with codeword. A receiver receives the codeword candidates and calculates the corresponding bit error rate (BER) according to a decoding strategy. The receiver chooses a codeword candidate which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080069055 - High rate packet data transmission system: A hybrid ARQ method for packet data transmission in a mobile communication system wherein previously transmitted packets are combined with retransmitted packets. The packets are segmented into a plurality of protocol data units (PDUs), and each PDU is assigned a sequence number for identification purposes. The sequence number is transmitted... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069056 - Mobile station, base station, communication system, and communication method: A scrambler performs IQ multiplexing of output signals from a spreader and a distributor in order to generate a complex signal (I signal and Q signal), amplitude coefficients βcc(I) and βcc(Q) are determined in accordance with signal powers on I axis and Q axis.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069057 - Mobile station, base station, communication system, and communication method: A scrambler performs IQ multiplexing of output signals from a spreader and a distributor in order to generate a complex signal (I signal and Q signal), amplitude coefficients βcc(I) and βcc(Q) are determined in accordance with signal powers on I axis and Q axis.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069059 - Channel allocation for access point in mesh network: A channel allocation method for dynamically allocating channels of a plurality of radio interfaces at each access point included in a mesh network is provided. The method includes the steps of (a) acquiring, at each access point, in-node information about the access point itself, and (b) grouping high-traffic access points... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069058 - Method for allocating transmission capacities during a signal transmission, base station, and mobile terminal: Transmission capacities are allocated during a signal transmission from a base station of a cellular radio network to a number of mobile terminals, the base station simultaneously sending a plurality of oriented radio beams. A first candidate set of radio beams is defined, the main parameters thereof changing only slowly... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080069060 - Accommodating wideband and narrowband communication devices: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate supporting narrowband and wideband operation within a wideband wireless communication environment. For example, wideband operation can be enhanced by enabling faster communication of information as compared to narrowband operation, transfer of supplemental data available to wideband devices, and the like. Pursuant to another... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080069063 - Methods and apparatus related to multi-mode wireless communications device supporting both wide area network signaling and peer to peer signaling: Methods and apparatus related to the sharing of wide area network (WAN) uplink bandwidth with peer to peer communication signaling usage are described. A multi-mode wireless communications device supporting both WAN communications and peer to peer communications includes: a transmitter chain for generating signals having a first RF frequency, a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080069062 - Methods and apparatus related to power control and/or interference management in a mixed wireless communications system: Methods and apparatus related to the sharing of wide area network (WAN) uplink bandwidth with peer to peer communication signaling usage are described. A base station transmits a signal to be used by a peer to peer wireless terminal in controlling its peer to peer transmit power level. The peer... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080069061 - Concept for enabling access to a network using local wireless network: It is disclosed that a private local wireless network can be used for the public access to a network (5). The local wireless network can comprise a wireless access point (2). According to the invention the owner of a local wireless network can become a mini telecom operator that provides... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20080069064 - System and method for implementing local base stations: A wireless communication system includes mobile devices and a local area network. Local base stations are coupled to the local area network. Each base station has a unique address on the network and is configured to transmit and receive data packets to and from the mobile devices and to transfer... Agent: Joseph M. Sauer, Esq. Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue

20080069065 - Method of seamlessly roaming between multiple wireless networks using a single wireless network adaptor: A method of roaming between access points on the same or different wireless networks using a single wireless network interface adaptor. A device will establish a connection with a second wireless network access point while still connected with a first wireless network access point such that the device can concurrently... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20080069067 - Apparatus, systems, and methods for mobile client secure session parameter updates: Apparatus, systems, and methods described herein may securely update a set of session parameters in a wireless, packet-switched network without having to disconnect a current session and perform a re-association. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080069073 - Communication apparatus, network apparatus, communication system, communicating method, communicating program, and recording medium: With regard to a communication apparatus including a plurality of interfaces, complex call reception is achieved through a plurality of the interfaces by permitting or not permitting an incoming call depending on communication contents, such as voice calls and data calls such as e-mails. The communication apparatus is wirelessly connected... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080069071 - Dynamic selection of wireless information communication modes for a wireless communication device: A wireless communication system, and method therefore, dynamically selects a wireless communication mode for wirelessly communicating information to at least one wireless communication device (104). The method includes receiving at least one request for wireless communication of information to at least one wireless communication device (104). A total number of... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080069072 - Fraudulent synchronization burst detection: During operation of a secondary communication system (100), a random exponential back off for future sync bursts will be executed following the detection of an unauthenticated beacon. More particularly, a cognitive radio (104) acts on every sync burst received, until acting on one results in the reception of no beacon... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080069070 - Method and apparatus for supporting mobility in inter technology networks: Various embodiments are described for supporting mobility in an inter-technology network. Such a network (300, e.g.) includes multiple interconnected access networks, utilizing various access technologies, and perhaps having overlapping, but non-aligned coverage areas. The prior art relies on remote units to originate registration signaling as they move from one service... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080069069 - Method for establishing voice communications using a mobile handset: A mobile handset transmits a radio frequency (RF) signal. The mobile handset determines when it is in close proximity to a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) capable device. If the mobile handset is in close proximity to a VoIP capable device, then the RF signal to the base station is... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20080069068 - Providing a client with wireless link quality, and network information: An apparatus and method of an access node of a mesh network providing a client with wireless link quality information is disclosed. The method includes the access node receiving a probe request from the client. The access node generates a probe response to the probe request. The probe response includes... Agent: Tropos Networks

20080069066 - System and method for optimizing walsh code assignments: A wireless communication system is disclosed, including a network and a plurality of base stations coupled to the network, wherein each of the base stations are adapted to transmit only a Pilot channel information, one or more Paging channel information, and a Sync channel information using a first group of... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20080069076 - Spread spectrum communication device and spread spectrum communication method: In a compressed mode, a spread spectrum communication device interleaves bit units across multiple frames using an interleaver, reduces the spreading factor using a framing/spreading unit, outputs the compressed mode frames at a predetermined compressed mode frame timing, and increases the average transmission power in the compressed mode at a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069077 - Spread spectrum communication device and spread spectrum communication method: In a compressed mode, a spread spectrum communication device interleaves bit units across multiple frames using an interleaver, reduces the spreading factor using a framing/spreading unit, outputs the compressed mode frames at a predetermined compressed mode frame timing, and increases the average transmission power in the compressed mode at a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069078 - Spread spectrum communication device and spread spectrum communication method: In a compressed mode, a spread spectrum communication device interleaves bit units across multiple frames using an interleaver, reduces the spreading factor using a framing/spreading unit, outputs the compressed mode frames at a predetermined compressed mode frame timing, and increases the average transmission power in the compressed mode at a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069074 - Successive interference cancellation for multi-codeword transmissions: A method of signal processing in a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) including multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) functionality. The method includes the WTRU receiving a plurality of simultaneous signals, performing a first process on at least one of the plurality of simultaneous signals, transmitting a feedback signal based on the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080069075 - Transmission power control method and mobile station: The present invention avoids deterioration in the radio quality caused by a transmission interruption of uplink user data, by periodically controlling an outer loop transmission power. A transmission power control method according to the present invention includes: determining, at a radio network controller RNC, a transmission period and notifying the... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080069079 - System and method for spectrum sharing: A system and method of predicting the availability of a communication channel in a frequency sharing spectrum based on the expected probability of near-term transmissions by other users, the priority of the communication, the type of waveform, channel noise sampling, and/or channel availability.... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080069080 - Method of acquiring uplink synchronization for mobile wimax system analyzer: Disclosed herein is a method of acquiring Uplink (UL) synchronization for a mobile WiMax system analyzer. When a DL sub-frame is received, the method is performed on a Portable Subscriber Station (PSS) having a test mode function of creating a UL sub-frame through the mobile WiMax system analyzer having signal... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080069081 - Path discovery and analytics for network data: A solution is provided that efficiently tracks user paths within a large network. Raw node visit data may be received that indicates which users visited which nodes in the network at which time. This data may then be organized into sessions. Unique pathviews may be calculated for each session of... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/yahoo

20080069082 - Service router for use with a service-oriented architecture environment: A service router for use with a service-oriented architecture environment. In accordance with an embodiment, the principles governing the topology of computer networks can be similarly applied to the service space—from small federated Service Segments (or sub-domains), to large public federated Service Domains. At the heart of the Service Network... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080069084 - Method and telecommunication system for initiating an enhanced communication connection: The invention relates generally to a method for initiating an enhanced communication connection, between a calling party (A) and a called party (B), within a telecommunication network system comprising multiple interconnected networks, said enhanced communication connection comprising a circuit switched connection and a packet-switched connection, the method according to the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080069083 - Vop (voice over packet) automatic call distribution: A system for automatically routing calls in a voice-over-packet (VOP) environment at a customer's premises without using a private branch exchange (PBX) is provided. One embodiment of the system includes a VOP-signal monitoring component that can monitor an incoming packet-based data stream to identify VOP data that is associated with... Agent: Sprint Communications Company L.p.

20080069085 - Method for controlling vcc functions initiated by network and terminal and network server thereof: A method and terminal for controlling Voice Call Continuity (VCC) functions initiated by a network, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes receiving, by a terminal, a VCC function notification message, the VCC function notification message including VCC enabling information indicating whether a VCC function of the terminal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080069086 - Mobile communication system based on ip and session initiation method thereof: The present invention relates to an internet protocol (IP) mobile communication system and a session initiation method thereof. In the IP mobile communication system, a session initiation process using a session initiation protocol is performed for real-time mobile multimedia communication. At this time, not only multimedia codec but also session... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080069087 - Voip interface using a wireless home entertainment hub: A method of presenting program content to a user moving in a multiple zone home entertainment system using a wireless home entertainment hub comprises causing program content to be presented to a user using a first set of sink devices in a first zone, where each sink device of the... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080069088 - Hierarchy encoding apparatus and hierarchy encoding method: The present invention relates to a method and base station in a mobile communication system for relocating from a controlling base station to another base station within a mobile communication network resource management control functionality of shared channels in a plurality of cells, each cell being controlled by a base... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080069089 - Method for transmitting signalling information via a network limiting element in a communications network: A method for transmitting signaling information via a network limiting element, which interconnects a packet-switched communications network and a circuit-switched communications network is provided. The network limiting element having interfaces that are respectively connected to the packet-switched communications network by a message-oriented control channel and a connection-oriented control channel. At... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080069090 - Methods and apparatus for data communication: A data communication apparatus, comprising an interface for enabling communication with a remote entity via a network and a control entity in communication with said interface. The control entity is operative to establish a packet-switched connection with the remote entity through the network and to negotiate with the remote entity... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20080069091 - Data transfer method, apparatus and computer program product: The present invention provides a method, an apparatus and a computer program product for transferring a digital object from a source to a destination. The method includes splitting the digital object into a plurality of parts forming a first set of parts and a set of remaining parts. The method... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20080069095 - Method and apparatus for configuring internet protocol address, information server, and information storage medium storing data format of message therefor: A method and apparatus for configuring an (Internet protocol) IP address, an information server, and an information storage medium storing a data format of a message therefor. The method includes obtaining information on a method of configuring an IP address of a new network after a handover is performed by... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080069096 - Method and apparatus for configuring internet protocol address, information server, and information storage medium storing data format of message therefor: A method and apparatus for configuring an (Internet protocol) IP address, an information server, and an information storage medium storing a data format of a message therefore. The method includes obtaining information on a method of configuring an IP address of a new network after a handover is performed by... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080069097 - Printing device and logic packet processing method: Disclosed herein is a printing device connected to a client, the printing device including: a reception unit which receives plural types of logic packets from the client; a hardware packet processing unit which processes the logic packets by hardware; a software packet processing unit which includes a microprocessor and processes... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080069094 - Urgent packet latency control of network on chip (noc) apparatus and method of the same: An urgent packet latency control of a network on chip (NoC) apparatus and a method of urgent packet latency control of a NoC are provided. The urgent NoC packet latency control apparatus includes: an urgent packet determination unit which determines whether a packet is an urgent packet based on a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080069092 - Information processing device, communication processing device, information processing system, information processing method, communication processing method, and program: An information processing device 1 includes a transmission judging section 11 for judging whether to transmit a repetition packet, a life judging section 12 for judging whether to set a life not reaching a server device 3 to the repetition packet, a life setting section 14 for setting the life... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080069093 - Systems and methods for determining a flow of data: A method for determining a flow of data is described. The method includes determining whether a packet including a first number of at least one bit within a first set is assigned a classification value based on the at least one bit within the first set and determining a result... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080069098 - Group communication system and method: Provided is a system and method for directing group communication in a system environment that has a plurality of discrete application nodes networked with at least one discrete memory node, establishing a shared memory providing a passive message queue. A code library permits an application node member of a group... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080069099 - Multicast data communication method, multicast data communication system, repeater, repeating method, and medium for storing repeating programs: A multicast data communication system is provided that has high security, and prevents problems such as an attack by a malicious user creating a great number of meaningless tables at nodes in the network. Clients regularly transmit request packets toward a server; a node receives the request packet, and subsequently... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080069100 - System and method for distributed multicast routing: A distributed router composed of individual units connected by links in a routing fabric which appears to be a single network entity routes multicast packets by bridging to the final unit in the fabric. At the final unit the packet is replicated as necessary and routed. The scheme avoids multiple... Agent: 3com Corporation

20080069106 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus according to the present embodiment for relaying communication between a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus through a plurality of communication paths is composed of storing means for storing receiving information received from the first information processing apparatus, communicating means for sending the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080069103 - Indicator packets for process/forward decision: A first interconnect agent may append indicator packets to a normal packet depending on the destination of the normal packet. A second interconnect agent may receive packets from the first agent over a first point-to-point link. Logic in the second agent may interpret the number of indicator packets, if any,... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Intel

20080069102 - Method and system for policy-based address allocation for secure unique local networks: The present invention advantageously provides a method, system and apparatus for allocating addresses to secure unique local networks by providing a brokered federated policy and identity management system, the brokered federated policy and identity management system having an address domain manager that allocates network addresses, the address domain manager arranged... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20080069107 - Scalable packet based network: A network node for a scalable packet based network comprising ports for reception and transmission of data packets of network segments connected to the respective ports of the network node, a forwarding table which stores for each port of the network node addresses of nodes reachable through the respective port... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080069101 - System and method of routing packets: A method comprising determining a source bearer for data, determining address information; and processing said data in accordance with a determined source bearer and said determined address information.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080069104 - Systems and methods for selecting efficient connection paths between computing devices: A method for determining a communication path between a first computing device and a second computing comprises: receiving, at a second computing device, a plurality of IP addresses for a first computing device; establishing a primary connection between the first and second computing devices using a first one of the... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP

20080069105 - Method and system for controlling access to communication networks, related network and computer program therefor: A system for controlling access of a mobile terminal to a communication network including a set of terminals, wherein said mobile terminal obtains access to the network as a result of a successful authentication procedure. The system includes an authenticator module for performing the authentication procedure of the mobile terminal... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080069108 - Method for inserting length indicator in protocol data unit of radio link control: A method for inserting a PDU LI in an RLC is disclosed. According to the preferred embodiment, if a current PDU size corresponds to the total size of components of the PDU and the current PDU has information indicating that the current PDU size corresponds to the total size of... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080069112 - Protocol and method of via field compression in session initiation protocol signaling for 3g wireless networks: As SIP usage becomes prolific in 3G wireless communications, challenges are presented to using the current SIP protocols for real-time communications due to the limited signaling compression offered via SIP become. Signaling introduces unwanted delays on limited bandwidth and increases the call setup time. Additionally, SIP messages are large—from a... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080069113 - Method and system for controlling atm traffic using bandwidth allocation technology: A method and system for managing asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) traffic in a computer system is disclosed. The computer system is used in sending, receiving, or sending and receiving a plurality of ATM flows. Each ATM flow has a plurality of ATM cells, a minimum ATM bandwidth guarantee, and a... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080069114 - Communication device and method: A communication device and method for restraining frames from being discarded when the number of physical links constituting a communication path has changed while at the same time keeping the traffic amounts of the individual physical links as even as possible. A table memory stores an allocation table showing the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080069109 - System for delay optimization for scheduling in bufferless crossbar switches: A system for delay optimization scheduling in bufferless crossbar switches includes a plurality of line cards, each line card having an ingress half, an egress half, and a partial scheduler, wherein each line card is configured to transmit scheduling information to a horizontal control broadcast network and a vertical control... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080069115 - Bifurcated transaction selector supporting dynamic priorities in multi-port switch: A bifurcated selector for transmitting transactions from a plurality of transaction queues out a port of a switch. A transaction scheduler selects transactions of the queues for transmission to a device coupled to the port. A policy manager enforces a scheduling policy of the queues. An interface couples the policy... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20080069110 - Dynamic construction of label switching protocol interfaces: Techniques are described for dynamically constructing a label switching protocol interface in a network device. For example, the techniques allow dynamic construction of a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) interface. According to some embodiments, upon receiving a network communication from a subscriber, a network device determines whether the subscriber requires support... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20080069111 - Using qos tunnels for tcp latency optimization: A method of transmitting data from a source to a destination is described. A quality of service (QoS) tunnel is established between the source and the destination. Traffic from the source, and intended for the destination, will be sent via this tunnel. The traffic is manipulated by passing it through... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20080069116 - Network architecture with a light-weight tcp stack: In one aspect, there is provided a method for use by an edge device for establishing a connection with a server to support a full TCP connection between a client and the edge device. The method comprises establishing a full TCP connection with the server using a full TCP socket,... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080069117 - Method and apparatus for determining resource node, method of controlling resource node, resource node, and computer product: By transmitting information on a condition enabling execution of one service to a resource broker that manages an assignment state of a resource node used among services, a resource node enabling execution of one service out of resource nodes used among services is specified. And by receiving information on use... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080069118 - Broadcast acknowledgement in a network: The present technology relates to protocols relative to utility meters associated with an open operational framework. More particularly, the present subject matter relates to protocol subject matter for advanced metering infrastructure, adaptable to various international standards, while economically supporting a 2-way mesh network solution in a wireless environment, such as... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080069121 - Gateway for a local network system: A gateway (150) is connected to local networks (40, 45) of target devices (20-23). The gateway (150) has an event handling function (162) which stores events (173) which may occur and, for each event, commands for controlling the target devices (20-23). A remote server (50) supports an application (130) which... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080069119 - Method and system for processing multiple communication sessions in a communication network: A method and system for controlling a plurality of sessions corresponding to at least one communication service in a communication network. The method comprises evaluating at least one of a plurality of personalized policies and information related to at least one communication device of a targeted-user. The method further comprises... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080069120 - Methods and systems for combining media inputs for messaging: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for combining media inputs at an external, central server for messaging.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080069122 - Service communication control method, service relaying apparatus, management server, portal server, and service communication control system: A service communication control system includes a user terminal connected to a user network. The service communication control system also includes communication gateway, a management server, and an application server connected to a communication carrier network. The communication using a communication protocol dedicated for the application service is performed between... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080069123 - Signal relay apparatus, node apparatus, network system, virtual-link generating method, path calculating method, and computer product: A ROADM device generates link information including a virtual link in which a first link that is used by a node apparatus for transmitting a signal and a second link of a ROADM device that is capable of branching a signal transmitted via the first link when the signal is... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080069124 - System and method for supporting service networks in a service-oriented architecture environment: A system and method for supporting Service Networks in a SOA environment. In accordance with an embodiment, the principles governing the topology of computer networks can be similarly applied to the service space—from small federated Service Segments (or sub-domains), to large public federated Service Domains. At the heart of the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080069125 - Means and apparatus for a scalable congestion free switching system with intelligent control: This invention is directed to a parallel, control-information generation, distribution and processing system. This scalable, pipelined control and switching system efficiently and fairly manages a plurality of incoming data streams, and applies class and quality of service requirements. The present invention also uses scalable MLML switch fabrics to control a... Agent: Keith D. Nowak

20080069131 - Broadcast distributing system, broadcast distributing method, and network apparatus: An IP encapsulator in a broadcast distributing system divides broadcast data received from an image distributing source into packets, and IP-encapsulates the packets. The IP encapsulator transmits the IP-encapsulated packets to a subscriber line terminal (SLT) via a network. The SLT includes a memory that stores therein broadcast data, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080069126 - Method and system for buffering content: A method and apparatus for buffering content. Video content is received for two or more channels. The video content for the two or more channels is retained within two or more buffers of a video content storage module to enable trick play while viewing the video content.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080069127 - Network jitter smoothing with reduced delay: A method of compensating for jitter in a packet stream is described. The method comprises placing undecoded frames extracted from packets in the packet stream into a jitter buffer while decoding frames from the jitter buffer and placing the decoded frames into a sample buffer at a rate determined using... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080069128 - Transaction selector employing barrel-incrementer-based round-robin apparatus supporting dynamic priorities in multi-port switch: An apparatus selects one of N transaction queues from which to transmit a transaction out a port of a switch. A first input value specifies the last-selected queue. Only one of the N bits of the first value corresponding to the last selected queue is true. A second input value... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20080069129 - Transaction selector employing round-robin apparatus supporting dynamic priorities in multi-port switch: An apparatus for selecting one of N transaction queues from which to transmit a transaction out a switch port. P round-robin vectors of P queue priorities each have N bits that are a 1-bit left-rotated and subsequently sign-extended version of an N-bit input vector with a single bit true corresponding... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20080069130 - Transaction selector employing transaction queue group priorities in multi-port switch: An apparatus for selecting one of a plurality of transaction queues from which to transmit a transaction out of a port of a switch. The apparatus includes a group indicator, for each of the queues, for indicating which one of a plurality of groups of the queues the queue belongs... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20080069132 - Implementation defined segments for relational database systems: Embodiments disclosed herein provide an implementation defined segments (IDS) subsystem which allows new data segments to be added to an identity hub after deployment. A set of metadata tables are utilized to describe IDS, each of which is a data structure encapsulating a single row from a master data record... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080069133 - Ason/gmpls architecture extension for reservation based and time based automatic bandwidth service: A telecommunications network comprising components configured to implement a method comprising: receiving a reservation from a customer, reserving a network resource specified in the reservation, initiating the establishment of a reserved connection through a network, the reserved connection parameters based on the reservation, subsequent to the establishment of the reserved... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080069135 - Discreet control of data network resiliency: A method and system for discreetly controlling data network resiliency including: a plurality of networks, each of the plurality of networks connected to each other via a primary connection and a secondary connection; a source location for transmitting one or more packets; a destination location for receiving the one or... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20080069134 - Method and apparatus for rapid reconfiguration of a highly configurable wireless terminal radio transceiver: A reconfiguration unit capable of switching between multiple programmable modes of operation, said electronic device including a first set of programmable registers storing configuration data corresponding to a first mode of operation; a second set of programmable registers storing configuration data corresponding to a second mode of operation; a plurality... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080069136 - Integrated server module and method of resource management therefor: One embodiment of the disclosures made herein is a method for facilitating prescribed application functionality via a network element adapted for providing Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexing (DSLAM) functionality. In accordance with such a method, a first functionality server implements server-specific functionality whereby information associated with the server-specific functionality is... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080069137 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for selecting address used in communication: A determining unit determines whether a second bit string that forms an Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) address is included in a first bit string that forms an address for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) connection, and further determines whether the address for IPv6 connection is an extended address extended... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080069138 - System and method for managing bandwidth: A system for managing bandwidth use in a device. In a specific embodiment, the device is a network device that includes a first data scheduler that is adapted to initially share available device bandwidth among a first type of traffic and a second type of traffic on an as-needed basis.... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080069139 - Control system using a mini slot signal in a passive optical network: According to an aspect of this invention, dynamic bandwidth assignment (DBA) can be performed without interrupting communication of a regular cell and interfering with communication between child stations. In a passive optical network including a parent station and a plurality of child stations, a maintenance signal for a mini slot... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069140 - Method and apparatus for dynamic packet transport in cdma2000 networks: A method and apparatus for saving network resources in a CDMA2000 network, the method comprising the steps of receiving a data packet for a wireless data device at a base station controller in the CDMA2000 network; determining a frame transport capability of a forward common channel; checking whether the data... Agent: Moffat & Co

20080069141 - Messaging model and architecture: A system, architecture and model for facilitating extensible messaging and interaction are provided. The message system may use a messaging architecture that includes a domain message model, and open message model and a wire format. The wire format may implement primitive data types that may be used by the open... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080069142 - Method for handling radio bearer messages during reset and reestablishment in a wireless system: A method of transmitting downlink data after re-establishment of a universal terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN) acknowledged mode (AM) radio link control (RLC) entity includes receiving a plurality of RLC service data units (SDUs) from a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer of the UTRAN; dividing the received RLC SDUs... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080069143 - Method and device for xdsl hybrid access: A method for xDSL hybrid access includes: receiving pseudo cells and standard ATM cells from a subscriber terminal; wherein the pseudo cells carry VDSL data and the standard ATM cells carry ADSL data; reassembling the standard ATM cells into ADSL data frames and reassembling the pseudo cells into VDSL data... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080069144 - Method and system for an extended range ethernet line code: Aspects of a method and system for an extended range Ethernet line code are provided. A local PHY may enable converting Ethernet media independent interface (MII) data from a 4-bit packet stream to a 3-bit packet stream. The 3-bit packet stream may be mapped to first and second ternary bits... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080069145 - System and method for communicating data over communication channels: A communication system communication system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter inverts multiple bits of first transmission data, serializes the first transmission data to generate second transmission data, and provides the second transmission data to communication channels, in response to an error signal. The receiver inverts multiple bits... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080069146 - Multi-channel data transmission system for computer tomographs: A device in accordance with the invention for transmitting data between a rotating part and a stationary part of a computer tomograph comprises at least two couplers and receivers connected therewith for receiving signals from a transmission conductor arrangement. Using an evaluation means, a signal is selected from signals received... Agent: Daffer Mcdaniel LLP

20080069147 - Dtv transmitting system and receiving system and method of processing broadcast data: A digital television transmitting system includes a frame encoder, a block processor, a group formatter, and a multiplexer. The frame encoder forms an enhanced data frame and encodes the data frame for error correction and for error detection. The block processor further encodes the encoded data frame at a rate... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080069148 - Method for time division multiplexing data transport: A method for TDM data transport is disclosed. Configure a TDM logical port in the transmitting and receiving side respectively, and create a relationship between the TDM logical port of the transmitting side and that of the receiving side. When transmitting the TDM data, map original TDM data to a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080069150 - Precision time protocol emulation for network supportive of circuit emulation services: Precision Time Protocol (PTP) emulation service for a data communication network of a type that is adapted to support circuit emulation services (CES). The PTP emulation service enables seamless PTP-style clock synchronization over such a network using any combination of legacy switches, PTP boundary switches and PTP switches. The PTP... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080069149 - Synchronization recovery for multiple-link communications: Apparatus and methods of recovering synchronization for multiple-link communications are disclosed. Streams of communication traffic on a plurality of communication links from which communication traffic is to be extracted and combined into a single communication traffic stream are monitored for receipt of synchronization information for each link. In the event... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC.

20080069151 - Variable time division multiplex transmission system: A time division multiplex transmission system transmits information on multiple channels by using a transmission path with variable time division multiplexing. The variable time division multiplex transmission system of this invention is equipped with multiple channel devices 30 and a single transmission path 5 connected to these multiple channel devices.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080069152 - Method and arrangement for producing a time interval between data frames: The invention relates to producing data traffic where the time intervals between successive data frames follow a predetermined probability distribution. In the present invention, it is surprisingly discovered that a time interval of a desired length between successive data frames can be produced by setting a certain bit quantity of... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080069153 - Synchronization circuitry writing test data in a shift register in a short time period: Synchronization circuitry includes a switcher controlled by a central processing unit to select either received data or an output of the last stage of a shift register to input the selected data to the input of the first stage of the shift register. The central processing unit is able to... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080069154 - Transmission parameter recognition apparatus and method thereof: A transmission parameter recognition apparatus and the method thereof are disclosed. The transmission parameter recognition apparatus includes a correlation function processing module, a correlation symbol summing module and an energy interval detection module. The correlation function processing module computes a correction between two adjoining symbols in a sample sequence to... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080069155 - Systems and methods for analog channel reuse in a cable system: A system and method is disclosed allowing a cable network provider to dynamically allocate a network resource, in the form of channel bandwidth, for conveying either analog or digital assets. Certain assets are distributed in a cable network in an analog manner but only during certain time periods. The network... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080062856 - Bluetooth,internet,multimode tdma, gsm, spread spectrum, cdma: Bluetooth transmitter and receiver for transmitting and receiving voice signal and for providing received voice signal to a processor for processing demodulated Bluetooth signal. Location finding signal receiver, demodulator and processor for receiving, demodulating and processing a location finder signal into demodulated processed location finder signal and for processing location... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20080062857 - Method of ofdm communication using superposition coding: Improvements are provided in an OFDM network that uses superposition coding. A broadcast signal and e.g. a unicast signal are each subjected to OFDM modulation including processing by an IDFT, combined, and transmitted using non-orthogonal transmission resources. In one approach, the respective signals are combined after instead of before the... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20080062859 - Method and module for estimating transmission chanels of a multi-antenna multi-carrier system: A method and a module for estimating transmission channels in a multi-antenna system. A matrix A is calculated which is constructed in the form of blocks from training sequences and an appropriate Fourier matrix. For a receive antenna RXj concerned, the method and the module calculate Nt impulse responses in... Agent: Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080062860 - Efficient joint detection: K data signals, or bursts, are transmitted over a shared spectrum in a code division multiple access communication format. A combined signal is received and sampled over the shared spectrum, as a plurality of received vector versions. The combined signal includes the K transmitted data signals. A plurality of system... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080062858 - Mb-ofdm transmitter and receiver and signal processing method thereof: A method of improving frequency diversity of a signal that includes a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols comprises receiving an input data sequence, mapping the input data sequence to a transmission data sequence, wherein the mapping includes performing a mapping operation and generating an OFDM symbol using... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080062861 - Constructing a repair path in the event of non-availability of a routing domain: In one embodiment, an apparatus and method are described for constructing a repair path in the event of non-availability of a routing domain component of a routing domain comprising, as components, links and nodes. The apparatus is arranged to receive respective network repair addresses from each of the far-side and... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080062862 - System and method for scheduling routing table calculation in link state routing protocols: A method, and a system, called link state advertisement (“LSA“) correlation, for scheduling routing table updates following a topology change. LSA correlation correlates information in the LSAs to identify the topology change that led to their generation. A routing table update is performed when a topology change has been identified.... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080062863 - Transaction timeout handling in communication session management: This disclosure describes techniques for handling transaction timeouts during setup and management of communication sessions. In particular, a communication device may be configured to handle transaction timeouts differently based on the type of signaling and control message that experienced the transaction timeout. In one aspect, the communication devices may handle... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080062864 - Fault-tolerant ethernet network: Fault-tolerant Ethernet is provided through the use of special interfaces providing duplicate ports that may be alternatively enabled with the same network address. A switching between the ports, corrects for single faults in a two-way redundant system without time-consuming reconfiguration of other end devices or the need for complex middleware... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./bf

20080062865 - Duty cycle control for networks of nodes: Data packets from a network node may be monitored at a relay station associated with the network that is configured to forward the data packets to a base station. The network node may transmit the data packets according to a first duty cycle. At least one transmission parameter associated with... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080062866 - Methods which avoid cluster in a wireless mesh network and systems and devices thereof: The present invention discloses methods, systems and devices which avoid a cluster in a wireless network. The method of the present invention may include locating a node with a direct or indirect connection to a destination.... Agent: Jenny Chen

20080062870 - Hive-based peer-to-peer network: A collaborative data transferring process can combine segments from all known servers and peer-to-peer (P2P) sources simultaneously, regardless of their native protocols. The process uses variable data block size that can be dynamically selected according to sizes provided by sources, e.g., according to the protocol of the source, and can... Agent: Patent Law Offices Of David Millers

20080062867 - Method and apparatus for controlling congestion of nodes in ad-hoc network: Provided is a method and apparatus for controlling congestion of a node in an ad-hoc network comprising: classifying a channel state into a busy channel state and an idle channel state and then monitoring the channel state; performing contention for acquiring a channel with neighboring nodes when data to be... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080062868 - Method and apparatus for managing queues: There is provided a system and method of managing a multi-priority queue having a queue-fill reporter, a first predetermined queue-fill threshold for stopping the queue-fill reporter, a second and third predetermined queue-fill threshold for indicating that the queue-fill reporter can start reporting, and a first timer for allowing the queue-fill... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20080062869 - Method and an apparatus for data streaming: An apparatus and a method for data streaming, as well as a combination, of an apparatus for data streaming and a plurality of user devices, are presented. The apparatus is adapted to receive a plurality of streaming requests from a plurality of user devices, the apparatus comprising a control unit... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080062871 - Active mode internet protocol gateway relocation in a partial meshed deployment: Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to facilitating optimized routing and mobility for communication sessions in partial mesh network deployments. According to one embodiment, routing a packet flow in a communication session includes facilitating a communication session between a first mobile node and a second mobile node. A packet flow from... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080062872 - Method and system for communicating data in xdsl using data retransmission: A method and system for communicating data in an xDSL data retransmission mode is disclosed. A data transmission unit (DTU) is defined. The DTU is sent in an xDSL data stream. A retransmit container is further defined a as a time slot that corresponds to a sent DTU. A copy... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080062873 - Credit-based rate control for high-speed interfaces: In accordance with at least one embodiment, credit-based flow control for high-speed interfaces is provided. Decoupling (separation) of high speed interface reference clocks from the interface data rates is enabled. Such decoupling allows consolidation of reference clocks used for high speed interfaces, thereby enabling one reference clock to be used... Agent: Ross D. Snyder & Associates, Inc.

20080062874 - Network monitoring device and network monitoring method: A transmitting unit includes a plurality of ports, and transmits a monitor packet from a port corresponding to a target network to be monitored. An extracting unit extracts transmitted monitor packet from received packets. A judging unit judges whether a loop is formed in a network that is configure by... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080062875 - Communication terminal, communication control method, and communication control program: Transmission of excess segments to a network can be effectively inhibited. A received byte calculation section 14 calculates, at a sending side, the number of bytes of segments which arrive at a receiving side within a period of a minimum value of RTT measured by a minimum time measurement section... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080062877 - Adaptive packet size modification for voice over packet networks: A system and method for reducing end-to-end delay associated with telephone calls carried over a voice over packet network in a manner that avoids overloading of the network. The system and method involves monitoring one or more parameters indicative of an amount of bandwidth being utilized on the voice over... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080062876 - Smart ethernet edge networking system: A system is provided for controlling the flow of data-packet traffic through an Ethernet telecommunications network having a multiplicity of nodes interconnected by multiple network links. Incoming data-packet traffic from multiple customer connections are received at a first node for entry into the network via the first node. Flow control... Agent: Stephen G. Rudisill Jenkens & Gilchrist

20080062880 - Methods for ensuring medium access in a wireless network: A method, performed by an access point controls transmission of a data stream from a station, by determining whether or not to admit the transmission of the data stream. The method includes receiving, from the station, a QoS registration request frame, indicating a request for transmission of a data stream,... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080062878 - Network array, forwarder device and method of operating a forwarder device: A network array (100) comprises a first network (101) having a plurality of first nodes (103, 104, 109), comprises a second network (102) having a plurality of second nodes (106, 109), and comprises a forwarder node (109). The forwarder node (109) constitutes one of the first nodes (103, 104, 109)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080062879 - Systems and methods of improving performance of transport protocols in a multi-path environment: Devices, systems, and methods of improving transport protocol performance in a multi-path environment are disclosed. One network device comprises a transport-layer proxy; and a multi-path traffic distributor coupled to the transport-layer proxy. The transport-layer proxy is configured to receive packets, each associated with a transport-layer connection, from a transport-layer endpoint.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080062881 - Apparatus and method for delivering messages over multiple mediums: A method for transmitting data to a communication device that is configured to receive data through a plurality of alternative communications mediums. The method comprises: determining a priority associated with a data message that is to be provided to the communications device; selecting a desired communications medium for providing the... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20080062882 - Method and system for protecting label switched path: A method for protecting a label switched path is disclosed. The method includes: setting, in a record_route object node list, interface classification identifications in record_route objects corresponding to interfaces of resource reservation protocol nodes respectively, and delivering the list downstream; when a downstream resource reservation protocol node receives the record_route... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080062883 - Monitor system and identifier assignment method adopted in monitor system: In a device monitor system of the invention including multiple devices, a monitor apparatus, and a terminal that are mutually connected via a network, a serial number (first identifier of physically identifying the device) and a private address of the device are sent from the terminal to the monitor apparatus... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080062885 - Major problem review and trending system: Technology is disclosed for implementing a major problem review process. Incidents are recorded in a common data schema and the data is then used to facilitate an IT organization's major problem review process. Reporting is provided on the data in a format that allows trend information to be readily compiled.... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080062884 - Selectable loss of signal (los) criteria: A system and method are provided for selecting loss of signal (LOS) criteria in a serial communications receiver. The method receives a serial stream of digital data and selects LOS criteria. The serial stream of digital data is compared to the selected LOS criteria. In response to the serial stream... Agent: Gerald W. Maliszewski

20080062887 - Method and apparatus for presenting quality information in a communication system: A method and apparatus for presenting quality information in a communication system is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a terminal device having a controlling element for processing Voice over IP (VoIP) data exchanged with a communication system, and a display element... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080062886 - Method and apparatus for resource allocation for stream data processing: Resource allocations in stream data processing systems are performed to allocate the resources in a cost-effective manner by formulating the resource allocation problem as a linear program. For a problem with a single output, a backward algorithm or method is used that produces an optimal solution in linear time. For... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080062888 - Channel monitoring for improved parameter selection in a communication system: A method is provided for automatically improving throughput of an active channel in a communication system comprising: receiving input from one or more modules that identify and characterize impairments in the active channel; monitoring the input to track changes in the impairments; and changing channel parameters to improve throughput on... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080062889 - Establishment of multiple upstream docsis logical channels based upon performance: A process for grouping cable modems by type/modulation profile and/or throughput ability into different logical groups. Each logical group is commanded to transmit on an upstream which has a burst profile set to effectively use the throughput ability of the cable modem. Some species monitor initial ranging bursts and separate... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080062890 - Method, computer program product and system for managing usage of marginal capacity of computer resources: Utilization of at least one resource is managed in a computer system by monitoring usage of capacity of the computer resource, including monitoring usage of base capacity of the computer resource and marginal capacity of the computer resource exceeding the base capacity and determining whether usage of the computer resource... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080062891 - Systems, devices, and methods for network routing: Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method, which can comprise providing a preferred route for a predetermined block of traffic to a router. The predetermined block of traffic can be destined for a predetermined destination. The predetermined destination can be coupled to a network via a plurality of routers. The preferred... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080062892 - High speed bus protocol with programmable scheduler: A method of adapting the frequency of a protocol in a communication system is provided. The method includes changing a bus cycle used by communication nodes in a communication system based on cycle interval instructions.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080062893 - Method and apparatus for event-based exchange of information between communication devices conditioned on personal calendar information: A technique for supplying a data object to a user of a communication device is described. The technique comprises the step of receiving a call or session request from a first communication device seeking to initiate a call or session with a second communication device. Next, the technique determines whether... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080062894 - Cascaded display of video media: Instances of media items are generated from a selection of media items. The instances are scaled and concurrently transitioned through a display environment.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080062895 - Advisory systems and methods: A method, computer program product and computer platform for delivering allowing an advisory services provider to provide advisory services to an organisation is described. Information relating to a plurality of different topics is accessible over a computer network by a plurality of end users of the organisation. Access to the... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080062896 - Radio communication control apparatus and radio communication control method: A simultaneous transmission and reception controller 106 determines whether the simultaneous transmission and reception using the same frequency are possible, based on radio spectrum environment information of an opposite party of communication and radio spectrum environment information of a self-apparatus. When the simultaneous transmission and reception using the same frequency... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080062897 - Time division multiplexed communication bus and related methods: A time division multiplexed communication bus is disclosed that provides a low latency, low pin count solution for communications among information handling systems. The time division multiplexed serial bus is advantageous in providing communications among modular computing systems, passthrough modules and chassis management controllers, as part of a modular computing... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20080062898 - Low frequency bilateral communication over distributed power lines: A system and method for providing full-duplex data communications between an electric power distribution station and a power consumer via the power distribution line providing electric power is provided. A first information transmitter, coupled to the power distribution circuit, provides first information signals concurrently with the power signal to the... Agent: Attention Of D. Kent Stier Merchant & Gould P.C.

20080062900 - Device and network capable of mobile device management: A method and system for interfacing to an electronic device is disclosed. At least one server may be used to manage an electronic device over a wireless metropolitan area network. Accordingly, the electronic device, which may be a mobile device, may be activated over-the-air. The electronic device may be minimally... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080062899 - Method for data transmission between devices in a network: The present invention discloses a method for data transmission between devices in a network. In the method, a pipe control module is provided in each of the network devices, and the data transmission procedure comprises steps of: 1) encapsulating, respectively by the pipe control modules of a source device for... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080062901 - Radio apparatus: Radio apparatuses each has a plurality of channels and, when data is to be transmitted, selects a specific channel having relatively low signal interference from the plurality of channels. Each radio apparatus spreads transmission data with a prescribed spread code arbitrarily selected from a plurality of spread codes, and modulates... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080062902 - Wireless broadband service: A fixed broadband wireless data access service providing shared wide-band packet-switched data transport for high speed data access in areas where conventional ADSL service and fiber optic service are unavailable. The wireless data access service is a point-to-multipoint cellular-type network that connects customers to data service providers through the ATM... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080062903 - Spread spectrum communication device and spread spectrum communication method: In a compressed mode, a spread spectrum communication device interleaves bit units across multiple frames using an interleaver, reduces the spreading factor using a framing/spreading unit, outputs the compressed mode frames at a predetermined compressed mode frame timing, and increases the average transmission power in the compressed mode at a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080062904 - Wireless communication system and method: A method for processing wireless data in a wireless communication network, the wireless communication network including a plurality of intermediary nodes and a plurality of destination devices. The method includes determining at least one transmission path to each of the plurality of intermediary nodes. The at least one transmission path... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080062905 - Method and system for reducing message instances: A method and system for transmitting data with reduced message instances is disclosed. A wireless message network uses destination identifiers and message pointers to direct message data to multiple mobile units and avoid duplication of messages. In order to provide increased efficiency in the case of duplicate messages, a pointer... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080062911 - Apparatus and method for buffering packets in a multi-hop relay system supporting hop-by-hop retransmission: A packet buffering apparatus and method in a multi-hop relay system supporting hop-by-hop retransmission are provided. In the buffering apparatus and method, a first buffer buffers a user packet until the user packet is successfully transmitted to a next node, and a second buffer buffers the user packet until the... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080062909 - Apparatus and method for supporting distributed spatial multiplexing and distributed spatial diversity in multi-hop relay system: An apparatus and method for performing distributed spatial multiplexing and distributed spatial diversity in a multi-hop relay system are provided. In the multi-hop relay system, a transmitter includes an outer coder for performing outer coding on transmission data, an outer interleaver for interleaving data received from the outer coder, an... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080062907 - Communication systems: A transmission method for use in a wireless communication system is provided. The wireless communication system includes a source apparatus and a destination apparatus, where at least transmission from the source apparatus to the destination apparatus is conducted via an intermediate apparatus. The source apparatus is arranged to transmit an... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080062908 - Communication systems: A transmission method for use in a wireless communication system is provided. The system includes a source apparatus, a destination apparatus and an intermediate apparatus, where the source apparatus and destination apparatus are arranged to transmit and receive information via the intermediate apparatus, and where at least the source apparatus... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080062906 - Repeater that reports detected neighbors: This disclosure is directed to a repeater and base station control device implemented in a wireless communication system. The repeater includes a control unit capable of detecting signals sent from various base stations in the wireless communication system. In accordance with this disclosure, the repeater identifies a set of base... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080062910 - Relay apparatus, relay method, and recording medium storing relay program: A relay apparatus includes: a terminal position information updating part for updating position information of a wireless terminal and position information of a wired terminal stored in a terminal position information storing part, to position information of the wireless terminal and position information of the wired terminal obtained by a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080062912 - Method and apparatus for maximizing the use of available capacity in a communication system: A method and apparatus for maximizing the use of available capacity in a communication system. The forward link in the mobile radio system includes a plurality of traffic streams sent on at least one channel from the base station to the mobile stations. A first output power level associated with... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080062913 - Method and apparatus for providing enhancement to periodical reporting criteria for user equipment (ue) positioning: The present invention provides a new and unique method and apparatus for determining the location of user equipment in a navigation system by sending one or more measurement reports from the user equipment to a network element; wherein the user equipment omits sending a measurement report if a set of... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080062914 - System and method for radio frequency resource allocation: Systems and methods for allocating radio frequency resources are provided. The radio frequency resources are allocated to a mobile station in time or frequency alignment based on signal quality measures. In an orthogonal frequency division multiple access system, the allocated radio frequency resources include one or more tones and one... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20080062915 - Apparatus and method for automatic repeat request in multi input multi output system: An apparatus and method for Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) in a Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) system. The method includes computing weights of erroneous packets and weights of transmitting antennas by using channel information; sorting the weights of the erroneous packets in descending order; sorting the weights of the transmitting... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080062916 - Method and system for loop-free ad-hoc routing: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates loop-free ad-hoc routing in a wireless network. During operation, the system advertises a local sequence number associated with a local node for a destination node, and receives a first route request at the local node, wherein the route request... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080062917 - Mobile communications system conforming to mobile ip, and home agent, mobile node and method used in the mobile communications system: A home agent used in a mobile communications system conforming to Mobile IP is disclosed. A mobile node belongs to the home agent, and the home agent has a global IP address that is a home address common to a plurality of mobile nodes. The home agent includes: an interface... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080062918 - Peer to peer wireless communication conflict resolution: In accordance with a method for wireless communication, in a coexistence system comprising a plurality of different wireless interface devices within a single integrated circuit, wherein each of the plurality of wireless interface devices utilizes a corresponding different wireless communication standard, and when one of the plurality of wireless interface... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080062920 - Method and system for providing channel state information feedback in a wireless communication system: A method of providing channel state information feedback in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes measuring original channel state information for each of a plurality of channels. An offset vector is applied to the original channel state information to generate modified channel state information. A subset of... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080062919 - Methods and apparatus for providing a channel avoidance system for a platform with a plurality of wireless communication devices: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing a channel avoidance system for a platform with a plurality of wireless communication devices are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080062921 - Ultra-wideband communication systems and methods: 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.

20080062925 - Controlling reverse link interference in private access points for wireless networking: In a radio access network in which a first access terminal uses a first access point to access the network and a second access terminal uses a second access point to access the network, interference is reduced in communications between the first access terminal and the first access point by... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080062928 - Inter-symbol interference cancellation method for orthogonal frequency division multiple access system: An inter-symbol interference cancellation method for an orthogonal frequency division multiple access system is provided. The inter-symbol interference cancellation method includes transmitting, at a base station, an OFDMA symbol having a first half part and a second half part divided in time; receiving, at a mobile station, the OFDMA symbol;... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080062929 - Methods and apparatus for communicating information using beacon signals: Methods and apparatus related to efficiently communicating information, such as base station identification information and/or timing information, via beacon signals are described. Base station identification information and/or timing information is communicated via beacon signals. A beacon coding scheme is utilized in which different base station sectors in the communications system... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080062922 - Methods and apparatus for providing a handover control system associated with a wireless communication network: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing a handover control system associated with a wireless communication network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080062926 - Mih protocol state machine: The preferred embodiments relate to, among other things, systems and methods for a media-independent-handover (MIH) Protocol State Machine. The present application provides, among other things, a MIH protocol state machine system and method for both source and receiver nodes. A system and/or method is described for facilitating media independent handover... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLC

20080062923 - System and method for reliable multicast over shared wireless media for spectrum efficiency and battery power conservation: According to one embodiment of the invention, wireless spectrum and battery power conservation is achieved by through an adaptable multicast group communication scheme. This involves a method in which a request to join a multicast group is received by an access point or other multicast transmitting device. The request includes... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080062924 - Communication handover method and communication message processing method: The present invention discloses a technique, by which it is possible to quickly decide a PMTU relating to a new data path after a handover even when a mobile node has performed the handover. According to this technique, a mobile node (MN) 10 for performing handover notifies an IP address... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080062927 - Delegating network processor operations to star topology serial bus interfaces: An advanced processor comprises a plurality of multithreaded processor cores each having a data cache and instruction cache. A data switch interconnect is coupled to each of the processor cores and configured to pass information among the processor cores. A messaging network is coupled to each of the processor cores... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20080062932 - Hsdpa cqi, ack, nack power offset known in node b in srnc: High speed data packet access (HSDPA) is facilitated by ensuring that power offsets are delivered to the base station (Node B) so that the new functions envisioned therefor having to do with scheduling and retransmission handling can be carried out effectively. A signal primitive having one or more information elements... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080062930 - Method for performing packet switched handover in a mobile communication system: The invention relates to a method and system for performing packet switched handover in a mobile communication network. The system comprises a mobile node, a first and a second packet switching node. The method enables the parallel sending of logical link layer frames from the first and the second packet... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080062931 - Mobile radio communication system, communication apparatus applied in mobile radio communication system, and mobile radio communication method: In the mobile radio communication system where the UMTS and an another system coexist an idle slot for observing the frequency component of another system is inserted in one superframe of UMTS. The duration of this idle slot is at most half of the duration of one frame that form... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080062934 - Methods and apparatus for selecting a wireless network based on quality of service (qos) criteria associated with an application: In one illustrative example, a mobile communication device has a plurality of software applications including an Internet browser application, an electronic mail (e-mail) communication application, and an audio or video player application. The mobile device is adapted to receive, from wireless communication networks or through use thereof, available quality of... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20080062933 - Methods, device and system for access point facilitated fast handoff: Methods, devices and system for access point facilitated fast handoff are provided. Each access point (AP) in a wireless local area network is provided with a primary interface and a secondary interface wherein the primary interface performs normal communication with user terminals and broadcasts standard beacon frames on its working... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080062935 - Preamble receiving apparatus: Provided is a preamble receiving apparatus, including: a receiving unit receiving from a transmitting apparatus a frame having a format which contains a preamble section and a margin section subsequent to the preamble section; and a reception processing unit detecting a preamble signal which is transmitted in the preamble section... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080062938 - Method and apparatus for sending voice message in mobile network: To use the supplementary services of a conventional mobile communication service, such as Short Message Service (SMS) and Voice Mail System (VMS) service, there are problems in that an access method to each service must be known and several steps must be undergone. The present invention relates to a method... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20080062936 - Method and system for processing group resource allocations: A method and system for processing, in a wireless communication device, data concerning a group resource allocation enables efficient use of radio frequency resources. The method includes processing a group properties message received from a radio access network (block 1410). The group properties message comprises group properties for a scheduling... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080062937 - Telephonic device and service center-assisted network setup: The embodiments of the present invention provide methods, devices, and systems wherein a network may be configured by using a telephonic relay device to transmit a set of configuration data to one or more nodes to be configured to operably communicate with each other within a network. In other embodiments,... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, PC

20080062939 - Wireless communications between a peripheral and a mobile unit in a wireless network environment: Systems and methods of wireless communications between a peripheral and a mobile unit in a wireless network environment are described. In one aspect, a trigger frame is wirelessly transmitted in accordance with a wireless local area network (LAN) communications protocol in response to a determination to acquire data wirelessly from... Agent: Edouard Garcia

20080062942 - Dynamic transmit power configuration system for wireless network environments: Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating the configuration of transmit power and coverage areas corresponding to access points in a wireless network environment. The present invention in one embodiment facilitates the dynamic configuration of coverage boundaries across a plurality of access points, improving the performance of the wireless network environment.... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080062940 - Presence-based communication between local wireless network access points and mobile devices: Systems and methods for communication between local wireless networks and mobile devices and more particularly, to sending presence-based content to mobile devices over local wireless network access points. The method includes receiving notification that the mobile device has established a wireless network connection with a LWN through a WAP of... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080062941 - Protocol for configuring a wireless network: A target device joins a wireless network by attempting to locate an existing routing device in a predefined neighborhood of the wireless network, designating the existing routing device as a master routing device if the existing routing device is located in the predefined neighborhood, where the master routing device is... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080062944 - Apparatus and method for automatic repeat request signalling with reduced retransmission indications 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. A shared control channel information element (501) is sent to the group of mobile stations (101) and provides a bitmap having fields for a control header... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080062946 - Equalizing apparatus, methods and computer program products that generate error compensation values of an equalizer: An equalizing apparatus for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) wireless communication receiving system includes a channel estimation block, a first equalizer, and an error compensation block. The channel estimation block performs channel estimation by extracting a pilot signal from a signal supplied to the first equalizer. The first equalizer... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080062947 - Method and apparatus for passing routing information among mobile routers: A method and apparatus for sharing routing information include receiving first domain data that indicates domains of a first mobile router. A domain is a collection of routers that share uniform routing information at a particular level of detail. An inbound data packet is received from a second mobile router... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20080062945 - Selecting a leader node for an ad hoc network based on services: Techniques are provided for forming networks based on services offered or provided by particular leader nodes. Client nodes in the network can select a particular leader node based on a desired service offered or provided by the particular leader node. The client nodes can become a part of a different... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080062943 - System and method for providing continuous aaa functionality in a ip-based mobile communication network: A system and method for providing continuous AAA functionality in an IP-based mobile communication network is disclosed. The system includes an RTP proxy coupled between clients in a session, the RTP proxy operable to (a) detect the handoff procedure and (b) notify a AAA server with updated client information. The... Agent: Fortune Law Group LLP

20080062948 - System and method for reliable multicast transmissions over shared wireless media for spectrum efficiency and battery power conservation: According to one embodiment of the invention, wireless spectrum and battery power conservation is achieved through an adaptable multicast group communication scheme. This involves a method for controlling the multicast transmission rate based on a first operation of receiving information from a multicast receiving device that is a member of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080062951 - Collision detection: An improvement to a code-division-multiple-access (CDMA) system employing spread-spectrum modulation, with the CDMA system having a base station (BS) and a plurality of remote stations. The base station has a BS-spread-spectrum transmitter and a BS-spread-spectrum receiver. A remote station has an RS-spread-spectrum transmitter and an RS-spread-spectrum receiver. The BS transmitter... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080062950 - Mobile radio communication system, communication apparatus applied in a mobile radio communication system, and mobile radio communication method: In the mobile radio communication system where the UMTS and an another system coexist an idle slot for observing the frequency component of another system is inserted in one superframe of UMTS. The duration of this idle slot is at most half of the duration of one frame that form... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080062949 - Mobile radio communication system, communication appartus applied in a mobile radio communication system, and mobile radio communication method: In the mobile radio communication system where the UMTS and an another system coexist an idle slot for observing the frequency component of another system is inserted in one superframe of UMTS. The duration of this idle slot is at most half of the duration of one frame that form... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080062952 - Spread spectrum communication device and spread spectrum communication method: In a compressed mode, a spread spectrum communication device interleaves bit units across multiple frames using an interleaver, reduces the spreading factor using a framing/spreading unit, outputs the compressed mode frames at a predetermined compressed mode frame timing, and increases the average transmission power in the compressed mode at a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080062953 - Ofdma with adaptive subcarrier-cluster configuration and selective loading: A method and apparatus for allocating subcarriers in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises allocating at least one diversity cluster of subcarriers to a first subscriber and allocating at least one coherence cluster to a second subscriber.... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080062954 - Communication control system: A communication control system is provided that satisfies the needs of industrial applications in terms of real time properties, scalability and flexibility. For this purpose, the invention causes a communication station performing communications in accordance with a standard protocol to perform multiplex communications based on time division of a communication... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080062956 - Medium access control method and system: A medium access control method is provided in which a control station transmits one specific frame to terminal stations, thereby arranging a schedule of a data transmission time of the control station and each of the terminal stations and allowing a time zone unused by a station for data transmission... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080062955 - Method and system for implementing inter-access network handoff in active state in hrpd network: A method and system for implementing an inter-Access Network (AN) handoff in an active state in a High Rate Packet Data (HRPD) Network. The method mainly includes determining that an inter-AN handoff operation is necessary and initiating a handoff procedure to perform the inter-AN handoff, sending data to be transmitted... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080062957 - Method and apparatus for aligned transmissions in a wireless network: A first adjustment range of a first scheduled occurrence of a first transmission event associated with a first data service is determined based on a first transmission interval of the first data service and a non-zero first interval adjustment tolerance. A second adjustment range of a second scheduled occurrence of... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080062958 - Method and protocol for managing devices in a personal area network: The present invention relates to a method, a protocol and a control unit for managing devices in a Personal Area Network (PAN) such that a user of the PAN can use one of his devices and take advantage of services residing in any of the other devices in the PAN.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080062959 - Synchronization signal for synchronizing base stations: A synchronization signal used to synchronize base stations in a mobile radio telecommunication system having a first sequence followed by a second sequence, the first and second sequences being polyphase complementary sequences configured such that when the synchronization signal is correlated with a replica of the first sequence and a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080062960 - Systems and methods for packet forward control: Systems and methods for packet forward control. The system comprises a plurality of ports and a processing module configured to receive a packet. The processing module comprises a resource management module and a forward control module. The resource management module detects whether congestion occurs on at least one specific port... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080062963 - Composite internet phone device: A composite Internet phone device is provided, which is a phone device formed by compositing an Internet phone module with a conventional phone, and used for communication service of voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) and public switched telephone network (PSTN), wherein it is selectively switched to one of the VOIP... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080062964 - H.323 to sip interworking for call forward/redirection: In a particular embodiment, interworking between an H.323 protocol and SIP protocol for a call forward/redirection is provided. A first user may call a second user. The second user may have set preferences that cause a call redirection/forward to another end device. The end device may be associated with the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080062961 - Method and system for managing communication sessions in a plurality of communication networks: A method for managing one or more communication sessions in a plurality of networks is provided. The plurality of networks includes one or more mobile telephone networks and one or more IP-based wireless communication networks. The method includes accessing (304) a mobile telephone network (104) by an electronic device (102).... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080062968 - Mobile radio terminal and mobile telephone: Upon making a request for start of position registration for IP-telephone-terminal of an incoming-call-side, IP-telephone-terminal of an outgoing-call-side notifies the IP-telephone-terminal of identification information of the own terminal. If the user makes a request for terminal of the outgoing call before establishment of an IP-communication-link, the IP-telephone-terminal notifies the IP-telephone-terminal... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080062962 - Resetting / restarting sip endpoint devices: In one embodiment, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) endpoint device unregisters all lines from a call manager component. This is followed by a power-on reset. A server is then accessed to read a configuration file of the SIP endpoint device. Finally, the SIP endpoint device re-registers all lines with the... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080062965 - Telephony services for programmable multimedia controller: A programmable multimedia controller which may be programmed to provide advanced, diverse telephony services including video phone calls, audio and videoconferencing, voicemail, text messaging and answering machine functions among others. In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, a touchscreen which is interfaced with the multimedia controller may be... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080062967 - Voip device and method for processing dial strings by the same: A voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) device (200) includes a receiving module (210) and a public switched telephone network (PSTN) processing module (220). The receiving module receives a dialed digit, and collects the dialed digit in a dial string. The PSTN processing module includes a PSTN redial determination sub-module (221),... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080062969 - Instant message call connect system apparatus and database: A system that allows a computer user to designate a cellular telephone buddy to whom to send a text message asking the cellular telephone buddy to call the user back. The buddy calls the user by having the cellular telephone automatically place a call back telephone call to the user... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080062970 - Instant message call connect system method and interface: A system that allows a computer user to designate a cellular telephone buddy to whom to send a text message asking the cellular telephone buddy to call the user back. The buddy calls the user by having the cellular telephone automatically place a call back telephone call to the user... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080062966 - Method and system for providing information of related communication sessions in hybrid telecommunication networks: Combinational networks may provide simultaneous connectivity over networks of different network types between user equipment. A communication session, comprising a circuit switched call and one or more packet switched sessions, may be deployed simultaneously over different network types, in relation to the same user equipment. The circuit switched call and... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080062971 - Network telephony interface systems between data network telephony and plain old telephone service: 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

20080062972 - Network telephony interface systems between data network telephony and plain old telephone service: 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

20080062973 - Voice internet transmission system: A voice Internet transmission system which enables a person to have a conversation via the Internet without having to use a computer at either end of the conversation, and without incurring long distance telephone charges regardless of the distance between those having the conversation. In a preferred embodiment, the apparatus... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080062974 - Integrating sip control messaging into existing communication center routing infrastructure: 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

20080062980 - Communication module and communication apparatus: A communication module mounted on a communication apparatus which includes plural communication modules, plural apparatus side signal processing circuits for processing a communication signal which is transmitted to and received from the communication modules by a predetermined communication speed, and a switch LSI for changing a destination of the communication... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080062978 - Interactive nat traversal method in session initiation protocol: c

20080062975 - Method and apparatus for optimizing the transmission of signals over a group of wires: A system and method for optimizing the transmission of signals over a group of wires. In a preferred form of the present invention, a multi-wire bus connects a common card to a plurality of line cards. A framing protocol controls transmissions between the common card and the plurality of line... Agent: Merek, Blackmon & Voorhees, LLC

20080062981 - Method for modernizing the control of an elevator system: In a method for modernizing the control of an elevator system with at least one terminal, the terminal is updated with a control data packet for modernizing the control functions of the elevator system that is stored on a mobile control data storage element. In this method, via a near-field... Agent: Klaus P. Stoffel Wolff & Samson

20080062976 - System, method and apparatus for remote access to system control management within teamed network communication environments: A system, method, and apparatus for accessing management control functions within a teamed network communication environment of an information handling system is disclosed. According to one aspect, an information handling system including an apparatus can include a teamed network interface operable to communicate network traffic local to the apparatus. The... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080062977 - Electric device, server apparatus, mobile terminal, communication system, communication method and program: There are disclosed a server apparatus, an electric device, a mobile terminal and so on that reduce the processing load of a server and also reduce the bands used for access lines connected by the server to the Internet. According to the apparatus, an electric device (101) receiving an invocation... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080062982 - Packet distribution band controlling method, distributing apparatus, and video distributing system: An object of the present invention is to enable a real-time distribution even if the band of a network varies. A distributing apparatus receives a packet retransmission request or a packet restoration notification, which is transmitted from a receiving apparatus, with an error information receiving unit. If the number of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080062979 - Real time communications system: A real time communications systems between at least two equipments includes a circuit for producing information “CPI” for transmission, and at least one circuit for consuming the information “CCI”, communications elements for transferring information “CMTI”, WRITE function command elements, signaling elements for signaling emitted by the CMTI to the CPI... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080062983 - Protocol duplexer and protocol duplexing method: A method of duplicating protocol for making identical the order of reception and contents of packets on the two computers of a duplicated computer system with respect to packets of specific types of communication. On the first computer, each packet taken in is checked to determine whether the packet is... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080062991 - Buffer management for communication protocols: A method according to one embodiment may include storing data in a send buffer. A transmission header may be created, in which the transmission header may include a pointer to the data in the send buffer. Packets may be transmitted, in which the packets include the transmission header and the... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Portfolio Ip

20080062994 - Method and system for relaying frames through an ethernet network and bridge therefor: A method for relaying Ethernet frames over an Ethernet network, the method including adding a tag that provides an address from a hierarchical address scheme to an Ethernet frame; and relaying the Ethernet frame through the network according to the tag. There is also provided a configurable Ethernet bridge having... Agent: Deborah A. Gador

20080062987 - Method and system for wireless voip communications: Methods, an apparatus, and a system for communications using datagrams including payloads of at least one preceding datagram are disclosed. In particular, the invention may advantageously be used in wireless VoIP networks having high rates of packet losses.... Agent: Catalina & Associates A Professional Corporation

20080062988 - Methods, computer program products, and modules for dynamically allocating bandwidth of a subscriber line: Methods, modules, and computer program products for allocating bandwidth to a subscriber line that carries packet communications between devices networked across a wide area network are disclosed. At a wide area network access module that connects the subscriber line to the wide area network, at least one of the packets... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080062986 - Providing reachability information in a routing domain of an external destination address in a data communications network: An apparatus for providing reachability in a routing domain of a data communications network having as components nodes and links therebetween for a routing domain—external destination address is described. The apparatus is arranged to advertise destination address reachability internally to nodes in the routing domain and associate a reachability category... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080062990 - Retransmission-based stream repair and stream join: The Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) and its related standards define a retransmission packet format and a way to give feedback via Negative ACKnowledge (NACK) packets for data that has been lost. In one embodiment, a unicast RTP repair session is associated with a main Source Specific Multicast (SSM) multicast session.... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080062989 - Smart match search method for captured data frames: Embodiments disclose a method and computer program products for automatically generating a list of search criteria to be used by the computing system when searching captured data frames for one or more resulting data frames having a specific protocol field. The method includes an act of accessing a specific protocol... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080062985 - System and method for collapsed subscriber management and call control: Systems and methods for integrating subscriber management and call control functionalities in a packet data network are provided. Subscriber management services include things such as tracking usage for billing, providing account information, and authorization of resources to a subscriber or user. Call control functionality includes setting up Session Initiation Protocol... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080062984 - Transporting management traffic through a multi-hop mesh network: The disclosure relates to techniques and technologies for efficiently transporting management information between mesh nodes across multiple hops or “mesh links” in a multi-hop mesh network. These techniques and technologies are general purpose and provide an extensible mechanism for transporting management traffic across a mesh network. These techniques and technologies... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080062993 - Traversing of nat address translation equipment for signaling messages compliant with sip protocol: Method of setting up a communication session between a calling client (C1) and a called client (C2), through a communication network (SN1, SN, SN2) containing at least one address translation device (NAT1, NAT2). This method contains stages for the transmission of signaling messages (fs), passing through at least one address... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080062992 - Message transfer system and message transfer method: A message transfer system including a transmission request receiver for receiving transmission request information containing a membership number being destination information, and message data, from a Web server or from a communication terminal; a message converter for converting the message data into transmitting message data in a predetermined format; a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080062995 - System and method for identifying and forwarding a data sequence of a communications network: A system identifies and forwards a first and a second data sequence to a communications network based on Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. The system includes a protocol database for storing a protocol, a proxy module for analyzing first Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) headers of the first data sequence based... Agent: L. Howard Chen Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP

20080062996 - Consumer edge initiated pseudo-wire multi-homing in access networks: A telecommunications network component comprising a processor configured to implement a method comprising: receiving a data stream, establishing a virtual connection with a destination through one of a plurality of networks, and configuring the data packets for transportation to the destination over the virtual connection, wherein the data packets follow... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080062997 - Intelligent call routing through distributed voip networks: Methods and systems are provided for intelligent call routing through distributed VoIP networks. A host name, representing a proxy, is assigned to and associated with a device. An IP address of a first proxy is acquired via a DNS query for the host name. The quality of the connection between... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080062998 - Method and system for retransmitting internet protocol packet for terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting service: A system and method for retransmitting an Internet protocol packet for terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) service are provided, in which a PES packetizer and an MPEG-2 TS multiplexer are removed; video, audio, and data signals are individually carried by RTP packets; and a receiver extracts object clock reference (OCR)... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080063000 - Device and a method for exchanging information between a bridge and a device: A device and method for exchanging information between an ultra wideband device and a bridge over a wireless medium. The ultra wideband device determines expected downstream transmission parameters; requests the bridge to allocate multiple downstream timeslots in response to the expected downstream transmission parameters; receives downstream timeslot acknowledgement information indicative... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080062999 - Method for providing broadband communication service: A method is provided to enable providing broadband communication services to a subscriber having a number of devices connected to a regional gateway (e.g. CPE). The method comprises the steps of: carrying out on authentication process between at one of the subscriber's devices and a network server, upon authenticating the... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080063002 - Multi-gateway system and methods for same: A multi-gateway system is disclosed. The multi-gate system may include an access point associated with a zone, the access point providing a network coverage within the zone; a wireless client adapted to communicate with the access point when the wireless client is in the zone; and a virtual central processing... Agent: Jenny Chen 7f, No. 1, Alley 30

20080063001 - Relay-server: A technique of carrying out communications between communication terminals on different LANs while realizing reductions in the burden of account control and suppression in load on a server includes first and second relay servers on first and second LANs issuing a registration request to a SIP-server, respectively. A first communication... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20080063003 - System and method for broadcasting content to nodes on computer networks: A system and method is provided for broadcasting content in two streams to a plurality of nodes using two tree networks. The two tree networks have a plurality of nodes where each node is a repeater node or a leaf node. The first data stream is retransmitted down the first... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080063004 - Buffer allocation method for multi-class traffic with dynamic spare buffering: Disclosed are a method of and system for allocating a buffer. The method comprises the steps of partitioning less than the total buffer storage capacity to a plurality of queue classes, allocating the remaining buffer storage as a spare buffer, and assigning incoming packets into said queue classes based on... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080063005 - Method and an apparatus for data streaming: An apparatus and a method for data streaming, as well as a combination, of an apparatus for data streaming and a plurality of user devices, are presented. The apparatus is adapted to receive a plurality of streaming requests, including mode requests, from a plurality of user devices, the apparatus comprising... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080063006 - Device coupled between serial busses using bitwise arbitration: Communicating between first and second serial data busses is described. Each bus includes one or more nodes coupled via the respective data bus so that simultaneous transmission on the respective bus of a dominant state by at least one of the nodes and a recessive state by the other nodes... Agent: Honeywell International, Inc. Patent Services Group

20080063007 - System for communicating data in xdsl using data retransmission: An apparatus for transmitting data in an xDSL system is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus comprises a transmitter that sends data over an xDSL system in the form of a data transmission unit (DTU), the transmitter having physical media specific—transmission convergence (PMS-TC) communication sublayer. The apparatus may further... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080063008 - Method for reducing service loss in interworking between ss7 signaling network and m3ua, and a signaling gateway: The invention discloses a method for reducing service loss in interworking between SS7 signaling network and M3UA. In the method, when state of an M3UA ASP-related signaling point changes, the SS7 signaling network may be notified by using messages defined in existing protocols or other messages. Thus, when performing service... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080063009 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for implementing pointer and stake model for frame alteration code in a network processor: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing a pointer and stake model for frame alteration code in a network processor. A current pointer and a stake are provided for a packet selected for transmit. The current pointer is maintained for tracking a current position for frame... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20080063010 - 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

20080063011 - Dsl modems with analog voice band support: There is provided a DSL modem for integrating an analog voice band with DSL bands over a telephone line, where the analog voice band consists of 0-4 kHz frequency range, and the DSL bands consist of frequencies beyond 4 kHz. The DSL modem comprises a splitter configured to receive a... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080063012 - Receiving method for receiving signals by a plurality of antennas, and a receiving apparatus and a radio apparatus using the same: A weight vector computing unit derives amounts of phase rotation for a plurality of multicarrier signals, respectively, and rotates the phase of a weight vector. A combining unit weights respectively a plurality of multicarrier signals with the phase-rotated weight vector, combines weighting results, and determines a combined result. A receiving... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080063013 - Stabilization for random chip identifier circuit: A method of stabilizing an identification series of bits by iteratively reading the identification series and logical OR'ing the identification series with a mask string after each read of the identification series. This produces a mask string having a first value in all positions of the mask string where bits... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080063014 - Method for balancing the ratio eb/i in a service multiplexing cdma system and telecommunication systems using same: A method for configuring a telecommunications system including a plurality of entities communicating data via a plurality of transport channels. The entities include at least one sending entity and receiving entity. The communication includes a plurality of processing procedures specific to the plurality of transport channels. Each processing procedure includes... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080056115 - Method and apparatus for co-location of two radio frequency devices: A method for avoiding signal interference between a first RF device and a second RF device is provided. The first and second RF devices are co-located and the first RF device is configured to operate within a semi-stationary range of a frequency band. The second RF device is configured to... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080056116 - Blind carrier frequency offset estimator based on single-ofdm-symbol pn ranging code in multi-user ofdma uplink: A blind carrier frequency offset estimator is based on a single-OFDM-symbol training sequence in multi-user OFDMA uplink. Through multiple access interference modeling and analysis, a virtual user is employed that occupies the all null sub-carriers. By minimizing the energy leakage on the virtual user in term of tentative frequency offsets,... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080056117 - Specification of sub-channels for fdm based transmission including ofdma and sc-ofdma: A method for defining a valid set of sub-channels {1, 2, . . . , K} for transmission between a user device and a base station, where each sub-channel “k” has sub-carrier spacing s[k]. Sub-carriers of each sub-channel are equi-spaced. That is, for each sub-channel “k”, the distance between consecutive... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080056118 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving data channel in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system: A transmission/reception apparatus for transmitting packet data in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system. The apparatus includes a transmission module for generating a frame of an OFDM symbol including pilot tones using the packet data, and transmitting the frame to a wireless network; and a controller for changing at... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080056119 - 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 receive symbols from at least one of a plurality of spectrally overlapping carrier signals to produce an output; a transmitter configured to modulate symbols onto at least one of... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080056121 - Method and system for providing control plane resiliency with undisrupted forwarding in a data network: Method and system for providing continuous data forwarding during a failure mode in a wireless data network including detecting a control plane failure mode of a network switch, maintaining data path between one or more network entities with the network switch, detecting the network switch recovery from the control plane... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080056122 - Method and system of transmit load balancing across multiple physical ports: A method and system of transmit load balancing across multiple physical ports. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising teaming a first and second communication ports to create a teamed communication port, creating a plurality of virtual ports which abstract the first and second communication ports (and... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080056120 - Single logical network interface for advanced load balancing and fail-over functionality: The invention sets forth an approach for aggregating a plurality of NICs in a computing device into a single logical NIC as seen by that computing device's operating system. The combination of the single logical NIC and a network resource manager provides a reliable and persistent interface to the operating... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080056123 - Network path validation based on user-specified criteria: A method of operating a network computer system to manage failover in the network computer system comprising communicating traffic via the plurality of network resources, and failing over from a primary pathway to a secondary pathway of the pathway plurality based on failure to receive the user-specified traffic defined by... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080056125 - Congestion control in a wireless network: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to congestion control in wireless networks. In an example embodiment, one or more trigger conditions may be determined relating to traffic congestion for one or more performance levels in a wireless network. One or more congestion control actions may be associated with each of the... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080056124 - Using tcp/ip offload to accelerate packet filtering: A method and apparatus for filtering a packet on a connection within a computing system. In one embodiment, the method includes: receiving the packet; delegating the packet to an offload unit for filtering the packet; and determining, by the offload unit, whether the connection is a delegated connection.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan L.L.P.

20080056126 - Apparatus for and method of managing a routing table in a multi-hop system: A method of managing a routing table by interoperating with a routing block and a radio resource management (RRM)/scheduling block in a plurality of nodes of a multi-hop system, the method including computing a traffic load rate of each path which transmits traffic and updating the routing table with the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080056127 - Methods and systems to generate and implement a changeover sequence to reconfigure a connection-oriented network: A method to reconfigure a connection-oriented network from an existing configuration to a desired configuration includes generating a sequence of configuration specifications for the connection-oriented network. The sequence specifies a plurality of intermediate configurations between the existing and the desired configurations. The sequence of configuration specifications is implemented within the... Agent: Andre L. Marais Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman, LLP

20080056128 - Method and apparatus for classifying video flows to minimize switching time at a user terminal: A method and apparatus for classifying video flows to minimize switching time at a user terminal is described. One aspect of the invention relates to classifying video for distribution. A plurality of classes associated with a respective plurality of network jitter measures is established. A jitter profile for a plurality... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080056129 - Mobile communication system, radio base station, and mobile station: In a mobile communication system according to the present invention, a data transmitting-side apparatus is configured to retransmit a transmission data block according to a transmission acknowledgement signal transmitted from a data receiving-side apparatus. The data receiving-side apparatus includes: a maximum number-of-retransmissions manager unit configured to manage the maximum number... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080056130 - System and method for mapping end user identifiers to access device identifiers: Hybrid fiber/coax networks employ the existing cable plant used for cable TV and transmit data signals in a frequency bandwidth above that which is used for cable TV. As this cable plant was deployed in a tree and branch topology, data transmissions may be susceptible to noise, variable transmission loss... Agent: Clements Walker

20080056131 - Analyzing and generating network traffic using an improved markov modulated poisson process model with one bursty state and a plurality of idle states: Methods and products are disclosed for analyzing network traffic using an improved Markov Modulated Poisson Process Model with one bursty state and a plurality of idle states that include: establishing a time scale of operation for each state in the improved MMPP model; establishing a transition value for each state... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20080056132 - method and system of network communication receive load balancing: A method and system of network communication receive load balancing At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising determining communication path cost information by a computer system (the computer system coupled to plurality of clients over a network), configuring communications from the plurality of clients to the computer... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080056133 - Concurrent operation in multiple wireless local area networks: A wireless terminal concurrently associates with multiple wireless local area networks. The wireless terminal may operate in power save mode on both of the WLANs to prevent a disruption of communication on either WLAN. The wireless terminal may adjust the times at which it listens for beacons to enable reception... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080056134 - Terminal regulation management device: A terminal regulation management device capable of flexibly managing terminals in times of unexpected incident, to ensure communications of users whose daily life zone overlaps with the site of the incident and of users whose daily life zone is outside the site. A priority information memory stores, with respect to... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080056135 - System for dynamic bandwidth adjustment and trading among peers: A system is disclosed, that provides dynamic bandwidth sharing among a plurality of client nodes, which share network link resources in a communication network. Upon receipt of a bandwidth adjustment request from a requesting client node, the system adjusts bandwidth when network link capacity meets the bandwidth adjustment request, or... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

20080056138 - Communication apparatus, communication system, conference system, and program product therefor: A communication apparatus includes a determination portion determining a communication path over which first information to be communicated is routed, on the basis of second information corresponding to communication qualities of multiple communication paths provided between a first site and a second site.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080056136 - Method and apparatus for performing anonymous source routing: During operation, each client device will be provided with a list of addresses for all nodes within a network. The addresses for all nodes will be unique to a particular client device such that {address(node 1), address(node 2), . . . address(node n)} for a first client does not equal... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080056137 - Method and apparatus for selecting between available neighbors in a rapid alternate path calculation: A weighting process may be used to select between alternate neighbors in a RAPID calculation to enable policy and/or traffic engineering considerations to affect the selection of an alternate path through the network. The information used to weight the neighbors may static administratively assigned weighting information or dynamic weighting information... Agent: John C. Gorecki, Esq.

20080056140 - Mimo wireless data transmission system: A MIMO wireless data transmission system including a data arrangement in which data to be sent is divided for each transmission stream of MIMO with adding an error detection code thereto and thereby resending a subframe's worth of data when an error occurred at the time of resending. It therefore... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas LLP

20080056139 - Network traffic monitoring using embedded target-side analyzer during embedded software development: A debugging system running on a host device uses an embedded target-side network analyzer to acquire communications information such as packets. The target-side network analyzer logs and analyzes packets by obtaining data from the target's Internet Protocol (IP) stack when diagnostic functions are invoked at breakpoints. This allows display, logging,... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080056141 - Method and system for providing connectivity outage detection for mpls core networks based on service level agreement: Method and system for providing network connectivity outage detection for MPLS cores based on service level agreement (SLA) parameters including receiving a service level agreement parameter, determining a probe interval associated with the service level agreement parameter, and performing network connectivity outage detection based on the service level agreement parameter,... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080056142 - Test method for message paths in communications networks and redundant network arrangements: Disclosed are test methods for testing message paths in communication networks. Also disclosed are redundant network arrangements for rerouting information when faults are detected.... Agent: Bell, Boyd, & Lloyd LLP

20080056143 - Method and apparatus to facilitate user interface configuration-based accommodation of operational constraints: When a wireless two-way communications device that has a plurality of user interfaces (and where at least two of these interfaces comprise different interface modalities) receives (101, 201) non-user input regarding an operational constraint (such as, but not limited to, an environmentally-sourced or an internally-sourced operational constraint), an automatic determination... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080056144 - System and method for analyzing and tracking communications network operations: A system for monitoring network performance includes a data collection system for obtaining data from event data records provided by the network. A data management system scores events experienced by a user within the network responsive to the data from the event data records. A graphical user interface may then... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20080056145 - Buffering method for network audio transport: Systems and methods are described for transmitting audio and video messages between network terminals over a network. A communication link is established between a first network terminal and a second network terminal, and audio data and video data is transmitted concurrently over the link. During communication, the first network terminal... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080056152 - Measurement data communication device, health information communication device, information acquisition device, measurement data communication system, method of controlling measurement data communication device, method of controlling information acquisiti: A measurement data communication device of the present invention transmits, to an information acquisition device, a measured value which indicates the health condition of a measurement target. In this measurement data communication device, a communication section transmits, to the information acquisition device, communication information including a measurement name corresponding to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080056154 - Measurement of round-trip delay over a network: In one embodiment, a first audio waveform is produced at a first side of a network connection and then encoded and sent by a first endpoint device to a second endpoint device at a second side of the network connection. A second audio waveform is then detected after being played... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080056146 - Method and apparatus for determining maximum round trip times for a network socket: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for identifying a maximum round trip time over a socket for use in transmitting data over a connection. During a beginning phase of a send operation through a socket, packets are sent on the connection as fast as possible. The... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080056147 - Method and apparatus for determining minimum round trip times for a network socket: A computer implemented method, apparatus and computer usable program code for identifying a minimum round trip time over a socket for use in transmitting data over a connection. Two packets are sent over the connection to an endpoint. Round trip times are identified for the two packets in response to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080056151 - Methods and systems for session initiation protocol control of network equipment: Typically, paths in a network are set up via direct provisioning performed by an Element Management System/Network Management System/Operations Support System, i.e. a platform supporting multiple Wavelength Division Multiplexed spans in order to provide Network Management services/a system responsible for managing at least part of the network, and communicating with... Agent: Clements Walker

20080056150 - Network configuration: Disclosed is a method for setting configuration parameters for a communication network. Performance data is periodically obtained, the performance data including information concerning performance at least in some part of said communication network. On the basis of said performance data, an appropriate set of configuration parameters is automatically chosen for... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080056153 - System and method for monitoring a data packet: The embodiments described herein include a system and method for monitoring a packet adapted to traverse a network having a plurality of devices. The system and method enable an operator to efficiently determine the marking of a packet at each intermediate hop and the destination within a network by executing... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080056148 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for reducing data retransmission: Wireless communication methods and apparatuses for reducing data retransmission are provided. One wireless communication apparatus performs one of the methods comprising the steps of determining whether a reset is triggered; if yes, receiving a status report and transmitting a datum having not been received successfully in response to the status... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080056149 - Wireless mesh networking with multiple simultaneous transmissions by nearby network nodes: A wireless mesh network enables multiple devices near each other to transmit simultaneously, thus allowing increased network bandwidth. Prior to transmitting, a device may determine various parameters of the wireless medium on which it desires to transmit. For example, the device may determine whether the intended recipient device is close... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080056155 - Active idle extension: The apparatus including a display and a processor connected to the display. The processor is configured to cause the display to present at least event and connection information pertaining to a user and one or more contacts independently of any communication protocol and/or service provider of the event, connection or... Agent: Perman & Green

20080056158 - Ethernet chaining method: A method for interconnecting modules using a local area network daisy chained architecture is disclosed. The architecture includes point-to-point connections between the module and the two modules preceding and/or the two modules following such module in the chain. This architecture allows the chain to be extended and for modules to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20080056160 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method and program: A system for monitoring life-and-death states of a plurality information processing apparatuses connected by a communication network, has life-and-death monitoring databases managing the life-and-death states of the information processing apparatuses for each particular group of groups to which the plurality of information processing apparatuses to be monitored are grouped; and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080056161 - Management computer and computer system for setting port configuration information: Provided is a computer system capable of cutting the cost of running and managing a company network and improving the security of the network by reducing wrong settings and skipped settings due to human factor. The computer system has switches which constitute a network, a management computer which is connected... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080056157 - Method and apparatus for automatic sub-division of areas that flood routing information: Techniques for sharing routing information over a network include determining whether the scale of a flooding domain exceeds a threshold. If so, then a router announcement message is sent over a particular link. The message indicates the local router is a flooding domain border router (FDBR). Summary routing information is... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20080056156 - Method and system for providing network management based on defining and applying network administrative intents: Method and system for providing a dynamic network configuration and management based on defining and applying high level administrative intents including retrieving one or more attributes associated with one or more logical groups in a network, determining one or more network policies based on the one or more retrieved attributes,... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080056159 - Method for setting path and node apparatus: In a GMPLS node provided with inter-node control protocols including GMPLS, when an adjacent node is in a failure state, path establishment is automatically accomplished by providing a temporary reply to a path establishment request source node in response to a path establishment request, securing a source of an intermediate... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080056162 - Apparatus, method, and system for minimum neighbor assurance in deployment of nodes in a multihop wireless network: In a network installation method and system, a first message is broadcast, a number of second messages received in response to the first message is counted and/or a type of at least one of the second messages is determined, and it is determined whether a location of a first node... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080056163 - Merging anonymous routers in end-to-end network topology inference: Algorithms are described that facilitate the inference of a network topology by estimating router co-ordinates and merging anonymous routers. The algorithms have practical applications in the inference of a network topology as part of the provision of a network service that is based on the underlying topology and where knowledge... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20080056164 - Method and system of distributing multicast group join requests in computer systems operating with teamed communication ports: A method and system of distributing multicast group join requests in computer systems operating with teamed communication ports At least some of the illustrative embodiments are computer-readable media storing a program that when executed by a processor, causes the processor to intercept multicast group join requests sent from a network... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080056165 - Method and apparatus for anticipating and planning communication-center resources based on evaluation of events waiting in a communication center master queue: A software application for recommending workforce resource allocation in a communication center based on requirements of events represented in a communication-center queue has a first interface for accessing information from the queue; a second interface for accessing information from a data source about workforce availability and state information; a processing... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080056166 - Wireless communication equipment and wireless communication method: A mobile station 200 includes a receiving field level detecting unit 213 to convert a level of a wireless signal into an RSSI output, and a wireless frame timing deciding unit 214 to decide a wireless frame timing from the transient characteristic of the RSSI output. By deciding the wireless... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080056167 - Radio over fiber system and method for controlling transmission time: A radio-over-fiber (RoF) system and method for controlling a transmission time is provided. In a Time Division Duplex (TDD) wireless communication system comprising a Base Station (BS) having a donor and a remote connected thereto via am optical fiber, upstream and downstream Radio Frequency (RF) signals are transmitted and received,... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080056168 - Method and apparatus for negotiating personalities in a wireless communications system: A method and apparatus are disclosed for negotiating and managing one or more personalities in a wireless communications system. The method comprises advertising one or more supported initial protocol set identifiers. Furthermore, the method comprises selecting a starting initial protocol set identifier from the advertised initial protocol set identifiers. In... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080056169 - Method for reducing power consumption in bluetooth and cdma modes of operation: Techniques are provided for synchronizing a wakeup schedule for a first module and a wakeup schedule for a CDMA module in a wireless mobile unit operable in a synchronous communication system. In one embodiment, a next CDMA wakeup time is determined. A new wakeup time for the first module can... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080056170 - Reduced performance mode when receiving a common control channel: A common control channel is monitored with a first and a second receiver. A target quality is determined for that channel, which may be signaled from a network. A quality parameter for the channel is determined from the first and second receivers, and compared to the target quality (directly or... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080056171 - Arrangement and method for cellular data transmission: An arrangement, control unit, and method in a cellular telecommunication system for allocating packets in a packet data stream to different base stations for transmission to a mobile terminal. The control unit receives the packet data stream in a main queue and identifies a plurality of base stations having sufficient... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080056174 - Method and system for selecting relay station in a communication system: A method and system for selecting an RS in an MS in a communication system are provided, in which the MS measures channel qualities between the MS and at least two RSs, and selects an RS for relaying signals between the MS and a BS from among the at least... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080056172 - Radio communication system: A radio communication system for preventing transmission and receiving data from colliding with each other in radio relay communication. The radio communication system includes a plurality of radio base stations each having a scheduler for arranging a schedule of assignment of a slot into which data is to be inserted... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20080056173 - Re-transmission control method and relay station apparatus in a relay communication system: An apparatus for relaying wireless communication between a transmitting station and a receiving station includes, parts for receiving data including control data and plural data blocks from the transmitting station, for detecting whether there is an error in the plural data blocks, part for updating the control data when an... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080056175 - Relay system and method in a communication system: Provided are a relaying method and system in a communication system having a BS, a MS for communicating with the BS, and an RS for relaying signals between the BS and the MS, in which the RS receives a first pilot sequence from the BS, replaces the first pilot sequence... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080056176 - Network-access satellite communication system: In one embodiment, a satellite communications system includes first and second receivers, splitters, and combiners. The first receiver is configured to receive a first microwave communications signal; and the first splitter is coupled to the first receiver and configured to split the first microwave communications signal into at least first... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080056177 - Communication control device and communication control method: A communication control device is provided which efficiently utilizes wireless resources to improve communication quality and system throughput by appropriately setting and performing node transmission power. The communication control device in a wireless LAN system includes a sender 206, a receiver 207, and an inter-AP communication function 211 for determining,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080056178 - Method and system for providing a mobile ip network with non-path dependent intra domain quality of service: A system and method for providing quality of service (QoS) service over a mobile IP network with dynamic domains, multiple or distributed QoS managers per domain and/or with network congestion feedback being used to establish an estimated total domain bandwidth which is used for regulating access to a domain.... Agent: Simmons Perrine PLC

20080056179 - Packet transmission acknowledgement in wireless communication system: Transmitting an acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signal in association with a packet transmitted on an uplink is disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving a packet transmitted from a user equipment, decoding the packet, and determining whether the packet has been successfully decoded, transmitting an ACK signal or a NACK... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080056180 - Method of determining a serving sector switch with minimum forward link mac channel feedback in a wireless communication system: In an H-ARQ system, when transmission on the FL MAC channel of DRCLock or CQILock bits is eliminated, other feedback information carried by the FL MAC channel is used as an RL quality indication for determining at least in part when to make a serving sector switch from a current... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc.

20080056185 - Fast switching of forward link in wireless system: A technique for distributing channel allocation information in a demand access communication system. Multiple access codes are used that have a defined code repeat period or code epoch. For each such epoch duration, a schedule of assignment of traffic channels to active terminals for each epoch is determined. For each... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080056184 - Method and appratus for providing resource allocation using utility-based cross-layer optimization: An approach is provided for allocating resources in a communication system. Queuing state information of a queue and channel state information of a channel of a wireless network are determined. Transmission resources are allocated to wireless devices. Each device is configured to operate over the wireless network, wherein the allocation... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080056182 - Mobile communication system, mobile station, wireless base station, and wireless line control station: In a mobile communication system, a data transmitting-side apparatus is configured to retransmit a transmission data block by using a data channel and a control channel according to a transmission acknowledgment signal transmitted from a data receiving-side apparatus. The data transmitting-side apparatus includes: a maximum number-of-retransmissions manager unit configured to... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080056181 - Transmission control frame generation device and transmission control device: There is provided a transmission control frame generation device capable of reducing the data amount of feedback information while maintaining a high throughput. In this device, an average quality level calculation unit (182) calculates an average SNR value of a plurality of sub-carriers from a plurality of SNR values corresponding... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080056186 - Ultra-wideband communication systems and methods: 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.

20080056183 - Wireless resource allocation methods and apparatus: Methods and apparatus for assigning and using resources corresponding to discontinuous portions of bandwidth are described. A single assignment may be used to assign multiple disjoint portions of bandwidth to be used by a wireless terminal, e.g., at the same time, as an uplink or downlink band. Different portions of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080056189 - Network-access satellite communication system: According to one embodiment, a method for distributing satellite communications capacity across non-contiguous geographic regions includes: using components on a satellite, splitting a first microwave signal carrying communications data into second and third microwave signals, such that the second and third microwave signals each carry the same communications data from... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080056187 - System for grouping users to share time-frequency resources in a wireless communication system: A system of methods and constructs that enable multiple users to simultaneously share transmission (i.e., radio) resources, while reducing delay for users with delay-sensitive applications, is disclosed. The system provides for: forming one or more than one shared persistent (or “sticky”) assignment (SSA) group in a sector; allocating more than... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

20080056188 - Transmitting page and broadcast control channel through the same time frequency resources across the sectors in a wireless communications system: The present invention describes transmitting the page channel, which may comprise a quick page channel and a regular page channel, and the broadcast control channel, which conveys the system information, through the same time-frequency resources across the sectors of a wireless communications network.... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080056191 - Container unit, mesh network, and system reporting container events: The invention enables a reliable end-to-end monitoring system by means of which the location of containers and other conditions related to the containers can be continuously or almost continuously monitored. The containers are equipped with such container units that are capable to co-operate with each other, which is especially needed... Agent: Saltamar Innovations

20080056192 - Latency reduction by adaptive packet fragmentation: A wireless broadband communications system and method that achieves reduced latency for high priority data when multiplexed with lower priority data for transmission over a TDD point-to-point radio link. The system prepares multiple data streams for transmission over a TDD radio link by buffering multiple data streams containing high and... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080056190 - Method for controlling multi-mode multi-band mobile commonication terminal for hand-over between asynchronous communication network and synchronous communication network and mobile communication system therefor: The present invention relates to a method of controlling communication terminal and mobile communication system therefor. In the mobile communication terminal control method, a synchronous base station of a synchronous area placed at the boundary region of an asynchronous area transmits a dummy pilot signal at the same frequency as... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080056193 - Pre-allocated random access identifiers: Systems and methods of pre-allocating identifiers to wireless devices for use in requesting resources over a random access channel are described. A wireless communication system includes a random access channel over which wireless devices can anonymously send requests for resources. The base stations receiving and processing the anonymous requests reduces... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080056196 - Radio device having fewer route disconnections and switchings and radio communication network including such devices: The route maintenance unit outputs a period setting request to the period setting unit when the communication unit normally receives a Hello packet for the first time. The period setting unit sets a link connection confirmation period in response to the period setting request and outputs the set period to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080056194 - System for combining uplink data blocks from a user with transmission pauses from another user: A dual transfer mode communications network (100), such as a GSM network using AMR and GPRS data transmission modes, allows enhanced data utilization efficiency by multiplexing AMR pauses generated during speech frame transmission by a first mobile system (101) with short packet-switched data bursts from a second mobile system (105).... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080056195 - Method for base-station scanning of mobile terminal: In a case where the serving base station sets Scan Duration of the MOB-SCN-RSP message to 0 to reject a scan request from the mobile subscriber station as seen from above, the following two problems occur. First, because the mobile subscriber station does not know the reason why the scan... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080056197 - Mobile communication system, mobile station and diversity handover branch control method: A handover method for controlling communication between a mobile station and base station(s) in a wireless communication system. The method includes measuring signal qualities transmitted from the base station(s), the measured signal qualities including a measured quality of a signal received from a certain base station; identifying the base station... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080056199 - Apparatus and method for selecting relay station in broadband wireless communication system: Selection of a relay station in a broadband wireless communication system is provided. In the broadband wireless communication system, a Base Station (BS) includes a sorter for generating a first index group in which indices of relay stations are sorted according to channel information between the BS and each relay... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080056198 - Anonymous uplink measurement report in a wireless communication system: In a mobile terminal of a wireless communication system, such as UMTS or any future communication system, the actual reception quality of data received on a broadcast channel, such as BCCH or MTCH, is measured. Based on the measurement result, a report is prepared and sent to a radio network... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080056200 - Method for determining dfs channel availability in a wireless lan: A LAN has a wireless portion which includes access points and wireless communications devices and a wired portion which includes such things as routers, servers, and a PBX. The LAN operates in a radio frequency band where certain channels (DFS channels) are shared with a signal that is of higher... Agent: Robert C. Schluer

20080056201 - Interference parameter reporting from client devices to access point for use in modifying wireless operations: A wireless network in a communication infrastructure has a packet switched backbone network and includes a plurality of access points and services a plurality of client devices. The plurality of access points communicatively coupled to the packet switched backbone network and each have access point processing circuitry and access point... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080056202 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving data in a cdma mobile communication system: A data transmitting/receiving apparatus and method for improving the reliability of data bits in a CDMA mobile communication system. High-priority bits are mapped to a high-reliability bit position and low-priority bits, to a low-reliability bit position in symbols. Thus system performance is improved at a transmission.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080056203 - Method for balancing the ratio eb/i in a service multiplexing cdma system and telecommunication systems using same: A method for configuring a telecommunications system including a plurality of entities communicating data via a plurality of transport channels. The entities include at least one sending entity and receiving entity. The communication includes a plurality of processing procedures specific to the plurality of transport channels. Each processing procedure includes... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080056204 - Method for balancing the ratio eb/i in a service multiplexing cdma system and telecommunication systems using same: A method for configuring a telecommunications system including a plurality of entities communicating data via a plurality of transport channels. The entities include at least one sending entity and receiving entity. The communication includes a plurality of processing procedures specific to the plurality of transport channels. Each processing procedure includes... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080056205 - Method for reducing deterioration in receiving performance and a radio apparatus using the method: To allocate a terminal apparatus to a time slot to which a plurality of subcarriers are assigned, a base station apparatus first acquires the strength of signals between the base station apparatus and the terminal apparatus. Then the base station apparatus specifies a group, containing the acquired strength, among a... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080056212 - Altering communication interface parameters based upon mobility: Altering communication interface parameters based upon mobility. A novel approach is presented in which at least one operational parameter is changed as a function of the mobility of a wireless terminal. The changing of the operational parameter (which can be performed by either the wireless terminal, a WAP, or cooperatively... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080056208 - Dual-mode device for voice communication: A terminal for use in a peer-to-peer voice communications system comprising: a base station; and at least one handset arranged to communicate wirelessly with said base station; wherein the base station comprises a first interface to a packet data network and a second interface to a public switched telephone network,... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080056211 - Method for scanning access points during station's handoff procedure in wireless communication system and station performing the method, and network interface supporting the method and wireless communication system enabling the method: A wireless communication system includes at least one AP assigned with a unique MAC address and a shared virtual MAC address; and at least one mobile station to search the at least one AP, receive AP information from the retrieved AP, and perform a handoff, wherein the mobile station transmits... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080056213 - Mobile station, access point, and method for setting communication parameters: A method for setting communication parameters applied in a wireless local area network including a mobile station and an access point. The method includes: providing predefined communication parameters by the access point; transmitting a communication parameter setting request frame to the access point by the mobile station; determining whether the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080056210 - Moving networks information server: A system and method for assisting and guiding mobile devices to connect to available networks along a route of a vehicle, comprising; having a mobile information server on a vehicle collect network information from networks along the route of the vehicle and transmit said network information to a plurality of... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLC

20080056207 - Name-address management and routing in communication networks: A set of globally-reachable attachment registers is provided for interconnected communications networks and hosts. At least some of the networks and hosts each has a corresponding attachment register. The attachment registers are not located with their respective network or host. Information is stored in the attachment registers that establishes one... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080056206 - Power savings method and apparatus in a communication system: A mobile subscriber unit (102) transmits a signal including vocoder voices frames to a base unit (104) within a communication system (100). The base unit (104) repeats the signal including error information from the voice frames to one or more final recipient unit(s). The originating subscriber unit (102) listens to... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080056216 - System and method to communicate to a wireless device: An apparatus and method are disclosed to communicate, from a first device to a wireless device, information by which the wireless device may identify an access point as a potential network device. The information is encoded in a packet stream by the first device, and wirelessly communicated from the access... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/marvell

20080056214 - Systems and methods for wireless access terminal command processing: A wireless access terminal is configured to enter into a freeze state where the wireless access terminal temporarily stops decoding an receiving data for a first access network, when the wireless access terminal's modem tunes away from the first access network to monitor signals form a second access network. When... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080056215 - Wi-fi based geo-location connectivity: A wireless device capable of matching a user with content based on the user's proximity to other users, by searching for a match between profiles of wireless devices within a wireless coverage area. Wireless devices broadcast profiles within a wireless coverage area. Other wireless devices within the wireless coverage area... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (marvell)

20080056209 - Wireless backbone to connect wireless cells: A communication system comprising a network interface device; a first coupling device for coupling a first network to a first wireless communication link; a second coupling device for coupling a second network to a second wireless communication link; wherein the first wireless communication link and the second wireless communication link... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080056225 - Apparatus and method for data transmission in a wireless communications network: c

20080056219 - Broadband wireless access network and methods for joining multicast broadcast service sessions 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.

20080056221 - Delivery of time-sensitive data in a wireless network: Embodiments of the invention include a method and software for pre-allocating bandwidth for time-sensitive data such as voice data, for allocating some of the pre-allocated bandwidth to calls, and for timely delivery of frames that include time-sensitive data such as voice data in both the uplink and downlink direction for... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20080056218 - Method for transmitting multi-frame handover or assignment messages: A GSM serving base station method (200) for transmitting multi-block handover or assignment messages transmits to a mobile station all the I frames of a multi-frame handover command message or a multi-frame assignment command message (210). If the base station does not receives acknowledgement from the mobile station for all... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080056224 - Network interface wireless router: There is provided an apparatus and methodology for providing selective wired and/or wireless transmission of communications signals to and/or within a subscriber premises. A network interface device includes a wireless router within the housing of the network interface device to selectively provide one or more of wireless and wired communications... Agent: Corning Cable Systems LLC

20080056217 - Radio transmission control method, radio receiver apparatus, and radio transmitter apparatus: Conventionally, if the number of transmission antennas is greater than that of reception antennas, different signals simultaneously transmitted from the transmission antennas cannot be separated from one another at the receiving end, resulting in a significant degradation of received-signal quality. A transmitter and a receiver each have a plurality of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080056220 - System and method for determining a carrier to interference noise ratio: An apparatus, method, and computer program product are provided for determining a carrier to interference-noise ratio (CINR) and received signal strength indicator (RSSI) in a wireless communication system. A base station calculates a carrier power (C) of at least one user in the wireless communication system, and a noise interference... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080056223 - Visualizing and modifying ad-hoc network nodes: A method of managing a network including a plurality of nodes. The nodes are displayed, in a pictorial display, relative to a current geographic location of the nodes. The method includes modifying, via the display and via the network, one or more capabilities of one of the nodes. The node... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20080056222 - Wireless router connection indicator: An indicator on the exterior surface of the wireless router is described that shows the current number of wireless connections. The indicator can be a digital display, or a plurality of light or LED sets. If separate lights are used for each connection, the lights could also indicate the connection... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20080056226 - Method and system for maintaining a wireless data connection: A system and method for establishing and maintaining an “always-on” data connection to a wireless network through the use of a back off timer and a service check timer is disclosed. The back off timer is initialized to a determined value when a connection is not established. When the timer... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080056227 - Adaptive broadcast multicast systems in wireless communication networks: A method in a wireless communication network infrastructure entity including broadcasting information on a broadcast channel for receipt by broadcast wireless communication terminals in the wireless communication network, transmitting (210) a report triggering command to the wireless communication terminals, wherein the report triggering command triggers reporting of feedback information for... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080056228 - Application, method and process for managing part exchangeability across functional boundaries: A computer implemented method, computer program product, and data processing system for managing proxy parts that are exchangeable based on an active exchangeable proxy part list, a production history, and a true demand. A production history is used to compile a list of active exchangeable proxy parts. The most available... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080056229 - Method and apparatus for low-overhead packet data transmission and control of reception mode: A method for wireless communications where a control packet is not transmitted for all transmissions of a new data packet. A control packet is only sent with a retransmission of a data packet where the previously transmitted data packet is not completely received. The control packet contains information related to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080056230 - Opportunistic channel unblocking mechanism for ordered channels in a point-to-point interconnect: A system and method of opportunistically unblocking channels in an ordered channel architecture. Masking logic creates masking parameters based on partial addresses received with a message. A subsequent message is imparted with the masking parameters to determine if it should be blocked. Based on the result of the comparison, the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080056235 - Cellular-to-voip call establishment systems, methods, devices, and computer software: Various embodiments of systems, methods, devices, and computer software for establishing a cellular-to-VoIP call are provided. One embodiment is a method for establishing a VoIP media session between an originating cellular telephone and a VoIP destination device. One such method comprises: receiving a first data message from an originating cellular... Agent: Shutts & Bowen, LLP

20080056237 - Method and apparatus for protection of voice over internet protocol software: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for executing an application to perform voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephony, requesting a hardware key from a line interface device, comparing the hardware key to a software key associated with the application, and enabling the VoIP telephony if the keys... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080056234 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for inhibiting message traffic to an unavailable terminating sip server: Methods, systems, and computer program products for inhibiting message traffic to an unavailable terminating SIP server are disclosed. According to one method, at least one list of SIP servers accessible by a call session control function (CSCF) is maintained at an originating CSCF. The list includes at least one of... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080056238 - Packet communication apparatus: A packet communication apparatus sends an authentication request packet received from a user terminal to an authentication server. If a packet received from the authentication server is an authentication packet for the user terminal, an authentication controller executes authentication processing of the authentication packet. If the authentication packet includes connection... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080056233 - Support incident routing: Incident support routing is described. The Internet is utilized to distribute the received customer support calls among a plurality of customer support agents who may be remotely located and geographically distributed. Voice data to voice-over-IP (VOIP) data packet conversion and VOIP to voice conversion may be utilized to facilitate a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080056240 - Triple play subscriber and policy management system and method of providing same: A system and method for simplifying management information discovery in a Triple Play provider network involves configuring an element management system (EMS) database to store DHCP information, and configuring the EMS to serve the information to a subscriber service controller or other operations support services component.... Agent: Ross D. Snyder & Associates, Inc.

20080056231 - Unified access communication network: The invention is, in one embodiment, a network switching system having control circuitry and one or more ports. The control circuitry provides packet-switched-network, e.g., Ethernet, services to one or more network client devices. The control circuitry further provides analog-telephone services to one or more telephonic client devices. Each port connects... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20080056236 - Unified ims supplementary services signaling across circuit and packet domains: The present invention provides a method for signaling between an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and a multi-mode terminal using concise primitives to support the use of IMS-based services while the multi-mode terminal is attached to either the packet switched (PS) domain or to the circuit switched (CS) domain, or moves... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20080056232 - Webphone voice & data communications interface under sip framework: A system and method for allowing a person to place a call to another person under the SIP framework when viewing a display portion on a webpage with only one click of a mouse or one press of a keyboard key and using a stand-alone communication program is provided. The... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080056243 - Access independent common architecture for real-time communications services for networking environments: An access architecture for real-time communications is described. The architecture includes an inter-architecture network utilizing a single protocol, a plurality of border elements in communication with the inter-architecture network and with an external network, and one or more call control elements in communication with said inter-architecture network. The external network... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At & T Corp.

20080056242 - Network interoperability: The present invention relates to a method in a communication network for connecting at least one application server (AS) (213) of an internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) (200) to an intelligent network (IN) (100) through an interface unit (301). The IMS (200) comprises a call server control function (CSCF) unit... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080056241 - Unified session detail records: A unified session detail records of a multi-hop session is provided. The multi-hop session may be established through multiple nodes in a VoIP network. Each node may generate session detail records for the legs of the multi-hop session that are connected to the node. The nodes on the path of... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20080056239 - Voip service over a regular phone: A VoIP link is established between a caller device and a target device that is the target of the call of the caller device. The caller device does not include web access software or VoIP agent software. To establish the VoIP link, a message is sent from the caller device... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080056244 - Internet protocol trunk groups: A system includes a core routing engine operable to receive a call setup request and identify one or more IP trunk groups through which the call setup request can be routed, select one of the one or more identified IP trunk groups and route the call setup request to an... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080056245 - Method and system for automatic language negotiation on voice (over ip) calls: A method for negotiating a common language on a voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network, the method comprising: allowing a plurality of users to connect to the VoIP network, each of the plurality of users having at least one of a plurality of VoIP compatible transmitting/receiving devices; configuring each of... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080056247 - Discontinuing the implementation of an aggregation protocol: A method comprises on a first port, receiving a frame from a network device and determining whether the received frame includes a system identifier (ID) that matches a system ID corresponding to a second port. If the received frame's system ID matches the second port's system ID, the method further... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080056246 - Method and system of assigning media access control (mac) addresses across teamed communication ports: A method and system of assigning media access control (MAC) addresses across teamed communication ports. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising teaming a plurality of communication ports in a computer system to appear as a single virtual port to an application program (each communication port transmits... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080056248 - Providing communications including an extended protocol header: A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing communications including an extended protocol header is presented. A message is provided in a communication protocol, the message having a header. An extension is included in the header, the extension including additional information. The message is transmitted to a recipient, wherein... Agent: Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080056250 - Transmission apparatus and transmission system: A link aggregation function and maintenance function by MPLS OAM. Identical entry information is stored in plural circuits IF which perform a LA setting. In this way, multiplexing to the same LSP is possible even with different IF. The first network IF is assumed to be OAM ACT, and the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080056253 - Communications processor: A communication processor of a class, such as an Internet tuner, provides such desirable features (FIG. 2) as LAN support, an SPI interface (128), a dedicated port (56), and ADPCM (22) for audio applications. The invention provides a low-cost, low-power, easily manufactured, small form-actor network access module which has a... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080056249 - Extracting shared state information from message traffic: An approach to having a shared state from one system to another is to represent data in one system according to service traffic of the other system. For example, by intercepting service traffic associated with a first entity, identifying a data object representing at least a portion of the state... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080056251 - Foreign agent, home agent, mobile node, system of mobile ethernet and method for data transmission: A foreign agent, a home agent, and a mobile node of mobile Ethernet, and a mobile Ethernet system, and a method for data transmission are disclosed. The mobile Ethernet system includes an Ethernet foreign agent, an Ethernet home agent and a mobile node. The method for data transmission includes: relaying,... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080056252 - Method for mobile ipv6 data traversing state firewall: A method for mobile IPv6 data traversing a state firewall includes: creating an entry item of a firewall including a source HoA, a source CoA, a destination HoA, a destination CoA, a source port, a destination port and a protocol number; matching the source CoA, destination CoA, source port, destination... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080056254 - Diagnostic tool and method for troubleshooting multicast connectivity flow problem(s) in a layer 2 aggregation network: A diagnostic tool and method are described herein that are capable of diagnosing and localizing a multicast connectivity flow fault within a layer 2 aggregation network. In one application, the diagnostic tool and method can be used by a customer service representative to diagnose why a customer cannot receive a... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080056255 - Lateral error correction for time-critical multicast: A system and method for providing a low-latency reliable multicast protocol designed for time-critical clustered applications. Internet Protocol (IP) multicast is used to transmit data and recovers from packet loss in end-hosts using a repair mechanism involving the exchange of XOR repairs between receivers and across groups. The system and... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP

20080056256 - Client-server emulation supporting multicast transmissions of media objects: A system and method for broadcasting multicast transmissions of data content over a unidirectional network between a single server that executes a server process application and a plurality of clients, each of which executes a client process application. On the server side, the server includes a client emulator that executes... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080056258 - Method and system for multicasting data packets in an mpls network: A method for multicasting data packets is provided. The method includes preparing multiple point to point connections between a root node and multiple destination nodes to establish point to multipoint connections. The method also includes receiving, at an intermediate node which is operatively connected to the root node and a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080056257 - Terminal-to-terminal communication connection control method using ip transfer network: Both a connection server and a relay connection server are installed in an IP transfer network; a function similar to a line connection control of a subscriber exchanger is applied to a connection server; a function similar to a line connection control of a relay exchanger is applied to the... Agent: Robert Popa C/o Ladas & Parry

20080056259 - Switch apparatus and switching method for use in same: A switch apparatus including a load-balance type switch which is configured with a front stage TDM switch, a middle stage switch, and a back stage TDM switch for realizing the switching of the packet signal, accommodating a TDM (Time Division Multiplex) signal and a packet signal, comprising: the front stage... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080056262 - Approach for fast ip address lookups: A method and algorithm for IP address lookup for packet forwarding, finds a longest prefix match for a destination address of n bits, using 2n/2 entries in a lookup table, expanding a given IP address to be matched if its prefix length is more than n/2, and, completing a lookup... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20080056263 - Efficient transport layer processing of incoming packets: A method for improving the efficiency of Internet Protocol Control Block (INPCB) lookup operations at a TCP receiver and TCP sender. The TCP/IP stack is modified such that every data packet generated includes both data and INPCB address information. Specifically, the TCP/IP stacks of a sending device and a receiving... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080056264 - Flexible mechanism for supporting virtual private network services based on source-independent distributed advertisements: The present invention provides a mechanism for distributing client Virtual Private Network (VPN)-related information within a network using a source-independent distributed advertisement that includes incorporating client VPN-related information related to a node of a network into a source-independent distributed advertisement associated with a routing protocol, distributing the source-independent distributed advertisement... Agent: Clements Walker

20080056265 - Method for differentiating pseudowire packets from multi-protocol label switching packets: Disclosed is a method for differentiating pseudowire (PW) packets from multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) packets. It uses particular time-to-live (TTL) values to differentiate PW packets from MPLS packets, thereby to create additional label spaces and to maximize the total number of PWs and label switching paths that can be simultaneously... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080056260 - Private vlan edge across multiple switch modules: A source endpoint connected via a Virtual Local Area Network to a first access port and a destination endpoint connected to a second access port. Two or more network processing devices indirectly connected through a backplane interconnect to transmit data between the source and destination endpoints according to a protected... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080056266 - Set top box address detection system and method thereof: An address detection system for detecting an address of a set top box is provided; the address detection system includes a first server and a second server. The first server includes a first parsing module and a storage module. The first parsing module parses a first request packet from the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080056261 - Zigbee/ip gateway: A gateway enables communications between a personal area network, such as a Zigbee network, and an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The gateway includes a first interface device for connecting to the personal area network, a second interface device for connecting to the IP network, and a gateway controller. In one... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080056267 - Method and system for controlling network traffic within the same connection with different packet tags by varying the policies applied to a connection: A method and system for controlling network traffic with different tags within the same connection by applying policies for each tag are disclosed. A method is disclosed in which incoming traffic is received. A traffic class is assigned to the traffic class. Outgoing traffic is controlled based on the assigned... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080056268 - Hierarchical policers for enforcing differentiated traffic behavior: A hierarchical traffic policer may include a first policer configured to pass first packets when a first condition is met. The first policer also may alter selection information within the passed first packets. A second policer may be configured to pass second packets when a second condition is met. The... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20080056269 - Methods and devices for standalone social networking and internet protocol communication setup: Disclosed are methods and devices for a social networking device 102. The methods include calculating a value for a social networking index 460 for contacts in a contact list 103, and prioritizing a subset of contacts 462. IP addresses of contacts retrieved 468 from the Internet according to the social... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080056273 - Inclusion of quality of service indication in header compression channel: Quality of service information (QoSI) is included with a compressed header of a data packet and can be utilized by nodes supporting the header compression channel to perform QoS enforcements at a sub-flow granularity level. A basic mode of a method comprises (1) processing a packet using a process having... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080056270 - Method and apparatus of hierarchical node partitioning for address planning in pnni networks: Method and apparatus for hierarchical node partitioning for address planning in networks, e.g., PNNI ATM networks to perform judicious definition of peer groups to create a logical partitioning of the ATM switches that increases PNNI routing efficiency and performance.... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20080056274 - Method and apparatus for dynamically maintaining a routing database for a sip server: Methods and apparatus are provided for dynamically maintaining a routing database for a SIP server. A routing database is generated in a network by receiving a request message from a first user to contact a second user; forwarding the request message to a parent node in the network; receiving a... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080056271 - System for and method of streamlining communications to media stations: This document describes, among other things, systems and methods for streamlining communications to media stations. A method comprises an agent of a radio station group ownership entity using a website to access one or more of advertising data, scheduling data, or rewards data corresponding to at least some radio stations... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080056275 - Flexible multicasting in high-capacity switches: In a communication system using multicasting, multicast packets are forwarded through a switch by destination ports after these ports receive the packets. A source node sends the multicast packet to a subset of nodes within the multicast group, which in turn, forward the multicast packet to other subsets of packets... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080056276 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, server apparatus, information processing method and program: An information processing apparatus 1 includes a request packet transmitting part 11 that transmits a request packet requesting a transmission of a reply packet through a communication processing apparatus 2, a reply packet receiving part 12 that receives the reply packet, a port maintenance time detecting part 13 that detects... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080056272 - Pre-authentication across an 802.11 layer-3 ip network: A method for pre-authentication in a wireless network is disclosed. The method begins by receiving, from a mobile client device, an Ethernet pre-authentication frame having an Ethernet address corresponding to a destination infrastructure device in the wireless network. Based upon a network mapping table, the method determines an internet protocol... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080056277 - Enhanced ethernet protocol for shortened data frames within a constrained neighborhood based on unique id: An enhanced Ethernet protocol for computing and telecommunication supports a shortened frame size for communicating data payloads among selected devices within a constrained neighborhood based on a unique identification.... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080056278 - Network switch memory interface configuration: A network switch for network communications includes a first data port interface, wherein the first data port interface supports a plurality of data ports for transmitting and receiving data at a first data rate. The network switch also includes a second data port interface, wherein the second data port interface... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080056279 - Proactive field resource planning application: A comprehensive and flexible method for predicting field service head count requirements for optimized field delivery is disclosed. The headcount model predicts how many field service resources (be they internal resources or partner resources) are needed both for a particular timeframe and at a particular location. E.g., the resources can... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080056281 - System, computer program product and method in a node for optimizing the topology of a virtual ring based upon a tcp/ip network: The present invention is directed to a method, system and computer program as defined in independent claims, for optimizing the topology of a virtual ring used to multicast datagrams within a network comprising a transport layer protocol providing end to end data transfer, each node on the virtual ring being... Agent: Ibm Endicott (anthony England) Law Office Of Anthony England

20080056280 - Terminal-to-terminal communication connection control method using ip transfer network: Both a connection server and a relay connection server are installed in an IP transfer network; a function similar to a line connection control of a subscriber exchanger is applied to a connection server; a function similar to a line connection control of a relay exchanger is applied to the... Agent: Robert Popa C/o Ladas & Parry, LLP

20080056286 - Evaluating a communication interface: The present invention relates to an apparatus configured for communication via a plurality of access interfaces. The apparatus comprises a processor configured to process information regarding access interfaces received from an access system. The processing is for determining the suitability of at least one access interface for communication with an... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080056282 - Internetworking nodes based on connections, membership, and location: Methods and apparatus for inter-networking nodes are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a node arrangement includes a services engine, a communications engine, and a transport engine. The services engine includes at least a first service domain that provides at least one service associated with a first... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20080056284 - Method and system for an asymmetric phy in extended range ethernet lans: Aspects of a method and system for an asymmetric physical (PHY) layer in extended reach Ethernet local area networks (LANs) are provided. Reducing the communication rate provided by an asymmetric Ethernet multi-rate PHY may extend the standard distance over twisted-pair cabling where customer premises equipment (CPE) may be located in... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080056285 - Method and system for connecting wireless personal area network (wpan) devices through display systems: Methods and systems are disclosed for connecting multiple wireless personal area network (WPAN) or ultra wide band (UWB) devices to a host information handling system having a display system providing WPAN connection for WPAN peripheral devices and to serve as a WPAN hub for the WPAN peripheral devices. A data... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20080056283 - System for instant message to telephone speech and back: A system for converting instant messaging (IM) text to telephone speech and back. The system includes a first electronic device configured to transmit and receive IM text. A translation module is housed inside the first electronic device. The translation module is configured to perform (i) translate the outgoing IM text... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20080056287 - Communication between an infiniband fabric and a fibre channel network: A system and method of digital communication wherein a host on an InfiniBand network transmits Fibre Channel packets encapsulated within InfiniBand packets to a gateway which forwards the Fibre Channel packets to Fibre Channel device via a Fibre Channel network, and wherein Fibre Channel packets addressed to a host on... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080056288 - Terminal-to-terminal communication connection control method using ip transfer network: Both a connection server and a relay connection server are installed in an IP transfer network; a function similar to a line connection control of a subscriber exchanger is applied to a connection server; a function similar to a line connection control of a relay exchanger is applied to the... Agent: Robert Popa C/o Ladas & Parry, LLP

20080056289 - Terminal-to-terminal communication connection control method using ip transfer network: Both a connection server and a relay connection server are installed in an IP transfer network; a function similar to a line connection control of a subscriber exchanger is applied to a connection server; a function similar to a line connection control of a relay exchanger is applied to the... Agent: Robert Popa C/o Ladas & Parry, LLP

20080056290 - Controlling the data-packet transmit interval of network dependent applications (nda)using device driver feedback: A method, system and computer program product for dynamically determining an optimal inter-packet transmit interval of a network-dependent application (NDA) in a data processing system by utilizing feedback from the network device driver is presented. Specifically, a Network Driver Feedback (NDF) utility allows an NDA to reduce the inter-packet transmit... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080056292 - Apparatus and method for determining downstream topology in hybrid-fiber coaxial network: An apparatus for determining a downstream topology in a hybrid-fiber-coaxial network includes: a signal branching unit for branching a signal received from a cable modem termination system into a plurality of branched signals; a plurality of signal selecting units for selectively receiving a frequency band signal corresponding to a specific... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080056291 - Methods and system for dynamic reallocation of data processing resources for efficient processing of sensor data in a distributed network: Methods and system for dynamic reallocation of data processing resources for efficient processing of sensor data in a distributed network is provided. The methods and system include determining a data transmission cost ft; determining a data processing cost fp; determining a data storage cost fs; and determining a data query... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080056293 - Method for managing delivery of multicast traffic to devices: Multicast management messages associate a channel with one or more multicast groups. The information included in the multicast management messages are combined into a channel association table that may be stored at a CPE device for each of one or more interfaces. The channel association table is used in response... Agent: Arris International, Inc

20080056294 - Control scheme for standby channel route: A control scheme is disclosed for controlling establishment of a standby channel route for an active channel route in a GMPLS network made up of plural transmission apparatuses. The standby channel route is formed by at least one standby channel route transmission apparatus, an ingress transmission apparatus, and an egress... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080056295 - Internet protocol quality of service apparatus and method: An internet protocol (IP) quality of service (QoS) apparatus in which individual downlink IP data streams of varying priority and bandwidth are converted to uniformly sized cells, prioritized, and aggregated at a data rate corresponding to a limited bandwidth uplink. The cells are returned to their native format for transmission... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20080056296 - Scheduling methods and apparatus based on adjusted channel capacity: A scheduler having improved throughput is disclosed, for scheduling packets or other data blocks for transmission from a plurality of transmission elements in timeslots in a communication system. The scheduler determines for the transmission elements respective channel capacities, and adjusts one or more of the channel capacities based on amounts... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080056297 - Frame-based aggregation and prioritized channel access for traffic over wireless local area networks: A method comprises receiving by a MAC layer of a content server a transmission frame from an upper layer of the content server, the transmission frame being associated with a given access class of multiple access classes, the given access class being associated with a primary priority level, the transmission... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080056298 - Communication system: In a communication system, it is possible to recognize an apparatus to which a transmission inhibited period is set. The communication system includes at least a first communication apparatus (STA 21) and a second communication apparatus (AP 2). The first communication apparatus notifies the second communication apparatus of setting notifying... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080056299 - Apparatus and method of providing data broadcasting service of filtering out data broadcasting services that include applications from a plurality of stored data broadcasting services: An apparatus and method of providing a data broadcasting service, the apparatus and method capable of filtering out data broadcasting services that include applications in addition to media data from a plurality of recorded data broadcasting services. The apparatus includes a recording filter generating a search list used to search... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080056300 - Fibre channel over ethernet: The use of Ethernet as an underlying transport for Fibre Channel (FC) frames is disclosed in the Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCOE) protocol. In FCOE, the FC physical layer and part of the FC-2 link layer are replaced with the Ethernet physical and link layers. Each FC frame is encapsulated... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080056301 - Packet communication method and apparatus and a recording medium storing a packet communication program: A packet communication method and a packet communication system capable of making an IPv4-compatible application operating on an information processing apparatus communicate with another information processing apparatus connected to an IPv6 network without using an address translation router. In the information processing apparatus connected to the IPv6 network, an IPv4-to-IPv6... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080056303 - Method and apparatus for fast or negative acknowledgement in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus are provided to determine whether to include acknowledgement information within radio link control/medium access control (RLC/MAC) data transfer blocks. If the acknowledgement information is to be included in the data transfer blocks it may have a variable length. The acknowledgement information may also be encoded independently... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080056302 - Real-time transport protocol stream detection system and method: A system and method for identifying UDP packets on an IP network as candidates for characterization as packets of a RTP stream. UDP packets are identified at a point on the IP network, and for each identified UDP packet 1) it is determined if a version number in a RTP... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080056304 - Charging control in ip multimedia subsystem: For controlling charging in an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem, it is detected whether a session initiated in the Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem is associated with a service requiring special charging control, and charging information is added to messages signalling establishment or modification of the session in the Internet Protocol multimedia... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080056305 - Phase correction for ofdm and mimo transmissions: Techniques for performing phase correction for wireless communication are described. Received pilot symbols and received data symbols may be obtained from an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and/or multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission. First phase information is obtained based upon the received pilot symbols. Second phase information is obtained based upon... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080056306 - Method and apparatus for facilitating downstream frequency override in a data-over-cable system: A method and apparatus for facilitating downstream frequency override in a data-over-cable system is described. In one example, a data-over-cable system having a plurality of cable modem termination system (CMTS) elements is described. Each of the CMTS elements includes demodulation logic configured to detect one of a plurality of native... Agent: Lawrence T. Cullen, Esq. Motorola, Inc.

20080056307 - Method and system to enable the transport of sysplex timer protocols over generic frame procedure networks: Disclosed are a method of and system for enabling the transport of timer protocols over a generic frame procedure (GFP) network. The method comprises the steps of transmitting a defined optical initialization sequence to a GFP mapper, and using that GFP mapper to detect the optical initialization sequence and to... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080056308 - Sub-frame synchronized residual ranging: A method of ranging between nodes is provided. The method includes synchronizing two or more nodes with a frame preamble. Exchanging data and ranging schedule between the nodes without an additional frame preamble. Starting a schedule clock in each node in response to a switch point and exchanging one or... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080056309 - Method for balancing the ratio eb/i in a service multiplexing cdma system and telecommunication systems using same: A method for configuring a telecommunications system including a plurality of entities communicating data via a plurality of transport channels. The entities include at least one sending entity and receiving entity. The communication includes a plurality of processing procedures specific to the plurality of transport channels. Each processing procedure includes... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080056310 - Method for balancing the ratio eb/i in a service multiplexing cdma system and telecommunication systems using same: A method for configuring a telecommunications system including a plurality of entities communicating data via a plurality of transport channels. The entities include at least one sending entity and receiving entity. The communication includes a plurality of processing procedures specific to the plurality of transport channels. Each processing procedure includes... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.