Multiplex communications inventions 05/08

20080123513 - Method and a device for retrieving a transport format indicator, and mobile phone: A method of retrieving a transport format indicator (TFIi) from a calculated transport format combination (CTFC), which calculated transport format combination is computed by means of the following relation formula (I) where: —Lj is the number of available transport formats for a transport channel j (TrCHj); —Pi is a weight... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080123514 - Methods for multiframe alignment: Methods for multiframe alignment are provided. In one embodiment, a method comprises sharing upstream bandwidth capacity among a plurality of remote units in a manner that permits at least two of the remote units to transmit to a host at any one time using the upstream bandwidth capacity, the upstream... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080123515 - Orthogonal frequency multiplexing: An OFDM transmitter includes a lookup table for storing at least two groups of data digits associated with different respective characteristic frequencies (e.g. 3960 MHz, 5016 MHz). An addressing circuit addresses the lookup table and repeatedly and sequentially selects the groups of data digits. The data digits of the selected... Agent: Smith-hill And Bedell, P.C.

20080123516 - Channel estimation and equalization in ofdm receivers: A method and receiver for optimizing the processing of received Orthogonal Frequency Divisional Multiplexed (OFDM) signals, in which a choice is provided as to which channel estimation and equalization technique (of a number of available techniques) to use for each symbol or symbols of the received OFDM signal. Accordingly, the... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20080123517 - Synchronous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing receiving apparatus in multi-cell environment and method thereof: A receiving apparatus of a mobile terminal receiving a signal in a synchronous OFDM system under a multi-cell environment, including a demodulation start controller performing frame synchronization and cell search using a received signal and outputting information on a demodulation start point and a to-be-demodulated neighbor cell; a FFT unit... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080123519 - Method and apparatus for removing member of lcas from sink and state machine at sink: A method for removing a member of a Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS) from a sink includes: notifying, by the sink, a source that a member is in a REMOVE state after receiving a remove command; determining, by the sink, whether a notification response is received; if the notification response... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080123520 - Recovery from resource mismatch in a wireless communication system: System(s) and method(s) that facilitate assignment mismatch recovery are provided. A projected level of resources required to satisfy one or more communication constraints (e.g., inter-cell and intra-cell interference) is generated. The projected resources are contrasted with scheduled resources and a determination is made as to whether a mismatch between assigned... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080123518 - System and method of data transmission in wireless communication networks: A system and method of data transmission in a wireless communication network are disclosed. The method comprises detecting an error in an original transmission and in response thereto, determining that latency sensitive data in the original transmission would be stale when transmitting a copy of the original transmission. The method... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080123521 - Failure protection for p2mp tunnel tail-end node: In one embodiment, a primary tail-end node (PTE) of a point-to-multipoint (P2MP) tunnel selects a backup tail-end node (BTE) from one or more BTEs that are configured to forward traffic to a same multicast network as the PTE. The PTE then determines a branching node of the P2MP tunnel to... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080123522 - Redundancy coupler for industrial communications networks: A method for providing a hot standby master on a fieldbus includes communicatively coupling a redundancy coupler to a fieldbus having at least one slave device communicatively coupled thereto. The method further includes communicatively coupling a plurality of redundant fieldbus master controllers (MCs) to the coupler and utilizing the coupler... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (14983)

20080123523 - Loop network system, a device included therein, and a method for determining connecting status of the device to the network: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate to determination of a connecting status of a device in a system constituted by a plurality of devices connected via information transmission path in a loop, such as fibre channel arbitrated loop. Particular embodiments of the present invention may help to prevent... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080123524 - Failure protection for p2mp tunnel head-end node: In one embodiment, a primary head-end node (PHE) and one or more backup head-end nodes (BHEs) receive traffic from a common multicast network. The PHE establishes a primary point-to-multipoint (P2MP) tunnel and forwards the multicast traffic onto the primary P2MP tunnel. The PHE then notifies a selected BHE of one... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080123525 - System and method for filtering packets in a switching environment: In particular embodiments of the present invention, a method for filtering packets in a switching environment is provided. In particular embodiments, the method includes receiving a packet at an input port of a switch, the switch comprising a memory and one or more output ports. The method also includes storing... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080123526 - Credit based flow control in an asymmetric channel environment: A system and method are provided for controlling information flow from a channel service module (CSM) in an asymmetric channel environment. The method provides information for transmission to an OSI model PHY (physical) layer device with a channel buffer. The PHY device channel buffer current capacity is estimated. Information is... Agent: Gerald W. Maliszewski

20080123527 - Detection for end of service using dynamic inactivity timer thresholds: Techniques to detect for end of service using dynamic inactivity timer thresholds are described. An access terminal establishes a radio connection for one or more applications. Data and signaling for the application(s) may be sent on one or more first flows (e.g., RLP flows) that may carry any number of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080123528 - Trunking in a matrix: A multistage switch includes a matrix of coupled switch devices. A logical link comprising a plurality of physical links couples a destination through the plurality of physical links to a plurality of ports in the multistage switch. Each switch device performs trunk aware forwarding to reduce the forwarding of received... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080123531 - Apparatus, system and method for the transmission of data with different qos attributes: A novel apparatus, system and method for transmitting data flows having different quality of service (QoS) attributes over a network link structured in two or more channels is provided. The method classifies arriving packets to determine their required/assigned QoS attributes and places the classified packets into one of several logical... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080123530 - Congestion-resilient link adaptation method: A congestion-resilient link adaptation method is provided. The link adaptation method for selecting any one of modes having mapped transmission parameters includes the steps of: estimating a channel-induced error number indicating the number of channel-induced transmission failures in a current mode and comparing the estimated channel-induced error number with a... Agent: The Fleshner Group, PLLC

20080123529 - Load balancing method for wireless network system: A method for providing load balance to a wireless network system is disclosed, wherein a network management server (NMS) is used to group a plurality of access points into a plurality of groups. Each of the access points is pre-set with a plurality of water level values corresponding to an... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC Suite 1404

20080123532 - Dynamic weighted-fair load-balancing: In one embodiment, a node identifies a plurality of equal cost best paths to a destination, the best paths having one or more associated links. The node receives dynamic link utilization information for the associated links, and determines an amount of traffic to the destination to forward over each of... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080123534 - Metric optimization for traffic engineering in a metric-routed network: A method is performed to optimize metrics associated with links of a network that is routed utilizing a shortest-path-first (SPF) routing method. The method includes identifying at least one failure scenario applicable to the network and identifying at least one bandwidth level scenario applicable to point-to-point demands routed through the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080123533 - Relaxed constrained shortest path first (r-cspf): In one embodiment, a target bandwidth, a lower boundary constraint on bandwidth, and an upper boundary constraint on cost are configured on a path computation device. The device may then compute a set of paths that is within the lower bandwidth boundary and upper cost boundary constraints. If the set... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080123535 - Maintenance apparatus, ip telephone system, and maintenance data transmission method: Maintenance apparatus is connected to terminal apparatus equipped with a function for transmitting and receiving audio packets storing audio data via a network. The maintenance apparatus sets a transmission interval for transmitting maintenance packets storing predetermined maintenance data for terminal apparatus to an integer multiple of a transmission interval the... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20080123536 - Virtual network testing and deployment using network stack instances and containers: A method for testing a network topology. The method includes obtaining the network topology, where the network topology includes a number of nodes connected by at least one link. The method further includes instantiating a number of containers corresponding to the nodes, instantiating a number of virtual network stacks, and... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080123537 - Method and apparatus for facilitating the detection of loop-back conditions in computer networks: A method and apparatus for facilitating the detection of a loop-back condition within a computer network is disclosed. All hubs within the computer network are continuously monitored for a loop-back condition. In response to an occurrence of a loop-back condition detected at a hub within the computer network, a discernable... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080123538 - System and method for debugging internet protocol phones: A system for debugging an Internet protocol (IP) phone (104) includes an embedded media terminal adapter (EMTA) (100) connected to the IP phone, and a central office device (102) connected to the EMTA via a network. The EMTA includes a data obtaining module (1001) for obtaining operation data of the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080123539 - Remotely controlled channel emulator for testing of mainframe peripherals: A method and a system to emulate a mainframe data channel for testing and diagnostics of mainframe peripheral devices and for remote control and configuration of the testing and diagnostics. The system includes an emulator central processing unit communicably attached to at least one of the mainframe peripheral devices. First... Agent: Head, Johnson & Kachigian

20080123546 - Ip telephone: The IP telephone 2 or 2A having a LAN port for connecting to a LAN network 5 and for transmitting and receiving packets through the LAN port, the IP telephone comprises, traffic volume measuring section 17 for always measuring the traffic volume of packets through the LAN port; circuit quality... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080123547 - Mehtod and apparatus for channel estimation in a wireless communication device: The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus of channel estimation for a wireless communication system. A pilot signal energy is estimated based on received pilot symbols. An estimated traffic signal energy of the traffic signal symbols is estimated based on the received traffic signal symbols, the received pilot symbols... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080123541 - Method for allocating data to at least one packet in an integrated circuit: The invention relates to a method for allocating data to at least one packet in an integrated circuit, the integrated circuit comprising a network through which the packet is sent from a first module to at least one second module, the method comprising the step of determining the length of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080123543 - Method for providing mbs service in a wan network, and system thereof: A system and method for providing Multicast/Broadcast Service (MBS) service to a mobile terminal in an MBS service provisioning system in a Wide Area Network (WAN) network are provided. An authentication server sends a message for requesting resource reservation, in which a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy is included, when a registration... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080123548 - Method of controlling radio resources, and radio system: Abstract There is provided a radio system, comprising: a receiver for receiving uplink channel traffic; a measuring unit for measuring periodicity of the received uplink channel traffic; and a control unit for controlling discontinuous uplink operation on the basis of the measured periodicity of the received uplink channel traffic.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080123540 - Methods and apparatus for signal and interference energy estimation in a communication system: Methods and apparatus for signal and interference energy estimation in a communication system. In an aspect, a method includes setting a threshold value, and comparing a channel estimate to the threshold value to determine an interference estimate (Iest). The method also includes averaging the interference estimate (Iest) to determine average... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080123544 - Methods and systems for estimating temporal correlation of a propagation channel: Methods and systems for estimating Temporal Correlation (TC) of a propagation channel are provided. In an embodiment, a method for estimating the TC of the propagation channel comprises obtaining multiple channel quality reports of the propagation channel and estimating the TC of the propagation channel based on the multiple channel... Agent: Beceem Communications, Inc.

20080123542 - Setting an uplink transmission rate limit for mobile terminals transmitting over a high speed downlink shared channel: A method, apparatus, and system for setting an uplink transmission rate limit for a mobile terminal operating in a mobile communications network in which the mobile terminal receives downlink transmissions over a high speed downlink shared channel. The mobile terminal measures a downlink channel quality (CQI), and sends the CQI... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080123545 - Traffic analysis apparatus and analysis method: A traffic analysis apparatus includes: a packet transmitter/receiver; a packet aggregating unit, for adding the number of packets that employ the same values for items in a combination that includes one arbitrary item or multiple items in packets obtained by the packet transmitter/receiver; a variety aggregating unit, for adding the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080123549 - Analyzing network traffic using an improved markov modulated poisson process model with two barrier states: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for analyzing network traffic using an improved Markov Modulated Poisson Process Model with two barrier states that include: retrieving a previous state for the network traffic; measuring inter-arrival times between individual packets received in one or more network adapters; establishing a transition window in... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20080123550 - Testing a network: There are disclosed processes and systems relating to optimized traffic generation and reception for testing a network. A TCP/IP protocol stack and an HTTP program are operative in kernel space. The HTTP program may receive a test request from an application operative in user space. The HTTP program is adapted... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080123557 - Appliance network for a networked appliance with a network binder accessory: An appliance network has a network binder accessory to establish a private network among nodes that might be on different networks, using “one-click”.... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080123554 - Deploying apparatus, method, and computer readable medium thereof for deploying a network in a space: A deploying apparatus, a method, and a computer readable medium thereof for deploying a network in a space are provided. The method generates a plurality of grid points in the space and then disposes a first network node having a first effective connection range on one of the grid points.... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080123553 - Fault tolerance in wireless networks: A network includes a plurality of logical access entities. Each access entity includes one or more communication interfaces. The network further includes a plurality of logical node entities. Each logical node entity includes one or more communication interfaces that are configured to wirelessly communicate in a redundant manner with any... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080123556 - Method and circuit arrangement for carrying out initialization and/or registration steps for a device, in particular a household applicance: A method and a circuit carry out initialization/registration steps for a device, in particular a household appliance, which can be connected to a network. The first initialization/registration of the device is controlled by adding an initialization signal on the actuation of a mechanical circuit device and wherein an address clearly... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080123555 - Method and system for determining and securing proximity information over a network: Aspects of a method and system for determining and securing proximity information over a network are provided. In this regard, data transmitted over a network may be time-stamped upon entering and/or exiting a network node. By taking the total time to travel between two network nodes and subtracting out any... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080123552 - Method and system for switchless backplane controller using existing standards-based backplanes: Disclosed herein is an electronic system and method including a backplane including a circuit board and a plurality of slots, a plurality of nodes operably connected to a corresponding slot of the plurality of slots, and a central control system operably connected to a hub slot of the plurality of... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080123551 - Network device discovery system and method: A network device discovery system comprises a computing system configured to broadcast a device discovery datagram packet to a network, the discovery datagram packet encoded with data identifying at least one device discovered on the network.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080123558 - Simplified auto-configuration and service discovery in ad-hoc networks: An ad-hoc network approach for addressing ad-hoc network address assignment, name resolution, and service discovery in ad-hoc networks. The size of the ad-hoc network may be limited to a selected number of ad-hoc network stations. A first portion of the ad-hoc network address assigned to stations joining the ad-hoc network... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080123560 - Methods and devices for the dynamic management of transmission errors by network points of interconnections: The invention concerns methods and devices for transferring data in a network and in particular the transfer of multimedia data. According to the invention described, a point of interconnection receives a configuration map from a client. When the point of interconnection receives a data packet from a server, it analyzes... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080123559 - Service-oriented infrastructure management: A method for computing includes specifying a data processing system using a logical system definition, which defines logical system components having respective functionalities and a topology for interconnecting the logical system components. The logical system components are represented using respective logical objects in a hierarchical object model. Physical resources of... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080123561 - Minimizing spanning-tree protocol event processing and flooding in distribution networks: In one embodiment, configuring one or more ports of an access layer entity connected to a distribution layer entity to suppress one or more network topology change information from transmitting to the distribution layer entity of a data network, detecting a state change to a forwarding state on the one... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080123562 - System and method for integrating ring-protocol-compatible devices into network configurations that also include non-ring-protocol compatible devices: Various systems and methods for integrating ring-protocol-compatible devices into network configurations that also include non-ring-protocol-compatible devices are disclosed. One such method, which can be performed by a network node that supports a ring protocol, involves generating a ring protocol packet and sending that ring protocol packet to a neighboring node.... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080123564 - Communication method providing for communication of specific information in the case of activation of a sequence in restricted mode: r

20080123565 - Conference system and its multimedia data storage method: According to one embodiment, a conference system which is provided with a plurality of communication terminals, a communication network connecting the plurality of communication terminals thereto and forming a communication environment, and a server apparatus actualizing a conference among users by using the communication network, wherein each of the communication... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080123563 - Conference voice station and conference system: A conference voice station for a conference system has an audio unit for converting audio signals into network-specific signals, a network interface for transmitting the network-specific signals to an external network and for receiving network-specific signals from an external network, and a network identification unit for storing a network identification.... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080123566 - Usb storage device with ip telephone capable of providing on-line contents: The present invention relates to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) storage device having IP telephone capable of originating/receiving a call and providing on-line content. A USB connector (61) and USB memory (63) are installed in a housing (62). A unique phone number belonging to the USB storage device and a... Agent: Calif Tervo Palomar Patent

20080123567 - Method and apparatus for radio communication: A radio communication system includes a first radio communication apparatus which transmits signals according to cyclic process numbers and a second radio communication apparatus which receives the signals and aims at reducing the possibility of misrecognition occurrence on a reception result (ACK/NACK information). The second radio communication apparatus add the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080123568 - Cable modem with wireless voice-over-ip phone and methods for use therewith: A cable modem includes a cable transceiver that provides bidirectional broadband access to a wide area network in accordance with a first wired communication protocol. A radio frequency (RF) transceiver provides bidirectional communication with a wireless telephone over a radio frequency link. A memory module stores a voice over internet... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080123569 - Intelligent scheduling in a time division duplexing system to mitigate near/far interference scenarios: A wireless communication system (100), method, and site controller (112) schedule at least one of transmission and reception of wireless data by at least one wireless communication device. A distance is determined between at least one wireless communication device (104) and a base station (108) in a wireless communication cell... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080123570 - Method and element for determining measurement time of inter-frequency measurement and inter-frequency measurement method: The invention provides a method and an element for determining a measurement time of an inter-frequency measurement, used for the dual mode UE supporting FDD mode and TDD mode in the FDD mode to perform the inter-frequency measurement to the TDD cell. If a whole timeslot is found within the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080123571 - Equalizer-based receiver to eliminate training sequence interference in tdd systems: Training sequence interference in an equalizer-based receiver in a time-division duplex (TDD) communication system can be avoided without using interference cancellation, by providing to the equalizer both the desired data portion of the received signal, and a portion of the training sequence that is adjacent the desired data portion and... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080123572 - Multi-casting communication system, server used for the system, and method of making multi-casting communication: In the multi-casting communication system, on receipt of a signal transmitted from one of mobile communication terminals with a half-duplex communication switch thereof being on, the PoC server 25 records a user of the mobile communication terminal in a subscriber list as a next speaker, if there is another mobile... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080123573 - Method and apparatus of packet discard in a wireless communications system: To enhance the efficiency of packet discard, the present invention provides a method of packet discard for a receiver in a wireless communications system. The method comprises setting a discard timer used for triggering packet discard in an Automatic Repeat Request process, reporting a negative acknowledgment signal and starting the... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080123575 - Adaptive trigger frame generation in wireless networks: The present invention provides a method and apparatus featuring implementing an unscheduled service period (U-SP) in a node, point, terminal or device, such as a station (STA), in a wireless local area network (WLAN), or other suitable network; and learning the application layer periodicity to enable the generation of artificial... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080123574 - Cooperative transmission apparatus, systems, and methods: Embodiments herein may operate at a cooperating relay station (CRS) in a wireless packet-carrying network (WPCN). A source-to-CRS (SC) link quality of an SC wireless channel may be estimated using signal quality information derived from a packet transmitted by a source station and received by the CRS. A CRS-to-destination (CD)... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080123577 - Method and apparatus for providing power save management: An approach is provided for an approach to manage a power saving scheme for multicast or broadcast services. A signal is received from a terminal configured to utilize a power-save mechanism. State of a multicast or broadcast group is determined for the terminal based on the signal. The power-save mechanism... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080123576 - System and method for performing periodic ranging in sleep mode in a communication system: A system and method for periodic ranging in sleep mode in a communication system are provided, in which an MS is allocated an uplink burst from a BS and transmits a first message in the allocated uplink burst to the BS, the first message indicating that the MS is alive... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080123579 - Method and apparatus for reliable multicasting in wireless relay networks: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for performing multi casting. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving routing, association, relaying, and/or topology information associated with a plurality of nodes in a multi-hop wireless network, the plurality of nodes communicably coupled in a tree or mesh arrangement via a plurality... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080123578 - Method of determining feedback in a communication system: A method of determining feedback in a communication system, wherein data is transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver, and in response to data reception at the receiver, feedback is generated based on the received data comprising the step of classifying the data into data entities of different levels of... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080123580 - Transferable wireless communicator for data and voice: A communicator (110) that is transferable across different types of mobile devices (210) is disclosed. The communicator can simultaneously operate with both voice communication links (190) and data communication links (192), and with both voice and data information. The communicator may be transferred across various mobile devices, including but not... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080123582 - Communication apparatus: In the game device, a period coefficient acquirer 102 extracts a first period coefficient as a factor for determining a communication period from game data. A communication manager 108 manages the status of connection with at least one communication terminal and a period coefficient deriving unit 106 derives a second... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080123583 - Repeat request control apparatus: A system performing communication by using a plurality of antennas is presumed to transmit a frame from an antenna 1 by structuring slots 1 and 2 in the frame, and another frame from an antenna 2 by structuring slots 3 and 4 in the frame. A reception side examines a... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080123584 - Route optimization for multihop relay transmission systems: Methods and systems for multihop routing in wireless transmission are disclosed. Routing is initiated and grown from a Base Station by a Network Entry Process for Relays. A Route Report Messages structure is disclosed and a Route Maintenance Message structure and message sub-block structures are also disclosed. A Quality-of-Service model... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080123581 - Self powered son device network: A network includes a plurality of wirelessly interconnected self-organizing network (SON) devices for relaying signals in a self-organizing network and a field device for originating output signals. The sensor is configured to transmit the output signals to at least one of the SON devices, and the SON devices do not... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20080123585 - Fast setup of physical communication channels: The present invention relates to improvements for a fast setup of physical communication channels in a CDMA-based communication system. A Node B of a telecommunication network is permitted to manage and assign a certain share of the downlink transmission resources of a radio network controller without inquiry of said radio... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080123586 - Visualization of ad hoc network nodes: A method of managing a communications network having a plurality of nodes. An essentially current geographical location of an ad-hoc node is determined through the network. A representation of the node relative to its determined geographical location is displayed essentially in real time.... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20080123590 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving localized-type resource allocation information in a communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting localized-type resource allocation information by a base station in a communication system. The base station transmits allocation information for localized-type resources using multiple mini-resource blocks. The mini-resource blocks are generated by dividing the localized-type resources into first localized-type resources for mini-resource block generation, and... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080123587 - Method and apparatus for communication channel switch: A method and an apparatus for selecting a communication channel according to usage patterns maintained in a database for multiple communication channels available to reach a recipient are described. Each communication channel is associated with at least two communication systems. Usage patterns of a communication channel are related to daily... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080123589 - System and method for transmitting/receiving information about allocated uplink sounding resources in a communication system: An system and method for transmitting/receiving sounding resource allocation information in a communication system are provided, in which a transmitter selects one of a plurality of preset sounding resource allocation patterns according to operation mode information about an receiver to which uplink resources will be allocated, the uplink resources having... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080123588 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for providing network advice to mobile stations: A wireless communication method and apparatus for providing network advice to wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) are disclosed. Once start-up of a WTRU is initiated, the WTRU scans a network advice channel in a particular band, (e.g., 5.180 GHz-5.320 GHz). If a network advice frame is detected, the WTRU tunes to... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080123594 - Master station in communications system and access control method: A communication band is divided into: a beacon period in which every master station transmits a beacon packet in competition with one another; a guaranteed-band period (e.g., a TDMA period or an FDMA period) in which only a specific permitted station is allowed access; and a CSMA period in which... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080123591 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving signal in a communication system: An apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal in a communication system supporting multiple communication service modes is provided. The signal transmission apparatus includes a reference signal generator for generating a reference signal for each of a first communication service mode for covering the entire service area of a cell... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080123593 - Radio resource allocation method and telecommunication apparatus: A radio resource allocation method for use in a radio telecommunication system for a first radio telecommunication apparatus and a second telecommunication apparatus carrying out a radio telecommunication by using an allocated radio resource, comprising selecting a resource allocation pattern identifying a combination of radio resources allocatable within a resource... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080123592 - Two-dimensional pilot patterns: The present invention relates to a method for generating, in a multiple access communication system, two-dimensional pilot signal patterns for propagation channel estimation in time and frequency, with equidistant sampling. The method includes the steps of: generating a generic pilot pattern that covers completely a first dimension and covers partially... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080123596 - Method and apparatus for handover of a packet switched communication session: Some embodiments provide a method of registering a user equipment (UE) in a communication system that includes a licensed wireless communication system and a generic access network (GAN) that has a generic access network controller (GANC). The method sends a register message from the UE to the GANC that indicates... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080123595 - Method and system of wireless communications: The present invention relates to wireless communications. More especially it relates to wireless high speed packet data communications. Particularly it relates to transmission power control of high speed packet data communications including adjustment of one or more transmission power control parameters of one or more wireless links not involved in... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080123597 - Radio link protocol enhancements to reduce setup time for data calls: An improved method and system for determining round-trip time (RTT) during a radio link protocol (RLP) wireless communication link. The RTT estimate is negotiated by both sides of the RLP communication link without the need for the 3-way handshake generally required for RLP synchronization. The method includes techniques used by... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080123599 - Communication system, communication device and method, and program: The present invention relates to a communication system, a communication device and a method, and a program, wherein appropriate communication settings according to the communication environment can be easily made. A status confirmation unit 1014 performs processing for confirmation of the status regarding communication of a transmission device 1001, i.e.,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080123600 - Method and apparatus for allocating radio resources in a mobile radio network: A method and apparatus for allocating radio resources to an elastic session in a cell in a CDMA network is presented. The method comprises allocating, to the elastic session, a radio resource share corresponding to a reduced transmission rate wherein the reduction in transmission rate corresponds to a peak transmission... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080123598 - Method of optimizing scheduling in a communications system of cdma type: m

20080123601 - Mitigation of link imbalance in a wireless communication system: Techniques to mitigate the effects of link imbalance for the uplink between a terminal (or UE) and multiple base stations (or Node Bs). In one aspect, the serving base station (i.e., the one designated to transmit packet data to the terminal) monitors the uplink received SNR for each terminal designated... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080123602 - Method and system for channel quality estimation: The present invention relates to a method for channel quality estimation in a wireless data communication system, wherein data streams are transmitted from a transmitter having multiple antennas and/or antenna elements to a receiver over a frequency band, wherein, during a first period of time, data streams are transmitted on... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080123607 - 802.11k neighbor report enhancement: The enhancement of a neighbor report to include additional information about neighboring access point capabilities. The present invention involves having neighbor reports include information that helps a station to determine whether admission control is mandated by one or more neighboring access points. The present invention can simply be added to... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080123604 - Access service network system, access device, l2tp tunnel line concentrator, home agent, and method of providing access service: An acess service network system establishes a communication connection between a terminal and ISP networks by using a communication connection L2TP in an access service network that accommodates the terminal and includes plural LACs that tunnel layer 2 data, LNSs that terminate the tunnel and the layer 2 data; and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080123605 - Device for setting of a service zone in a mobile communiction network, method and system for providing zone-based service using the device, and mobile communication unit: Provided are a device for setting a service zone for a predetermined zone-based service provided by a mobile communication system for at least one mobile communication unit to which a mobile communication service is provided by the mobile communication system, the device comprising a local area wireless communication unit, wherein... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080123609 - Mobile wireless communications device with polarization diversity wireless local area network (lan) antenna and related methods: A mobile wireless LAN communications device may include a portable, handheld housing, and a wireless LAN transceiver carried by the housing. A polarization diversity wireless LAN antenna may be included for cooperating with the wireless LAN transceiver to communicate over a wireless LAN. The polarization diversity wireless LAN antenna may... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080123608 - Positioning for wlans and other wireless networks: Techniques to support positioning for access points and terminals in WLANs and other wireless networks are described. In one aspect, WLAN positioning is supported with Secure User Plane Location (SUPL). A terminal obtains measurements for an access point in a WLAN and/or receives measurements made by the access point for... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080123603 - Providing notification in ims networks: IMS gateway systems and methods are disclosed for providing notification to an IMS subscriber. An IMS gateway system described herein includes a session manager and a notification database. The notification database stores a plurality of notification definitions for pre-session, mid-session, and/or post-session notifications. The session manager identifies a triggering event... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080123606 - Wireless terminal, access point, system provided with the same, and wireless communication method: A wireless LAN communications system with high transmission efficiency is provided. When a first wireless terminal normally receives a Data1 signal from an access point, the wireless terminal transmits an ACK signal. In the case where the wireless terminal has transmission data, the client transmits a Data2 signal to the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080123610 - Method and system for a shared antenna control using the output of a voice activity detector: Aspects of a method and system for a shared antenna control using the output of a voice activity detector are provided. A single radio chip for use within a wireless device may handle communication of a Bluetooth (BT) and a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) protocol via a single antenna.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080123613 - Method for terminals to switch the reverse traffic channels in cdma group call service: The present invention discloses a method for terminals to switch among the reverse traffic channels in CDMA group call service. During the establishing procedure of the standard group call service, the originating call terminal sets the long code mask for the reverse dedicated traffic channel, establishes the reverse dedicated traffic... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20080123612 - Mobile radio network control method and device: In a mobile radio network control method and device which can meet a call establishment request of a high-speed user data communication service as much as possible, when a connection call requests a high-speed user data communication service, a maximum resource required for performing a high-speed user data conversion in... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080123611 - Mulitcell joint detection method in slotted code division multiple access system: The present invention is directed to a multicell joint detection method, it deals against the interference between same frequency neighbouring cell's signals in slotted CDMA system, and provides a joint detection method based on the multicell structure information. The method includes the steps of: using channel estimation of multi-set of... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080123615 - Communication device and scheduling method: A communication device which can reduce amount of control information, limit interference with other traffics, and prevent an increase in current consumption. In this device, a separation unit (105) separates radio resource allocation information, specific section information and transmission parameter information from a received signal. A specific section information control... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080123614 - Wireless communication apparatus: Capacitors #1, #2, and #3 are provided for each of the hopping bands #1, #2, and#3. Capacitors are switched in synchronization with frequency hopping. For example, capacitor #1 stores electric charge just before frequency hopping from band #1 to another band #2, and continues a step response after hopping to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080123616 - Method of assigning uplink reference signals, and transmitter and receiver thereof: In an embodiment of the method, uplink reference signals are assigned to users in a group of cells. For example, a first constant amplitude sequence having low cyclic cross correlation is assigned to each user in a first cell of the group of cells. Here, each user is assigned the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080123617 - Wireless transmitting device and wireless transmitting method: The present invention relates to a wireless transmitting device actualizing wireless communications with a high-quality modulation accuracy characteristic while keeping high frequency using efficiency. The wireless transmitting device performing wireless communications by using a frequency division multiple access method, comprising transforming unit transforming, into a frequency domain signal, a signal... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080123619 - Apparatus, method, and computer readable medium thereof for dividing a beacon interval: An apparatus, a method, and computer readable medium thereof for dividing a beacon interval are provided. The beacon interval is divided into a plurality of sub-beacon intervals in various sizes and each of the sub-beacon intervals is further divided into a predetermined number of time slots. Each of the sub-beacon... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080123618 - Method and apparatus for asynchronous space-time coded transmission from multiple base stations over wireless radio networks: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for asynchronous space-time coded transmission from multiple stations. In one embodiment, the method comprises one or more terminals and at least two base stations wirelessly communicating information-bearing signals to the one or more terminals using orthogonal space-time block codes. In one embodiment, the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080123620 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving mac header in mobile communication system: A method and an apparatus for transmitting/receiving a MAC header in a mobile communication system supporting high-speed data communication are provided, which can reduce signaling overhead and increase system throughput by decreasing the size of the MAC header. A LEN unit of the MAC packet header is set to 1... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080123621 - High speed access broadcast system solution: A network element provides broadcast/multicast support. The network element is configured to be operably connected with at least one stream source and with a terminal. The network element is further configured to process a multicast stream over a logical connection which has been dedicated between the stream source and the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080123622 - Switching system and method in switching system: A switching system includes a data collection device, one or more switching devices. The data collection device is for collection of first data subject to specific processing. The switching devices directly or indirectly connected to the data collection device. At least one of the switching devices includes a determination module... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080123626 - Accessing television and video services on a video phone over voice over internet protocol network: A method and apparatus for controlling access to a Voice over Internet Protocol network are provided. One embodiment of the method includes enabling an interface for an interactive control of at least one of a television channel and a video service over the Voice over Internet Protocol network from a... Agent: Sanjeev K. Singh Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20080123629 - Apparatus and method for automatic call back: An apparatus and method for automatic call back are disclosed. When a first communication device requests connection via a first communication network with a higher calling rate, a second communication device of the present invention refuses the connection via the first communication network, but instead, requests communication with the first... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080123624 - Controlling mobile voice calls remotely via a web interface: The invention allows controlling mobile voice calls remotely from a computing device. A wireless Internet connection is established from a voice call enabled mobile device to a gateway. Then, the established wireless Internet connection is monitored at the mobile device. If a voice call initiation request is received via the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080123627 - Media terminal adapter with session initiation protocol (sip) proxy: Systems and methods are disclosed for a media terminal adapter (MTA) that includes a session initiation protocol (SIP) to media gateway control protocol (MGCP) translator. The MTA receives SIP-based signaling packets including the MTA address and subsequently translates the signal packets to provide MGCP-based signaling packets. The MGCP-based signaling packets... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20080123628 - Method and system for distributed call recording: A distributed call recording method and system. A recording agent performs recording of a phone call, preparing of the recorded phone call for being subsequently archived, and transferring of the prepared phone call to a central archiving server through a secure connection. The recording agent is a software application runs... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080123634 - Packet network telecommunication system: Packet network telecommunication systems, especially Internet Protocol (IP) telephony removes the need of explicit installing of TSP (TAPI service provider) software or other telephony software at each workstation. Application server software or corresponding control software is arranged to take care of all call control actions on behalf of the phone... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080123630 - Remote voip phone: A first interface includes a packet switched network connector mechanism. A second interface includes a public switched telephone network connector mechanism. A digital signaling mechanism and an analog signaling mechanism accompany the first and second interfaces.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080123633 - Server apparatus: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory which stores a participation registration table in which each telephone ID of a first telephone terminal, a second telephone terminal and a third telephone terminal among the plurality of telephone terminals is associated with participation information showing the fact of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080123625 - System and method for managing call continuity in ims network environment: In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for managing call continuity in a network environment including a circuit-switched (CS) network and an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) network wherein unique identity (ID) information supplied by a user equipment (UE) device is utilized. A pool of dynamically allocable IP multimedia routing numbers... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080123631 - Telephone system: According to one embodiment, there is provided a telephone system including; a plurality of exchanges interconnecting a plurality of communication terminals through a communication network, each exchange receiving from each communication terminal a connection request including an extension number of each communication terminal, based on authentication processing and including; a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080123632 - Voip terminal supporting optimal intercom service and session connecting method thereof: In a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) terminal supporting an optimal intercom service and a session connecting method thereof, a VoIP terminal announcement module of the VoIP terminal performs an announcement process by transmitting address information of the VoIP terminal to other terminals located in a same network, and acquires... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080123623 - Computer, internet and telecommunications based network: A method and apparatus for a computer and telecommunication network which can receive, send and manage information from or to a subscriber of the network, based on the subscriber's configuration. The network is made up of at least one cluster containing voice servers which allow for telephony, speech recognition, text-to-speech... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080123636 - Communication apparatus and communication method: A hybrid terminal of a mobile phone and a digital broadcast receiver allows calling on the mobile phone while at the same time receiving a digital broadcast itself even in the event of receiving a call while at the same time receiving the digital broadcast. Upon receiving a call while... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080123635 - Matrix switching system: An expandable matrix switching system for use in routing video and other signals transmitted over twisted pair cables from a variable number of inputs to a variable number of outputs, the matrix switching system including at least one switch frame having a plurality of input ports for receiving input signals... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080123637 - Multiplexing system for controlling loads in boats or mobile homes: A multiplexing system for use in a boat or recreation vehicle is used to switch an electric load. The system contains at least two bus devices that are connected via a bus line, whereby each one contains a number of inputs and/or load outputs. Each input can be connected to... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080123638 - Efficient strip-sown and re-alignment of ingressing physical layer/data layer packets in an aggregated pci-express port having eight lanes: In PCI-Express and alike communications systems, number of lanes used per channel or port can vary as a result of negotiated lane aggregation during network bring-up. Disclosed are systems and methods for efficiently realigning packet data and stripping out control bytes in a by-eight port configuration as the packet data... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080123641 - Image forming apparatus, and control method and interface apparatus thereof: An image forming apparatus includes a MAC controller that receives a data packet containing print data from a host apparatus via a network, a central processing unit (CPU) that processes the data packet received by the MAC controller, and a printing unit that performs a printing operation on the basis... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080123640 - Method for discovering outbound sip proxy server: Disclosed is a SIP client having a session initiation protocol module. A router that is capable of communicating with the SIP client, the router having a closest anycast IP server module. A SIP proxy server having an anycast address and a unicast address replacement module, the unicast address replacement module... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080123639 - Relay apparatus and routing method: Relay apparatus selecting first VoIP packets of at least the same transmission IP address from a plurality of VoIP packets arriving within a predetermined period, generating second VoIP packets taking a common transmission destination IP address as a transmission destination IP address and generating second VoIP packets containing each of... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20080123642 - Switch protocol for network communications: A switch protocol for network communications (particularly but not exclusively for multiple computer systems) is disclosed in which each switch (S1, S2, S3) maintains a list of addresses which can be reached via each port (A,B,C) of the switch. In addition, prior to delivering a message or packet to a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080123645 - Broadcast support for mobile systems: A network element provides multicast/broadcast support. The network element is configured to process streams which are transported by a media access control layer, wherein the streams use separate multicast bursts, and to process streams which are transported on an internet protocol. Each of the streams transported by the media access... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080123646 - Information processing device, information processing system, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program for enabling an information processing apparatus to receive a packet transmitted from a server and making it possible to prevent an increase in the traffic of a communication line of the Internet, etc., are disclosed.... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080123644 - Method and apparatus for improved igmp group membership messaging: A method and apparatus for controlling a Report message processing load at an IGMPv3 proxy/router. A <max_records> variable governs a number of current-state Group Records that can be sent in an IGMPv3 Report message in response to a General Membership Query (GMQ). The <max_records> variable may be provisioned in IGMPv3... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080123647 - Method and system for implementing multicast using slave block in digital subscriber line access technique: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a system for implementing multicast using a slave block in DSL access technique. Several slave blocks are cascaded with a master block accessed to the DSL. The master block and slave block are respectively connected with DSL users via RTUs, and... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080123648 - Reporting multicast bandwidth consumption between a multicast replicating node and a traffic scheduling node: A multicast replicating network node (203) according to the present invention reports to a traffic scheduling network node (205) information (231) indicative for the bandwidth consumed by multicast services or indicative for the bandwidth available for unicast services on a line coupled to the multicast replicating network node (203). The... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080123643 - Synchronous peer to peer deployed application propagation for large clusters: The present invention a synchronous peer to peer transfer model that utilizes all available network bandwidth to deploy application code to an entire cluster as fast as it can be sent to one machine. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: determining a number N... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20080123652 - Method and system for tunneling macsec packets through non-macsec nodes: Aspects of a method and system for tunneling MACSec packets through non-MACSec-enabled nodes are provided. In this regard, aspects of the invention may be utilized for transmitting MACSec Ethernet packets over MACSec and/or non-MACSec-enabled network nodes. In one embodiment of the invention, additional header information may be inserted into a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080123653 - Network access control apparatus and method therefor: A network access control method for controlling network access by utilizing a network access control apparatus is provided. The method includes: receiving an ID of a user; acquiring an access control list and an applying position according to the received ID; applying the acquired access control list at the applying... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080123651 - Path diversity for customer-to-customer traffic: In one embodiment, egress provider edge devices (PEs) send advertisements to ingress PEs for address prefixes of a first multi-homed customer network that desires path diversity through a service provider network to a second customer network. A first ingress PE receives the advertisements, and determines whether a second ingress PE... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080123654 - Scalable reconfigurable router: A multi-path router includes an interface module (IM) having a time-sensitive logical processing path and a non-time-sensitive logical processing path and a special needs logical processing path and a filter for receiving a packet header and determining the needs of the packet header and for selecting one of: the time-sensitive... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080123649 - Systems and methods for broadcast storm control: Systems and methods for broadcast storm control. A system for broadcast storm control comprises a plurality of ports and a processing module. Each port comprises a counter counting the number of broadcast packets received in a time unit, and a corresponding drop flag set based on the counter value and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080123650 - Technique for avoiding ip lookup with multipoint-to-multipoint label switched paths: A technique avoids Internet Protocol (IP) lookup with Multipoint-to-Multipoint (MP2MP) Label Switched Paths (LSPs) in a computer network. According to the novel technique, end nodes of an MP2MP LSP determine a root node of the MP2MP LSP for a particular IP stream, e.g., based on a rendezvous point (RP) of... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080123655 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving ciphered packet in mobile communication system: Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving a ciphered packet in a mobile communication system. The apparatus and method perform a reset of a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) in connection with transmission/reception of a ciphered packet including a compressed header, thereby preventing packet loss from occurring, and minimizing... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080123656 - Network device and method for synchronously transmitting data employed by the same: A network device includes an active board and a standby board. The active board includes an active handler, an active queue processing module, and an active state machine module. The active handler is used for forwarding data. The active queue processing module is used for queuing the data via receiving... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080123660 - Method and apparatus for providing differentiated quality of service for packets in a particular flow: Each of a plurality of packets in a particular flow is classified into one of a plurality of quality of service (QoS) classes based on information about each packet. Each packet is then adaptively processed based on the QoS class for each packet. The classification may be performed based on... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080123661 - System and method for providing intelligent quality of service management in a system with a plurality of telecommunication connections: A method, a system, and a computer program product that enables real-time, intelligent quality of service (QoS) for essential services being accessed and/or utilized by a back-office device via a secondary connection to a back-office server running the back-office application/service. A network management device (NMD) executes a QoS utility that... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080123657 - Port addressing method and apparatus for link layer interface: A packet, cell or other data segment received in a physical layer device from a link layer device via an interface bus is processed to determine a port address for the data segment in the physical layer device. The port address, which may be an MPHY address, is determined using... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080123662 - Database management system and method of using it to transmit packets: A forwarding table, in a network device such as a router, used to forward packets in a communications network includes indicia whose state determine whether information contained in the forwarding table or information contained in the header portion of a packet is to be used to forward the packet to... Agent: Ibm Coporation (rtp) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080123664 - Distributed hashing mechanism for self-organizing networks: A method for retrieving content of a distributed directory of a telecommunication system comprising a plurality of nodes arranged in a directed ring topology, the method comprising the steps of identifying a storage location of said content by means of a distributed hashing function, where the hashing function maps an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080123663 - Method and apparatus for managing ternary content addressable memory entries for use in a data packet routing device: Managing TCAM entries within a TCAM matrix for use in a data packet routing device is disclosed. Additionally, a computer readable medium containing instructions to cause a processor to perform the method is also disclosed. One method comprises the steps of: (1) providing a plurality of information base agents for... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080123658 - Method for the delivery of messages in a communication system: The invention relates to a method in which a message is received to a communication server from a node. The communication server obtains user information with recipient information in the message. The user information comprises user entity state and user entity protocol information. A first protocol is determined to become... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080123659 - Arrangement and method for loading data into a memory: In a method and arrangement for loading data from a transmission device into a non-volatile memory of a receiver device that can be connected with the transmission device, the non-volatile memory being erased only sector-by-sector, the data to be loaded are divided by the transmission device into a number of... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080123666 - Electronic device and method of communication resource allocation: Therefore, an electronic device is provided having a plurality of processing modules (IP1-IP5), an interconnect means (N) for coupling the plurality of processing modules (IP1-IP5) enabling at least one first communication (CII) among the processing modules (IP1-IP5), and at least one first module (D1-D5; NI1-N7) for communicating with one of... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080123667 - Network node and method for providing internet services on internet markplaces: An exemplary network node provides at least one Internet service that is executed in at least one provider server of a service provider for users of an Internet marketplace. The exemplary node comprises at least one outer connector for receiving a service request whose generation can be initiated in a... Agent: InternationalIPLaw Group

20080123668 - Systems for dynamic inter-operability of nodes in service grids: Dynamic inter-operability of nodes in services grids can be provided. In some cases, different version service nodes in a service grid can communicate using an inter-operability service to, for example, convert messages from one format associated with a version of a service node to another format associated with another version... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080123665 - Uwb sensor array network structure: A communication center that has communication as well surveillance capabilities is provided. The communication center includes a server and a plurality of UWB nodes. The server is configured to implement a medium assess control (MAC). The plurality of ultra-wideband (UWB) nodes are in communication with the server. Moreover, each UWB... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080123670 - Method and apparatus for activating extended services in a user device using a voice over packet gateway: An enhanced services display message protocol (ESDMP) facilitates display of messages in a compliant analog telephony device (ATD). An exemplary gateway device in a voice over packet (VOP) network can activate enhanced services in a compliant ATD using the ESDMP and includes a controller and first and second interfaces. One... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080123669 - Modular apparatus and method for data communication between a distribution network and a residential network: A modular apparatus for data communication between a distribution network and a residential network is disclosed. The apparatus has a first device adapted to interface a distribution network, at least one second device adapted to interface a residential network and to be mechanically and electrically connected to the first device,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080123671 - Method and system for dynamic queue splitting for maximizing throughput of queue based operations while maintaining per-destination order of operations: A system for providing dynamic queue splitting to maximize throughput of queue entry processing while maintaining the order of queued operations on a per-destination basis. Multiple queues are dynamically created by splitting heavily loaded queues in two. As queues become dormant, they are re-combined. Queue splitting is initiated in response... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080123673 - Method for transmitting packet and system for mobile communication thereof and mobile station: A method for transmitting packet is disclosed. The method is adopted in a system for mobile communication and the system including a mobile station and a network providing connection-oriented service. After optimizing the packet sequence number according to the connection service characteristics and the downlink packet sequence number in the... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080123672 - Multiple context single logic virtual host channel adapter: Various embodiments provide methods and systems operable to receive a work queue pair from the host application, to add the work queue pair to a scheduler queue for a virtual HCA scheduler, to update a context associated with the work queue pair, to create at least one data packet corresponding... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080123674 - System and method for communicating data using a common switch fabric: A communication system includes a first ingress content processor that receives information associated with a first traffic type. The first ingress content processor places the information associated with the first traffic type into a system cell having a common system cell format. A second ingress content processor receives information associated... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080123675 - Data transmission apparatus and data transmission method: In a data transmission apparatus, provisions are made to be able to trace the result of processing or discarding of a specific packet from outside the apparatus. More specifically, in a data transmission apparatus that receives data having a header and, based on information carried in the header, performs processing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080123678 - Communication module system having an interface module and interface module: A communication module system has an interface module for interconnection with at least one communication module, the interface module containing an input, via which the interface module receives first data and/or messages, a first transmission path and a second transmission path being provided in the interface module, a coupling element... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080123676 - Shared input-output device: In some embodiments, a shared IO device includes a plurality of packet filters associated with a plurality of virtual systems sharing the shared I/O device and a plurality of filter receive queues assigned to the plurality of packet filters. A processor is responsive to a receive packet to determine if... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080123677 - System management bus port switch: A method of sending data packets between a control processor and a plurality of peripheral components comprising retrieving information embedded in a command data packet formatted in a first protocol at a switch adapted to function as an alternate bus, forming a reformatted data packet at the switch, and transferring... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080123679 - Routing table architecture: A system and method for routing a packet between ports for use in a router having a plurality of ports, including a first and a second port, wherein each port includes a plurality of look-up tables (LUTs) and a look-up table select connected to the LUTs. Routing information is loaded... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080123680 - Communication apparatus, method, and computer readable medium thereof for switching channels in a beacon network: A communication apparatus originally transmits data packets via a first channel based on a first beacon interval. A memory thereof records the first beacon interval. A receiving interface thereof receives information of a second channel. A processor thereof determines whether the second channel has been used according to the information.... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080123681 - Control of information units in fibre channel communications: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a primary storage control unit receives an information unit from a remote host over a fibre channel connection. The primary storage control unit adjusts an information unit pacing parameter included in a response sent from the primary storage control unit... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080123682 - Method for scheduling transmissions in an ad hoc network: This invention relates to a method for scheduling and synchronizing all transmissions of data in an ad hoc network. Data is transmitted on a given path from a given source of the data to a given destination. Time is divided into cycles and in each cycle each node in the... Agent: Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP Attn: Kathleen W. Geiger, Esq.

20080123683 - Contact initialization based upon automatic profile sharing between computing devices: A method of initiating contact based upon automatically shared profile data can include a step of automatically and wirelessly exchanging profile information between at least two computing devices. A determination can be made as to whether a contact opportunity exists by comparing received profile information with a set of previously... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080123684 - Method and system for transport block size signaling based on modulation type for hsdpa: A device for communicating with a mobile device is provided. The devices includes a transmitter. The transmitter transmit a first modulation scheme, a first transport block size, and a first redundancy version to a mobile device. The first transport block size is represented by a first number of bits and... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080123686 - Method and system for managing message threads in converged ip messaging service: A mechanism to enable multiple message threads management in the context of the Converged IP Messaging (CPM) service and in the context of CPM inter-working with SMS is provided. A CPM user can simply start a message-based conversation with another CPM or Short Message Service (SMS) user without explicitly establishing... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080123685 - Systems for providing peer-to-peer communications: Improved systems and methods for establishing peer-to-peer calls such as voice over IP calls and video over IP calls. In various embodiments of the invention, SMTP messages are exchanged between devices using a SMTP server, with the SMTP messages including IP address information. With this arrangement, the need for SIP... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080123687 - Terminal capabilities set exchange between heterogeneous endpoints: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a protocol translator a first message from a first endpoint to a second endpoint. The first message includes a list of media capabilities of the first endpoint. The method also includes transmitting from the protocol translator a second message to the second... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080123688 - Adaptive physical transmission mode selection: A data transmission network comprises two groups of nodes (1; 2, 3, 4), a radio interface associated to each group and connected to the nodes (1) of the group and a radio path (5) between the two radio interfaces (9), in which several groups (1412, 1413, 1414) of virtual paths... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080123690 - Broadband access network, device and method for guaranteeing qos of services: An embodiment of the invention provides a method for guaranteeing QoS of services in a broadband access network includes: establishing a plurality of logical channels between a plurality of subscriber access devices and a Broadband Access Server (BAS) respectively, allocating bandwidth resources for each of the plurality of logical channels;... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080123691 - Context-dependent scheduling through the use of anticipated grants for broadband communication systems: A method of scheduling upstream bandwidth. This method comprises: 1) anticipating the need for the upstream bandwidth in advance of any specific request for said upstream bandwidth; and 2) scheduling the upstream bandwidth in accordance with such need.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20080123689 - Oversubscription of guaranteed bandwidth: A method for communication includes allocating target bandwidths to two or more packet sources and defining one or more of the packet sources as preferred sources. Quantum values defining maximum amounts of data to be sent during a single scheduling round are defined for the respective packet sources. Repetitive scheduling... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080123692 - Method and apparatus for multiplexing/demultiplexing multi-programs: A multi-program multiplexing/demultiplexing method and apparatus for preventing MPEG jitters from being generated in a digital broadcast, and a multi-program receiver using the multi-program multiplexing/demultiplexing apparatus are provided. The multi-program multiplexing method comprises: extracting a plurality of transport stream packets from a plurality of channel decoders; comparing a reference clock... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080123693 - Multiple flows for incremental forward error correction mechanisms: There are provided a customer premise equipment (CPE) device, a corresponding method, and a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) for connecting to a digital network and performing forward error correction (FEC). The CPE device includes a decoder for decoding one of a plurality of incremental FEC signals for media... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080117804 - Multiple access techniques for a wireless communication medium: A multiple access technique for a wireless communication system establishes separate channels by defining different time intervals for different channels. In a transmitted reference system different delay periods may be defined between transmitted reference pulses and associated data pulses for different channels. In addition, a multiple access technique may employ... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080117805 - Method and apparatus for cross-talk cancellation in frequency division multiplexed transmission systems: A method and apparatus are disclosed for canceling cross-talk in a frequency-division multiplexed communication system. The disclosed frequency-division multiplexed communication system employs multiple carriers having overlapping channels and provides an improved cross-talk cancellation mechanism to address the resulting interference. Bandwidth compression is achieved using n level amplitude modulation in each... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080117806 - Method and device for recovering a shared mesh network: One embodiment of the present invention discloses a method and device for recovering a shared mesh network. The core idea of the method lies in that: a network ingress node of network connection service determines and saves routing information of a recovery path; after a working path is established successfully,... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080117807 - Accelerated recovery during negotiation between a media gateway and a media gateway controller: A method is disclosed that enables an improved technique for recovering from an error scenario encountered during a call setup that involves a malfunctioning media gateway and the corresponding media gateway controller. The media gateway first detects a malfunction that affects a digital signal processing resource. The media gateway then... Agent: Demont & Breyer, Llc

20080117808 - Automatic configuration of network elements based on service contract definitions: An integrated telecom network service management system (SMS) enables automatic configuration of network elements (NEs) of a given network service contact based on commercial contract parameters entered via a GUI by the SMS user. The GUI of the SMS allows contract entry based on discrete contract parameter selector menus, causing... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080117809 - Overload control method for access media gateway and corresponding access media gateway: The present invention provides an overload control method for an access media gateway and the corresponding access media gateway. The access media gateway restricts call of a subscriber coupled thereto and acting as a calling side or a called side. Different overload levels and calls with high priority to be... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080117815 - Apparatus and method for performing sequential scheduling in multiple-input multiple-output system: An apparatus and method for performing sequential scheduling in a multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) system is provided. The method includes the steps of: selecting a user which reports the greatest partial feedback information among a plurality of pieces of partial feedback information of all users in an initialization operation, and requesting... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080117812 - Apparatus and method for solving congestion in wideband code division multiple access system: Provided is an apparatus and method for solving congestion in a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) system. A WCDMA node B broadcasts a congestion occurrence information message over a cell area when congestion is sensed. A mobile communication terminal then checks the type of service to receive in the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080117811 - Apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in wireless local network and method using the same: An apparatus and method of receiving and transmitting data in a wireless local network is provided. An apparatus for receiving data in a wireless local network includes: a congestion determiner which determines whether there is a congestion in a buffer storing received data if the data is received via a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080117810 - Communications test system with multilevel scheduler: Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide communication testing for wireless or wired packet data communication devices, systems, and networks. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a test system containing a multilevel scheduler is disclosed that includes cascaded schedulers, a software interface, and specific media protocol... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080117813 - Method and system for dynamic rate-limiting in switch: Provided is a dynamic rate-limiting method and apparatus used in a switch for switching packets from input ports to output ports, the method including: (a) adding traffic bandwidth values set in advance in active subscribers that are using the switch from among subscribers connected to the switch; (b) comparing the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080117814 - Transmission rate selection: A method for transmitting data over a network in which multiple transmission conditions can be used for transmitting data, the method comprising selecting a transmission condition to be used when transmitting data over the network, said selection being made in dependence on a predetermined preference distribution that for each of... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080117816 - Method and system to identify and alleviate remote overload: A method and system to identify an overload state in a remote network device within a communications network in which a local network device can send at least one message to the remote network device. The method comprises detecting at least one message transmission timeout for the message sent from... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080117817 - Communication device with multi-stages of traffic shaping functions: A traffic shaper which includes a cell buffer for temporarily storing an ATM cell arrived thereat, a first calculator for calculating an estimated cell sending time according to a VC contracted bandwidth, a second calculator for calculating an estimated cell sending time according to a VP contracted bandwidth, a binary... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080117818 - Focused function network processor: A network processor is enabled to retrieve a packet transmission data structure (PTD) from a memory. The NP parses packet data from the PTD and transmits the data over the network as a network packet. The PTD may include repetition information used by the NP to transmit a plurality of... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p. Patent Department

20080117819 - System and method for dynamic bandwidth allocation for videoconferencing in lossy packet switched networks: A system and method for adjusting a video bit rate (VBR) over a network includes reducing the VBR if the network incurs a packet loss (PL) that is greater than a PL threshold increasing the VBR if the PL is less than or equal to the PL threshold over a... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.l.p.

20080117820 - Detection method, detecting device, reference value calculating device and recording medium: Communication quality values such as delay times of packets transmitted and received within a packet network are measured, and a threshold value is calculated based on the measured communication quality values. Further, a management reference value is calculated based on the communication quality values of packets whose measured communication quality... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080117821 - Adaptive quality of service in an easy virtual private network environment: In one embodiment, a QoS manager process that receives, at an EzVPN server device, connection speed data from an EzVPN client device. In addition, the QoS manager process processes, at the EzVPN server device, the connection speed data to determine a QoS policy for a communications session between the EzVPN... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, Llc

20080117822 - Wireless routing selection system and method: A technique involves untethered access points (UAPs) that can broadcast estimated transmission time (ETT) that represents an estimated time it would take for a packet to be transmitted from the first UAP to an AP that is wire coupled to a network. The proposed system can offer, among other advantages,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080117823 - Detection and handling of lost messages during load-balancing routing protocols: Methods that enable the detection and handling of lost messages during load-balancing routing protocols are disclosed. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, when a candidate intermediate node N receives a routing-protocol message, node N performs: (1) a first procedure that is capable of detecting some lost routing-protocol messages that were... Agent: Demont & Breyer, Llc

20080117824 - Topological approach for improving network and system utilization in a non-uniform network: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates improved resource allocation in a network. During operation, the system determines one or more metrics value for a node based on a characteristic of the node and assigns nodes within the network to access groups based on each node's... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080117825 - Testing and evaluating the status of a network node: A system receives a data unit from a sending node and identifies if the data unit indicates that it is a test data unit. The system determines a delta time that includes a difference between a time at which a response data unit is going to be sent to the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080117826 - Methods and apparatus to provide voice communication error notifications: Methods and apparatus to provide voice communication inoperative condition notifications are disclosed. An example method includes detecting an inoperative condition associated with a called voice over internet protocol device, comparing the inoperative condition to a criterion, and forwarding an inoperative condition notification for display on a display device associated with... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, Llc

20080117827 - Method and system for verifying connectivity of logical link: Verification of the connectivity of a logical link can be accomplished even in a network including a plurality of nodes that are connected through data link(s) and a control channel between adjacent nodes. A node that is the start point of a logical link to be verified transmits a logical... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080117828 - Fault isolation system and method: A fault isolation system and method. A hierarchical numbering system is applied to devices within a cable network. Each subscriber is associated with a “last active device” or “LAD” providing service to that subscriber. The numbering system provides “genealogical” information about the subscriber's LAD so that the LAD can be... Agent: Roberts, Mardula & Wertheim, Llc

20080117829 - Network system, network apparatus, route change method, and program storage medium storing program thereof: A test packet generator of an entry device generates a delay test packet including priority information. A test packet transmitter of the entry device transmits the delay test packet to an exit device through a route corresponding to the priority information. A test packet receiver of the exit device receives... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080117833 - method and apparatus for fast other sector interference (osi) adjustment: Systems and methods that facilitate management of interference and communication resources are provided. A differential approach is devised in which other-sector interference (OSI) and communication resources are managed by adjusting an offset (delta) value associated with the resources in response to receiving an indication of other-sector interference. An OSI indication... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080117831 - Application specific, network performance measurement system and method for applications: An application specific, network performance measurement system and method are provided wherein the application operates over a network wherein the performance of the network at one or more elements of the network is measured.... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20080117834 - Call server, call terminal, call system, transfer processing method, and program storage medium storing program thereof: A reception-process manager of a call server writes, in a transfer-voice-data storage, voice data contained in a voice packet received from the transmitter terminal which has acquired the talk right. A transmission-process manager of the call server determines the next transmission interval of a voice packet for each receiver terminal... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080117830 - Detection of link status in blade systems: A method and a computer program product for detecting link status in a blade system are provided. The method and computer program product provide for generating a first pattern of characters at a server blade of the blade system, transmitting the first pattern of characters from the server blade to... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080117832 - Multiple service method and device over heterogenous networks: The present invention relates to a multiple network service sharing method and a device for the same. With the sub-network aggregation information collecting function and service arbitration function disclosed in the present invention, the network user can easily add new network services to the existing network structure. The method and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080117835 - Method and apparatus for time-aligning transmissions from multiple base stations in a cdma communication system: Schemes to time-align transmissions from multiple base stations to a terminal. To achieve time-alignment, differences between the arrival times of transmissions from the base stations, as observed at the terminal, are determined and provided to the system and used to adjust the timing at the base stations such that terminal-specific... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080117837 - Method for setting wireless lan communication system and wireless lan access point: A method for setting a wireless local area network (LAN) communication system that is connected to an external network via an access point in the case of adding a new extension terminal to the system includes: (a) acquiring, at a server, information identifying a new extension terminal from a user's... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080117836 - Methods and apparatus to manage bandwidth in a wireless network: Methods and apparatus to manage bandwidth in a wireless network are disclosed. For a wireless network that includes a wireless access point supporting a private service set identifier (SSID) and a public SSID, a disclosed example apparatus comprises a policy interface to receive a value representative of a permissible public... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, Llc

20080117838 - Conference roll call: A facility is described for providing conference roll calls that identify participants in electronically facilitated conferences. In various embodiments, the facility receives identifiers of participants in an electronically facilitated conference and displays a list of the participants in a roll call. The list can include indications of which participant is... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080117839 - Method and system for managing integrated media group communications: A method and system for enabling and managing multimedia group communications, particularly for mobile devices attached to a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-enabled network. The method and system provide a plug-and-play architecture for managing policy-based group communications. The method and system provide standardized set up and delivery of services, and can... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080117840 - Bridge circuit to suppress echoes in communication devices: Bridge circuit for echo suppression for a reception signal of a communication device connected to a transmission line, to which can be supplied a reception signal received via the transmission line and a transmission signal to be transmitted by the communication device via the transmission line. The bridge circuit is... Agent: Holme Roberts & Owen, LLP

20080117847 - Management device, method of controlling management device, and computer-readable storage medium storing therefor: Identification information used to identify a wireless-communication apparatus is acquired from a portable storage medium, a search for the wireless-communication apparatus is made based on the acquired identification information, and it is determined whether or not wireless parameters should be set to the wireless-communication apparatus according to the search result.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080117846 - Mapping of preamble sequence sets with frame control header (fch) location for multi-hop wireless broadband access communications: FCH locations are mapped to preamble sequence sets to allow more than three stations to transmit their FCHs with minimized or reduced interference. A lower interference environment may be provided to transmit the FCH within each DL relay phase when the number of stations within the phase is less than... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080117844 - Mobile network automatic tunnels: In one embodiment, a received data packet is delivered by a routing resource to a tunnel interface resource in response to determining that the received data packet specifies a destination address starting with a prescribed aggregation prefix. The tunnel interface resource computes a home address for a mobile router based... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20080117842 - Multicast flow distribution: In addition to other aspects disclosed, in response to being informed by a controller of a flow for transmission to at least one access terminal in a wireless network, a master base station router assigns the flow to one of a plurality of slave base station routers to process the... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080117845 - Network controlled mobility route optimization for an ip base station transceiver architecture: A method in one example has: establishing communication between two mobile terminals in a base station routing architecture network; and optimizing routing between the two mobiles terminals without requiring all traffic to traverse an anchor point in the base station routing architecture network. An IP base station transceiver architecture utilizes... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina Llc

20080117843 - Packet transmission control apparatus and packet transmission control: A packet transmission control apparatus comprising a storage unit configured to store a transmission resource usable for transmission of the packet, channel quality information on the downlink, and a transmission method used for transmission of the packet in association with each other; a determination unit configured to determine the transmission... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080117841 - Telecommunications system and method: A telecommunications system for communicating internet packets between a mobile communications user equipment forming a correspondent node and a mobile node via an external packet data telecommunications network. The system comprises a packet radio network providing a plurality of packet data bearers for communicating internet packets with nodes attached to... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080117848 - Communication system and methods for power management thereof: A method for power management in a communication system is disclosed. The communication system is capable of operating in a first mode, and comprises at least one device having first module corresponding to the first mode. The device can be configured to a normal mode or a power saving mode.... Agent: Quintero Law Office, Pc

20080117850 - Dual mode wireless personal area network and wireless local area network architecture: Dual mode wireless radio chip having integrated circuitry enabled to provide a wireless personal area network protocol layer; a wireless local area network protocol layer; and a radio access control protocol layer having a single antenna configured to receive and forward a plurality of transmission packets and to multiplex the... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP

20080117849 - Method and apparatus for interaction of fast other sector interference (osi) with slow osi: Systems and methodologies are described that provide techniques for generating and utilizing reverse link feedback for interference management in a wireless communication system. Other Sector Interference (OSI) indicators are transmitted from an interfering access point to an access terminal. At the access terminal, an appropriate delta value(s) is combined with... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080117851 - Wireless terminal and wireless terminal control method: Prior to detection of a start of a session having periodicity in a wireless terminal, the wireless terminal powers on a communication unit that performs wireless communication with a wireless base station, in accordance with a reception timing of receiving a beacon signal once in several times and a generation... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080117853 - Efficient resource utilization with interlace and/or interlace offset switching: A method for switching group assignment of an access terminal (AT) includes receiving a control message indicating a current group to which the AT is assigned and an assigned group to which the AT is to be switched, and decoding data in a next-received group interlace which corresponds to the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080117852 - Media broadcasts from wireless access point: An integrated circuit radio transceiver and method therefore includes a wireless access point that is operable to receive media content for subsequent delivery to at least one wireless mobile terminal and to store such media content until a specified delivery time or such media content is requested. The wireless access... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080117854 - Bandwidth allocation for relay networks: Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to relay networks or multi-hop networks, and also relating to bandwidth allocation for relay networks. According to an example embodiment, a method of allocating bandwidth in a relay network may include receiving at a relay station a first code (e.g., a first CDMA code)... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080117857 - Control station apparatus and control method thereof, communication apparatus and control method thereof, and wireless communication system: A control station apparatus performs wireless communication with a plurality of communication apparatuses and sends data to the communication apparatuses. The control station apparatus receives, from each of the communication apparatuses, identification information of other communication apparatuses with which the communication apparatus is capable of wireless communication; selects, from among... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080117855 - Method and system for wibro network interworking in wireless terminal: A method and system for WiBro network interworking in a wireless terminal. The method includes: setting up, by a relay station for connecting the WLAN terminal with the WiBro network, a connection through an initial process with the WiBro network; performing, by an access router, Internet connection authentication on a... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080117856 - Multi-phase frame structure to support multi-hop wireless broadband access communications: A wireless device to configure a frame structure with multiple phases to support any hop network and any number of Relay Stations (RSs) deployed without increasing overhead proportionally with the number of RSs deployed in the system.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080117858 - System and method for transmitting information using aircraft as transmission relays: A method of processing a message in a relay network comprises determining if a destination node is within range; if the destination node is not in range, identifying one or more network member aircraft within range; selecting one of the one or more network member aircraft within range; authenticating membership... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080117859 - Dynamic operational mode management for a wireless terminal: An operational mode of a terminal is dynamically configured to allow the terminal to receive services of interest to the terminal while potentially conserving battery power. The terminal operates in a first mode (e.g., an HRPD-only mode) and monitors only a first radio network (e.g., an HRPD network) for pages... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080117861 - Service provision and management for mobile communities: The present invention relates to service provision and management for mobile communities. There is disclosed a scalable service creation, provision and management scheme as well as a community management scheme for mobile communities such as for example peer-to-peer (P2P) communities.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080117862 - Techniques to use location information to reduce scanning in wireless networks: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a wireless client adapted to obtain its location information and based upon the location information, determine its network scanning requirements for a single wireless interface, or a plurality of wireless interfaces connecting to a plurality of networks.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080117863 - Wireless access point network system supported through existing transmission lines: A system for establishing a universal or overlapping wireless broadband network composed of a plurality of Access Points (AP). These APs, or nodes, may be coupled to existing copper transmission lines, and may work alone or in groups to provide wireless network access. Different types of APs may be utilized... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080117860 - Wireless wide area network (wwan) mobile gateway with communication protocol management: A wireless wide area network (WWAN) mobile gateway is configured to execute a selected communication protocol from a plurality of communication protocols to communicate with a connected WWAN modem card connected through a WWAN device interface. The connected WWAN modem card is one of a plurality of WWAN modem cards... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080117873 - Additional modulation information signaling for high speed downlink packet access: The modulation indication bit is interpreted as a QPSK/xQAM modulation indication if both the user equipment and the serving cell support 64QAM modulation, such that if QPSK is indicated, the 7 code-set information bits in the HS-SCCH part 1 structure is interpreted as is presently interpreted today as defined in... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080117872 - Apparatus and method for transmitting ofdma symbols: Embodiments of the present invention may provide an apparatus and a method for transmitting an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access (OFDMA) symbol in an OFDMA system. A bandwidth limit parameter for generating an OFDMA symbol may be adaptively determined based on the received signal quality of a receiver. An OFDMA... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080117865 - Communication in a wireless network using multiple antennae: Apparatuses and methods for communicating in a wireless network are described herein. The methods may include initially determining by a device of the wireless network whether a communication channel is available for transmission of signals by using first one or more antennae having a first effective beamwidth to sense energy... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c.

20080117864 - Dynamic channel assignment and connectivity maintenance in wireless networks: Dynamic channel assignment and connectivity maintenance in wireless networks may involve switching channels while maintaining connectivity in wireless ad hoc networks. In a described implementation, a wireless network may be separated into two or more respective virtual wireless networks with respective wireless node subsets operating on respective channels. Connectivity may... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080117868 - Mobile communication apparatus, mobile communication system, and power consumption reducing method for use therewith: A mobile communication apparatus including a transmission portion which transmits data after varying an amount of data to be transmitted under control of scheduling from at least a base station, including a schedule portion that stops an operation of an unnecessary circuit by controlling an operation rate of the transmission... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080117870 - Setting a communication channel: In a packet switched wireless communications network, a parameter of a communication channel request indicates that the communication channel is to be used to transfer call related control messages. Upon receipt of the communication channel request, a network element sends a request to a radio access network that a part... Agent: Robert M Bauer, Esq. Lackenbach Siegel, LLP

20080117869 - Systems and methods for subscriber-centric dynamic spectrum management: A radio spectrum management system is provided. In an embodiment, the radio spectrum management system includes a radio spectrum gateway, a radio spectrum management server and a radio spectrum policy decision server. The radio spectrum gateway is coupled to a radio access network that receives bandwidth requests from subscriber devices... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080117867 - Techniques to provide physical resource allocation using a tree-based structure and communicate a channel quality indicator: In a wireless network, simultaneous support of distributed and contiguous sub-carrier allocation may be accomplished in the same sub-frame or time zone. Techniques are described herein that can be used to allocate distributed and/or contiguous basic (physical) resource blocks to users by specifying a codebook index and parent node. Techniques... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate

20080117871 - Wireless communications apparatus and methods employing opportunistic frequency band use: A base station selectively communicates with terminals using first and second separately allocated frequency bands, e.g., separate cellular/PCS bands, of a government spectrum allocation based on propagation conditions between the base station and the terminals. The base station may transmit in the first frequency band and receive in the second... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080117866 - Wireless communications using overlay network devices within coverage areas of underlay network devices: A wireless communication technique provides mobility for a mobile station (52) to communicate with an overlay network device (40), which is within a coverage area (34) of an underlay network device (24), when the mobile station (52) is within a coverage area (42) of both devices. The overlay network device... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c./alcatel-lucent

20080117877 - Apparatus and method for performing effective automatic repeat request in multi-hop relay system: An apparatus and method for performing effective Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) in a multi-hop relay system is provided. The method includes the steps of determining whether a Mobile Station (MS) enters a handover region; if it is determined that the MS enters the handover region, transmitting an E2E-ARQ-Request message, which... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080117878 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving data in a communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data in a communication system are provided. A serving node includes a transceiver/receiver including an antenna for transmitting and receiving data from at least one of plurality of customer equipments; a control processor responsive to an requesting handover message indicating handover to... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080117874 - Controlling method and data call handover method for dual band/dual mode mobile communication terminal: In the data call handover method, the mobile communication terminal registers a Mobile Internet Protocol (MIP address) through an asynchronous mobile communication network and receives data call service when a data call connection event is initiated by the mobile communication terminal. It is determined whether the mobile communication terminal has... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080117875 - Wireless access point operation based upon historical information: A wireless access point wireless access point is operable to generate or update a history associated with a wireless terminal to facilitate the wireless access point making attachment decisions relating to the wireless terminal. The wireless access point is operable determine to remain attached to the wireless terminal or to... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080117876 - Wireless communication device and wireless communication method: On transition of a 1x system from a standby state in which standby processing is performed to out of service state in an SHDR mode, the standby processing for the 1x system using a receiver unit (RX1) is halted and, when an instruction to switch from a call through an... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20080117879 - Handoff method in a wireless local area network and apparatus using the same: A handoff method in a wireless local area network (WLAN) and an apparatus using the same are provided. A mobile station (MS) switches between a data transceiving mode and a probing mode at a predefined interval when the MS is transmitting/receiving packages. In the probing mode, the MS probes one... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080117880 - Access point and channel switching method thereof: An access point (AP) (20A) for automatically switching channels includes a transceiving module (201), a channel quality evaluation module (207) and a channel switching module (209). The transceiving module is provided for communicating with another AP (20B). The channel quality evaluation module is provided for evaluating quality of the communication... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080117881 - Method for performing a scheduling algorithm with a minimum resource parameter and method of calculating same: The invention concerns a method for performing a scheduling algorithm in a scheduler (120) of a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of obtaining from a communication unit (200) a minimum resource parameter, wherein said minimum resource parameter indicates a minimum of resources allocated to the communication unit in a... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc

20080117882 - Master station of communication system and access control method: A communication bandwidth is divided into a beacon period in which all master stations compete for transmission of a beacon packet, a first carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) period in which only authorized specific stations are allowed to compete for access, and a second CSMA period in which all stations... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080117883 - Time coordinated base station and antenna array for integer cycle and impulse modulation systems: An improved antenna and coordination arrangement for use at a base station that will eliminate over the air collisions while doubling the effective data rate of each base station in a network is disclosed. The result will be large area networks which all share exactly the same radio spectrum without... Agent: Dennis L. Cook, Esq. The Law Offices Of Dennis L Cook Pllc

20080117885 - Control message processing method in wireless mesh network and control message processing apparatus using the method: A control message processing method and a control message processing apparatus using the method on a wireless mesh network are provided where a neighbor solicitation (NS) information is generated by extracting a part or an entire NS message, the NS message having been generated to request a medium access control... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080117884 - Radio network controller, wireless access gateway, radio communication system, and communication method for radio communication system: A radio network controller (104) according to the present invention outputs a context required for a terminal (110a) capable of communicating with a mobile communication network and a wireless local area network to communicate with the wireless local area network to the terminal (110a) among pieces of information input from... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080117887 - Wimax system analyzer having ras emulation function and method of acquiring ul synchronization and testing pss using the same: Disclosed herein are a WiMAX system analyzer having an RAS emulation function and a method of acquiring UL synchronization and testing a PSS. The WiMAX system analyzer includes a clock counter, a D/A conversion unit, an A/D conversion unit, an RF processing unit, switching means, a signal generation unit, a... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.c.

20080117886 - Wireless lan and usb bridging apparatus for connecting communication between wireless local area network and wireless usb network: A LAN/USB bridge apparatus is provided. The LAN/USB bridge apparatus includes a wireless LAN/USB signal processor and a controller. The wireless LAN/USB signal processor receives a wireless LAN signal transmitted from a wireless LAN access point performing a bridging function between a wired LAN and a wireless LAN, transforms the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080117888 - Transmission rate selection: A method for transmitting data over a network in which multiple transmission conditions can be used for transmitting data, each transmission condition being associated with a rating indicative of how successful previous data transmissions using that transmission condition have been, the method comprising using a selected transmission condition when transmitting... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080117890 - Method and apparatus for sharing network resources: A method of sharing network resources through a wire/wireless interface between a first device and a second device is provided, in which the first device is connected with a wireless broadband network and the second device is not connected with the wireless broadband network. Such a method includes determining an... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117889 - Method of protecting a mobile-telephone-type telecommunication terminal: A method of protecting a telecommunication terminal having a chip-card-type personal component which is required for telecommunication network access. The terminal includes a processing unit, at least one operating memory element containing the information necessary to the operation of the terminal, i.e. a terminal operating program, and the data necessary... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080117891 - Semi-persistent scheduling for traffic spurts in wireless communication: Techniques for efficiently assigning resources for spurts of traffic in a wireless communication system are described. The system may support semi-persistent and non-persistent resource assignments. A semi-persistent resource assignment is valid for as long as more data is sent within a predetermined time period of last sent data and expires... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080117892 - Method for iterative routing with the aid of a path-dependent routing metric: A method detects a path in a communications network having a plurality of nodes with the aid of a routing metric. The method involves inputting a quantity determined on the basis of number of paths passing through the nodes in the routing metric.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080117893 - Method, devices and system of ims services session control via ussd: A system and method for allowing IMS subscribers to perform service and session control of IMS services via a CS access. A User Equipment, UE, that is registered with an IMS network but is not in a position to access the IMS network using IP can still access the IMS... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080117894 - Electronic switch network: Systems and methods for switching electronic signals are disclosed. The switching may be performed with a low loss and low peak voltages. The switching scheme is suitable for switching RF signals, for example, and may be used in devices such as wireless systems, terminals, and handsets. One exemplary embodiment is... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080117898 - Accelerated removal from service of a signal processor at a media gateway: A method is disclosed that enables accelerating the removal from service of a signal processor at a media gateway. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment of the present invention, the media gateway receives an indication to remove one of its digital signal processors from service. Instead of waiting for all... Agent: Demont & Breyer, Llc

20080117902 - Auto-provisioning of network services over an ethernet access link: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an Ethernet port, for connection to an Ethernet access network providing multiple different services. A plurality of local service ports are provided for connection to items of peripheral customer premises equipment (CPE), each item supporting a different, respective service. A bridge is coupled to... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080117897 - External data access information in a voip conversation: A method and system provides the ability to share access information for external data over a digital voice communication channel. The access information of external data may be exchanged instead of the external data itself. More specifically, a recipient device may receive contextual information which relates to the access information... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20080117904 - Framework for network coding and cross-layer information exchange in presence of errors in the packets: An improved routing scheme is provided for data packets in a network. Upon receiving incoming data packets at an intermediate routing node of the network, the incoming data packets are processed in accordance with a cross-layer protocol. In addition, network coding is applied to the incoming data packets to form... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080117900 - Method and apparatus for distributing data packets by using multi-network address translation: A data packets distributor for transferring a data packet from a source address to a destination address is provided. The data packet distributor has a plurality of predefined addresses and a data packet distributing unit. Each of the plurality of addresses indicates a network processing unit coupled to the data... Agent: Wang Law Firm, Inc.

20080117895 - Method and apparatus for transporting multiprotocol label switching frames over physical communication links: The invention includes a method and apparatus for transporting a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) frame over a communication link. In the egress direction of communication, a method includes encapsulating the MPLS frame within a Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) frame, forming an augmented frame by adding at least one Ethernet Media... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080117901 - Method of conducting an audio communications session using incorrect timestamps: A local area network includes a number of IP capable phones which send and receive packets of audio or other information to each other over the network. Some of the phones can be wired to the network and some of the phones can be wirelessly connected to the network. The... Agent: Robert C. Schluer

20080117899 - Network audio directory server and method: A system and method of communicating audio through a network. The method includes detecting audio content from an audio source by a first network terminal, sending a directory packet including a network address of the detected audio content to a second network terminal, and requesting the audio content through the... Agent: Daniel R. Brown

20080117896 - Network repeater: A network repeater is configured to repeat data packets in a broadcast mode without generating a significant broadcast storm. The network repeater is configured to detect a characteristic of a received data packet. The data packet characteristic is compared with valid copies of packet characteristics previously stored in a packet... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080117903 - Apparatus and method for high speed and large amount of data packet capturing and replaying: This invention is an apparatus and a method to capture large amount of live packet traffic at high speeds into volatile memory first and then saving them into non-volatile memory for future replays. Direct capturing packets into system memory allows achieving theoretical maximum speed of the network media, for example... Agent: Sezen Uysal

20080117905 - Methods and arrangements for monitoring subsource addressing multicast distribution trees: Methods and arrangements for monitoring at least one interconnection between at least two nodes in a distributed network. At least one subscriber node is prompted to ascertain the integrity of an interconnection with at least one parent node.... Agent: Ference & Associates Llc

20080117914 - Input port routing circuit that performs output port filtering: The filtering operations normally performed at the output port side of an Infiniband (or similar protocol) routing switch are performed in parallel at the input side to prevent data packets from being placed on a queue from which they would ordinarily ultimately be discarded, thus removing “bad” packets that would... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.c.

20080117907 - Method and apparatus for generating bi-directional network traffic and collecting statistics on same: A method and apparatus for testing network devices maintains state data in a memory corresponding to a current status for each one of a plurality of connections. Received and transmitted segment identifiers relate each received segment to one of the connections. Each received and transmitted segment is processed and advanced... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080117912 - Method, system and node for implementing subnetwork connection protection in multi-protocol label switching network: The embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a system and a node for implementing Subnetwork Connection Protection (SNCP) in a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. The method includes: sending, by a first node of a subnetwork of the MPLS network, an Operation, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) packet on... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080117908 - Methods and systems for relaying data packets: One or more nodes of a network may be configured to provide substitute header information for insertion into a received data packet and then to retransmit the data packet with the modified header information to other network destinations. One or more other downstream nodes may be configured to do likewise,... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20080117906 - Payload header compression in an rtp session: An RTP payload header (408) is compressed by utilizing a codebook (514) that holds one or more indexable payload header variations and sending it to a receiving device (504). An RTP packet (400) that includes the payload header (408) with information pertaining to the packet is generated by a sending... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080117913 - Pipelined packet switching and queuing architecture: An architecture for a line card in a network routing device is provided. The line card architecture provides a bi-directional interface between the routing device and a network, both receiving packets from the network and transmitting the packets to the network through one or more connecting ports. In both the... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080117910 - Switch and method for supporting internet protocol (ip) network tunnels: A switch and a method are described herein that are capable of supporting a “new” IP network tunnel even though the switch has an “old” application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that did not originally support the routing of a packet with the “new” tunnel type (i.e., the “new” tunnel type... Agent: Alcatel Lucent (fka Alcatel Internetworking, Inc.)

20080117909 - Switch scaling for virtualized network interface controllers: A system bus may be used as an inter-switch communications link to transfer packets between virtualized interfaces on different virtualized network interface controllers that are accessible by a plurality of virtual machines. The inter-switch communications link may also be used for advanced power management through the use of intelligent packet... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080117911 - System and method for a software-based tcp/ip offload engine for digital media renderers: A method of receiving data from a first computing device to a second computing device through a network is disclosed. The transfer adheres to a packet-based network protocol. A connection between the first and second computing devices is established according to the protocol. A data packet is received from the... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080117915 - Method and system for transport protocol reconstruction and timer synchronization for non-intrusive capturing and analysis of packets on a high-speed distributed network: A transport protocol data flow reconstruction method delays determination that a missing packet is lost for a period of time. For an evaluated TCP packet in a first direction, the method determines if a TCP packet is missing in a second direction, in which case the method stores the evaluated... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080117916 - Voip terminal apparatus, voip communication system and presence check method thereof: A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) terminal apparatus includes: a user input part; a display; a communication part, which communicates through a network; a storage part which stores a subscriber information of a plurality of remote subscribers; and a controller which stores the subscriber information inputted through the user input... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080117917 - Method and apparatus for managing subscriber profiles: Methods and apparatus for managing subscriber profiles are described herein. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving, from a requester, a request to determine an operation to be performed on a data packet. The method also includes determining profile identifiers associated with the requester, wherein the profile identifiers include, a... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20080117918 - Relaying apparatus and network system: A packet classification part 39 classifies input packets into a transparent packet, a management packet, etc. The transparent packet is sent to a transmission priority control part 51 through the packet classification part 39 and an output packet sorting part 46. The management packet is sent to a management control... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080117919 - Systems and methods for aggregation of packets for transmission through a communications network: A system for transmitting packets over a home network of communication channels, typically coax cable, including a set of nodes, at least one having a packet aggregation functionality in which the node forms an aggregation frame by aggregating one or more packets which have accumulated at the node and transmits... Agent: Weiss & Arons, LLP

20080117920 - Content harvesting and harmonizing gateway: Described herein are embodiments that provide a gateway device dedicated for harvesting content from a content service and harmonizing the content in a content player with the harvested content. Thus, the dedicated gateway device provides a practical, low-cost gateway for downloading desired content wherever a network connection to the content... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080117924 - Data relay unit: A data relay unit capable of relaying data communication between first and second networks interchanging different structures of data, a gateway (GW) and a method are provided. An identifier is assigned to transmission data and reception data exchanged in a GW unit. A data conversion section specifies a conversion process... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080117922 - Home automation system and method including remote media access: In a particular illustrative embodiment, a portable personal media player includes a first interface, a second interface, a display, an audio output, a keypad and a processor. The first interface communicates via a network with a residential gateway that is communicatively coupled to a plurality of electronic devices. The second... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080117921 - Method and system for presenting command information associated with a status: Accordingly, a method and system are disclosed for presenting command information associated with a status. According to an exemplary embodiment, the method includes associating a command with a status of a presentity for indicating a principal associated with the presentity can process the command when the presentity has the associated... Agent: Scenera Research, Llc

20080117923 - Method for routing internet connections via network gateways: For users of a private network to be able to communicate with users of a public network, the private IP addresses must be converted into a network-wide globally acceptable IP address at the network gateway. All users of the private network thus obtain a single IP address in the public... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080117925 - Method and apparatus for performing syntax-directed application layer data buffering: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates buffering data at a kernel in a computer system, wherein the data is buffered based on the structure of a message contained in the data. The system operates by receiving data at a computer system from an external source.... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080117926 - Priority-based buffer management: Media units are stored in a buffer, wherein an importance rating is assigned to each of the media units. At least some of the media units are selectively flushed from the buffer based on the importance rating.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080117927 - Routing and forwarding of packets over a non-persistent communication link: According to an embodiment, an apparatus includes a table, a router a module and a driver. The table includes IP addresses and corresponding ports. At least one of the ports specifies a logical link. The router module receives IP packets and uses the table to associate the IP packets with... Agent: Hugh P. Gortier

20080117928 - Communication capture in a geo-spatial environment: A method, system and apparatus of communication capture in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a plurality of user profiles, each user profile to include a specific contact code, associating a first user with a first user profile in the plurality of user profiles,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080117929 - System and method for retransmitting packets over a network of communication channels: A system for transmitting packets over a network of communication channels, the system comprising a set of nodes comprising at least first and second nodes and a network access coordinator operative to coordinate the access of the set of nodes to a synchronous network of channels, wherein, if at least... Agent: Weiss & Arons, LLP

20080117930 - System and method for the control of the transmission rate in packet-based digital communications: A transmission bit rate control mechanism for a packet-based communication system in which sender transmission bit rates can vary over time is provided. The transmission bit rate mechanism includes a receiver recording mechanism, which receives transmission time information, computes and records statistical parameters of packets received from a sender; and... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080117931 - Dynamic load-based credit distribution: Methods and systems for dynamically adjusting credits used to distribute available bus bandwidth among multiple virtual channels, based on the workload of each virtual channel, are provided. Accordingly, for some embodiments, virtual channels with higher workloads relative to other virtual channels may receive a higher allocation of bus bandwidth (more... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080117932 - Data packet header conversion: A method of converting a data packet that has a header includes storing the data packet and generating a header template having a plurality of static fields. The method further includes generating at least one dynamic field and merging the header template with the header. The method further includes inserting... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, Pllc C/o Portfolio Ip

20080117933 - Internet broadcasting: An Internet broadcasting system is provided. The system comprises hardware and software for providing Internet broadcasting to an audience comprising one or more listeners. The system provides broadcast resources for the broadcaster to improve host information, program content and listener satisfaction. Particular broadcast resources provided include instant messaging software, voice... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20080117934 - Method for obtaining the convergence ratio and apparatus thereof: A method for obtaining a convergence ratio. Uplink ports of an access/convergence device in the access network are classified into different trunks according to their types. The method includes: determining whether the network is a narrowband access network, and if so, obtaining the service convergence ratio of a trunk according... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080117935 - Integrated access device, associated modem box and splitting module: The present invention concerns a modem box a splitting module, and an integrated access device. The modem box comprises upside communication means for coupling with central equipments through central signals, the latter being modulated for at least one of the central equipments, downside communication means coupling the modem box with... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080117936 - Method for stamping any ethernet frames in conjuction with standard ethernet: There is provided a method and apparatus for stamping any Ethernet frames. Any Ethernet frame is provided with a time stamp, it being possible to use standard Ethernet controllers defined according to IEEE 802.X. This is achieved by the method in such a way that the stamp is applied between... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080117937 - Lip synchronization for audio/video transmissions over a network: In one embodiment, a system includes a video mixer coupled with an audio mixer for exchange of information that includes a first set of delay values respecting input audio streams received by the audio mixer from a plurality of source endpoints, and output audio streams sent from the audio mixer... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080117938 - Synchronization module: A synchronization module for providing synchronization messages to be sent with a time stamp in accordance with the PTP protocol of standard IEEE 1588 is provided. The synchronization module comprises a program module for generating a synchronization message to be sent and for providing the synchronization message with a first... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080117939 - Multiple access techniques for a wireless communiation medium: A multiple access technique for a wireless communication system establishes separate channels by defining different time intervals for different channels. In a transmitted reference system different delay periods may be defined between transmitted reference pulses and associated data pulses for different channels. In addition, a multiple access technique may employ... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080112308 - Spectrum sharing in a wireless communication network: A system and method for synchronous spectrum sharing for use in a wireless communication system based on orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) or orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) signaling is disclosed. The system includes a frame detector configured to detect a frame of a broadcast waveform and extract sub-carrier information... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080112309 - Radio communication device: The invention provides precise estimation of a channel response and correct demodulation of an information signal even in the circumstance of being likely suffering interference. The invention includes an error correcting code unit 1, an S/P converting unit 2, a mapping unit 3, an IDFT (Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform) unit... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080112310 - Method and apparatus for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a digital signal using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication system are provided. In this method, subcarriers are split into a plurality of subcarrier groups according to available frequency bandwidths and are respectively transmitted in a transmitting portion and the subcarrier... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080112311 - Graceful failover of a principal link in a fiber-channel fabric: In one embodiment, detecting a failure mode of a first communication link on a first port, selecting a second communication link on a second port associated with the first port, and transmitting a profile information associated with the second port are provided.... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080112312 - Preemptive transmission protection scheme for data services with high resilience demand: A method, protection overlay and system in which different service streams are distributed via a plurality of links, comprising logically separating the service streams according to service type profile; allocating resources for working and backup capacity according to the service type profile; and defining a link aggregation group (LAG) including... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080112313 - Methods and apparatus for dynamic redistribution of tokens in a multi-processor system: Methods and apparatus provide for: receiving tokens from a plurality of resources, where the tokens are exchange media for permitting a plurality of requesters to access an associated one of the resources for a period of time; allocating the tokens to respective requester groups into which the plurality of requesters... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.l.p.

20080112314 - Method, system and program product for actively managing central queue buffer allocation using a backpressure mechanism: Method, system and program product are provided for packet flow control for a switching node of a data transfer network. The method includes actively managing space allocations in a central queue of a switching node allotted to the ports of the switching node based on the amount of unused space... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.c.

20080112316 - Hash-based preemption: Methods and systems for preemption in a network having a core device with at least one egress interface are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes performing flow-based hash utilizing a plurality of hash-buckets each set to a first state or a second state and computing a load based on... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20080112315 - Peer-to-peer aided live video sharing system: Video data from an upload client is received at a hosting node. A request from a download client is received at a bootstrapping node to receive the video data. The download client to receive the video data directly from the hosting node when the hosting node is below a threshold,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080112317 - Scheduler having queue for scheduling transmission of items from a station in a wireless network: A scheduler scheduling items to be transmitted by a subscriber station in a wireless network in accordance with bandwidth assigned to the items by a base station in the network. The items to be transmitted by the subscriber station are placed in a queue. The queue has a first section... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080112318 - Traffic shaping and scheduling in a network: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for traffic shaping and scheduling in a network. A computer-implemented method includes receiving a data packet Ln from a network at a rate RN, metering and coloring the packet Ln using two-rate three coloring marking (trTCM), labeling and enqueuing the packet Ln to... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080112319 - Traffic shaper: A traffic shaper having a management information collecting unit which collects management information stored in a specific device outside of the traffic shaper and sets a bandwidth control condition based on the management information, and a traffic control unit which controls a bandwidth based on the bandwidth control condition. The... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080112323 - Hash-based multi-homing: A method for communication between first and second nodes via a communication network includes assigning multiple communication ports in two or more network nodes between the first and second nodes to serve as member ports of a multi-homing group (MHG). Each of the member ports is associated with a different,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080112320 - Method and apparatus for policing bandwidth usage of a home network: The invention includes a method and apparatus for policing a home network having a plurality of terminals. At a gateway between the home network and an access network, a method includes monitoring bandwidth usage associated with intra-network traffic, determining bandwidth requirements associated with inter-network traffic, and, in response to a... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080112321 - Simulating services on demand: In order to apply and incorporate Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR) concepts into a service enterprise environment, the present invention provides a method, system and computer-readable medium that expands DBR through the use of simulation of service activities. In a preferred embodiment, the inventive method includes the steps of: creating a DBR for... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080112322 - System and method for rejecting a request to alter a connection: A method for rejecting a request to alter a connection includes establishing a first connection with a first node and a second connection with a second node. The second connection passes through the first node and has an associated first end-to-end state. The method also includes transmitting, for relay by... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080112324 - Method, system and network device for exception handling of multicast service: The present invention provides a method a system and a network device for exception handling of multicast service, including: determining that the multicast bandwidth limitation of the port is exceeded or the number limitation of the multicast groups the port joins is exceeded, upon receiving a multicast join request from... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080112325 - Adaptive routing: Methods and devices are shown for improving an existing route between a first node and a second node in a first ad-hoc network that includes a plurality of nodes, the method and devices selecting based on a predetermined performance criterion or criteria one of a plurality of candidate routes between... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080112326 - Load-balancing routes in multi-hop ad-hoc wireless networks: An apparatus and methods are disclosed that enable load-balancing of routes in ad-hoc wireless networks. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, when a candidate intermediate node receives a routing-protocol message, the node waits before it transmits a message in response to the received message, where the amount of time that... Agent: Demont & Breyer, Llc

20080112327 - Alternate routing of voice communication in a packet-based network: A method for performing alternate and therefore least cost routing in distributed H.323 Voice over IP (VoIP) networks is provided. With this method, the VoIP network consists of a hierarchy of gatekeeper (GK) functions to provide alternate routing, network element redundancy, and scalability. The alternate routing function is performed by... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, Llc

20080112329 - Method and apparatus for warning telephony users of service degradation: A method and apparatus for warning a telephony user of a service degradation in a network such as a packet network are disclosed. For example, the present method enables a terminal adaptor to discover a service degradation by performing a connectivity test (e.g., checking for dial tone, pinging the network... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080112328 - Methods of providing simulation for communications systems and related systems and computer program products: A method of simulating a telecommunications network may include providing a database including status information for a plurality of virtual network elements. More particularly, the status information for each of the plurality of virtual network elements may include a respective network element identifier. A communication including a received network element... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080112330 - Method of domain supervision and protection in label switched network: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method of domain supervision in a label switched network, including designating one or more OAM domains on an LSP in the label switched network, determining an ingress node and an egress node of each OAM domain inserting in-domain OAM frames containing supervision information... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080112331 - Method and system for transmitting connectivity fault management messages in ethernet,and a node device: A method for transmitting a Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) message of Ethernet includes: receiving a CFM message transmitted from a source node, the CFM message including identifier of a path and a connection maintenance target address; determining whether the connection maintenance target address matches address of a receiving node, and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080112332 - Distributed packet group identification for network testing: There is disclosed methods, a computing device, a storage medium, and an apparatus for testing a network. Received packets may have two or more packet group identification fields. The packet group identification fields may be combined to generate a packet group number. The packet group number may be generated by... Agent: Socal Ip Law Group LLP

20080112333 - Communicating an operational state of a transport service: This document describes tools that communicate an operational state of a transport service. The transport service provides connectivity between two or more networks, enabling the networks to exchange packets. The tools detect an operational state of a transport service. After doing so, the tools may convey the operational state of... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20080112334 - Wireless device discovery in a wireless peer-to-peer network: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate detecting and/or identifying peers in a local area peer-to-peer network. Times (e.g., peer discovery intervals) for performance of mutual detection and identification between peers may be synchronized (e.g., based upon a signal broadcast to the peers), Further, within each partitioned peer discovery interval,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080112335 - Method and device for adapting label-switched paths in packet networks: The invention relates to a method and a device for adapting label-switched paths, in particular MPLS paths, in packet-oriented networks which comprise routers. At least some of the routers exchange information with adjacent routers, by means of a protocol, about the status of the network, in particular about load shifts,... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080112337 - Method and system for allocating, revoking and transferring resources in a conference system: A method of allocating, revoking and transferring resources from a pool of conference resources provided by a conference system comprises assigning a guaranteed status to at least some participants to a conference to be hosted by the system. At least some of the resources may be reserved for the guaranteed... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080112336 - Software bridge for multi-point multi-media teleconferencing and telecollaboration: A multimedia software bridge which enables enterprise-class voice, Web, and video teleconferencing. The multimedia software bridge is an all-software, distributed media server architecture that efficiently routes, bridges, and manages integrated voice, data, and video streams across multiple sites in real-time. The multimedia software bridge includes media services, session control, content... Agent: Gibbons P.c.

20080112338 - System and apparatus for geographically distributed voip conference service with enhanced qos: The present invention is directed to a system, including apparatus and architecture, and method for providing scheduled and ad hoc voice over IP conference services having enhanced quality and reliability. The system uses an overlay network of geographically distributed conference servers working simultaneously and collaboratively to host a given conference... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, Llc

20080112339 - Full service mobile wireless telecommunication system and method: A system and method is provided to allow users in a remote location, such as a construction site, to both send and receive telephone calls, radio transmissions, and data without directly connecting to the plain old telephone system (POTS). The wireless telephone and data system is a rugged, portable, integrated... Agent: Mcnair Law Firm, P.a.

20080112342 - Cell supporting simultaneous and differing concurrent interfering transmission parameters and techniques: A wireless network infrastructure that adapts encoding approach and frame parameters of concurrent interfering transmission and receptions in response to dynamically varying channel conditions. The channel conditions are determined by number of associated wireless end point devices within a cell, their capabilities, anticipated bandwidth usage, QOS (Quality Of Service) demands,... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080112341 - Method and system for using selected bearer channels: Using bearer channels for wireless nodes includes initiating communication among the wireless nodes that include a node and one or more neighbor nodes. An adaptive channel operable to communicate messages between the node and the neighbor nodes is established. One or more bearer channels are selected. The one or more... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080112344 - Stale data removal using latency count in a wimax scheduler: A system and method of removing items from a transmission scheduler queue includes assigning a latency count to each item indicating latency, i.e. time the item has remained in the system before being transmitted, adding a number of frames that have elapsed since a previous scheduler run to the latency... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080112345 - Systems and methods of improving protocol performance: Devices, systems, and methods of improving protocol performance are disclosed. One method includes transmitting a block of frames to another communication device, and upon completion of the transmitting, requesting an acknowledgement of the transmitted block from the another communication device. The method further includes receiving the acknowledgement and adjusting the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080112343 - Treatment of secondary management data as user data in an ieee 802.16 system scheduler: A method of processing secondary management data packets, and a scheduler to perform the method, including processing each of the secondary management data packets through one or more queues in the scheduler used to process a user service flow in an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 802.16 system.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080112340 - Wireless communication network and method of dynamic channel selection of a wireless communication network: A method of dynamic channel selection for a wireless communication network employs a first wireless communication channel of a first wireless radio of each of a network coordinator and a number of network devices for wireless communication therebetween. A number of different second wireless communication channels are monitored with a... Agent: Martin J. Moran Eaton Electrical, Inc.

20080112347 - Method and apparatus to perform power conservation in multihop networks: A method and apparatus is provided for power conservation in a node operating in a multihop network. The method includes determining whether a broadcast frame in a beacon interval intended for the node has been previously received by the node and remaining awake for reception of the broadcast frame in... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080112346 - Wireless device and methods for reducing periodic scans using motion detection: Embodiments of a wireless device and methods for reducing period scans using motion diction are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, a wireless device determines whether or not to refrain from performing periodic scanning based on one or more motion indicators determined from... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080112348 - Apparatus and method for controlling data communication in wireless local area network: An apparatus and method for controlling data communication in a wireless local area network (LAN) can check a remaining power level of a host computer battery and determine a data transmission characteristic such as a data transfer speed and/or power save mode period based on the checked battery power, and... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080112350 - Method and apparatus for providing reliable multicast in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus is described which provides reliable multicasting in a WLAN. The use of at least two distinct MAC multicast addresses are used to separate the first multicast frame transmissions from subsequent multicast frame re-transmissions. Thereby enabling legacy devices to ignore duplicate retransmitted multicast frames, because the duplicate... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080112352 - Method and apparatus of selecting operating frequency for user equipment in a wireless communications system: In order to prevent from being incapable of receiving Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service, called MBMS hereinafter, service when a user equipment (UE) has a connection for signaling only, the present invention provides a method of selecting an MBMS operating frequency for the UE in a wireless communications system. The method... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080112349 - System and method for providing internet protocol multicast communications over a wireless broadband data network: A system and method is provided for enabling operation of a native Internet Protocol (IP) multicast application in a mobile station having a wireless interface that does not support native IP multicast messages. The mobile station includes a link layer interface that is configured to communicate with various base stations... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080112351 - Transmissions to multiple stations in wireless communication systems: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate coordinating and conducting transmissions to multiple stations in a wireless communication system during a single transmission opportunity. A holder of a transmission opportunity can communicate a request-to-send message or a self-addressed clear-to-send message to one or more stations to establish the transmission opportunity.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080112353 - Method and system for service access control in shared networks: In a method of sharing a Radio Access Network, RAN, in one or more areas by at least two operators the determination whether to grant admission or not of a User Equipment, UE, to the RAN is performed in an admission control algorithm. A Radio Network Controller, RNC, is reading... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080112356 - Method and apparatus for transmitting a signal in a communication system: Disclosed is a method for transmitting a signal in a communication system supporting multiple communication service modes. The base station includes at least one preamble generator for generating a preamble to which a sequence and a cell IDentifier (ID) of the base station are allocated, the sequence being one-to-one mapped... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080112355 - Multi-hop ad-hoc wireless networks that support non-multi-hop wireless terminals: An apparatus and methods are disclosed that enable a non-multi-hop wireless terminal (i.e., a wireless terminal that has not been programmed to participate in multi-hop ad-hoc wireless networks) to in fact participate in a multi-hop ad-hoc wireless network, without any changes to the non-multi-hop terminal's software or hardware. In the... Agent: Demont & Breyer, Llc

20080112354 - Transferring data using ad hoc networks: A method for a local device to establish an ad hoc communications channel with a broadcast device is disclosed. The method comprises upon determining that the ad hoc communications link with the broadcast device is required, accessing memory to obtain connection parameters for the broadcast device; and establishing a communications... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20080112358 - Cell protocol adapting between single and concurrent interfering transmissions and receptions based on channel conditions: A wireless network infrastructure that adapts between single and concurrent interfering transmissions and receptions based on dynamically varying channel conditions. The channel conditions variations are typically determined by the number of associated wireless end point devices within the cell, their capabilities, anticipated bandwidth usage, QOS (Quality Of Service) demands, priority... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080112360 - Interference avoidance for autonomous dynamic spectrum access systems: Communicating between a plurality of nodes includes scanning a set of frequencies to determine spectrum awareness data for one or more frequencies; determining a maximum transmit power for one or more of the frequencies based at least in part on the spectrum awareness data for the frequencies; determining one or... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080112357 - Method and apparatus for resource reservation in a multihop wireless network: A message format for use in one or more multihop flow reservation messages in a multihop wireless network includes a reservation originator identification; a reservation terminator identification; a sequence control; and optionally a flow originator identification. A multihop flow reservation comprises forwarding a traffic stream request including the message format... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080112359 - Spectrum sharing in a wireless communication network: A system and method for synchronous spectrum sharing for use in a wireless communication system based on orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) or orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) signaling is disclosed. The system includes a frame detector configured to detect a frame of a broadcast waveform and extract sub-carrier information... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080112361 - Network oriented spectrum sharing system: There is provided a system and method for sharing a wireless spectrum compromising a first transceiver for establishing the communication channels within the allocated bandwidth using a first protocol, a broker for determining the unused bandwidth within the allocated bandwidth, and a second transceiver for establishing the further communication channels... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras LLP

20080112363 - access point profile for a mesh access point in a wireless mesh network: A mesh access point that includes an access point profile storing one ore more parameters in non-volatile memory, and a method of using the mesh access point having the access point profile to select and carry out mutual authentication on a wireless mesh network to establish itself to the mesh... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20080112362 - Ip layer-handoff using mobility domains and ip caching: The disclosure relates to fast roaming techniques which can reduce L3 handoff delay when a mobile access point and/or a mobile host roams back to a previously visited subnet. These fast roaming techniques can allow the mobile access point and/or the mobile host to skip a lengthy DHCP exchange when... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080112364 - Method and apparatus for performing handover in wireless network: A method and apparatus for performing a handover in high frequency wireless communications are provided. A device for performing a handover in a wireless network, includes a priority order list including a priority order for becoming a coordinator, a handover controller making a handover request to a selected device existing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080112365 - Apparatus and method for relay station handover in multi-hop relay broadband wireless access system: A technique for managing a packet to be transmitted to a Mobile Station (MS) that performs Relay Station (RS) handover in a multi-hop relay Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system is provided. In the BWA system, a Base Station (BS) includes a controller for determining whether to perform activecasting on an... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080112366 - Radio communication terminal and communication method: A radio communication terminal, being used in a radio communication systems in which the transmission rate varies depending on radio wave conditions and communication statuses of other users, comprises a reception module which receives packets transmitted by a base station in an idle state of the radio communication terminal, a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080112367 - Method and apparatus for selecting operating frequency for user equipment in wireless communications system: In order to prevent from inappropriately terminating a current Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service, called MBMS hereinafter, service reception when a radio resource control (RRC) state of a user equipment (UE) is operated in a CELL_DCH state, the present invention provides a method of selecting an MBMS operating frequency for the... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080112368 - Method and apparatus for allocating bandwidth of wireless network, and method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data on the network: Provided are a bandwidth-allocation method and apparatus for a wireless network based on a time division transmission mechanism, and a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data on the wireless network. The data transmission method includes at least one wireless device belonging to the wireless network transmitting a frame... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080112369 - Method and apparatus for allocating bandwidth of wireless network, and method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data on the network: Provided are a bandwidth-allocation method and apparatus for a wireless network based on a time division transmission mechanism, and a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data on the wireless network. The data transmission method includes at least one wireless device belonging to the wireless network transmitting a frame... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080112370 - Method and apparatus for allocating bandwidth of wireless network, and method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data on the network: Provided are a bandwidth-allocation method and apparatus for a wireless network based on a time division transmission mechanism, and a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data on the wireless network. The data transmission method includes at least one wireless device belonging to the wireless network transmitting a frame... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080112371 - Hybrid time division multiple access (tdma)-carrier sense multiple access (csma) medium access control (mac) for multi-hop ad hoc networks: A hybrid TDMA-CSMA MAC protocol is provided for allocating time slots within a frame having a structure in which transmission time is divided into a first number of actual TDMA time slots and a second number of “virtual” CSMA time slots. Each of the nodes in a multi-hop network can... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080112376 - Apparatus for acquiring network information: A network information acquisition apparatus is provided for acquiring network information related to a wireless network. The apparatus being located in a wireless network coverage area, which can receive network information related to a wireless network, from a base station of a wireless network, an access point, and another terminal... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080112378 - Communications and systems utilizing common designation networking: A method of forming ad hoc RSI hierarchical communication networks among pluralities of wireless transceivers includes assigning to each of the transceivers one or more common designations. A network organization routine of the transceivers operates to establish hierarchical networks based on the transceivers' common designations, resulting in a logical network... Agent: Tillman Wright, Pllc

20080112373 - Dynamic bss allocation: A method for communication includes establishing communications over a wireless local area network (WLAN) between one or more access points and a group of mobile stations in a first basic service set (BSS) using a first BSS identifier (BSSID). Upon detecting initiation of a communication session of a predetermined type... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080112372 - Location architecture for large scale networks: In one embodiment, a method includes receive a connection event message including information identifying a wireless node, wherein the identifying information comprises a wireless node identifier and an area code associated with the wireless node; determine, based on the area code, whether the wireless node is connected to its home... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080112377 - Radio frequency identification based networks: An RF addressable sensor network includes one or more RF addressable sensors; one or more wireless sensor readers coupled to a communications network; and one or more end user devices coupled to the communications network. The one or more wireless sensor readers communicate with the one or more RF addressable... Agent: Tillman Wright, Pllc

20080112380 - Serial clear to send (cts) to self (cts2self) messaging procedure: Aspects of a serial clear to send to self message procedure are presented. Aspects of a system may include a wireless local area network station (STA), which enables transmission of a channel reservation confirmation message, such as a CTS frame, via a reference RF channel, for example, a primary channel.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080112374 - System and method for redirecting requests: Systems and methods for intercepting and redirecting requests are provided. More particularly, certain information is identified in a packet and the packet is redirected to a specified server. The information that is redirected may be bound for a server in a network that a mobile node is currently visiting, and... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080112379 - 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.

20080112375 - Wireless network that adapts concurrent interfering transmission parameters based on channel conditions: A wireless network infrastructure that adapts frame parameters of concurrent interfering receptions in response to the dynamically varying channel conditions. The channel conditions are determined by number of associated wireless end point devices within a cell, their capabilities, anticipated bandwidth usage, QOS (Quality Of Service) demands, priority of service and... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080112381 - Iterative detection and cancellation for wireless communication: Techniques for recovering a desired transmission in the presence of interfering transmissions are described. For iterative detection and cancellation, multiple groups of code channels are formed for a plurality of code channels for at least one sector. Processing is performed for the multiple groups of code channels in multiple iterations.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080112382 - Successive equalization and cancellation and successive mini multi-user detection for wireless communication: Techniques for recovering a desired transmission in the presence of interfering transmissions are described. For successive equalization and cancellation (SEC), equalization is performed on a received signal to obtain an equalized signal for a first set of code channels. The first set may include all code channels for one sector,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080112383 - Method for establishing reverse traffic channels and an access terminal: A method for establishing reverse traffic channels in a multi-carrier wireless communication system includes: an access terminal (AT) sending a carrier request message to an access network (AN), said carrier request message carrying a reverse carrier request indicator indicating the number of reverse carrier links required by AT (S1); AN... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080112384 - Apparatus for merging beacon of wireless local network and method using the same: An apparatus and method of merging beacons in a wireless local network are provided. The method of merging beacons in a wireless local network includes: calculating a continuous occurrence frequency of a received alien beacon period (BP); comparing the calculated occurrence frequency with a certain reference occurrence frequency; and merging... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080112385 - Circuits, systems and methods for constructing a composite signal: Circuits, systems, and methods for assembling a composite signal include a frequency translation circuit coupled to receive an input signal and operable to generate a plurality of frequency-translated versions of the input signal at a respective plurality of different frequencies, the plurality of frequency-translated input signals defining a group of... Agent: Clifford B. Perry

20080112386 - Channel estimation device: A channel estimation device in wireless communication in use of a plurality of subcarriers for communication, comprises: a first channel estimation section which performs channel estimation for each subcarrier based on pilot signals mapped to each subcarrier; a second channel estimation section which further estimates channels for each subcarrier using... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080112387 - Method and apparatus for performing a query-based convergecast scheduling in a wireless sensor network: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that performs a query-based convergecast scheduling in a convergecast network, which includes a base-station and a plurality of nodes. During operation, the system receives a convergecast tree for the convergecast network. Each node in the convergecast tree is associated with a... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080112388 - Fdt for eddl-based field devices: A Field Device Tool (FDT)-based application is provided. The FDT-based application includes at least one communication Device Type Manager (communication DTM) and a router Device Type Manager (DTM). The communication DTM corresponds with a type of communication protocol that an at least one plant asset follows. The communication DTM is... Agent: Westman, Champlin & Kelly, P.a.

20080112390 - Apparatus to override the redirect or reject feature at an sip end point: In some embodiments, a do not redirect or reject call management system may include one or more of the following features: (a) a memory comprising, (i) a do not redirect or reject application that allows a caller to prevent a call recipient from redirecting or rejecting a call, and (b)... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080112392 - Auto-switching method and device for dual mode analog-voip device: The embodiments of the present invention provide for methods, systems, and devices adapted to configure a dual-mode device to the appropriate mode(s). The dual-mode device is adapted to provide analog/POTS service, digital/VoIP service, and multimedia terminal adapter (MTA) service, typically based on the enabled mode(s). A device is also provided... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, Pc

20080112391 - Method for enabling an autodial via internet: A method for enabling an autodial via Internet comprises the steps of: designing a VoIP related software; packaging the VoIP related software into an Active-X element; buying CodeSign from Microsoft for being added into the Active-X element for a digital signature, and acquiring a certified ID from Microsoft; and installing... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080112389 - Switch data transform to ims process: An apparatus in one example has: a public switched telephone network; an Internet Protocol network; migration portal operatively coupled to the Internet Protocol network and to the public switched telephone network; and the migration portal having an information converter, the information converter having inputs for receiving public switched telephone number... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina Llc

20080112393 - System and method for a universal phone number service: A universal phone number service and method of providing a universal phone number service that allows a user to receive phone calls on any phone service with a single phone number. A telephone is disclosed that is associated with more than one phone number and a universal phone number, wherein... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.l.p.

20080112394 - System, method and device for providing mobile voip: An appliance connected to a cellular phone performs VoIP connectivity by using the cellular phone data connectivity platform. This expands the capabilities of regular cellular phones, and allows users to place and receive mobile VoIP phone calls using their older generation cellular phones.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080112396 - Method and system for modifying the contents of a database of a communication network, and communication network: A communication network, system and method are provided in which at least one database is provided in or for a first network element and contains connection information sets for the user equipment, the connection information sets including an address of a second network element, and the connection information sets corresponding... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080112395 - Method for voice service based on service trigger, and method and system for routing control of voice service based on service trigger: A method for providing a voice service based on service trigger includes: a Routing Policy Decision Points (RPDP) with a Domain Selection Function (DSF) acquiring a delivery attempt state of a call or session, wherein the DSF is capable of selecting a domain; the RPDP with the DSF controlling the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080112397 - Interworking progress indicator in sip-pstn network: In a particular embodiment, a disconnect message with a progress indicator may be received in a PSTN protocol at a gateway. The gateway determines if the disconnect message includes a progress indicator. The gateway then generates a SIP message with a reason indicator that indicates the SIP message is mapped... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080112398 - System and method for providing a virtual line channel in a packet based communication network: A method for implementing a virtual line channel in a packet switched network includes reserving a virtual line channel associated with a first station and establishing a communication session between the first station and a second station over the virtual line channel. The reservation of the virtual line channel is... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

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20080112400 - System for providing both traditional and traffic engineering enabled services: A network switch comprising a first ingress port configured to receive a first type of traffic, a second ingress port configured to receive a second type of traffic, a first egress port configured to communicate the first type of traffic, and a second egress port configured to communicate the second... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c.

20080112401 - Congestion level management in a network device: Management of congestion level, in a computer-related context, is disclosed. Also disclosed is a system generating a plurality of computer network-related tables during system operation. A number of the tables are each separately indexed by a different index. The system includes at least one tangible computer-readable medium adapted to store,... Agent: Mosaid Technologies Incorporated

20080112406 - Apparatus and methods for system multiplexing and program element identification: Apparatus and methods for system multiplexing and program element identification is disclosed. A multiplexer generates a sequence of transport packets and associated program element information tables (PEIT). The header of a transport packet carrying the PEIT includes a unique PEIT indicator. A de-multiplexer first locates the PEIT by the unique... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080112403 - Assigning packets to a network service: This document describes tools that assign packets to a network service. The tools receive a control packet lacking a tag associating the control packet with a network service and assign the control packet to a network service by adding a tag to the control packet. The tools may also receive... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20080112407 - Method for implementing the interaction of the iwf service data: A method for implementing the interaction of the IWF service data includes the steps of that: the base station controller encapsulates the PPP data bearing the IWF server data into the RTP packet data by defining the IWF data carry format between the base station and the media gateway; the... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080112405 - Methods and apparatus for premises content distribution: Apparatus and methods for protected content access, browsing and transfer over a network. In one embodiment, the network comprises a premises (e.g., residential) LAN, and the apparatus comprises a server and renderer consumer premise equipment (CPE). The renderer CPE scans the network to search for a server CPE that implement... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20080112404 - Overlay multicast network architecture and method to design said network: A multicast network for multicast services, said network comprising a wide area network comprising core routers handling data traffic inside said wide area network and edge routers handling said data traffic between said core routers and clients to said wide area network, an overlay network comprising overlay core routers handling... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20080112402 - Techniques to process received network protocol units: Techniques are described that can be used to support integrity validation of protocol data units. An iSCSI compatible logic may establish a memory region to store a header portion of the protocol data unit. In some implementations, the iSCSI compatible logic may read the header and determine a size of... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate

20080112408 - Method and device for implementing virtual-switch: The present invention provides a method and a device for implementing a V-Switch. Through setting up a V-Switch correlation with respect to at least two VLAN tags, a DRE performs a V-Switch transmission on an Ethernet frame received according to the V-Switch correlation with respect to at least two VLAN... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080112409 - Speculative prefetch of protocol control information from an external memory unit: According to some embodiments, protocol control information is speculatively pre-fetched from an external memory unit.... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080112412 - Method and system for hash table based routing via a prefix transformation: Aspects of a method and system for hash table based routing via prefix transformation are provided. Aspects of the invention may enable translating one or more network addresses as a coefficient set of a polynomial, and routing data in a network based on a quotient and a remainder derived from... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080112413 - Method and system for hash table based routing via table and prefix aggregation: Aspects of a method and system for hash table based routing via table and prefix aggregation are provided. Aspects of the invention may enable aggregating prefixes of varying lengths into a single hash table, wherein each entry in the hash table comprises one or more encoded bits to uniquely identify... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080112414 - Mobility management system and method for mobile internet protocol network: A system and a method for managing mobility of a mobile node for a Mobile IP network using a routing technique that is a hybrid of an internet protocol routing scheme and a home based routing scheme are provided. A mobility management method for a network including a router defining... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080112415 - Network processors and pipeline optimization methods: A network processor of an embodiment includes a packet classification engine, a processing pipeline, and a controller. The packet classification engine allows for classifying each of a plurality of packets according to packet type. The processing pipeline has a plurality of stages for processing each of the plurality of packets... Agent: Justin Mark Sobaje

20080112411 - Optimizing static dictionary usage for signal, hypertext transfer protocol and bytecode compression in a wireless network: Methods and apparatus including a virtual machine and a compression network platform are provided especially for improving the application of compression algorithms and unique identifiers for bytecode and bytecode packages including associated static dictionaries utilized to advantage in wireless networks. In particular, a given virtual machine need only identify to... Agent: Powell Goldstein, LLP

20080112410 - Policy based quality of service and encryption over mpls networks: A network device may store a plurality of LSP labels each associated with a network policy and desired quality of service, wherein each LSP label defines a path through a multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) network. Upon receiving a request to transmit data in accordance with a network policy and desired... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080112416 - Network device and method for updating firmware: A network device includes a storage module, a receiving module, a flag determining module, a type determining module, an updating determining module, and a forwarding module. The storage module saves a value of a firmware-updating flag and a preset forwarding packet corresponding to a particular web page. The receiving module... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080112417 - Communication terminal, and communication method: Provided is a communication terminal capable of establishing a P2P communication path with a communication terminal connected to a different private network. A communication terminal (10) transmits and receives messages to and from a server (30) via a router (11), thereby examining a relay characteristic of the router (11). When... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080112420 - Heterogeneous network packet dispatch methodology: The present invention relates to a method and a device for dispatching packets with different network protocols and supporting IP-based networks, Non-IP-based networks, controller networks and multimedia networks. With the method and the device of the present invention, the network user can easily add new network services to the existing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080112419 - Homenetwork universal middleware bridge system and method for home device's interoperability in heterogeneous homenetwork middleware: Provided is a home-network UMB system and a method thereof for providing interoperability between devices connected one another through different types of middlewares in a home network. The home-network UMB system includes: a bridge core for establishing/releasing a connection between bridge adaptors of different types of middlewares and analyzing/transferring a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080112418 - Modification to as_path elements: In one or more embodiments, an architecture is provided that may intercept a route update message and compare AS numbers of an AS path with a list of AS numbers known or inferred to be problematic. In one or more embodiments, the problematic AS numbers can be substituted with a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080112421 - Systems and methods for distributing data packets over a communication network: System 10 distributes information data packets 10D from multiple send endpoint ports 11S in send endpoint unit 12S, to multiple receive endpoint ports 11R in receive endpoint unit 12R. The packets pass through standard based send firewall adapter 14S (shown in detail in FIG. 3), traverse at least one firewall... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080112422 - Method for enabling the efficient operation of arbitrarily interconnected mesh networks: Wireless mesh networks (or “meshes”) are enabled for arbitrary interconnection to each other and may provide varying levels of coverage and redundancy as desired. Interoperability between meshes having differing configurations, internal operations, or both, may be freely intermixed and inter-operated in unrestricted combination. Enhanced explicit inter-bridge control protocols operate using... Agent: Walstein Bennett Smith Iii

20080112423 - Concurrent, non-blocking, lock-free queue and method, apparatus, and computer program product for implementing same: A dummy node is enqueued to a concurrent, non-blocking, lock-free FIFO queue only when necessary to prevent the queue from becoming empty. The dummy node is only enqueued during a dequeue operation and only when the queue contains a single user node during the dequeue operation. This reduces overhead relative... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept. 917

20080112424 - Apparatus for reducing contention in prioritized contention access of wireless personal area network and method of using the same: A contention reduction apparatus and method in a prioritized contention access (PCA) method of a Wireless Personal Area Network are provided. A contention reduction apparatus of a Wireless Personal Area Network includes: a prioritized contention access (PCA) section retriever which retrieves a PCA section from beacons received for a beacon... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080112425 - Shared transmit buffer for network processor and methods for using same: In a first aspect, a first method is provided for controlling the flow of data between a first and second clock domain. The first method includes the steps of (1) selecting one of a plurality of ports included in a physical layer interface in the second clock domain to which... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law

20080112426 - Adaptive control channel initialization operations for autonomous dynamic spectrum access systems: Establishing communications between a plurality of nodes includes determining a set of frequencies to search for neighbor nodes, and performing an adaptive control channel initialization operation to detect zero or more neighbor nodes. If one or neighbor nodes are detected, an adaptive control channel with one or more of the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080112427 - Autonomous dynamic spectrum access: Communicating between a plurality of nodes includes: at one or more of the plurality of nodes, sensing spectrum activity on at least one channel; creating and maintaining at least one spectrum awareness table based at least in part on the sensed spectrum activity, determining at least one selected bearer based... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080112428 - Scheduling for autonomous dynamic spectrum access systems: Scheduling communication between a first node and one or more neighbor nodes includes, at each of the first node and the one or more neighbor nodes determining a neighborhood of the one or more neighbor nodes; classifying each of the first node and one or more of the neighbor nodes... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080112429 - Allocations of access across a communications medium: A method of providing network access across a shared communications medium between competing users pursuant to SLAs of the users includes the steps of: (a) monitoring network access usage by each user during a time interval; (b) comparing the monitored network access usage by each user with a predetermined threshold... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20080112430 - Station which determines transmission rate of control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in wireless lan: A high throughput station in a wireless local area network including high throughput stations and legacy stations with different data transmission capabilities, the station being configured to obtain transmission parameters of a transmitting high throughput station from a data transmission frame of a high throughput format received from the transmitting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080112431 - System and method for media burst control of discrete content for push-to-cellular communication: A wireless communication device, and a method thereof, for media burst control of discrete content for a push-to-cellular communication. One circuit of device communicates continuous data via a real time data, such as RTP. Another circuit communicates control information associated with the continuous data via a real time control protocol,... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080112432 - Technique to improve network switch throughput: A technique to route data according to a speculative priority. At least one embodiment detects a conflict among a number of data received by the router, assigns a speculative priority to one of the data in a first clock portion and sends the speculatively prioritized data to a receiving agent... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, Pc

20080112433 - Extension of audio/video bridging reservation protocol: An audio/vide bridging (AVB) system using an extended AVB reservation protocol, and a resource reservation method are provided wherean AVB system using an extended AVB reservation protocol includes an egress device for transmitting a Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP) or Multiple Registration Protocol (MRP) message comprising an AVB stream identifier... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080112434 - Method and apparatus for interworking in an inter-technology network: Various embodiments are described to provide more efficient interworking in inter-technology networks. A first network node (121) provides access network service to remote units (101, e.g.) using a first access network technology, while a second network node provides access network service to remote units using a second and different access... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080112435 - Method of stateless group communication and repair of data packets transmission to nodes in a distribution tree: Disclosed is a method for stateless group communication based on constructing and encoding sender based trees. The headers obtained by encoding the distribution trees are inserted in each communication packet. The encoding allows partial or full decoding of the distribution trees. The encoding is performed to minimize the overhead of... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080112436 - Method for transferring and separating telephone call data: The invention consists of equipment and a method for allowing old line capacity to provide near dsl or superior dsl quality telephone connections. A method of handling a telephone call with an associated data package over a telephone system having a power pair of lines and a second pair of... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.a.

20080112437 - Method and system for providing via a data network information data for recovering a clock frequency: At an ingress interface of a data network first information data are generated, at an egress interface of the data network second information data are generated, correction data are generated on the basis of the second information data, and at the egress interface a clock frequency is recovered on the... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates Llc

20080112438 - Mpeg-2 transport stream packet synchronizer: A data synchronizer that receives an input stream of asynchronous digital data in packets, and provides an output stream of synchronous data in packets. The synchronizer includes a first memory unit and a second memory unit, each having a data input, a data output, a write clock input and a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080112439 - Method and system for achieving low jitter in real-time switched networks: A method and system for increasing the precision of time synchronization among a plurality of host nodes in a packet-switched network by reducing transmission delay variation in the network. Each host node is provided with a distinct set of transmission times selected from a global schedule in such a way... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080112440 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing transmissions from multiple transmitters: A method and apparatus for transmitting packets in a wireless communication system (100). The method and apparatus determining a delay period from among the various delay times at each of a plurality of access nodes (106-110) wherein the delay time is the time it takes for a node to receive... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080112441 - Method of identifying paths with delays dominated by a particular factor: A method of performing node-based static timing analysis on a digital network and a program storage device for implementing the method, wherein the method comprises partitioning timing delays in the digital network into portions attributable to a factor of interest and portions attributable to other factors; multiplying the timing delays... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080107011 - System, apparatus, and method for processing a received orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signal: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for processing a received OFDM signal are provided. The system comprises a tuner and a signal processing unit. The tuner is configured to receive an OFDM signal. A signal processing unit is configured to search for a possible frequency of a symbol in the received OFDM... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080107012 - Transmission method and related device: A method for transmitting a signal carrying information elements over a plurality of frequency subcarriers simultaneously. The method comprises: identifying a set of at least one frequency subcarrier of the plurality particularly subjected to attenuation; and transmitting the signal simultaneously over said plurality of frequency subcarriers by assigning respective information... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080107013 - Signature generation using coded waveforms: Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to wireless networks such as relay networks or multi-hop networks, and also relating to transmitting a signal using coding schemes and multiple frequencies. According to an example embodiment, a different wireless signature may be assigned to one or more nodes in a wireless network,... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080107015 - Apparatus for and method of preventing device address from conflicting in wimedia mac: An apparatus for preventing a device address from conflicting in a WiMedia media access control (MAC), the apparatus including: a device address conflict determination unit which determines whether a conflict between a device address of the apparatus and alien device addresses included in a received alien beacon occurs; a device... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080107014 - Distributed wireless system with centralized control of resources: The present invention provides a distributed wireless system with centralized control of resources, comprising: a plurality of communication processing devices connected to each other, each communication processing device performing the channel processing task of cells which it is responsible for, including processing an uplink wireless signal into an uplink data... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP

20080107016 - High-frequency uninterruptible signal and power bypass: High frequency signals and power carried in a main cable delivering the same to a device are insured continuance flow within the main cable through use of a shorting bypass bar assembly in the device that is activated to electrically connect input and output ports of the device whenever the... Agent: Kenneth Watov, Esq. Watov & Kipnes, P.c.

20080107018 - Method and apparatus for computing alternate multicast/broadcast paths in a routed network: Alternate multicast/broadcast paths may be calculated in a routed network to enable broadcast/multicast traffic to be transmitted around a local failure in the routed network until the routing system reconverges on a new network topography. According to an embodiment of the invention, the nodes on a multicast tree or a... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras, LLP Attn: John C. Gorecki

20080107017 - System and method of distributing digital content: A method is disclosed that includes receiving a data packet at a first video distribution hub via a first link. The method also includes determining whether a second link has failed, wherein the first video distribution hub communicates with a second video distribution hub via a primary network path that... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080107019 - Apparatus and method for measuring neighbor cell signal in portable terminal: Provided is a method for measuring a neighbor cell signal in a portable terminal includes acquiring a minimum required quality level value and a threshold for an intra-frequency measurement from received system information; calculating a measured cell quality value after the acquiring step; and commencing a neighbor cell signal measurement... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080107020 - Highly-scalable hardware-based traffic management within a network processor integrated circuit: A technique for managing traffic within a network processor integrated circuit (IC) involves establishing multiple queue groups, associating a different hardware counter with each queue group, and then using the hardware counters to support rate shaping and scheduling of all of the queues in the queue groups. For example, 512... Agent: Wilson & Ham

20080107021 - Parallel wrapped wave-front arbiter: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that schedules the transfer of cells in a switch. The system starts by receiving a set of cells to be transferred from a set of inputs of the switch to a set of outputs of the switch. The system includes S subschedulers,... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080107022 - Generating traffic from a predetermined amount of processed traffic: There are disclosed methods, computer readable media, and apparatus for generation of processed traffic. Traffic, including plural data units for transmission to a first endpoint, may be provided. The provided traffic may be processed and held until a predefined amount of processed traffic has accumulated. The held traffic may then... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080107023 - Method for detecting a digital interface and a image display device adopting the same: A method for detecting a digital interface connected to an external device, and an image display device adopting the same are provided. The method for detecting a digital interface includes generating and displaying a menu for selecting a method for detecting a connection to an external device through a digital... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080107030 - Apparatus and method for controlling data transfer rate on reverse link in mobile communication system: A mobile communication system is provided. A base station includes: a measuring unit for measuring loads of all mobile stations existing within a sector; a first computation unit for computing a sector load by using a Rise Over Thermal (ROT) of the sector; a second computation unit for computing an... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080107025 - Apparatus for detecting data looping phenomenon and method used by the same: Provided is a switching device for detecting and removing a looping phenomenon in a data communication network and a method using the switching device. The method includes: detecting a frame checksum value; counting the number of times of a checksum value corresponding to the frame checksum value is received; and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080107029 - Embedded self-checking asynchronous pipelined enforcement (escape): A network comprises a plurality of nodes; a plurality of bi-directional point-to-point communication links, wherein a priority-based arbitration scheme is used to communicate over each of the plurality of point-to-point links; and a hub that is communicatively coupled to each of the plurality of nodes via the plurality of point-to-point... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080107027 - Engineered paths in a link state protocol controlled ethernet network: Traffic Engineered (TE) paths may be created over a link state protocol controlled Ethernet network by causing explicit paths to be installed by network elements on the link state protocol controlled Ethernet network and used to forward traffic on the network. The network elements exchange routing information using link state... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras, LLP Attn: John C. Gorecki

20080107024 - Method for acknowledgement of messages in a star network: A method of communicating node status in a star network comprising a hub and a plurality of nodes comprises sending a first message to the hub from a first node included in the plurality of nodes; forwarding the first message from the hub to at least one second node included... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080107026 - Method for modifying mss: The invention refers to a method for optimising the data communication in a network comprising a wireless radio network using connection oriented protocol (TCP) over internet protocol (IP). The network comprises a router (SGSN) intervening the connection oriented setup between a host (SERVER) and a client (MS), and changing the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080107028 - Method and system for improving qos of access terminal interactive data: A method for improving user-interactive data QoS and system thereof, the method comprises: Adjusting the transmission rate of each user, by means of the corresponding reverse inter-user QoS parameters attribute such as reverse probability transfer matrix and/or maximum rate limit or the like, which are set for the users with... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080107031 - Real-time video packet monitoring and processing for enhanced quality of service: In one embodiment, a dynamic rate control scheme controls transmission rates and adaptively filters out video packets when a packet queue is full. This allows video streams to be more efficiently transmitted through low bandwidth and dynamically changing links.... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.c.

20080107032 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for providing a distributed hardware platform interface (hpi) architecture: Systems, methods, and computer program products for providing a distributed hardware platform interface (HPI) architecture are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a system for providing distributed operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM) functionality in a multi-shelf processing environment. The system includes a first shelf that... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080107033 - Radio communication network capable of radio communication with reduced overhead: In a radio communication system, a relay route is established with a plurality of wireless devices constructing an MPR set for a wireless device as a root node by transmission and reception of a Hello packet. A wireless device other than that constructing the MPR set transmits neighboring wireless device... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080107034 - Route optimization for on-demand routing protocols for mesh networks: Various embodiments implement a set of low overhead mechanisms to enable on-demand routing protocols. The on-demand protocols use route accumulation during discovery floods to discover when better paths have become available even if the paths that the protocols are currently using are not broken. In other words, the mechanisms (or... Agent: Walstein Bennett Smith Iii

20080107036 - Communication relay device, communication relay method, and computer product: An evaluation criterion that evaluates a comparison result of a bandwidth before a bandwidth limitation and a bandwidth after the bandwidth limitation is selected and set in advance in a layer 2 (L2) switch device according to the present invention. An input packet is subjected to the bandwidth limitation and... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080107035 - Interference measuring and mapping method and apparatus for wireless networks using relay stations: Interference levels occurring at one or more stations in a wireless network, where each of said one or more stations is a base station or a relay station. The measured interference levels are mapped by building a first matrix including noise plus interference occurring at each of the one or... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080107037 - Management of incoming information: A method and system is provided for determining reliability of data from a network or federated device. In one example, data from different devices in the network are compared and a relationship between the devices is determined. The reliability may be based on the relationship of the devices and/or similarity... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080107038 - Apparatus, method and program product to generate and use crc in communications network: The CRC for the CPS Header of an ATM AAL2 cell is generated by a CRC generator which uses the 8 bits of the CID field to generate partial 5 bits CRCs which are loaded in a first table. The 6 bits LI field and 5 bits UUI field are... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080107039 - Method and apparatus for estimating dominance norms of a plurality of signals: A method and apparatus for estimating dominance norms of a plurality of signals transmitted over networks are disclosed. For example, the present invention discloses a method and apparatus for estimating dominance norms of a plurality of signals using Max-stable distributions.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080107040 - Transmitting apparatus, transmitting method, program, and communications system: There is provided a transmitting apparatus for transmitting data, which includes: compressing means compressing data to be transmitted; packetizing means packetizing the data compressed by the compressing means; a buffer for accumulating the data which are packetized; transmitting means transmitting the data accumulated in the buffer; clearing means clearing the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080107041 - Bit-field-encoded resource record for determining a transmission path in a communications network: Method and apparatus for tracking, recording and distributing link state characteristics over communications networks. The invention allows network operators to efficiently define, track, store and disseminate link state characteristics using a bit-field-encoded resource record that is capable of representing many more link state characteristics than the bit-mask-encoded records used in... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080107042 - System and method for configuring a computing device: Described is system and method for configuring a computing device. A device identifier of the device is obtained. A first configuration value for the device is determined as a function of the device identifier. A configuration data file is generated as a function of the first configuration value. The configuration... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080107043 - Distributed storage of routing information in a link state protocol controlled network: A distributed hash table is implemented to store routing information on a network. Node IDs exchanged in connection with implementation of a link state routing protocol are used as keys in the distributed hash table, and routes are stored at one or more nodes on the network. When a route... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras, LLP Attn: John C. Gorecki

20080107044 - Methods and apparatus for network communication via barrage relay onto an independent medium allocation: Systems and methods are presented for conducting a relayed communication involving a source node, a plurality of intermediate nodes, and at least one destination node, involving at the source node transmitting a signal associated with the relayed communication on a first medium allocation, at each one of the plurality of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080107045 - Queuing voip messages: Methods and arrangements to play Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) messages are contemplated. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to play VoIP messages by receiving overlapping VoIP messages from a VoIP conference, placing at least one of the overlapping VoIP messages in a queue, and playing the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080107046 - Analog signal path modeling for self-interference cancellation: Described herein is a device that includes at least one radio frequency transmitter; at least one radio frequency receiver; a copy block configurable to output a digital representation of a currently transmitted signal and a model having a representation of at least analog circuitry of the at least one radio... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080107047 - Systems and methods of supporting multiple wireless communication technologies: Systems and methods for supporting multiple wireless communications technologies are provided. When a first and second base station operate according to different wireless communication technologies on the same carrier frequency in different cells or on different carrier frequencies in the same cell the frame structure of each base station is... Agent: Sprint Nextel Corporation

20080107048 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data in a time division duplexed (tdd) communication system: Techniques to process data for transmission in a time division duplexed (TDD) communication system. In one aspect, the frequency response of a forward link is estimated at a base station based on reverse link transmissions (e.g., pilots) from a terminal. Prior to a data transmission on the forward link, the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080107049 - System and method for wireless communication in a time division duplexing region: A method and system for using half-duplex base stations and half-duplex nodes in a Frequency Division Duplexing region to provide wireless connectivity between the half-duplex base stations and customers in multiple sectors of a cell. The method and system can use two physical channels to form two logical channels. Each... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080107050 - Non-destructive media access resolution for asynchronous traffic in a half-duplex braided-ring: A half-duplex communication network comprises a plurality of communication links, each link being configured a priori to communicate in one direction; and a plurality of nodes, each node coupled to a first and second direct neighbor nodes and a first and second skip neighbor nodes via the plurality of communication... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080107052 - Client mobility in a wireless network: An apparatus and method of a router within a wireless network providing mobility of a client device is disclosed. The method includes defining a routing table of the router, wherein the routing table provides next hop information towards the client device. Entries to the routing table are created, wherein the... Agent: Tropos Networks Patent Dept

20080107054 - Harq data reception in multiradio device: A HARQ data reception scheme for a multiradio communication device is disclosed. The communication device operates multiple radio connections and monitors interference level caused to a target radio connection by at least one other radio connection operated in the communication device. A data packet and at least one retransmission data... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080107053 - Method and apparatus for reordering received packets in mobile telecommunication system: Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for reordering received packets in a mobile telecommunication system supporting HARQ so that the problem of order change is solved. The method includes receiving from a receiving-side HARQ entity an input of a packet and processing time spent by the packet going through... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080107051 - System and method for operating a portable electronic device: A method of establishing a communication connection of a wireless communication device operable in a wireless local area network and a cellular phone network is provided. A wireless communication device, having access to the wireless local area network and the cellular phone network, is also provided. A user preference parameter... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080107055 - Performing presence service in a wireless communication system: The present invention relates to perform presence service in a wireless communication system that is available to a mobile device.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080107056 - Hybrid power-saving mechanism for voip services: An embodiment of the invention is a technique for power saving in mobile communication. At least one of a base station (BS) and a mobile station (MS) is initialized for power saving using a downlink (DL) status and an uplink (UL) status associated with the BS and the MS, respectively,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080107059 - Communication service continuation system, communication service continuation method, and program thereof: In a mobile terminal in which a communication service is being executed, communication networks can be switched without causing a loss of communication data while maintaining the execution of the communication service. In a server which provides a communication service via communication networks provided in parallel and a mobile terminal... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080107057 - Methods and apparatus for communication of notifications: Methods and apparatus for communication of notifications are disclosed. A disclosed method for communicating notifications from a server to a device includes sending a primary message including data indicating notification status information; and sending notification messages apart from the primary message addressed to specific groups of devices. Similarly, another disclosed... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080107060 - Relay device, wireless communication system and multicast relay method: The present invention relates to a relay device realizing multicast communications efficient and effective in mobile communications. The relay device transmitting a multicast user data packet containing a content to a plurality of base stations comprises a storing unit storing, in a storing unit, information about a multicast group, information... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080107058 - Method, system and apparatus for acquiring multicast program address: A method for user equipment acquiring a multicast program address includes: receiving, via a Short Massage Service Center (SMSC), an updating program bookmark message containing a multicast program address from an Over The Air (OTA); acquiring the multicast program address from the updating program bookmark message. The present invention also... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080107063 - Bandwidth reuse in a multi-hop mobile relay system: A multi-hop mobile relay system including a base station, a first relay station, a second relay station, and a mobile station, in which a data flow is transmitted from the base station to the first relay station using a first bandwidth, the data flow is transmitted from the first relay... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080107061 - Communicating packets in a wireless multi-user multi-hop relay networks: A method communicates packets in a relay network. Multiple packets are communicated between a set of mobile stations and a relay station using a set of connections. There is one connection between each mobile station and the relay station. The multiple packets are aggregated on single connection between the relay... Agent: Patent Department Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080107062 - Frame structure for a relay station operating in mobile networks: A frame structure for a relay station operating in an OFDMA network includes a downlink sub-frame having a first allocated time zone dedicated for transmission between a base station in the network and the relay station, a second allocated time zone dedicated for transmission between the base station and a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080107064 - Media access server for satellite-based cellular networks: A system and method for processing media control traffic between a mobile switching center and plurality of remotely located media devices is described. The media devices are infrastructure components of a wireless network. The media control traffic includes a satellite link in the path between the mobile switching center and... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080107065 - Address spoofing prevention: The present invention relates to a method for securing a radio communication link establishment in a radio communication network comprising a local network and a secured network. The local network comprises at least a first terminal and a second terminal and at least the first terminal is capable of communicating... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080107067 - Method for allocating ip address to mobile station in mobile communication system: Provided is a method for allocating an Internet protocol (IP) address to a mobile station in a mobile communication system. The method includes the steps of: a) receiving an “Activate Packet Data Protocol (PDP) request” message including router solicitation from the mobile station; b) acquiring a global IP address of... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080107068 - Communication control apparatus, firewall apparatus, and data communication method: A communication control system 1 according to the present invention is provided with a home agent apparatus 10, a plurality of firewall devices 20-40, and a mobile station 50. When the mobile station 50 is connected, for example, to the firewall device 20, the firewall device 20 receives identification information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080107066 - Performing presence service in a wireless communication system: The present invention relates to perform presence service in a wireless communication system that is available to a mobile device.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080107071 - Channel selection in a wireless network: In order to achieve improved performance for users on a wireless network, it is desirable to reduce interference between wireless access points (APs or WAPs) by selectively assigning different channels to the radios of the APs in a-neighborhood. This may be performed by process whereby a central controller automatically assigns... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080107072 - Determining transmitting stations in an ofdma network: Preamble modulation codes in an OFDMA network are assigned to one of at least two groups, one of the groups indicating that codes assigned to the group are for base stations in the network and a different one of the groups indicating that codes assigned to the group are for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080107069 - Joint channel assignment and routing in wireless networks: In a described implementation, a channel cost metric (CCM) is determined in a wireless network environment. The CCM may be determined responsive to an expected transmission time (ETT) and a frequency of air time (FAT), which reflects a channel utilization. In an example implementation, a channel assignment and/or a routing... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080107070 - Method to loadbalance among mobile ipv6 home agents: The invention relates to load balancing the binding creation on a home agent with a mobile node in an IPV6 network. A home agent serving a prefix learns about load on other home agents and when a home agent address discovery request from a mobile is received by a home... Agent: Craig E. Shinners Law Office Of Craig E. Shinners

20080107073 - Communication systems: A transmission method for use in a multi-hop wireless communication system is provided. The system includes a source apparatus, a destination apparatus and one or more intermediate apparatuses. The system has access to a time-frequency format for use in assigning available transmission frequency bandwidth during a discrete transmission interval, said... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080107074 - System and method for dynamic frequency allocation for packet switched services: A system, method and computer program for dynamic frequency allocation for packet switched services in which radio channels used for packet switched services may be dynamically allocated to meet quality of service (QoS) requirements utilizing a dynamic frequency and channel allocation system. The achievable throughput is estimated in the available... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080107078 - Determining transmitting stations in an ofdma network: Preamble modulation codes in an OFDMA network are assigned to one of at least two groups, one of the groups indicating that codes assigned to the group are for base stations in the network and a different one of the groups indicating that codes assigned to the group are for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080107079 - Enhanced data transport system and method for mobile terminal: An enhanced data transport system and method for a mobile terminal are provided that may improve transmission rates. A data transport system for a mobile terminal includes a radio frequency unit, a data processing unit, a memory unit, and a control unit. The radio frequency unit establishes a radio frequency... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080107082 - Mobile communication apparatus: The present invention provides a mobile communications apparatus, which optimizes handover timing and avoids communications interruptions with a base station. A handover timing calculating function 23, which computes a handover timing, is provided in either a mobile station 10 or base station A (20-A) or B (20-B). The handover timing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080107076 - Optimizing topology learning in a multihop network: In a multihop network having a first type of node, a second type of node and a third type of node, techniques are provided for optimizing topology learning in the multihop network which can reduce the amount of control traffic that occurs due to frequent topology changes. For example, each... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080107077 - Subnet mobility supporting wireless handoff: A handoff technique involves receiving communications in a format associated with a first radio technology, translating the communications to a format associated with a second radio technology, and tunneling the communications from a mobile device to a switch that hosts a virtual LAN (VLAN) associated with the mobile device, and... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080107075 - System and method to facilitate path selection in a multihop network: A system and method to facilitate path selection in a multihop network includes receiving by a base station a path metric associated with each of a plurality of stations neighboring to a subscriber station; comparing each of the path metrics with a current path metric; and transmitting a path selection... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080107081 - Handover control apparatus, relay router, gateway apparatus, access router, base station, mobile communication system, and handover control method: A mobile communication system 100 according to the present invention comprises handover control apparatus 1 and radio terminal unit 10. The handover control apparatus 1 controls handover of a radio terminal unit 10 between access routers 31-34 provided in respective base stations 21-24 for radio communication with the radio terminal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080107083 - Method and apparatus for network initiated data services: Techniques are provided for conserving network resources in a network that initiates data services by communicating push data to a dormant terminal. Selected network resources associated with the dormant terminal are released, and maintained information for reaching the dormant terminal is updated when the point of network attachment of the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080107080 - System and method of fast channel scanning and ip address acquisition for fast handoff in ip networks: A communication system is provided. The system comprises: a set of access points (APs) under tracking; and a table comprising a set of pairs comprising AP_ID, and channel frequency. The channel frequency is associated with an AP among the set of APs identified by AP_ID and the AP is tracked.... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20080107084 - Quality of service mechanism: A system comprises a subscriber station and a network, the network comprising an access service network and connectivity service network. In an improved communication method an access service network a quality of service profile for a subscriber is received by an anchor gateway of the subscriber. On the basis of... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080107085 - Apparatus and method for determining transmission mode in wireless communication system: Provided is an apparatus and method for determining a transmission mode for a base station in a wireless mobile communication system. The method includes measuring a state of a channel with a mobile station, determining whether channel states between the mobile station and a predetermined number of other mobile stations... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080107086 - Method and apparatus for fast cell search: A method and apparatus for transmitting a primary and secondary synchronization channel is provided herein. During operation a transmitter will transmit a primary synchronization channel (P-SCH) in a subframe and a secondary synchronization channel (S-SCH) in the subframe. The S-SCH is modulated by a complex exponential wave and scrambled with... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080107087 - Method and apparatus for cdma control segment hopping in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for hopping of a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) control segment that carries control information in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) packet data mobile communication system are provided, in which a number of CDMA control segment hopping zones, each CDMA control segment hopping zone... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080107088 - Method and apparatus for compensating code channel power in a transmitter: It has now been found that in some transmitter implementations which transmit multiple code channels, for example CDMA transmitters, the observed power for each code channel at the output relative to the other code channels is dependent upon the total transmit power due to non-linearities in the transmitter. Methods and... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080107091 - Broadcast efficiency in a multihop network: Techniques are provided for improving broadcast efficiency in a multihop network having a base station which transmits a downlink signal, at least one relay station and at least one node associated with the relay station. The relay station relays or retransmits the downlink signal it receives from the base station... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080107089 - Method and arrangement in wireless ad hoc or multihop networks: The present invention relates to the use of beaconing or “hello” messages in wireless multihop or ad hoc communication networks. In the method according to the present invention beacon messages (HELLO messages) are transmitted between a plurality of radio nodes (205, 215) in an ad hoc or multihop network. The... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080107090 - Radio frequency firewall coordination: In one embodiment, a method includes identifying, responsive to a triggering event, one or more radio frequency (RF) firewall transceivers that neighbor a data wireless access point to which a given wireless client is communicating; configuring one or more of the identified neighboring RF firewall transceivers to detect RF frames... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080107092 - Universal services interface for wireless broadband networks: Embodiment of the invention relate to a new type of service interface network node which enables a service provider of a broadband wireless access (BWA) network to provide relevant information to application service provider (ASPs) in a public Internet and in turn allows ASPs to provide value add services or... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080107093 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving multiple radio signals over a single antenna: An apparatus for transmitting and receiving multiple radio frequencies simultaneously over a single antenna is provided. The apparatus comprises a transmitter signal combining apparatus configured to communicatively couple with a plurality of transmitters, wherein the transmitter signal combining apparatus is configured to output a transmission signal based on any signals... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080107095 - Method and apparatus for a communication system operating in a licensed rf and an unlicensed rf band: The present invention relates generally to wireless communications, and more particularly to a communication system operating in a licensed RF band and an unlicensed RF band. The method comprises exchanging (302) traffic information (410) between a base station (102) and a mobile station (105, 107) on at least one radio... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080107094 - System and method for integrating call control and data network access components: A system and method for integrating the call control signaling pathway with data network access components. A call control server agent is resident on a network device that provides a first interface from an access network to a packet-switched data network. The call control server agent receives data session initiation... Agent: 3com Corporation

20080107096 - User locating system, method and server in packet-based netwok: A user locating system, method and server in a Packet-based network. A plurality of management regions divided by terrains are included, and each of the management regions includes: an address management server adapted to collect and bind communication addresses and user identifiers of all network users in the management region,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080107097 - Allocation of frequency bands to radio communication systems: To allocate frequency bands to respective radio communication systems, allocation of a frequency band to each radio communication system is modeled by at least one three-dimensional block as a function of a frequency bandwidth and a coverage area of the radio communication system so as to determine at least one... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080107098 - Multislot-mode automatic frequency correction apparatus, systems, and methods: Embodiments herein may sense a measure of signal quality at a sub-channel associated with each of a set of allocated timeslots as frames associated with a data block are received at a wireless, packet-switched receiver. For each received frame, a selected allocated timeslot may be chosen from the set of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080107099 - System and method for adapting a transport stream for transmission: An ASI transport stream is processed in a way that allows the use of an RF wireless link to connect a distribution network to a transmitter in a single-frequency network. Null packets are disguised by changing the PID value of each null packet to a PID value that has been... Agent: Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP

20080107100 - Method and apparatus for delivering relevant content: A method and apparatus for providing a relevant content delivery service on networks such as packet networks, e.g., Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Service over Internet Protocol (SoIP) networks are disclosed. For example, the present method receives a request to initiate a call from a calling party to a... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080107101 - Multi-dialing-number voip phone call connection method: A multi-dialing-number VOIP phone call connection method, comprising the following steps: Firstly, registering by a first calling party with at least two proxy servers utilizing a network address, thus obtaining at least two dialing numbers; issuing by the calling party a calling invitation to the proxy server by making use... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080107102 - Phonecasting systems and methods: Multimedia files, such as audio programming, are currently available to Internet users through a combination of their personal computer, an optional portable digital audio player, and an Internet connection. Many audio programs are now currently distributed over the Internet in a syndicated form known as a “podcast”, allowing users to... Agent: Krueger Iselin LLP (3001)

20080107103 - Non-blocking multicast switching network: l

20080107104 - Generic packet generation: There are disclosed processes and systems relating to simulated real-time packet generation to test a communications network. A first packet stream is defined and transmitted. Each packet in the first packet stream is composed from a first background data field and one or more user defined fields that overlay the... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080107107 - Icmp with ip routing instance information: A method and system for providing routing instance information are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a trace packet at a network device, generating an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packet in response to the trace packet, and transmitting the ICMP packet. The ICMP packet includes routing instance... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20080107105 - System and method for communicating on a richly connected multi-processor computer system using a pool of buffers for dynamic association with a virtual channel: Systems and methods for communicating on a richly-connected multiprocessor computer system using a pool of buffers for dynamic association with a virtual channel. Packets are communicated in a multiprocessor computer system having a large plurality of processing nodes interconnected by a defined interconnection topology, in which a communication from a... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080107106 - System and method for preventing deadlock in richly-connected multi-processor computer system using dynamic assignment of virtual channels: Systems and methods for preventing deadlock in richly-connected multiprocessor computer system using dynamic assignment of virtual channels. Deadlock is prevented in a multiprocessor computer system having a large plurality of processing nodes interconnected by a defined interconnection topology. Each link in the interconnection topology is associated with a set of... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080107108 - System and method for enabling fast switching between psse channels: A system and method for replacing existing media streams of a streaming session with alternative media streams, without tearing down the RTSP session and providing only a minimal delay. In various embodiments of the present invention, the client indicates to the server that it wishes to replace a media stream... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080107109 - Method and apparatus for managing multicast traffic in a network at the data link or level 2 layer: A method using a network bridge to manage multicast transmission is provided. The method begins by receiving a packet from a first source station having a first source address over a data network. The packet includes a first multicast destination address. A table is accessed using the multicast destination address... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080107110 - Relay device, wireless communication system and multicast relay method: The present invention relates to a relay device realizing multicast communications efficient and effective in mobile communications. The relay device transmitting a user data packet, containing a content, in which to set a multicast address associated with the content, to a plurality of base stations belonging to a same zone... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080107111 - Method and system for controlling flow in an asymmetric communication channel: A system for controlling transmission of data over a network. In response to receiving a content request from a client device coupled to the network, an initial data packet is sent to the client device. In response to receiving a feedback packet from the client device, transmission of the content... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.c.

20080107112 - Network device and packet forwarding method thereof: A network device connected to a client includes a table-creation module, a transceiving module, a detecting module, and a translation module. The table-creation module creates an internal table and at least one external table, listing a plurality of real network parameters of the network device, and a plurality of virtual... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080107113 - Set/reset mechanism: Included are embodiments for resetting a signal. At least one embodiment of a method includes sending a first packet, the first packet including a first legacy physical layer header, the first legacy physical layer header including a first duration indication configured to indicate a predetermined duration, the predetermined duration being... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080107114 - Method and apparatus for forwarding service in a data communication device: The present invention provides a method and forwarding apparatus for forwarding a service in a data communication device. The apparatus includes a storage unit for storing a Route Prefix, private data of the Route Prefix and a corresponding Next Hop Array; and a forwarding unit for forwarding a service in... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080107115 - Method, device and system for message transmission: The present invention discloses a message transmission method, a message transmission device, and a message transmission system. In an embodiment of the present invention, a message transmission device is provided. When a message is transmitted to the device, the device is responsible for message parsing, routing, and sending. In the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080107116 - Large scale multi-processor system with a link-level interconnect providing in-order packet delivery: A large-scale multiprocessor system with a link-level interconnect that provides in-order packet delivery. The method comprises transmitting, over a link in the defined interconnection topology, a sequence of packets in a defined order from a first node to a second node. The second node is an intermediate node in a... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080107117 - Efficient processing of connection control messages in managing virtual circuits using signaling protocols: To send a connection control message associated with a first set of attributes, only a difference of the first set of attributes from a second set of attributes associated with an already active virtual circuit (to a common destination) may be sent (contained in the connection control message). The devices... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080107119 - Method and system for guaranteeing qos between different radio networks: A method and system for guaranteeing QoS between different radio networks is disclosed. The radio networks comprise a first network and a second network. The first network, operating in Diff-serv mode, comprises a user equipment (UE). The second network comprises an AAA server, a TTG, and a GGSN. In the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080107118 - Weighted fair queue serving plural output ports: A data communication apparatus includes a plurality of output ports and a scheduler for assigning priorities for outbound data frames. The scheduler includes one or more scheduling queues. Each scheduling queue indicates an order in which data flows are to be serviced. At least one scheduling queue has a respective... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law

20080107120 - Switch fabric access scheduler: A switch fabric access scheduler is disclosed. An indication is received that a link included in a plurality of links to the switch fabric is next in order to be serviced by a queue scheduling process common to the plurality of links. The queue scheduling process common to the plurality... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080107122 - Method and computer program product for a new node joining a peer to peer network and computer readable medium and the network thereof: A peer to peer network, a method, a computer program product for a new node joining the network and a computer readable medium are disclosed. The peer to peer network comprises a plurality of nodes and a new node. Each of the nodes has its own partner list. Each of... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080107123 - Methods and mobile routers in a communications system for routing a data packet: The present invention relates to moving networks in communication systems. An object of the invention is to provide moving network nodes (205, 206) in a moving network (201) with the ability to simultaneously access several external access networks (211, 212, 213) accessible by different mobile routers (204, 207) such that... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080107121 - Network roaming and reporting system of physiological parameters and method thereof: The present invention discloses a network roaming and reporting system of physiological parameters and its method. The system includes at least one wireless transmission module, at least two gateways, an Internet and a server. The wireless transmission module is connected to a portable measuring instrument for receiving a user's physiological... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080107124 - System and method for supporting mobility and multipath packet delivery in ip communications and computer networks across nat and firewall boxes: The present invention generally relates to a system and method for supporting (1) mobility in IP (Internet Protocol) networks and (2) multipath packet delivery when the communication paths between a group of senders and a group of receivers traverse one or more NAT and Firewall IP boxes. While at first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080107125 - Mac address scalability in interconnected rings: A method for communication is used in a communication network that includes multiple ring nodes arranged in at least first and second ring networks, which are connected by one or more of the ring nodes serving as interconnect nodes. A data packet is accepted from a source user node served... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080107126 - Network configuring method, network system and relay apparatus: A relay apparatus for performing relay possessing is disclosed. The relay apparatus includes a first logical relay unit; a second logical relay unit; a sending unit configured to add a packet header including a first protocol identifier or a second protocol identifier registered in a protocol assignment unit to a... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080107127 - Aggregation of inter-domain resource signaling: A method for aggregating or combining signaling messages for the adaptation of resource reservations required for route modifications is provided. According to the method, a modification of an inter-domain route requiring an adaptation of resource reservations is disclosed to a first routing domain. The first routing domain communicates the modification... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080107128 - Network access mechanism and method: A communications system includes a network that is coupled to a number of terminals, at least some of which are capable of audio or other forms of real-time interactive data communications over the network. Each of the terminals includes a network adapter that is capable of detecting a collision with... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, Pc

20080107129 - Fixed bit rate wireless communications apparatus and method: A wireless communication system transmits and receives electronic voice signals between a wireless communication device and a wireless networking device at a call bitrate stored in the wireless communication device. By using the call bitrate when transmitting and receiving call signals, the wireless communication system is able to eliminate delays... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080107130 - Session initiation protocol (sip) message incorporating a multi-purpose internet mail extension (mime) media type for describing the content and format of information included in the sip message: A system and method for processing a plurality of requests for multi-media services received at a call control element (CCE) defined on the system from a plurality of IP-communication devices. The system includes at least one Network Routing Element (NRE), a Service Broker (SB), a media sever, a plurality of... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080107131 - Method and system for initialization configuration of managed device: A method for initialization configuration of a managed device, includes: predefining and storing initial configuration information of the managed device; detecting a message requesting for IP address assignment broadcasted from the managed device; searching in the initial configuration information for the message requesting for IP address assignment, to obtain an... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080107132 - Method and apparatus for transmitting overhead information: A method provided by the present invention for transmitting overhead information, includes dividing and reforming overhead information into at least two overhead parts, inserting the at least two overhead parts into overhead bytes of at least two corresponding data frames, and transmitting the at least two overhead parts via the... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080107133 - Method and apparatus for transcrypting or transcoding content for a terminal within a vehicle: A system 10 for distributing content includes a content provider 12 that provides content through various devices including a satellite 26 or a terrestrial-based system 38. The content provider 12 provides content to a content distribution system 70 within a vehicle 60. The method associated with the system includes generating... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080107134 - Multiple access apparatus and method using power line: A comprisal includes an external power line model 1, a power distribution board 2 and an indoor power line model 3 which is connected to a power line by way of a capacitor for shutting off a sine wave of a power signal of a low frequency; a terminal station... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080107135 - Radio data transmission method employing several different pilot patterns, corresponding base station, mobile, system and reception method: A method and apparatus are provided for the transmission of radio data between at least two transmitters and one receiver, said method employing at least one multi-carrier data transmission signal. The aforementioned multi-carrier signal is formed by a temporal succession of symbols comprising: (i) informative data elements, and (ii) reference... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.a.

20080107136 - Method and apparatus for constituting transport network based on integrated synch and asynch frame: Provided is a method for forming a customized-quality integrated transport network based on synch and asynch frames, and a transport network forming apparatus thereof. The method of the present invention includes: a) synchronizing a transmission bit rate in a network; b) when the transmission bit rate is synchronized in the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080107137 - Data receiving device, data reproduction method, and computer product: In a receiving device, time information is separated from received multimedia data, a first difference is calculated between two consecutive pieces of time information, and a second difference is calculated between reception timings of the two consecutive time information. Jitter is calculated from the first difference and the second difference,... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080107138 - Method and apparatus for recognizing n channels according to n multi-channel signals: An apparatus and method for a receiver to recognize channel numbers, skew delays, and polarities of N channels by extracting the properties of the transmitted signals are provided. Each of the N signals comprises a plurality of digital symbols with certain characteristics known to the receiver. The apparatus comprises a... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080101210 - Method and apparatus for characterizing modulation schemes in an hfc network: The available modulation schemes of a network are analyzed to determine which ones contain excessive phase noise or narrowband interference. A network element is selected and assigned to a test channel at a first modulation scheme at a predetermined power level to achieve a predetermined PER. The network element transmits... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080101211 - Method of assigning uplink acknowledgement channels in scheduled packet data systems: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for assigning uplink acknowledgement channels in scheduled packet data systems is provided. The method includes providing at least one message indicating that at least one packet is scheduled to be provided to at least one mobile unit over a downlink. The message... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20080101212 - Method and apparatus for spur cancellation in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication system: A communication device is provided that is capable of operating in an OFDM or communication system and that provides for cancellation of in-band spurs. The communication device identifies a bin of multiple bins associated with an output of an inverse transformer and comprising a spur and estimates one or more... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080101214 - Pilot signal transmission method and mobile communication system: A method of transmitting pilot signals for channel compensation in a mobile communication system based on DFT-spread-OFDM is disclosed. In the disclosed method, a first pilot signal and a second pilot signal are time-division multiplexed together with a data signal of a user into a time-division multiplexed signal which data... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20080101213 - Techniques to reduce overhead in ofdma based wireless networks: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising reducing overhead in OFDMA based Wireless Networks by determining the highest CIDs to be transmitted in a particular DL/UL MAP and determining the number of leading zero bits of the highest CID and removing the leading zero bits from each... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080101215 - Ofdm receiver and doppler frequency estimating circuit: A radiofrequency signal is converted to an intermediate frequency signal by a tuner, which is amplified by a variable gain amplifier. The so-amplified signal is converted into a digital signal by an ADC, which is supplied to an FFT, where it is separated into signals set every carrier, followed by... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080101216 - Orthogonal frequency division multiplex (ofdm) signal equalizier: An equalizer equalizes a received orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) signal which includes periodic pilot symbols. The equalizer includes a channel estimation unit which estimates a frequency response the received OFDM signal, and an equalization circuit which equalizes the received OFDM signal in accordance with the frequency response estimated by... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080101217 - Method, system, and computer program product for avoiding data loss during network port recovery processes: A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed in a data processing system for avoiding data loss during network port recovery. A first network port is linked to a second network port via a network. The second network port transmits data to the first network port via the network.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080101218 - Method and device for implementing active/standby gateway device in a network: A method and device for implementing active and standby gateway devices in a network are provided. The method includes: determining, by a device connected to at least two gateway devices, status of the gateway devices; notifying, by the device, the gateway devices of information of determined active or standby status;... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080101219 - Ring rapid multiple spanning tree protocol system and method: In an embodiment, a method is disclosed for operating a network having a group of bridges connected together to form a ring, each bridge having two ports assigned to the ring to form a group of ring ports. The claimed embodiment includes forwarding information through the ring according to one... Agent: Craig A. Hoersten Intellectual Property Department

20080101220 - Header suppression/compression apparatus and method for providing multicast and broadcast service (mbs) in broadband wireless access system: Header suppression/compression apparatus and method for providing Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS) in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system are provided. The method includes checking an overhead ratio of a packet based on the MBS channels; when the overhead ratio of the packet is greater than a threshold, compressing a... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080101226 - Buffer management in a network device: Buffer management in a network device. A new data packet is received at a packet buffer queue of the network switch, wherein the new data packet is a portion of a burst block. If the packet buffer queue is full, a data packet from within the packet buffer queue that... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101222 - Lightweight, time/space efficient packet filtering: Variable-length tuples are used in packet filter rules to optimize time and/or space efficiency in a packet filtering system. The variable-length tuples only store the parameters necessary to implement a rule, and desirably omit any unnecessary parameters. An index field may also be provided in each rule to identify the... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080101223 - Method and apparatus for providing network based end-device protection: A method and apparatus for providing network based end-device protection on networks are disclosed. For example, the present method receives one or more packets, wherein the one or more packets are destined to a protected end-device (or the one or more packets are received from the protected end-device). The method... Agent: Mr. John Etchells At&t Enterprise Services, Inc.

20080101221 - Method and system for communication session under conditions of bandwidth starvation: A real-time communication device with an asymmetric mode is disclosed. During a real-time communication session, a communication application executing on the communication device detects an upstream communication channel having insufficient bandwidth to support real-time communications in an upstream direction. Consequently, the communication application enters into an asymmetric mode. In asymmetric... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080101224 - Priority call routing: A method includes receiving a priority message in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and identifying, via the IMS, resource availability through a first network and a second network. The method further includes routing, via the IMS, the priority message through one of the first network or the second network... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080101225 - Systems and methods for capturing network packets: In one embodiment a method for capturing network packets includes transmitting packets from and receiving packets with a network switch, and copying transmitted and received packets to a packet repository within memory of the network switch such that the packets are stored on the switch and available for later retrieval.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101228 - Mmpp analysis of network traffic using a transition window: Data communication in network traffic is modeled in real time and is analyzed using a 2-state Markov modified Poissen process (MMPP). The traffic inter-arrival times for bursty and idle states define a transition window [λ1max, λ2min] represented by the boundary values λ1max for the inter-arrival time for bursty traffic, and... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080101227 - Qos routing method and qos routing apparatus: A QoS routing apparatus as a node of a logical network to transmit data communicated between user's terminals comprises a relay unit discriminating whether or not flows of received data are measurement flows and transmitting said received data, a quality measurement unit measuring communication quality of links connected the own... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080101229 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for grooming traffic on a shared network facility based on a peak utilization analysis of the shared network facility: A communication network is operated by monitoring a bandwidth utilization of a shared network resource, performing a statistical analysis to determine a mean utilization peak and/or a utilization peak coefficient of variance, monitoring a bandwidth utilization of lines, ports, and/or channels associated with the shared network resource, performing a statistical... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080101232 - Analysis and selection of optimal function implementations in massively parallel computer: An apparatus, program product and method optimize the operation of a parallel computer system by, in part, collecting performance data for a set of implementations of a function capable of being executed on the parallel computer system based upon the execution of the set of implementations under varying input parameters... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080101235 - Automatic termination path configuration: There is provided herein a system and method for automatic configuration of data routings for use with electronic data such as phone calls, faxes, etc. In the preferred embodiment, when more than one carrier might potentially terminate the transmission, the carriers are ordered based on some screening criterion (e.g., transmission... Agent: Fellers Snider Blankenship Bailey & Tippens

20080101234 - Identification of potential network threats using a distributed threshold random walk: In general, the invention is directed to techniques of identifying an infected network device in a computer network where traffic to and from the infected network device is not necessarily routed through a single point on the computer network. For example, individual line cards in network devices count incoming network... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20080101230 - Managing power consumption in a nic team: The present disclosure provides an information handling system which includes a team of network interface controllers (NIC), each controller operable to receive network traffic load. The system also includes logic configured to direct the network traffic load to at least one NIC in the team based on the network traffic... Agent: Andrea E. Tran Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20080101233 - Method and apparatus for load balancing internet traffic: A load balancer is provided wherein packets are transmitted to a burst distributor and a hash splitter. The burst distributor consults a flow table to make a determination as to which forwarding engine will receive the packet, and if the flow table is full, returns an invalid forwarding engine. A... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080101236 - Storage system and communication bandwidth control method: The present invention provides a method for controlling a communication bandwidth between a network switch having a plurality of ports for forming a network, and a storage apparatus having ports respectively connected to at least two of the ports, the method including: transferring one or more data frames to the... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080101231 - Wi-fi quality of service signaling: The transmission of signaling frames in a QoS system may be prioritized over the transmission of content frames carrying time-sensitive information. The signaling frames and the content frames may belong to a single communication session. Alternatively, the signaling frames may belong to a different communication session than the content frames.... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20080101237 - Communication device: A communication device includes a congestion detecting part configured to detect congestion of traffic; and a message generation part configured to generate and send a MTU decreasing message, in a case where congestion is detected by the congestion detecting part and a packet having a MTU equal to or greater... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080101239 - Fairness of capacity allocation for an mpls-based vpn: A method and system for providing fairness of capacity allocation in a network is presented. The method includes intercepting RSVP messages at a PE router, counting capacity requests for reservable classes of service for each VPN on each LSP, and rejecting requests when a VPN has inadequate capacity on the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080101238 - Integrated circuit including data synchronization apparatus and method: A synchronization apparatus for data synchronization and method for data synchronization is disclosed. One embodiment provides clock signals which are phase-shifted relative to one another are used for synchronizing data packets in a serial-to-parallel conversion device in a write path and equally for synchronizing data packets in a parallel-to-serial conversion... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080101240 - Apparatus and methods for authenticating voice and data devices on the same port: In one embodiment, a method is disclosed. A first non-domain packet that does not specify a domain is received from a first device. A first authentication packet is sent to the first device to thereby attempt a first authentication process for allowing the first device to access a network via... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080101241 - Ethernet oam at intermediate nodes in a pbt network: OAM may be implemented at an intermediate node on a PBT trunk in an Ethernet network by causing OAM frames to be addressed to the PBT trunk endpoint but causing the OAM frames to carry an indicia (Ether-type, OpCode, TLV value or combination of these and other fields) that the... Agent: John C. Gorecki, Esq.

20080101243 - Communication apparatus, communication system and communication method: A communication apparatus wherein the function arrangement of each device is revised, thereby preventing an increase in traffic of a public network and further suppressing an increase in communication cost of the public network. In this apparatus, a control part (101), when notified of a duplication of MBMS data by... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080101244 - Data routing method and apparatus: A data routing method and system, the data routing method including: locating a destination node using a destination locating packet; establishing a preliminary route including anchor nodes based on a route where the destination locating packet is transmitted to the destination node; determining a link cost between neighbor nodes of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080101242 - Intelligent network planning and provisioning tool: An intelligent network planning and provisioning tool is provided. The intelligent network planning and provisioning tool includes a forecaster coupled to a network control plane. The forecaster receives an estimate of initial network resources from a user and generates a set of link costs and constraints for use by the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080101245 - Method for selecting useful routes in a router for even traffic distribution in a communication network: Connectionless Internet protocols make use of the principle of routes. The routes implicity lay-down which path the data packets of a communication relation flow will take through the network. When a data packet of a so far unknown flow occurs for the first time, the router selects a route which... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080101246 - Method and apparatus for packet reception and transmission in a wireless communications system: A packet transmission method for a transmitter in a wireless communications system, for enhancing transmission efficiency when sporadic data transmission is needed, is disclosed. The packet transmission method includes initiating an HARQ procedure, triggering a transmission of a packet, and sending the packet repetitively until a predefined number of ACKs... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080101247 - Monitoring internet protocol (ip) telephony signaling links: In one embodiment, a method includes, at an endpoint, receiving signaling packets from a network coupled to the network. The method also includes, at the endpoint, detecting faults in the signaling packets received at the interface. The method also includes, from the endpoint, reporting the faults to a call agent... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080101248 - Methods, systems and computer program products for selective network management in a network having multiple active routes to a common destination that are keyed by different combinations of parameters: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer program products for selective network management in a network having multiple active routes to a common destination that are keyed by different combinations of parameters. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for controlling distribution... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080101249 - Apparatus for measuring transmission delay: A transmission delay measuring circuit may include a first transmission path, a second transmission path, an inversion circuit, a first multiplexer, and an output terminal. The second transmission path may have the same structure as the structure of the first transmission path and may receive the output of the first... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080101255 - Automatic tracking of network paramenters in the event of changes in the traffic load: In one aspect method and device for tracking network parameters of a communications network, which is formed by links, with access controls for the purpose of limiting the traffic load are provided. The traffic matrix of the network is regularly determined and probabilities of the blocking of traffic are determined... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080101254 - Instrumentation of mpeg-2 transport streams for testing network performance: A method and apparatus for testing and measuring the performance of a network for delivering multimedia is disclosed. A multimedia source is divided into data packets according to a packetizing standard. Each data packet includes a header and a payload containing a portion of the multimedia. N data packets (N>0)... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080101253 - Methods and apparatus for round trip time measurements: In a method for measuring round trip time (RTT), an RTT measurement packet is transmitted to a destination node. The RTT from transmission of the RTT measurement packet to reception of a response from the destination node is measured to determine if the RTT is greater than a predetermined time... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080101250 - Network path identification: A method is implemented in a network that comprises a plurality of ports and an indicator associated with each port The method comprises forming a frame The frame passes through the network. The frame causes indicators of multiple ports to illuminate to provide an indication of a path through the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101252 - Providing ad-hoc interoperability among network nodes: A method of providing interoperability among communications network nodes. Interoperability types, including a basic type of interoperability, are defined. For each interoperability type, a support capability is defined for implementation on a node without modification to the node application layer. On each node is provided at least the basic interoperability... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20080101251 - System, apparatus and method for mixed mode communication on a single network: Provided is a system, apparatus, and method for evaluating a variety of protocols on a computer network which includes a plurality of network devices. The network devices are adapted to communicate messages on the computer network using their respective protocols. The present invention system, apparatus and method are associated with... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20080101257 - Apparatus, and associated method, for selecting quality of service-related information in a radio communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for reporting QoS information associated with a reverse link communication service effectuated in a radio communication system, such as a CDMA2000 cellular communication system. The mobile station includes a service quality level selector that selects a selected service quality level, such as a communication rate,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080101256 - System and method for selecting fibre channel switched fabric frame paths: A system and method for measuring data transmission activity through a port of a switch device interconnecting nodes of a storage area network, the port transmitting data as words of predetermined length, one data word indicating idle port activity. The method includes steps of counting a number of transmitted words... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy, & Presser, P.C.

20080101258 - Method for configuring network connections utilizing a graphical user interface showing network topology: A method for easily configuring a network, network connections, and electronic devices in the network is disclosed. A user interface conveniently displays the current network configuration in a topological diagram. Each device in the network is displayed as an icon. Connections between the devices are also shown in the user... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080101259 - Constructing a transition route in a data communication network: A method is described of constructing a transition route in a data communication network having as components nodes and links. Upon receipt of a transition notification identifying a first component a non-neighboring node constructs a transition route around the first component. In an embodiment, a node performs detecting the first... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080101260 - Parent terminal selection method and terminal having parent terminal selection function for use in star-type connection ad hoc wireless network: A parent terminal collects remaining battery capacities of terminals (steps S201-S202, step S212) and monitors data transmission/reception amounts (step S203). The parent terminal calculates remaining battery times of the terminals, which are estimated assuming that each terminal becomes a parent terminal, from a change in the remaining battery capacities and... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080101261 - Method and apparatus for implementing composite channel trees for resource assignments: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for implementing composite channel trees for resource assignment. The composite channel tree includes a binary channel tree structure and at least one supplemental node facilitated by an additional bit to the channel identification. The methods and apparatus provide overcome defragmentation problems related in a binary... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080101262 - Transmission method in a wireless telecommunication system including at least a base station intended to communicate with terminals: The present invention concerns a transmission method in a wireless telecommunication system including at least a base station intended to communicate with terminals over bidirectional communication channels, each channel supporting frames being divided into downlink sub frames and uplink sub frames, each downlink sub frame including a number of symbols... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080101263 - Single-ended to differential duplexer filter: According to an exemplary embodiment, a duplexer includes a single-ended to differential filter, where the single-ended to differential filter includes a ladder stage coupled to an antenna port of the duplexer. The single-ended to differential filter further includes a balun stage coupled to the ladder stage. The single-ended to differential... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080101264 - Encoding information in beacon signals: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate transmitting at least two different types of information in a single signal, whereby the different types of information can be encoded and decoded independently. Thus, changes to one type of information does not affect a second type of information.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080101265 - Information processor and communication control method for information processor: An information processor comprising: a management unit that manages attribute information respectively corresponding to a plurality of communication tasks for performing a communication through at least one of a plurality of communication modules; and a control unit that dynamically controls allocation of the plurality of communication tasks to the plurality... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080101267 - Semiconductor device: In a multi-core semiconductor device, a data bus between CPUs or the like consumes a larger amount of power. By provision of a plurality of CPUs which transmit data by a backscattering method of a wireless signal, a router circuit which mediates data transmission and reception between the CPUs or... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080101266 - Method, system and device for facilitating data communication: Data communication is facilitated in a mobile network in a general communication network, the mobile being formed from a mobile router in communication with a plurality of network nodes. One method of facilitating the data communication includes, at the mobile router, determining the availability of one or more access bearers... Agent: Holme Roberts & Owen, LLP

20080101268 - Method and apparatus for enhancing discontinuous reception in wireless systems: A method of discontinuous reception (DRX) in a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) includes the WTRU receiving DRX setting information over a radio resource control (RRC) signal, and the WTRU receiving DRX activation information over medium access control (MAC) signal.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080101271 - Apparatus and method for multicast and broadcast service (mbs) in broadband wireless access (bwa) system: Apparatus and method for multicast and broadcast service (MBS) in a broadband wireless access (BWA) system. The terminal state managing method includes examining whether a dormant timer of a terminal managed in an awake mode expires or not; when the dormant timer expires, examining whether the terminal receives a broadcast... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080101269 - Apparatus and method for resource allocation for multicast data in broadband wireless access system: Provided is an apparatus and method for resource allocation for multicast data in a broadband wireless access system. In the method, multicast packets are scheduled. Thereafter, a resource allocation message for the scheduled multicast packets divided into a second multicast resource allocation message including information of a user group using... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080101270 - Enhanced multicast broadcast multimedia service: In one aspect thereof the exemplary embodiments of this invention provide a method that includes receiving and storing a set of rules; receiving an initial data unit having an indication of a time to start a downlink multicast broadcast multimedia service transmission; forming transport blocks corresponding to the data unit... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080101272 - Wireless card and card holder for a digital camera: A wireless adapter for a digital camera enables communications between the digital camera and remote devices over a wireless network. The wireless adapter comprises a wireless card and a card holder having a card slot to receive the wireless card. The wireless card is insertable into the card slot of... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080101275 - Apparatus and method for configuring a relay frame control header in a multi-hop relay broadband wireless access communication system: An apparatus and method for configuring a Relay-Frame Control Header (R-FCH) transmitted in an intermediary link area in a multi-hop relay Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system are provided. The method includes determining a modulation scheme of a Relay Station (RS) Downlink (DL)-MAP (or simply referred to as R-MAP) in... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080101274 - Method and system for delaying a push to connect channel establishment: A method (10) and system (30 or 200) for delaying a push to connect channel establishment (38) in a mobile device (22) includes a first transceiver (32) having an optional streaming data channel (34) established, a second transceiver (33) for establishing the push to connect channel establishment, and a processor... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080101273 - Wireless device association: A method and apparatus to associate a first wireless device and a second wireless device by storing a random identifier on a first wireless device and on a physical key and by moving the random identifier on the physical key to a second wireless device.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101281 - Method and apparatus for reducing overhead for signaling: A method and apparatus for reducing overhead for signaling where the method includes sending a user bit map field (802) for initiating assignment of users to resources corresponding to bit positions in a resource bit map field (804), and sending the resource bit map field wherein the resource bit map... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080101277 - Method for disseminating geolocation information for network infrastructure devices: A scheme is provided for distributing reference geographical locations on a network. Geolocation information is integrated or associated with one or more network infrastructure devices to permit them to serve as reference points for the rest of the network. A reference geographical location associated with a network infrastructure device may... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080101276 - Method for managing local terminal equipment accessing a network: Methods for managing a local Terminal Equipment (TE) accessing a network are provided. One is to set in a Mobile Terminal (MT) a management list containing the identities of local TEs, and to decide according to the information of the management list whether to accept a request message from the... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20080101279 - Methods and devices for dual mode bidirectional audio communication: Disclosed are dual mode I/O devices and methods for transmission of a short range radio link such as a Bluetooth link that is a bi-directional real-time audio communication signal that can be over a synchronous circuit-switched transport and an asynchronous packet-switched transport either sequentially or simultaneously. Also disclosed are dual... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080101278 - Methods, systems, and devices for establishing a registrationless data communication connection between electronic devices: A method of operating a mobile terminal to establish a data communication connection with an electronic device includes receiving a message from the electronic device via a wireless wide-area network. The message includes Internet Protocol (IP) connection information for establishing the data communication connection with the electronic device. For example,... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080101282 - Mobile communication system, core network apparatus, and mbms data transmission method used for the same: A mobile communication system according to an exemplary aspect of the invention is a mobile communication system which includes eNBs (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) NodeBs) and a core network apparatus, wherein the core network apparatus is provided as a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server and supplies clocks... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080101283 - Discovery of rogue access point location in wireless network environments: Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating location or containment of rogue or unauthorized access points on wireless computer network environments. Embodiments of the present invention support one to a plurality of rogue containment methodologies. A first rogue containment type involves identification of the physical connection of the rogue access point to... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080101280 - Dynamic channel quality reporting in a wireless communication system: Techniques for reporting channel quality indicators (CQIs) are described. Data activity at a receiver may be determined, and CQI reporting by the receiver may be adjusted based on the determined data activity. In one design, CQI reporting may be enabled for a time window around each expected packet arrival for... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080101284 - Method and apparatus for determining appropriate channels for communication: During operation of a secondary communication system, nodes having different channel monitoring capabilities or requirements will cooperatively monitor possible frequencies for transmissions, each node using only a subset of all possible modulation sensing schemes. All nodes will share channel occupancy information to other nodes within the communication system. For example,... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080101286 - Methods and apparatus for scheduling uplink transmissions for real time services during a silent period: Method and apparatus for scheduling uplink transmissions for real time services during a silent period are disclosed. A schedule for a persistent radio resource for transmissions of non-silence insertion description (SID) frames during a silent period may be generated based on wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) mobility and other factors. Two... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080101287 - Resource allocation method and apparatus in multi-channel system: Radio resource allocation apparatus and method in a multi-channel system are provided. The method includes determining a type of a channel to be allocated to terminals, which request a resource allocation. When there is a terminal to be assigned the band AMC channel, necessary resources are allocated to the terminal... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080101285 - Techniques to couple harq-arq in wireless networks: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transceiver adapted to reduce ARQ overhead by coupling HARQ and ARQ feedback signaling and defining different HARQ burst regions that enable different regions to use different HARQ feedback configurations based on channel quality or QoS requirements.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080101288 - Method and device for allocating radio configuration types: A method and a device for allocating a radio configuration (RC) type are disclosed in the present invention. The method includes: predefining a first threshold value and a second threshold value; when a user initiate a call, calculating current utilization rate of power resource of a cell and comparing the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080101290 - Apparatus for arq controlling in wireless portable internet system and method thereof: The present invention relates to an ARQ control apparatus and method. According to the present invention, a subscriber station performs initialization by communicating with a base station, and receives wireless link channel quality information; stores an SDU in an SDU buffer when the SDU is transmitted from an upper block,... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080101294 - Method and apparatus for scanning signals of neighboring base station in broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for scanning signals of a neighboring Base Station (BS) in a broadband wireless communication system is provided. In the broadband wireless communication system, a scanning method of a serving base station includes: receiving information on a frequency use status of a neighboring base station from an... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080101293 - Network-adaptive function control method for dual-mode mobile terminal: A network-adaptive function control method is provided for a dual-mode mobile terminal. The network-adaptive function control method for a dual-mode mobile terminal supports communication via first and second-type networks includes registering at least one function as a network-adaptive; determining, when a function is requested to be activated, whether the requested... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080101289 - Path setting method, mobile terminal, and path managing device: A technique is disclosed, by which a mobile terminal (mobile node) performing handover can quickly and continuously receive after the handover the additional services as it has been receiving before the handover. According to this technique, MN (mobile node; mobile terminal) 10 transmits a message including a session identifier or... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080101292 - System, method, and computer-readable medium for selecting a network for connectivity and handover based on application requirements: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are provided for choosing a network for connection and handover based on the application requirements of a multi-mode, multi-radio user equipment. The selection of the network for connectivity and handover is based on one or more of the invoking of an application, the invoking... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080101291 - Interworking mechanism between wireless wide area network and wireless local area network: Interconnection and integration of a WWAN and a WLAN to provide continuous packet data services to mobile users where each mobile access terminal is configured to support both air links with the WWAN and WLAN. The WWAN may be a CDMA2000 system and the WLAN may be an IEEE 802.11... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080101295 - Packet transferring/transmitting method and mobile communication system: A packet transferring/transmitting method is provided for use in a mobile communication system 50. In this packet transferring/transmitting method, an upper node 1 determines the implementation of handover (determination step), and a handover addressing node 2 transfers, of a plurality of packets, a non-transmitted residual packet to a handover addressed... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080101297 - Dvb-h-gps coexistence on a single antenna solution: A single, dual band antenna (101) is configured to receive multiple signals. The single, dual band antenna (101) is selectively coupled to either a first signal receiver (105) or a second receiver (107). In one embodiment, the first signal receiver (105) is configured to receive a time-slotted, multicast signal. Such... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20080101296 - Dynamic multiradio bandwidth conservation: A system for managing the operation of a plurality of radio modems contained within the same wireless communication device. The radio modems may be managed so that simultaneous communication involving two or more radio modems utilizing conflicting wireless communication mediums may be avoided. More specifically, a multiradio controller may identify... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080101298 - Enhanced wireless voice services using a signaling protocol: We describe an example system including a wireless cellular channel to transmit voice data associated with a call between a server and a wireless device. A wireless signaling channel, distinct from the wireless cellular channel, transmits supplementary signaling packets between the server and the wireless device.... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080101300 - Media independent handover (mih) terminal, mih server, and method of vertical handover by the terminal and the server: A vertical handover (VHO) method of a media independent handover (MIH) server includes: searching for a second communication network appropriate for a requested VHO, and transmitting MIH terminal information to the second communication network when the VHO is requested from a predetermined MIH terminal connected to a first communication network;... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080101299 - Network access device, network connection establishing method, and mobile communication system using the same: A network access device (10) for using in a mobile communication system includes a receiving module (100), a parsing module (110), a determining module (120), a storage module (130), and a sending module (140). The receiving module receives a packet, and the packet includes a source address and a destination... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang J

20080101301 - Handover in a cellular communication system: A cellular communication system includes base stations supporting macro cells and with unique cell scrambling codes within a region. The system further includes access points supporting underlay cells and with shared cell scrambling codes within the region. One or more of the access points or base stations comprise transmit means... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080101303 - High speed shared control channel (hs-scch) communication apparatus and method in wideband code division multiple access (wcdma) communication system: High Speed Shared Control CHannel (HS-SCCH) communicating apparatus and method in Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) wireless communication system are provided. A receiver of a mobile communication terminal in the WCDMA communication system, which includes a speed estimator for determining a transmission interval of a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI)... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080101302 - Method and system for managing communication sessions in a plurality of wireless communication networks: A method and system for managing communication sessions in a plurality of wireless communication networks is provided. The plurality of wireless communication networks includes one or more home communication networks and one or more guest communication networks. The method at a communication device includes predicting (502) a coverage gap in... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080101305 - Method and apparatus for assigning radio resources and controlling transmission parameters on a random access channel: A method and apparatus for assigning radio resources and controlling parameters for transmission over a random access channel in wireless communications by enhancing a random access channel is disclosed.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080101304 - Method and apparatus for providing broadband signals to a portable user device: A method and apparatus for providing broadband signals to a portable user device is disclosed. Broadband signals, such as satellite radio signals, are received at a base station having a plurality of antennas. The content of the broadband signals are then encoded using space time coding (STC), and the STC... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080101306 - Random access design for high doppler in wireless networks: UE-initiated accesses within a cellular network are optimized to account for Doppler shift. A user equipment (UE) receives information that designates a particular access slot as high-speed and designates another access slot as low-speed within a given cell. The UE determines its relative speed to a serving base station (NodeB)... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080101307 - Resource partitioning for wireless communication systems: Partitioning resources so that they can be operated in different modes and synchronizing these partitioning among different sectors so that they can employ mutually cooperative power allocation settings are provided. The resources can be partitioned into one of two modes, namely, block mode or distributed mode. A user can be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080101308 - System and method for reducing packet collisions in wireless local area networks: A system (e.g., an AP or a STA) in a WLAN comprises slot information (e.g., slot association or slot bias information); a counter for counting slot numbers; and a medium access controller operative to monitor a wireless medium and to initiate transmission of a MAC frame during a current slot... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080101309 - Wireless communication control apparatus and wireless communication method: When no messages are existent which must be notified to a mobile transmitting/receiving apparatus (102), a carrier signal of non-modulation is outputted in an area of control information of transport data having a frame structure. As a specific example, an FSK modulator (16) causes a transmitting circuit (17) to output... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080101312 - Method and apparatus for resegmentation of packet data for retransmission on harq transmission failure: A method for packet data retransmission on Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) Transmission failure having the steps of: checking whether changes to HARQ transmission error performance characteristics are greater than a threshold and/or a deterioration of channel conditions is indicated or less than threshold; if yes, re-segmenting an RLC-SDU or... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080101313 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data in a communication system: An apparatus and method of grouping and assigning a plurality of random access sequences, including assigning each random access sequence to one or a plurality of user equipments, to a plurality of users, type of users or types of communication connection.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080101320 - Method for actively synchronizing u-apsd service periods: A wireless LAN environment includes at least one access point that supports a number of wireless communications devices which are configured to operate in the U-APSD mode. The transmission of packets by an access point to a wireless communications device operating in the U-APDS mode can be accomplished in an... Agent: Robert C. Schluer

20080101316 - Method of excluding ineffective inter system page attempts: A method and apparatus are provided for excluding ineffective Inter System Page (ISPAGE) attempts in a mobile switching center (MSC). The present invention involves determining a time difference between an arrival time of an ISPAGE message and a time of a last seen activity of a mobile communications device. The... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20080101319 - Method of signaling allocated resources: Disclosed is a method of signaling hopping locations selected by a scheduling entity using a frequency hopping pattern indicator for indicating hopping locations for at least two re-transmissions. The frequency hopping pattern is selected by the scheduling entity which may have knowledge of all or at least a plurality of... Agent: Lucent Technologies, Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20080101310 - Mimo communication system with variable slot structure: A multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) communication system is configured to utilize a variable slot structure. The system includes multiple terminals and at least one base station configured to communicate with the terminals. The base station is operative to determine mobilities for respective ones of the terminals, to arrange the terminals into... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080101315 - Mobile ip solution for communication networks: Disclosed is a method including supporting multiple IP addresses in a functionality configured to operate as an endpoint of tunnels conveying data, which is destined to mobile nodes; and dynamically assigning the multiple IP addresses for use in mobile nodes. Also corresponding apparatus, computer program and system are disclosed.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080101314 - Network-based reliability of mobility gateways: A gateway node provides an interface connectivity between communication networks. The gateway node is configured to be operably connected to another gateway node as well as to a base station providing connectivity for a plurality of mobile terminals over a radio interface. Further, the gateway node is configured to send... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080101311 - Selecting a handover algorithm: The present invention provides methods for selecting a handover algorithm. The methods may include selecting the handover algorithm for a mobile unit based on at least one measurement indicative of a network state. The methods may also include receiving information indicative of the handover algorithm selected based on the measurement(s)... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20080101321 - System and method for coding wcdma mimo cqi reports: A block coding method and system for improving the reliability of Channel Quality Indicators (CQI) and antenna weight Indicators (AWI) reporting. A user terminal first generates 8-bit CQI and 2-bit AWI. A codeword generator produces a codeword responsive to these 10 CQI/AWI bits using a codebook or a generator matrix... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080101317 - System and method for providing advanced session control of a unicast session: A system and method for providing improved session control in unicast sessions such as FLUTE sessions. According to various embodiments, a series of new commands are defined that permit a receiver to perform actions such as request a list of files to be delivered, trigger the delivery of selected files,... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080101318 - Vertical handover composite quality measures: A composite quality measure helps determine a target for a vertical handover between different connection types. Various measurements are normalized, weighted and summed to produce composite quality measures. A composite quality measure may be compared to a target value and the corresponding connection may be added to a feasibility table... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC

20080101322 - Method and apparatus for codebook exchange in a multiple access wireless communication system: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for generating and exchanging codebooks in a multiple access wireless communication system. The codebooks include a plurality of preferred precoding matrices.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080101323 - User equipment in a congestion controlled cdma system: A user equipment (UE) configured for use in a wireless code division multiple access (CDMA) system with multi-user detection capabilities that implements congestion control includes a receiver having multi-user detection capabilities, an intra-cell interference measuring device, and an intra-cell interference signaling device. The intra-cell interference signaling device is configured to... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080101327 - Apparatus and method for space-time coding adaptive to number of antennas in multiple input multiple output wireless communication system: Provided is a transmitter apparatus in a MIMO wireless communication system. The transmitter apparatus includes a controller and a space-time encoder. The controller generates a space-time encoding code according to a multiplexing order, the number of transmitter antennas, and the number of receiver antennas. The space-time encoder space-time-encodes a TX... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080101324 - Wireless local area network access points, end-point communication devices, and computer program products that generate security alerts based on characteristics of interfering signals and/or connection messages: A wireless local area network access point (WAP) includes a transceiver, a controller, and a security unit. The transceiver communicates messages with an end-point communication device through a wireless air interface in a defined frequency band. The controller receives through the transceiver a connection request message containing a password from... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080101326 - Wireless multicast broadcast service methods and apparatus: Embodiments include methods and apparatus associated with wireless multicast and/or broadcast services. A base station (102, FIG. 1) transmits data codes (504, 604, 702, FIGS. 5-7) within a radio frame (300, FIG. 3). The data codes are Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) data codes, in an embodiment. The base station... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080101325 - Wireless relay device deployment methods and apparatus: In an embodiment, an adaptively-augmentable wireless network (100, FIG. 1) may include at least one mobile device (110-115) and at least one relay device (104-109). During network setup, a mobile device associated with a first host user may determine (505, FIG. 5) that no relay device signal is receivable by... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080101328 - Low bit rate video transmission over gsm network: A method and system for video data delivery using GSM mobile systems is disclosed. In the absence of audio data, the audio transmission is turned off so that video data can be transmitted using close to the maximum bandwidth on the GSM network.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20080101329 - System and method for person or object position location utilizing impulse radio: A System and Method for Person or Object Position Location Utilizing Impulse Radio, comprising a plurality of reference impulse radios; an object or person to be tracked having a mobile impulse radio associated therewith; an architecture with an associated positioning algorithm associated with said plurality of impulse radio reference radios... Agent: Venable LLP

20080101331 - Estimating link interference and bandwidth: A carrier sense relationship and an interference relationship between logical links in a shared, broadcast, medium network are determined. Bandwidth for each of the links is estimated based on the carrier sense relationship and the interference relationship.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101332 - Expected channel occupancy time as a wireless link metric: Expected channel occupancy time is a wireless link metric determined based on a transmission protocol to be used for transmitting data in a wireless network. The wireless link metric may be used for routing or other network management functions. For determining the wireless link metric, an overhead is determined for... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101333 - Method and system for synchronizing data transmissions in ip-based networks: A method and system for synchronizing data transmissions in a wireless communications network are disclosed. As one example, a method for synchronizing data transmissions in a wireless communications network is disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving forward link data at a central access unit in the wireless communications... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080101334 - Method for distribution of data packets in a single frequency mobile communication network, an access network node, a base station and a single frequency mobile communication network therefor: The invention concerns a method for distribution of data packets (MBMS Data) from an access network node (aGW) via at least one base station (eNB) to at least one user terminal (UE) in a single frequency mobile communication network whereby information (T1(tx), T2(tx)) is added in the access network node... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080101330 - Method for wirelessly connecting and configuring access points and access point clients: A method for easily connecting electronic devices, wireless access points, and access point clients and for efficiently configuring and managing the connections in a manner that doesn't require a user to physically connect the electronic device to the access point is disclosed. Access Points are set to AP mode upon... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080101337 - Communications system, local area communications network system, their network interface chipset and physical layer circuit thereof: A novel physical layer circuit enables the computer equipments in connection with the invented physical layer circuit to transmit and to receive data through the telephone cord. The physical layer circuit may be provided in a network interface chipset and comprises an encoder circuit, a transmitter circuit, a receiving filter,... Agent: Venable LLP Raymond J. Ho

20080101343 - Decentralized node, access edge note, and access node for aggregating data traffic over an access domain, and method therefor: The present invention relates to a method, an access node, an access edge node and a decentralized node for aggregating data traffic over an access domain. The decentralized node corresponds to one of the service providers, and is located in closer proximity with user domains to be serviced. The decentralized... Agent: Alex Nicolaescu Ericsson Canada Inc.

20080101339 - Device selection for broadcast messages: The present invention is directed to a method and system for broadcasting a message to selected devices. More specifically, the method and system identifies appropriate VoIP devices of a recipient client suitable for a broadcast message and transmits the broadcast message to the identified appropriate VoIP devices over a digital... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080101336 - Interactive voice response and secure media system integration: In one embodiment, a method is provided, including: initiating an interactive voice response (IVR) session between a first endpoint and an IVR system over an IP network; establishing a first media path between the first endpoint and a second endpoint; establishing a second media path between the first endpoint and... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080101335 - Load balancing session initiation protocol (sip) servers: A device receives Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) requests that include registration information, and load balances a SIP call based on the registration information of the SIP requests.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080101338 - Methods and apparatus to implement higher data rate voice over internet protocol (voip) services: Methods and apparatus to implement higher data rate voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services are disclosed. An example method comprises retrieving a data rate capability associated with a destination of a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) session from a customer database, selecting between a first codec having a first bit... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080101340 - System and method for enhanced proxy component: The present invention is directed to a system and method for use in a telecommunication networks to facilitate the use of packet switched end-user devices, particularly push-to-talk (PTT) devices, across multiple communication services and legacy networks. The present invention provides an enhanced proxy for integrated voice over internet protocol (VoIP)... Agent: Erickson & Kleypas, L.L.C.

20080101342 - System and method for providing line power to a digital telephone: A method line powering a remote access device or telephone from a centralized location that includes abstraction of the ancillary signaling functions to that central location. A method of receiving a request for a telephone call includes receiving a digital telephony packet and determining a ring signal in response to... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080101341 - Voice communication system over ip phone system: A voice communication system configured over an IP phone system, with which users could establish voice calls between analog telephone devices and IP phones through an IP phone system without changing their conventional usage method is provided. To allow analog telephone devices to be able to login to the IP... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080101345 - Voip server apparatus and method for maintaining software in voip server apparatus: Disclosed are a VoIP server apparatus and a method for maintaining VoIP server software in the server apparatus which transmits/receives a packet to/from an IP terminal via network to provide VoIP service. The method includes: assigning a virtual IP address to the server apparatus; associating a first IP address used... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080101347 - Method and system for establishing a multimedia connection by negotiating capability in an outband control channel: The present invention relates to a method and system for establishing a connection to a terminal device, wherein a user capability information defining supported types of information streams is set in a compatibility information element within an outband signaling message, and a capability negotiation is performed by transmitting said outband... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080101344 - Method and system to provide redundancy for calls: In a method for providing redundancy for calls, a calling subscriber generates a first call to a called receiver. An originator is provided, associated to the calling subscriber, and having intelligence of creating at least one additional call associated with the first call. A terminator is provided, associated to the... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20080101346 - Telephone system and its encryption processing method: According to one embodiment, there is provided a telephone system, comprising a plurality of communication terminals configured to perform telephone communications, and a plurality of connecting devices which connect these communication terminals to a common packet communication network to establish communications among the communication terminals via the packet communication network.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080101348 - Ip mobility mechanism for a packet radio network: An arrangement for providing IP mobility for a mobile station (MS) provides a care-of-address (COA) for routing data packets when the MS is away from home. In one embodiment, the arrangement includes support nodes, called gateway GPRS support nodes (GGSN) or serving GPRS gateway support nodes (SGSN), and a foreign... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080101349 - Module execution device: A module execution device includes: a module execution section for executing at least one of a control module and a controlled module generated by execution of the control module; inter-module communication sections of a plurality of types for performing inter-module communication between the control module and the controlled module; and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080101353 - Automated ip pool management: Automatically allocating, modifying, and deleting IP pools for use by network equipment. The network equipment is repeatedly, periodically, or continuously monitored to detect IP pool utilization. If the monitoring indicates an increase in IP pool utilization above a first predetermined threshold, a quantity of required IP pools is forecasted. The... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080101356 - Data routing via lower layers in a communication system: Techniques for routing data via lower layer paths through lower layers of a protocol stack are described. A lower layer path may be composed of a flow for packets, a link at a link layer, and a channel at a physical layer. A packet may be received from an application.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080101352 - Dynamic activity model of network services: An activity model is generated at a computer. The activity model may be generated by monitoring incoming and outgoing data in the computer. The collected data is analyzed to form a graph that describes and predicts what output is generated in response to received input. Later, a window of input... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080101350 - High capacity multicast forwarding: A network, method, and a method of providing a service for multicast forwarding using multi-protocol label switching for a virtual private network in a public network. The network includes a first router, the first router being a provider edge multi-protocol label switching capable router, the first router including a virtual... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080101354 - Packet processing: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for packet processing in a network device. One method includes parsing incoming packets in a number of received flows to extract information from various packet fields. A number of bandwidth meters are used to track application bandwidth usage over a particular time interval in... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101358 - Solution for the resolution of flexible address schemes for ims services: To resolve a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for use in routing messages in or between IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks, a query (101;201) is sent to resolve this URI from a device (120;220) to a private name server (121;221). The private name server (121;221) attempts to resolve the URI. In... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080101351 - System and method for assigning addresses to information handling systems: Information handling system network addresses are managed based on the location of the information handling system. For example, a blade information handling system chassis has network addresses stored in persistent memory and associated with each of plural slots. A blade information handling system inserted in a slot receives network addresses... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080101355 - Transmission scheme dependent control of a frame buffer: This invention relates to a method, a computer program product, apparatuses and a system for controlling a length of a frame buffer. The frame buffer is comprised in a receiver and buffers frames that are transmitted by a transmitter according to a frame transmission scheme and received at the receiver.... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080101357 - Method and apparatus for ip network interfacing: A method of operating a node of a telecommunications system, the node comprising a plurality of entities each arranged to send and receive IP packets to peer entities, via a Network Address Translation function, using a layer 4 control protocol which facilitates multi-homing by allowing an entity to include more... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080101360 - Method and apparatus for providing congruent multicast and unicast routing: A method and apparatus for enabling congruent multicast and unicast routing in a Virtual Private Network (VPN) are disclosed. For example, the present method receives a request to join a multicast group to receive multicast data traffic by a receiver behind a remote Provider Edge (PE) router. The method then... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080101359 - Multicast communication resource management apparatus and methods: Multicast communication resource management apparatus and methods are disclosed. Multicast communication modules receive respective multicast communication traffic streams and provide transmit streams for transmission toward multicast destinations, and have a limited aggregate capacity to support multicast communications with the destinations. The aggregate capacity includes respective amounts of capacity reserved for... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC.

20080101361 - Systems and methods for configuring a network for multicasting: In one embodiment, a method for configuring a network for multicasting includes receiving with a first router a first message from a second router, updating a listing of candidate rendezvous points on the first router in relation to information contained in the first message, and sending a second message from... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101364 - Inter-working mesh telecommunications networks: Interruptions between a source in a first network and a destination in a second network are reduced by providing first primary and secondary nodes in the first network, and second primary and secondary nodes in the second network. First primary routes in the first network facilitate delivery of a first... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080101362 - Method and device for making uplink standby: The embodiments of present invention disclose a method and a device for making uplink standby, including: configuring more than one uplink for an Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) proxy device, and choosing one of the more than one uplink as a primary uplink; the IGMP proxy device replicating a multicast... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080101363 - Method, system and apparatus for supporting ssm forwarding in ethernet: A method for supporting Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) forwarding in Ethernet includes: taking, by the router, a Source-Specific Destination Media Access Control address containing a Multicast Source-Group address pair as a DMAC address when encapsulating an SSM multicast IP packet into an multicast Ethernet packet; and encapsulating the SS-DMAC address into... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080101365 - Data extraction for networked voice communication devices: Methods and apparatuses extracting data from a networked voice communication device (NVCD) are presented. One apparatus presented includes a processor and memory which is functionally coupled to the processor. The memory has executable instructions for causing the processor to iterate over a plurality of IP addresses within a subnet, and... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20080101368 - Method and apparatus for providing message content based route selection: A method and apparatus for selecting routes based on message content for packets transmitted over networks such as packet networks are disclosed. The method receives one or more packets and determines message content associated with said packets. The method then selects a route for transmission of said one or more... Agent: Mr. John Etchells At&t Enterprise Services, Inc.

20080101367 - Method and apparatus for providing security policy based route selection: A method and apparatus for selecting routes for packet transmission based on a security policy are disclosed. For example, the present method receives one or more packets and determines a security policy associated with the packets. The method then selects a route for transmission of the one or more packets... Agent: Mr. John Etchells At&t Enterprise Services, Inc.

20080101369 - Method and system for transmitting data over a network: A method for transmitting data that includes receiving a first request to open a first virtual channel, the first virtual channel associated with a TCP connection, and negotiating a first payload encoding scheme between a client and a server to use on the first virtual channel. The method further includes... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080101366 - Methods for optimized tunnel headers in a mobile network: A sending device replace an original Internet Protocol (IP) header in a packet with a shim that includes some information copied from the IP header, such that the resultant packet being sent from a source device to a destination device has a shim that is smaller in byte size than... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080101370 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing an enriched messaging service in a communications network: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing an enriched messaging service in a communications network is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a messaging service message addressed to a first destination address. A subscriber identifier in the message is utilized to access subscriber information contained in at... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080101372 - Dense mode coding scheme: A lookup table for searching for a longest prefix match for a key is disclosed. The lookup table provides a match for a key in a single search cycle. The number of matches stored in the lookup table is maximized by storing each match in only one location in the... Agent: Mosaid Technologies Incorporated

20080101371 - Signature checking using deterministic finite state machines: The occurrence of false positives and the post-processing of digital streams subjected to examination by a deterministic finite state machine for character strings are reduced by combining location-based pattern matching, e.g. on packet headers, and content-based pattern matching, e.g. on payloads of packets. One scheme allows automatic transition from a... Agent: 3com Corporation

20080101373 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and medium storing therein program for executing the method: An information processing apparatus which can communicate via a network with an external information processing apparatus which issues a disconnection notification based on disconnection from the network is provided with managing means for managing fixed identification information added to the external information processing apparatus and variable identification information added to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080101375 - Method of detecting an unsatisfactory quality of service and apparatus therefore: A method of detecting an unsatisfactory quality of service being experienced by users of a communications network comprises a network monitoring system for generating data record feeds concerning traffic generated by the users. A pattern matching engine is provided to recognise repeated failed attempts to establish a call between users... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080101376 - Method of providing multicast/broadcast service using wibro/wimax network and system using the method: A system and method for providing a multicast/broadcast service (MBS) using a Wireless Broadband Internet/World Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiBro/WiMAX) network are provided, which include an MBS control unit for generating a beginning and an end of an MBS bearer session, a quality of service (QoS) control unit for requesting... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080101377 - Efficient scalable implementation of vcat/lcas for sdh and pdh signals: An apparatus for implementing VCAT in both SDH and PDH signals includes an SDH VCAT mapper coupled to a first telecom bus and a plurality of PDH units coupled to the first telecom bus and a second telecom bus. The PDH units read SDH VCAT bytes from the first telecom... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20080101378 - Upstream data rate estimation: In one embodiment, a device includes: a transceiver operable to transmit packets to and receive packets from a modem; and a logic engine configured to transmit first packets at a rate through an upstream path for a modem to an Internet node such that no throttling is triggered in the... Agent: Jonathan W. Hallman Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080101379 - Atm witched router for transmitting ip packet data: The present invention generally relates to a switch router for use in a High-speed ATM Multi-service Switching system (HAMS), and more particularly to a switch router for transmitting IP packet data comprising: a Switch Link Assembly (SLA) for switching ATM packet data inputted from a higher block to an IP... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080101380 - Detection of mismatched vlan tags: Network devices, systems and methods are provided for detection for mismatched VLAN tags.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101381 - Address resolution protocol (arp) cache management methods and devices: An address resolution protocol (ARP) cache management method. An ARP cache comprises a plurality of ARP tables. Each ARP table comprises a plurality of updatable entries. The method comprises: receiving an ARP message; looking up the pluralities of ARP tables to find a message-matching entry; choosing an ARP table for... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080101374 - Packet fifo: Various methods and apparatus are disclosed for reading or writing randomly accessible portions of a packet of data.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101384 - Apparatus and method for providing network information: A network-information-providing device including a control unit that extracts an object node whose network connection state is most stable by referring to network information of one or more nodes that comprise a network when receiving a network-connection request, and a communication unit that transmits address information of the object node.... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080101382 - Efficient method for discovering path mtu for tcp connections: A method for efficiently determining the path maximum transmission unit (MTU) during a handshake between a source host and a target host across a computer network. During the handshake, each router receives the SYN (synchronization) packet transmitted from the source host, and each router updates the value of the path... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080101383 - Repeater node for a network: The invention relates to a repeater node for a network having a number of nodes, which repeater node is embodied to acknowledge a reception of data that are addressed by a first of the nodes to a second of the nodes. The network can also have multiple nodes in addition... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080101388 - Gateway and method for adjusting signal intensity between a telephone and the gateway: A gateway is provided. The gateway (10), connected to a telephone (30) via a telephone network (20) includes a storage module (110), a detecting module (130), and an adjusting module (150). The storage module stores a signal intensity adjusting table, including multiple adjusting levels, and multiple adjusting values corresponding to... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang J

20080101393 - Gateway apparatus and data managing method: A gateway apparatus for performing transfer control of frame data between a plurality of different communication channels is provided with a time stamp unit for adding time stamp information to received frame data and a data discarding unit for determining processing delay of the frame data or abnormality of the... Agent: Oliff & Ber