Multiplex communications inventions 06/08

20080151742 - Determining information indicating a length of a part of a first cable: A device for determining an information indicating a length of a part of a first cable, the first cable connecting a first transceiver unit and a first subscriber device, wherein the part of the first cable extends from the first transceiver unit to a point of the first cable from... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck Chase Tower, Suite 3250

20080151743 - Radio access system and method using ofdm and cdma for broadband data transmission: A method and system for wireless data communication using a first wireless communication technology and a second wireless communication technology. The second wireless communication technology being different from the first wireless communication technology. A transmitter is arranged to transmit data using frame structures based on the first wireless communication technology... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.a.

20080151744 - Communication system, method of providing information therein and communication device: A communication system for a plurality of devices performing communications through a network is provided. The communication system includes a transmitter/receiver, a reception status detector, and a recorder. The transmitter/receiver is included in each of the plurality of devices and configured to alternately transmit a data packet with ID information... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080151745 - Active link cable mesh: An active link wireless cable mesh network and a method for transmitting data in a wireless cable mesh network are provided. A plurality of end devices are connected in a mesh configuration. A data message is transmitted to a first end device via one of a plurality of antennas radiating... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080151747 - Bi-directional ring network having minimum spare bandwidth allocation and corresponding connection admission controls: The present invention provides for a method for reserving spare bandwidth for a link in a communication network including a plurality of links. The method provides for monitoring the volume of traffic routed through each link of the communication network. A single link failure for each link is then simulated... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080151746 - Optimization of distributed tunnel rerouting in a computer network with path computation at an intermediate node: In one embodiment, an intermediate node computes paths for a set of tunnels that do not include a particular link (e.g., and possibly a scaled-down bandwidth for each tunnel), considering all of the tunnels of the set. The intermediate node informs head-end nodes of the tunnels of the computed paths... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080151748 - Method and system of assigning access connections: A method and system for load balancing network access solutions, for example Provider Edger (PE) routers and network interface cards within said routers, based on characteristics of the destination device to which the assigned network access solutions connect. This enables a service provider to load balance access connections of a... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080151749 - Communication system, server, communication terminal and communication method: A communication system includes: communication terminals; and a server that can connect to and communicate with the communication terminals, wherein: the server including: a first communication section that communicates with the communication terminals; a storage section that stores a plurality of connection patterns each of which indicates timings at which... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080151750 - Scalable, high-resolution asynchronous transfer mode traffic shaper and method: An ATM network traffic shaper is implemented in hardware. The traffic shaper shapes transmit data on one or more virtual circuits (VCs) according to the specified quality of service (QoS) parameters. Thus, the traffic shaper provides for the delivery of associated data cells in accordance with the specified QoS parameters.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080151751 - Capacity estimation and proportional sharing of varying capacity channels: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for controlling capacity of a wired or wireless network with varying bandwidth capacity is described. First, dynamic conditions associated with the data flow are measured. These dynamic conditions influence a bandwidth capacity for the data flow. Next, the capacity is estimated... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080151752 - Controlling a test load throttle: A device includes a traffic load profile containing information for regulating rates of routing calls and a controller. The controller may be configured to access the traffic load profile, obtain network calls from a traffic load producer, and route the network calls to a system under test based on the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080151753 - Method of improving over protocol-required scheduling tables while maintaining same: Public scheduling tables of PCI-Express network devices are remapped into private scheduling tables having different data structures. The private scheduling tables enable the construction of parallel-processing selection engines (ones with look-ahead selection capabilities) that are more compact in size than would have been possible with use of the data structures... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080151755 - Network path control system, path control device, and path control method: A path control device includes a TE database and a local database for storing topology information showing states of use of links in a network, a topology information collection unit collecting the topology information of the respective communication nodes therefrom and updating the TE database by the topology information, a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080151754 - Network traffic redirection in bi-planar networks: An electronic communication network includes a connectivity subsystem. The connectivity subsystem registers a control subsystem with the connectivity subsystem. The control subsystem requests that network traffic be redirected from the connectivity subsystem to the control subsystem. In response to the request, the connectivity subsystem redirects network traffic from the connectivity... Agent: 3com Corporation

20080151756 - Optimization of distributed tunnel rerouting in a computer network with coordinated head-end node path computation: In one embodiment, head-end nodes receive a list of tunnels to be rerouted from a particular link of an intermediate node. If a head-end node is unable to reroute a tunnel for which it is the head-end node using conventional distributed routing, each head-end node executes the same algorithm to... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080151757 - Traffic information aggregating apparatus: A traffic information aggregating apparatus (hereinafter an aggregating apparatus) receives traffic information from a network apparatus. The aggregating apparatus generates aggregated data in which the traffic information for each previously determined aggregation time is aggregated, and stores the aggregated data into an aggregated data management table correspondingly to an aggregation... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080151759 - Network system and data transfer method: Upon communication nodes receiving data that is a transfer target, based on a link value corresponding to a communication quality of each communication node that has transferred the data and radio wave strength among the communication nodes, a network system calculates a total link value that indicates a quality of... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080151758 - Optimization of data delivery in mobile networks: There is provided a method and system for optimizing delivery of data to a mobile device over a network. According to one embodiment, the invention includes a communication stack, such as a TCP/IP stack, which includes an application protocol interface (API) between an application layer and a transport layer. According... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080151760 - Message analyser and analysis method: A message analysis device serves for the analysis of messages transmitted via service access points on layers of an OSI reference model. The message analysis device comprises a storage device, for storing messages, a selection device, for reading a series of sequential messages and a display device, for the display... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.c.

20080151762 - Packet sniffer node and system including the same to assess wireless communication performance: A wireless system includes a plurality of wireless nodes structured to participate in a system test of the wireless nodes. The system test includes a plurality of test packets. A packet sniffer node includes a wireless receiver, a memory storing a schedule defining transmission and reception of the test packets... Agent: Martin J. Moran Eaton Electrical, Inc.

20080151761 - System and method employing wireless communications and predetermined measurement functions of wireless nodes for assessing wireless communication performance: An embedded system includes a first wireless node and a number of second wireless nodes, each of which includes a wireless transceiver, a memory storing a schedule defining transmission and reception of test packets, and a processor transmitting and receiving the test packets responsive to the schedule. The memories store... Agent: Martin J. Moran Eaton Electrical, Inc.

20080151763 - Wired mimo link tester: Provided is a wired Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) link tester. The wired link tester, includes: a simulating unit for constructing a wired link corresponding to a wireless link for a multiple-input multiple-output system and simulating wireless-link characteristics using each variable element located on the wired link; and a control means for... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080151764 - Traceroute using address request messages: In one embodiment, an endpoint sends messages containing Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Through Network Address Translators (NATs) (STUN) requests to traceroute a path to the remote endpoint. The traceroute may be completed through security devices such as NATs and firewalls. Receipt of a STUN response from the... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080151771 - Delay measurements in network traffic: A methodology and network tool for evaluating one-way directional delays in a packet network is described. The invention provides for a discrimination of the directional components of the delay experienced by packets travelling between nodes in a network. This identification of the directional delay component assists in an understanding of... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080151772 - Display methods and apparatus for transmission characteristics: A signal processing block 16 calculates propagation characteristics of a propagation path from a signal under test. A display block 17 displays the propagation characteristics calculated by the signal processing block 16. The propagation characteristics are displayed on a two dimensional coordinate of which one axis is elapsed time, and... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20080151765 - Enhanced jitter buffer: A jitter buffer having a controllable delay associated therewith includes at least one ring buffer. The ring buffer includes a plurality of storage elements therein and is configured having independent read and write operations. The delay associated with the jitter buffer is controllable as a function of the number of... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080151769 - Method and apparatus for non-intrusive single-ended voice quality assessment in voip: An apparatus (1240), method, and computer program to assess VoIP speech quality (130) using access to degraded signals. Different types of impairment (110) have different effect on speech quality. Preferred embodiments address two distinct types of impairment that are unique to VoIP: packet loss (230) and speech clipping in time... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080151770 - Method for providing reliable communication session establishment in a communication infrastructure: The method provides for establishing a communication session in a hierarchical communication system between a source party and at least one destination party. Hierarchical communication systems generally have communication nodes at different levels of hierarchy. In one embodiment, connection information for the communication session is stored if establishing the communication... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080151766 - Method, computer program product, and apparatus for providing a distributed router architecture: An apparatus for providing a distributed router architecture includes a processing element and a resource availability element. The processing element may be configured to receive indications of receipt of data associated with a service for routing to a destination address. The resource availability element may be in communication with the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080151767 - Network element connection management within a network management system: Preferred embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods to receive a logical command, the logical command being associated with a target identifier of a network element, determine connection parameters of the network element based on the target identifier, define a work flow based on the logical command, the work... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080151768 - Traffic fencing mechanism for control plane enabled networks: A device receives a traffic fencing (TF) function for a network, and provides a TF attribute, based on the received TF function, over a link of the network to enable activation of a TF rule of a link state routing (LSR) algorithm used by the network to implement the TF... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080151773 - Trouble-factor detecting device, trouble-factor detecting method, and computer product: A trouble-factor detecting device retrieves data packets on a transaction, determines whether the retrieved data is abnormal, and counts an access count and an abnormality count of the data in associated with each of resources that is accessed in the transaction. Moreover, the trouble-factor detecting device calculates an abnormality ratio... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080151774 - Wireless network monitoring: A system and method for monitoring performance of a wireless network. A probe server controls posts to send and receive probes of the wireless network. These probes provide feedback information, which indicates how the wireless network is performing.... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, Llc

20080151776 - Data communication system, data transmitting apparatus, data transmitting method, and method for determining packet size and redundancy: A data communication system includes a data transmitting apparatus and a data receiving apparatus. The data transmitting apparatus includes a packetizing section that generates data packets, an encoding section that performs redundant encoding on the data packets in predetermined time units and generates encoded blocks, a data transmitting section that... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080151775 - Retransmission scheme for lossy media: A transmitter device (210) and associated receiver device (211) providing a retransmission scheme for use in communications involving lossy media. The transmitter device (210) receives data packets (201) from a source and adds protection to selected subflows before delivering (203, 206) them to the receiver device (211). The receiver device... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080151780 - Bridge and method for optimization of memory for ethernet oam multicast frames: A bridge (EthOAM device) and method are described herein where the bridge implements the method and reduces a number of static entries (pre-defined multicast MAC addresses) which need to be configured within a database (e.g., forwarding database (FDB)) to support the flow of Ethernet OAM multicast frames such as, for... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080151783 - Communication apparatus and protocol processing method: A disclosed communication apparatus includes a protocol processing unit configured to send and receive link information on a link in a network having a redundant configuration according to a protocol, to build topology information of the network from the link information, and to set up a path in the network... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080151778 - Method and apparatus for establishing peer-to-peer communications: A method and apparatus that establishes peer-to-peer communications is disclosed. The method may include determining a group to which a first device belongs, determining the identity of other devices in the group, sending an initial communication to the other devices to indicate that the first device will be joining the... Agent: Prass & Irving LLP

20080151782 - Method for evaluating a object by the relation among links in the information network having a multi link: Disclosed is a method for evaluating an object based on a relation among links in an information network forming multiple links by linking one or more upper nodes to a lower node, wherein importance information link indexes of the one or more upper nodes are determined according to upper nodes... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080151779 - Network stack instance architecture with selection of transport layers: A method for configuring a network on a host includes obtaining a first virtual network stack and a second virtual network stack on the host, configuring a first transport layer implementation on the first virtual network stack, configuring a second transport layer implementation on the second virtual network stack, receiving... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p./sun

20080151781 - Peripheral component interconnect express interface and method for signal processing: The present invention discloses a PCI Express interface and a method of signal processing, and particularly relates to the physical coding sub-layer that transmits data between physical media access layer and media access control layer of the PCI Express. The PCI express interface of present invention enables physical coding sub-layer... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080151777 - System and method for core network topology router placement planning: Systems and methods for core network topology router placement planning are provided. The systems and methods may use existing network data to create a data set and use the data set to optimize a network for the placement of routers.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080151784 - System and method for transparent mobile ip registration within ppp negotiation: A system and method for transparent Mobile IP registration within PPP negotiation uses a mobile telephone to relay messages between terminal equipment and a Foreign Agent (FA). An IPCP configuration request message by the terminal equipment requesting the assignment of an IP address is modified by the mobile telephone to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080151785 - Personalized conference bridge: The present invention allows a user to customize her personal conference bridge such that conference participants who connect to the bridge are provided conference information selected by the user. In particular, after each conference participant gains access to the personal conference bridge, the conference information is delivered to a terminal... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080151786 - Method and apparatus for hybrid audio-visual communication: A method and apparatus for providing communication between a sending terminal and one or more receiving terminals in a communication network. The media content of a signal transmitted by the sending terminal is detected and one or more of a voice stream, an avatar control parameter stream and a video... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080151787 - Passive echo cancellation device and signal transmission method thereof: The present invention refers to a passive echo cancellation device for use in a full-duplex communication system and its signal transceiving method. The full-duplex communication system comprises a transmitting end for sending a transmit signal to a wiring interface, and a receiving end for accepting a receive signal from the... Agent: Ipr Works, Llc

20080151789 - Adaptive polling for bursty wireless data traffic: Various embodiments of the invention may use adaptive polling in a wireless network when one or more consecutive polls show that the polled station has no data to transmit. When triggered to perform adaptive polling, a base station may wait for increasingly long intervals between polls to a particular subscriber... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080151788 - Converting a wireless system deployment from one duplexing scheme to another: A method includes, in a wireless network including radios operating in a Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) mode in wireless subscriber stations and wireless base stations, freeing a portion of spectrum to enable deployment of radios operating in a Time Division Duplexing (TDD) mode, replacing a first portion of FDD radios... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080151790 - Time division duplex amplifier for network signals: A time division duplex (TDD) amplifier switches direction of amplification to amplify signals in both directions as needed for the direction of signal flow in the network. The TDD amplifier switching is controlled by monitoring the time slot information of the communication channel to determine the schedule of transmissions in... Agent: Michael W. Landry

20080151791 - System and method for operating a packet voice far-end echo cancellation system: A packet voice transceiver adapted to reside at a first end of a communication network and to send an ingress communication signal comprising voice packets to, and receive an egress communication signal comprising voice packets from, a second packet voice transceiver residing at a second end of the communication network.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080151792 - Aiding synchronization between master and slave transceivers: An apparatus and method of aiding synchronization between a master transceiver and a slave transceiver is disclosed. The method includes the master transceiver transmitting data signals that are received by the slave transceiver. The slave transceiver locks a slave clock to the data signals with a slave phase-locked loop. The... Agent: Teranetics Patent Dept

20080151794 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for reducing uplink interference: The exemplary embodiments of the invention provide apparatuses, methods and computer program products for reducing uplink interference in a wireless communication system. The method includes: apportioning a plurality of resources in a resource space such that at least one resource of the plurality of resources not used for an uplink... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080151796 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product providing improved network service information delivery: The exemplary embodiments of the invention allow for a limited amount of network service information to be provided to stations without requiring a message exchange sequence. In one non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, a method includes: storing network service information for a wireless local area network; and transmitting a message comprising the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080151795 - Home electrical device control within a wireless mesh network: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for associating a first node in a mesh network with an electrical device, wherein the electrical device comprises a home control device, enabling the mesh network to perform channel adjustment, transmitting data through the mesh network between the first node... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080151793 - Voice-over-internet protocol intra-vehicle communications: A method of communicating among vehicles in a convoy or otherwise in close proximity is provided. The method includes initiating an internet protocol layer on a wireless hub of a first vehicle. The first vehicle also synchronizes with at least a one other vehicle having a wireless hub. A voice... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080151803 - Apparatus for controlling power of wimedia media access control device and method using the same: An apparatus and method of controlling power of a wireless multimedia media access control (WiMedia MAC) device are provided. The method includes: determining whether a fragment of an MAC service data unit (MSDU) is lost when a fragment is received; extracting a duration field from the received fragment if it... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080151797 - Compressed mode for reducing power consumption: A radio terminal switches between a compressed transmission mode and a normal transmission mode based on the current transmit power level of the radio terminal. The radio terminal periodically compares its current transmit power level to a power threshold. The radio terminal transmits in the compressed transmission mode when the... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080151799 - Host processor assisted fast re-synchronization techniques for dvb-h systems: A system and method of performing re-synchronization for a Digital Video Broadcasting over Handheld (DVB-H) receiver, wherein the method comprises performing a time division multiplexing (TDM) data burst transmission sequence on bits of data received by the DVB-H receiver; performing a data bit re-synchronization sequence on the DVB-H receiver; removing... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080151800 - On-chip power management for a mobile communication device and method for use therewith: A voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes a memory module that stores a least one application as a plurality of operational instructions, the at least one application having a plurality of power modes that each correspond to one of a plurality of use characteristics. A processing module executes... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080151798 - Wcdma power saving with transmit diversity: A mobile terminal reduces its power consumption by selectively switching between a diversity mode and a non-diversity mode. The mobile terminal monitors the total output power of two or more of its transmitters, and selectively switches between the diversity mode and the non-diversity mode based on the total output power.... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080151802 - Wireless network scheduling control system and method thereof and computer readable recording media: A wireless network scheduling control system and a method therefor are provided, which includes a first receiving/transmitting node, one or a plurality of second receiving/transmitting nodes, and an end receiving/transmitting node. When data is transmitted from the first receiving/transmitting node to the end receiving/transmitting node via the second receiving/transmitting node,... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080151801 - Wireless node power supply managing method: The invention comprises a step of constructing a plurality of groups using a plurality of wireless nodes during construction of a network; a step of provisionally deciding, from among the wireless nodes in each group, a group master node serving as a group master that communicates with the other nodes... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080151808 - Enabling foreign network multicasting for a roaming mobile node, in a foreign network, using a persistent address: Permitting a mobile host to roam in a foreign network, with multiple access node handoffs, while permitting foreign network multicasting by (i) having the mobile node (MN) use a persistent address, for purposes of multicasting, and (ii) relaxing or modifying reverse path forwarding checks, and (iii) modifying the forwarding of... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080151806 - Flexible radio network: A telecommunication node (1), comprises a local base station (3) capable of emitting beacon signals so as to be detected by adjacent radio terminals, a local radio terminal (4) with means for detecting beacon signals to detect a base station adjacent to said local radio terminal, and radio link management... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080151807 - Method for multicast load balancing in wireless lans: A method for multicast load balancing in a wireless network having a plurality of access points. The method includes setting a maximum Internet protocol multicast bandwidth for the access points, receiving an admissions control request from a client at one of the access points, and determining whether the admissions control... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080151805 - Outer coding methods for broadcast/multicast content and related apparatus: Transmission techniques are provided that improve service continuity and reduce interruptions in delivery of content that can be caused by transitions that occur when the User Equipment (UE) moves from one cell to the other, or when the delivery of content changes from a Point-to-Point (PTP) connection to a Point-to-Multipoint... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080151804 - Transmission technique selector for radio communication systems with multiple transmit and multiple receive antennas: A radio communications device (102) that has multiple receive antennas processes received data communications signals to select between space time coding and spatial multiplexing as a selected transmission technique from a base device (104) that has multiple transmit antennas. A channel throughput (402-412, 450-454) for each transmission technique is estimated... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080151809 - Hierarchical frame structure for ofdma systems with relay: An orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) frame for transmitting data between a mobile station and a base station includes a downlink subframe including a region for transferring first data to the base station and second data to a relay station at substantially the same time and frequency, and an... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080151810 - Wireless-communication system, wireless-communication device, wireless-communication method, and program: A wireless-communication device configured to communicate with a different wireless-communication device provided outside a wireless-communication range through a path via a neighbor wireless-communication device includes first identification-information storage storing information about at least one first opposite station, second identification-information storage storing information about at least one second opposite station, a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080151811 - Interplanetary communications network, interplanetary communications network backbone and method of managing interplanetary communications network: An interplanetary communications network, an interplanetary communications backbone network of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) nodes, an ANN node and a method of managing interplanetary communications. The backbone network operates as a neural network with each node identifying optimum paths, e.g., end-to-end through the backbone network from a distant planet to... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. -- Boeing

20080151812 - Network control of uplink transmit timing for compressed mode: A base station measures the uplink load on an uplink channel and controls the transmit timing of one or more mobile terminals on the uplink channel based on the measurements of the uplink load. The transmit timing of the mobile terminals may be controlled by sending timing control signals to... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080151813 - Method and apparatus for fast system initial acquisition in mobile wimax systems: A system and method of signal detection is provided. A received signal may be correlated with combinations of reference signals, each combination representing a subset of the reference signals, rather than being correlated with each reference signal individually. Once the timing offset has been found, the specific reference signal matching... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080151814 - Broadcast and multicast transmission techniques for powersave devices in wireless networks: Various embodiments are described relating to determining delivery intervals in a wireless network, such as an 802.11 infrastructure network. In an example embodiment, a first negotiated delivery interval for a first wireless node may be negotiated by a transmitting wireless node in a wireless network based on a multicast service... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080151815 - Method and apparatus for facilitating network mobility: Various embodiments are described for facilitating network mobility in communication networks with an aim toward enhancing the scalability of MIP. Generally, in most of these embodiments, a network node (121) sends a message to a network device (131) to establish a data path for a remote unit (101) served by... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080151816 - Minimization of channel filters within wireless access nodes: A wireless access node includes a first radio operable to transmit/receive on one of at least N transmission channels. A second radio is operable to transmit/receive on another one of the at least N transmission channels. A first filter bank, of less than N filters, filters a first transmit/receive signal... Agent: Tropos Networks

20080151829 - Acknowledgement of control messages in a wireless communication system: Techniques for sending control messages are described. In an aspect, assignment messages may be acknowledged based on either linked or dedicated acknowledgement (ACK) resources. A terminal may receive an assignment message from a base station, determine whether to acknowledge the assignment message, and determine ACK resources to use to acknowledge... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080151830 - Allocation of radio resources from a network in a packet switched data transmission: The object of the invention is a method for allocating a radio resource in a packet switched data transmission system, such as GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), which data transmission system comprises terminals and a network. In the method, terminals communicate with the network over the radio interface by using... Agent: Perman & Green

20080151820 - Distributed context-aware scheduled access in a network: A communication system includes devices configured to communicate with each other through a temporal sequence of frames. Each of these frames includes multiple sub-channels and network-context information associated with communication between the devices. For example, network-context information associated with a data packet transmitted by a first device using a first... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080151823 - Establishing communication between entities in a wireless communication system: In a wireless communication system, the time required to establish network connectivity for subscriber stations can be reduced by prioritizing and/or reducing contention between the subscriber stations. The subscriber stations can be divided into acquisition groups and assigned specific uplink channels on which to range. The subscriber stations can randomly... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080151824 - Home electrical device control within a wireless mesh network: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for associating a first node in a mesh network with an electrical device, wherein the electrical device comprises a home control device, enabling the mesh network to perform channel adjustment, transmitting data through the mesh network between the first node... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080151825 - Home electrical device control within a wireless mesh network: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for associating a first node in a mesh network with an electrical device, wherein the electrical device comprises a home control device, enabling the mesh network to perform channel adjustment, transmitting data through the mesh network between the first node... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080151826 - Home electrical device control within a wireless mesh network: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for associating a first node in a mesh network with an electrical device, wherein the electrical device comprises a home control device, enabling the mesh network to perform channel adjustment, transmitting data through the mesh network between the first node... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080151827 - Home electrical device control within a wireless mesh network: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for associating a first node in a mesh network with an electrical device, wherein the electrical device comprises a home control device, enabling the mesh network to perform channel adjustment, transmitting data through the mesh network between the first node... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080151817 - Method and system for reducing service interruptions to mobile communication devices: A method and system for monitoring context information associated with a wireless communication entity for determining a potential occurrence of a network disruption for that wireless communication entity. Upon determining a potential occurrence of a network disruption, causing an adjustment of bandwidth available for data transfer involving the wireless communication... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20080151828 - Method, mobile station and base station system for transmitting data packets in a packet data communication system: The object of the present invention is to provide a solution wherein data packets can be transmitted in a mobile packet data communication system between a mobile station (500) and a base station system (510) over an air interface (520) with a short initial access time delay, without unnecessary consumption... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080151819 - Power overload control method useful with enhanced dedicated channel traffic: An exemplary method of controlling communications that may include enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) traffic includes setting a total uplink power limit below an allowable power limit. A minimum amount of uplink resources is allocated to each user requesting E-DCH service on an individual user basis such that a cumulative E-DCH... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c./alcatel-lucent

20080151818 - Power overload control method useful with high speed downlink packet access: An exemplary method of controlling communications that may include high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) traffic includes setting a first power limit below an allowable power limit. A second power limit is set that is below the first power limit. A determination is made whether there is any HSDPA traffic.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c./alcatel-lucent

20080151822 - Transmission of wide bandwidth signals in a network having legacy devices: A method for generating a preamble of a frame for a wide-bandwidth channel wireless communication begins by generating a legacy carrier detect field. The method continues by generating a channel sounding field, wherein the channel sounding field includes a plurality of tones within the wide-bandwidth channel, wherein a first set... Agent: Timothy W. Markison

20080151821 - Wireless network channel allocation method and multi-hop wireless network system using the same: Multi-hop wireless networks have benefits in coverage extension and throughput improvement. In this multi-hop wireless networks, multiple channels are available to improve system performance through concurrent transmission. In this invention, a multi-channel assignment method is described. For efficient utilization of multiple channels considering different channel condition at each node, the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080151831 - Orthogonal repetition and hybrid arq scheme: A multi-user, multiple input, multiple output network and process for transmitting data in a communication system encompassing multiple users, contemplates the steps of: a first user transmitting a first transmission frame to a base transceiver station while a second user simultaneously transmits a third transmission frame to the base station;... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080151832 - Suppression of interferences between cells: An interference power measuring circuit in a base station measures the interference power in a cell that the base station belongs to. When the measured interference power is larger than a predetermined value, the transmitter in the base station transmits the interference information for each frequency used in the FDMA... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080151835 - Controlling change of an access point in a communication system: A method provides controlling change of an access point in a communication system. The method comprises receiving, in a terminal having an ongoing connection with a first access point, delivery information relating to an amount of data to be delivered from the first access point. The method also comprises controlling... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080151837 - Ip routing optimization in an access network: In an access network which supports a mobile IP protocol, a mobile station may perform several handovers between access nodes during a long session which may cause inefficient mobile IP routing. In the present invention, an access node, which is the target of a handover during an IP session, is... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080151833 - Method and apparatus for distributed bandwidth assignment in mesh backhaul networks: A system for distributing bandwidth in a mesh network includes a first access point (AP1) that determines an amount of data to be sent from the first access point to the second access point (AP2) and receives a value indicating an amount of data to be received from the second... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080151834 - Method and apparatus for maintaining traffic flow in a mesh network: A system dynamically adjusts bandwidth allocations in a mesh network that includes at least two data communication pathways (214 and 222, 216, and 212) between a first access point (AP1) and a second access point (AP2). The first access point (AP1) determines an amount of data to be sent to... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080151836 - Portable device and communication system thereof: Access points are stationed in stores, a service provider is connected to the access points, a service provider is connected to the access point (AP). For example, when a user carrying a PD (portable device) enters within communication range of the AP, a communication starts between the PD and the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080151838 - System and method for ec/io access screening in a cdma network: Provided are system and method for performing access screening in a CDMA network. In one embodiment, the method comprises comparing a strength of a reference pilot specified in an origination message (“ORM”) received from the mobile unit to at least one of an upper pilot strength threshold (“UPST”) and a... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080151840 - Communication system and method of operating the communicating system: A communication system, for example UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System), comprises a base station and a plurality of mobile stations. In normal operation the mobile station continuously makes uplink transmissions on certain spread spectrum channels (DPDCH, DPCCH). The maximum allowed power (Pmax) for these uplink transmissions is specified. However there... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080151839 - Frequency synchronization during cell search in a universal mobile telephone system receiver: A Universal Mobile Telephone System (UMTS) receiver performs slot synchronization using a received primary synchronization channel (PSCH) (305). Subsequent to completion of slot synchronization, the UMTS receiver performs frame synchronization using a received secondary synchronization channel (SSCH) (320) in such a way that the UMTS receiver uses the received primary... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080151847 - Automated wireless access to peripheral devices: A mobile device is provided with access to peripheral devices networked at a wireless hotspot. The mobile device is authenticated to a service provider server using a wireless network at the wireless hotspot. An authorization is received from the service provider server to the peripheral devices networked at the wireless... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080151845 - Co-existence management of multiple radios: The present invention provides a method and apparatus that features initiating a device discovery process for attempting to establish a connection between two or more devices via short range communications technology, wherein at least one of the two or more devices having an existing link to another wireless network; and... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080151843 - Communication group configuration in a network: Techniques for communication group configuration in a network are described. Location information describing a location of a first access point and neighborhood information related to the location of the first access point and to locations of neighboring access points are used to assign the first access point to a group... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080151850 - 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

20080151841 - Configuration aware packet routing in an ad-hoc network: A method of routing a packet in an ad-hoc network is provided. The method provides a packet at a first node, the first node being one of a plurality of nodes. A destination node is determined for the packet, the destination node being one of the plurality of nodes. Configuration... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080151851 - Method and apparatus for providing network selection: An approach is provided for a network selection process. A user equipment selects a service provider based on a selection criteria. An advertisement procedure is initiated to select one of a plurality of networks associated with the service provider to access.... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.c.

20080151848 - Method and system for an ad hoc wireless network with master control of network parameters: Aspects of a system for an ad hoc wireless network with master control of network parameters may include one or more circuits that enable generation of a beacon frame at a supervisory WLAN station wherein the generated beacon frame contains a supervisory role indication. The supervisory role indication enables the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080151842 - Method and system for presenting lists of wireless local area network profile information: A method for selecting a wireless local area network (“WLAN”) for a wireless device, comprising: generating a first list of WLAN identifiers for a first group of one or more wireless local area networks (“WLANs”) accessible at a first geographic location and storing the first list in the wireless device;... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20080151846 - System for and method of providing remote coverage area for wireless communications: The present invention is a system for and a method of providing one or more remote coverage areas for wireless communications. In an embodiment, a system for providing a remote coverage area for wireless communications comprises a local system that generates a first radio communication signal and a remote system... Agent: Westberg Law Offices

20080151844 - Wireless access point authentication system and method: A technique for addressing access point (AP) authentication issues involves providing AP fingerprinting. With AP fingerprinting, it becomes relatively difficult to spoof a basic service set ID (bssid) in a domain. Advantageously, wired connectivity is not required for AP authentication when an AP fingerprint is used. In a specific implementation,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080151849 - Wireless communication apparatus: There is disclosed a wireless communication apparatus in which a first wireless communication using one first channel of two first channels each having a first bandwidth, and a second wireless communication using a second channel having a second bandwidth wider than the first bandwidth and having a band overlapping those... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080151852 - Wireless communication equipment system for wireless local area network communication, and wireless communication sequence for the system: A wireless communication equipment system which performs wireless communication among one master station and more than one slave station is configured so that each of the slave stations requests the master station to reply acknowledgement frames so as to perform transmission acknowledgement to broadcast frames or multicast frames transmitted from... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080151853 - Data sequence structure and transmission method: There is provided a data sequence structure for an uplink control information single carrier signal, comprising: a first code word and a second code word each corresponding to at least one type of uplink control information; a plurality of data units included in the first and the second code-words; a... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080151855 - Method for optimizing the communication between mobile nodes: A method for optimizing communication between mobile nodes (MNs) in a mobile IP network includes the steps for sending: data packets from a MN in a mobile IP network to its foreign agent device, receiving the data packets at the foreign agent device, determining that a destination MN is attached... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080151854 - Method, system, and apparatus for transmitting interleaved data between stations: System and method for transmitting data over a communications link in at least two channels. At least one transmitter transmits data in the two channels simultaneously. At least one interleaver interleaves data to be transmitted in the two channels prior to transmission by the at least one transmitter. The at... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080151857 - Local coaxial wireless distribution networks: An inserter is used to take data signals from an Internet access point and distribute the data signals over a local coaxial network. Wireless access points connected to the coaxial network receive the signals and broadcast them to wireless enabled devices. The wireless access points receive data signals from the... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates Llc

20080151856 - Method and apparatus for cognitive radio policy change: A method of operation of a cognitive radio in a hierarchical group of cognitive radios, the hierarchy of cognitive radios including at least one master cognitive radio that has a higher position in the hierarchy than another of the cognitive radios in the group, consistent with the present invention, involves... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080151858 - Method and system for transmission of signals to nodes in a system: Method of and system for transmitting signals, e.g. control signals, request signals, interrogation signals etc. to a node in the form of a controllable unit associated with a device, e.f. a controllable device, measuring means, etc. and wherein said controllable unit may be linked to at least one further node... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080151859 - Communication arrangement in a base station in a cellular mobile telephony system: The invention discloses an arrangement (100) in a base station in a cellular mobile telephony system, comprising a first plurality (120-160) of Printed Circuit Boards (PCB:s) and a second plurality of switches (110,190). Each of the PCB:s (120-160) in said first plurality is connected to each of the switches (110,190)... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080151860 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication device and wireless communication method, and computer program: If the RTS/CTS procedure is used together, CTS information is transmitted in response to the reception of RTS information, and data is transmitted in response to the reception of CTS. The CTS transmitting station measures the quality of RTS receive signal, and thereby determines a transmission rate at which it... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080151861 - Adaptive header compression in a wireless communication network: In one embodiment, whether packet loss of link layer packets at a receiver has exceeded a lost threshold is detected. Feedback is sent to a transmitter indicating that a header compressor, for compressing higher layer packets at the transmitter, should send a less compressed header if the packet loss of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080151862 - Method and system for selectively and multiply routing media stream to a media appliance: A method for selectively and multiply routing a media stream input to a media appliance is provided. The method includes receiving the media stream. Further, the method includes distributing the media stream onto a plurality of individual media paths within the media appliance. Furthermore, the method includes routing the media... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080151864 - Network-synchronous data interface: An arrangement includes a data interface that has a data input for receiving first data packets from a synchronous network that can be connected to the data input. The arrangement also has a network terminal and a packet-oriented synchronous data connection that extends between the data interface and the network... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20080151865 - Security through manipulation of virtual topography: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for improving network security through the manipulation of the apparent topology of the network. Such manipulation is accomplished by assigning multiple identifiers to nodes, using different destination identifiers for packets being sent to the same destination, and using source identifiers that do not correspond to... Agent: Fish & Associates, Pc Robert D. Fish

20080151863 - System and method for switching traffic through a network: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to network communications. More specifically, embodiments relate to a system and method for switching data through a network. An embodiment of a switching system communicatively couples an external network to a wide area network. The system includes a plurality of edge switches communicatively... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, Llc

20080151869 - Call server selection: In a click-to-call communication environment, the present invention is employed to select an appropriate call server to use when establishing a call between two endpoints. A computing terminal provides a request to initiate a call between the two endpoints. The request is passed to a service node directly or through... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080151868 - Global virtual local area network for voice communication sessions in a wireless local area network: A computer network which includes a wireless local area network; (WLAN) has at least first and second subnet segments and a router coupled between the first and the second subnet segments. The first subnet segment has a first IP subnet address range and the second subnet segment has a second... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20080151870 - Message mapping for forced hold call handling in a vop environment: If a communication client disconnects from a call, an interworking service node may receive from the communication client a disconnect message indicative of an attempt to disconnect the call and send a forced hold message to place the call on forced hold in response to receiving the disconnect message. A... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080151867 - Method and system for routing of media signals: A video information appliance (104) for facilitating routing of a plurality of independent video signals is provided. The video information appliance includes a plurality of video signal input interfaces (202), a signal router (204), a plurality of video output ports (206) and a processor (208). Each of the plurality of... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080151874 - Network telephone system and methods therefor: One embodiment of the present invention includes a telephony interface, a network interface and a local area network (LAN). The telephony interface provides connectivity between one or more netphones and an external telephone network such as a PSTN telephone system. The network interface provides connectivity between one or more computers... Agent: Kang Lim

20080151871 - Power-efficient multi-branch reception: The present disclosure relates to a method, system, apparatus, receiver module and computer program product for providing a power-efficient reception, wherein a transmission signal may be received via at least one selected or default receiving branch. It may be checked whether the transmission signal has been received successfully, and at... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080151876 - Serverless peer to peer voice and data over internet protocol communications system: A new system and method of operating VOIP connections without a server. The proposed system and method allows for communications between parties to be set up using an ad-hoc, peer-to-peer protocol. The communications can carry both voice encoded as data and data transmissions.... Agent: Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.a.

20080151866 - Systems and methods for resetting a network device: A network device includes a data store with first and second parameters, the first parameter affecting a communication operation of the network device and the second parameter affecting a security operation of the network device. A device reset function enables a user to selectively and independently refresh the first and... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080151873 - Virtual internet protocol interconnection service: A bi-directional system for interconnecting devices on an Internet Protocol (IP) network, such as the Internet, is described. The bi-directional system employs an identifier scheme, such as telephone numbers, to identify the devices. The devices are communications devices, such as, but are not limited to, a telephone, computer, laptop, personal... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080151872 - Voip communication system and method: The invention discloses a VOIP communication system comprising a first VOIP terminal, a user agent, and a second VOIP terminal. The first VOIP terminal is capable of sending a first invite signal complying with a first communication protocol. The user agent is capable of receiving the first invite signal, converting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080151875 - Voip service system using nat and method of processing packet therein: A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service system using Network Address Translation (NAT) and a method of processing a packet in the system. The method includes the steps of: looking up a private address of a terminal located behind a NAT device in a previously generated NAT table using port... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080151877 - Method of updating internet protocol phone contact information in general phone: The present invention is to provide a method of updating Internet protocol phone contact information in general phone which establishes a connection between an Internet protocol phone and a general phone, wherein a first contact information is stored in the Internet protocol phone while a second contact information is stored... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080151878 - Apparatus for remotely managing network elements of a voip communication system and an associated method and computer program product: An apparatus is provided for remotely managing various network elements of a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication system. In general, an apparatus is described for communicating with different network elements of a VoIP communication system, receiving data from each network element, and storing the data. The apparatus includes a... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080151879 - Method and apparatus to facilitate substituting a standard telephone for an internet protocol-compatible telephone using a same telephone number: A platform (300) that supports (101) voice over Internet Protocol services for an Internet Protocol-compatible telephone (401), in response to detecting (102) that a given telephone-side capability of supporting the voice over Internet Protocol services for the Internet Protocol-compatible telephone is impaired, can automatically substitute (103) a standard telephone (402)... Agent: Utstarcom, Inc. / Fetf

20080151880 - Data switching using soft configuration: Network data switching includes receiving a cell; associating the cell with a destination port; selecting, based at least in part on a mapping of a plurality of output ports and a plurality of egress links, a selected egress link that has been soft configured to be associated with the destination... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James, LLP And Alcatel

20080151884 - Method and apparatus for converting coded serial video signal into serial ip video signal: A method and system for converting coded serial video signal into a serial IP video signal, including steps of receiving the coded serial video signal and detecting the serial video timing, converting the serial video signal to a serial sequence of packets each consisting of a converted individual digital video... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080151887 - Method and apparatus for inter-layer binding inspection: A method for inspecting packets is disclosed. The method includes processing a packet by determining if the packet is an inter-layer binding protocol packet and inspecting the packet, if the packet is an inter-layer binding protocol packet. The inter-layer binding protocol packet indicating a binding between a first network layer... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080151881 - Method and system for transporting data over network: A data transport system for transporting data between a server (21) and a client receiver (27) over a network (23) includes a receiving proxy cache (25) coupled to a client receiver (27) via a reliable connection (29), such as a cable connection. The majority of data is transported from the... Agent: Irene Y. Hu

20080151885 - On-demand multi-channel streaming session over packet-switched networks: An aggregation procedure for aggregating of a number of session descriptions parameters corresponding to a multitude of channels into one single session description. Each channel is described by a mandatory unique identifier. A corresponding client application processes the SDP describing the channel bundle and uses the found information for allowing... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080151886 - Packet prioritization and associated bandwidth and buffer management techniques for audio over ip: The present invention is directed to voice communication devices in which an audio stream is divided into a sequence of individual packets, each of which is routed via pathways that can vary depending on the availability of network resources. All embodiments of the invention rely on an acoustic prioritization agent... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.c.

20080151882 - Passive virtual router redundancy prototcol: The present invention relates to a pair of routers which implement an active VRRP group and one or more passive VRRP groups wherein the active VRRP group executes the VRRP election protocol and the passive VRRP group(s) do not execute the VRRP election protocol but instead the passive VRRP group(s)... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080151883 - Serial digital communication protocol: Provided is a method and an apparatus for formatting a data set for transmission on a communication channel. The formatted data frame comprises a header and the data set to be transmitted. The header has a plurality of header fields comprising a redundancy field having a checksum calculated on data... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP (pwc)

20080151889 - Distance adaptive routing protocol: A method of routing packets in an ad-hoc network is provided. The method determines a hop count for a route. Then, a redundancy value is calculated based on the hop count. A plurality of packets containing identical payload information is then sent down a number of routes equal to the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080151890 - Forwarding multicast traffic over link aggregation ports: A network node in a communication network includes a plurality of ports, at least a subset of which is grouped in a link aggregation (LAG) group. The node includes packet processing logic, which is coupled to receive data packets having respective destination addresses that specify forwarding the packets to groups... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080151888 - Method and system for retrieving broadcast media content through a communication network: A method and system for retrieving broadcast media content through a communication network 100 is provided. The method includes the broadcast media content being identified (304) by a first identifier. The method also includes the broadcast media content being identified (306) by a second identifier. Further, the method includes sending... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080151891 - Data packet, method, and device of transmitting payload information within an extendable header: The invention pertains to utilizing a data packet with a header extended to contain information dealing with the payload. Specifically, IEEE 802.1Q standard contains an extendable header which is normally utilized to contain information regarding a VLAN. However, these fields can also be utilized to provide information about the payload... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.c.

20080151899 - Data transmission method and a system thereof: In a data transmission system, a route information header RIH is added in each transmitted data packet and includes the route information of the data packet in a network. A network element receives the data packet, reads out route information which is needed by a node, and transmits the data... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080151896 - Method and apparatus for computing a path in a network domain: A method for implementing path computation in a domain includes: storing, in each of path computation elements of a domain, global path computation information for path computation in the domain; and performing path computation by the path computation element in accordance with the global path computation information if a path... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080151893 - Method and system for virtual routing using containers: In general, the invention relates to a method for routing a packet. The method includes receiving the packet in a network interface card (NIC), classifying the packet, placing the packet in a receive ring of the NIC, sending the packet to a virtual NIC associated with the receive ring, sending... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p./sun

20080151892 - Method, copumter program product, and apparatus for providing passive automated provisioning: An apparatus for providing passive automated provisioning may include an address monitoring element and an address provisioning element in communication with the address monitoring element. The address monitoring element may be configured to issue a first query for a device assigned to a monitoring address. The address provisioning element may... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080151895 - Multifunctional control channel for pseudowire emulation: A system advertises a multifunctional control channel (MFCC) in an interface parameter sub-type-length-value (TLV) of an advertisement label mapping message that is dispatched to a network device. The system also processes a reply label mapping message that is transmitted from the network device in response to the advertisement label mapping... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080151898 - Packet prioritization and associated bandwidth and buffer management techniques for audio over ip: The present invention is directed to voice communication devices in which an audio stream is divided into a sequence of individual packets, each of which is routed via pathways that can vary depending on the availability of network resources. All embodiments of the invention rely on an acoustic prioritization agent... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.c.

20080151897 - Packet relay method and device: In a packet relay method and device which can reduce a congestion of switching even when segment data are concentrated, segment data dividing portions respectively extract a destination address and a packet length from received packets, divide the packets into predetermined length data based on each packet length, and generates... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080151894 - Selectively hybrid input and output queued router: An apparatus is described that routes packets to, from, and within a socket. The apparatus includes routing components that provide different functionality based upon which socket component they are connected to. One routing component is connected to an interface that communicates with the processor core of the socket.... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080151901 - Header compression in a wireless communication network: In one embodiment, a relationship is determined between radio link protocol (RLP) sequence numbers in received RLP packets and real-time protocol (RTP) sequence numbers in RTP packets decompressed from the received RLP packets. An RTP sequence number associated with a compressed RTP packet is determined based on the determined relationship... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080151900 - Header supression in a wireless communication network: In one embodiment, a relationship is determined between radio link protocol (RLP) sequence numbers in received RLP packets and real-time protocol (RTP) sequence numbers of RTP packets represented by the received RLP packets. A RTP sequence number associated with a compressed RTP packet is determined based on the determined relationship... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080151903 - Atm header compression using hash tables: Disclosed are exemplary techniques for compressing ATM cells by substituting reduced headers for the original headers. A header table may be maintained at the transmitting end whereby headers are stored in table entries based on a table index generated from a hash function applied to the headers. A copy of... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, L.l.p.

20080151902 - Multiple network connections for multiple computers: A system and method for interconnecting multiple computers (M1, M2, . . . , Mn) via at least two independent communications ports (28, 38) are disclosed. Data is sent and received via a data protocol which identifies the sequence position of each data packet in a transmitted sequence of data... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080151906 - System and method for transparent virtual routing: A transparent routing device disposed within an access network configured in accordance with one or more lower-layer protocols is disclosed herein. The device includes a set of subscriber-side ports. Each of the subscriber-side ports is associated with a plurality of virtual subscriber-side interfaces disposed to effectively terminate a corresponding plurality... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080151904 - Dynamic configuration of pseudowire emulation control channel types: A system sends an advertisement of a dynamic control channel (DCC) capability to a remote device, establishes a pseudowire and a DCC associated with the pseudowire based on a response from the remote device to the advertisement, and sends a channel function type (CFT) message that includes information about a... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080151905 - Performance monitoring of pseudowire emulation: A system may forward to a network device an advertisement label mapping message that requests an establishment of an active performance monitoring (APM) control channel. Further, the system may process a reply label mapping message that is sent from the network device in response. The system may establish the APM... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080151907 - Ethernet/tmpls hybrid network operation administration and maintenance frame creation method: A method for creating an Operation Administration and Maintenance frame in an Ethemet/Transport Multi-Protocol Label Switch hybrid network. The method includes mapping values in an Ethernet Operation Administration and Maintenance data field in a protocol data unit (PDU) in a first Ethernet Operation Administration and Maintenance frame (Ethernet OAM frame)... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080151911 - Ip multicasting system and a method based on the mobile network: An IP multicast system includes: an IGMP proxy unit set in an access network which provides information of a multicast group to which a terminal belongs. The IGMP proxy unit receives data sent from a multicast data source, and sends the data to a base station which then sends the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080151910 - Matrix expansion lattice: A cross-connect switching system includes a plurality of three stage switching arrays and an expansion switching array, wherein a second stage of each of the three stage switching arrays includes an expansion section comprising switches which facilitate interconnection of each three stage array to the expansion switching array. In one... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080151908 - Method for information transmission with backbone network and a position monitoring system for multiple robotic devices: A method for information transmission with backbone network and a position monitoring system for multiple robotic devices are provided in the present invention, wherein positions of multiple robotic devices disposed and operated in a widespread area are capable of being monitored. The present invention provides a plurality of positioning and... Agent: Wpat, Pc

20080151909 - Reduced arbitration routing system and method: A system and method for routing packets from one node to another node in a system having a plurality of nodes connected by a network. A node router is provided in each node, wherein the node router includes a plurality of network ports, including a first and a second network... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080151914 - Bridge-based radio access station backbone network system and signal processing method therefor: A signal processing method in a bridge-based RAS backbone network system is provided, in which an MN within a network periodically transmits to an HLR a route-update message for registration updating, if the MN is in active mode and transmits to the HLR a paging-update message having a transmission period... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080151912 - Method and apparatus for providing a secure transmission of packet data for a user equipment: A method for providing a secure transmission of packet data on a plurality of network access modes in a packet data network. The UE-1 comprises a processing module for initiating communication with one or more receiving UE-2, operating a spread spectrum access (SS) middleware for communicating to a service application... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080151917 - Method and system for adaptively applying performance enhancing functions: An approach for adaptively providing network performance enhancing functions in a secure environment, such as a virtual private network, is disclosed. Traffic, for example, Internet Protocol (IP) packets, is received for transport over an access network (e.g., satellite network). Next, characteristics (e.g., latency) of the access network are determined. A... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20080151915 - Redundancy gateway system: A redundancy gateway system that can avoid, to the maximum extent, short interruption of data communication caused by system switching in gateway units configured in a multiplex manner for a plurality of systems, and that can maintain the communication state prior to the system switching and avoid degradation of communication... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080151913 - Remote gateway selection in an interplanetary communications network and method of selecting and handing over remote gateways: A method of selecting a gateway node in a remote network and for handing over to the selected gateway node. Nodes in a remote energy aware network connect through a gateway node to a backbone network in an interplanetary communications network. Each node optimizes a stability function describing communications to... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. -- Boeing

20080151916 - Utilizing multiple mesh network gateways in a shared access network: A mesh network, operating as a virtual Ethernet switch, includes multiple nodes operating as Mesh Network Gateway Interfaces (mesh NGIs) enabled for communication with one or more shared access networks. Selectively coupling the multiple NGIs to the same shared access network provides redundancy and load balancing aimed at improving the... Agent: Walstein Bennett Smith Iii

20080151918 - Method of correlating a media session to a signaling session: A user terminal uses the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to establish a Real Time Streaming Media (RTSP) media session with a media content server. An application server, which establishes the RTSP media session, links the RTSP media session to the corresponding SIP session. Once the RTSP session is set up... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080151923 - Apparatus for modeling queueing systems with highly variable traffic arrival rates: An apparatus are provided for modeling queuing systems with highly variable traffic arrival rates. The apparatus includes a means to associate a value with a pattern of highly variable arrival rates that is simple and intuitive, and a means to accurately model queuing delays in systems that are characterized by... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080151920 - Method of bandwidth control and bandwidth control device: A method of bandwidth control and a corresponding bandwidth control device are disclosed, in which a plurality of queues are provided, bandwidth is assigned to each of the queues on the basis of a strict priority scheme, and additional bandwidth is assigned to the queues on the basis of a... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck Chase Tower

20080151919 - Out of band flow control: In one embodiment, a flow control module aggregates indications of queuing resource utilization at devices attached to a switching fabric within a router and broadcasts that information out of band to all devices attached to the same switching fabric. When the flow control module identifies congestion at one of the... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080151921 - Packet prioritization and associated bandwidth and buffer management techniques for audio over ip: The present invention is directed to voice communication devices in which an audio stream is divided into a sequence of individual packets, each of which is routed via pathways that can vary depending on the availability of network resources. All embodiments of the invention rely on an acoustic prioritization agent... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.c.

20080151922 - System and method for tcp offload: A system for processing packets is disclosed and may including a network interface card (NIC). The NIC may include a TCP enabled Ethernet controller (TEEC). The TEEC may include an internal elastic buffer. The TEEC may process received incoming TCP packets once and may temporarily buffer at least a portion... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080151924 - Circuit arrangement and method for data transmission: An apparatus and appertaining method are provided in which a transmission entity eliminates a frame word of a payload data service and transmits in payload data service in a common frame with payload of other services. Additionally, a transmission unit can provide first payload data and second payload data in... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080151925 - System, apparatus, and method for multimedia transmission: A multimedia transmission system with redundant multiple strain transmission lines for transmitting packeted multimedia data that includes sound and/or video comprises an apparatus having send and receive function capabilities. The apparatus includes a carrier detection device adapted to detect a carrier related to that packeted multimedia data. A switch device... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20080151926 - Dynamic frame scheduling based on permutations of sub-channel identifiers: A communication system includes devices configured to communicate with each other through a temporal sequence of frames. Each of these frames includes multiple sub-channels and network information. Note that a given device is configured to select a first set of sub-channels to be reserved by the given device based on... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080151927 - Solution for attach peak: The present invention relates to a method that provides for informing a terminal of an availability of access to a packet network. To this end, at a packet network element or a service entity, a timer value is set to a predetermined time period. Then, according to an embodiment, the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080151928 - Cyclical-transmission-schedule reservation technique: A communication system includes devices configured to communicate with each other through a temporal sequence of frames. Each of these frames includes multiple sub-channels. Note that a given device in the devices is configured to select sub-channels to reserve based on a nearest-neighbor spacing between the sub-channels to be reserved... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080151929 - Communication circuitry, devices and methods: A method of signal communication includes receiving a selection signal, and selecting a selected frequency range used for a multi-carrier signal communication from a set of predetermined frequency ranges for signal communication depending on the selection signal. The set of predetermined frequency ranges includes a first frequency range and a... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080151930 - Integrated switch: Switching between communication ports of a notebook is typically accomplished using an off-chip local area network (LAN) switch or an off-chip high speed analog multiplexer. This off-chip component is disadvantageous for several reasons, including: added cost of an additional component; increased overall power consumption because transmit amplitude loss; and reduced... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080151931 - Network management using dynamic recovery and transitioning: Preferred embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods to receive a command associated with the network management system, define a work flow based on the command, and execute the work flow on a network element. During execution of the work flow, a network management system determines whether a recovery... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080151932 - Protocol-neutral channel-based application communication: A system is presented that enables applications in a distributed system to communicate through a channel-based communication system. The applications use adaptors which communicate through a communication mechanism, resulting in application independence from the communication mechanism. In one embodiment, the communication mechanism consists of transmission media, logical channels, and brokers.... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20080151934 - Exchange mechanisms for digital information packages with bandwidth securitization, multichannel digital watermarks, and key management: Responsibility can be established for specific copies or instances of copies of digitized multimedia content using digital watermarks. Management and distribution of digital watermark keys (e.g., private, semiprivate and public) and the extension of information associated with such keys is implemented to create a mechanism for the securitization of multimedia... Agent: Scott A. Moskowitz

20080151933 - Optimization of distributed tunnel rerouting in a computer network with intermediate node feedback: In one embodiment, a head-end node determines a path for un-reroutable tunnels, and establishes a tunnel having zero bandwidth indicating the corresponding bandwidth desired for the tunnel. Intermediate nodes send feedback regarding a bandwidth scaling factor for the path, and the head-end node resizes each tunnel accordingly.... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080151935 - Method and apparatus for providing multi-protocol, multi-protocol, multi-stage, real-time frame classification: A multi-protocol, multi-stage, real-time frame classifier is disclosed. A preliminary multi-protocol frame composition analyzer is provided for performing preliminary multi-protocol frame classification for incoming frames. A parsing instruction generator is provided for processing at least the incoming frame and the preliminary multi-protocol frame classification to provide parsing instructions. A multi-stage... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080151936 - Method and program for classifying fragmented messages: Prioritization of fragmented messages in an ORB is achieved by intercepting the flow of message data within the ORB, marking the current data stream location and issuing sufficient read commands to gather the message header and control area information. Then classification for priority can be performed using the data in... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080151937 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data: A digital broadcasting system including a transmitting system and a receiving system, and a method of processing data are disclosed. A method of processing data of a transmitting system includes sequentially grouping N number of columns (Kc) configured of A number of enhanced data bytes having information included therein, thereby... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080151938 - Apparatus and method for receiving data in a communication system: An apparatus and method for receiving data in a communication system are provided. The method includes identifying first codewords, which have been used in transmission of data by a transmitter, in the data received from the transmitter, setting third codewords by adding second codewords to the identified first codewords, calculating... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080151939 - System and method for operating a bus system: A bus system for the real-time communication of a superordinate unit with one or more subordinate units is used for exchanging address and data information via a bus. For the rapid exchange of messages, further fields are provided between the fields for the address and data information.... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.c.

20080151941 - Methods and systems for carrying synchronization over ethernet and optical transport network: The present invention reserves special Ethernet timing packets to mark timing within Ethernet and OTN, and secondarily creates frames within the Ethernet stream through the timing marker packets. The result is standard Ethernet with timing capability that can be transported over standard Ethernet links and/or within OTN. This timing capability... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20080151940 - Packet-switched network synchronization system and method: A synchronization system and method for use in a packet switched communication network are provided. The synchronization system comprises a transmitter-identification system, a packet-boundary detection system and a storage-access system. The transmitter-identification system enables each receiving terminal within the network to know the identity of the originating transmitter terminal for... Agent: Norman P. Soloway Hayes Solowayp.c.

20080151942 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data: A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed. The method of processing data includes grouping a plurality of enhanced data packets, each having information included therein, thereby creating a data group, creating and indicating an identification signal in a predetermined position of at least one enhanced... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080151943 - Flexible transport system including support for bilateral user access: One aspect of the present invention is a method for the wireless transmission of information from one or more antennas to one or more separate users. The method comprises processing information to produce transmission vectors that minimize simultaneous interference between separate user channels and adjusting the radiation patterns to minimize... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080144484 - Method and device for connecting an additional subscriber to a telephone exchange: A method is provided for connecting a twisted pair conductor to a modem device selected from among a first plurality of modem devices. At least one criterion for selecting that modem device is that the selected modem should allow the reduction of cross-talk interferences that would otherwise be induced upon... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080144485 - Receiver circuit, electronic instrument, and signal processing method: A signal received by an antenna or the like is input from an input terminal, and is amplified by an amplifier section together with thermal noise superimposed on the received signal. An addition section adds the signal amplified by the amplifier section to a cancellation signal generated by a cancellation... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080144486 - Uplink inter-carrier interference cancellation for ofdma systems: Inter-carrier interference (ICI) cancellation in an OFDMA receiving signals from two transmitters is performed by identifying the transmitted sub-carriers that cause the largest ICI to sub-carriers received from other transmitters, and removing the ICI contribution from these sub-carriers. This may be accomplished by calculating the ICI terms only based on... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080144487 - Ofdm/dmt/digital communications system including partial sequence symbol processing: A method of managing a signal over a symbol period includes supplying samples of the signal at beginning and end portions of the symbol period. The method further includes suppressing the supply of samples of the signal at a middle portion of the symbol period.... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080144490 - Method and apparatus for providing voice communication service in a wireless communications system: A method for providing voice communication service in a receiver of a wireless communications system includes activating a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request, called HARQ hereinafter, process, receiving a first voice packet and storing the first voice packet in a buffer by the HARQ process, receiving a second voice packet and... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080144488 - Method and system for providing prioritized failure announcements: An approach is provided for announcing a fault condition or failure in a network system. Announcement notifications are prioritized based on a priority information derived from at least two local parameters determined at a respective network element (NE1 to NEn). Thereby, fault correction activities can be optimized.... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.c.

20080144489 - Network device and communication recovery method thereof: A network device (20) includes more than an active card (201) and a standby card (200). The active card is used for establishing telephony connection between a first terminal device (10) and a second terminal device (20) via a media gateway control device, and sending communication data between the first... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080144491 - Recovery method and radio network controller in radio communication system: When a first MS control signalling device that controls a mobile station fails, a second MS control signalling device takes over the processing of the first MS control signalling device. The second MS control signalling device requests a RLC parameter necessary for communication of the mobile station, and the mobile... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080144492 - Method for configuring a telecommunication system: The invention relates to a method for configuring a telecommunication system comprising at least one sending entity and one receiving entity between which the same link transmits several transport channels with different qualities of service. The sending entity matches the rate between the different coded transport channels with separate qualities... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080144495 - Early multilink traffic throttling for data communication node: Early multilink traffic throttling for a data communication node throttles packets designated for forwarding on a multilink interface of a data communication node before distributing the packets to output queues associated with physical links of the multilink interface so as to prevent packet loss and reassembly problems caused by non-uniform... Agent: Scot A. Reader, P.c.

20080144493 - Method of interference management for interference/collision prevention/avoidance and spatial reuse enhancement: Interference, collisions, power control, and spatial reuse constitute important issues that need to be resolved urgently in multihop wireless networks such as ad hoc networks, single-hop/multihop wireless LANs, sensor networks, and mesh networks. A method called the evolvable interference management (EIM) method is disclosed in this patent for avoiding/preventing interference... Agent: Prof. Chi-hsiang Yeh Dept. Of Electrical And Computer Eng.

20080144494 - Serving gateway proxies for non-sip speakers in a next generation network: Methods and systems for extending the IMS/SIP architecture of the NGN to provide QoS service to generic bearer flows. QoS treatment of a bearer flow destined to a non-SIP client attached to the network via an attachment segment connected to an attachment gateway is supported. A SIP-INVITE message is received... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080144497 - Method and apparatus for managing admission and routing in multi-hop 802.11 networks taking into consideration traffic shaping at intermediate hops: A method and a system control admission for voice transmission over a multi-hop network. The method takes multiple parameters into account in order to make a decision and ensures that the system remains stable. The parameters may include options (e.g., aggregation level, bursting level, and transmission rate) and constraints (e.g.,... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080144496 - Method, network element and modules therefore, and computer program for use in prioritizing a plurality of queuing entities: It is disclosed a method comprising prioritizing a plurality of queuing entities with respect to each other, receiving a data stream consisting of a plurality of data packets, marking each of the plurality of data packets with one out of a plurality of identifiers based on a predetermined requirement, the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080144498 - Bandwidth reservation system and method for dynamic channel switching and computer readable recording medium: A bandwidth reservation system and method for dynamic channel switching, and a computer readable recording medium are provided. The bandwidth reservation system includes a transmitting terminal, for selecting a first channel from a plurality of channels to establish a connection, and detecting the other channels and selecting a second channel... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080144499 - Network switch that is optimized for a telephony-capable endpoint: A method is disclosed that enables the avoidance of a processor overload of a telecommunications endpoint device that is susceptible to traffic floods. An enhanced network switch sets the speed on one of its data ports as a specific function of the speeds of the devices that are connected to... Agent: Demont & Breyer, Llc

20080144506 - Control apparatus, control method, communication system comprising control apparatus and one or more terminals: In a radio communication system including terminals that access a control apparatus by a random access method, the number of collisions between data transmitted from the terminals is reduced. A control method for the control apparatus capable of communicating with at least one terminal located within a communicable range includes... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080144500 - Control frame feature on demand in a wireless communication system: In a wireless network, a device monitors at least one parameter that indicates collision status in the network; compares the at least one parameter to a predefined control frame threshold that is based on a criterion other than packet-size; and activates a control frame feature in the device for sending... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080144502 - In-band quality-of-service signaling to endpoints that enforce traffic policies at traffic sources using policy messages piggybacked onto diffserv bits: IP packets are scheduled at source devices such as cell phones on a private network that connect to the Internet at an edge device. A private traffic controller by the edge device detects pre-Internet congestion on the private network. The private traffic controller uses in-band piggybacked signaling of policy changes... Agent: Stuart T Auvinen

20080144505 - Method and apparatus for bitrate reduction: A method and apparatus for reducing the bitrate of a given datastream is provided. The bitrate of a given datastream is reduced by altering the payload of an incoming packet, while still providing sufficient data as to not cause a malfunction within the receiving node. The altered payload represents data... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.c.

20080144507 - Method and apparatus of continuous packet connectivity enhancement in a wireless communications system: In order to improve continuous packet connectivity (CPC), the present invention provides a method of improving CPC for a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communications system. The method includes receiving the HS-PDSCHs indicated by a control information and decoding the data on the HS-PDSCHs according to the control information... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080144508 - Method and apparatus of continuous packet connectivity enhancement in a wireless communications system: In order to improve continuous packet connectivity (CPC), the present invention provides a method of improving CPC for a UE working in a HS-SCCH less operation in a wireless communications system. The method includes treating a received data as a specific data to be decoded when the received data is... Agent: John A. Chaloux

20080144504 - Method and system for bi-level congestion control for multipath transport: A method for managing a network connection includes establishing the network connection between an application and a packet destination, wherein the network connection comprises a plurality of paths, receiving a plurality of packets from the application on the network connection, wherein the plurality of packets is associated with the network... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p./sun

20080144503 - Method and system for network stack tuning: In general, the invention relates to a method for sending a packet from an application to a destination. The method includes opening a network connection between the application and the destination, tuning at least one layer in a network stack, based on application information associated with the application, to obtain... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p./sun

20080144509 - Methods and devices for maximizing the throughput of tcp/ip data along wireless links: The amount of TCP/IP packets which can be sent from an Internet network to a wireless network is maximized by modifying a receive window value of an acknowledgment (ACK) before the ACK is sent on to a source of data packets within the Internet network. The receive window value is... Agent: Capitol Patent & Trademark Law Firm, Pllc

20080144501 - System and method for adjusting transmission data rates to a device in a communication network: The invention relates to a system and method for adjusting a characteristic of a data transmission in order to maintain a rate of transmission. For the method, it comprises: monitoring for initiation of the data transmission to the device; identifying characteristics of the device relating to the data transmission that... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20080144511 - Method and system for bandwidth allocation using router feedback: In general, the invention relates to a method for managing a network connection. The method includes receiving a request for the network connection from a host, where the network connection is associated with an overlay network. The method further includes sending, in response to the request, a first available bandwidth... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p./sun

20080144510 - Path management for enhanced protection: Methods and node capable of establishing link-weights based on protection-factor linked to protection level of a plurality of links between a source node and a destination node and capable of establishing primary and, potentially, protection path proposals using the established link-weights. An available bandwidth value for the link is determined.... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080144513 - Methods and apparatus to manage network transport paths in accordance with network policies: Methods and apparatus to manage network transport paths in accordance with network policies are disclosed. An example apparatus comprises a policy manager to manage a first policy for a first endpoint and a second policy for a second endpoint, and a path manager to provision a transport network path based... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, Llc

20080144512 - Route selection in cooperative relay networks: A method selects a route in a wireless cooperative relay network of nodes, the nodes including a source, a set of relays, and a destination. A codeword is encoded as a data stream. The data stream is transmitted from a source to a destination via a set of relays. Mutual... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080144514 - Method for making correspondence between a maintenance point identifier and a media access control address: A method for making correspondence between an MPID and a MAC address, including: each MP on the network is allocated a unique MPID at first; to obtain the MAC address of a destination MP, a MEP sends a broadcast query message to all the MPs on the network with the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080144515 - Protocol for clock distribution and loop resolution: Algorithms and data structure are described for constructing and maintaining a clock distribution tree (“CDT”) for timing loop avoidance. The CDT algorithms and data structure allows a node to make an automated and unattended path switch to the most desirable clock source in the network. In response to a network... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras LLP

20080144516 - Control circuit for detecting loop state: A control circuit for detecting a loop state includes a signal indication module, a three-way switch, a remote control module, and a detection module. The three-way switch and the remote control module are connected in series between the load and a power source. When the three-way switch is pressed down... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080144517 - Method and system for diagnosing external signal input/output units: Each of the host transmitting/receiving blocks of a plurality of I/O units connected to a CNC reads the destination specification data and a diagnostic result bit each time the host transmitting/receiving block receives a signal packet from the CNC. When the diagnostic result bit indicates the execution of a diagnosis,... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080144518 - Method and apparatus for verifying signaling and bearer channels in a packet switched network: A computer-implemented method and apparatus verifies integrity of a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) virtual connection at an analog terminal adapter (ATA) at an edge of an Internet Protocol (IP) network. A VoIP transaction is initiated toward a cooperating test unit across the IP network, establishing a VoIP virtual circuit.... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080144520 - Adjustment method for control threshold of terminal forward transmission power in a mobile communication system: The present invention relates to a method for adjusting forward transmission power control threshold of a terminal in a mobile communication system, including the following steps of setting in advance at a base station side a forward pilot threshold and a lower bound, an upper bound of a forward transmission... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080144522 - Apparatus and method for communicating channel information in relay wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for communicating channel information in a relay wireless communication system are provided. A Base Station (BS) apparatus includes a message generator for generating a channel measurement request message to be transmitted to a Relay Station (RS) when the RS is connected; a Transmit (TX) modem for... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080144519 - Content processing device monitoring: A system, method, and apparatus for monitoring performance of a content processing device are disclosed. A system may include a content processing device and a customer premises management system (CMS) in communication with the content processing device. The CMS generally monitors hardware performance, network performance, and video quality parameters of... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080144521 - Measuring and monitoring qos in service differentiated wireless networks: A wireless network (100) includes a plurality of wireless stations (QSTAs) (102) and an access point (QAP) (101). The QAP, or one or more of the QSTAs, or both, are adapted to measure delay data, or queue data, or both, per one or more traffic type. A method of wireless... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080144523 - Traffic monitoring apparatus, entry managing apparatus, and network system: A plurality of traffic monitoring apparatuses and an entry managing apparatus common to the traffic monitoring apparatuses are provided in a network. In the traffic monitoring apparatus, a packet receiving unit extracts a source IP address, destination IP address, and a TTL count to be registered in an entry registering... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080144524 - Distributed dynamic channel selection in a communication network: In one embodiment, a first node among a number of distributed nodes capable of forming or reforming a communication network between the nodes, each of the nodes including functionally similar components for forming or reforming such a network, includes a memory for storing values for variables for the node. The... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080144525 - Method and apparatus for allocating network resources in a group communication system: Methods, devices, apparatus, computer-readable media and processors are provided for allocating network resources in a group communication system based on one or more call control rules. Call control rules may utilize one or more call control decision parameters including, but not limited to, the location of the group call members,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080144527 - Method and system for profiling and learning application networking behavior: In general, the invention relates to a method for classifying an application. The method includes receiving, at a kernel, a plurality of packets from the application, wherein the application is executing outside of the kernel, obtaining a first measurement from the plurality of packets associated with a first parameter using... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p./sun

20080144530 - Method, device, system and software product for alternative time division duplex frame structure optimization: A method, mobile device, network device, and software product are for forming a time division duplex frame structure, including a downlink pilot timeslot within an initial data timeslot of the frame structure, and also including an uplink pilot timeslot in a further data timeslot of the frame structure. A guard... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080144528 - Methods and systems for increasing wireless traffic capacity in the vicinity of an event site: Network entity, method and computer-readable storage medium for use in a network that includes an arrangement of cell sites, each cell site being configured to provide wireless services to users within a respective coverage region. The network entity comprises an input configured to receive position information regarding occurrence of an... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.c.

20080144526 - Methods for expedited start-up and clique aggregation using self-checking node pairs on a ring network: In one embodiment, a system comprises a plurality of nodes that are communicatively coupled to one another. Each of the plurality of nodes, in the absence of any faults, is communicatively coupled to at least a first neighbor node and a first neighbor's neighbor node and a second neighbor node... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080144529 - Process configuration in a network: A method for configuring a network and a network configurable to provide a process exploiting services distributed amongst the nodes of the network by means of a step-by-step search, the search for one service starting at a node providing the previous service.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080144532 - Address resolution request mirroring: Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) request mirroring can provide a mechanism for synchronizing link-layer adjacency information among network elements. This application can be useful, for example, for internet protocol (IP) routing network elements in a high-availability configuration.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080144531 - Method and apparatus for device discovery on an infiniband link in a mixed environment with switches and proprietary devices: Methods and systems for discovering and managing devices connected to InfiniBand ports are provided. The discovery may be performed by an end node, such that the end node interoperates with all standard InfiniBand components. Specific actions that are vendor unique, and potentially not compliant with the InfiniBand architecture, may not... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080144533 - Shared virtual device ports: In one embodiment, a solution is provided wherein multiple virtual devices may be configured on the same physical port of a network device. For example, a first virtual device and a second virtual device may be configured to use the same physical port. A single internal spanning tree instance may... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080144534 - Determining characteristics of node-to-node network links from forwarding time measurements: A method is provided for determining the length of node-to-node links in a computer network. The method includes measuring the forwarding time for each node-to-node link in the network, eliminating queuing time from each forwarding time measurement, determining and subtracting store-forward time from each forwarding time measurement, determining and subtracting... Agent: Law Office Of Dan Shifrin, Pc - Cirrus Logic

20080144535 - Ring-type network and fairness execution program for ring-type network: To obtain ring-type network that is capable of sensing a change in the structure of a lower layer network when there is a change, and to obtain a fairness execution program for the ring-type network, which can implement the fairness function in a fine manner even in such case. Each... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080144536 - Server based technique for optimizing call setup latency for geographically dense groups: A server based method for optimizing call setup latency including updating client location information using at least one application server; identifying and updating parameters including location update information uniquely identifying a sector from which the at least one client is receiving communication service; determining at least one geographically dense call... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080144537 - Voice-over-internet protocol telephone system with teleconference features: System, method, data structures and software are disclosed wherein at least one end-user computer executes a calendaring application, wherein the calendaring application includes data representing an appointment for a teleconference, and wherein the appointment specifies one or more participants scheduled to join the teleconference. The end-user computer may include a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080144538 - Selling and distributing digital content: A method for distributing digital content over a computer network, where a first user contacts a host computer and purchases the right to download the digital content. The present invention teaches that BitTorrent is used for downloading the digital content through other users connected to the network. Any other user... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080144541 - Method and apparatus for optimizing e-tfc restriction for hsupa channels: A method and apparatus for transport format combination restriction in a high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) system. An enhanced transport format combination (E-TFC) table is split into sub-tables. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) selects one of the sub-tables and a window within the selected sub-table to search. The WTRU... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080144540 - Network switching apparatus and network switching method for computer system: The present invention discloses a network switching apparatus and a network switching method applied for switching between a wired network unit and a wireless network unit of a computer system. Based on the network switching method, the network switching apparatus includes a wired network unit, a wireless network unit and... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080144539 - Simplified digital predistortion in a time-domain duplexed transceiver: A transceiver for time-domain duplexed (TDD) communications, for example in connection with wireless broadband data communications, is disclosed. The transceiver includes digital predistortion compensation circuitry, which compensates the digital signals to be transmitted based on feedback signals from the output of the power amplifier, in order to linearize the output... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080144542 - System and method for wireless communication in a frequency 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

20080144543 - Time division duplex forward-to-reverse transition signal generator: A transition signal generator is used to for controlling a booster of a time division duplex signal in a communications system. The transition signal generator includes a signal sampler for sampling the time division duplex signal, a power detector for detecting a power of the sampled signal, and a timing... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080144546 - Device, method and system for estimating the termination to a wired transmission-line based on determination of characteristic impedance: A system and method for measuring a characteristic impedance of a transmission-line comprises transmitting energy to the line, and shortly after measuring the voltage/current involved and thus measuring the equivalent impedance. The measured characteristic impedance may then be used in order to determine the termination value required to minimize reflections.... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080144544 - Method and system of combining signals in bpl communications: A system for communicating BPL signals is provided, including a BPL modem having a first internal modem and a second internal modem, the first internal modem and the second internal modem each in communication with a RF combiner; the RF combiner in communication with a medium voltage power line; and... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin, LLP

20080144545 - System and method for wireless communication in a frequency 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

20080144555 - Apparatus and method for identifying header compression channel in broadband wireless communication system: A header compression in a broadband wireless communication system is provided. A transmitter includes a compressor for compressing a header of a packet; a processor for appending a compression channel IDentifier (ID) to the packet; and a controller for identifying a Service Flow (SF) corresponding to the compression channel ID... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080144556 - Data segmentation method in a telecommunications system: In a telecommunications system a larger higher layer data unit is segmented into smaller segments on the lower layer. A segmentation length information is used to indicate the lengths of the segments in a lower layer protocol data unit. Specific values of segmentation length information are employed to indicate, when... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080144547 - Method and apparatus for allocating communication resources using virtual circuit switching in a wireless communication system and method for transmitting and receiving data in a mobile station using the same: A method and apparatus using Virtual Circuit Switching (VCS) in a new scheme are provided for allocating and employing resources by combining Circuit Switching (CS) and Packet Switching (PS), in which a base station allocates resources of a dedicated channel using the CS to a user and then transmits data... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080144548 - Optimization of redundancy and throughput in an automated meter data collection system using a wireless network: Techniques for optimization of redundancy and throughput in an automated meter data collection system using a wireless network are disclosed herein. The wireless network comprises a central node, a plurality of bi-directional nodes, and a plurality of transmit-only meters. Each of the bi-directional nodes is in bi-directional wireless communication with... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080144552 - Quality-based data scheduling: The present invention relates to quality-based scheduling of data in wireless networks. In this scheduling, quality information representing the degree of decodability of previously transmitted but not correctly received and not successfully decoded data packets is estimated in receiving communications nodes. This quality information is reported back to the node... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080144554 - Radio frequency identification sensor network: A radio frequency (RF) addressable sensor network includes (a) one or more RF addressable sensors; (b) one or more wireless sensor readers coupled to a communications network; (c) one or more end user devices coupled to the communications network, wherein the one or more wireless sensor readers communicate with the... Agent: Tillman Wright, Pllc

20080144551 - Real-time/non-real-time/rf ic and applications thereof: A real-time/non-real-time/RF IC includes first and second baseband processing modules, an RF section, a wireline interface, and a bus structure. The first baseband processing module converts real-time outbound data into real-time outbound symbols and converts real-time inbound symbols into real-time inbound data. The second baseband processing module converts non-real-time outbound... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080144550 - Retransmission scheme for maintaining performance for wireless communications in the presence of periodic intermittent interference: The invention can establish a default retransmission algorithm and an interference retransmission algorithm. The default retransmission algorithm can be a Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) based algorithm implemented in a MAC layer in conformance with an IEEE 802.11 based standard. The minimum cumulative back-off time for the default transmission algorithm can... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080144553 - System and method for wireless communication of audiovisual data having data size adaptation: A system and method for wireless communication of audiovisual data are disclosed. One embodiment of the system includes a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver configured to change the size of audiovisual data in response to a change in the condition of a wireless channel. The wireless transmitter is configured... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20080144549 - Wireless proximity-based information system: A Wireless Proximity-Based Information System that enables users to gather and store information about objects in their immediate surroundings. The system consists of three components: (i) an Information Server, (ii) a User Interface Client, and (iii) an Administrative Toolkit. The Information Server is packaged as a self-contained, headless electronic device... Agent: John Nielsen Randick O'dea & Tooliatos, LLP

20080144559 - Optimizing 802.11 power-save for ip multicast groups: A method for providing a superior quality of service for multicast data streams delivered over a wireless local area network. As Internet Protocol multicast data streams are received by an access point, the access point observes Internet Group Multicast Protocol registration messages to determine which of its associated stations subscribe... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080144558 - Piggyback acknowledgement: Included are embodiments for facilitating communication. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving first communication data from a communications device and creating an acknowledgment indicating receipt of the first communication data. Some embodiments include determining whether second communication data has been received for the communications device and in... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080144557 - Power management for a mobile communication device and method for use therewith: A communication device includes a voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) that includes a memory module that stores a least one application as a plurality of operational instructions, the at least one application having a plurality of power modes that each correspond to one of a plurality of use... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080144560 - Channel access scheme for ultra-wide band communication: A channel access scheme is provided for a pulse-based ultra-wide band network. Here, concurrent ultra-wide band channels may be established through the use of a pulse division multiple access scheme. An access scheme may employ different states each of which may be associated with different channel parameter state information and/or... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080144561 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing hybrid arq feedback for hsdpa mimo: A method includes generating automatic repeat request feedback information at a first device in response to a downlink transmission from a second device; encoding the feedback information to comprise an indication of a number of streams received in the downlink transmission and transmitting encoded feedback information to the second device.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080144562 - Cooperative routing in wireless networks using mutual-information accumulation: A route is selected in a wireless cooperative relay network of nodes. A decoding order is initialized. A set of resources is minimized subject to constraints. The resources are allocated to the nodes in the decoding order. The decoding order is changed iteratively to further minimize the allocated resources, until... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080144563 - Use of terrestrial channels to augment satellite channels for low latency traffic: Methods, systems, and devices are described for intelligently routing network data in satellite communication networks based on parametric sensitivities. Some embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and devices for routing data based on the latency-sensitivity of the data and multiple networks in a network environment. Some of these embodiments... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080144564 - Wireless non-cellular network: A communication method includes monitoring a time division multiple access (TDMA) frame structure of a cellular system by a plurality of non-cellular nodes of a non-cellular network by using a common channel of the cellular system, and using the time division multiple access (TDMA) frame structure of the cellular system... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080144566 - Architecture for manet over bluetooth: A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) device is provided. The device has an architecture comprising a Bluetooth adaptation layer for wireless communication according to a Bluetooth convention, a MANET service layer, a scatternet module, a routing module, and a flow control manager in the MANET service layer. The scatternet module... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c.

20080144565 - Radio frequency communications system with use of two frequency bands: It integrates, in series, an LMDS transport network (1) and an access network (5), such as a BB network, two frequency bands being used, a first one of a large bandwidth in the LMDS network (1), and a second one for the access network (5), of a smaller bandwidth. Network... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080144571 - Dynamic forward error correction in utra systems: In a wireless communication system using multiplexed transport channels in combinations thereof on a coded composite transport channel (CCTrCh), a system for dynamically varying the combinations of transport channels includes configuring means for configuring mutually exclusive dedicated transport channels based on semi-static transport parameters, and mapping means for mapping data... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080144570 - Method and apparatus for scheduling and modulation and coding selection for supporting quality of service in transmissions on forward shared radio channels: The invention is a process and system for controlling selection of which MS is to receive the next packet data transmission on a forward channel and selection of which plural MCS is to be used for the packet data transmissions on the forward channel. A process for controlling selection of... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080144567 - Method and apparatus for transmitting a superframe across a communication network: A method and apparatus includes a scheduling entity (308) for scheduling and transmitting the superframe (402) across a communication network (200). The controller (310) coupled with scheduling entity (308) groups the subscriber unit (304) into one of the plurality of groups. The scheduler entity (308) assigns a coding scheme for... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080144568 - Mobile communication system, mobile station and radio base station: The present invention relates to a channel allocating method for an IP multimedia subsystem which connects a radio access network and an IP network to provide voice communication and non-voice communication. In the channel allocating method according to the present invention, an enhanced dedicated channel is allocated to a channel... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20080144569 - System and method for multi-mode radio operation: Described is a system having a mobile station and an access point which connects the mobile station to a network. The mobile station has a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation. In the first mode of operation, the mobile station transmits a data packet intended for... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080144572 - Method and apparatus for achieving frequency diversity in scheduled packet data transmissions: Carrier frequency selection is enabled in transmitting packet data between a radio transceiver and a mobile station and in a wireless communication network with shared packet data service. The packet data service permits transmission of packet data along a packet data link comprising a plurality of shared packet data channels,... Agent: Coats & Bennett/ericsson Wireless Comm''s., Inc.

20080144577 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing signaling for power reuse: In one non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, a method includes: receiving information, by a user equipment, from a first network element of a plurality of network elements, wherein the information is descriptive of a power reuse pattern utilized by the plurality of network elements; identifying, using the received information, at least one... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080144578 - Communication system: A method of controlling a communication session between a user of a communication network and a communication system wherein the communication network comprises a first network and a second network, and wherein the communication system operates on the first network said method comprising: transmitting a session request packet from a... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080144574 - Efficient transitions between operating states in a communication network: An apparatus and method for efficient transitions between operating states in a communication network, includes a preliminary step of having a mobile station in a Dormant or Idle state. A next step includes requiring a data transfer, either to or from the mobile station. A next step includes transitioning the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080144575 - Method and apparatus for voip wifi phone application: A base station comprises a radio port cluster and a switch/router. Instead of passively following the order from a client terminal, the WiFi base station plays the major role in a hand-over process. The base station will monitor the client terminal signal strength and negotiate with other base stations for... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai And Associates, P.c.

20080144573 - System and method for implementing mobile ip node lossless transition from an idle state to an awake state: A system and method for implementing a “lossless” transition from an idle state to an active or awake state in a mobile station. When a mobile station informs a serving base transceiver station that it is switching to an idle state, a virtual handover is executed, with the mobile station... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080144576 - Systems and methods for allowing ip address handoff for mobile devices: The present invention is directed to a system and method which mobile devices can be handed from one access point to another while maintaining continuous communication with a network and without changing the device's IP address. In an embodiment, when a device is leaving the air interface range of its... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080144579 - Fast transitioning advertisement: Embodiments of apparatuses, articles, methods, and systems for utilizing a fast transitioning advertisement in wireless networks are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c.

20080144580 - System and method of measuring heterogeneous network mobile communication apparatus and recording medium thereof: A signal measurement method for a mobile communication apparatus supporting multiple transmission interfaces to perform communication transmission in a heterogeneous network environment, system and a recording medium thereof. Changes in the signal strength of an active network transmission interface are employed to adjust signal measurement periods of other non-active network... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080144581 - Wireless communication connection destination selecting method and device: A method for selecting a connection destination for wireless communication from a plurality of base stations in a wireless terminal that is in service areas of the plurality of base stations, which includes a first step (#11) of receiving dispatch information from each of the plurality of base stations, a... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080144582 - Power-based rate signaling for cellular uplink: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate utilizing power-based rate signaling for uplink scheduling in a wireless communications system. A maximum nominal power (e.g., relative maximum transmit power that may be employed on an uplink) may be known to both a base station and a mobile device. For example, the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080144583 - Adaptive frame synchronization in a universal mobile telephone system receiver: A Universal Mobile Telephone System (UMTS) receiver performs slot synchronization using a received primary synchronization channel (PSCH). Subsequent to completion of slot synchronization, the UMTS receiver adaptively controls the duration of processing of the secondary synchronization channel (SSCH) for determining frame synchronization.... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080144585 - Framing for an adaptive modulation communication system: A system and method for mapping a combined frequency division duplexing (FDD) Time Division Multiplexing (TDM)/Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) downlink subframe for use with half-duplex and full-duplex terminals in a communication system. Embodiments of the downlink subframe vary Forward Error Correction (FEC) types for a given modulation scheme as... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080144584 - Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication system, wireless communication method and program: A wireless communication apparatus includes: a channel setting portion that sets an working channel and an acquisition channel; a remainder obtaining portion that obtains a remaining time length that can be used to wirelessly communicate with the wireless communication apparatuses that form part of the same wireless network using the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080144586 - Techniques for rts/cts usage for wireless networks: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to techniques for RTS/CTS usage in a wireless network. According to an example embodiment, a network performance may be measured within a wireless network. A variety of parameters may be measured at a wireless node to determine a network performance. In addition, it may be... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080144591 - Apparatus, methods, and computer program products providing fbms with multiple bssid support: The exemplary embodiments of the invention enable a terminal to have access to or to obtain additional information (e.g., AID 0 Info information/FBMS Descriptor information) for non-transmitted beacons such that the terminal can fully utilize FBMS. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method includes: providing a multiple basic... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080144587 - Deletion of routes of routing tables of a wireless mesh network: An apparatus and method of supporting peer-to-peer communication of a wireless mesh network is disclosed. The method includes a node within the wireless mesh network maintaining a routing table that indicates a first route to a client device. If the node receives a better route to the client device, the... Agent: Tropos Networks

20080144590 - Enabling settings provisioning process in wimax networks: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for enabling a subscriber station to start a settings provisioning process in a WiMAX system. The method includes receiving a request from a subscriber station, the request requesting information for enabling the subscriber station to begin a settings provisioning process.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080144588 - Method and apparatus of prioritizing services of wireless local area network: A wireless communication device and a method and of prioritizing services in a wireless local area network is provided. The method includes defining a first priority of a first service of a first basic service set of a wireless local area network and defining a second priority of a second... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080144589 - Methods and apparatus for the communication of cellular network information between a wireless local area network and a mobile station: Methods and apparatus for the communication of cellular network information between a wireless local area network (WLAN) and a mobile station are disclosed. In one illustrative example, the mobile station receives a generic container message from the WLAN. The generic container message includes cellular network information associated with one or... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20080144594 - Data transmission method for a mobile communication system: This invention provides a mobile communication system which expanded the operation limitation of the heretofore adopted mobile communication systems and improved the spectrum efficiency greatly. A data transmission method for use in the mobile communication system of the present invention includes means for channel pluralizing by which to expand the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080144592 - Method for configuring a telecommunication system: The invention relates to a method for configuring a telecommunication system comprising at least one sending entity and one receiving entity between which the same link transmits several transport channels with different qualities of service. The sending entity matches the rate between the different coded transport channels with separate qualities... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080144593 - Method of improving continuous packet connectivity in a wireless communications system and related apparatus: In order to enhancing system efficiency of radio resource control, the present invention provides a method for a user equipment in a wireless communications system for improving functions of continuous packet connectivity. The method includes configuring a first HS-PDSCH code of a user equipment according to a variable “HS-PDSCH Code... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080144595 - Apparatus and method of generating a plurality of synchronized radio frequency signals: A plurality of RF signals are generated with the RF signals synchronized with each other with high accuracy. Transmission data of the multiple channels are modulated, the modulated data of the channels are added to produce composite data and the composite data is stored in a data storage device. In... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20080144596 - Cooperative orthogonal multi-satellite communication system: Satellite communication systems and methods are disclosed. The communication system may include a gateway in communication with two satellites. The satellites are configured to receive polarized signals from a first plurality of users and orthogonally polarized signals from a second plurality of users. Each satellite may transmit the polarized signals... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080144597 - Medium time allocation and scheduling using iso-zone structured superframe for qos provisioning in wireless networks: Allocation of contiguous blocks of airtime for data or airtime transmission can lead to large maximum service intervals for an application stream. This may result in a large delay bound where large blocks of contiguous MAS blocks other applications from meeting their low-latency requirements. A method and network that overcomes... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080144598 - Enhanced polling method for preventing deadlock in a wireless communications system: A method of polling in a wireless communications system includes prohibiting polling within a first predetermined period and triggering a poll function while polling is prohibited. After the first predetermined period has expired the method determines that there are no protocol data units (PDUs) scheduled for transmission or re-transmission and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080144599 - Method and apparatus to enforce airtime quota in service interval in a wireless lan: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for managing transmission airtime in a wireless network communication system transmitting at least one data flow in a plurality of data packets (210) in service intervals (215). The method comprises the steps of determining an accumulated time of data packet transmissions in the service... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080144600 - Apparatus and method for communicating user equipment specific information in cellular communication system: A cellular communication system comprises a base station (101) and a plurality of user equipment (103). The base station (101) comprises a combine processor (111) which combines user equipment specific information, such as power control commands or synchronisation information, for a plurality of user equipment (103). An encode processor 113... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080144601 - Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products providing data replication for mobile terminals: Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products are provided for synchronizing replicated databases in an intelligent way in order to utilize the advantages of the of the different types of connections that may be available to the electronic devices in the data replication system. In this regard, the transfer of... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080144606 - Automated session initiation protocol (sip) device: A device includes a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phone, an audio interface for receiving or transmitting audio information with the SIP phone to test a SIP-based network, and a controller for controlling the SIP phone and the audio interface.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080144611 - Communication method and system for internet phone: A communication method and a communication system for the Internet phone are disclosed. Handsets can log in different instant messaging (IM) software, respectively, and a user can use the IM software logged in by each handset to enjoy the functions of the Internet phone via a logon library recording the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080144605 - Fault tolerant voice over internet protocol (voip) systems and methods to operate the same: Fault tolerant VoIP systems and methods to operate the same are disclosed. An example method comprises receiving a registration request at an edge device of a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) system from a user device, selecting at the edge device a communication service providing device from a list of... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, Llc

20080144604 - Interface-neutral communication architecture: A method for delivering two-way real-time communication functionality, comprises providing a user interface neutral communication software library including telephony communication protocol functionality, implementing the communication software library in an interactive application, and implementing a user interface for the interactive application that allows an end user to control a calling engine... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP (adobe)

20080144607 - Method and system to contact a provider: A method and system to contact a provider are described. The system may include a communication module to receive a referral request, a referral generator, and a call module. The referral generator may be configured to respond to the referral request by selecting a provider from a network of providers.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080144609 - Method for providing function of registering in session initiation protocol and sip load balancer of enabling the method: The present invention relates to a method of performing register functions in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) load balancer and an SIP load balancer performing the method, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for registering information of a user agent in at least one real SIP server by the... Agent: Hammer & Hanf, Pc

20080144608 - Method for transmitting communication data: Transmitting communication data for a connection between at least one calling first terminal and at least one called second terminal in an at least partly packet-oriented network comprising a plurality of node units, a primary connection being established via the packet-oriented network is provided. User data is detected and evaluated... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080144602 - Providing sip interworking in a next generation network: Methods and systems for extending the IMS/SIP architecture of the NGN to provide QoS service to generic bearer flows. Providing QoS treatment, of a bearer flow within a communication session established between two end devices using a different in-band signalling protocol is supported. A Signalling Inter-Working Function (SIWF) is provided... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080144603 - Real-time communication using inter-process communications: A system for providing communication over a network comprises a communication unit included in a user-interactive application, wherein the communication unit is adapted to establish real-time communications with a remote destination, and a media streaming unit adapted to run outside of a program that is executing the user-interactive application. The... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP (adobe)

20080144610 - Thin client system and communication apparatus: In a TC system, there are provided a softphone and a communication system capable of automatically switching an operation mode in accordance with the environment of a system user. A module of a TC-version softphone and a module of a normal-version softphone are configured as one softphone, so that when... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080144612 - Flexible radio resource sharing in time and frequency domains among tdd communication systems: A method includes communicating a number of first frames using a first communication scheme. Each of the first frames has one or more first active time periods. Communication of the first frames uses a first frequency band. The method includes communicating a number of second frames using a second communication... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080144617 - Distributed application communication routing system for internet protocol networks: IP-based messages composed by distributed applications on-board an aircraft are routed to ground destinations through non-IP based communication interfaces that use packet data transmission. Addressable routing daemons resident in on-board computers are used to route messages from an on-board TCP/IP network to a selected communication interface. A communications management controller... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080144613 - Maintaining communication between network nodes that are subjected to a packet attack: A method is disclosed that enables mitigating at least some of the problems caused by a packet attack. When a first Internet Protocol (IP)-capable device is subjected to a packet attack, it indicates periodically to a second IP-capable device that certain communications with the first device are to be suspended.... Agent: Demont & Breyer, Llc

20080144614 - Method and apparatus to manage multiple infiniband links in a mixed environment with switches and proprietary devices: Methods and systems for discovering whether a given connection to an InfiniBand port is a standard InfiniBand connection or a non-standard connection (e.g., indicating the presence of a proprietary device) are provided. The discovery may be performed by an end node, such that the end node interoperates with all standard... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080144620 - Methods and apparatus for creating addresses: In a first aspect, a first method is provided for creating a media access control (MAC) address for a device. The first method includes the steps of (1) obtaining one or more identifiers; (2) obtaining a first MAC address; and (3) creating at least a second MAC address based on... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law

20080144616 - Modeling broadcast, multicast, point to point, and handshake communications over the same channel in a spin model checker: Module identifying bits corresponding to the modules of a communication network are used to indicate whether a communication is a broadcast communication to all modules in the communication network, a multicast communication to more than one but not all modules in the communication network, or a point-to-point communication to a... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080144619 - Multiple-domain processing system using hierarchically orthogonal switching fabric: A multiple-domain processing system includes a multi-dimensional switching fabric to provide intra-domain and inter-domain communication within the system.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.a.

20080144615 - Pinning the route of ip bearer flows in a next generation network: Methods and systems for extending the IMS/SIP architecture of the NGN to provide QoS service to generic bearer flows. More particularly, a method is provided for establishing an bearer end-to-end path of a communication session in a multi-domain communication network in which an out of band signalling protocol is used... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080144618 - Symbolic representation of protocol-layer information: A test and measurement instrument for displaying data includes an acquisition system configured to receive an input signal, a processor coupled to the acquisition system and configured to generate a symbolic representation of protocol-specific information within the input signal, and a user interface coupled to the processor and configured to... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080144622 - Method and device for providing multicast services to multiple customers: A method of multicast transmission in a communication network by using IGMP protocol, to a plurality of IGMP-equipped hosts serving end customers of the network, the method comprises: —using IGMP protocol to request receipt of information along a multicast channel, by a particular end customer; —adding the end customer to... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080144621 - System and method for peer to peer video streaming: In an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system, an IPTV server is configured to receive a request from an IPTV content storage device (CSD) to view a video stream. The IPTV server selects a set of peers for the IPTV CSD, and transmits the set of peers to the IPTV CSD.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080144628 - Communication device and method: A communication device and a method of processing input data. The communication device, processing input data constituting at least one of data packet comprises a detection unit, an Automatic Gain Controller (AGC), a signal processor, a demodulator, a pre-detection module, and a Baseband module. The detection unit receives the input... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080144626 - Delay constrained use of automatic repeat request for multi-hop communication systems: Minimization of delay due to automatic repeat requests in a multi-hop communication system can be accomplished to optimize the performance of delay-constrained applications such as voice over internet protocol (VoIP). The protocol described with relation to such embodiments can reduce the possible retransmissions to the first hop (the hop connecting... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080144625 - Dynamic system and method for virtual private network (vpn) application level content routing using dual-proxy method: A method of application level content routing using a (Dynamic VPN) dual-proxy mechanism that provides a client access to resources on a remote network without exposing each other's actual IP addresses and network topologies. The method includes providing a client a list of available resources on a remote network; initiating... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080144624 - Method and system for time-stamping data packets from a network: A method for timestamping data packets from a network involves receiving a first data packet from the network, obtaining, from a clock, a timestamp indicating an arrival time of the first data packet, where a network interface controller (NIC) includes the clock, providing the timestamp and the first data packet... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p./sun

20080144629 - Relay device and communication-path managing method: A check-frame receiving unit receives a check frame containing bandwidth data of a bandwidth allocated to a communication between a transmitting side and a receiving side. A bandwidth-data extracting unit extracts bandwidth data in the check frame and outputs a received bandwidth with a MAC address in the check frame.... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080144627 - Route monitoring in a network management system: A network management system comprises generic routing encapsulation (GRE) logic configured to establish upon request one or more GRE tunnels from one or more network interfaces; routing protocol logic, coupled to a route database in the apparatus, and configured to operate a network routing protocol and to exchange network route... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080144623 - System and method for implementing a rtp-signaled terminal hand over: An improved system and method for implementing communications hand over in a simple manner. RTP is used to signal to other terminals that an IP address has been changed for a particular. The receiving communications application notices from the RTP data flow that the other party in a communications session... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080144630 - Call management method, call management system and message processing server system: A call management method makes a call management system perform a process of releasing resources that are secured for a terminal device that has become a communication disable state among resources in the call management system that are secured for each of the terminal devices under speech communication (#103 and... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080144631 - Method and apparatus for discovering component in at least one sub-network: A method of discovering a component in a sub-network, the method including: receiving unique information on at least one component included in a first sub-network of a network by a first component in the first sub-network; and broadcasting the unique information on the at least one component to a second... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080144633 - System for data transfer in a wireless network: A wireless network protocol employs a hop-by-hop block formation approach in which data packets are organized into data blocks at each hop according to a routing table and are transmitted to each hop as data blocks. For example, data packets to be transmitted from a source node to a destination... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080144632 - Method and system for quality of service support for ethernet multiservice interworking over multiprotocol lable switching: A method and system for maintaining quality of service parameters for transmissions as a native Ethernet service between a first network having a first communication protocol and a second network having a second communication protocol that is different from the first communication protocol. The interworking device includes a first network... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.a.

20080144634 - Selective passive address resolution learning: Selective passive address resolution protocol (ARP) learning can provide a passive mechanism to synchronize link layer adjacency information among network elements. Selective passive ARP learning can be implemented by a modification to the ARP requests processing of the standby node, with a filter list containing a set of match rules... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080144635 - System and method for authenication to an application: A method for communicating from a first virtual machine, defined by a virtual machine operating system, to an external device via a local area network (LAN). The virtual machine operating system also defines other virtual machines and a base portion common to all of the virtual machines. The first virtual... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080144636 - Information communication system, information communication method, node device included in information communication system, and recording medium having information processing program recorded on it: In an information communication system formed by participation of a plurality of node devices, mutually connected through a communication route, a node device X determines representing node devices included in each of groups divided into a plurality of (four) groups in accordance with a predetermined rule (for example, DHT), transmits... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080144637 - Enterprise mobility: The present invention provides a service node, which extends the services of a carrier's multimedia subsystem (MS), such as an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS), to enterprise networks in an efficient and effective manner. As such, MS subscribers gain access to enterprise services in addition to the carrier's services provided via... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080144643 - Mesh network: There is provided a method comprising: providing two transmission bands for simultaneous communication of signals by a plurality of mesh nodes of a mesh network; dividing both of the transmission bands into at least three subchannel regions, each subchannel region including a subset of available logical subchannels of a multiple... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080144644 - Method and apparatus for exchanging routing information and the establishment of connectivity across multiple network areas: Routes may be installed across multiple link state protocol controlled Ethernet network areas by causing ABBs to leak I-SID information advertised by BEBs a L1 network area into an L2 network area. ABBs will only leak I-SIDs for BEBs where it is the closest ABB for that BEB. Where another... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras, LLP Attn: John C. Gorecki

20080144641 - Method and device for creating a tunnel in a label-switched telecommunication network: A method of creating a tunnel for transporting at least one data flow in a label-switched telecommunication network, the telecommunication network comprising at least one ingress edge router, a server able to define tunnels, called static tunnels, in the telecommunication network based on traffic forecasts in the telecommunication network. The... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080144640 - Method and system for managing communication in communication networks: A method and system for managing communication in a communication network is provided. A call server receives a call-request to establish a specific call with a terminating communication device. This call-request is received from an initiating communication device. The call server broadcasts an acknowledgement-request to a first set of controller... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080144639 - Method for addressing an ip network connecting to another ip network: To enable a visitor network to access a host network, a method includes steps in which a router of a visitor network connects to a router of a host network and transmits to it an address request message containing an identifier of the visitor router. The host router extracts, from... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080144642 - Residential gateway for ethernet based metro networks and a global hierarchical ethernet addressing system: A residential gateway (RG) for distributing multimedia services to residential and business premises is disclosed. The RG connects multiple communication devices, such as TVs, telephones, computers, security cameras, and utility billing devices, to an Ethernet based metro/access network through either an optic fiber or a coaxial cable. The RG multiplexes... Agent: Shaowen Song Department Of Physics And Computer Science

20080144638 - Vocabulary recognition of analog transmissions in a wireless digital network: Methods and systems in which vocabulary recognition enables routing of analog transmissions over digital networks are provided. In one embodiment, a method (200) of delivering analog transmissions over a digital network includes receiving (208) an analog transmission including source identifying vocabulary associated with a source of the transmission, converting (210)... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080144645 - Methods and devices of a queue controller for dual mode bidirectional audio communication: Disclosed are a queue controller and method thereof for 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 first transport or a second transport. The described queue... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080144646 - Method for configuring a telecommunication system: The invention relates to a method for configuring a telecommunication system comprising at least one sending entity and one receiving entity between which the same link transmits several transport channels with different qualities of service. The sending entity matches the rate between the different coded transport channels with separate qualities... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080144647 - Method and apparatus for a two-wire serial command bus interface: A method for bi-directional transmission of data between a source and a sink over a two-wire interface includes re-mapping a data signal and a clock signal from a first local bus on the source into a different protocol signal. Transmitting the different protocol signal from the source to the sink... Agent: Silicon Image, Inc.

20080144649 - Apparatus for multiplexing signals through i/o pins: One embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus that selectively multiplexes a plurality of signal lines through an I/O pin on a semiconductor chip. This apparatus includes an I/O pin, for coupling a signal line within the semiconductor chip to a signal line outside of the semiconductor chip. A... Agent: Edward W. Bulchis, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20080144648 - Data driven interface control circuit: A method and apparatus for an improvement of a computer network by bringing commonality down to the device driver level. The computer network having at least one processor node having a circuit control module and a plurality of dedicated combinations of device driver and device object. Each of the dedicated... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080144650 - Apparatus for contactless transmission of data from a memory: Apparatus for contactless data transmission according to a predetermined transmission protocol providing control information and payload for a data transmission, with a near field communicator and an interface connected to the near field communicator, the interface being operative to exchange, using a first protocol, data with the near field communicator... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080144652 - Apparatus, and associated method, for controlling connectivity of a computer device with a computer network: Apparatus, and an associated method, for controlling the communication connectivity of a computer device. The computer device is selectably connectable to a wired network and to a wireless network. A user selects one of the networks into which to place the computer device into the communication connectivity. The computer device... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080144651 - Method, system and program product for adapting to protocol changes: A method, system and program product for overriding existing functionality provided in an application programming interface (API) for a local protocol implementation is provided. The method includes providing an API for a local protocol implementation having a raw interface function that can be invoked by a client application to override... Agent: Silvy Anna Murphy

20080144653 - Self learning performance optimized data transfer via one or several communication channels between systems: A system and method for optimizing data transfers in requests from a calling system to a called system via one or more channels are disclosed. Performance data related to a set of performance metrics for one or more communication scenarios of the calling system are stored in a database. The... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.c. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080144658 - remote unit with exterior connectivity, and corresponding information delivery method: A remote unit consisting of an enclosure, equipment providing network access, connections to a limited amount of subscribers and a central office which also provides exterior connectivity. Users and information sources in the vicinity of the remote unit can use a wired or wireless interface to the remote unit for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080144657 - Method and apparatus for realizing the interworking of oam function between the ethernet and the mpls network: The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for realizing OAM function interworking between an Ethernet network and an MPLS network in network communication field. The method meets the challenge in realizing OAM functions when MPLS serves as a bearer network to bear Ethernet services, provides processing modes for... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080144659 - Network controller and method to support format negotiation between interfaces of a network: A controller of a communications network enables endpoints or multiple networks to intercommunicate using multiple types of bearer format (IP, TDM, ATM, Frame Relay, etc.), and enables a bearer format conversion when necessary to carry bearer channel information across an interface of the network. The network may be packet-based or... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080144656 - Schematic display of protocol-specific information: A test and measurement instrument for displaying data including an acquisition system configured to receive an input signal, a processor coupled to the acquisition system and configured to generate a schematic from protocol-specific information within the input signal, and a display coupled to the processor and configured to display the... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080144654 - Symbolic representation of protocol-specific information: In addition, a test and measurement instrument for displaying data includes an acquisition system configured to receive an input signal, a processor coupled to the acquisition system and configured to generate a symbolic representation of protocol-specific information within the input signal, and a user interface configured to present the symbolic... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080144655 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for passively transforming internet protocol (ip) network traffic: Methods, systems, and computer program products for passively transforming IP network traffic are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes identifying one of an application protocol event and a business-level event in IP network traffic. Data associated with the identified event can be transformed into a usable format. Further,... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080144661 - Congestion avoidance for link capacity adjustment scheme (lcas): A device determines a high watermark threshold for a subrate service, compares a traffic demand to the high watermark threshold, and adds a temporary bandwidth to an original bandwidth available to the subrate service if the traffic demand is greater than or equal to the high watermark threshold.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080144660 - Dynamically adjusting bandwidth usage among subscriber streams: Systems and methods are disclosed for adjusting bandwidth of streams carried on a subscriber loop. One exemplary method comprises the steps of: determining bandwidth in use on a subscriber loop; selecting, for adjustment, at least one of a plurality of TCP streams carried on the subscriber loop; and adjusting at... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20080144662 - Method and system for offloaded transport layer protocol switching: A method for using offloaded transport layer protocols involves signaling a network interface controller (NIC) with a signal to use one of multiple transport layer protocols embedded in the NIC, and transmitting a data packet via the NIC using the transport layer protocol.... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p./sun

20080144663 - Method and system for using bayesian network inference for selection of transport protocol algorithm: A method for optimizing a network stack includes inputting network information into a transport protocol algorithm selector, inputting a first transport protocol algorithm into the transport protocol algorithm selector, analyzing a result of the transport protocol algorithm selector, selecting the first transport protocol algorithm based on the result, receiving a... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p./sun

20080144664 - Data format and data transfer: A signal format that can be accessed, as a file, by the computer on which it is stored is provided with a plurality of concatenated content packages. The content package comprises System, Picture, Audio and Auxiliary Items. The System, Picture, Audio and Auxiliary Items have a common format including a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080144666 - Piggyback networks: Systems and/or methods for relaying messages between nodes in a network (e.g. a wireless network) are provided. In accordance with certain exemplary embodiments, substantially simultaneous communications between nodes may be accomplished. At least one secondary message may be piggybacked onto a primary message. Messages in the network may be queued... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080144665 - System and method for relaying turbo-coded piggyback messages: Systems and/or methods for relaying messages between nodes in a network (e.g. a wireless network) are provided. In accordance with certain exemplary embodiments, substantially simultaneous communications between nodes may be accomplished. At least one secondary turbo-coded message may be piggybacked onto a turbo-coded primary message. Messages in the network may... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080144667 - Method for transmitting subscriber-specific data: During the transmission of subscriber-specific data, particularly via a transfer medium and according to a transmission principle based on time slot transmission with time slot separation, the transfer medium used by several subscribers can also be efficiently used when the data rates of the data transmitted in the transmission direction... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080144670 - Data processing system and a method for synchronizing data traffic: The invention relates to a data processing system and a method for synchronizing data traffic. The data processing system according to the invention comprises a conversion unit, which conversion unit is arranged to convert a first flow control scheme applied in a first sub-network into a second flow control scheme... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080144669 - Propagation of conflict knowledge: A sync community may include a group of synchronization endpoints. When two synchronization endpoints of the sync community synchronize with one another, a synchronization data conflict may be detected when the two synchronization endpoints make a change to a same particular data item and the two synchronization endpoints were unaware... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080144668 - Self-checking pair-based master/follower clock synchronization: Systems and methods for network clock synchronization are provided. In one embodiment, a method for clock synchronization in a braided ring network comprises: providing a schedule for a braided ring network comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein at least two nodes comprise a self-checking pair of a first node and... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080137525 - Channel estimation method and apparatus determining a channel impulse response (cir) distribution area using two adjacent windows: A channel estimation method and apparatus based on two adjacent windows. The channel estimation method includes scanning a signal containing noise and channel impulse response (CIR) information with a first window and a second window, detecting a CIR distribution area based on the ratio between the average power of the... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080137524 - Location of wideband ofdm transmitters with limited receiver bandwidth: One illustrative embodiment takes the form of a system for locating wireless transmitters employing an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) digital modulation scheme. The OFDM scheme comprises transmitting signal components over narrowband frequency channels spanning a wideband channel. The system includes a first receiving system configured to receive a fraction... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080137526 - Systems and methods for achieving reduced inter-sector pilot interference in a mobile communication system: The pilots of a wireless system are arranged to reduce inter-sector interference by establishing a systematic assignment of pilots across the system. In one embodiment, the pilots are differently coded and directionally positioned within a cell such that the same pilot from adjacent cells do not overlap. In one embodiment,... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080137527 - Preamble detection using frequency based correlation: A method for detectable a pre-amble location in a multiple preamble OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) system is disclosed. An OFDM signal is generated with a plurality of frames, and each of the frames includes symbols and a predetermined preamble symbol. A maximum FDDC (Frequency Domain Differential Correlator) value is... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20080137529 - Method and apparatus for diagnosing voip-related communication faults: Method and system for diagnosing communication faults in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) session includes responding to a creation of a first interface by a customer of a VoIP service to a VoIP service provider, creating a second interface between the customer and the VoIP service provider, initiating a... Agent: Vonage

20080137530 - Method and system for resolving switch number conflicts in a stackable switch system: A method for resolving switch number conflicts in a stackable switch system includes communicating a message between switches in the stackable switch system and determining, based on the communicated message, that two or more switches in the stackable switch system have the same switch number. The method also includes, in... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080137528 - Voting to establish a new network master device after a network failover: Embodiments of the invention can resolve conflicts between candidate master network devices such as may be encountered in a failover condition. In a common type of failover protocol, two or more candidate master devices send messages to each other prior to a failover condition. A witness device (or process or... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080137531 - Sip presence server failover: A method for SIP presence server failover, the method including setting an expiration time of a SIP application session on a first SIP server having a first SIP presence server to match the expiration time of a SIP request that is associated with the SIP application session, setting a SIP... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080137532 - Fault tolerance in wireless networks operating in ad-hoc mode: A wireless network system includes a plurality of nodes. Each node includes two or more redundant network interfaces, and each one of these network interfaces operates on a different channel. A plurality of links couple the nodes together. A layer residing on each of the nodes detects a link status... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080137533 - Method and system for reconstructing bandwidth requirements of traffic stream before shaping while passively observing shaped traffic: Embodiments of the present invention may relate to methods of traffic measurement on a network. In some embodiments, the methods may include obtaining a measure of shaped traffic before shaping on the basis of passive traffic observations of the shaped traffic. In one embodiment, the method may include analysing a... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080137534 - Resource based data rate control: A method implemented in a node to forward data packets via a communication link to another node. The method includes receiving an indication of a resource level associated with one or more ports among the other node's ingress and egress ports. The indication to be received via a side-band communication... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080137535 - Flow admission control for wireless systems: An apparatus for a wireless communication system that includes means for determining available resources in the wireless communication system and means for determining an admission of a flow.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080137536 - Method for managing network node overload and system thereof: A method for managing a network node overload and a communication network system thereof, wherein upon transferring to a network entity (i.e., the RNC or CN entity) at least one or more information elements by being included in a certain message through an Iu interface (or an IuFlex interface) which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080137537 - Method for optimal packet scheduling for wireless and mobile communications networks: This invention relates to a centralized packet scheduler for a wireless communications network such as HSDPA, 1×EV-DO Revisions 0, A and B, WiMAX, infrastructure-mode WiFi and any other type of network where centralized packet scheduling is applicable. The invention provides a utility-opportunity cost packet scheduling scheme for high-speed access that... Agent: Stephen J. Scribner Parteq Innovations

20080137540 - Method and apparatus for analysing traffic in a network: Embodiment of the present invention relate to methods of traffic measurement on a network. In some embodiments, the methods include obtaining a measure of shaped traffic before shaping using reference packets injected onto the network at a first location (prior to shaping). The methods may further include measuring the traffic... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080137539 - Method and apparatus for generating a unique packet identifier: A method and apparatus for generating a unique packet identifier from receive packet header information accepts a series of packet words that make up a packet and selects a subset of a first packet word and a subset of a second packet word. The unique packet identifier is generated from... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080137538 - Performance measuring in a packet transmission network: In a data packet transmission network a stream of packets of data sent by a first terminal passes in transit through at least one network equipment with which there is associated a stream measurement unit; wherein said first terminal and said measurement unit are connected to a collection unit. The... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080137541 - Providing dynamic changes to packet flows: Systems and methods for providing dynamic changes to a packet flow in a communication network are described. The dynamic changes can include upgrading and downgrading quality of service (QoS), adapting the stream to a receiving device, modifying the stream to counter-act changes in an air interface, and modifying the stream... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080137542 - Method for detecting abnormal network packets: The present invention discloses a method for detecting abnormal network packets, which is applied to a packet distributing unit in a network. The packet distributing unit exchanges a plurality of network packets with a plurality of network devices on an extranet, and records a destination IP address, a destination port... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080137543 - Remote testing of an electronic device via network connection: An electronic device having logic that allows testing the device via a network interface is disclosed herein. The electronic device comprises the following. The electronic device has testing logic that receives test input signals and generate a test output signal. The electronic device has a network interface that is operable... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080137544 - Method and terminal for setting up a packet-oriented communication link: A packet-oriented communication link is set up from a first to a second terminal in a data network. The first terminal sends a test data packet to the second terminal, the route of the test data packet in the data network being detected. The detected route is used to check... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080137545 - Channel switching method for use with wireless peripheral device: The present invention provides a channel switching method for use with a wireless mouse by intelligently switching the communication channels with a wireless signal receiver. Firstly, the packet error rate is detected to discriminate whether the number of continuous failed packets is greater than a threshold value. Subsequently, the received... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080137552 - Apparatus and method of measuring and managing real-time speech quality in voip network: Provided are an apparatus and method of measuring and managing speech quality in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network. According to the present invention, a call session and speech quality are processed by transmitting and receiving messages between a terminal and the apparatus so that a high-quality VoIP service,... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080137546 - Distributed message routing in a virtualized messaging system using recursive least squares links cost estimation with choke points: Routing data packet traffic in packet networks, expediting the flow of the data packets and reducing the effects of congestion at nodes is accomplished by capturing latency data for nodes for initial measurement times; and computing a least squares estimate of the delay as a recursive least-squares solution.... Agent: Richard M. Goldman

20080137547 - Location-based address resolution: The present invention relates to a method that provides for advertising a network node to a managing node in a communication network. To this end, at the network node, position data of the network node are determined. At the managing node, at least one condition to be satisfied by the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080137551 - Ofdma with adaptive subcarrier-cluster configuration and selective loading: A method and apparatus for allocating subcarriers in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises allocating at least one diversity cluster of subcarriers to a first subscriber and allocating at least one coherence cluster to a second subscriber.... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080137550 - System and method for monitoring quality of service: A computer implemented method is provided for monitoring the quality of service of a service provider, the method comprising the steps of receiving first and second reports from first and second clients, respectively, the first and second reports having information relating to the quality of service provided by the service... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080137549 - System and method of managing network performance: Disclosed is a system and method of managing network performance. The method includes receiving input data identifying a customer. The method also includes determining a plurality of network elements related to the customer, where the customer receives video content over a private video distribution network that includes the plurality of... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080137548 - System capability discovery for software defined radio: Capability checking to examine a computing device's capabilities to determine if the device supports a software defined radio to communicate according to a specific wireless protocol. Applicants have appreciated that as the reliance on software defined radio increases, numerous potential options may be available to a user for performing wireless... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080137555 - Concurrent association with multiple wireless networks: A wireless station has a media access controller (MAC) and a concurrent association manager. The concurrent association manager concurrently associates the wireless station with two or more wireless coordinators. Each wireless coordinator forms its respective wireless network. The concurrent association manager sets the wireless station in a sleep mode operation... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080137553 - Method of automatic certification and secure configuration of a wlan system and transmission device thereof: A method of automatic certification and secure configuration of a wireless local area network (WLAN) includes performing a first configuration at a wireless access point (AP), executing a connection program at a client terminal corresponding to the first configuration, increasing a relative signal strength indicator (RSSI) threshold, and creating a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080137554 - Method of geographicallly locating network addresses incorporating probabilities, inference and sets: Method for geographically network equipment on a communications network, such as the Internet, using communication times to and from the network equipment to be located. Communication time measurements are taken from measuring stations on the network to the equipment to be geographically located and also to other locations of known... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080137556 - Mesh networking auto configuration method, virtual link setting method, packet transmission method in multi-hop wireless lan, and terminal thereof: Provided are a mesh networking auto configuration method, a virtual link setting method, and a packet transmission method in a multi-hop wireless local area network (LAN), and a terminal thereof. According to the provided methods and terminal, the mobility and connectivity of a wireless terminal is guaranteed in a multi-hop... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080137557 - Bridged lan and communication node therefor: A spanning tree is formed for each of MST (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol) instances defined by a VLAN ID and a COS value. Each terminal apparatus specifies the COS value corresponding to the TCP/UDP port number of a Ethernet frame to be transmitted, based on a conversion table indicating the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080137558 - Catch-up playback in a conferencing system: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving input indicating that an endpoint is dropping out of a real-time mode of attending an on-going conference session. A comment/question received from the endpoint is recorded along with a portion of the on-going conference session beginning at a time point when the endpoint... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080137559 - Conference system: According to one embodiment, a conference system includes: plural terminals that communicate with each other through a communication network; a server that performs a call control for the terminals; and a conference unit that implements a conference among the terminals through the communication network. At least one of the terminals... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080137560 - High-frequency circuit apparatus and communication apparatus using the same: A high-frequency circuit has a duplexer and a filter. The duplexer performs wave separation of send and received signals as input thereto. The filter filters the input send signal. When the send and received signals of the first modulation method are input, the send signal and the received signal of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080137561 - Rf repeater used for time division duplexing and method thereof: The present invention relates to an RF repeater used in a time division method, and a method thereof. An RF repeater according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention receives a downlink signal that is to be transmitted from a base station to a mobile terminal, performs first automatic... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080137563 - Automatic frequency offset compensation in a tdd wireless ofdm communication system: Offsets in the transmit clock in a wireless communication system are corrected by using data distributed over many frequencies. In the time domain the system uses separate copies of the same signal transmitted with a known spacing in terms of transmit clock signals. The variation of timing between the received... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080137562 - Methods and apparatus for communication with time-division duplexing: Methods and apparatus for an adaptable frame structure are disclosed, where a transmission frame consists of multiple subframes, each containing a downlink transmission period and an uplink transmission period. A downlink broadcasting signal is used to indicate the configuration of each subframe. The downlink and uplink period configuration in each... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080137572 - Apparatus and method for controlling home appliances using zigbee wireless communication: Provided are an apparatus and method for controlling home appliances using zigbee wireless communication. The apparatus, includes: a memory for storing a control profile and an operation program, and operating the stored operation program; a display means for supporting interface with a user; a display input/output control means for controlling... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080137571 - Communication device and communication management system: A communication device having a communication module as data circuit-terminating equipment connecting to a wireless packet communication network, and a controller interposed between the communication module and a data terminal equipment. The controller controls communication performed by the data terminal equipment using the communication module. The controller extracts, from a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080137564 - Data transmission system: In order to minimize the overall delay when transmitting data via the HS-DSCH in UMTS, provisions should be made that an RLC entity on the UE side receives RLC PDUs carried by the HS-DSCH as early as possible from the MAC-hs layer, while at the same time keeping the right... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080137576 - Delayed mobile node registration with home agent: Mobile node registration with the home network of the mobile node is delayed when the mobile node moves to a foreign network. The mobile node has a home network in which the mobile node has a home address. In response to the mobile node moving to a foreign network (such... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20080137570 - Dual mode wpan transceiver: There is provided a dual mode WPAN transceiver including a dual mode WPAN transmitter and a dual mode WPAN receiver. In the dual mode WPAN transceiver, the dual mode WPAN transmitter includes a low-speed spreading transmission block spreading low bit-rate data corresponding to a low data rate in low data... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080137575 - Dynamic reallocation of bandwidth and modulation protocols: Systems for dynamic reallocation of bandwidth and modulation protocols is provided. In one embodiment, a radio head interface module comprises: a transmit buffer adapted to receive a data stream from a signal processing module and store the data stream as a page of data samples having a page header; a... Agent: Fogg & Powers Llc

20080137568 - Heterogeneous network transmission apparatus, method, and computer readable medium capable of transmitting a packet with a plurality of network paths according to an assignment ratio: A heterogeneous network apparatus, method, computer program, and computer readable medium can detect path status parameters of heterogeneous networks. The path status parameters are used to calculate path priorities. The path priorities are used to determine an assignment ratio. The assignment ratio is used to assign network paths to transmit... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080137565 - Hybrid wi-fi network for wireless city applications: This invention provides a hybrid Wi-Fi system, which consists of an regular Wi-Fi Internet Data system for data service and a special ASWT Wi-Fi VoIP network for voice service. These two systems are combined together through a special arrangement and quality of service (QoS) control to separate and adapt these... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai And Associates, P.c.

20080137574 - Method and apparatus for handling data delivery in a wireless communications system: A method for handling data delivery in a wireless communications system includes receiving a plurality of packets, delivering a first packet with a first sequence number and a second packet with a second sequence number in the plurality of packets to a data processing entity based on a receiving order... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080137573 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a packet via high speed downlink packet access: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a packet via high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) are disclosed. At least one HSDPA medium access control (MAC-hs) service data unit (SDU) is segmented into a plurality of segments. MAC-hs protocol data units (PDUs) are generated from the segments wherein each... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080137569 - Method and system for distributing mobile broadcast service and mobile terminal: A method and a system for distributing a mobile broadcast service are provided. The method includes: adding header information into broadcast service contents, the header information comprising integrality information and version information of a service packet containing the broadcast service contents; distributing the service packet to a user terminal; updating... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080137566 - Method and system for shared high-power transmit path for a multi-protocol transceiver: Aspects of a method and system for a shared high-power transmit path for a multi-protocol transceiver are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include sharing a first power amplifier with a WLAN signal and a Bluetooth signal. The first power amplifier may amplify the WLAN signal and/or the Bluetooth signal... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080137567 - Systems and methods for transporting data across an air interface using reduced address headers: Systems and methods are disclosed for transporting data across an air interface using a blending of protocol layers to achieve reduced bandwidth. Advantage is taken of the fact that the extra overhead from, for example, the Ethernet protocol is addressing information pertaining to the destination of the packet. This destination... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080137578 - Network sensor system and protocol: A network sensor system and protocol is provided. The network sensor system includes a sensor node that has a sensor for collecting high-resolution data, and a radio for transmitting that data to a central hub. The sensor node communicates to the hub with a wireless data link, and operators solely... Agent: William J. Kolegraff

20080137579 - Power assigning method and wireless base station apparatus using the method: A power assigning method for a wireless base station apparatus that includes a main system for performing normal packet communications between the wireless base station apparatus and mobile stations and includes a subsystem for performing high speed packet communications from the wireless base station apparatus to the mobile stations is... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080137577 - System and method for dynamic adaptation of data rate and transmit power with a beaconing protocol: A system, apparatus, and method are provided for dynamically selecting the data rate and/or transmit (TX) power The method consists of devices periodically transmitting beacon frames in which they include data rate and/or TX power feedback for all senders of data streams, of which the devices are a receiver. The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080137583 - Algorithm for grouping stations for transmission in a multi-phase frame structure to support multi-hop wireless broadband access communications: A station grouping mechanism has been presented for a wireless device that collects Multi-hop Relay Base Station (MR-BS) and Relay Stations (RSs) into groups according to their locations in a tree topology and assigns them with a phase. Grouping or partitioning MR-BS and RSs and assigning a distinct phase to... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080137584 - Apparatus and method for selecting frame structure in multihop relay broadband wireless access communication system: Apparatus and method for selectively using a frame structure adequate for a system environment in a multihop relay wireless communication system are provided. The method includes generating a control signal including the frame information; and transmitting the control signal to a child Relay Station (RS). Accordingly, the frame structure adequate... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080137587 - Communication relay method and device: A wireless communication system including a wireless relay station storing a priority table in which identifiers of the communications that are relayed with higher priority are registered, a wireless relay device relaying communications specified by the communication identifiers registered in the priority table with higher priority than other communications, a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080137581 - Data forwarding techniques for wireless relay networks: Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to wireless networks, such as relay networks or multi-hop networks. According to an example embodiment, a wireless network may be provided that may include one or more relay nodes operating in a decode-and-forward (DF) mode, and one or more relay nodes operating in an... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080137580 - Method, communication device and system for address resolution mapping in a wireless multihop ad hoc network: A method is presented for address resolution mapping in a wireless multihop communication network wherein the network is built up by client devices and/or infrastructure devices, network traffic is based on using ARP forwarding and rebroadcasting to locate devices in such a network architecture. The invention also includes devices for... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080137582 - Packet access router and ranging method using the same in mobile communication system: The present invention relates to a packet access router and a ranging method using the same in a mobile communication system. In the mobile communication system to which the packet access router is introduced, a better initial access process and a periodic ranging process are performed so as to accurately... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080137585 - Relay apparatus for relaying a data packet to be transmitted from a first partner transceiver to a second partner transceiver: A relay apparatus for relaying a data packet to be transmitted from a first partner transceiver to a second partner transceiver having a receive unit for receiving the data packet and for receiving an acknowledgement packet to be transmitted from the second partner transceiver to the first partner transceiver when... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080137586 - Relay for extended range point-to-point wireless packetized data communication system: A limited acknowledgement-based communication methodology increases the throughput efficiency of a relay-based, extended range, wireless packetized data transmissions to a data-reception site from a data-sourcing site, geographically remote with respect to the data-reception site. Rather than return an acknowledgement for each received packet, the data-reception site returns an acknowledgement only... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.a.

20080137588 - Optimistic access procedure at dormant target handset in a cdma2000 1x network with f-qpch enabled: A system and method for reducing communication latency including monitoring a communication channel for a plurality of indicators wherein a first indicator represents a desired communication operation; basing a communication operation upon a second indicator that indicates that the communication operation has an optimistic probability of success; and initiating an... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080137589 - Wireless mine tracking, monitoring, and rescue communications system: An intrinsically safe accurate location information network for personnel and assets in underground mines, including wireless access points and subnetwork controllers, active wireless locator/messenger tags, network controller(s), and enterprise servers running application control software. The wireless access points are installed in mine entries and crosscuts and track the active wireless... Agent: Stainbrook & Stainbrook, LLP

20080137594 - Apparatus and method for increasing a service coverage area of a broadcast channel in wireless communication system by using an harq scheme: Provided is an apparatus and method for increasing the service coverage area of a broadcast channel in a wireless communication system by using a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) scheme. The method receives a MAP message including information about the type of a Media Access Control (MAC) management message transmitted... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080137591 - Communication route optimization method, corresponding apparatus and system: It is an object of the present invention that a suitable correspondent router or suitable route is found when route will be optimized between a mobile node (MN) or a mobile router (MR) and a correspondent node (CN) by using a correspondent router (CR). MN 125, the home agent (HA)... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc

20080137590 - Detachable wireless adapter for vehicle communication modules: A wireless adapter for use with a vehicle communication module (VCM) for converting a signal received from a vehicle in a first signal protocol to a second signal in a second signal protocol. The VCM has a network connector dedicated to sending and receiving signals compliant to a local area... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080137592 - Method and apparatus for flexible network architecture: In a method and apparatus for providing a flexible network architecture, an apparatus operable in a communication system comprises one or more logical entities adapted to provide a set of functions related to a connection through the communication system, wherein said logical entities are connected in series, and a subset... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080137593 - System and method for controlling mobile device access to a network: The invention provides a method for managing access to a network resource on a network from a mobile device, the method including the steps of intercepting a data stream from the mobile device attempting to access the network resource, extracting information from the intercepted data stream relating to at least... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080137599 - Beacon scheduling system and method for preventing beacon overlapping: Provided are a beacon scheduling system and method for preventing beacon overlapping in a ZigBee network including routers each with a beacon slot number according to a specific time slot. The system includes: a first router periodically transmitting beacons at a beacon interval according to a specific time slot; and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080137602 - Location specific event broadcasting: Applications in a broadcast environment distribute events in real-time to a large number of receivers within specified geographic locations while efficiently sharing bandwidth resources with other applications using the same broadcast network. Applications need not be aware of the other applications sharing the resources, nor of the methods, protocols, and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080137598 - Method and system for controlling the establishment of communications channels for allowing transmission of multimedia information: The method allows communications means to be listed, for end-to-end broadcasting of information other than that required for managing multimedia sessions. After a selection (52) of communications channels through an infrastructure for managing multimedia sessions, the method provides via the application level, the establishment of a communication specifically using the... Agent: Perman & Green

20080137596 - Method and system for providing system information in a communication network: Method and system for providing system information in a communication network. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for providing networking routing in compliance with a Mobile IP protocol. The method includes providing a mobile node, which includes a plurality of interfaces. The plurality of interfaces includes... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080137597 - Method for negotiating the maximum resource for sharing in ofdma-based communications system: A method for resource allocation in a wireless communications network and the respective wireless communications system are provided. The method includes providing an access network; providing an access terminal; joining the access terminal into a group of the access network, wherein access terminals in the group share a group of... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.l.p.

20080137603 - Method of implicit deassignment of resources: Accordingly, a method and apparatus are provided that use implicit deassignment, instead of explicit deassignment, of resources, such that a mobile terminal can interpret the assignment of the resources to other channel terminals as an implied deassignment of the resources. Thus, reducing the number of assignment or the assignment between... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080137595 - Methods and systems for base station installation in distributed call processing networks: Methods and systems are provided for establishing a logical flow path between a radio network controller (RNC) having multiple call processors that are operable in a distributed manner and a base station, in particular a Node B, being served by the RNC using an internet protocol (IP) transport technology. In... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20080137600 - System and method for allocating wireless resources in wireless personal area network: Provided are a system and a method for allocating wireless resources in a WPAN. The system includes an MAC layer. The MAC layer divides a superframe into a predetermined number of groups, estimates the number of MASs requested by the MAC client and the number of required consecutive MASs, and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080137601 - Uplink framing method and apparatus in mobile communication system: The present invention relates to an uplink framing method and apparatus in a mobile communication system. After a mobile terminal and a base station are connected to each other in a wireless manner, the base station allocates an uplink radio resource to a medium access control (MAC) layer of the... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080137606 - Method and apparatus of enabling multi band transmission: A method and apparatus for enabling multi-band transmission includes transmitting a beacon on a first radio band and transmitting the beacon on a second radio band. The beacon includes coordination information for transmission on the first and second radio bands.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080137604 - Method and system for redistribution of communication devices in a wireless network: A method and system for redistribution of a plurality of communication devices (114 to 120) from a first frequency band to a desired frequency band in a wireless network (100) is provided. The plurality of communication devices are in a slotted mode. The method includes dividing the plurality of communication... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080137605 - Uplink acknowledgment channel in wireless communication: A shared uplink acknowledgment (ACK) channel can be communicated to the payload recipient. The shared uplink ACK channel information can be communicated in the payload message or in a broadcast control channel. Reserving a dedicated time-frequency chunk for these short ACK messages and multiplexing different users to the same time... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080137612 - Access mode switch for a user equipment of a communication system: 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 request message from the UE to the GANC that... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080137611 - Apparatus and method of ip mobility management for persistent connections: The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for IP mobility management for persistent connections. Without affecting the applications on the network domain, it provides for domain hand-off for a mobile node so that the mobile node can maintain the persistent connection. The mobility management apparatus may comprise... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080137613 - Dynamic network selection using kernels: A method for determining whether to perform vertical handoff between multiple network. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of selection metrics for each network, calculating, for each of the other communication networks, a predicted utility value from at least the corresponding plurality of selection metrics using a variable kernel regression... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20080137607 - Method and system for management of handover only trunk line between mobile switching centers for handover in mixed mobile communication system of an asynchronous network and a synchronous network: Disclosed are a method and a system for management of handover only trunk line between mobile switching centers for handover in a mixed mobile communication system of an asynchronous network and a synchronous network. The invention is performed to connect and disconnect a trunk line between asynchronous mobile switching centers... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080137614 - Method and system for transmitting reverse data in a mobile communication system: Disclosed is a method for controlling a reverse data rate by a mobile station in a mobile communication system supporting high-rate packet data transmission. The method includes receiving average loading information (FRAB) from a particular base station when the mobile station attempts an initial access to the base station; setting... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080137608 - Methods and devices for associating users to base stations in third generation wireless networks using fairness considerations: The transmission of data from base stations to users (and their devices) in a wireless network is made using proportional fairness without sacrificing throughput by taking in to account fairness considerations at the time the devices are associated with a base station.... Agent: Capitol Patent & Trademark Law Firm, Pllc

20080137610 - System and method for managing wireless base station handoff information: The present invention is directed to a system and method which base stations send informational messages to neighbor base stations when conditions change, so that the neighbor base stations can update its database to keep itself current on the parameters (including availability, traffic load, modulation scheme, etc.) to use in... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080137609 - Systems and methods for increasing mobility in fixed wideband wireless applications: By arranging base stations in a wireless protocol with an ability to handle air interface transmissions on a class of service basis, as opposed to a specific station identification basis, mobility across base stations is achieved. In one embodiment, each station is assigned a class of service and each station... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080137615 - Method of setting l3 handover path guaranteeing flow-based qos in mobile ipv6 network: Provided is a method of setting a layer 3 (L3) handover path in a mobile IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) network while guaranteeing a flow-based QoS (Quality of Service). The method includes receiving verification of QoS-related information and flow information of a mobile terminal in a home network from a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080137616 - Methods and apparatus for reducing interference: Methods and apparatus for high throughput wireless cells and networks are described. The wireless cells may be equipped with multiple radios. Antennas may be arranged into overlapping and non-overlapping patterns. Channels may be assigned to foster servicing clients, and inter-cell communication. Attenuation may be used to decrease interference. Networks may... Agent: Letham Law Firm, Llc

20080137617 - Code sequence and radio station: A code sequence is described by a line of a code matrix, the latter being obtained by formation of a Hadamard matrix with a length n and multiplication of lines of the Hadamard matrix by −1.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080137619 - Apparatus and method for setting time information in mobile communication system: Provided are an apparatus and a method for setting time information of an area in which a portable terminal, used in an asynchronous mobile communication system, is positioned. The apparatus includes a communicator for transmitting a time information setup request message to a Base Station (BS) and receiving a time... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080137618 - Look-ahead bandwidth requesting method in mobile communication system and mobile terminal using the same: A look-ahead bandwidth requesting method and a mobile terminal using the look-ahead bandwidth requesting method in a mobile communication system are provided. The mobile terminal receives a downlink packet from a base station and transmits the downlink packet to a terminal equipment system. If the downlink packet received from the... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080137620 - System and method for timeslot and channel allocation: A distributed multi-channel TDMA MAC time slot and channel allocation algorithm for wireless networks is provided. The time slot and channel allocation includes a distributed allocation phase and an allocation adjustment phase. Each phase begins allocation at a first node and continues node-by-node until the last node in the network.... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080137630 - Apparatus and method for providing packet data service using heterogeneous networks: An apparatus and method for providing a packet data service by using a plurality of heterogeneous networks is provided. The apparatus includes: a controller for allocating a representative IP address to the terminal and for binding sub-IP address, which are allocated to the terminal by the heterogeneous wireless networks, to... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080137626 - Apparatus and method for searching for wlan in portable terminal: Provided is an apparatus and method for searching for a WLAN in a portable terminal. The method includes, upon registering a WLAN, mapping and storing cell information on a present position and information on the registered WLAN; comparing the stored cell information with connected cell information when entering a mode... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080137623 - Apparatus, method, and computer readable medium thereof for simultaneously establishing links with a plurality of nodes: An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium thereof for simultaneously establishing links with a plurality of nodes in a wireless network are provided. A processing module determines whether a mesh network configuration message of the apparatus has space to packet an information element and determines whether to transmit a Neighbor... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080137629 - Communication method for using bandwidth efficiently in internet protocol version 6: A communication method for using bandwidth efficiently in Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) is provided to minimize use of header information that is added when the terminal is moved. According to the present invention, while maintaining compatibility between general terminals that conform to the mobile IPv6, bandwidth can be more... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080137625 - Communication system resource management device resource management method communication management device and communication management method: An object is, when a mobile terminal performs a handover, to more quickly reset a path after the handover and reduce interrupt time (particularly interrupt time of a QoS path) of packet communication. For example, in a state in which a MN 101 has not acquired an address (NCoA) of... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080137628 - Communication terminal, communication method and communication program: In order to simplify the operation during a call, a communication terminal includes: a radio circuit and a wireless LAN circuit; a flash ROM storing user identification information for identifying a target to communicate and telephone book data in which the user identification information and multiple pieces of access information... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080137621 - Maintaining network availability for wireless clients in a wireless local area network: In an example embodiment, there is described herein a technique that provides network availability to wireless clients (e.g. wireless clients running mission critical applications such as voice applications or medical devices) when a portions of a network is unavailable, such as when performing an image upgrade. One or more access... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080137624 - Method and apparatus for management of a global wireless sensor network: Methods and apparatus for global wireless sensor network architecture and protocol for remote supervision, asset control and operational management based on localized clusters of autonomous sensor/supervision/operational sensor nodes capable of ad hoc interconnection with nearby nodes and connection to gateway nodes with increased network functionality. These localized cluster nodes send... Agent: Woods, Rogers, P.L.C

20080137627 - Method and system for coexistence between 20 mhz and 40 mhz overlapping basic service sets (obss) in wireless local area networks: Aspects of a method and system for coexistence between 20 MHz and 40 MHz OBSSes in WLANs. Aspects of a system may include a receiving device, such as a WLAN station (STA), which enables reception of an information frame, such as a management frame, via a wireless communication medium. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080137622 - Method and system for connecting to a network via a wireless local area network: A method of and a system (1) for connecting a wireless enabled device (9) to a network, such as the Internet (13), is disclosed. The system (1) comprises a wireless access point (3) connected to the Internet (13), a server (15) and storage means (17). The wireless access point (3)... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080137631 - System and method for controlling device location determination: A controlling device such as a remote control has programming for transmitting a signal response to a plurality of control environments, each environment including a signaling device. Each signaling device in receipt of the signal request sends a signal response having a unique ID which is chosen to be characteristically... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080137632 - Apparatus and method of controlling power of terminal in mobile communication system: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of controlling power of a terminal in a mobile communication system. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a code division multiple access (CDMA) code is transmitted to a base station to perform an initial ranging process. Then, when... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080137633 - Mobile communication system, user equipment in mobile communication system, control program thereof, and synchronization establishment determination method in mobile communication system: Even when transmitted waves of multiple systems become approximately out of phase while diversity transmission is performed in a W-CDMA wireless system, synchronization establishment determination is more adequately performed. In a W-CDMA wireless system 1, even if it is determined in a normal synchronization establishment determination that synchronization cannot be... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080137634 - Cognitive multi-user ofdm: A computing device operating according to a frequency division multiplexed protocol in which communication occurs over a signal formed from a plurality of sub-channels selected from anywhere in a frequency spectrum. A computing device may select sub-channels cognitively by using information about sub-channels previously deemed suitable or unsuitable by that... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080137635 - Pre-processing systems and methods for mimo antenna systems: A method for controlling a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna system comprises at a first communication unit, receiving a table from a second communication unit, the table including a plurality of space time processing schemes based on predicted channel state information, selecting at least one of the schemes from... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080137636 - Radio transmission scheduling according to multiradio control in a radio modem: A system for managing the simultaneous operation of a plurality of radio modems in a single wireless communication device (WCD). The multiradio control may be integrated into the WCD as a subsystem responsible for scheduling wireless communications by temporarily enabling or disabling the plurality of radio modems within the device.... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080137637 - Method for encoding broadcast channel protocol data unit based on broadcast control channel scheduling error in universal mobile telecommunications system: A method for encoding a broadcast channel protocol data unit (BCH PDU) based on a broadcast control channel (BCCH) scheduling error in a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) having a Node B and a radio network controller includes setting up a call between the radio network controller and the Node... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080137638 - Communication network system of bus network structure and message routing method using the system: Disclosed is a method for processing a message routing in a communication network system having a bus network structure, wherein: the communication network system includes a broker processing a message routing, a connector, and a plurality of services which is a communicable terminal node connected to the broker via the... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080137643 - Accessing call control functions from an associated device: Aspects of the present invention are directed at integrating the functions of a computer and an IP phone without requiring an intermediary computing device to manage the exchange of control information. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided for initiating a call from a computer that remotely accesses... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20080137639 - Localization of telephone subscribers connected to a packet network: The invention relates to a method for the localization of a telephone terminal for a voice link conducted via a packet network. The telephone terminal is registered with the call number and allocated localization information in a server which is localized in the packet network. If the localization of the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080137645 - Method and arrangement for providing information on multimedia options: A method and arrangement for providing updated information on the availability of multimedia options to terminal users. A first terminal (A) is initially engaged in a voice call with a second terminal (B) by using a first access (100) admitting simultaneous multimedia communication. At least one available multimedia option (104,106)... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080137644 - Methods and apparatus to provide voice over internet protocol (voip) services: Methods and apparatus to provide voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services are disclosed. An example method comprises initiating a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) session to a service entity, initiating a data transfer session to the service entity based upon a parameter associated with the VoIP session, the data transfer... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, Llc

20080137642 - Mobile device call to computing device: A call is established between a user at a mobile device and a contact logged into a communication service through a computer application. A user selects a contact through a page displayed on a mobile device. The contact may be an email address, a messaging username, or some other contact... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080137646 - Providing interaction management for communication networks: Systems and methods for providing interaction management to network devices in a communication network are described. A gateway may be used to implement the interaction capabilities on packet flows for IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) and multimedia domain (MMD) architectures. Interaction managers and proxy agents can be provided by the gateway,... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080137648 - System and method for facilitating calls between packet-based networks: A method of facilitating calls includes receiving a message at a mediation server from a first device associated with a first packet-based network, the message relating to a second device associated with a second packet-based network. The method also includes identifying first connection information relating to the first device, where... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080137640 - Systems and methods for recording: Included are embodiments for recording data from a communication. A least one embodiment includes receiving media data associated with the communication from a first communications device at a first receive port and sending the received media data to a first transmit port, wherein the first transmit port is coupled to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080137641 - Systems and methods for recording data: Included are embodiments for recording data from a communication. A least one embodiment includes a system for recording data from a communication. Embodiments of a system include a controller component configured to receive control data associated with a communication and a first switching component configured to receive media data associated... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080137647 - Voip terminal and method for providing multi-call service: A multi-call VoIP terminal constructed with a proxy server interworking unit, connecting the multi-call VoIP terminal to a proxy server to enable communications with an external network terminal; an Sub terminal checking unit disposed to check a physical interworking status of the multi-call VoIP terminal to an IP terminal and... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080137650 - Conversion of dtmf carrying ip packets: A method and apparatus is described to convert DTMF packets at a network node in an IP network. The method may comprise receiving an Internet Protocol (IP) packet at the network node connected via a first IP network link to a first network device, and connected via a second IP... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080137651 - Hybrid packet-switched and circuit-switched telephony system: A hybrid telephony system with packet switching as well as circuit switching optimizes utilization of transport networks, and is accessible from any conventional telephone set. A call originating from a circuit-switched network is passed through a gateway computer to a backbone packet-switched network, and then through a second gateway computer... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080137649 - Techniques for implementing logical trunk groups with session initiation protocol (sip): Techniques for implementing logical trunk groups with session initiation protocol (SIP) are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as an apparatus for implementing logical trunk groups with session initiation protocol (SIP). The apparatus may comprise a first network device and a second network device that... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080137652 - Data packet transmission in a single container: Data transmission in a telecommunication system may become critical if too many data packets of the same logical channel are contained in a single container which gets lost. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, this problem may be circumvented by accommodating only a maximum number of data... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080137653 - Method for transferring packets in networks comprising a plurality of linked intermediate networks: The invention relates to a method, devices and system for transit of information over packet switched networks, in particular for transit of an end-to-end connection over a plurality of such networks (1′, 1, 1″) using a transit method that is independent on the network technology used in the different networks.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080137654 - Method of managing signaling message in path-based signaled paths to mpls-enabled core network: Provided is a method of processing a signaling message between a subscriber network supporting path-coupled signaling and a multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) label-switched path (LSP)-based transmission network. According to the method, it is possible to process a path-coupled signaling message generated in the transmission network while corresponding them to a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080137655 - System and method of resource management and call admission control in access network: The method of resource management and call admission control in an access network includes: (a) collecting resource information on all of devices constituting the access network and hierarchically constructing the resource information on the access network; (b) when a user requests a connection to the access network, hierarchically extracting position... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080137656 - Method and apparatus for multicasting data: A method of and apparatus for multicasting data. The method used by a server for multicasting data to a plurality of clients includes receiving information on reception environments from the clients; classifying the clients into a plurality of groups based reception environments included in the received information,; and multicasting data... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080137658 - Apparatus and method for computer management: An apparatus and a method for computer management are provided. In the present invention, the baseboard management controllers (BMCs) of a plurality of baseboards are connected through a network. A broadcasting packet is sent to each BMC by switching a virtual local area network (VLAN) so as to obtain a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080137660 - Multicasting unicast packet/multiple classification of a packet: A switch and a method are described herein that are capable of performing the following steps: (a) receiving the unicast packet which is a L3 routed packet at a port in a first Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN); (b) routing the received packet to a loopback port in a second... Agent: Alcatel Lucent (fka Alcatel Internetworking, Inc.)

20080137657 - Quality of service and encryption over a plurality of mpls networks: A network device may transmit a request to each of a plurality of multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) networks for a label switched path (LSP) label, wherein each LSP label provides a defined quality of service connection through a corresponding MPLS network. The network device may then receive from each of... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080137659 - Secured ipv6 traffic preemption: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by an access router, an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) packet that specifies a request for executing a preemptive service for data packets specifying a prescribed flow label field value identified in the request. The method further includes attempting authentication of the request... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20080137662 - Asynchronous data transmission: A method of, and system for, asynchronous data transmission are disclosed which have application in the transmission of stock exchange data or replicated memory data. Later transmitted data (14) is used to overwrite earlier transmitted and received data (13). However, earlier transmitted data (14) which is received later than later... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080137661 - Method and apparatus for processing downstream packets of cable modem in hybrid fiber coaxial networks: A packet processing apparatus of a cable modem in hybrid fiber coaxial networks for processing a packet received from a cable modem termination system through a plurality of downstream channels is provided. A specific channel number is assigned to each channel and the cable modem termination system transmits downstream service... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080137665 - Updating quality of service reservation: A method, an associated end point and an associated for updating a reservation established for a session between a first end point in a first administrative domain and a second end point in a second administrative domain wherein the reservation is valid in the first administrative domain between the first... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080137663 - Identifier verification method in peer-to-peer networks: An identifier verification method for determining whether an identifier of a second peer node is reliable, at first peer node, in a distributed peer to peer network without a server, the network having a plurality of peer nodes connected to an Internet, the identifier verification method including: obtaining the identifier... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080137664 - Alternating scheduling method for use in a mesh network: An alternating scheduling algorithm is useful in a mesh network. Transmissions are scheduled along a branch in a tree structure such that simultaneous transmissions occur only in non-adjacent layers along the branch. In a disclosed example, every other layer is grouped into a set of layers such that the sets... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c./alcatel-lucent

20080137666 - Cut-through information scheduler: A cut-through system and method are provided for scheduling information in an information distribution device. The method receives a plurality of information streams. A master schedule is created to select messages from the information streams for transfer to a corresponding plurality of remote links. The messages (e.g., packets) may have... Agent: Gerald W. Maliszewski

20080137667 - Spatial and temporal loss determination in packet based video broadcast system in an encrypted environment: A method for determining spatial and temporal loss in a packet based video broadcast system in an encrypted environment involves measuring video coding layer information at an unencrypted head end of a video stream and network layer information at an encrypted downstream end of the same video stream. Video coding... Agent: Kelly Lowry & Kelley, LLP

20080137669 - Network of nodes: A network of nodes comprising a plurality of nodes, at least one node being connected to at least one other node, wherein a link between two nodes is classified as supporting reliable class traffic, as supporting unreliable class traffic or as supporting both reliable class traffic and unreliable class traffic.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080137670 - Network system with message binding for appliances: A network system for an appliance has communication among components with a message protocol that includes a flag set to bind individual messages together for a complete snapshot of the state of an appliance component.... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080137668 - Social semantic networks for distributing contextualized information: A social semantic network provides for the efficient distribution of digital objects between users of that network. People in the network are connected by labeled edges that define relationships. Any person can create content in the form of particles, and by labeling that content, can determine how that content is... Agent: John P. O'banion O'banion & Ritchey LLP

20080137672 - Relay server and relay communication system: A relay server which is connected to a LAN and which can communicate with a relay server in a different LAN, includes: an account information registering unit that stores information on client terminals connected to the LAN; a relay group information registering unit that stores relay group information; a shared... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20080137673 - Remote management of network devices: A device receives an activation inform message associated with a local area network (LAN) device, and verifies the LAN device and a gateway device associated with the LAN device based on an Internet protocol (IP) address included in the activation inform message. The device also performs a set parameter value... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080137671 - Scalability of providing packet flow management: Systems and methods for managing packet flows in a communication network are provided. Packet information can be cached on different levels and used to avoid external queries. The cache information can also be correlated with other types of information, such as location information, to be able to serve that information... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080137674 - Data byte load based network byte-timeslot allocation: Systems and methods enable maximizing network data throughput via optimizing network capacity allocation. The network throughput maximization system comprises a network transporting data from source nodes to a destination node of the network, buffers for buffering data bytes to be sent from the source nodes to the destination node, and... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080137675 - Switch and a switching method: A switch at a transmission end of a system including a number of memory devices defining queues for receiving traffic to be switched, each queue having an associated predetermined priority classification, and a processor for controlling the transmission of traffic from the queues. The processor transmits traffic from the higher... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080137676 - Bus/device/function translation within and routing of communications packets in a pci switched-fabric in a multi-host environment environment utilizing a root switch: A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for bus/device/function (BDF) translation and routing of communication packets through a fabric that utilizes a single multi-root PCI switch. A data processing environment includes multiple host computer systems that are coupled to and share I/O adapters using a PCI switched-fabric... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080137677 - Bus/device/function translation within and routing of communications packets in a pci switched-fabric in a multi-host environment utilizing multiple root switches: A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for bus/device/function (BDF) translation and routing of communications packets through a fabric that utilizes PCI switches. Identifiers are included in communications packets that are routed between a host and an I/O adapter using a PCI fabric to which the host... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080137678 - Communication device, routing method, and program: For each communication interface of a communication device, its address and a destination address reached via the communication interface are stored in a table while correlating them to each other. A communication interface corresponding to the destination address of a reception packet is selected from the table. When the reception... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080137679 - Method for transmitting data in messages via a communication link of a communication system, as well as a communication module, user of a communication system, and communication system for implementing this method: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting data in messages via a communication link (101) of a communication system, as well as a communication module (100), users (102) of a communication system and a communication system for implementing this method. The messages are transmitted cyclically in specifiable time... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080137680 - Load determination in wireless networks: Systems and methods for improving latency in a communication system are disclosed. The channel load of an access channel can be determined in one embodiment. A backoff interval can be determined based on the channel load determined. A random backoff time can be determined and the transmission of an initial... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080137682 - Communications throughput with multiple physical data rate transmission determinations: An access point of a communications network is configured to receive a multicast or broadcast packet from a source. The access point converts the multicast or broadcast packet into a unicast packet addressed to a station associated with the access point. The access point then transmits the unicast packet over... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080137681 - Communications throughput with unicast packet transmission alternative: An access point of a communications network is configured to receive a multicast or broadcast packet from a source. The access point converts the multicast or broadcast packet into a unicast packet addressed to a station associated with the access point. The access point then transmits the unicast packet over... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080137683 - Forward channel sharing method in time division communication system: A method for realizing forward channel sharing in time division communication system, which completes group configuration at the cluster control service center server and modifies the attributes of all the users to enable the users to support multi-user packet MUP service, including: (a) the cluster user initiates a group call;... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20080137684 - Method and apparatus for providing quality of service over a contention access period of a wireless personal area network: A method and apparatus for providing quality of service over a contention access period of a wireless personal area network is provided herein. Particularly, the layers above the MAC are allowed to reserve portions of a contention access period (CAP) in order to schedule their QoS actions cooperatively thereby avoiding... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080137685 - System, server, and method for variable bit rate multimedia streaming: System, method, and computer program products for implementing techniques for efficient delivery of variable bit rate streaming media assets having a variety of data formats. An embodiment provides delivery system for use in client server computer architecture in which server provides streaming media assets to at least one client over... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080137686 - Systems, methods, media, and means for hiding network topology: Systems, methods, media, and means for hiding network topology are provided. In some embodiments, methods for hiding network topology are provided, the methods including: receiving a message including topology information from a sender; removing at least part of the topology information; associating the removed topology information with an identifier; saving... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080137687 - Method and apparatus for handling reordering in a wireless communications system: A method for handling reordering in a Packet Data Convergence Protocol layer of a wireless communications system includes receiving a sequence of packets, performing a reordering function for the sequence of packets, and performing a deciphering function for the sequence of packets after the reordering function is performed.... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080137688 - Transfer of data objects: object to the receiver. The at least one data object may be a metadata object that represents a description of services and/or content that can be used by the receiver, and the compound container object is furnished with a compound container envelope (53) that serves for at least one of... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080137689 - Transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus and information communication method: An information communication method, which is executed on a transmitting side, is provided. The method comprises a first step of transmitting communication data to a receiving side; and a second step of retransmitting the communication data to the receiving side without waiting for an arrival of a negative acknowledgement signal... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080137691 - Apparatus and method of synchronizing distribution of packet services across a distributed network: An apparatus and method are described for synchronizing distribution of packet information. In one embodiment, the invention includes timestamp processing logic to process a transmit time indicator embedded within the packet information, where the transmit time indicator is based on a time reference, and service synchronization queuing logic to hold... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080137690 - Synchronizing media streams across multiple devices: Aspects of the present invention are directed at establishing a multimedia network session in which the transmission of media streams is synchronized. In one embodiment, a method is provided for synchronizing incoming audio and video streams. The method includes establishing a communication channel between a first computing device that is... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080130478 - Compensation of crosstalk interference: A device has a plurality of output terminals to provide a plurality of signals to a plurality of transmission links; at least one input terminal to receive information representing a projection of a complex valued error signal onto one direction; and a determination circuit, coupled to the at least one... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates Llc

20080130479 - Multiplexing strip and data channels in a time division duplex communication system: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate generating and/or analyzing downlink transmission units in OFDM TDD environments. Strip OFDM symbols may be selectively inserted within downlink transmission units; for example, the position of strip OFDM symbols may vary from cell to cell. Further, the position may be a function of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080130480 - Offsetting beacon positions in a time division duplex communication system: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate generating and/or analyzing downlink transmission units in OFDM TDD environments. Beacon signals may be selectively inserted within downlink transmission units; for example, the position of Beacon signals may vary from cell to cell. Further, the position may be a function of a characteristic... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080130481 - Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method: The present invention is to provide a communication channel with a low inter-cell interference while suppressing variation in the amount of inter-cell interference. Provided is a base station arranged in a radio communication system configured to implement a frequency division multiple access method by using a frequency division multiplexing method... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080130482 - Random access preamble coding for initiation of wireless mobile communications sessions: A wireless communications network, including a base station (10) and wireless units (UE), is disclosed. The wireless units (UE) request a connection with the base station (10) by the transmission of a preamble within time slots designated by the base station (10). The disclosed preambles are Walsh Hadamard code symbols,... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080130485 - Signal modulation method based on orthogonal frequency division multiplex and a modulation device thereof: The present disclosure discloses a signal modulation method based on orthogonal frequency division multiplex, including: determining a baseband frequency range according to a baseband chip rate; determining N frequency range subsets within the baseband frequency range, wherein N is a natural number; selecting n(1nN) frequency range subsets from the N... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080130483 - Silence intervals in wireless communications: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate silence interval specification and utilization in wireless communications. In particular, a silence interval can be defined such that communications cease during the interval, defined by an interval period, offset within the interval period, and duration; the communication can be that of mobile devices... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080130484 - Transmit diversity of broadcast channel in ofdma based evolved utra: In a communications system with a wireless transmit/receive unit and a cell, a method for transmission of a broadcast channel is presented. The method contains the steps of generating a broadcast signal, processing said broadcast signal according to a modified spatial frequency block coding scheme, and broadcasting the processed signal... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080130486 - Apparatus and method for frame structure in wide-band wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for maintaining backward compatibility with a narrow-band wireless communication system in a wide-band wireless communication system is provided. The base station comprises a scheduler, a control information generator, a resource mapping unit and a transmitter. The terminal comprises a resource allocation information checking unit, a receiver... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080130487 - Method for securing the communication links and the associated charges in a redundant communication network: In a method for securing communication links and associated charging in a redundantly configured communication network in which terminals communicate via bearers, and via hardware units by means of messages, a monitoring function is used to monitor a correct functioning of at least one of the terminals, the bearers and... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20080130488 - Method of enhancing continuous packet connectivity in a wireless communications system and related apparatus: In order to avoid system malfunction, the present invention provides a method of enhancing continuous packet connectivity, known as CPC, for a user equipment, known as UE, in a wireless communications system. The method includes the following steps. A discontinuous packet operation is activated according to a CPC_DTX_DRX_STATUS variable. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080130489 - Rerouting for double-link failure recovery in an internet protocol network: A router in a survivable portion of a network may forward packets to a destination node even in the event of a double-link failure. For a given destination node, the router has previously been configured with a primary port, a primary backup port, and a secondary backup port. The router... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080130490 - Method for implementing on-ring process, off-ring process and data forwarding in resilience packet data ringnet and a network device thereof: An inserting and copying processing method for implementing an L2/L3 compatible RPR network is provided. The inserting processing method includes: encapsulating an Ethernet data frame with local mode or remote mode according to whether the source and destination MAC addresses of the Ethernet data frame may be found in the... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080130491 - Determining rerouting information for double-link failure recovery in an internet protocol network: Backup ports for a first router of the survivable network are determined so that the first router can reach a destination node in the event of a double link failure. A routing path graph having the destination node is accepted. The routing path graph includes one or more links terminated... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080130492 - Method of enhancing continuous packet connectivity in a wireless communications system and related apparatus: In order to avoid system malfunction, the present invention provides a method of enhancing continuous packet connectivity, known as CPC, for a user equipment, known as UE, in a wireless communications system. The method includes the following steps. A control channel less operation function is activated according to a status... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080130493 - Mobile communication system, mobile communication method, mobile station, and exchange: An object of the present invention is to avoid congestion, by restricting only processing which causes the congestion without affecting processing which essentially should not be restricted. In a mobile communication system according to the present invention, an exchange MSC/SGSN includes: a congestion factor detector configured to detect a congestion... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080130494 - Multiplexing/demultiplexing on a shared interface: An embodiment of an interface system including, among others, an aggregation device comprising a plurality of ports, a first device comprising a plurality of ports, and one or more links that link the entire plurality of ports of the aggregation device and first device, the one or more links fewer... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, L.l.p.

20080130495 - Methods and systems for dynamic bandwidth management for quality of service in ip core and access networks: Proper allocation of network bandwidth is a crucial issue in rendering certain performance guarantees to meet the growing customer demands. Hence, allocation methodologies must explicitly be carried out for these guarantees to be given as efficiently as possible since the shared resources are limited. This invention presents methods and systems... Agent: Rene Maria B. Dos Remedios

20080130497 - Apparatus and method for merging internet traffic mirrored from multiple links: An apparatus and method for merging Internet traffic mirrored from multiple links are provided. A merged flow can be generated on the Internet having a characteristic of asymmetrical route through a technology of merging the traffic according to an identical characteristic based on correlation analysis using internet traffic mirrored from... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080130496 - Method and system for video transmission using 3g mobile network: A system for video transmission using 3G mobile network includes a mobile video transmitter and a server. The mobile video transmitter is capable of transmitting a plurality of video packets via a plurality of uplink channels of the 3G mobile network. The mobile video transmitter includes a data splitter that... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20080130498 - Method of generating ip traffic flow based on a time bucket: A method of generating IP traffic flow based on a time bucket divides, in order to generate flows using all IP packets arriving in a preset time bucket, a previous time bucket flow table (PTBFT) and a current time bucket flow table (CTBFT) with reference to a current time when... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080130499 - Method of limiting bit rate in a telecommunications network: A method of limiting the bit rate going to a network service having a target bit rate, data packet traffic to the service coming from at least one contributor, and a bit rate being associated with the portion of the traffic coming from said contributor. The method includes sending the... Agent: Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080130500 - Automatic overlapping areas that flood routing information: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving on a first communication link at a local router all routing information at a certain level of detail for each router of multiple routers communicating in a first flooding domain. A measure of distance is determined from a particular router in the first... Agent: Eugene Molinelli Evans & Molinelli Pllc

20080130501 - Bandwidth packing rate controller for optimizing resource utilization: A bandwidth packing rate control technique includes altering bandwidth allocations of existing flows on a link depending on a current utilization of a current bandwidth allocation for a flow. A disclosed example decreases the bandwidth allocation for flows that are utilizing a current bandwidth allocation below a selected target utilization... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c./alcatel-lucent

20080130502 - Control of preemption-based beat-down effect: In one embodiment, a node determines a ratio of traffic that is to be marked at an output. The node also determines if an input feeding the output has less traffic marked than is to be marked at the output, and marks unmarked traffic of that particular input corresponding to... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080130504 - Integrated quality of service and resource management in a network edge device: An apparatus for providing Quality of Service (QoS) and resource management in a network edge device of a core communication network is disclosed. The apparatus has scalable modular hardware/software architecture and adapted for receiving detachable functional units. Each functional unit may contain at least one module performing one or more... Agent: Catalina & Associates A Professional Corporation

20080130503 - Method and system for forwarding ethernet frames over redundant networks with all links enabled: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for forwarding Ethernet frames over a redundant network with its links enabled utilizing shortest paths between nodes. Network nodes suppress traffic from traveling in loops by identifying and dropping recurring frames within a given (typically short) timeframe based on a set of increasingly significant... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, Llc

20080130505 - Station: With the object of eliminating congestion that has occurred in a station which can not prevent or eliminate the occurrence of congestion autonomously, the SMPP response time in output interfaces 21h-21k of a first PPG 21 are measured and when the time mta, which is m-times of the SMPP response... Agent: Kirk Hahn

20080130506 - Transmission signaling techniques to enhance receiver interference mitigation performance: Techniques are described that can be used to maximize the interference suppression capability of space-time coded systems by managing synchronous transmission signaling. To enhance the probability of the occurrence synchronous interference and accordingly increase interference cancellation capability at a receiver, a network of at least two transmitters in a network... Agent: Cool Patent, P.c. C/o Intellevate

20080130508 - Method, apparatus and system for testing user equipment functionality: Aspects of the present invention include methods, apparatuses and systems that may be used for radio frequency and performance testing of communication equipment in a telecommunications network. According to one aspect of the invention, received data may be discarded during a test whenever a device being testing is unable to... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080130507 - Wireless network system and method of transmitting or receiving data over wireless network: A wireless network system and a method of transmitting or receiving data over a wireless network capable of limiting transmission or reception of request packets by stations existing on the wireless network, where directional communication is performed in a high-frequency bandwidth, while a wireless network coordinator is being changed or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080130509 - Leased line emulation for pstn alarms over ip: Techniques for sending and receiving alarm signals over packet-based communication networks are provided. A system for detecting alarm signals on a multiplexed communication line and generating data packets with alarm information is provided. Additionally, a system is provided for receiving data packets with alarm information and generating alarm signals based... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080130511 - Method and apparatus for controlling variable bit-rate voice codec: A method and apparatus for controlling a variable bit-rate voice codec are provided. The method of controlling the variable bit-rate voice codec may include: extracting calling capability of terminals that request a new call to be made; extracting network parameters from existing calls in the network through an exchanged packet;... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080130510 - Method and apparatus for de-rate matching in communication system: The present invention relates to a de-rate matching device. The de-rate matching device in a communication system divides received data into a plurality of blocks, and simultaneously de-rate-matches data in the respective blocks.... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080130512 - Method and apparatus for estimating velocity of mobile station using channel quality indicator in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for estimating a velocity of a Mobile Station (MS) in a mobile communication system are provided, in which a Base Station (BS) receives a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) measured by the MS, calculates a decision metric by calculating variations in the CQI for a predetermined time... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080130513 - Method and apparatus for generating link quality indicator information in mb-ofdm uwb system: It is possible to intuitively determine whether to control transmission power of a current data transmission rate mode or to change the data transmission rate mode by extracting an automatic gain controller (AGC) index after driving algorithm of an AGC, recognizing a channel clear assessment (CCA) status by using the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080130514 - Controlled exception-based routing protocol validation: Systems and methods for testing an implementation of a routing protocol in a device are disclosed. Generally, a sequence of protocol messages is provided and a test is performed to test how a device reacts to a specific playback rate for the sequence of protocol messages, wherein the specific playback... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080130518 - Communication-processing method on network-connected equipment and receiving apparatus: A communication-processing method performs communication processing on any network-connected equipment. The method includes the steps of sending an identification signal through a network to every apparatus that is connected in an identical network circuit to identify a local apparatus, and determining whether a reply signal including identification information in reply... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080130517 - Intelligent automatic reconfiguration method and apparatus for network system: A method and apparatus for intelligent automatic reconfiguration of a network system basically implements an automatic reconfiguration apparatus to acquire the configuration of every network device and generates a topology of the network devices. Afterward, the automatic reconfiguration apparatus can detect the status of the network devices. When some network... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc

20080130515 - Managing an amount of tunnels in a computer network: In one embodiment, a maximum amount of available tunnels in a computer network to be shared by one or more path computation devices is configured on the path computation devices. Each path computation device then decrements the amount of available tunnels in response to establishment of a tunnel, and increments... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080130519 - Media access control (mac) protocol for cognitive wireless networks: A new media access control (MAC) protocol for cognitive wireless networks is described. The new MAC protocol allows each of multiple nodes, such as cell phones and computers with wireless, to determine utilization of a communication spectrum, such as the television broadcast band. The nodes collaborate to achieve a combined... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080130521 - Method and apparatus for optimization of wireless mesh networks: A cross-layer optimization framework for designing of multi-radio/multi-channel wireless mesh networks with network coding to support multiple unicast applications is used. A column-generation-based primal-dual method is used to solve the optimization problem. For network-layer formation, a code construction scheme based on linear programming is used. Delay constraints are imposed on... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080130520 - Network for communicating information related to a consumable to an appliance: An appliance network comprising a networked appliance and capable of communicating with a consumable such that information related to the consumable is communicated to the networked appliance.... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080130516 - P2p overplay network construction method and apparatus: Provided are a method and apparatus for constructing a peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay network. The method of constructing a peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay network to obtain ID values of a plurality of nodes using a distributed hash table (DHT) and registering a node wishing to join the P2P overlay network where the... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20080130522 - Protocol for sharing information in a trusted circle using peer to peer methodology: An embodiment relates generally to a method of providing peer-to-peer services. The method includes selecting a peer-to-peer service and determining multiple participants from a social network to form a set of known peers. The method also includes executing the peer-to-peer service from the set of known peers using a peer-to-peer... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080130524 - System and method for user account portability across communication systems: The present invention is directed to a system and method for user account portability across communication systems. The present invention allows users to switch communication service providers and retain their service and account profile information when moving between communication environments. The user can switch to a new communication service provider... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080130523 - System and method for user identity portability in communication systems: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention are directed to a system and method for user identity portability in communication systems. The present invention can provide user identity portability across communication networks that do not necessarily impose a phone number as the identity, addressing, or routing identifier. According to exemplary embodiments,... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080130525 - Video conferencing with archival notes: A text interface for recording archived notes in a video conference session is provided. Archived notes may comprise an updatable, modifiable record created or modified during one or more instances of a conference session. The archived notes may be saved from a previous instance of the conference session and retrieved... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080130526 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing lcr-tdd compatible frame structure: Method, apparatus and computer program product are configured to operate an electronic device in a wireless communications system to communicate with other electronic devices operative in the wireless communications system; and to establish a radio frame, the radio frame further comprising a radio sub-frame to be used by other electronic... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080130527 - Method and apparatus for adaptive open-loop power control in mobile communication system using tdd: Disclosed is an apparatus for determining transmit power of an uplink frame transmitted from a subscriber station to a base station and transmitting data in a mobile communication system in which a downlink frame, transmitted from the base station to the subscriber station, and the uplink frame are time division-duplexed... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080130528 - System and method for barging in a half-duplex communication system: A system and method for barging in a half-duplex communication system is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller element that manages a wireless transceiver and audio system, transmits a barge-in request while an Interactive Media Response... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080130529 - Method and apparatus for supporting half-duplex terminals in an asynchronous mode: Systems and methodologies are described that provide support for signal acquisition in wireless communication systems that utilize half-duplex communication in the presence of asynchronous sectors. Forward link and reverse link superframes can be structured such that a given frame position in a superframe alternates between forward link communication and reverse... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080130534 - Data transmitting apparatus, data receiving apparatus, and data communication system: A data transmitting apparatus generates a block that includes identification information including the number of times divided data can be transmitted and data for error detection for detecting an error in the identification information associated with each other with respect to each divided data, and transmits the block to a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080130538 - Enhanced management frame aggregation in a wireless network system: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate enhanced aggregation of management frames in a wireless communication system. Various aspects described herein provide for the encapsulation of management frames into respective data frames, thereby allowing management frames to be aggregated with data frames. Upon aggregation of an encapsulated management frame with... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20080130535 - Home electrical device control within a wireless mesh network: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for associating a first node in a mesh network with an electrical device, wherein the electrical device comprises a home control device, enabling the mesh network to perform channel adjustment, transmitting data through the mesh network between the first node... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080130530 - Method and apparatus for creating and connecting to an ad hoc wireless cell: Various embodiments provide simplified methods and apparatuses for creating and administering an independent basic service set, or ad hoc wireless cell. A user is presented with a unified user experience that reduces the time and expertise required to utilize the independent basic service set functionality.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20080130537 - Method for ip management connection control in wireless communication system: The present invention relates to an Internet protocol (IP) management connection control method in a mobile communication system. In the method, a first traffic connection between an access point and a packet access router is established, uplink and downlink second traffic connections between the access point and an access terminal... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080130533 - Method for transmitting data packets: A method transmits data packets in a radio system between an emitter and a receiver. A nominal energy is defined for each data packet and each transmission according to a quality requirement for the reception by the receiver. An emission power required for each data packet is determined according to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080130536 - Method in a radio frequency addressable sensor for communicating sensor data to a wireless sensor reader: A method in a radio frequency (RF) addressable sensor for communicating sensor data to a wireless sensor reader for transmission over a communications network, wherein the RF addressable sensor includes one or more sensor elements. The method includes (a) receiving signals from the wireless sensor reader; (b) obtaining analog sensor... Agent: Tillman Wright, Pllc

20080130532 - Packet radio communication device: A computer may be provided with a wireless communication capability by connecting a communication device to the computer through a cable connection. The communication device may provide the computer with a communication connection to a mobile telecommunication network. When a cable connecting the communication device to the computer is removed,... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080130539 - System for managing voice over internet protocol communications in a network: The VoIP Management System is capable of identifying voice-based wireless devices and denying wireless communication services to these devices. The VoIP Management System also identifies VoIP packet data traffic, and this communication connection can be denied. The VoIP Management System can also identify encrypted VoIP packet data traffic (for a... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080130531 - Transporting packetized voice over wimax networks: A two-phase method may be used to transport packetized voice over WiMAX networks. In the first phase, the resources are reserved and in the second phase, when both ends of the call are active, the resources may be activated. In some embodiments, a non-real time polling service service flow is... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, Pc

20080130543 - Apparatus and method for adaptive sleep of wirelessly networked devices: A system and method for power saving in a wireless network for transmitting uncompressed audio/video (A/V) data disclosed. The method includes an adaptive sleep period scheme in which the current sleep period is computed based at least partly on one or more previous sleep periods. The method also includes entering... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20080130545 - Implementing location awareness in wlan devices: An ambient country identifier (ACI) signal can be used to automatically provide location awareness for a WLAN device. If an ACI signal is detected, then the WLAN device can configure itself to comply with channel and power settings for the country having the detected ACI signal. After detection of the... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20080130541 - Method and system for dynamic power management in wireless local area networks: A method and system for improving spatial reuse in a wireless local area network (WLAN) by per-client dynamic power management. Each access point of the WLAN associates each of its clients with a minimum power level. A central controller of the WLAN generates a schedule for transmission at different power... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080130542 - Mobile station and method for verifying access points thereof: A mobile station (200) communicating with an access point (100) includes an association module (202), a mode switching module (204), a verifying module (206), and a recording module (208). The association module associates with the access point via an original address and a virtual address. The mode switching module switches... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080130544 - Power saving in communication terminals: A communications terminal using interleaving may be awakened at certain times. The paging message determines whether the terminal will remain awake or it can return to sleep. The amount of time that the communications terminal is awakened may be reduced by determining whether it is necessary to demodulate all of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080130540 - System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having power saving capability: A method of efficient scheduling for portable devices communicating with a coordinator over a network is disclosed. The method includes: listening for beacons broadcasted by a coordinator; assigning, by the coordinator, a single contiguous time block (CTB) for portable devices during a superframe defined by consecutive beacons; scheduling a single... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20080130548 - Control signaling for multimedia broadcast multicast service point-to-multipoint over high speed downlink packet access information: Multimedia broadcast multicast service over point-to-multipoint high speed downlink packet access is provided by modifying the high speed downlink packet access system or service information for defining the physical channel high speed downlink shared channel carrying the multimedia broadcast multicast service point-to-multipoint logical channels, multimedia broadcast multicast service point-to-multipoint control... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080130547 - Delegated authentication method for secure mobile multicasting: l

20080130546 - Hardware-efficient searcher architecture for cdma cellular receivers: An apparatus comprises a receiver for receiving a multipath signal and a searcher that stores delayed samples of the received multipath signal, wherein the searcher is operative on the delayed samples of the received multipath signal for identifying one or more paths of the received multipath signal.... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080130550 - Relay and method of allocating bandwidth in communication system: To allocate a bandwidth to a terminal, a base station in a communication system including a relay receives a bandwidth request code from the relay, and determines whether a bandwidth request code that is the same as the received bandwidth request code has been received from the terminal. In addition,... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080130549 - Route maintenance and update based on connection identifier in multi-hop relay systems: Connection ID (CID) assignment in multi-hop relay system can be used to perform routing. Using CID assignment as routing information in a multi-hop wireless relay system to maintain the routing structure is disclosed. In a CID cache scheme, a base station builds a CID cache based on the upstream packet... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080130551 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing uplink collision identification: A method for providing uplink collision identification includes at a first satellite uplink, transmitting a first signal to a satellite; at the first satellite uplink, transmitting a first unique satellite uplink identification signal to the satellite; at a satellite downlink, receiving the first signal and the first unique satellite uplink... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080130554 - Client device method and apparatus for routing a call: A telecommunication method, server and system that route an outbound telephone communication initiated by a wireless remote device through an enterprise communication network. The system also routes an incoming call to a device associated with an enterprise communication network to a plurality of telephony devices including wireless devices and other... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080130552 - Connection node, method, and computer readable medium thereof for recalculating a transmission opportunity when an apparatus requests to enter a wireless network: A connection node, a method, a computer program, and a computer readable medium thereof for recalculating a transmission opportunity when an apparatus requests to enter a wireless network are provided. A receiving module receives a mesh network entry message transmitted from the apparatus. A memory stores an identification of a... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080130553 - Electronic apparatus and wireless connection control method: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a wireless communication section, a wired connection section, an association processor, a storage section, an updating section and an authentication processor. Through the wireless communication section, a wireless connection with a host is established. Through the wired connection section, a wired connection... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080130558 - Acess network selection method using multi-criteria decision making in mobile heterogeneous network: An access network selection system and method using a fuzzy multi-criteria decision making method under a heterogeneous network system are provided. With such a system and method, a subscriber selectively accesses an access network having advantageous communication quality and cost according to transmission environment and service characteristics so that mobility... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080130557 - Apparatus and method for transmitting uplink control information on shared channels: Mobile station applications (419) may include an SI unit (409) for piggy backing SI onto data stored in data buffer (421) and also for adding an indicator to the SI information. The scheduling information and/or incremental control information (501) is piggy backed onto a data PDU and also has a... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080130555 - Apparatus, system and method for managing wireless local area network service to a multi-mode portable communication device: A wireless access point manages wireless service to a multi-mode wireless communication device based on a wireless wide area network (WWAN) signal. The access point transmits a device proximity message to the WWAN based on the proximity of the multi-mode wireless communication device to the access point where the proximity... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080130568 - Channel activation messaging in an unlicensed mobile access telecommunications system: Methods and messages for performing assignment and activation of voice bearer channels for mobile stations (MSs) in an unlicensed mobile access network (UMAN). URR (UMA radio resource) channel activation messages are exchanged between an MS and a UMA network controller (UNC) operating in the UMAN to assign a voice bearer... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080130563 - Communication terminal and network control device: A communication terminal (1) comprises a wireless interface (19) for detecting intensity of radio wave that is received via a plurality of networks that use different communication schemes; a movement prediction unit (14) for predicting a destination network based on radio wave intensity detected by the wireless interface (19); and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080130562 - Home electrical device control within a wireless mesh network: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for associating a first node in a mesh network with an electrical device, wherein the electrical device comprises a home control device, enabling the mesh network to perform channel adjustment, transmitting data through the mesh network between the first node... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080130559 - Method and apparatus for coordinating hopping of resources in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for coordinating the resource assignment of a plurality of channel segments in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method includes the steps of determining a number of resources available, determining a number of channel segments to include in a frame, determining a number of resource... Agent: Fogg & Powers Llc

20080130560 - Method and apparatus for keep-alive bits transmission: Systems and methodologies are described that provide techniques for managing persistent resource assignments in a wireless communication system. An access point can generate a bitmap by mapping access terminals having persistent assignments for traffic channels to a series of bitmap bits that provide keep-alive indications for the access terminals. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080130564 - Method and apparatus for minimizing number of active paths to a core communication network: Some embodiments provide a method of registering a user equipment (UE) in a communication system that include a licensed wireless communication system and a generic access network (GAN) that has a generic access network controller (GANC). The method sends a register request message from the UE to the GANC that... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080130556 - Method and system for umts hsdpa shared control channel processing: Aspects of a method and system for UMTS HSDPA Shared Control Channel processing may include calculating at a receiver, for each one of a plurality of control channels, a quality metric derived from at least one Viterbi Decoder state metric. A control channel may be selected on the basis of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080130565 - Method of performing medium access control (mac) and allocating resources to nodes in wireless ad hoc network, and computer-readable recording medium storing frame structure for executing the method: Provided is a recording medium for storing a structure of a frame for performing Medium Access Control (MAC) and allocating resources in a multi-hop wireless Ad hoc network, and a method of performing Medium Access Control (MAC) and allocating resources in a multi-hop wireless Ad Hoc network. The method includes... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080130567 - Optimum resource allocation method and system in medium access control of distribute scheme in wireless personal area network: Provided is an optimum resource allocation method in distributed medium access control in a wireless personal area network, including: defining needed parameters in advance; calculating an overhead AckOverhead needed for an acknowledgement policy and calculating an overhead MasOverhead generated per medium access slot by using the calculated overhead AckOverhead and... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080130569 - Scheduling communications in a wireless network: Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to wireless communications. The systems and techniques involve wireless communications wherein a module or communications device is configured to select a plurality of terminal pairs each having a transmitting terminal and a corresponding receiving terminal, determine a target quality parameter for each of the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080130561 - System and method for wireless communication: A system and method for wireless communication is disclosed. In one aspect, the method comprises generating a physical (PHY) frame comprising a PRY layer header and a PHY payload data packet, wherein the PHY layer header comprises an aggregation indication bit for indicating whether the PHY payload data packet comprises... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20080130566 - Wireless network system and method of transmitting or receiving data over wireless network: A wireless network system and a method of transmitting or receiving data over a wireless network capable of limiting transmission or reception of request packets by stations existing on the wireless network, where directional communication is performed in a high-frequency bandwidth, while a wireless network coordinator is being changed or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080130570 - Method and apparatus for providing service in a communication system: A method for providing a service in a communication system is provided. A Base Station (BS) supporting a plurality of communication service modes allocates communication resources for each of the plurality of communication service modes according to a ratio determined in accordance with a communication service mode preferred by a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080130581 - Apparatus and method for decreasing handover delay in broadband wireless communication system: Vertical handover apparatus and method in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes examining whether there exists an accessible target network while communicating with a serving network; when there exists the accessible target network, linking up to the target network; changing a communication state to an idle mode... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080130576 - Apparatus and method for interworking wireless lan and portable internet: The present invention relates to a device for interworking a wireless local area network (WLAN) and a portable Internet. The device establishes a first wireless data path following a first wireless communication protocol with a first network, and establishes a plurality of the second wireless data paths through the first... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080130571 - Handover in a mobile network domain: A mobile network domain (101) comprises a mobility anchor node (105) providing a non-mobile network attachment and at least a first and second access router (107, 109) supporting access by mobile nodes (127). The nodes of the mobile network domain (101) support label encapsulated tunneling. Label switching paths (121, 129)... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080130572 - Local mobility solution with wired and wireless interface switching: There is provided a method for switching a mobile terminal from a first network interface to a second network interface in a local network environment. The method includes the step of utilizing a same Internet Protocol (IP) address by the mobile terminal for both the first network interface and the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080130578 - Lte reselectable-only cells and cell info list for handover: A method of determining handover capable cells in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The method includes the WTRU receiving a cell list from an e Node-B, and the WTRU determining a handover status of a cell based on the cell list.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080130573 - Method and device for automatically allocating channels of wireless network system: A method for automatically allocating channels of a wireless network system comprises the steps of: actuating one of access points (APs) for collecting channel status information, such as channel numerals and Received Signal Strength Incident (RSSI), of the other of the access points near by that access point; calculating an... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc

20080130574 - Method for system for providing qos in broadband convergence network deploying mobile ip: Provided is a method and system for providing a QoS in a broadband convergence network deploying a mobile IP. In the method, a service and policy is defined at a first network design stage for guaranteeing the QoS of the broadband convergence network. QoS parameters corresponding to the defined service... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080130580 - Methods and apparatus for transferring a mobile device from a source enb to a target enb: A method used in a wireless communication system including a plurality of cells, the method includes transmitting to a mobile device from a source enhanced node B, and sending a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) status report to a target enhanced node B, Another method includes transmitting to & mobile... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080130575 - System and data exchanging method for interworking wireless lan and portable internet: The present invention relates to an interworking device for interworking with a first network and exchanging data between a second network and a terminal device. The interworking device establishes a first wireless data path with the first network, and receives a first network address from an address allocation server of... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080130579 - Wireless lan terminal and handover method thereof: There is provided a wireless LAN terminal and a handover method thereof for resolving a sound cutoff and image cutoff which occur when a terminal is moved. The wireless LAN terminal stores BSSID of wireless LAN access points and a frame control in a MAC header of a communication frame... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080130577 - Wireless multicasting service method using relayed transmission scheme: A wireless multicasting service method using a relayed transmission scheme is provided. In the wireless multicasting service method, a mobile node moves from a first wireless network to a second wireless network. Then, the mobile node performs a new joining request to a mobile multicast agent managing a multicasting service... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080130583 - Apparatus and method for performing a handoff in a wireless communication system: Provided are an apparatus and a method for performing a handoff in a wireless communication system. The method includes executing a downlink fast power control when a Received Signal Strength (RSS) of a serving Base Station (BS) is less than a threshold; calculating a mean of RSSs subject to the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080130582 - Apparatus and method for reducing other-cell interference in a broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for avoiding interference in a broadband wireless communication system using FCS are provided. The apparatus and method include a receiver for monitoring channel statuses of neighbor cells using signals received from the neighbor cells, an active set generator for generating an active set according to at... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080130585 - Method for managing cross-layer handover: Provided is a method for managing a cross-layer handover. The method includes the steps of: managing a predetermined number of neighbor cells as a handover candidate set based on signal strength and route estimation; transmitting a Measurement Report message having the handover candidate set information to a source base station... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080130584 - Providing feedback information to target node b during a serving cell change: A method implemented in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for transmitting a channel quality indication (CQI) report or other measurement report begins by receiving a trigger. A CQI report is transmitted to a handover target Node B until a stop condition is reached. The WTRU will stop transmitting CQI reports... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080130586 - Methods, mobile stations, and systems for determining base station identifier codes for handover candidates in a network: A method of providing a toplist of neighboring base stations for a mobile station in a communications network can include determining a base station identifier code for a neighboring base station in a toplist at a rate that varies based on a quality indication of communications with the neighboring base... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.a.

20080130588 - Method and apparatus for allocating radio resource using random access procedure in a mobile communication system: A method for transmitting a random access preamble using a random access procedure in a mobile communication system. The random access preamble transmission method includes selecting, upon triggering of the random access procedure, one of random access preamble sets predefined between a User Equipment (UE) and an Evolved Node B... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080130587 - Method for automatically setting a frequency of a base station in a cdma-2000 system: The present invention is directed to a method for automatically setting a frequency of a base station in a CDMA-2000 system, comprising: defining a frequency configuration information in a Programmable Loading Data (PLD) that defines different frequency bands for respective service providers; reading the frequency configuration information from the PLD... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080130592 - Apparatus and method for managing medium access slot in wireless personal area network: Provided are an apparatus and method for managing a Medium Access Slot (MAS) in a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN). The apparatus includes a transmission data storage unit for storing a transmission beacon and transmission data; a transmission controller for reading and transferring the transmission beacon to a transmission beacon... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080130589 - Dynamic power amplifier backoff using headroom information: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate mitigating effect of non-linear distortion from a power amplifier on a spectral mask margin. Power limit indications can be analyzed in scheduling mobile devices. Mobile devices with power limits can be scheduled on inner subbands. The power limits can be based at least... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080130590 - Method and apparatus for session negotiation in a mobile communication system, and mobile communication system for the same: Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for allocating persistent resources in order to support a packet service in a mobile communication system. The method includes acquiring scheduling information including an allocation period of a persistent resource corresponding to a predetermined packet state in a process of call setup between... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080130591 - Wireless network system and method of transmitting or receiving data over wireless network: A wireless network system and a method of transmitting or receiving data over a wireless network capable of limiting transmission or reception of request packets by stations existing on the wireless network, where directional communication is performed in a high-frequency bandwidth, while a wireless network coordinator is being changed or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080130593 - Base station interference control using timeslot resource management: A personal base station configured to connect to the Internet and establish a small area of wireless coverage including means for controlling interference with neighboring personal base stations using a timeslot management mechanism. Timeslot management mechanisms include timeslot interference detection, timeslot power reduction, timeslot allocation, timeslot offset calibration, and timeslot... Agent: Paul A. Mendonsa Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor, & Zafman LLP

20080130605 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving common control information in a wireless communication system: A method for receiving common control information from a base station to a plurality of subscriber stations in a wireless communication is provided. The common control information includes first information that all of the plurality of subscriber stations commonly receive and second information that the plurality of subscriber stations separately... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080130597 - Apparatus, system and method for managing wireless local area network service based on a location of a multi-mode portable communication device: A wireless access point monitors a wireless wide area network (WWAN) reverse link (RL) channel assigned to a multi-mode wireless communication device identified by a wireless wide area network (WWAN) as positioned proximate a geographical area at least partially including a wireless local area network (WLAN) service area of the... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080130602 - Data transmission/reception method for multicast & broadcast service in broadband wireless access system: Disclosed is a data transmission method for an MBS in a broadband wireless access system. The method includes the steps of constructing a Wibro frame by adding an FEC zone to a downlink portion of the Wibro frame by a radio access station, the FEC zone containing an FEC packet... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080130596 - Detection of a multi-mode portable communication device at a mesh network: A mesh network communication system includes a plurality of access points connected to a wireless local area network (WLAN) controller where at least one of the plurality access points is a detection access point (DAP) that received reverse link (RL) wireless wide area network (WWAN) signals transmitted from a multi-mode... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080130595 - Determining identifiers for wireless networks: A method for determining an identifier of a wireless network to which a mobile device can connect. For at least one wireless networks an identifier and at least one address for component(s) in that network is stored on the mobile device. An address of a component in an available network... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080130604 - Location system for wireless local area network (wlan) using rssi and time difference of arrival (tdoa) processing: A wireless local area network includes a plurality of access point stations that receive and transmit communications signals within the wireless local area network. A first set of access point stations are WiFi compliant and measure signal strength and determine the received signal strength indication (RSSI). A second set of... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.a.

20080130598 - Management of wlan and wwan communication services to a multi-mode wireless communication device: A mesh network communication system includes a plurality of access points connected to a wireless local area network (WLAN) controller where at least one of the plurality access points is a detection access point (DAP) that receives reverse link (RL) wireless wide area network (WWAN) signals transmitted from a multi-mode... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080130601 - Method for providing network communication service with constant quality regardless of being in wired or wireless network environment: A method of allowing a network communication service user (subscriber) to receive a desired network communication service with a constant (the same) quality regardless of being in a wired or wireless communication environment based on a single service level agreement (SLA) of the subscriber is provided. The method of providing... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080130599 - Mimo wireless communication: There are provided methods and arrangements for communication in which, even in a case where an antenna that is not correctly connected is present in a wireless module provided with a plurality of antennas, high-performance data communication can be performed without using such antennas. RSSI values are detected from a... Agent: Ference & Associates Llc

20080130594 - System and method for maintaining packet protocol context: A system and method for maintaining a packet protocol context, such as a PDP (Packet Data Protocol) context, is provided. A mobile device communicates over a packet protocol context. If there has been no data activity over the packet protocol context for a timeout duration, then the network may deactivate... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080130600 - System and signaling method for interworking wireless lan and portable internet: Disclosed is an interworking device for interworking with the first network and supporting signaling for a terminal of a second network. The interworking device sets a first wireless data path with the first network. The interworking device sets a first radio link with the terminal, receives an authentication message through... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080130603 - Systems and methods for coexistence of wlan and bluetooth networks: Systems and methods for coexistence of WLAN and Bluetooth networks are described. At least one embodiment includes a method for operating a wireless device in both a 802.11 network and a Bluetooth network. In accordance with some embodiments, the method comprises monitoring transmission of Synchronous Connection Oriented (SCO) slots over... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080130611 - Aas direct signaling framing methodologies to support high capacity wireless links: A new frame structure applicable to the IEEE 802.16 OFDMA wireless waveform is described, for the purposes of increasing base station capacity, increasing subscriber link rates and extending base station range. The frame structure provides the necessary constructs so that advance signal processing technologies such as Stacked Carrier Spread Spectrum... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080130608 - Apparatus and method for symbol mapping tfci bits for a hard split mode in a cdma mobile communication system: A method for mapping first coded TFCI symbols and second coded TFCI symbols to a radio frame in a transmission apparatus of a mobile communication system for encoding k first TFCI bits and (10−k) second TFCI bits, a sum of the first coded TFCI symbols and the second coded TFCI... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080130612 - Control signal transmission for wireless communication systems: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate communicating reverse link control information over OFDMA control channel(s) and CDMA control channel(s). Dedicated OFDMA control channel resources can be assigned to mobile device(s). Control information related to one or more logical control channels can be generated by a mobile device. Further, a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080130609 - Data transmission system for dynamically adjusting pdu length, method thereof, and computer-readable recording medium: A data transmission system for dynamically adjusting a protocol data unit (PDU) length and a method thereof are provided. The data transmission system at least includes a transmitting terminal and a receiving terminal. After a connection is established between the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal, data is transmitted through... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080130613 - Method and apparatus for channel quality feedback in a wireless communication: Method and apparatus for providing link quality feedback to a transmitter In one embodiment, the link quality of a received signal is measured and a quality message is generated during a quality message period, the quality message representative of a link quality at a first period, and one or more... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080130606 - Method and apparatus for optimizing multipath detection in a wcdma/hsdpa communication system: Methods and systems for processing signals in a wireless communication system are disclosed. Aspects of the method may include calculating at a receiver, a plurality of energy values corresponding to a plurality of signal paths detected within a communication channel. At least one of the plurality of detected signal paths... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080130607 - Method and system for multimode dc offset compensation: Aspects of a method and system for multimode DC offset compensation are presented. Aspects of the system may include accumulating a selected number of signal samples, determining an average of the accumulated signal samples, and keeping a running total of the average for use feedback signal generation. The signal samples... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080130610 - Power step control for high-speed downlink shared channel packet access: A radio access network node comprises a transport format selector (44) which uses plural input parameters for determining a transport format for a high-speed downlink shared channel (IIS-DSCII). The transport format selector is arranged to protect radio quality (e.g., the signal to noise ratio (SIR)) of the high-speed downlink shared... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080130614 - Intelligent base station comprising all functions relevant to its operation: The object of the invention is a mobile station network and a base station used therein. According to the invention an intelligent base station is realized. Each base station functions independently and comprises the all the important functions relevant to its operation in it. The base station according to the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080130615 - Wireless communication apparatus, mobile terminal and wireless communication method: [Overcoming Means] Provided are a frequency channel allocating section (10) that allocates frequency channels, a terminal reception quality information processing section (6) that calculates an optimal modulation rate and required transmit power for each subcarrier, a subcarrier power control section (12) that controls a level of transmit power for each... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080130616 - Service dependent shared physical channel mapping: A method is disclosed for use in wireless communication systems employing dynamic resource allocation schemes (Dynamic Channel Allocation, DCA) together with Link Adaptation (LA) schemes. The method allows to provide individually optimized Quality of Service to each of a plurality of services. This is achieved by exclusively mapping data belonging... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc

20080130617 - System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having delay-insensitive data transfer: A system and method using a medium access control (MAC) header for a wireless communication system including an application layer, a MAC layer, and a physical (PHY) layer is disclosed. The MAC header accommodates time-delay insensitive data transfer between devices located in the network. The MAC header finds particular benefits... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20080130618 - Wireless network system and method of transmitting or receiving data over wireless network: A wireless network system and a method of transmitting or receiving data over a wireless network capable of limiting transmission or reception of request packets by stations existing on the wireless network, where directional communication is performed in a high-frequency bandwidth, while a wireless network coordinator is being changed or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080130619 - Method and apparatus for data transmission of radio link control layer in a mobile communication system: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for transmitting data of a Radio Link Control (RLC) layer in a mobile communication system. Before an RLC SDU stored in a transmission buffer is discarded, a status report for checking a reception status of a receiving side is requested by a polling trigger... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080130621 - Delay-induced scattering with phase randomization and partitioned frequency hopping: A method includes partitioning a set of hopping carrier frequencies into disjoint sets including a first set and a second set such that a frequency correlation between a first hopping carrier frequency of the first set and a second hopping carrier frequency of the second set is approximately zero. The... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080130620 - Method and system for collision avoidance: The invention concerns a method (600) and device (100) for collision avoidance. The method can include the step of—in a multi-mode device (100) —conducting (630) a communication in accordance with an 802.16 communications protocol in which the 802.16 communication protocol communication includes only listening frames (530). The method can also... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080130622 - Method of decentralized medium access control in a communications network: A method of decentralized medium access control in a communications network consisting of a plurality of stations, wherein a sending station transmits a reservation request for a future transmission to an intended receiving station, said intended receiving station being in a reception range of said sending station, said reservation request... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080130623 - Method and apparatus for mapping an ip address to an msisdn number within a wireless application processing network: In one embodiment, there is disclosed a system and method for providing access to an IP number or a subscriber identity number associated with a mobile device in a network, the method comprising associating a mobile device with a subscriber identity number; generating a temporary IP number for the mobile... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080130626 - Channel estimation: A method and an apparatus for channel estimation are provided. The apparatus comprises: a synchronization unit configured to time-synchronize with a received signal on the basis of one or more synchronization patterns of the received signal; a searcher configured to search for pilot sequences of the received signal; an estimator... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080130625 - Digital wireless communication system: A mobile station includes a timing controller for adjusting a frame transmit timing so that a unique word detection position at a base station is always located on a predetermined position. Even when frequent changes in the distance between the base station and mobile station occur due to movement of... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20080130624 - Synchronizing call feature data between an ims network and a legacy network: Communication networks and methods are disclosed that synchronize call feature data between an IMS network and a legacy network, such as a cellular network. An IMS subscriber server (e.g., a Home Subscriber Server (HSS)) is notified of changes to feature data for a call feature (e.g., call forwarding, call waiting,... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080130627 - Method for selecting real-time service data transmission path: The present invention discloses a method for selecting a real-time service data transmission path, comprising establishing an independent bearer control layer comprising more than one bearer network resource manager between a service control layer and a bearer network. The method further comprises: after a source bearer network resource manager which... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080130632 - Apparatus and method for making calls via internet: Method for providing a connection between a plurality of communication devices coupled to an internet protocol (IP) network. The method includes the steps of: receiving a signal from a first device, the signal including the e-Num of the first device; authenticating the e-num; receiving an e-Num of a second device... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080130629 - Attached internet telephone device: An attached internet telephone device is disclosed herein, which is capable of adding an internet telephone function to a host having internet connection capacity but lacking an internet telephone function. The attached internet telephone device comprises a USB module, a memory module, a communication module, and a controller. The controller... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080130631 - Contention detection with modified message format: A multiple computer system is disclosed in which n computers (M1, M2 . . . Mn) each run a different portion of a single application program written to execute only on a single computer. The local memory of each computer is maintained substantially the same by updating all computers with... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080130634 - 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

20080130630 - Secure peer to peer messaging service: A message system for a peer-to-peer network stores messages or message fragments at multiple peers when a called peer is off-line. The replicated messages or message fragments may be encrypted. According to a pull model, the called peer polls other peers to which it has access when it comes on-line... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080130628 - Systems and methods for providing advanced call processing features to analog telephone subscribers: Methods of obtaining call processing instructions for a call to or from an analog telephone in a switched telephone network are disclosed. The methods include receiving a notification of the call at a service switching point (SSP) that serves the analog telephone, and sending a call processing instruction request to... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.a.

20080130633 - Voice over internet protocol (voip) telephone apparatus and communication system for carrying voip traffic: A method of establishing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications is provided. The method includes establishing a virtual circuit to carry VoIP traffic via a first Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) session and to carry other data traffic via a second PPPoE session. The first PPPoE session and... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080130635 - Voip with local call access: The invention provides marketing a telephone service that has an adapter or dongle that is functionally interposed between a telephone and a telephone utility line. The adapter is programmed to receive a voice signal and telephone number transmitted by the telephone. Based on the telephone number, the adapter determines whether... Agent: Fish & Associates, Pc Robert D. Fish

20080130636 - 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.

20080130638 - Communications system: A method for the monitoring and modification of communications in a communications system and a related communications system with a number of intercommunicating first nodes in which the intercommunication comprises desired communications and may comprise undesired communications; in which the system also comprises a further node for monitoring and modifying... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080130642 - Hardware device and method for transmitting network protocol packet: Provided are a hardware device and method for transmitting a network protocol packet in a TOE for network protocol acceleration. The hardware device includes: a socket resource control and TCP connection/release command unit for storing socket resource control commands, and TCP connection/release commands from a host processor; a message transmission... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080130637 - Maintaining consistent network connections while moving through wireless networks: A proxy server (208) provides an anchor point for access network changes in a wireless environment. One example embodiment uses the concept of proxy server in order to preserve a uniform connectivity to a gateway service node while roaming across different networks through a handover mechanism. In one embodiment, the... Agent: Groover & Associates

20080130643 - Method and apparatus for improving data transmission reliability in a wireless communications system: Techniques for performing duplicate detection and re-ordering for a HARQ transmission are described. For duplicate detection, a receiver determines whether a decoded packet x for an ARQ channel y is a duplicate packet based on packet x and a prior decoded packet for ARQ channel y. For re-ordering, the receiver... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080130641 - Method for classifying downstream packet in cable modem termination system at head-end supporting channel bonding mode, and cable modem termination system: Provided is a method for classifying packets in a cable modem termination system (CMTS) supporting a channel bonding mode. The method includes the steps of: extracting a destination Media Access Control (MAC) address of a received data packet; acquiring a MAC address of a cable modem receiving the data packet,... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080130640 - Multi-wideband communications over multiple mediums: A powerline communications device comprises a powerline communications interface and at least one other communications interface configured to communicate over a computing network. The powerline communications interface is further configured to receive electrical power. The computing network may comprise mediums including powerlines, telephone lines, and/or coaxial cables. In some embodiments,... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080130639 - Software update via peer-to-peer networks: Providing a software update service involves discovering, via an ad-hoc peer-to-peer network, a peer-to-peer software update service using a service discovery protocol of the ad-hoc peer-to-peer network. The peer-to-peer software update service is offered by a peer device and facilitates updates of programs via the ad-hoc, peer-to-peer network. In response... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, Llc

20080130644 - Network apparatus for redundant multicast: For continuing multicast data transfer according to path control information after being switched from an active status to a standby status, it is necessary that the standby status hold the same path control information as the active status. However, a synchronization of the path control information thereof is not guaranteed.... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080130648 - Apparatus and method for forwarding packet in packet switch system: A packet forwarding apparatus forwards packets by hardware implementation in a packet switch system for an internet protocol service. In the packet forwarding apparatus, an interface transmits/receives a packet through interfacing with a data link layer. A bus operator converts the packet received from the interface by a pre-set logic.... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080130647 - Assisted proactive ip address acquisition: The present invention relates to reducing the time required to provide an IP address to a mobile node by pro-actively obtaining IP addresses, through the use of PANA-assisted pro-active IP address acquisition, IKEv2-assisted proactive IP address acquisition, or by pro-active IP address acquisition using DHCP only. Where a DHCP is... Agent: Watchstone P+d, Plc

20080130646 - Method and system for configuring a device that has failed to obtain network address: Method and system for configuring a device that has failed to obtain a network address. In one aspect of the invention, a method for remotely configuring a device includes attempting to obtain a network address from a network server over a network, and receiving a valid network address over the... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080130645 - Methods and apparatus for instability detection in inter-domain routing: Improved techniques are disclosed for detecting instability events in data communications systems that support inter-administrative domain (inter-domain) routing. For example, a technique for detecting an instability event in a communications system supporting inter-administrative domain routing includes the following steps. At an inter-domain router, one or more features are extracted from... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080130649 - Method and system for efficient rapid loss detection in a bonding system: An apparatus, method, and computer program for efficient rapid loss detection in a channel bonding system. A received packet having a packet sequence number (PSN) not equal to a next expected PSN is queued. A channel counter for a first channel on which the received packet was received is incremented.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080130651 - Multi-queue single-fifo architecture for quality of service oriented systems: A multi-queue single-FIFO scheme for quality of service oriented communication. According to the invention, an arbiter maintains a number of next access pointers for multiple queues storing data packets to be transmitted. The arbiter also determines which queue is to be serviced next contingent upon a quality of service policy... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080130652 - Multiple communication networks for multiple computers: A system and method for interconnecting multiple computers (M1, M2, . . . , Mn) via at least two communications networks (N1, N2, N3) are disclosed. The connections are made via multiple communications ports (28, 38). Data is sent and received via a data protocol which identifies the sequence position... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080130650 - Packet transmitting apparatus and network system: A packet transmitting apparatus according to the present invention includes a plurality of ports. When the same unlearned packets have arrived at the plurality of ports, the packet transmitting apparatus judges through packet processing section that the first arrived one of the packets is a previous arrival packet. Then, through... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080130653 - Method for processing request for network address/port translation in communication network: A method for processing request for network address/port translation in a communication network includes: firstly, the first network entity transmits a network address/port request message which carries the priority information of the request; after receiving the request, the second network entity allocates the corresponding network address/port for the first network... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080130656 - Apparatus and method for managing quality of service in integrated network of heterogeneous mobile network: An apparatus and method for managing QoS in an integrated network system are provided. The apparatus includes: an information provider for providing policy information based on a network equipment control algorithm, a user profile and network information; a condition calculator for calculating conditions that are used for selecting a policy... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080130657 - Method and apparatus for dynamically allocating bandwidth by hierarchical weight round robin: Provided are method and apparatus for dynamically allocating unlink bandwidth in Ethernet PON. In the method and apparatus, report value, which are received for each logical link identifications (LLID), is controlled to be less than a maximum gate value set for each LLID in sequence for all of LLIDs without... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080130658 - System and method for low-delay, interactive communication using multiple tcp connections and scalable coding: Systems and methods for communication of scaleable-coded audiovisual signals over multiple TCP/IP connections are provided. The sender schedules and prioritizes transmission of individual scalable-coded data packets over the plurality of TCP connections according to their relative importance in the scalable coding structure for signal reconstruction quality and according to receiver... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080130659 - Internet protocol over ethernet first mile: A method to transmit and receive Internet protocol data packets comprising running an Internet protocol application, outputting an Internet protocol data packet based on the running of the Internet protocol application and transmitting the Internet protocol data packet via a physical layer compliant with Ethernet first mile standards.... Agent: Fogg & Powers Llc

20080130655 - Memory management unit for a network switch: A network switch having at least one port data port interface, a first memory, a second memory, and a memory management unit in connection with the at least one data port interface, the first memory, and the second memory. The memory management unit operates to receive data from the at... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080130654 - Signal-processing device with improved triggering: A digital signal-processing device is described which comprises a recording controller for control of recording in the memories drives a trigger-switching element arranged in the trigger line downstream of the two parallel-operating signal-processing units in such a manner that essentially the same timing period is recorded in both memories during... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.c.

20080130660 - System and method of real-time control and scheduling for zero-queue distributed systems: A system and method is provided that comprise a logical central controller; and a plurality of logical nodes; wherein a demand is performed such that to transport various commodities from a first set of at least one nodes among the plurality of logical nodes to a second set of at... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20080130666 - Communication network system, gateway, data communication method and program providing medium: This invention relates to provide a communication network system, a gateway, and a data communication method, in which the gateway has an advanced functionality. A person who issues an access request can retrieve a desired access destination easily by the following configuration: functions of routing information providing and authentication processing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080130665 - Data processing method and device: A data processing method and device includes a data selecting unit of a GGSN selecting data received by the GGSN, which includes a GTP tunnel signaling packet and a normal data packet and performs corresponding processing in accordance with a type of the selected packet. A data information processing unit... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080130664 - Method and apparatus for establishing multipath in heterogeneous interface environment: A method of establishing a multipath in a heterogeneous interface environment among wireless nodes including a source node, a relay node, and a destination node which receives a message from the source node via the relay node, the method including: receiving a route request message by a wireless node; and... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080130662 - Method and system for supporting service continuity for mobile communication over different access networks: A method and system for switching between at least two different access network technologies in a mobile terminal during a packet-oriented data traffic to a destination network without interrupting an active network application or a service. An access control application is installed in the terminal. The access control application determines... Agent: The Maxham Firm

20080130661 - System and communication method of ip telecommunication network and its application: The present invention provides one kind of IP telecom network system and its realizing method, and a method of building virtual private network and carrying out multicast based on this IP telecom network, and a method of managing resource in this IP telecom network etc. The IP telecom network system... Agent: Lau & Associates, Llc Michael N. Lau

20080130663 - System and method for short message service and instant messaging continuity: A system and method are disclosed for communicating messages between users that use different messaging services. A message from a u