Multiplex communications inventions 07/08

20080181094 - Method for retransmitting a data sequence according to channel condition in a wireless communications network: The present invention discloses a method for retransmitting a data sequence according to channel condition in a wireless communications network. The method comprises transmitting a first transmitting signal representing the data sequence using a first set of beamforming weighting vectors generated according to a first channel condition, receiving a request... Agent: L. Howard Chen Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP

20080181095 - Method and apparatus for impairment correlation estimation in multi-antenna receivers: According to a method and apparatus taught herein, signal impairment correlations across antennas in a multi-antenna receiver are determined using data values rather than pilot values in a multi-frequency signal received at each of the receiver antennas. For example, in an OFDM signal chunk having a number of data sub-carriers... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080181096 - Using a single fht to decode access-based handoff probes from multiple users: Aspects describe a Fast Hadamard Transform that is common to multiple mobile devices. A scrambled sequence produced by the Fast Hadamard Transform can be utilized to decode access-based handoff probes from multiple terminals within a wireless communications system. A Walsh Sequence can be scrambled with a common random sequence to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080181098 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a signal in a communication system: A signal transmission apparatus in a communication system, includes: a first IFFT unit for generating a first signal by performing inverse fast Fourier transform on a first communication service signal corresponding to a first communication scheme; a first CP inserter for generating a second signal by inserting a first cyclic... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080181097 - Method and ofdm receiver with multi-dimensional window processing unit for robustly decoding rf signals: The invention enhances channel correction techniques for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems so that higher effective data rates can be achieved with a minimal processing load. OFDM channel values determined due to known sequences in one domain can be used to seed solution matrices for channel value determination in... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080181100 - Methods and apparatus to manage network correction procedures: A method and apparatus to manage network correction procedures is disclosed. An example method includes receiving an alarm relating to a network anomaly, receiving information relating to the location of the network anomaly, and determining an identity of at least one network element related to the location. The example method... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080181099 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for using alarm data correlation to automatically analyze a network outage: Using alarm data correlation to automatically analyze a network outage. Alarm data for a communications network is received. The received alarm data is correlated to determine a number of users affected by the outage. A set of rules are applied to the correlated alarm data to identify at least one... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080181101 - Overhear-based transmitting control system in wlans: We propose overhear-based transmitting control system in WLANs to improve performance of 802.11 wireless LANs. The main idea of this scheme is that when the transmission of a node fails, one of neighboring nodes with better channel quality retransmits the lost frame in substitution. To do so, every node should... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080181102 - Network routing: In a network including a number of nodes configured to support multi-protocol label switching, a method may include forming a primary label switching path (LSP) from a first one of the nodes to the other ones of the nodes in a first direction. The primary LSP may form a first... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080181105 - Bandwidth control system, method, and program storage medium storing program thereof: When a plurality of pre-stage packet controllers receive an instruction on transmission of the priority information from a post-stage packet controller, they derive priority information on the basis of the ratios of bandwidths which can be used at minimum by the user devices, and statuses of storing packets in the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080181104 - Method and apparatus for improving quality of service for packetized voice: Queued real-time voice received over a data network is actively managed. Upon detecting that the amount of real-time voice stored in the queue has reached a first threshold, a selection process selects non-consecutive portions of the voice to remove from the queue while maintaining a high Quality of Service (QoS)... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080181103 - Traffic distribution techniques: Methods and apparatus are described for assigning data units to a plurality of groups. A key is generated for each of the data units such that the keys corresponding to associated ones of the data units are identical. An initial hash value is generated for each of the keys. A... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080181106 - Traffic load balancing: In one embodiment, an enterprise network is provided that includes a mobility module 150 associated with a first or second switch/server 100 or 104, respectively. On the second switch/server, the mobility agent manages a pool of mobility user station records 168a-j and creates visitor application records 172a-i associated with a... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20080181109 - Communication terminal, congestion control method, and congestion control program: The congestion in a network can be avoided by effectively utilizing a prepared network band even in a network where reception intervals of acknowledgments are not correct. According to the information about Ack or Sack (selective acknowledgment) received in a time of the minimum value of an RTT (rtt_min), the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080181108 - Dynamic feedback for outbound link rate adjustment in multi-rate downstream: Systems and methods for regulating the throughput of a channel between a gateway and one or more subscriber terminals are disclosed. Various embodiments of the invention provide for monitoring link utilization between a gateway and a subscriber terminal at, for example, the physical layer of the OSI model. Based in... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080181107 - Methods and apparatus to map and transfer data and properties between content-addressed objects and data files: Methods of iterating through a set of data objects on a source server, copying them to a destination server, and preparing a mapping database correlating source and destination data object identifiers are described and claimed. The mapping database also includes data retention policy information and policy discrepancy information. Systems using... Agent: Network Appliance/blakely

20080181110 - Determination of available service capacity in dynamic network access domains: A capacity aware system that facilitates activation of a new service in a dynamic network is provided. The system calculates the available capacity of the network, at a given time, and determines if sufficient capacity is available for new service activation as per the SLA (Service Level Agreement) requirements. If... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080181111 - Optimal interconnect utilization in a data processing network: A method for managing packet traffic in a data processing network includes collecting data indicative of the amount of packet traffic traversing each of the links in the network's interconnect. The collected data includes source and destination information indicative of the source and destination of corresponding packets. A heavily used... Agent: Ibm Corporation (dwl) C/o Lally & Lally, L.L.P.

20080181114 - Closed-loop clock synchronization: A network comprising a destination node, and a plurality of source nodes configured to transmit high-priority data and low-priority data to the destination node, wherein the source nodes correlate the transmission of the high-priority data to the destination node such that the high-priority data from each source node does not... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080181113 - Method and apparatus for efficient routing in communication networks: Methods and apparatus for efficient routing in communication networks. In an aspect, a method is provided for traffic routing between first and second nodes in a communication network. The method includes detecting traffic transmitted between the first and second nodes, transmitting a request to a mobility agent associated with the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080181112 - Methods and apparatus for controlling latency variation in a packet transfer network: Methods and apparatus for controlling latency variation of packets received in a packet transfer network are provided. A plurality of packets is received at a network element of a receive node of the packet transfer network. A time-stamp is provided for each of the plurality of packets. An egress delay... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080181115 - System for transmitting data within a network between nodes of the network and flow control process for transmitting the data: A system is for transmitting data in a network and includes emitter nodes, each including a transmitter for transmitting requests for data transmission. The system may also include a receiver node receiving the data transmission from the emitter nodes and including a first memory for storing data transmitted by each... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080181116 - Quality of service application programming interface over socket: Disclosed is a Quality of Service (QoS) control mechanism for QoS-aware network applications running on computer devices. The mechanism provides IP socket-based QoS Application Program Interfaces (APIs) for QoS-aware applications for accessing MAC layer QoS function of network access devices. In various embodiments, the QoS mechanism utilizes QoS API over... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080181117 - Method of providing qos for a flow: A method of providing QoS for a flow associated with a client application in a network, and a QoS manager to execute this method. The network comprises said QoS manager, a QoS policy holder, one or more QoS devices, and a control point associated with the client application. Moreover, the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080181118 - Selecting service nodes for an end-to-end service path from a reduced search space: Service nodes in a service overlay network are selected to provide a service path for a requested service by determining a reduced search space of service nodes in the service overlay network that are operable to provide service components for the requested service. From the reduced search space of service... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080181119 - Network diagnostic systems and methods for aggregated links: A networking system is provided. The networking system may include a diagnostic module. The diagnostic module may include one or more statistics modules. The diagnostic module may include a routing module configured to route messages to the statistics modules. The messages may be derived from network messages from an aggregated... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080181120 - Portable internet analyzer having handover test function: Disclosed herein is a portable Internet analyzer (PIA) having a handover test function. The portable Internet analyzer includes a transmission unit, a reception unit, a switching unit, and a central control unit. The transmission unit encodes the various DownLink signals of a serving and/or target Base Station (stBS) using a... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080181121 - Self-describing device interconnections: An apparatus for testing, measuring, and monitoring operation of a set of pieces of equipment, the apparatus comprises a topology network piggybacked on the set of pieces of equipment; and a controller, coupled to the topology network for communication over the network.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080181122 - Signaling the outage of a network unit over a communications network: In a method for notifying a first network unit of an interruption in a transmission of data of a service on part of at least one second network unit over a communications network, at least one signaling message, which contains at least one parameter concerning a notification during an interruption... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20080181125 - Bandwidth measuring method and device: In a bandwidth measuring method and device for grasping a traffic general and local trends in consideration of a packet loss, without continuously capturing packets, a simulation is executed by determining a bandwidth limit based on a buffer length, a transmission bandwidth, and a mean packet length collected in an... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080181124 - Conversion of access nodes to gateways within a wireless mesh network: An apparatus and method of a method of a wireless mesh network proposing access nodes for conversion to gateways is disclosed. The method includes each access node of the wireless mesh network measuring wireless mesh network metrics. A server connected to the wireless mesh network obtains the network metrics, and... Agent: Tropos Networks

20080181128 - Efficient mean square error (mse) calculation for lattice elements: In at least some embodiments, a wireless communication system includes a transmitter that transmits a signal over a communication channel. The system also includes a receiver that receives the signal as an output of the communication channel. The receiver selects a first element of a lattice and calculates a Mean-Squared... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080181127 - Implicit drx cycle length adjustment control in lte_active mode: A method for controlling discontinuous reception in a wireless transmit/receive unit includes defining a plurality of DRX levels, wherein each DRX level includes a respective DRX cycle length and transitioning between DRX levels based on a set of criteria. The transitioning may be triggered by implicit rules.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080181126 - Methods and a device for secure distance calculation in communication networks: Device and method for calculating distance in a communication network (100) using Time-To-Live (TTL) values. Device A sets (202) a non-predictable initial TTL value (TTL_S) and sends a message (204) with this TTL value to device B. The TLL value should be at least as high as the TTL ceiling... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080181123 - Methods and apparatus to manage network testing procedures: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to enable packet telephony performance testing. An example method disclosed herein includes receiving a request to execute a test, and obtaining a testing rule associated with the requested test, the testing rule including a test parameter threshold. The example method also includes determining a compliance... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080181129 - Network diagnostic systems and methods for handling multiple data transmission rates: A network diagnostic system may include a network diagnostic module. The network diagnostic module may be configured to generate one or more network diagnostic statistics. The network diagnostic module may be configured to automatically handle multiple data transmission rates.... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080181132 - Command anywhere mobile mesh system: CAMMS is a system of hardware and software to enable emergency responders to exchange information and communicate with each other in crisis-response situations. CAMMS creates a “Mesh” network on an ad-hoc basis, without user intervention, and allows all users on the mesh to engage in audio-video conferencing, telephone calls, exchange... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080181131 - Managing multiple application configuration versions in a heterogeneous network: A system that enables automatic version provisioning in heterogeneous application oriented network (AON) architectures is provided. Generally, the specification enables appropriate version configurations to be selected at runtime as needed in an AON environment. More particularly, the subject specification describes the ability of a device (e.g., AON node) to perform... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080181130 - Receiver-based link-layer protocol: In one embodiment, a system comprises a plurality of nodes. Each node comprises a transceiver to communicate with at least one of the other nodes over a communication medium. Each node has an associated logical, repeating time period, where each time period comprises a first portion in which the respective... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080181135 - Distributed network distance detemination using a distributed hash table overlay network: Distances are determined between an identified node and landmark nodes and milestone nodes in a network. The closest milestone or landmark node associated with a shortest of the measured distances is determined. A corresponding distributed hash table (DHT) overlay node is queried for distances between observed nearest nodes for the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080181137 - Media foundation media processor: A system and method for a media processor separates the functions of topology creation and maintenance from the functions of processing data through a topology. The system includes a control layer including a topology generating element to generate a topology describing a set of input multimedia streams, one or more... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080181136 - Medium having recorded therein network configuration verification program, network configuration verification method, and network configuration verification apparatus: A topology design information generator which, based on design information storing setting information, which is set in each communication instrument in order to enable the communication, on a layer-by-layer basis, generates layer-by-layer topology design information of the network. A topology information generator which collects the layer-by-layer setting information actually set... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080181133 - Path optimization for mesh access points in a wireless mesh network: In one embodiment, a method includes, in each of a plurality of mesh access points, connecting to one of a plurality of mesh controllers in a mesh network and passing connection information to the one mesh controller. The mesh access points include a wired mesh access point having a wired... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20080181134 - System and method for monitoring large-scale distribution networks by data sampling: A method for monitoring a network includes: identifying a plurality of groups of devices in a network, wherein each of the plurality of groups of devices is a set of related devices; sampling a status of a group of nodes in each of the plurality of groups of devices, wherein... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080181139 - Method and apparatus for storing tree data structures among and within multiple memory channels: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for storing tree data structures among and within multiple memory channels, which may be of particular use with, but not limited to tree bitmap data structures. A subtree (or entire tree) typically includes one or more leaf arrays and multiple tree arrays. One or more... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20080181138 - Method of distributing multiple spanning tree protocol configuration: A system and method of distributing a Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) configuration to at least one Ethernet switch. The method comprises assigning an Ethernet switch as a server switch. Based upon a configurable operation mode of the server switch and a configurable operational mode of at least one Ethernet... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080181140 - Methods and apparatus to manage conference call activity with internet protocol (ip) networks: Methods and apparatus to monitor conference call activity with Internet protocol (IP) networks are disclosed. An example method comprises monitoring a network for a first conference call participant connection request, prompting the first conference call participant for authentication credentials, and when the first conference call participant is authorized based on... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080181141 - Enhanced voicemail processing: Aspects of the present invention are generally directed to providing convenient access to contextual information related to one or more voicemail messages. In this regard, a user interface that presents contextual information related to a user's voicemail messages is implemented on an IP phone. The user interface is configured to... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080181142 - Method and system for communicating to radio frequency integrated circuit: A method and system for managing change-over in radio functionality at a radio front-end in a Time Division Duplexing (TDD) system is provided. The method comprises storing one or more control commands. The one or more control commands may correspond to the change-over. The change-over may be a transmitter-to-receiver change-over... Agent: Beceem Communications Inc, Patents (ip)

20080181143 - Surface and cordless transducer system: A smart surface is disclosed that can stand alone or be contained within a portable computer or other system, for powering and communicating with single or multiple cord-free transducers. Operating or charging power is transmitted by the surface using a carrier signal that is on/off keyed or amplitude modulated with... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080181144 - Rf transceiver system with impedance mismatch detection and control and methods for use therewith: An RF transceiver system includes an RF transmitter that generates a transmit signal and an RF receiver that receives a received signal. A diplexer couples the transmit signal to an antenna, produces the received signal based on an inbound RF signal to the antenna, and isolates the transmit signal from... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080181152 - Communication method, communication apparatus, and communication system: A method for exchanging channel information between a transmitter and a receiver each including antennas. A request frame including a first preamble, second preamble, and channel information feedback request is transmitted to the receiver, wherein the first preamble is transmitted from one of the antennas of the transmitter, the second... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080181149 - Method and apparatus for handling packets in a wireless communications system: A method for handling packets in a wireless communications system includes receiving a non-access stratum, called NAS hereinafter, message and a radio resource control, called RRC hereinafter, message, combining the NAS message, the RRC message, a header, and an indication field indicating position information of the NAS message and the... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080181147 - Method and system for implementation of sblp for a wlan-gsm/3g integrated system: Packet data gateway (PDG) in an integrated WLAN-GSM/3G core network, is disclosed comprising a router (R) having a number of gateways (Wi; OP INT 1, OP INT 2, INT DEFAULT) which are associated with various QoS traffic properties (BE, EF), an interface to a WLAN network (Wu) and an interface... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080181145 - Method for rtp setup coordination for talk groups when interconnecting public safety wireless networks and commercial wireless networks: A method and apparatus are provided for a gateway which interconnects public safety wireless networks and commercial wireless networks that support push-to-talk group calls. The gateway translates Real Time Protocol (RTP), Session Invitation Protocol (SIP), and Talk Burst Control Protocol (TBCP)/Real Time Control Protocol (RTCP) messages received from the commercial... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20080181148 - Multi-node media content relay system: A serially linked digital data content relaying system that wirelessly transfers digital data content files such digital audio files, digital video files, or digital voice paging files includes a virtual serial network. The virtual serial network includes a master controller node device and multiple reproduction node devices. The master controller... Agent: Saile Ackerman LLC

20080181150 - Scheduling apparatus and method in broadband wireless access system: A scheduling apparatus and method in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system are provided. A transmitting apparatus includes a storage for buffering a predetermined number of pieces of past channel information with respect to all terminals; a predictor for predicting a future channel status for each terminal by using the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080181151 - Touch screen generated processed signals in multiple communication systems and networks: Method, system and process for touch screen generated signals used in multiple communication systems and networks with reception and processing of Radio Frequency (RF) signal for generating processed location finder signal. Processing of input signal into time division multiple access (TDMA) processed filtered signal used in a cellular system and... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20080181146 - Wifi antenna system and method of operation: A WiFi antenna system includes a WiFi amplifier having a reception antenna and a separate transmission antenna for respectively receiving from and transmitting to WiFi devices such as laptop computers and the like. A logic circuit controls transmission and reception of signals via the antennas. Preferably, a splitter-combiner splits signals... Agent: Sand & Sebolt

20080181155 - Apparatus for and method of detecting wireless local area network signals using a low power receiver: A novel and useful apparatus for and method of reducing or minimizing the power required to detect WLAN signals. The present invention provides a mechanism of detecting WLAN signals using either a modified receive path or a separate low power receiver co-located with the WLAN radio. A secondary radio (such... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080181154 - Apparatus for and method of low power wireless local area network independent basic service set mode operation: A novel and useful apparatus for and method of providing a low power IBSS mode of operation in an ad hoc WLAN. The low power IBSS mechanism enables extremely low power operation when used among stations that implement the mechanism. The mechanism allows the implementation of an IBSS network that... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080181157 - Communication system, child system and control method thereof, and storage medium: A communication system comprises a control station and a child station. The child station decides a communication period between the child station and the control station in order to maintain a connection state in a power save mode. The decision of the communication period is performed in accordance with a... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080181156 - Speculative power save: In an example embodiment, a method for speculative power saving. The beginning portion of a header (e.g. a physical layer convergence protocol “PLCP” header of a beacon) is processed to determine whether a predefined bit is set that indicates whether the frame contains any delivery traffic indication for buffered multicast... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080181153 - Wireless lan device and corresponding method for power saving in wireless local area networks (wlan) supporting for peer communications: A wireless device (110) is provided for supporting peer to peer communications. A transceiver (132) is configured to receive and transmit data over a wireless link. A network activity sensor (136) is coupled to the transceiver and configured to sense peer to peer activity by the transceiver and generate a... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080181163 - Method and apparatus for multicasting with feedback information: A method for multicasting a packet begins by providing a buffer for each of two user equipments (UEs) in communication with a base station. A determination is made whether there is a previously unsent packet at the base station. A second determination is made whether both UE buffers are non-empty.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080181159 - Method and apparatus for reliable multicast communication over wireless network: Method and apparatus for reliable multicast communication over wireless network are provided. According to embodiments of the invention, the method includes determining a priority category for a multicast communication to be transmitted. The method includes designating, for the multicast communication, one of the multicast communication recipients as a leader based... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080181160 - Method and apparatus for transmitting frames across a communication network: A method and apparatus include a scheduling entity (208) for selecting a coding scheme and transmitting the frame (304) across a communication network (100). The controller (206) coupled to scheduling entity (208) determines a transmission gain for the frame based on the received signal interference and assigned reliability factor for... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080181161 - Method of transmitting and receiving multicast data: In order to solve the aforementioned problems in the prior art, a method of transmitting data to mobile terminals in a mobile terminal communicating with a network through which multicast data are transmitted. The method of the present invention comprises the steps of transmitting a requesting frame to the network... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080181158 - Notification of a receiving device about a forthcoming transmission session: For the notification of a receiving device about a forthcoming transmission session, an identifier of one of various possible types of identifiers in a transmission session is mapped to a transmission session identifier field. This field is used for notifying the receiving device. Further, a repetition value is added to... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080181164 - Radio communication apparatus: A radio communication system including: ANs (Access Networks) for wirelessly communicating with an AT (Access Terminal); and a communication control apparatus for controlling the AN, wherein the communication control apparatus sends transmission cycle information and control information to the AN, and wherein the AN transmits the transmission cycle information received... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080181162 - Sdma communications with non-immediate block acknowledgment: In Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA) communications, mobile devices that are transmitting to a base substantially simultaneously during a predetermined communications phase may wait until after an end of the predetermined communications phase to receive acknowledgments to their transmissions, so that a mobile device making a relatively short transmission does... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080181166 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data via media access control protocol in mobile communication system: Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving data via a MAC protocol in a mobile communication system. The method includes inputting at least one Service Data Unit (SDU) containing transmission data through a corresponding logical channel and generating at least one first Protocol Data Unit (PDU)... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080181165 - Method and system for transmitting audio data between computing devices: The present disclosure relates to transmitting data between a plurality of computing devices such as mobile telephones and other electronic communications devices, where a request is associated with placing a call to a contact, and where information associated with the request is stored and a request for a SIP proxy... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080181168 - Apparatus and method for processing bandwidth request in multihop relay broadband wireless access (bwa) communication system: Apparatuses and methods for processing a bandwidth request in a multihop relay Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system are provided. A communication method of a Relay Station (RS) includes determining a number of bandwidth request ranging codes received from Subscriber Stations (SSs); and reporting the number of the bandwidth request... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080181167 - Interleaved frame structure enabling relay and access links to share a channel for multi-hop wireless broadband access communications: An interleaved frame structure provides the ability for access links and relay links to share a single channel and enable the transmission of packet information across a 2-hop path within one frame. The interleaved frame structure in combination with fast processing at the Relay Station (RS) allows scheduled packet information... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080181169 - System for creating an aircraft-based internet protocol subnet in an airborne wireless cellular network: The Aircraft IP Subnet System provides wireless communication services to passengers located onboard an aircraft by storing data indicative of individually identified wireless devices that are located onboard the aircraft. The Aircraft IP Subnet System assigns a single IP address to each Point-to-Point Protocol link connecting the aircraft network to... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080181170 - Adaptive communications methods for multiple user packet radio wireless networks: An exemplary wireless communication network that includes a base that communicates with remote units located in a cell of the network. A base concatenates information symbols with a preamble corresponding to a destination remote unit. One or more remote units communicating with a base each concatenates information symbols with a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080181171 - Distributed remote base station system: A distributed base station system for high speed data transmission is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of remote antennas, each antenna being coupled to a router. The plurality of remote antennas is coupled to each other and is arranged into a network.... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080181172 - System, methods, devices and computer program products for controlling electronic appliances within a local area: A system, methods, devices and computer program products for controlling the operation of at least one electronic appliance, e.g. a TV, a music system, a lighting system, a kitchen appliance or an alarm system, located within a local area. The system has a mobile terminal located within the local area,... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080181173 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product providing enhanced resource allocation for a wireless mesh network: Apparatus, methods and computer program products are provided that enable enhanced resource allocation for a wireless mesh network. A method includes: in response to receiving a resource request in a wireless mesh network, allocating, by a first node, at least one dedicated resource for communication with a second node; reserving... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080181174 - Method and apparatus for a transceiver in a mobile/fixed relay with multiple antennas: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for increasingly improving a performance of a mobile communication system or a wireless broadcasting system, such as a Cellular System, a PCS (Personal Communication Service), a WiBro, a DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) or a GPS (Global Positioning System) by installing a mobile/fixed relay having... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20080181175 - Method and apparatus for configuring downlink frame in a communication system: A method and apparatus for configuring a downlink frame in a communication system. The method and apparatus includes setting up a first region including allocation information of a data burst according to an amount of the data burst to be transmitted in a downlink frame region; estimating a first transmission... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080181179 - Anticipatory hand-off setup between networks: A system and method for performing anticipatory hand-off setup between communication networks. Various aspects of the present invention may, for example and without limitation, provide a system and method for performing anticipatory hand-off setup between communication networks. For example and without limitation, prior to a determination to perform a hand-off... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080181180 - Efficient network hand-off utilizing stored beam-forming information: A system and method for performing efficient network hand-off (e.g., of a mobile communication device) utilizing stored beam-forming information. For example and without limitation, before determining to perform a particular hand-off, various aspects may comprise storing beam-forming information associated with the particular hand-off. Various aspects may also, for example, comprise... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080181176 - Framework to design new mac message exchange procedure related to mobile station (ms) handover in multi-hop relay broadband wireless access network: A protocol framework for MS handover in MR networks includes new messages and an optimized flow of these messages. A framework for use in a multi-hop topology of MR networks optimizes the handover performance. The framework is applicable and expandable to the design of a new control message exchange procedure... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080181178 - Method and apparatus for performing attachment procedures: A method and apparatus for implementing an attachment procedure in multi-mode systems are disclosed. A wireless communication system includes at least one of a second generation (2G) system, a third generation (3G) system, a long term evolution (LTE) and system architecture evolution (SAE) of the 3G system and a non-3G... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080181177 - Method and apparatus for srns relocation in wireless communication systems: A method for SRNS relocation comprises sending a relocation request from a Source Node B+ to a Target Node B+ based on measurements received from a User Equipment; sending a Physical Channel reconfiguration message from the Source Node B+ to the UE; forwarding Packet Data Units (PDU) from the source... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080181181 - 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

20080181182 - Digital radio head system and method: An improved digital radio head system and method for wireless communications is disclosed that simplifies the timing and synchronization between the access network, base station, and radio head. A satellite derived timing source is obtained at one or more of the remote radio heads where it is convenient to obtain... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080181183 - Shared radio backhaul system: Embodiments of the invention relate to wireless communications networks, and more specifically to method and apparatus relating to wireless backhaul for cellular wireless systems. Increasing data capacity of cellular wireless systems places increasing demands on the capacity of the two way connection, known as backhaul, between a cellular base station... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080181189 - Apparatus and method for sending multicast packet in mobile digital broadcast system: Apparatus and method for sending a multicast packet in a mobile digital broadcast system are provided. The mobile digital broadcast system includes a broadcaster for indicating the designated recipient in an Internet Protocol (IP) header of a multicast packet and including a temporary IP address of the recipient in the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080181185 - Dynamic multi-patch based frequency division multiple access frequency assignment: A radio transceiver device includes circuitry for radiating electromagnetic signals at a very high radio frequency both through space, as well as through wave guides that are formed within a substrate material. In one embodiment, the substrate comprises a dielectric substrate formed within a board, for example, a printed circuit... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080181186 - Intra-device rf bus and control thereof: A device includes a first integrated circuit, a second integrated circuit and an RF bus controller. Each of the first and second ICs includes a radio frequency (RF) bus transceiver. The RF bus controller is coupled to control intra-device RF communications between the RF bus transceivers of the first and... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080181184 - Loading control methods and apparatus for wireless access points of wireless local area networks in support of legacy terminals: Methods and apparatus for use in controlling the loading of wireless access points (APs) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) in support of legacy terminals are disclosed. The WLAN has at least a first AP and a second wireless AP adjacent the first wireless AP. An indication which indicates... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20080181188 - Systems and methods for improving network mobility: A method of providing mobility between network subnets for a plurality of mobile network nodes attached to a mobile router, which mobile router hides any change in network subnet from said plurality of mobile network nodes and which network subnets provide access for said mobile router to a fixed network... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: BoxIPDept.

20080181190 - Wireless access point management in a campus environment: A Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is operated in conjunction with a wired Local Area Network (wired LAN) to service a premises, e.g., a campus setting. The wired LAN services the wired communication needs of the premises and serves as the wired backbone of the WLAN. A plurality of Wireless... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080181187 - Wlan connection setup application and profile manager: A sequence of screens are displayed for a wireless local area network (WLAN) connection setup application to enable a user of a handheld WLAN client device to scan for and set up a new WLAN connection. Various connection parameters may be saved in a profile. A profile management application lists... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20080181191 - Method and apparatus for finite impulse response cyclic-shift diversity: A generalized form of cyclic shift diversity is described for use in an OFDM system with multiple transmit antennas. Multiple cyclic shifts are performed for each transmit antenna and the shifted signals are scaled and summed to form a time-domain data stream for each transmit antenna. A cyclic extension is... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080181193 - Radio communcation apparatus: A radio communication system including: ANs (Access Networks) for wirelessly communicating with an AT (Access Terminal); and a communication control apparatus for controlling the AN, wherein the communication control apparatus includes: a control unit for sending transmission cycle information and control information to the AN, and wherein the AN includes:... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080181192 - Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method: There is provided with a radio communication method including: managing carrier sensing states of any one of two first channels having identical bandwidths and a second channel including both bands of the two first channels; determining whether to transmit transmission data using the first channel or the second channel; attempting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080181194 - Cell searching system and method: For wireless networks that transmit synchronization signals allowing user equipment to synchronize to cells within the network and transmit reference signals allowing user equipment to determine cell identities, a method and apparatus taught herein advantageously link the synchronization signal sequences to the reference signal sequences according to a defined mapping.... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080181195 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving downlink synchronization channel in a cellular communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving an SCH in a cellular wireless communication system, in which a number of available PSCs among PSCs defined for P-SCH in the system is checked, a default PSC to be used with priority in UEs of the system for cell search is... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080181196 - Link aggregation across multiple chassis: Aggregating links across multiple chassis is disclosed. An indication that one or more local links are to be aggregated with one or more links on another chassis is received. Coordination with the other chassis is performed, via an inter-chassis control path, to present to a downstream equipment as an aggregated... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James, LLP And Alcatel

20080181199 - Communication system: A method of populating a store with information identifying user devices capable of communicating in a communications network, includes establishing a communication event from an initiator device to a recipient device via the communication network using information identifying the recipient device; receiving from a user of the initiator device a... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080181197 - Delivering unified user experience by automatically teaming up information appliances with general purpose pc through internet: An embodiment of the present invention is a method for server side integration of communication devices and the general purpose PC of the same user through a computer network wherein no physical connection is required between the PC and the communication device. The user registers with PnC (phone and computer)... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20080181198 - Methods and apparatus for handling a communication session for an unregistered internet protocol multimedia subsystem (ims) device: Methods and apparatus for handling a communication session for an unregistered Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) device are disclosed. An example method comprises receiving an IMS session initiation message from an un-registered user endpoint, determining whether the IMS session initiation message is directed to an exception endpoint, and establishing an... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080181201 - System and method for data transfer between terminals in voice communication under voice over internet protocol (voip): The present invention relates to a system and method for sharing and controlling various contents in a voice call. A contents sharing system includes a soft switch and a contents share server. The soft switch receives a voice call from a VoIP terminal to set establishment and cancellation on a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080181200 - Use of a distributed hash table to federate many small-sized ims core infrastructures: Multimedia subsystem, IMS, containing a set of call session control function elements, CSCF, suitable for sending a signaling message (m) between a first communication client (T) connected to said multimedia subsystem and at least one second communication client, where this second communication client may be connected to said multimedia subsystem... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080181202 - Voice over internet protocol real time protocol routing: A method for call signaling and media flow in a network including receiving call signaling information from an originating Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) endpoint relaying the call signaling information to a destination VoIP endpoint, directing the originating VoIP endpoint to use a RTP media proxy and receiving a stream... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080181203 - Systems and methods for combining time division multiplexed and packet connection in a meshed switching architecture: The present invention provides systems and methods for supporting native TDM and native Packet switching simultaneously in a meshed switching architecture. Specifically with the present invention, the meshed links are common to both TDM and packet traffic, and both types terminate to a common system interface without the need to... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20080181204 - Method and apparatus for activating transport channels in a packet switched 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

20080181205 - Method to improve the performance of handoffs between packet switched and circuit switched domains: A method and apparatus is described for coordinating the movement of communication traffic, e.g., a voice call, from a packet switched (PS) domain to a circuit switched (CS) domain in the case that the terminal device cannot communicate with the PS and CS radio technologies simultaneously. Such movement involves the... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Docket Administrator - Room 2f-190

20080181206 - I2c bus control circuit: An I2C bus control circuit includes a continuous transmission control section in addition to a transmission control section, a sequence control section, a data line control section, and a clock line control section. The continuous transmission control section has a number-of-continuous transmission bytes register and first to (n−1)th continuous transmission... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080181214 - Apparatus and method for producing device identifiers for serially interconnected devices of mixed type: A plurality of memory devices of mixed type (e.g., DRAMs, SRAMs, MRAMs, and NAND-, NOR- and AND-type Flash memories) are serially interconnected. Each device has device type information on its device type. A specific device type (DT) and a device identifier (ID) contained in a serial input (SI) as a... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080181224 - Apparatus and system for distributing block data on a private network without using tcp/ip: A system, apparatus and method for transmitting data on a private network in blocks of data without using TCP/IP as a protocol are provided. When data is to be transmitted on a private network, the data is divided into a plurality of packets and a MAC header is added to... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ve) C/o Volel Emile

20080181222 - Communication system, auxiliary device and communication method: The technology consists of a CL device 110 connected to a global network 160, an SE device 130 connected to a private network 161, an NAT device 120 and a auxiliary device 140 wherein the auxiliary device 140 verifies in what way the address information of the packet communicated to... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080181218 - Coordinated media control system: A coordinated media control system includes a node manager, a device control system, and a device. The node manager is operatively connected to a first node. The device control system is operatively connected to the node manager. The device is operatively connected to the device control system. The node manager... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080181219 - Detecting and identifying connectivity in a network: An automated method for ascertaining interconnectivity in a network comprises operating a customer edge device at a site that is physically linked with at least one provider edge router and communicates directly with peer sites via a virtual private network (VPN) connection. Inter-site connectivity is discovered among a plurality of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080181209 - Establising a remote session between a receiving station and a sending station: A method is described that comprises a receiving station determining whether at least one sending station (coupled to the receiving station in a peer-to-peer configuration) meets a filtering criterion, and establishing a remote session between the receiving station and a sending station for which the filtering criterion is met.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080181212 - Highly flexible and efficient mac to phy interface: A plurality of media access controllers (MACs) are time division multiplexed with one or more serializer/deserializer (SerDes) devices, wherein there are more MACs than SerDes devices and/or a single multi-rate Ethernet MAC is able to communicate with a multi-rate PHY spanning speeds from 10 megabits per second to 10 gigabits... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080181223 - Method and device for implementing layer 1 virtual private network: A method for implementing Layer 1 Virtual Private Network (L1 VPN) includes creating on a Provider Edge (PE) at least one Virtual PE which performs signaling exchange and routing exchange with a Customer Edge (CE) to support at least one L1 VPN service mode. A device corresponding to the method... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080181207 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for reducing session setup latency: An apparatus for reducing session setup latency includes a processing element. The processing element is configured to determine a status with respect to a response message made in response to an invite message associated with a communication session, determine a status with respect to media packets being communicated between nodes... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080181211 - Methods and apparatus to display service quality to a user of a multiple mode communication device: Methods and apparatus that relate to the display of network availability and quality of service (QoS) to a user of a multiple mode communication device are disclosed. An example method, obtains a quality of service QoS metric for a call routed through a first communication provider to a second communication... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080181217 - Methods, systems and computer program products for integrating network traffic: Methods, systems and computer program products for integrating data in a communications network received at provider (P) routers from provider edge (PE) routers having a plurality of different configurations are provided. Global collection and export parameters for the P routers are configured. A collector associated with the P routers is... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080181216 - Optimized mobile ipv6 encapsulation for wireless networks: Systems and methods are provided for an optimized mobile-IPv6 encapsulation. A mobile node sends packets to a correspondent node by encapsulating a packet using an IPv6 routing extension header, and reverse tunneling the packet to a home agent. The home agent modifies the packet and forwards it to the correspondent... Agent: Sprint

20080181210 - Processing register values in multi-process chip architectures: In a computing environment, a method includes receiving a first data packet at a first kick code from a first stage, the kick code being configured to process data packets individually and the first stage being configured to perform one or more tasks, updating one or more counters using the... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080181208 - Service driven smart router: A smart router is used to analyze messages and apply programmable policies to messages based on various diagnostics. Policies can be set by applications or other appropriate entities, such as a service layer. The smart router is able to delegate specific tasks, such as various transport (e.g., firewall, network bandwidth/congestion... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080181215 - System for remotely distinguishing an operating system: A method for remotely identifying an operating system comprises sending a first User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packet to a port that is not in use on a target and monitoring a response evoked by the first sent UDP packet. At least one Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packet is sent... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080181213 - Systems and methods of using an ip id field for automatic wan/lan detection: The solution of the present invention provides systems and methods for encoding information into an Internet Protocol identification field (IPID) of an IP layer header of a network packet in a manner acceptable to many or all of the network devices that encounter the encoded packet. In one embodiment, the... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080181221 - Technique for controlling data packet transmission of variable bit rate data: A technique is disclosed for controlling data packet transmissions from a server to a client having a client buffer in accordance with a waiting mode and a dynamic mode. The waiting mode is performed before packets containing data encoded subject to a current bit rate have reached the client buffer;... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080181220 - Utility service in multi-processor environment: Methods and systems for telecommunication devices to share a network connection between a utility engine and an application. While the outgoing data of the utility engine and the application are merged over the shared network connection, incoming data is filtered via an IP data filter to route utility engine specific... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080181225 - Method and system for multicasting targeted advertising data: A method for multicasting targeted advertising data to end user devices is disclosed. In an illustrative embodiment the method includes but is not limited to correlating at a regional internet protocol television (IPTV) server, multicast queue data with web data from web sites visited by each of a plurality of... Agent: G. Michael Roebuck, PC

20080181226 - Network traffic synchronization mechanism: Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to a network traffic synchronization mechanism facilitating the deployment of network devices in redundant network topologies. In certain embodiments, when a first network device directly receives network traffic, it copies the network traffic and transmits it to at least one partner network device. The partner... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080181227 - Zero-day security system: A system for protecting networks from vulnerability exploits comprises a security engine operable to receive a packet destined for a user's network and forward the packet to at least one host virtual machine for processing. The security engine is further operable to forward the stored packet to the user's internal... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080181228 - Carriage of sei messages in rtp payload format: A system and method of modifying error resiliency features by conveying temporal level 0 picture indices, such as tl0_pic_idx, within an SEI message instead of optionally including them in the NAL unit header is provided. In addition, a mechanism is provided for enabling repetition of any SEI messages in Real-Time... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080181229 - Distributed packet processing with ordered locks to maintain requisite packet orderings: Sequences of items may be maintained using ordered locks. These items may correspond to anything, but using ordered locks to maintain sequences of packets, especially for maintaining requisite packet orderings when distributing packets to be processed to different packet processing engines, may be particularly useful. For example, in response to... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20080181231 - Data processing device, data processing method and data processing program: A data processing device connected to another data processing device through an asynchronous network to receive/transmit data from/to the other data processing device. The data processing device monitors an accumulation amount of a reception buffer for receiving data transmitted from the other data processing device, controls a self reception data... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080181230 - Remote monitoring of wellsite data: In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving, at a client machine, data related to a well. The method also includes executing on the client machine, an instantiation of an application to view or manipulate the data, wherein the application is not installed on the client machine. At least one of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080181234 - System and method for providing quality of service in a virtual adapter: A method, computer program product, and distributed data processing system for associating a quality of service level to one or more virtual I/O adapters or virtual resources that reside within a physical adapter and are associated with a virtual host is provided. Specifically, a mechanism by which a single physical... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080181232 - Computer program product and system for managing virtual instances of a physical port attached to a network: The present invention relates to a method, a computer program product and a system for managing virtual instances of a physical port attached to a network. The method is based on the Fibre Channel N_Port virtualisation for a physical Fibre Channel N_Port. Multiple virtual Fibre Channel adapters share a single... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20080181233 - Redundant far-end pseudo-wire connectivity: Providing a network service is disclosed. A data associated with the service is received. It is determined whether a local context associated with the service is in an active state with respect to the service. The data is redirected to another chassis, via an inter-chassis backup connection, if it is... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James, LLP And Alcatel

20080181235 - Communicating configuration information over standard interconnect link: A mechanism is provided for storage enclosures to communicate with one another using pre-existing cables allowing the user to dynamically attach different types and speeds of Fibre Channel enclosures together. The mechanism uses a transmit disable line and receive loss of signal line of a small form-factor pluggable optical cable... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080181236 - Virtual usb communications port: A method and system for accessing a remote real communication port (“COM port”) from a server blade in a server blade chassis by creating a virtual COM port in the server blade. A basic input/output system (BIOS) controller monitors an internal COM port in the server blade for communication traffic.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080181237 - Building communities of interest and selecting borders between them based on relative motion: Methods and apparatus for dynamically designating communities of interest and selecting border nodes using a relative motion calculus within a mobile network are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a primary node within a mobile network identifies a first subset of nodes and logic that identifies a... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20080181242 - Communications gateway between two entities: t

20080181239 - Methods and apparatus to control network access from a user device: Methods and apparatus to control network access from a user device, are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a request from a user device for access to a network, receiving a first password from the user device, determining that the first password is invalid, and sending a second password and... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080181238 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for reducing down time while performing network modifications: A list of subscribers to be moved from a set of existing equipment elements to a set of new equipment elements is determined. If a network management system for managing the set of new equipment elements is capable of supporting logical provisioning of subscribers before the set of new equipment... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080181241 - Multipath virtual router redundancy: Providing gateway redundancy is disclosed. On each of a master and a standby gateway a single IP routing redundancy protocol instance is associated with a plurality of subscriber subnets. On each gateway, the respective single IP routing redundancy protocol instance is used to provide gateway redundancy for the plurality of... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James, LLP And Alcatel

20080181240 - System and method of cpe stored data collection: System and method to collect data from customer premise equipment (CPE) are provided. According to example embodiments disclosed herein, there is provided system and method allowing CPE to be queried by a CPE management system (CMS) via commands originated from a CPE data collection system. A system according to an... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080181244 - Data processing system, method and interconnect fabric for improved communication in a data processing system: A data processing system includes a plurality of processing units each having a respective point-to-point communication link with each of multiple others of the plurality of processing units but fewer than all of the plurality of processing units. Each of the plurality of processing units includes interconnect logic, coupled to... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080181243 - Ethernet forwarding in high performance fabrics: As switching device forwards frames through a fabric using high performance routing protocols without requiring changes in receiving and transmitting Ethernet end stations communicating through the fabric. Each frame received by an edge point of a high performance fabric is modified to support a high performance routing protocol while the... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080181246 - Data-packet processing method in network system: A data-packet processing method is used in a network system. The network system includes a buffer for optionally storing a data packet to be transferred, and the method includes steps of: detecting a remaining space of the buffer; prohibiting a first type of data packet and a second type of... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080181247 - Method and apparatus for processing queue in network system: Queue processing method and apparatus in a network system are provided. The queue processing method in a network system includes when a packet is input to a buffer, checking whether the buffer belongs to the same memory channel; when the buffer does not belong to the same memory channel, converting... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080181248 - Methods for dynamic bandwidth allocation and queue management in ethernet passive optical networks: In a passive optical network, dynamic bandwidth allocation and queue management methods and algorithms, designed to avoid fragmentation loss, guarantee that a length of a grant issued by an OLT will match precisely the count for bytes to be transmitted to an ONU. The methods include determining an ONU uplink... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080181245 - System and method for multicore communication processing: A system and method for multicore processing of communications between data processing devices are provided. With the mechanisms of the illustrative embodiments, a set of techniques that enables sustaining media speed by distributing transmit and receive-side processing over multiple processing cores is provided. In addition, these techniques also enable designing... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080181249 - Multi-network shared phy layer: A system and method for providing PHY layer signal processing in a PHY layer signal processing circuit, at least portions of which may be shared for communication with a plurality of different types of communication networks. Various aspects of the present invention may, for example and without limitation, provide a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080181250 - Carrier sense multiple access (csma) for non-packetized wireless digital voice networks using intelligent conversation boundary detection: A communications system includes a plurality of radios that form a carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) wireless communications network and communicate non-packetized digital voice with each other. Each radio is operative for dividing the period following the end of a transmission into a sequence of time slots and determining whether... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080181251 - Communication apparatus and communication method: A communication apparatus includes a receiving device configured to receive one physical frame in which a plurality of MAC frames are aggregated. This physical frame includes one acknowledgement request frame for the plurality of MAC frames. The apparatus includes an acknowledgement frame forming device configured to form an acknowledgement frame... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080181252 - Rf bus controller: A radio frequency (RF) bus controller includes an interface and a processing module. The interface is coupled for communicating intra-device RF bus access requests and allocations. The processing module is coupled to receive an access request to an RF bus via the interface; determine RF bus resource availability; and when... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080181253 - Self invitation to initiate sessions, start processes, or generate outbound messages: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for initiating communications between entities operating in disparate environments and/or with different base protocols. According to one embodiment, a method for initiating a communication can comprise receiving a request from the first entity to initiate communications. An initiation message can be generated and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080181254 - Data transmission method: A data transmission method applicable to a network data processing device and adapted to execute data transmission between transmission protocol layers of a network system includes creating in a driver a global pointer series-connected to information about a pending task, and creating a status variable indicating a current execution status... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080181255 - System for an open architecture development platform with centralized synchronization: One aspect of the preferred embodiment relates to an application framework for managing mobile clients and application programs. By utilizing the preferred embodiment, a system administrator may be provided the capability to manage and control multiple devices, directly and indirectly, using push (server-initiated) and/or pull (client-initiated) techniques from a single... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20080181256 - Switched digital video distribution infrastructure and method of operation: A switched digital video distribution infrastructure for selectively distributing transport streams each composed of encoded pictures for decoding and presentation employs a source apparatus to output a first program to a requesting destination device as a constrained bit rate transport stream, receive a program change request from the requesting destination... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080181257 - Synchronisation in communication systems: A method and a communication bus are provided having nodes. Each of the nodes includes a transmitting element to transmit data to another node on the bus, and a receiving element to receive information from another node on the bus. A communication channel is between the transmitting and receiving elements... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080181258 - Transmission device and home server system: A transmission device which selects all or a part of streams from among input streams and then transmits the selected streams, and includes a measuring section and an output control signal generating section. The measuring section inputs an output timing reference signal and an output reference clock required in outputting... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080181259 - Method and system for dynamically adjusting packet size to decrease delays of streaming data transmissions on noisy transmission lines: A method and system for dynamically adjusting packet size to decrease a delay of a streaming data transmission. A measurement is obtained by a measuring computing unit (i.e., data transmission server or client computing unit). The first measurement is either (1) a delay of a streaming data transmission being sent... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080181260 - Method and system for precise synchronization of audio and video streams during a distributed communication session with multiple participants: Described are the architecture of such a system, algorithms for time synchronization during a multiway conferencing session, methods to fight with network imperfections such as jitter to improve synchronization, methods of introducing buffering delays to create handicaps for players with faster connections, methods which help players with synchronization (such as... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080175140 - Methods and systems for performing channels estimation in a wireless communication system: The invention provides methods and systems for channel estimation. A method comprises receiving a plurality of signal frames, comprising at least a first zone and a second zone, from a plurality of base stations in the wireless communication system. Two or more first delay profiles corresponding to two or more... Agent: Beceem Communications Inc

20080175141 - Distributed protection switching architecture for point-to-point microwave radio systems: A system and method for protecting a received data stream. Active receivers and standby receivers are provided, each adaptable to receive a data stream on a traffic channel. Plural data processing units are operatively in communication with the receivers. At least one of the plural DPUs provides a switching signal... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080175142 - Network apparatus, redundant network method, and computer product: A network apparatus for a wide area network (WAN) includes a plurality of ports through which a local area network (LAN) and the WAN are connected; an active-port selecting unit that selects an active port from among the ports, and identifies a port other than the active port as a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080175143 - Method and system for providing protocol-based equipment redundancy: A single spare QAM modulator module, or circuit, provides redundancy for and can substitute for one of multiple spare modulator circuits corresponding to components providing signals to an HFC network when one of the component's modulator fails. Various parameters may be monitored and fed to a resource manager that determines,... Agent: Arris International, Inc

20080175144 - Method, apparatus and system for establishing return label switch path in multi-protocol label switching system: A method, an apparatus and a system for establishing a return LSP in an MPLS system are disclosed. The method includes: recording a path of a protection LSP; constructing an explicit routing object along the reverse of the path of the protection LSP; establishing the return LSP according to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080175145 - Event processing in rate limited network devices: Event processing in rate limited network devices is described. An event receiver is notified of a backlog condition and may respond by increasing the rate limit for the network device. If an event queue on the network device overflows, event messages may be diverted to an event message overflow store... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080175147 - Admission control for packet connections: The exemplary embodiments of this invention provide a method that includes time stamping packets when the packets enter a queue; when a packet is taken from the queue updating an average queuing delay estimate; and comparing a resulting average queuing delay estimate to an admission threshold for making an admission... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080175146 - Method of providing resource admission control: The invention concerns a method of providing resource admission control to packet flows (11, 12, 50) associated with sessions in a communication network (2), and an access controller (21, 22) to execute this method. The communication network (2) handles packets according to priority levels assigned to the packets. The priority... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080175151 - Communications system: A controller for controlling the flow of messages in a communication system to a node, in which the controller comprises a rejection monitor for monitoring the rate of message rejection by the node; an admit monitor for monitoring the rate of messages to the node passed by the controller; and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080175150 - Controlled incremental multi-protocol label switching (mpls) traffic engineering: An existing network configuration is assessed, and potential changes to the existing configuration are identified that provide the greatest incremental improvements to the performance of the network. In a preferred embodiment, the user of the system identifies the maximum number (N) of changes that may be implemented in an existing... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20080175153 - Method of finding rings for optimal routing of digital information: A method for planning a network having a plurality of nodes. The method may include determining all possible rings in the network satisfying a predetermined condition and calculating a utilization score for each possible ring based on a combination of predetermined selection criteria. The method may include selecting the possible... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080175149 - Network operations control in packet data networks: A technique for controlling a packet data network to maintain network stability and efficiently utilize network resources through mechanisms involving per-destination queues and urgency weights for medium access control. The technique jointly controls congestion, scheduling, and contention resolution on hop-by-hop basis, such that the length of queues of packets at... Agent: Weinick & Associates, Llc

20080175152 - Service differentiating and overload indication for downlink: A method includes determining a discard packet ratio for one of a plurality of service groups associated with a cell of a wireless communication system; comparing the determined discard packet ratio to a threshold value; and if the threshold value is exceeded, performing at least one overload control action, such... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080175148 - System and method for selective packet discard for the transport of multiple transportation streams of streaming media in packet-based networks: A system and method is provided for reducing the bandwidth of MPEG transport streams during transmission over a packet-switched network. The system and method identifies characteristics of a plurality of media fragments disposed within each of a plurality of packets of a transport stream, and aggregates the characteristics into a... Agent: Richard L. Sampson Sampson & Associates, P.c.

20080175155 - Configurable delay limit for error control communications: Systems, methods, and devices for novel error detection and retransmission processes are described. These processes may be implemented on intermediate communication links between two end terminals, wherein the intermediate links are via satellite. Error control mechanisms to detect and retransmit lost or corrupted frames may be implemented at the network... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080175154 - Methods and systems for existential provisioning of flexible line modules using distributed control: The present invention utilizes control plane signaling to dynamically configure flexible, existential ports. The ports are referred to as existential as their nature can change over time depending on the present need of the network, and because the ports are flexible and reconfigurable to a plurality of bit rates and... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20080175156 - Method for operation and monitoring of mpls networks: The invention relates to a manner of integrating an OAM functionality into an MPLS network with little cost within MPLS networks. MPLS-OAM packets are thus provided. The above are added to the stream of useful data packets and are differentiated from the MPLS packets by means of a particular marking... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080175157 - Ims reregistration method and system therefor: A method and system in which upon occurrence of a P-CSCF failure, a network sends an IMS reregistration request message to a UE. An S-CSCF or an AS monitors a P-CSCF to detect occurrence of a failure in the P-CSCF. Upon detecting the occurrence of a P-CSCF failure, the S-CSCF... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080175158 - Method and device for selectively transmitting voice bursts and regenerated header bursts: A computer-readable storage element has code stored thereon that programs a processing device within a communication device to implement a method. The method includes: receiving a plurality of bursts and detecting a failure to receive a preceding header burst; extracting embedded data from the plurality of bursts; determining from the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080175159 - High performance three-port switch for managed ethernet systems: A method and apparatus for isolating and analyzing segments of a deployed, operational cable plant from a remote location. Individual cables, or segments, within an operationally deployed cable plant infrastructure may be isolated and analyzed without requiring a technician to physically inspect and perform an on-site analysis. The approach allows... Agent: Panduit Corp.

20080175161 - Method and structure for vehicular traffic prediction with link interactions: A method and structure for predicting traffic on a network, includes a receiver which receives data related to traffic on at least a portion of a network. A calculator calculates a traffic prediction for at least a part of the network, the traffic prediction being calculated by using a deviation... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080175164 - Method and system for estimating modem and fax performance over packet networks: A system and method for providing service quality metrics related to the quality of service provided by a Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) network to voiceband modems or fax machines communicating over the VoIP network. The system utilizes a multi-state Markov model to evaluate the quality of service provided by... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080175163 - Method and system for medium access control (mac) rate selection: Aspects of a method and system for medium access control (MAC) rate selection are presented. Aspects of the system may include at least one processor that enables selection of MAC layer parameter values and/or PHY layer parameter values, to maintain a rate of data transmission of at least one transmitted... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080175160 - Quality of service in a storage area network: In one embodiment, a solution is provided wherein a minimum and/or maximum bandwidth may be guaranteed for specific flows. These guarantees can be associated to various levels of granularity, such as target (T), target-Logical Unit Number (LUN) coupling (TL), initiator-target-LUN coupling (ITL), and initiator-target coupling (IT). This may be accomplished... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080175162 - Triggering flow analysis at intermediary devices: In one embodiment, a router examines an incoming packet for a flow monitoring request. The router may examine every packet for the flow monitoring request, or preferably may only examine packets including a lifetime value indicating that the packet should be dropped and not forwarded or may only examine packets... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080175165 - Wireless communication system for calculating time of flight: The invention discloses a wireless communication system for calculating time of flight. The system transmits and receives a plurality of packets every a plurality of delay times. Thereafter, the wireless communication system calculates a plurality of reference times according to the delay times and processing times and then averages the... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080175167 - Method and system for identifying and reporting over-utilized, under-utilized, and bad quality trunks and gateways in internet protocol telephony networks: e

20080175166 - System and method for seeking a wireless network for a wireless device: The invention relates to a system and method for initiating a command relating to one network that an electronic communication device may be in communication with, depending on triggering conditions relating to another network that the device may be in communication with. In the method, the device initiates a command... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20080175168 - Method for determining the structure of a communication network: In one aspect, a method for determining the structure of a communication network, consisting of a plurality of network elements joined by physical connections is provided. An attribute is stored at a terminal of a connection, in each network element, the attribute containing all of the information relating to the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080175169 - Method of aggregate statistic computation: A method of grouping nodes within a distributed network is provided. The example method includes performing a leader node self determination operation by which each node within the distributed network determines whether to become a leader node or a non-leader node, each leader node being the leader of a group... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080175171 - Parallel wireless topologies: Methodologies for determining one or more staged topologies for a communication network, communication networks implementing one or more staged topologies, and systems for determining one or more staged topologies for a communication network are provided. In one embodiment, a method of determining a staged topology for a wireless communication network... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080175170 - Periodically reconfigured networks: Methodologies for determining one or more staged topologies for a communication network, communication networks implementing one or more staged topologies, and systems for determining one or more staged topologies for a communication network are provided. In one embodiment, a method of determining a staged topology for a communication network including... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080175172 - Multicast tree monitoring method and system in ip network: In accordance with an instruction from a network monitoring device (4), a transmission terminal (2T) serving as a source of video information transmits a certain amount of monitoring test packets differentiated from the usual multicast frames. Pass status information (for example, MIB information) generated by routers (3) receiving and passing... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080175173 - Reduced complexity staged topologies for wireless communications: Methodologies for determining one or more staged topologies for a communication network, communication networks implementing one or more staged topologies, and systems for determining one or more staged topologies for a communication network are provided. In one embodiment, a method of determining a staged topology for a wireless communication network... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080175174 - Systems and methods to provide connections via callback acceptance: Systems and methods to selectively block calls from reaching destinations based on an input received from a callback connection. One embodiment includes a web server to receive a selection of an advertisement from an customer and to obtain a communication reference from the customer in response to the selection; a... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv) Ip Docketing

20080175175 - Hybrid passive active broadband antenna for a distributed antenna system: The invention is directed to a method and system for equalizing the signal losses over cable runs in a Distributed Antenna System (DAS). In a DAS, two or more antennae are connected to the system by cable runs that can vary widely in length. As a result, the signal loss... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 30623

20080175179 - Content processing apparatus and content processing program: An apparatus for facilitating use of a remote controller with content from the internet. The apparatus preferably includes a remote controller that transmits control information corresponding to an operation to a main unit by wireless connection, where the main unit is equipped with a communication interface which can receive content... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080175178 - Method for connecting a user of a mobile telephone network to a data transmission service: The invention relates to a method for connecting a user of a mobile telephone network to a data transmission service, wherein a piece of access equipment generates a request for generating a data exchange context between a mobile terminal and a service platform by replacing a connection parameter transmitted by... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080175177 - Method of enhancing continuous packet connectivity in a wireless communications system and related apparatus: A method for enhancing a CPC function in a wireless communications system includes transmitting a packet to a UE by a network after the UE activates a less operation and a discontinuous packet function of the CPC function, and retransmitting the packet according to a buffer length by the network... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080175176 - System and method for establishing reliable data connectivity with a network node by a user equipment (ue) device: In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for effectuating remote control of a network node by a user equipment (UE) device. A message relating to a service feature is constructed and wrapped in a wrapper, which is then transmitted to the network node via an out-of-band control channel over a... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080175180 - Apparatus and method for controlling sleep mode entry in broadband wireless communication system: A sleep mode entry of a terminal in a broadband wireless communication system is provided. Abase station includes an adjuster for, when a first terminal requests a sleep mode entry and lengths of requested sleep interval and listening interval do not meet a certain condition, adjusting the lengths of the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080175181 - Radio terminal unit, radio communication system and communication control method: A radio terminal unit and a radio communication system, enabling power savings, the improvement of the quality of real-time communication such as voice communication, and the reduction of transmission delays which often occur when a plurality of radio terminal units are connected to one radio base station. A radio terminal... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080175182 - Method and apparatus for optimizing content delivery on local subnets: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates optimizing content delivery on a network. During operation, the system receives an item of content at a first client. During the download of the content or after downloading the content, the first client receives a broadcast request for the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080175183 - Asymmetric cooperation in downlink cellular networks with relay stations: In a wireless network using cooperative relaying, a set of messages are broadcast from a base station to a set of relay stations during a first phase of a scheduling interval. During a second phase of the scheduling interval, the set of messages from the set of relay stations are... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080175184 - Virtual space-time code for relay networks: A method for transmitting data in a wireless network includes wirelessly transmitting data from a base station to a plurality of spatially separated relay stations. The data is correlated according to space-time block coding (STBC) for transmission over multiple antennas. The STBC correlated data are wirelessly transmitted from the plurality... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080175185 - Reverse link feedback for interference control in a wireless communication system: Systems and methodologies are described that provide techniques for generating and utilizing reverse link feedback for interference management in a wireless communication system. Channel quality and/or interference data can be obtained by a terminal from a serving sector and one or more neighboring sectors, from which an interference-based headroom value... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080175186 - Method and system for data transmission unit retransmission, data receiver and data transmitter: A method and system for data transmission unit retransmission between a data receiver and a data transmitter. A data receiver determines that there is a missing data transmission unit based on a non-acknowledgement mechanism. The data receiver transmits identification information of correctly received data transmission units which are in the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080175187 - Automatic wireless network device configuration: A portable wireless configuration device, such as a key fob, is provided which executes an application program to configure a wireless client device to connect to a secured wireless network via an access point. The wireless client device may be unconnected to and remote from the access point. A request... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080175190 - Multi-node media content distribution system: A multi-node media content distribution system is incorporated in portable slave node media content reproduction devices for sharing video, music, photo or any other media content files with other portable slave node media content reproduction devices wirelessly. The multi-node media content distribution system includes media content reproduction devices wirelessly configured... Agent: George O Saile And Assocs

20080175188 - System and method for providing aggregated wireless communications services: A system and method for enabling users of wireless devices to increase wireless communication bandwidth may include a server in communication with multiple wireless access points. The server may execute software configured to enable a wireless device to communicate with multiple wireless access points of a network during a communications... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080175189 - Transmit scheme adaptation for wireless data transmissions: An integrated circuit radio transceiver and method therefor is operable to determine a transmit scheme according to an ordered manner. More specifically, the system is operable to determine a transmit scheme that defines a signaling configuration that includes number of spatial streams, antenna configuration information, code rate, quadrature modulation type,... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080175193 - Channel allocation method in wireless mesh network and communication device using the method: A channel allocation method and a communication device are provided. The channel allocation method includes determining a communication device type based on information received from neighboring communication devices, allocating a channel according to the communication device type, and transmitting the communication device type and information about the allocated channel to... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080175195 - Method and apparatus for allocating and signaling ack/nack resources in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for allocating and signaling ACK/NACK resources in a wireless communication system are provided, in which a Node B determines to use ACK/NACK resources within a predetermined fixed-size first resource group for ACK/NACK transmission for non-persistently scheduled data channels, the ACK/NACK resources being implicitly mapped to SCCHs... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080175192 - Method and apparatus for identifying supported transmission channel configurations: A method for identifying supported transmission channel configurations in a mobile communications apparatus, the method comprising: calculating the required power value for each transmission channel configuration; and performing a sequential comparison of: an indication of an available measured power value, and an indication of the required power for each transmission... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080175198 - Method and system for wireless communication by spatial reuse: Wireless communication between a first transmitter and a first receiver for a new transmission is established on the same wireless data channel used for ongoing transmission between a second transmitter and a second receiver. This is achieved by determining if the second receiver can receive signals from the first transmitter,... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080175199 - Method and system for wireless communication using channel selection and bandwidth reservation: A method and system for wireless communication involves communicating via a control channel the channel occupation information with a discovered wireless station, based on the occupation information, selecting a wireless data channel for a new transmission with the discovered station and reserving bandwidth for the new transmission on the data... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080175197 - Method and system for wireless communication using out-of-band channels: A method and system for ad-hoc wireless communication using out-of-band control channels is provided. An out-of-band control channel is scanned to discover a wireless station. Channel occupation information is communicated with the discovered station. A communication channel is selected based on the occupation information, and may be used for ad-hoc... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080175196 - Method of enhancing continuous packet connectivity in a wireless communications system and related apparatus: A method for enhancing discriminability of orders in a network of a wireless communications system includes activating a High Speed Downlink Package Access function, and transmitting a control order corresponding to the High Speed Downlink Package Access function multiple times.... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080175191 - Method, intermediate station and central control unit for the packet-switched data transmission in a self-organizing radio network: A method for the packet-switched data transmission in a self-organizing local radio network which has at least one first and one second radio coverage area and at least one mobile communication device per radio coverage area. In the first radio coverage area, a first device, and in the second radio... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080175194 - Signaling of power information for mimo transmission in a wireless communication system: Techniques for signaling power information to facilitate channel quality indicator (CQI) reporting are described. A Node B may send power information that may be used by a UE to determine a power per channelization code, POVSF. In one design, the power information includes a power offset between the power of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080175200 - Device-assisted layer 3 handoff for mobile services: In one embodiment, an apparatus can include: (i) a layer 3 point of attachment having an input configured to receive handoff indicative information from a mobile device substantially in parallel with the handoff indicative information being received in a layer 2 handoff function; and (ii) logic configured to perform a... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080175202 - Method and apparatus for performing media independent handover: A technology of detecting MIHP information before an OSI layer 3 process is performed. A method of performing Media Independent Handover (MIH) includes analyzing a field for indicating Internet Protocol (IP) version information, if a value of the field for indicating IP version information corresponds to an MIH layer, performing... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080175205 - Method of downloading data in a radio communications system: According to one aspect of the invention, in a radio communications system comprising at least one base station (BS1, BS2) provided with means for transmitting data via a communication link (BCCH; V), wherein the data is divided into a plurality of data packets and being transmitted via the communication link... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080175203 - Method of enhancing continuous packet connectivity in a wireless communications system and related apparatus: A method for enhancing a CPC function or a discontinuous operation function in a network of a wireless communications system includes UE configuring a function or only the function of the CPC function or the discontinuous operation function, and determining the configuration of the function or when to adjust the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080175204 - Method of enhancing continuous packet connectivity in a wireless communications system and related apparatus: A method for enhancing continuous packet connectivity or a discontinuous operation, including a discontinuous packet function, in a user equipment of a wireless communications system includes activating the discontinuous packet function, and stopping the discontinuous packet function and reverting to a continuous packet processing status when an uplink capability of... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080175206 - Methods and apparatus for continuous connectivity between mobile device and network using dynamic connection spreading: The invention provides methods and apparatus for establishing a connection between a mobile client and an external computer network such that the client computer network connection provides the illusion of seamless connectivity. In one aspect of the invention data is processed in a wireless communication network and is received from... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080175201 - Systems and methods for using internet mobility protocols with non internet mobility protocols: A method for using Internet mobility protocols with non Internet mobility protocols is described. A first gateway node communicates with a second gateway node using a first protocol. The first protocol is a non Internet mobility protocol. A home address (HoA) for a mobile node is managed by the second... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080175207 - Wireless network for personal computer human interface devices: A wireless network system includes a wireless master control hub in communication with a personal computer and provides a control protocol to human interface devices for communication to request and receive command messages, control messages, and data from the personal computer. Slave human interface devices controllers are associated with one... Agent: Stephen Ackerman George O. Saile And Assocs.

20080175215 - Apparatus and method for transmitting frame information in multi-hop relay broadband wireless access communication system: Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting frame information in a wireless communication system using a relay scheme. In a method for transmitting frame information from an upper node in the wireless communication system, downlink section information for communication with the lower relay station for a relay service is... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080175216 - Data communications device for use with streetlights: A data communications device is mountable in a variety of locations. The data communications device comprises a housing and a wireless communications device contained within the housing. An antenna mounted within the housing is in electrical communication with the wireless communications device and receives and transmits radio signals. A power... Agent: Frank J. Mcgue

20080175210 - Distributed spectrum analyzer: A method of managing the radio frequency environment of a building zone includes using a plurality of radio frequency enabled building management devices distributed around the building zone. The method also includes interrupting a radio frequency enabled building management device from the device's primary building management function when a measuring... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080175211 - Parallel mac/phy for enhanced transmission rate in a wireless network: An integrated circuit radio transceiver and associated method comprises a multi-mode device operable to support personal area network communications as well as traditional wireless local area network communications. In one embodiment, IEEE 802.11 protocol IBSS communications are used to transport Bluetooth communication data packets. Thus, the multi-mode device is operable... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080175209 - Passively scanning according to wlan regulatory domain: A wireless local area network (WLAN) client device determines the WLAN regulatory domain in which it is currently located by using information received via a non-WLAN wireless interface. Once the regulatory domain has been determined, a WLAN client device operating in the 5 GHz band, for example, an IEEE 802.11a... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080175213 - Personal area network data encapsulation in wlan communications: An integrated circuit radio transceiver and associated method comprises a multi-mode device operable to support personal area network communications as well as traditional wireless local area network communications. In one embodiment, IEEE 802.11 protocol IBSS communications are used to transport Bluetooth communication data packets. In another embodiment, a direct link... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080175212 - Remote antenna system: Various methods, apparatuses, and systems are described in which a WAP is coupled to an antenna unit and provides a wireless LAN. In one embodiment, the antenna unit includes at least one remote antenna circuit having one or more ports to receive a control signal and a transmit signal transmitted... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080175208 - Solving pana boostrapping timing problem: A method for avoiding loss of data or consumption of resources between a mobile node and an new access network in which an authentication agent performs authentication with an authentication client of the mobile node to effect access to an enforcement point of said access network, said method comprising informing... Agent: Watchstone P+d, Plc

20080175214 - Wireless communication system: Wireless communication system includes wireless communication terminal, basic access network terminal and network server and the basic access network terminal and wireless communication terminal have a communication path. This configuration provides simple, smooth hand over technology between different kinds of networks and hand off technology for hand off of service... Agent: Butzel Long Ip Docketing Dept

20080175217 - Systems and methods for multiplexing control information onto a physical data channel: Systems and methods for communicating control data for multiple physical data channels by transmitting control information for a first physical data channel on a physical control channel and combining the control information with information for a logical data channel and transmitting the combined information on a single physical data channel.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080175219 - Method of detecting slot format of physical signaling channel in a wireless communications system and related apparatus: A method for detecting a slot format of a physical signaling channel in a wireless communications system includes using a plurality of pilot bit patterns to distinguish each time slot of each slot format corresponding to the physical signaling channel.... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080175218 - Radio communication apparatus: An AN (Access Network) controlled by a communication control apparatus and communicating with a AT Access Terminal), wherein the AN receives control information including information for allocating communication information from the communication control apparatus, and the AN transmits transmission cycle information for transmitting the communication information in a predetermined transmission... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080175220 - Communication system and method for processing a request message sent from a mobile radio terminal of a mobile radio communication network to a message filter processor: A method is described for processing a request message sent from a mobile radio terminal to a message filter processor, in which a request message, in which one or more electronic peer-to-peer files is/are requested, is detected by the message filter processor (102,103,104. The request message is used to create... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080175221 - Wireless transmission system and wireless transmission method and wireless station and transmitting station for use therein: The present invention provides a wireless transmission system in which it is possible to exert a maximum path diversity effect even if the maximum number of effective branches is limited to a small number. A transmission timing control section (23) determines a transmission start timing to be a timing obtained... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080175222 - Url patterns for multi tenant systems: A system and method of propagating subscriber and offer identities in URL patterns for multi-tenant systems are provided. The method in one aspect comprises intercepting a request for accessing a web service, the request being in a virtual URI format that includes at least a service access point, subscriber identity... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.c.

20080175227 - Applying low power enablement of computing devices to process voip phone calls: An apparatus and method for enabling a computing device to process VoIP phone calls while conserving the computing device's resources is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a computing device configured to use a minimum resource device and an internally integrated or externally connected minimum resource device. Components of the minimum resource... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20080175225 - Just-in-time call registration for mobile call to voip device: A method for establishing a hybrid voice session between a mobile device and a VoIP device is disclosed. A caller using a mobile device in a mobile network initiates a request for a voice session by clicking on a virtual identifier, e.g. an email address, provided for the callee in... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080175223 - Method and apparatus for providing multiple calling name identifiers for a phone number: The present invention enables users of a packet-switched network service, e.g., a VoIP network service who live in the same household and share a common phone number to have individualized calling name identifiers transmitted in their call setup messages. Each user in the household would have a different individual user... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080175230 - Multi-channel multi-access voice over ip intercommunication systems and methods: The present invention provides systems and methods employing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology to provide multi-channel, multi-access voice communication capabilities.... Agent: Casimir Jones, S.c.

20080175228 - Proactive quality assessment of voice over ip calls systems: In one embodiment, a system includes a database that stores administrative information of an Internet protocol private branch exchange (IP-PBX). The administrative information correlates to a geographic configuration of endpoint devices connected via low bandwidth network links. A node is operable to access the database in order to retrieve and... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080175226 - Reputation based connection throttling: Methods and systems for operation upon one or more data processors for throttling connections based upon reputation of the entity requesting connection.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080175231 - Sound output setting system for information processing terminal: The sound output setting system for information processing terminals is provided, capable of outputting a desired call progress tone from a terminal to be heard by the user easily with simple configuration. The system includes a SIP server and information processing terminals connected via a LAN using SIP. The SIP... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080175224 - System and method for configuring voice over ip devices: VoIP devices, such as VoIP telephones or analog telephone adapters, are configured through remote interaction with a configuration server. Configuration information for a VoIP device generated by input to an order engine is stored at a TFTP configuration server by association with a MAC address of the VoIP device. For... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080175229 - System for blind/attended transfer in session initiation protocol (sip)-based network and method of controlling the transfer: A method for controlling blind/attended transfer in an SIP-based network includes: transmitting, by an SIP-based terminal, a call request message to a third terminal, which is an object of a call transfer, after pausing a communication with a second terminal by transmitting a call waiting message to the SIP server;... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080175232 - System and method for multi-service virtual networks by integration, convergence, zero opportunity cost, and distributed user control: a system and method is provided for multimedia multi-services over IP networks such as telephone service, SMS, MMS, video-on-demand, music-on-demand, IPTV, interactive gaming services, and etc., by exploiting unused phone lines, unused broadband access links, PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) switching systems, and etc.... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20080175233 - Method and apparatus for providing ringing timeout disconnect supervision in remote telephone extensions using voice over packet-data-network systems (vops): A Multiservice Access Concentrator (MAC) provides a time limit for a first ringing voltage signal in response to an attempted call. The call is attempted via a voice over packet-data-network system (VOPS), wherein the VOPS comprises voice over Internet Protocol (IP), voice over Frame Relay, voice over Asynchronous Transfer Mode... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080175237 - Apparatus and method for transmitting service guide in broadband wireless access system: Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving a service guide in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system. In the method, a service guide request message is transmitted to A MultiCast and BroadCast Service (MCBCS) server. A service guide response message including a service guide is received from the MCBCS... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080175236 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data: A digital broadcasting system and method of processing data are disclosed. Herein, a method of processing data of a transmitting system includes generating a service informative null packet including service-related information of mobile service data, and multiplexing a plurality of main service data packets, a plurality of mobile service data... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080175235 - Integrating messaging server directory service with a communication system voice mail message interface: An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types, and an interface module that couples to the communication server. The interface module may be hosted... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080175234 - Method and device for protective switching of pseudo-wires on packet switching network: The present invention provides a method and device for protective switching of pseudo-wires on a Packet Switching Network. The method includes grouping the pseudo-wires on the Packet Switching Network into a working pseudo-wire group and a protective pseudo-Wire group corresponding to each other's relationship of protection; performing on services the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080175239 - Multicast wide-area network for distributing data to selected destinations with limited or no replication: The disclosed techniques provide a multicast extranet service via L2 wide-area network, by provisioning the network to define a virtual local area network (VLAN) for wide-area network distribution of each data feed from a source to edge points (intelligent points of demarcation), without replication for individual users within the wide-area... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080175240 - Packet relay apparatus: In a first-hop router, a reachability monitor monitors RP (Rendezvous-Point) reachability, and the number of times when a response time is not shorter than a predetermined time is stored in a RP management table. An RP selection process controls not to select RP whose reachability from the first-hop router is... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080175238 - Proxy igmp client and method for providing multicast broadcast services in a broadband wireless access network: Embodiments of a proxy internet group management protocol (IGMP) client and methods for providing multicast broadcast services (MBS) in a broadband wireless access network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, the proxy IGMP client operates on behalf of a non-IGMP compliant mobile... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080175242 - Internet protocol based encryptor/decryptor bypass device: A system (706, 714) is provided for a network signaling protocol bypass around a cryptographic device (1006, 1106). The system is comprised of a bypass means for receiving a packet (900) having a transport layer protocol header (908), for parsing a GIST signaling transport protocol identifier (950) from the transport... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby Pc

20080175244 - Method and apparatus having a hybrid routing architecture with a combination of network layer reactive routing and subnet layer proactive routing: A method and apparatus that sends packets from a wireless communication device is disclosed. The method may include receiving a packet for transmission to a destination at the network layer from an upper layer within wireless communication device, determining if the packet's route to the destination can be determined within... Agent: Prass & Irving, LLP

20080175246 - Method for specifying a mac identifier for a network-interface-device: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that specifies a MAC identifier for a network-interface-device in a computing device. In this system, the network-interface-device is configured to connect to a network though a port. During operation, the network-interface-device receives data packets through this port, and accepts a data... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080175247 - Network layer error control systems and methods: Systems, methods, and devices for novel error detection and retransmission processes are described. These processes may be implemented on intermediate communication links between two end terminals, wherein the intermediate links are via satellite. Error control mechanisms to detect and retransmit lost or corrupted frames may be implemented at the network... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080175243 - System and method for crawl policy management utilizing ip address and ip address range: The present invention relates to a method for configuring a policy management protocol for a web crawler, the method further comprising the steps of determining a web space that is to be crawled by a web crawler, wherein the web space is comprised of an IP address and/or a range... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - Ibm Arc Division

20080175241 - System and method for obtaining packet forwarding information: Obtaining packet forwarding data for routing packets. The steps may include (1) receiving packet identification information including a virtual router identifier (VRID) and route data; (2) determining if the VRID of the received packet identification information belongs to a pre-defined set of VRIDs. Additionally, if the VRID of the received... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080175245 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for passively routing secure socket layer (ssl) encoded network traffic: Methods, systems, and computer program products for passively routing secure socket layer (SSL) encoded network traffic are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes passively receiving a copy of SSL encoded network traffic. Further, the method includes passively parsing the received network traffic and generating an identical copy of... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080175249 - Apparatus and method for enhanced um rlc data handling: An unacknowledged mode (UM) radio link control (RLC) entity receives RLC protocol data units (PDUs) delivered through one or more logical channels and re-orders the received PDUs by referring to their sequence numbers and by using a receive window and a timer to minimize delivery delay time, to reduce missing... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080175248 - Method and apparatus regarding monitoring a streaming/conversational-class data session to detect when a mobile data flow has been dropped by a mobile network: These teachings provide for receiving (101) control packets as comprise a part of a packet data flow that itself comprises, at least in part, a mobile data flow. These control packets are then used (102) to monitor a streaming/conversational-class data session to thereby detect when the mobile data flow has... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080175250 - Extended virtual user-to-network interface with atm network: Communication between a source and a destination is dynamically established. A connection request is received. The connection request is based on a request transmitted over a best-effort path from the source. A network connection is established having a specified quality of service (QoS) based on the request between the source... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080175252 - Method for providing an internal server with reduced ip addresses: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for providing internal server. The method comprises: matching relevant information carried by a message exchanged between an internal network and an external network with corresponding relationship information between external characteristic information and internal characteristic information of the internal server configured... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080175251 - Packet forwarding apparatus suitable for real time packets: In a packet forwarding apparatus including first line interfaces accommodating user terminals, a second line interface connected to a communication node on a session management apparatus side, and a protocol processing unit for updating a connection management table and a header information table when a specific session control packet is... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080175253 - Method and apparatus for media independent handover: A method and apparatus for performing a handover are disclosed. An Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) client registers with an IMS network and establishes a media independent handover (MIH) session with an MIH application server using a session initiation protocol (SIP). The IMS client establishes a session for IP-based... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080175254 - Method of learning address in virtual lan system: The present invention is to provide a method of learning address in a VLAN system, which includes a plurality of network switching devices each connecting to at least one client VLAN and at least one server VLAN. Each of the network switching devices includes a forwarding database set therein, which... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080175256 - Addressable outlet, and a network using the same: An addressable outlet for use as part of local area network based on wiring installed in a building, such as telephone, electrical, cable television, dedicated wiring, and the like. The use of such wiring for data communications networks in addition to the wiring's primary usage creates a need for ways... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080175255 - System and method of subscriber to content provider network access service management: A system and method are provided for subscriber to content provider network access service management which is requested by and paid for by the content provider to the network access provider. In response to the request from the content provider the network access provider invokes changes in bandwidth and/or quality... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.c.

20080175257 - System and method for automatically segmenting and merging routing domains within networks: A system and a method for automatically segmenting and merging routing domains within a network. The system includes one or more gateway devices and a plurality of nodes segmented into one or more routing domains. Each of said plurality of nodes maintains a single gateway device from among said plurality... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080175258 - Network buffer caching: One embodiment relates to a method of processing packets by a network stack. A first data packet is received from a client via a network, and a network buffer is allocated for the data packet. An indication is given that the data packet is ready for reading by an application.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080175259 - Low complexity scheduling algorithm for a buffered crossbar switch with 100% throughput: Scheduling techniques for use with buffered crossbar switches, without speedup, which can provide 100% throughput are described. Each input/output may keep track of the previously served VOQ/crosspoint buffer. The queue lengths of such VOQs and the queue lengths of VOQs corresponding to a uniform probability selection output (e.g., from a... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080175260 - Powered device analysis and power control in a power-over-ethernet system: A system and method of analyzing a powered device (PD) in a Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) system are presented. The system includes an Ethernet interface having a physical layer (PHY) chip capable of providing a signal pulse in addition to physical layer 1 functions. The system further includes a pulse transformer, coupled... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080175261 - Voice-controlled media adaptor apparatus: The invention provides a voice-controlled media adaptor apparatus for an electronic appliance, especially for a conventional electronic appliance. The electronic appliance includes an input port. The media adaptor apparatus according to the invention is capable of receiving a media information, processing the received media information, and directing the processed media... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080175262 - Data communication apparatus, configuration information update method, and configuration information update program: A data communication apparatus stores each data received via a network and transfers each data in accordance with destination addresses of each data. The data communication apparatus includes a stop-control information generator, which upon updating of circuit configuration information of a programmable logic circuit provided in the data communication apparatus... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080175263 - Assured packet data services associated with communication networks: A service for Public Safety (PS) and Law Enforcement (LE) users on commercial wireless networks which assure them access to packet data services. The service request is application based. The applications that are for official use, by the PS/LE users, could have a reserved priority level associated with them. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080175264 - Method and device for multiplexing broadcast service channel and non-broadcast service channel: A method for multiplexing a broadcast service channel and a non-broadcast service channel includes: reserving TF resources for carrying non-broadcast service data on a sub-frame for carrying broadcast service data, and multiplexing the broadcast service data and the non-broadcast service data to the sub-frame for carrying the broadcast service data.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080175265 - Media access control protocol with priority and contention-free intervals: An access contention scheme having both multi-level priorities and a contention-free access indicator for use by a station in a network of stations. When a contention control indicator is detected for a contention period, a station having a frame to transmit determines from the contention control indicator if it is... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080175267 - Apparatus and method for providing pdg information: Provided is an apparatus and method for providing and updating PDG information. In a method for updating PDG information in a terminal, an instruction indicating an update of PDG information is received from a network apparatus. PDG information is received from the network apparatus and the received PDG information is... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080175266 - Multi-dimensional reputation scoring: Methods and systems for assigning reputation to communications entities include collecting communications data from distributed agents, aggregating the communications data, analyzing the communications data and identifying relationships between communications entities based upon the communications data.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080175268 - method and system for providing interoperability of different version protocols without access to protocol specific code: The present invention is directed to a method and system to preserve interoperability among processes in a distributed system through transformation of in-memory representation of different versions of the same data. When an upgraded process receives data from an un-upgraded process, the old protocol for desterilizing the data is used... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20080175269 - Bandwidth based selection for routing data: In one embodiment, a method for routing data flow during ECMP routing between two network nodes is provided. The method may comprise determining a bandwidth requirement of a data flow during ECMP routing, the data flow to be sent between at least two network nodes, the at least two network... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080175272 - Data processing system, method and interconnect fabric for selective link information allocation in a data processing system: A data processing system includes a plurality of processing units coupled for communication by a communication link and a configuration register. The configuration register has a plurality of different settings each corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of different link information allocations. Information is communicated over the communication... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080175270 - Multi-stage scheduler with processor resource and bandwidth resource allocation: A multi-stage scheduler that provides improved bandwidth utilization in the presence of processor intensive traffic is disclosed. Incoming traffic is separated into multiple traffic flows. Data blocks of the traffic flows are scheduled for access to a processor resource using a first scheduling algorithm, and processed by the processor resource... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080175271 - Voice/data combination system and method for managing bandwidth in the system: A voice/data combination system and a method that manages a bandwidth in the system. A determination is made as to whether a bandwidth for real-time data service is available, and the bandwidth, when not available, is reserved, so that the real-time data service is performed when the bandwidth is available.... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080175273 - Key frame detection and synchronization: Mechanisms are provided for allowing a streaming server to efficiently provide frames associated with a media stream to a client device. A streaming server receives multiple media streams and determines which frames in the multiple media streams are key frames. When a connection request is received from a client device,... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080175274 - Time multiplexed bidirectional bus: A system for providing bidirectional communication for a data bus includes a datalink interface component configured to interface into a datalink. The datalink interface component is configured to operate in at least one of a first data communication state, a second data communication state, and a wholly inactive state. The... Agent: Xerox Corporation (cdfs)

20080175275 - Time synchronization method between nodes in network and apparatus for implementing the same: A time synchronization method between nodes in a network and an apparatus for implementing the same, the time synchronization method including: measuring a value of a propagation time from a slave node to a master node using a time stamp for each of one or more predetermined time units; calculating... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080175276 - Buffering time determination: This invention relates to methods, a computer program product and apparatuses in the context of frame buffering. A buffering time for one or more frames received by a frame buffer is determined based on a specific buffering time associated with a specific frame and on information representative of a specific... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080175277 - Symmetrical clock distribution in multi-stage high speed data conversion circuits: Provided is a high speed bit stream data conversion circuit that includes input ports to receive first bit streams at a first bit rate. Data conversion circuits receive the first bit streams and produce second bit stream(s), wherein the number and bit rate of the first and second bit stream(s)... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080170490 - Multidiversity handoff in a wireless broadcast system: A wireless broadcast system that collects content for distribution over a wireless communication network. The content stream is encapsulated into a stream of transport packets for broadcast over the wireless communication link. The stream of transport packets are simultaneously broadcast as part of an identical signal from a plurality of... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080170491 - Apparatus and method for providing energy - bandwidth tradeoff and waveform design in interference and noise: A new method for transmitter-receiver design that enhances the desired signal output from the receiver while minimizing the total interference and noise output from the receiver at the desired decision making instant is presented. Further the new design scheme proposed here can be used for transmit signal energy and bandwidth... Agent: Walter J. Tencza Jr. Suite 210

20080170492 - Energy - bandwidth tradeoff and transmit waveform design using interference and noise whitening method: A new method for transmitter-receiver design that enhances the desired signal output from the receiver by whitening the total interference and noise input to the receiver and maximizing the output Signal to Interference plus Noise power Ratio (SINR) is presented. As a result of the whitening process, the receiver “sees”... Agent: Walter J. Tencza Jr. Suite 210

20080170493 - Protection of hierarchical tunnel head-end nodes: In one embodiment, a point of local repair (PLR) for a child tunnel establishes a backup tunnel to a hierarchical tunnel head-end node's (grooming node's) downstream hierarchical tunnel neighbor (merge point) and learns a corresponding backup tunnel label. The PLR then stores a label stack having at least i) the... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080170494 - Communication control apparatus, method and program thereof: A communication apparatus communicably connects a network of a plurality of apparatuses and a data relay apparatus to another network of the same manner as that of the network by detecting a failure occurring in the network, and determining a detour to assure communication between an apparatus connected to a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080170495 - Breakdown and decoupling tolerant communications network, a data path switching device and a corresponding method: The invention relates to a method for tolerating the breakdown and/or decoupling of at least one network node in a communication network used for controlling and/or adjusting the movement of a plurality of machine parts, for example the rotation bodies in a printing machines, machine tools and other production machines,... Agent: Kremblas, Foster, Phillips & Pollick

20080170496 - Management of protection path bandwidth and changing of path bandwidth: A highly efficient protection path bandwidth management method is provided. When a protection path is set up in a loop with a node A as the starting point and endpoint in order to protect a working path, the bandwidth of the protection path is changed by transferring a bandwidth change... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080170498 - Method and system for a distributed platform solution for supporting cim over web services based management: A portion of management traffic, carried via network traffic, and received and/or transmitted via a network controller, may be processed externally to the network controller. A pass-through driver may be utilized, in the network controller, to enable transparent routing of management traffic that may be processed externally. The externally processed... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080170497 - Proactive per-class load management: An apparatus and a method proactively manage the load of an 802.11 WLAN based on one or more per-class station counts, in which the stations are classified according to access categories (ACs), user priorities (UPs), or services. Alternatively, the load of an 802.11 WLAN may also be proactively managed based... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080170499 - Priority service protection: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for allocating resources in a transmission medium, in which method data is associated with different classes of traffic, the different classes of traffic being associated with different priority levels, wherein resources are selectively reserved on the transmission medium for traffic classes in accordance... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080170500 - Data communication apparatus for performing bit rate control in real-time audio-video communications: When audio and video data are transmitted in real-time over a network, a transmission bit rate is controlled depending on the congestion of the network. According to a conventional bit rate control process, the present bit rate is increased or reduced based on the difference between a target value for... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080170501 - Enhancing transmission reliability of monitored data: In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises logic encoded in one or more tangible media for enhancing transmission reliability of monitored data. The logic is operable to receive a plurality of segments for transmission over a TCP connection to a network node, where the TCP connection is associated with a transmit... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080170502 - Method and system for monitoring data flow in an ip network device: User input values define an inspection window for evaluating a desired traffic element portions of a bitstream. Offset and reference values determine the start of the window with respect to the bitstream and values for a filter register and mask registers define the size of the window. As the bitstream... Agent: Arris International, Inc

20080170503 - Packet processing method, packet processing system and computer program: A packet processing method includes the steps of deciding whether or not a packet has the same contents as a packet that has been processed before the packet (MAC-e PDU) generated based on data received by branches from a mobile terminal (#120), dividing the packet into ES packets of a... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080170504 - Support of guaranteed bit-rate traffic for uplink transmissions: The invention relates to a method for providing measurements on a bit-rate provided to scheduled data having a guaranteed bit-rate and being transmitted on at least one dedicated uplink data channel by at least user equipment via a C-RNC. Further, the invention also relates to a method for initiating congestion... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080170505 - Systems and methods for data obstruction system identification and circumvention: The present invention relates to detecting, identifying, and circumventing data obstruction systems on a computer device including firewalls, filters, etc. One embodiment of the present invention relates to a video monitoring system control module method for identifying and circumventing active data obstruction systems to enable video monitoring data transmissions. The... Agent: Baker & Associates PLLC

20080170506 - Apparatus and method for flexible visibility in integrated circuits with minimal package impact: An apparatus and method for flexible visibility in an integrated circuit are disclosed. As one example, an apparatus for flexible visibility in an integrated circuit is disclosed. The apparatus includes a switch unit disposed in the integrated circuit, the switch unit configured to receive a plurality of signals associated with... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080170507 - Method and system for analyzing time series data: Systems and methods for performing fault analysis using numerically coded time series data are disclosed. First time series data, including a plurality of first time entries and an associated first data value for each first time entry, may be received for a machine variable for a first printer. Second time... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080170508 - Channel integrity metric calculation: A first device (102), associated with an electrical substation, for example, automatically transmits a plurality of echo requests to a second device (104) that is in communication therewith by way of a communications channel (106). The second device (104) responds to the echo requests, and the first device (102) determines... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080170509 - System and method for diagnosing a cabling infrastructure using a phy: A system and method for discovering a cable type using an automated, systematic process. A PHY can be designed to measure electrical characteristics (e.g., insertion loss, cross talk, length, etc.) of the cable to enable determination of the cable type. The determined cable type can be used in diagnosis of... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20080170510 - Efficient determination of fast routes when voluminous data is to be sent from a single node to many destination nodes via other intermediate nodes: Determination of a fast route from a source node to many destination nodes. Identities of each node, and bandwidths and latencies of paths are received. A threshold bandwidth is set, and routes containing paths among nodes which have an associated bandwidth exceeding the threshold bandwidth (or within a desired range,... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080170511 - 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..

20080170512 - Method and apparatus for controlling power in a decode-and-forward relay system: A method and apparatus for controlling power in a decode-and-forward (DF) relay system is provided. The method of controlling power in a DF relay system includes: acquiring first channel information of a first link between a source node and a destination node, second channel information of a second link between... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080170513 - Group communication in a mobile ad-hoc network: A system, method, and computer readable medium for group communication protocol in mobile ad-hoc network, that comprises, collecting a route from a source node to at least one group member node, caching the collected route information, and merging an intermediate link of a host node having a single branch to... Agent: Rg & Associates

20080170514 - Methods and apparatus for providing flexible timing-driven routing trees: A method of producing a flexible timing-driven routing tree is provided. Two or more target nodes are sorted in accordance with data criticality. A source-sink grid is built from one or more source nodes and the two or more target nodes. An initial routing tree is built comprising the one... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080170515 - Single transducer full duplex talking circuit: A full duplex talking audio circuit uses a single transducer ZT which, even when various characteristics including the strength of a transmission signal change from moment to moment, enables the adequate operation of an echo canceling function and sufficiently compensates for the deterioration of the frequency characteristics of the transmission... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080170517 - Creation and transmittal of add messages: Described herein are mechanisms and methods that facilitate enabling a first network module to “take over” for a second network module. For instance, an access router can he configured to act as a regional mobility agent with respect to a wireless terminal. The wireless terminal can then identify a different... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080170516 - Data structure caching for pdu re-generation and transmission in a 3g wireless network: In one embodiment, a transmitter (a) caches one or more MAC-d PDUs received from a network layer, (b) selects a subset of the MAC-d PDUs for combination into a MAC-e PDU, (c) generates the MAC-e PDU from the subset of selected MAC-d PDUs, (d) caches a data structure to allow... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20080170523 - Method and apparatus for feedback information transmitting/receiving in mobile telecommunication using multiple input multiple output: A method for transmitting feedback information in a mobile communication system using Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) is provided. The method includes, when knockdown precoding is used and Antenna Selection precoding is used, setting an index field for indicating a universal matrix of a precoding matrix of a first reverse... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080170522 - Method and apparatus for indicating a transmission status to a higher layer: A method and apparatus for indicating a transmission status to a higher layer are disclosed. In the transmitting entity, a radio link control (RLC) entity sends a packet delivery notification regarding delivery status of a higher layer message to a higher layer entity based on hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080170524 - Method for implementing the network service provider domain name discovery and the device thereof: A method and a device for implementing Network Service Provider (NSP) realm discovery, which are designed to discover the NSP realm by the user equipment in wireless communication network. In the present invention, the network side notifies the user equipment of the NSP realm; the user equipment receives the realm... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080170518 - Mobile ad-hoc network routing based upon hardware address: A system, method, and computer readable medium for mobile ad hoc network routing based upon a hardware address that comprises, identifying a destination node hardware address of a data packet that is outbound from a host node, searching a host node routing table for a destination node route from the... Agent: Rg & Associates

20080170521 - System and method for qos performance in multihop networks: Systems and methods for adjusting channel access based on contention conditions in a communications network are disclosed. The invention addresses the problem of multihop communications networks with varying contention conditions. Particularly, the invention addresses the channel access for common communications channels of a single or plurality of multihop configurations.... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080170519 - Wireless network system and communication method in a wireless network: Disclosed is a wireless network system and a method for sending and receiving various information and data related to broadcast or multicast services in a wireless network.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080170520 - Wireless network system and communication method in a wireless network: Disclosed is a wireless network system and a method for sending and receiving various information and data related to broadcast or multicast services in a wireless network.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080170525 - Adaptive optimizations for connecting to a wireless network: A wireless network scanning order may be optimized based on at least one item of known information. The at least one item of known information may include a wireless network usage history, scheduling information from a scheduling application, location data, or other items of information. Availability of one or more... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080170526 - Method and apparatus for extending standby battery life of a wireless device: An apparatus and method for extending the standby battery life of a wireless device by reading scheduling information to determine the time when the wireless device should be in the wake-up state to read system information, and going back to the sleep state until the start of the transmission of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080170527 - Changing access point (ap) device type based on connectivity to a network: Techniques are provided for determining whether a particular Access Point (AP) is to be designated as an Infrastructure Access Point (IAP) or a Backhaul Mesh Access Point (BMAP) based on the connectivity of the particular AP to a network which includes at least one multicast heartbeat message (MCHBM) source. Techniques... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080170529 - Connection identifier for wireless broadcast system: A wireless broadcast system that collects content for distribution over a wireless communication network. Multiple content streams are received and interleaved into an aggregate content stream. The aggregate content stream is encapsulated into a stream of transport packets that are ruggedized for broadcast over the wireless communication link. One connection... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080170531 - Convergence sublayer for use in a wireless broadcasting system: A wireless broadcast system includes receiving a data a stream by a convergence module. The convergence module partitions and encapsulates the transport packets into MAC protocol data units such that a size dimension of the encapsulated transport packets matches a size dimension of the MAC protocol data units. The MAC... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080170528 - Method of multicasting base and enhancement layers of a video stream: The present invention provides a method of multicasting video streams. The method includes accessing, at a base station, a first packet from a video stream that includes a plurality of packets. Each packet in the video stream is assigned to either a base layer or at least one enhancement layer.... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20080170532 - System and method for embedding text in multicast transmissions: A system and method embeds text in a multicast transmission. An exemplary method comprises receiving non-voice data. The non-voice data is embedded within digitized voice data. The digitized voice data with the embedded non-voice data is wirelessly transmitted, by a computing device, as a multicast transmission to a plurality of... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080170530 - Wireless broadcasting system: A wireless broadcast system that collects content for distribution over a wireless communication network. At least one content stream is received and encapsulated into a stream of transport packets that are ruggedized for broadcast over the wireless communication link. The stream of transport packets are simultaneously broadcast as part of... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080170535 - Method and apparatus for managing service flow based on relay station: A method and system for managing service flows based on a Relay Station (RS). The method includes the steps of establishing a mapping relation of a connection between an RS and Subscriber Station/Mobile Subscriber Station (SS/MSS) and a connection between a BS and RS in an RS; transforming a connection... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080170533 - Near-field spatial multiplexing: Wireless communication apparatus (20) includes a transmitter (22), which includes a first plurality of transmit antennas (26) mutually separated by a first spacing, and which is configured to transmit signals via the transmit antennas over multiple spatial sub-channels, the signals having respective phases. A receiver (24), which includes a second... Agent: Abelman Frayne & Schwab

20080170534 - Portable information device: A portable information device includes first and second enclosures and a hinge portion connecting those enclosures. The first enclosure has: an antenna; a plurality of active circuits for predetermined frequency bands; a first circuit that demultiplexes reception signals into input signals with the predetermined frequency bands to output the input... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080170536 - Dynamic routing from space: A satellite communication network includes one or more satellites and multiple ground stations, or ground stations. An originating ground station receives an Internet communication, determines when a satellite will be within range, and transmits a stream of data packets including part or all of the communication to the satellite when... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080170541 - Apparatus, methods, and computer program products providing resource allocation adaptation for point-to-multipoint transmissions: In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes: obtaining feedback from at least one mobile terminal in a communication system; determining, based on the obtained feedback, whether at least one of a downlink shared channel transmit power and a transmission pattern should be modified, wherein the downlink shared channel is used... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080170542 - Base station access system and base station data transmission method: A base station access system and a base station data transmission method. The system includes a base station and a broadband access point. A embodiment of base station data transmission method includes: a base station assigns sequence number identifications to uplink data packets, the base station sends the uplink data... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080170537 - Communication processing apparatus and method: An apparatus and a method for communication processing are disclosed. The apparatus includes a network connecting unit, a wireless connecting unit, and a processing unit. The network connecting unit is for use in connecting with internet and communicating a first communicating signal with the internet. The wireless connecting unit is... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080170540 - Communication system, communication device, and communication method: Disclosed herein a communication system in which communicating stations are interconnected via a first transmission path and a second transmission path, the communication system including: a data transmitting station for dividing one piece of transmission data to generate two data packets, assigning the data packets to the first transmission path... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080170538 - Hierarchical multicast protocol in a mobile ad-hoc network: A system, method, and computer readable medium using a hierarchical multicast protocol in a mobile ad-hoc network, comprises identifying a parent node, determining a sub-group node in communication with the parent node, determining a maximum number of host nodes in communication with the sub-group node, determining an address of the... Agent: Rg & Associates

20080170539 - Method and apapratus for controlling transmission power of cognitive radio environment: A method and apparatus of controlling a transmission power of a cognitive radio (CR) environment, the method including: sensing an incumbent user that uses a same channel as the CR environment; detecting signal quality information of the sensed incumbent user; calculating, using the detected signal quality information, a maximum transmission... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080170545 - Apparatus and method for dynamic channel allocation in multiple channel wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for dynamic channel allocation in a multiple channel wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a scheduler for dividing resources to be used for a band Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) channel and a diversity channel, a generator for generating a MAP heading field including... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080170543 - Method of providing route update messages and providing messages to access terminals: The present invention provides a method including providing at least one route update message based upon at least one sector list associated with an access terminal. The sector lists are formed based on information collected by the access terminal.... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20080170544 - Method of transmitting between two nodes: A method comprising transmitting a busy signal from a first node; receiving said busy signal at a second node; and transmitting data from said second node to said first node on a channel associated with said busy signal.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080170547 - Connection control system and method for mobile communication system: A connection control system and method for Wireless Broadband (WiBro) communication system are provided. The connection control method for a mobile communication system, which includes at least one radio access station for providing communication service to a portable subscriber station, and at least one access control router for controlling the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080170548 - Handoff method between heterogeneous networks and system thereof: A handoff method between a source network to which a terminal is connected in order of a Base Station (BS) and an Access Service Network (ASN), and a target network to which the terminal is connected in order of a Packet Data Service Node (PDSN), a Packet Control Function (PCF)... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080170546 - Wireless communication system, mobile station and handover control method: A processing capability for data communication with a packet terminal is secured while packet loss is prevented, and a load to a mobile station in a handover is reduced. A wireless communication system comprises mobile stations 101 and 102 each having a wireless interface a configured with an antenna 11a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080170553 - Fragmenting large packets in the presence of high priority packets: In the presence of high priority traffic received at a mobile station over a wireless medium or to be transmitted by the mobile station over the wireless medium, a fragmentation threshold in a wireless local area network (WLAN) medium access control (MAC) layer of the mobile station is adjusted according... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080170550 - Hybrid mesh routing protocol: A method for selecting a route by a node between a source node and a destination node in a wireless mesh network by establishing the route between the source node and the destination node using media access control addresses is described. A method for a node to selecting a route... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080170551 - Idle connection state power consumption reduction in a wireless local area network using beacon delay advertisement: A novel and useful apparatus for and method of improving idle connection state power consumption in wireless local area network (WLAN) system. Beacon transmission delay information is determined by the access points and advertised to the stations via a Beacon Transmission Delay Information Element. In response, the stations adjust their... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080170552 - Idle connection state power consumption reduction in a wireless local area network using variable beacon data advertisement: A novel and useful apparatus for and method of improving idle connection state power consumption in wireless local area network (WLAN) system using variable Beacon data advertisements. The invention takes advantage of the fact that Beacon contents to not change significantly between consecutive messages. Access points determine the size of... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080170549 - Methods and improvements for joining wireless mesh networks: Method and improvements for joining wireless mesh networks are provided. In one embodiment, a controller in each network receives a message from a node in its respective network, the message indicating that the respective nodes each received a signal from a node in the other network. Each controller, in response... Agent: Sprint

20080170554 - Method and equipment for realizing smart antenna in wcdma system: A method and device for realizing smart antenna in WCDMA system are disclosed in the invention, including array antenna, radio frequency channel module, beam forming module, channel environment detection and classification module, beam-forming algorithm selection and weight value generation module. After processing the signals received by the antenna array in... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080170555 - Wireless communication system and its transmission power control method: An uplink channel transmission power control method is provided for a CDMA mobile communication system performing one way communication. A base station measures the received level of data transmitted from each mobile terminal at each channel, and generates a transmission power control signal of each uplink traffic channel. The generated... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080170557 - Method for measuring different frequencies/systems in mbms and a device for setting measuring time: A method for measuring Inter-Frequency/Inter-RAT in Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) includes: setting an Inter-Frequency/Inter-RAT measurement time to prevent Inter-Frequency/Inter-RAT measurement time from overlapping constantly the transmission time of MCCH information; performing Inter-Frequency/Inter-RAT measurement by a UE according to the Inter-Frequency/Inter-RAT measurement time. In the present invention, the Inter-Frequency/Inter-RAT measurement time... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080170556 - Wireless communications with frequency band selection: A probe, listen and select (PLS) technique can be used to select from an available frequency spectrum a frequency band whose communication quality is suitable for wireless communication at a desired rate. Probe packets can be transmitted on different frequencies (223) during a known period of time (TPLS), and frequency... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080170558 - Techniques for transmission protection for wireless networks: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to techniques for protecting transmissions in a wireless network. According to an example embodiment, it may be determined at a wireless node whether the wireless node is exchanging transmissions with a plurality of wireless devices associated with a plurality of different signal types in a... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080170559 - Sub-frame synchronized residual radar: A method of using a wireless communication system to determine locations is provided. The method including exchanging communication frames between at least two synchronized nodes in the communication system, wherein each communication frame includes at least one of data signals and radar signals. Determining distances of at least one of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080170560 - Training sequence for wireless communication system: Disclosed is a system and a training sequence setting method for performing frame synchronization in a wireless communication system. A received signal is affected by a frequency offset due to an oscillator mismatch between the transmitter and the receiver, which is one of the main causes of performance degradation of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080170561 - Branch ip recording: Apparatus for recording multi-party Internet Protocol (IP) sessions at a branch, the apparatus comprising: a data capturer, deployed on a device in a local network of the branch, configured to capture at least one data packet of a multi-party IP session involving the branch; and a recorder, deployed on the... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080170562 - Method and communication device for improving the performance of a voip call: A sub-data packet drop method and a dynamic base method for improving the performance of voice calls routed through data packet networks. A voice engine processor of the present invention comprises a smart jitter buffer, which is a jitter buffer couples with a sub-data packet drop method and a dynamic... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080170563 - Session initiation protocol message content processing method and network: In a method for processing contents of a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message, a SIP sender sends a SIP message, and a SIP network content processing entity sets the message contents of the SIP message based on an acquired management strategy for the message content. A network for processing contents... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080170564 - Systems and methods for channel switching: Techniques for video encoding and decoding channel switch frames (CSF) to enable acquisition and re/synchronization of the video stream while preserving compression efficiency is provided. Systems and methods to process multimedia data enabling channel switching are presented. The systems generate a CSF with one or more network adaptation layer (NAL)... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080170566 - Communication system: A communication system, which includes an intercom master-station and an intercom door-station connected to a Regidential LAN, uses a DHCP protocol to assign IP addresses. The intercom master-station includes a setting management table, which sets connectivity per terminal name; a temporary address memory, which temporarily registers an IP address and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080170565 - Nak message transmission with quicknak indication: System and method for processing received packets. A QuickNak (QN) packet may be received. The QN packet may include a segmentation and reassembly (SAR) packet. The SAR packet may be delivered to a SAR receiver and it may be determined if there are missing packets, e.g., after delivery of the... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20080170567 - Packet switch apparatus and method thereof: Disclosed is a packet switch apparatus applied to Internet Protocol (IP) network, the packet switch apparatus including: an Ethernet switch to perform packet switching, the Ethernet switch including a plurality of ports and a layer 3 table. The plurality of ports include a dummy port, which has an available port... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080170569 - Remote device waking using a multicast packet: Sleeping device(s) may be changed from a sleeping state to an awake state using a multicast packet that sent to a multicast address of a multicast wake-up group. The packet may include an identifier for one or more particular device(s) in the multicast group, which, when received by the device(s),... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080170570 - System and method of switching from multicast to unicast calls: Described is a communication device which includes a receiver receiving a multicast communication including audio data and identification data identifying an initiator of the multicast communication, a memory, an audio output, a processor processing the multicast communication, sending the processed audio data to the audio output to be played to... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080170568 - Systems and methods for reducing multicast traffic over a network: A method for reducing multicast traffic over a network is described. A control request is received. A first ranking indicator associated with the control request is compared with a second ranking indicator associated with a node that received the control request. A first response to the control request is generated.... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080170573 - Border gateway protocol extended community attribute for layer-2 and layer-3 virtual private networks using 802.1ah-based tunnels: Described are a network, network device, and method for a method of distributing routing information for a virtual private network (VPN) application through a packet-switched network (PSN) having fully meshed provider edge (PE) routers through Provider Backbone Bridge (PBB) tunnels. Each PE router is configured to support at least one... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20080170572 - Detecting an identifier change of an endpoint: Detecting an identifier change of an endpoint includes dialing an identifier associated with an endpoint to initiate a call to the endpoint. A network indicator indicating a change of the identifier is detected. A new identifier associated with the endpoint is determined, and a record is updated to reflect the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080170571 - Method and system for synchronous page addressing in a data packet switch: A method and system for synchronous page addressing in a data packet switch is provided. Within the packet switch, separate devices are responsible for storing a portion of a received data packet, and thus a view of used memory addresses seen by one device matches that seen by the others.... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff, LLP

20080170574 - Methods and apparatuses for data compression: A plurality, i.e. at least two, cells are combined into a macro cell. In a macro header of said macro cell a full numbering information of a first cell of said plurality of cells is stored. For further cells of said plurality of cells other than said first cell, a... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck Chase Tower

20080170575 - System and method for distributed intelligent-assistant control of predictive digital information distribution: An information-based system for controlling the display of digital content dependent upon a state-based controller comprised of status and intelligent-assistant logic. In an exemplary embodiment, the system programmatically integrates distributed automata theory processing for alternative, yet interrelated, states of control within a digital content display system. The state-based system provides... Agent: W. Edward Ramage

20080170576 - Method, computer program product, and apparatus for optimally deploying iscsi sessions automatically: An optimal configuration of Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) sessions is automatically determined. A number of iSCSI target ports and a number of iSCSI initiator ports in a configuration are determined, and an ideal session count is determined for each iSCSI initiator port in order to maximize efficiency. All... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20080170577 - Station device, message transfer method, and program storage medium storing program thereof: An Ethernet frame nester nests Ethernet frames addressed to a plurality of remote station devices affiliated with a shared station device on the basis of the correspondence relation between a MAC address of the station device and MAC addresses of the remote station devices stored in a table and the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080170578 - Border gateway protocol procedures for multi-protocol label switching and layer-2 virtual private networks using ethernet-based tunnels: Described are a network device and method for distributing routing information for a virtual private network (VPN) application through a packet-switched network (PSN) from a first provider edge (PE) router to a second provider edge (PE) router. An Ethernet switched path (e.g., a Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) tunnel) is established... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20080170579 - Methods, apparatus and computer programs for managing performance and resource utilization within cluster-based systems: Disclosed are methods, apparatus and computer programs for improving performance and resource utilization of cluster-based data processing systems. The number of persistent connections between first and second data processing units of a system is adjusted according to monitored performance of communications between the nodes. The monitored performance measure is the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080170580 - Star network control with mesh network payload delivery: A network is provided that includes: a central node (30) and a plurality of other nodes (32); a plurality of first communication links (34) interconnecting the central node (30) to the plurality of other nodes (32) to form a star network topology; and, a plurality of second communication links (36)... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080170581 - System and method for networking computing clusters: In certain embodiments, a method for networking a computer cluster includes communicatively coupling together each of a plurality of client nodes through one or more switches, each switch comprising a plurality of switch ports. The method also includes positioning at least two of the one or more switches inside a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080170582 - Apparatus and method for deskewing 1000 base-t ethernet physical layer signals: The invention provides an Ethernet physical layer (PHY) receiver. Ethernet PHY signals are simultaneously transmitted through first, second, third, and fourth duplex channels. The Ethernet physical layer receiver comprises a deskew first-in first-out (FIFO) module and a deskew control module. The deskew FIFO module includes four deskew FIFO buffers for... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080170583 - Method of supporting an open provider backbone network: An apparatus comprising a first interface configured to transmit or receive backbone traffic, a second interface configured to transmit or receive non-backbone traffic, and a third interface in communication with the first interface and second interface, the third interface configured to multiplex or demultiplex the backbone traffic and the non-backbone... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080170584 - Management device, management method, computer readable medium and computer data signal: A management device comprises: a receiving section that receives, from at least one information processor via a fire wall, a polling signal to inquire if there is a demand to transmit to the information processor; a deciding section that decides a transmission timing of the polling signal due to the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080170585 - Management device, management method, computer readable medium and computer data signal: A management device comprises: a receiving section that receives, from at least one information processor via a fire wall, a polling signal to inquire if there is a request to send to the information processor or not; and a sending section that sends a response for the polling signal that... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080170586 - Multi-rate mac to phy interface: A method and system for a multi-rate Media Access Control layer (MAC) to Physical layer (PHY) interface is provided. The method to provide a multi-rate Media Access Control layer (MAC) interface comprises receiving a first set of signals, sampling the first set of signals to determine a type of interface... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080170588 - Device for generating a sampled ramp signal representative of a synchronization signal, and device for assisting the reconstruction of a synchronization signal, for a packet switching network: A device is dedicated to assisting the reconstruction of synchronization signals, for example within an item of communication equipment of an IP network. This device comprises i) a phase-locked loop charged with reconstructing, on the basis of a second sampled ramp signal received, a reference clock signal and a second... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080170587 - Systems and methods for a 5:1 multiplexer with a one-fifth ratio duty cycle clock: The present invention provides methods and systems for multiplexing five channels, such as 10 Gb/s to 50 Gb/s, into a single data sequence using a 5:1 multiplexer using a 1/5th ratio duty cycle clock. The 1/5th ratio duty cycle clock is a clock with a period equal to the channel... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20080170589 - Server and simultaneous access control method thereof: A server and a simultaneous access control method, the server including: a connector to receive data from and transmit data to a plurality of clients; and a connection manager to extract a simultaneously accessible client from among the plurality of clients, and to permit access to the extracted client, if... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080170590 - Method for establishing communication channel and image receiving apparatus using the same: A method and apparatus for establishing a communication channel provided. The apparatus includes a storage unit which stores a communication channel search starting point for an address of the apparatus; and a controller which searches a communication channel at the communication channel search starting point set in the address of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080170591 - System for distributing data by dividing the same into plural pieces of partial data: Disclosed is a system for dividing an original data into N pieces of partial data and generating L pieces of encoded data on the basis of the N pieces of partial data wherein N is a natural number greater than 1 and L is a natural number equal to or... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080170592 - Almost peer-to-peer clock synchronization: Disclosed are a method of and a system for synchronizing clocks in a coordinated network of computers including a multitude of processing nodes, each of the nodes having a clock and one or more neighbor nodes. The method comprises the steps of electing one of the nodes as a correct... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080170593 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus includes a demultiplexing unit which extracts program clock reference (PCR) information for synchronizing image information and voice information of a received image signal; a syntax analyzing unit which identifies a first and a second packet identification number of a packet having the PCR information so that the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080170594 - System and method for realizing network synchronization by packet network: A system and method for realizing network synchronization by packet network mainly includes: restoring the clock signal from the superior processing equipment data link of the packet network, and sending it to the subordinate processing equipment; realizing the synchronization of said processing equipment based on said clock signal. It can... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080165670 - Method and system for enabling harq operations on channels between stations in wireless communication networks: A method and system enables and improves performance of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) operations on channels between stations of an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) wireless communication network. There, the number of parallel HARQ channels is increased adaptively, and one connection identifier is used to unambiguously identify a... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080165671 - Transmitter apparatus and method for transmitting packet data units in a communication system: In a communication system, when packet data units (PDUs) to be transmitted from a transmitter apparatus are modulated according to Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), the waveforms representing the modulated PDUs will experience different peak to average ratio values (PAR) making the PDUs differently sensitive to non-ideal transmitter characteristics. To... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080165672 - Joint channel estimation and data detection method for stbc/ofdm systems: if the index of recursion is not equal to 1, calculate the searching direction vector as g(i,v)=(F+λI2(L1+L2))−1∇ f(y(i,v−1)); next, update the channel state information vector by y(i,v)=y(i,v−1)−g(i,v), and increase the index of recursion by 1; if the index v of recursion is less than or equal to V, repeat the... Agent: Bucknam And Archer

20080165677 - Apparatus and method for cinr estimation in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for estimating a Carrier to Interference and Noise Ratio (CINR) of an uplink channel in a wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a subcarrier separator for separating subcarrier bundles from a received signal, a detector for calculating squares of correlation values acquired by... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080165674 - Apparatus, method, receiver, and computer readable medium for time synchronization offset compensation: Provided are an apparatus, a method, a receiver, and a computer readable recording medium for time synchronization offset compensation. The apparatus comprises an average time synchronization offset calculator, a reference clock frequency difference calculator, and a time synchronization offset compensator. The average time synchronization offset calculator calculates an average time... Agent: Wolf, Block, Shorr And Solis-cohen LLP

20080165675 - Method and apparatus for achieving system acquisition and other signaling purposes using the preamble in an ofdm based communications system: In the system acquisition process system information is non-coherently detected using correlation of reconstructed and received preamble signals, such as the primary broadcast control channel (PBCCH) and the acquisition pilots (TDM1, TDM2, and TDM3). The phase correlation signals between the correlated signals of PBCCH and TDM2 or TDM3 and between... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080165676 - Method and apparatus for modulating symbols in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system and transmission apparatus using the same: A method for modulating a symbol in a transmitter of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system. The symbol modulation method includes multiplying an input stream of an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) unit by a Twiddling factor for circular-shifting the input stream of the IFFT unit by a Cyclic... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080165673 - System and method for demodulating data in an orthogonal frequency division modulation system: First incoming data comprising at least one OFDM symbol is received (302). A plurality of timing relationships is determined and each of the plurality of timing relationships relates to an alignment window of a fast Fourier transform (FFT) (304). Each of the plurality of timing relationships is applied to the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080165678 - Network processor architecture: A network processor for processing information elements is described. Each information element is associated with a flow and comprises at least one information element segment. A policy controller stores an information element into at least one information segment storage unit within a memory, and determines whether an information element segment... Agent: Wilson & Ham

20080165682 - Communication control apparatus, communication control method and communication control program product: A communication control apparatus includes: a storage device, an input device, an output device, a communication control apparatus, a main storage device and a processor (CPU). The CPU includes an address segmentation unit, a weight detector and a connection controller. The address segmentation unit splits a received packet, the weight... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080165681 - Method for preventing ip multicast data stream to overload communication system by distinguishing all kinds of services: The present invention relates to a method for preventing IP multicast data stream from overloading the communication system by distinguishing multiple services. When a multicast data packet ‘packet (key)’ with its key value being ‘key’ reaches the forwarding layer, if it doesn't find the matching multicast route entry or matching... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080165679 - Method to mitigate fraudulent usage of qos from mobile terminals using uplink packet marking: A method is provided for mapping between an uplink traffic characteristic and a transmission prioritization level to prevent fraudulent access to priority flows at a centralized point in a network. According to certain embodiments, an Access Gateway (AGW) receives at least one network filter parameter from a network element, which... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080165680 - System and method for wireless channel sensing: System and method for wireless channel sensing. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method of determining band availability for a WRAN. The method includes receiving wirelessly analog signals within a predetermined range of frequencies. The method also includes converting the analog signals to digital signals. The digital... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080165684 - Adjusting to network latency changes: Techniques are provided for adjusting to changes to the latency for a connection between two nodes on a network. In accordance with some embodiments, when a transmitting node encounters a retransmission timeout for a packet sent to a receiving node, the latency for the connection is newly measured and used... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080165686 - Cognitive network: A reservation request is received for a data transport session. The reservation request contains a requested class of communication service through the asynchronous network. The state of the network along the route is then preferably determined and at least one end-to-end route through the network is obtained. The route is... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080165683 - Method, system, and program product for enhancing network communications between endpoints: The present invention provides a method, system and program product for enhancing communications between endpoints. Specifically, the present invention provides mechanisms (e.g., routing controllers either at a network or application layer) that negotiate and specify which network interface to use at each endpoint (both sending and receiving) in multi-homing interface... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080165685 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing network bandwidth capacity: Managing the bandwidth capacity of a network that includes a plurality of traffic destinations, a plurality of nodes, and a plurality of node-to-node links. For each of a plurality of traffic classes including at least a higher priority class and a lower priority class, an amount of traffic sent to... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080165688 - Regulating data-burst transfer: The invention discloses methods and apparatus for regulating the transfer of data bursts across a data network comprising electronic edge nodes interconnected by fast-switching optical core nodes. To facilitate switching at an electronic edge node, data bursts are organized into data segments of equal size. A data segment may include... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras LLP

20080165687 - Traffic load control in a telecommunications network: A method is provided of controlling traffic load on a link in a telecommunications network. The link carries user sessions of non-real time, NRT, and real time, RT, services. The method comprises periodically monitoring traffic load on the link in the network. The method further comprises successively restricting alternately NRT... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20080165690 - Infiniband credit-less flow control for long distance links: An Infiniband flow control scheme disables credit based flow control so that transmission distances can be extended. An Infiniband credit based flow control suffers from round trip time lag that slows transmission rates. Disabling Infiniband credit based flow control enables back to back packet transmission because credit counts are ignored.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080165691 - Method and apparatus for providing a gigabit ethernet circuit pack: Method and system for providing data transmission with transparency over the Gigabit Ethernet data stream includes receiving the 10 bit code with a data rate of 1,250 Mbits/second from the encoded 8B/10B data and arbitrarily selecting 9 bit codes using a look-up translation table which can fully represent the 10... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080165689 - Information flow control in a packet network based on variable conceptual packet lengths: There is disclosed a method and controller for controlling an information flow in a data transmission system including receiving a plurality of data packets having a received packet length and at a received sample rate. The method and controller also includes determining a configured packet length for each data packet... Agent: Hitt Gaines P.C.

20080165692 - Method and system for opportunistic data communication: A method is provided for communicating data items across one or more disjoined networks. The method comprises receiving a message including a data item information list having data item information associated with each of one or more data items stored in a node of the disjoined networks; ranking each of... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080165693 - Increasing link capacity via traffic distribution over multiple wi-fi access points: A method and system for combining the bandwidth available to a user communications device from multiple access points by switching output requests and corresponding replies to such requests among a plurality of such access points. In the simplest implementation the switching can be on a round-robin basis, but the switching... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20080165695 - Estimation of bandwidth requirements in a communications network with access controls: In one aspect, a method for estimating the bandwidth requirements for a transmission between an input node and an output node of a network with access controls is provided. According to the method, with respect to a time period, the sum of the value of the average bandwidth of the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080165697 - Fast uplink response to downlink shared channel transmission without a dedicated uplink channel: A method and apparatus for uplink transmission over a non-contentious shared feedback channel are disclosed, wherein the parameters of the uplink transmission are determined by the parameters of a downlink transmission. A new uplink channel, called a physical shared uplink feedback channel (PSUFCH) is used for uplink transmission such as... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080165694 - Interconnect circuit, system, and method for providing operating modes for communication channels: An interconnect circuit, system, and method for providing operating modes for communication channels is disclosed. According to one aspect, a method of determining an operating mode for a communication link can include providing an operating parameter within a memory device. The operating parameter can be provided in association with a... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080165696 - Method of reporting channel quality in egprs system: There is provided a method of enabling a mobile station to report channel quality in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving a radio block allocated for a control block, the control block comprising a header and a control message, the header comprising an identifier, measuring channel quality for... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080165698 - Method, apparatus and system for providing reports on channel quality of a communication system: In accordance with aspects of the present invention, a method, an apparatus, a system, and software are provided to link channel quality indication reporting with periods when communication terminals, such as user equipment, are active. In one aspect, an apparatus (e.g., a communication terminal) includes a determination module configured to... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080165699 - Wireless communication system and method: A method for performing wireless communication in a network by at least one of a plurality of network nodes, the network including a network coordinator, the plurality of network nodes, and a plurality of subscriber stations. The method includes sending, by at least one of the plurality of network nodes,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080165701 - Collaborative downloading for multi-homed wireless devices: A system is disclosed for collaborative downloading that uses both the WLAN and the WWAN in combination, in an attempt to bridge the range-speed dichotomy. Devices in close vicinity band together their WWAN links, with the high-speed WLAN serving as the glue, to boost the effective wide-area bandwidth available to... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080165702 - Communications system, method for controlling a communications system, network access device and method for controlling a network access device: Communications system having first, second, and third communications networks, a subscriber device, and a network access device having a network layer address. The network access device permits access by the first communications network to the third communications network and access by the second communications network to the third communications network.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080165703 - Method, system and device for implementing traffic engineering: A method for implementing traffic engineering, TE, in layer 2, L2, network, includes: collecting TE information which is sent by respective L2 network devices according to extended network topology discovery protocol; calculating and deploying constraint-based routing with the collected TE information of the L2 network. The existing network topology discovery... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080165700 - Telephone with internet phone module: The present invention discloses a telephone for communication via Internet comprising: a control unit, a display, memory coupled to the control unit; a converter coupled to the control unit for converting between digital and analog signal; a vocal I/O unit coupled to the converter; a MODEN coupled to the control... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080165704 - Automatically maximizing network link utilization using virtual networks: A system and method for automatically configuring a network so that each switch in the network is aware of the Multiple Spanning Tree Instances (MSTI) of each other switch and the Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) that each switch uses. This is achieved through the use of controllers connected to... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080165705 - Node, network, correspondence relationship generation method and frame transfer program: Provided in the EoE technique are the node, the network, the correspondence relationship generating method and the frame transfer program to avoid traffic concentration on a specific link to improve throughput of the network as a whole by realizing optimum path transfer. The frame switching unit includes the frame analysis... Agent: Paul J. Esatto, Jr. Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20080165706 - Destination service selection for a telephone: Systems and methods for determining a service to be accessed by a telephony device are provided. Such systems or methods may provide one or more of: querying for service related information data for services, the plurality of services provided to the telephony device by at least one service device; selecting... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080165707 - Audio conferencing utilizing packets with unencrypted power level information: In one embodiment, a method that includes receiving a plurality of packet streams input from different endpoints, packets of each stream including encrypted and unencrypted portions, the unencrypted portion containing audio power level information. The audio power level information contained in the packets of each of the packet streams is... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080165708 - Multimedia conferencing method and signal: A method for providing signals in a conference call among a plurality of participants, and a signal used in the method. The participants on the call are ordered in a sequential ring, and inputs, representing audio and/or video input, are taken from at least some of the participants in the... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080165709 - Method and apparatus for supporting communication in pico networks: Techniques for extending coverage of a wireless communication network (e.g., a cellular network) to indoor and other locations are described. A wireless device may communicate with a base station in a wireless network via downlink and uplink frequency channels in a licensed frequency band using frequency division duplexing (FDD). The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080165710 - Pilot structure for time division duplex downlink: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for using DL sub-frames with a unique pilot structure for TDD communications between a network element and a user equipment. In order to have equally good estimation for, e.g., channel, SIR and/or CQI estimation in the edges... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080165711 - Dynamic network transport selection: A method for dynamic network transport selection is described. An indication from a user of a client device is received, to fetch over a data network media of a predefined type. One of a number of network transport physical layers in the client device is automatically assigned, based on a... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080165712 - 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..

20080165713 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method: A wireless communication apparatus including a main queue to store MAC frames, a plurality of subqueues related to the main queue and used to control retransmission of the MAC frame, each of the subqueues having different priority for transmission of the MAC frame, respectively, an extracting device configured to extract... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080165714 - Method for utilization of active power profiles used in prediction of power reserves for remote devices: A method for the dynamically determining utilization of remote device applications based on historical application usage patterns, application power requirements, and available power reserves stored on a remote device, wherein the method includes defining a set of individual applications and activities on a remote device; determining a rate of power... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20080165716 - Sleep mode driving method for portable terminal: The advantage of the present invention is to provide a sleep mode driving method for reducing power consumption of a portable terminal in a portable Internet system, and to provide the method for the portable terminal to shift into a sleep mode or an awake mode without loss of transmitting... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080165715 - Wlan systems having reduced power consumption by dynamic setting and related methods thereof: A WLAN system is disclosed. The system includes: an Analog Front-End (AFE) circuit, for converting between analog baseband data and digital baseband data; a Radio Frequency (RF) circuit, coupled to the AFE circuit, for converting between analog RF data and analog baseband data; and a baseband circuit, coupled to the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080165717 - Novel mbms user detection scheme for 3gpp lte: An MBMS user detection system and methodology (300) is provided for advertising available MBMS services by multiplexing user feedback requests (303) using time, frequency and/or code diversity so that one or more MBMS service users can be detected in a single polling time interval. Available MBMS services are assembled into... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080165721 - Communication system, a repeater terminal in a communication system and a communication method: This invention provides a communication system, a repeater terminal in the communication system and a communication method for improving the characteristics in a multi-hop communication by a diversity gain and reduces the power consumption by wasteful retransmission in packet transmission at a wireless terminal. When a transmitter terminal S sends... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080165719 - Method and apparatus for relay zone bandwidth allocation: A method and apparatus for allocation of channel resources for relay stations operating in a multihop wireless communication system is provided for herein. The method and apparatus includes a signaling protocol between a base station scheduler and a relay station scheduler so as to achieve efficient utilization of the sector... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080165720 - Method and arrangement for cooperative relaying: In a method for relaying deployment in a wireless communication system comprising a transmitting node with multiple antennas for communicating with at least one receiving node via at least two relay nodes, a data stream at the transmitting node is partitioned into at least two data substreams, each of which... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080165722 - Radio communication system allowing radio communication with reduced load: A radio communication system includes a plurality of radio devices and a plurality of terminal devices. The plurality of radio devices forms a mesh-type radio network. A plurality of terminal devices belong to a radio device and another plurality of terminal devices belong to another radio device. The plurality of... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080165718 - Wireless multi-path transmission system (mimo) with controlled repeaters in each signal path: Methods for exchanging signals via a network with nodes (11-15) improve the performance of the network by letting a destination node (12) s receive the signals originating from a source node (11) via different first and second signal routes, and by processing and correlating these signals in the destination node... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080165723 - Apparatus and method for reducing latency in the transmission control protocol layer of a portable communication terminal: Improving a transmission latency of a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is provided. The apparatus includes a communicator transmitting a message for measuring power of a transmission signal to a radio access station (RAS) and receiving a response message corresponding to the message from the RAS; a TCP manager instructed by... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080165724 - Receiving multi-frequency data in high speed downlink packet access service: A technique for receiving multi-frequency data in a high speed downlink access service is disclosed. In this manner, one or more deficiencies of current HSDPA technology are mitigated, such as where user equipment (UE) can merely be scheduled by the network side at a single frequency. Among other things, a... Agent: William J. Cooper, Esq. Eschweiler & Associates, LLC

20080165726 - Base station apparatus based on switch fabric in broadband wireless communication system: A base station (BS) apparatus in a broadband wireless communication system is provided. The base station apparatus includes at least one function board for processing a baseband digital signal; at least one processor board for controlling the at least one function board; and at least one switch for routing a... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080165725 - Removing gtp-u path management in ugan: An apparatus and method are provided to identify an endpoint as a general packet radio service tunneling protocol endpoint, and configure a radio access bearer to skip a path management procedure. The apparatus and method also transmit the radio access bearer to a universal generic access network controller to prevent... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080165729 - Apparatus and method for allocating network address: An apparatus and method for network address allocation are provided, in which an interface module performs wireless communications through an antenna, and a protocol controller performs wireless communications using a predetermined protocol and performs a network address acquisition procedure during network entry.... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080165730 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing per-ue signaling technique for separately coded users: Apparatus, computer program products and methods operate an electronic device to determine an operating mode of a controlled electronic device operating in the wireless communications network; to generate a control signal in dependence on the operating mode of the controlled electronic device; to configure the control signal in a pre-determined... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080165731 - Associated systems and methods for providing data services using idle cell resources: Associated systems and methods for providing data services using idle cell capacity in a communications system. The systems and methods assign priorities to each remote user device in the communications system. In response to a request for service for a remote user device, the switch determines whether an idle channel... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20080165732 - Frequency assignment for multi-cell ieee 802.11 wireless networks: A frequency planning method for use in an IEEE 802.11 wireless network is described. The frequency planning method obtains traffic load information associated with access points belonging to a multi-cell wireless network and assigns channels to the access points based on the traffic load information.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080165728 - Method and system for scheduling uplink sounding signals: The present invention discloses a method for scheduling a transmission of uplink sounding signals for a mobile station (MS). The method comprises receiving a request to send the MS downlink signals associated with a service flow at a first frame, searching a scheduling database for pending uplink bandwidth requests from... Agent: L. Howard Chen Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP

20080165727 - Resource management techniques for wireless networks: Various embodiments are described relating to resource management techniques for wireless networks. For example, a resource deficiency may be determined for a requesting wireless node in a wireless network. A resource request may be sent from the requesting node to one or more other wireless nodes, and a resource reply... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080165734 - Communication systems: A channel estimation method for use in a wireless communication system, the system comprising a source apparatus and a destination apparatus, the source apparatus being operable to transmit information to the destination apparatus, the method comprising: allocating transmission frequency bandwidth over a particular time period into a plurality of contemporaneous... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080165733 - Method and apparatus for the dynamic and contention-free allocation of communication resources: A method and apparatus for assigning a communication resource is disclosed. The method includes allocating a channel by a base station or Node B 102. The base station or Node B detects an energy level transmitted on the channel wherein the energy level may contention-free for a plurality of user... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080165735 - Handoff method of mobile device utilizing dynamic tunnel: The present invention discloses a handoff method of a mobile device. The mobile device is currently communicating with a wireless network via a first access point. The method includes: scanning a second access point to associate the second access point; providing a dynamic tunnel between the first access point and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080165736 - Macro diversity handover and fast access station switching in wireless multi-user multi-hop relay networks: Handover procedures and a collection of new handover MAC management messages are provided for a wireless mobile multi-bop relay (MMR) network. The types of handovers supported include macro diversity handover (MDHO) and fast access station switching (FASS). The handover procedures for these two types of handover and the MAC messages... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080165738 - Method and system for network discovery and selection in wireless network systems: Method and system for network discovery and selection in wireless network systems. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a wireless communication system. The system includes a first access network that is connected to a content service network. The first access network includes a base station to provide wireless... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080165737 - Motion sensitive system selection for multi-mode devices: A wireless communication device is comprises a motion module that works in cooperation with a GPS module or other location sensing module to determine the type of motion currently affecting the wireless communication device. Depending on the type of motion, e.g., stationary, ambulatory, or vehicular, the wireless communication device prioritizes... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080165739 - Network devices having handover information and method of exchanging handover information between the devices: An apparatus and method of providing, and an apparatus and method of requesting, current handover information between network devices, the method of providing the current handover information for a handover of a mobile terminal between networks including: detecting handover information regarding an environment of a network of a handover information... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080165742 - Efficient uplink operation with high instantaneous data rates: The disclosed method and apparatus for allocating resources comprise scheduling a requesting wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) for transmission using non-persistent scheduling.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080165740 - Fast context establishment for interworking in heterogeneous network: The invention relates to a method for configuring connection parameters of a connection between a mobile terminal and a target wireless access network in a handover between heterogeneous wireless access networks, wherein the mobile terminal is handed over from an originating wireless access network to a target wireless access network.... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080165741 - Methods for interference measurement and prediction: A method of providing wireless communication, the method including providing a wireless communication network having a plurality of stations, the plurality of stations having a plurality of communication links, each communication link being between two of the plurality of stations, transmitting a signal from at least one of the stations... Agent: Akin Gump LLP - Silicon Valley

20080165743 - Resource allocation and mapping in a wireless communication system: Techniques for allocating and mapping resources in a wireless communication system are described. The system may use hop-ports to facilitate allocation and use of subcarriers. In one aspect, the hop-ports may be partitioned into multiple subzones, with each subzone including a configurable number of hop-ports. The hop-ports within each subzone... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080165744 - Sending permission assignment in telecommunications system: A method for assigning sending permissions in a telecommunications system and a telecommunications system comprising a unit (20) providing access to said system for at least one telecommunication terminal (40) and a control unit (11) for scheduling data transfer between said at least one telecommunication terminal and the telecommunications system,... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080165747 - Method of throttling uplink traffic in a wireless communication system: The method for throttling uplink traffic in a wireless communication system includes inserting an unassigned state flag in a downlink time slot. A state flag indicates, when assigned, which mobile station should transmit during an uplink time slot associated with the downlink time slot.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080165746 - Multiple access digital communicating method in ultra-wideband radio access networks: A multiple access digital communication method in ultra-wideband (UWB) radio access network is provided. More specifically, a multiple access technique in UWB communication channels is provided where UWB communication channels can be more efficiently used and collisions between multiple access user nodes can be more effectively avoided when the channels... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080165745 - System and method for communicating in a time division multiple access (tdma) mesh network having minimized end-to-end latency: A system and method for communicating includes a plurality of wireless nodes forming a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) mesh network. Each wireless node includes a transmitter and receiver and is operative for transmitting data packets across the TDMA mesh network from a source node through intermediate nodes to a... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080165751 - Access context management for macro-level mobility management registration in an access network: In an access network which supports a mobile IP protocol, a packet data protocol context is opened at support node and a gateway node in order to establish a connection between a mobile node and a mobile IP foreign agent located at the gateway node. A mobile IP registration over... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080165750 - Apparatus and method for multicast and broadcast service in broadband wireless access system: An apparatus and method for a Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS) in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system. In a method for operating a user terminal in a BWA system, an idle timer is driven when a flow for unicast connection has no traffic in an awake mode. Whether a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080165749 - 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

20080165752 - Method of operation for a three-dimensional, wireless network: A method of operation for wireless transmission of data to one or more destination devices across a network that includes a plurality of access points disposed about a building, each access point having a first transmission range of maximum bandwidth and a second transmission range of signal interference, the access... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080165748 - System and method for dynamic preamble assignment: A method of operation of a multi-hop wireless communication system comprising operating a first device to communicate with one or more network devices using a preamble sequence; locating the first device within range of a network entity; and switching the preamble sequence of the first device to a second preamble... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080165753 - Digital clock generating circuit and method of operation: A digital clock generation circuit (200) and method of operation (400). A digital clock (202) produces an output (220) with a first frequency or a second frequency. A clock control circuit (204, 206) selectively sets the digital clock (202) to produce either the first frequency or the second frequency. An... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20080165755 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving common logical channel and dedicated logical channel transmissions via a high speed downlink shared channel: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving common logical channel and dedicated logical channel transmissions via a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) are disclosed. A medium access control (MAC)-hs entity generates a MAC-hs protocol data unit (PDU) carrying a MAC-c/sh/m PDU and/or a MAC-d PDU. A UE-specific HS-DSCH... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080165756 - Method and system for obtaining home agent information of a mobile node: Embodiments of the invention provide a method and a system for obtaining home agent information of a mobile node. The method includes: when a DHCPv6 server receives a request message from a mobile node, it obtains the home agent information of the mobile node; the DHCPv6 server includes the home... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080165754 - Simultaneous sensing and data transmission: In order to satisfy the conflicting requirements for spectrum sensing and QoS of data transmission, it is highly desirable for a cognitive radio system, e.g. IEEE 802.22 WRAN, to perform spectrum sensing and data transmission simultaneously. Embodiments of the invention address critical issues of self-interference generated from a transmission unit... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080165757 - Data multiplexing method and data multiplexer, and data transmitting method and data transmitter: An effective data multiplexing method wherein an error correction ability is exerted at the maximum so that data transmission quality is improved and a data transmitting method in which an interleaving process applicable to data transmission using interpolation pilot signal is performed are provided. The data multiplexing method includes the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080165759 - Method and radio device for scanning a wireless communications channel: The present invention switches from the TDMA non-scan channel to an RF carrier signal frequency of the scan channel. If the scan channel is unmarked, performing an inspection of activity on the scan channel in order to determine whether activity on the scan channel is addressed to the radio device,... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080165758 - Wireless terminal device: A first switching circuit (21) outputs a first radio signal representing a plurality of time-division multiplexed pro-grams and a second radio signal other than the first radio signal, one at a time according to a switching signal. A voltage control oscillator (27) outputs a local signal at a frequency suitable... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080165760 - Method and apparatus for optimizing flow control over wlans: A method and apparatus for determining a period for transmitting a video stream comprising a plurality of base layers (110) and corresponding enhancement layers (115) is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a measure of channel condition, transmitting each of said base layers (110) for a predetermined time... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080165761 - Method for synchronization and data transmission in a multi-hop network: A method for synchronization and communication in a multi-hop network includes: transmitting a synchronization signal by a central node or a previously synchronized node, with a beacon slot assigned a beacon and the hop count value of the transmitting node transmitted in the frame of the synchronization signal, and, for... Agent: Venable LLP

20080165763 - Method and apparatus for power-mode control: A method, apparatus, and system are provided for controlling the power-mode of a telephonic device. An off-hook condition is detected. A power level for an operation of an electronic device is determined based upon detecting the off-hook condition. Determining the power level includes determining a frequency parameter and/or a pulse-width... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080165766 - Method and apparatus to indicate maximum scheduling delay for jitter buffer implementations: In VoIP systems, there is a tradeoff between reducing number of lost packets and end-to-end delay when dealing with jitters. Increasing the jitter buffer space on a mobile wireless terminal reduces the likelihood of lost packets but increases the end-to-end delay. Decreasing the jitter buffer space shortens the end-to-end delay,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080165765 - Method for establishing a voip communication using a peer-to-peer databank: In one aspect, a method for operating a communication network comprising a plurality of nodes, whereby a databank is stored in shared manner among the nodes is provided. A first node extracts from the databank identification data for identifying and/or addressing the first node by a correspondent for recording, initiated... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080165764 - Session continuity in communication networks: Disclosed is a method including having an ongoing communication session via a packet switched network, transferring said communication session from the packet switched network to a second network providing both packet and circuit switched access, and informing an application server maintaining said ongoing communication session that the communication session is... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080165762 - System, computer program product and method of communicating with session initiation protocol (sip) application sessions using a message-oriented middleware system: A system, computer program product and computer Implemented method of communicating with a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) application session using a messaging service are provided. The system, computer program product and computer-Implemented method register the SIP application session with a messaging server. The system, computer program product and computer-Implemented method... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ve) C/o Volel Emile

20080165767 - Hierarchical data collection network supporting packetized voice communications among wireless terminals and telephones: A packet-based, hierarchical communication system, arranged in a spanning tree configuration, is described in which wired and wireless communication networks exhibiting substantially different characteristics are employed in an overall scheme to link portable or mobile computing devices. The network accommodates real time voice transmission both through dedicated, scheduled bandwidth and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080165768 - Communication device and methods thereof: A switching device and methods thereof are disclosed. One of the methods includes an arbitration process for communicating a data payload between interface modules. A first intra-chassis packet is sent by a source interface module to the target interface module. The first intra-chassis packet represents a request for permission to... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080165769 - Hardware-based beacon processing: Hardware-based beacon processing. A hardware-centric medium access control (MAC) device includes a packet receiver and a beacon processor. The packet receiver receives a plurality of packets comprising at least one beacon packet. The beacon processor receives packets of the plurality of packets and filters out unwanted packets of the plurality... Agent: Wagner Blecher LLP

20080165770 - Transmitting and receiving method and apparatus in real-time system: A method and apparatus transmitting and receiving in a real-time system are disclosed. The method of transmitting in a real-time system includes scheduling a task included in a socket based on a predetermined transmission option designated to the socket, and transmitting a packet generated by the scheduled task based on... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080165771 - Broadcast and multicast packet management: A method, computer program product, and system for managing broadcast packets or multicast packets received by an Ethernet adapter comprising a plurality of logical ports are provided. The method, computer program product, and system provide for a first function operable to register a logical port of the Ethernet adapter as... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080165772 - Communication control unit and communication control method applied for multicast-supporting lan: A Multicast processing section constructs, when it is determined that a received packet is a packet on a multicast packet and multicast group management protocol, a table showing a correlation between a host device and a multicast group in a port number-multicast physical address correlation storing section as well as... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080165773 - Communication control unit and communication control method applied for multicast-supporting lan: A multicast processing section constructs, when it is determined that a received packet is a packet on a multicast packet and multicast group management protocol, a table showing a correlation between a host device and a multicast group in a port number-multicast physical address correlation storing section as well as... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080165783 - Access list key compression: Methods and apparatus for implementing an access list key for accessing information associated with a packet from an access list are disclosed. The packet includes an IP source address field and an IP destination address field, the IP source address field including an IP source address and the IP destination... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080165777 - Ethernet adapter packet management: A method, computer program product, and system for managing packets received by an Ethernet adapter shared by a plurality of threads are provided. The method, computer program product, and system provide for a first function operable to add a connection to a connection table of the Ethernet adapter and associate... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080165774 - Inter-network packet modifier and related method thereof: An inter-network packet modifier coupled between a first network and a second network for generating an outgoing transport packet forwarded to the second network according to an incoming transport packet received from the first network is disclosed. The inter-network packet modifier includes: a storage device for storing an updated identification... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080165781 - Layer 2 address translation for service provider wholesale ip sessions: A method involving receiving, at a network device, a first layer 2 network packet from a client, the first layer 2 network packet encapsulating a layer 3 network packet; forwarding the first layer 2 network packet to a server by associating the layer 3 destination host with a particular server... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20080165775 - Method and apparatus for efficient path mtu information discovery and storage: A method, computer program product, and data processing system for efficiently discovering and storing path MTU information in a sending host are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, two path MTU tables are maintained. One path MTU table contains MTU values corresponding to the first-hop routers associated with the sending host.... Agent: Ibm Corp. (mrn) C/o Law Office Of Michael R. Nichols

20080165784 - Method and system for internet transport acceleration without protocol offload: A packet classifier within a network adapter detects an application packet header belonging to a packet in a data stream associated with an application that uses a network protocol, such as TCP/IP, SNA or IPX. Offsets included within the application header are identified and a plurality of registers is loaded... Agent: Joseph P. Curtin, L.L.C.

20080165782 - Method for data interchange between network elements: The invention relates to a method for data exchange between at least one calling network element and at least one network element to be called, in different first and second network areas separated by network node devices or firewalls. A network address which is locally valid only in the respective... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080165779 - Methods, devices, and computer program products for forwarding packets using experimental bits to support service provider applications: Forwarding packets using experimental bits to support service provider applications. An incoming packet is received. If the packet is associated with a service hosted by a service provider, the packet is forwarded using a packet marking associated with a predefined forwarding behavior applicable to the service hosted by the service... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080165780 - Passive listening in wireless communication: Passive listening in wireless communication. An activity sensor device senses a packet. A medium access control (MAC) address parser receives the packet, processes a header of the packet, and activates a MAC device in response to recognizing a MAC address within the header, such that the MAC device is not... Agent: Wagner Blecher LLP

20080165776 - Relay tunneling in wireless multi-user multi-hop relay networks: A method communicates packets in a relay network. The packets are communicated from a set of mobile stations to a relay station using a set of connections, there being one connection between each mobile station and the relay station. The packets are communicated between the relay station and a base... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080165778 - Source address binding check: In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) receiving a packet in a switch, where the packet includes a plurality of fields that forms a binding; (ii) performing a first lookup of a first table using a first lookup key, where the first lookup key includes a first subset of... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080165785 - Distributed handling of telecommunications features in a hybrid peer-to-peer system of endpoints: A method and system are disclosed that enable performance improvements by reallocating to client endpoints at least some of the feature functionality of a server. Each logical user in the system is represented by his own private domain of endpoint entities, from which an endpoint is selected to serve as... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080165786 - Method and device for transmitting data packets: A method for transmitting a packet from a transmitting node to a destination node in a communication network can enable improved network efficiency. The method includes receiving and storing identification information concerning at least one foreign node that is directly reachable in the communication network (block 505). It is then... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080165787 - Method for negotiating about the media stream packet time length: A method for negotiating about the media stream packet time length includes: the negotiation initiating party transmits the media stream codec formats supported by itself and the supported packet time length capability information according to each codec format to the negotiation responding party; the negotiation responding party determines the media... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080165789 - Billing, alarm, statistics and log information handling in multi-services gateway device at user premises: A gateway device for operation at a user premises having at least one endpoint device associated with the gateway device, the gateway device being in communication with a remote service manager comprises an application service module having at least one application, the application service module being remotely managed by a... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080165788 - Communication system: An identification, verification, and response communication system which functions as a household or business wall information center adapted to recognize homeowners and/or residents, or business owners and/or employees using a detection means. The communication system includes a user profile interface defining customized data and information according to a specific homeowner's... Agent: P. Jeff Martin The Mcgougan Law Firm, LLC

20080165790 - Communication system: A method of transmitting messages from a network node in a communication network to a first user device wherein the network node transmits to a second user device a message-waiting notification, identifying the first user device and optionally identifying a node holding the message, and in response to that notification,... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080165791 - Buffering, pausing and condensing a live phone call: In one embodiment, a telephone locally buffers and then processes received voice data to resolve communication impediments and for other reasons. The locally buffered voice data can be, for example, tonally adjusted to accommodate a hearing deficiency of a listener, translated, transcribed, and automatically or manually slowed down to improve... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080165793 - Memory sharing mechanism based on priority elevation: The present invention discloses a memory sharing mechanism based on priority elevation. In accordance with the present invention, there is provided an apparatus and method for transporting packets of data in a communication device, wherein each packet is assigned one of several priorities and received based on memory state information.... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080165792 - Recovery flushing for a network packet dispatcher: A system and method for purging data packets in a network is provided. The method in one aspect includes monitoring an outbound queue for one or more selected packets to be pulled from the outbound queue. The method may further include waiting for a predetermined amount of time for the... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080165794 - Dual ported network physical layer: A switching physical layer (PHY) device comprises a first termination network, a switching transmitter, and a switching receiver. The first termination network communicates with a first network connector. The switching transmitter includes first and second outputs, which communicate with the first termination network and a second termination network, respectively. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080165795 - Device and method for processing data chunks: In a scheme for processing data chunks, MAC-PHY circuits are adapted to store data chunks of large data packets and to provide same to a shared memory unit across an interface controlled by a controller. A data transfer monitor is adapted to monitor the progress of such data provision and... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080165797 - Distributed determination of dynamic frame sizes 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 the total number of sub-channels in a given frame is dynamically determined based on a transmission schedule. Furthermore, the transmission schedule is calculated by the... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080165796 - Method for a heartbeat algorithm for a dynamically changing network environment: A method, article, and system for the dynamic determination of an optimal interval for the generation of a heartbeat signal by a device employed in a system with a dynamic timeout interval.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080165798 - Hardware-centric medium access control (mac) device: A hardware-centric medium access control (MAC) device. A control plane module is for providing control functions of the hardware-centric MAC device. A hardware media access plane module communicatively coupled to the control plane module is for performing real-time data communication functions without requiring a microprocessor.... Agent: Wagner Blecher LLP

20080165800 - Method and apparatus to provide dynamic cost of context switch to application for performance optimization: A mechanism is provided in the operating system for recording context switch times. The operating system, the application, or the resource also includes a mechanism for recording response times. At the time of a request, the operating system may compare an average context switch time to an average response time... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080165801 - Methods, systems and computer program products for importing data from an edge router to a network management system: Methods of importing data from an edge router including a plurality of interface types to a network management system include configuring the edge router to export a flat file containing the data at a designated time to a designated network device communicatively coupled to the edge router. The flat file... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080165799 - Systems and methods for dimming a first packet associated with a first bit rate to a second packet associated with a second bit rate: A method for dimming a first packet associated with a first bit rate to a second packet associated with a second bit rate is described. A first packet is received. The first packet is analyzed to determine a first bit rate associated with the first packet. Bits associated with at... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080165802 - Method for controlling the direct penetrate communication two parts of which are under the different nats and the device thereof: The present invention discloses a user device for implementing direct penetrating communication between a user device under a NAT and another user device under a different NAT and a method for the same. Detection message is sent to an auxiliary detecting device in an external network through a selected local... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080165803 - Method and apparatus for statistically multiplexing services: One aspect of the invention relates to statistically multiplexing first services and second services in a group. A measure of required bandwidth for the first services is obtained, where the first services comprise pre-encoded services. An available encoding bandwidth for the second services is determined from a group bandwidth for... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080165804 - Data transmission method, transmitter, receiver, transceiver and transmission system: A method of transmitting data includes generating interleaved data. The method also includes converting the interleaved data into a modulated signal, and transmitting the modulated signal. The interleaved data is also stored, for example, in a buffer. The method further includes determining whether a retransmission of the modulated signal is... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck

20080165805 - Node b based segmentation/concatenation: The disclosed method and processor include data-flow multiplexing, segmentation and concatenation at the Node B MAC Layer. Such a method and apparatus support higher throughput due to the reduction in latency.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080165806 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving multimedia broadcast multicast services via a dedicated downlink carrier: A method and apparatus for wireless communication of multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS) data and unicast data using separate downlink carriers and are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) having a single receiver that is switchable to receive either carrier is provided. A network station, such as a Node-B, preferably... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080165807 - Wide area peer-to-peer synching in a decentralized environment: A system and method are disclosed for synchronizing data between devices and more particularly for synchronizing data between a plurality of peer-to-peer devices in a decentralized environment where no one device stores the most “recent” or “true” version of the data. Embodiments of the invention relate concepts of discovering synchronizing... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20080165808 - Payload mapping in synchronous networks: There is disclosed a method of carrying frame based data, eg Ethernet data, over a synchronous digital hierarchy network in order to provide local area network type functionality over a wide area network coverage. Specific embodiments disclose methods of mapping Ethernet data frames into SDH virtual containers, and distinguishing start... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080159123 - Apparatus and method of multiple antenna receiver combining of high data rate wideband packetized wireless communication signals: The present invention provides an apparatus and method of multiple antenna receiver combining of high data rate wideband packetized wireless communication signals, where the apparatus includes M receive antennas, receiving M high data rate wideband packetized wireless communication signals, where each of the signals includes N frequency bins. The apparatus,... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20080159122 - Method and apparatus to support sdma transmission of a ofdma based network: Techniques are provided for efficiently optimizing scheduling and beamforming in an OFDMA-based wireless network that uses SDMA. The techniques are capable of achieving a high level of spectral efficiency and throughput in a low complexity manner while still addressing quality of service (QoS) constraints.... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, Llc C/o Intellevele, Llc

20080159124 - Method for redundant linking lines and wide area network node device: A WAN node device includes a failure monitoring unit that monitors failure in a first LAN-side input-output unit and a second LAN-side input-output unit. If failure in the first LAN-side input-output unit or the second LAN-side input-output unit is detected, failure is notified to a switching controller. Upon receiving a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080159125 - Network connection restoration method, aaa server, and radio access network gateway apparatus: A network connection restoration method of an IP communications system having a radio access network and using Mobile IP for managing the movement of a mobile terminal is disclosed. The network connection restoration method includes the steps of (a) an AAA server selecting a first one of multiple home agents... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080159126 - Multiring control method, node using the method, and control program: The invention enables protection of a ring frame transferred via an inter-ring bridge ring node when a fault occurs at the node in a multiring. Ring nodes form a ring protection domain to enable one ring node to be bypassed by using other ring nodes when a fault occurs at... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080159127 - Autonomous network, node device, network redundancy method and recording medium: In an autonomous network, one and the same routing protocol is employed in the network. An additional network which is an autonomous system dedicated to backup routes is added to an existing network which is an existing autonomous system, to thereby provide redundancy to the autonomous network. Part of traffic... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080159128 - Method and system for providing congestion management within a virtual talk group: A method for providing congestion management within a virtual talk group includes facilitating communication within a virtual talk group between a plurality of endpoints of different communication networks. The method also includes monitoring a communication congestion level within the virtual talk group and tracking at least one priority characteristic for... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080159130 - Network interface control program and network interface controller: A network interface control program for causing a computer including a plurality of network interfaces connected to a network repeater, includes detecting a traffic increase in each network interface; expanding a communication band by grouping a network interface in which the traffic increase is detected and another unused network interface;... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080159129 - Packet forwarding: Packet forwarding apparatus comprising an input for receiving packets; a packet classifier arranged in operation to read a class indication in received packets and in dependence thereon to pass packets to a class-based policer associated with the class indicated; a plurality of class-based policers, each operable to assign a provisional... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080159132 - Autonomic network connections: A method of selecting a network connection for use with a data processing system includes detecting environmental information indicative of a current environment in which the system is operating, determining whether the current environment is a known environment, and, rapidly selecting a current network connection by identifying a known environment... Agent: Lenovo (us) Ip Law

20080159135 - Hierarchical virtual queuing: A system and method of providing high speed, prioritized delivery of data packets over broadband communications networks that avoids inducing unwanted latency in data packet transmission. The system employs a hierarchical, real-time, weighted token bucket prioritization scheme that provides for fair sharing of the available network bandwidth. At least one... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080159131 - Method and apparatus for allocating bandwidth for a network: A method and apparatus for performing traffic engineering, e.g., allocating bandwidth, on a wireless access network are disclosed. For example, the method determines a number of subscriber stations (SSs) that a Base Station (BS) is capable of supporting in accordance with at least one performance objective for voice traffic, wherein... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080159134 - Method and system for gateway communication: Embodiments of a method and system for gateway communication are disclosed. A rate evaluator may be configured to receive a call packet. A quality of service (QOS) specification regarding routing of a local request may be generated for an application according to a business policy. The QOS specification may be... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080159133 - Method of providing wireless signal strength and congestion data of an access point: A technique for displaying both wireless signal strength information and congestion information related to the use of a wireless access point by a wireless node is provided. The technique may include the use of a graphical display. Further the technique may include the use a common icon to display both... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20080159136 - Methods and apparatus for predictive call admission control within a media over internet protocol network: A method includes receiving at an ingress session exchange device a call admission control (CAC) condition and a CAC value associated with an endpoint of a first egress session exchange device and CAC-related information associated with an endpoint of a second egress session exchange device. The ingress session exchange device... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080159137 - Rpr transmission route designation method and apparatus: An RPR transmission route designation method and apparatus in a system including a control device connected to an RPR having communications routes in both the counterclockwise and clockwise directions and connecting a plurality of RPR stations, wherein each RPR station sets a cleave point for discarding flooded RPR frames in... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080159138 - Methods and devices for providing ingress routing in selective randomized load balancing: The performance of randomized load balanced or selective, randomized load balanced networks is enhanced by using ingress traffic engineering in addition to randomized traffic splitting. By first using the capacity of all links leading to the final destination of traffic, the remaining capacity is freed up for best effort traffic.... Agent: Capitol Patent & Trademark Law Firm, Pllc

20080159139 - Method and system for a context manager for a converged services framework: A method, apparatus, and electronic device that facilitate the use of a converged service in a hierarchical network are disclosed. The method may include providing a converged service instance across a plurality of independent networks to an end user; selecting a hierarchical control sub-element using a context manager; and controlling... Agent: Prass & Irving LLP

20080159140 - Dynamic header creation and flow control for a programmable communications processor, and applications thereof: A method, system and computer program product for creating dynamic custom headers and for controlling flow rate of Downstream External Physical layer Interface (DEPI) packets are described herein. The method comprises concatenating or fragmenting a packet descriptor of a DEPU packet based on one or more of associated packet size,... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080159142 - Link access delay aware routing over mobile ad hoc networks (manets): The present invention provides a method and apparatus for routing a data flow from a source node to a destination node in a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET). The present invention performs this function by first determining a quantitative value for each link at a corresponding origination node, where the value... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP

20080159143 - Link signal-to-noise aware routing over mobile ad hoc networks (manets): The present invention provides a method and apparatus for routing a data flow from a source node to a destination node in a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET). The present invention performs this function by first determining a quantitative value for each link at an individual node in the MANET, where... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP

20080159141 - Load balancing for multicast stream processors: A load balancer is capable of receiving and identifying multicast streams associated with a multicast session, and selecting at least one of the multicast streams for delivery to a selected stream processor. The selected stream processor is selected from a group of stream processors that are capable of providing the... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080159146 - Network monitoring: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for monitoring data traffic on a network is disclosed. In an embodiment, this includes obtaining intrinsic data from at least a portion of the traffic, obtaining extrinsic data from at least a portion of the traffic, associating the intrinsic data with the extrinsic... Agent: Theodore A. Chen Emc Corporation

20080159144 - Quality of service aware routing over mobile ad hoc networks (manets): The present invention provides a method and apparatus for routing a data flow from a source node to a destination node in a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET). The present invention performs this function by first determining desired service requirements for an individual data flow to be forwarded to a destination... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP

20080159145 - Weighted bandwidth switching device: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes an apparatus that includes a plurality of ingress modules to receive packets from external sources and to store the packets in queues based on flow. A plurality of egress modules transmit packets received from the plurality of ingress modules to external sources.... Agent: Ryder Ip Law C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080159147 - Band management apparatus and band management method: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a band management apparatus that manages a communication band of a transmission path between data relay devices in a ring network comprises a hypothetical network management information storage unit that stores information on the communication band set for the transmission path for each... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080159148 - Communication performance measurement method: The present invention includes a designating packet transferring step, a measurement packet transmitting step, a measurement packet transmitting step and a measurement packet collecting step. The designating packet transferring step is a step of transferring a designating packet in a target section for a communication performance measurement in the communication... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080159149 - Prioritized bandwidth management method for switch: In a congestion state where a specific destination in a switch fabric is congested, high priority data is allowed to pass at a low delay or high throughput while in a non-congestion state where the specific destination in the switch fabric is not congested, full use of switching bandwidth is... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080159151 - Data-path dynamic link maintenance in mobile ad hoc networks: The method and mobile ad hoc network include the use of a plurality of mobile nodes. A main communication path is established from a source node through intermediate nodes to a destination node. Alternative communication paths are established among intermediate nodes defined as standby nodes to define a multipath communication... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080159150 - Method and apparatus for preventing ip datagram fragmentation and reassembly: The invention includes methods for controlling transmission of a plurality of packets from a sending device to a receiving device. A first method includes determining an expected path for a packet having associated with it a packet size, determining a Media Transmission Unit (MTU) size for the expected path, and,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080159153 - Method and apparatus for automatic trouble isolation for digital subscriber line access multiplexer: A method and apparatus for performing automatic trouble isolation for a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) used on packet networks are disclosed.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080159152 - Network protection via embedded controls: The present disclosure provides a method for providing network protection. A method according to one embodiment may include detecting an infected data packet at an in-line device. The method may further include receiving a first instruction from the in-line device at a central management server, the instruction identifying the origin... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, Pllc C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080159154 - Method and apparatus for providing automated processing of point-to-point protocol access alarms: A method and apparatus for providing automated processing of point-to-point protocol alarms over Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) networks are disclosed. For example, the method receives an alarm for a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) service over a Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) network and determines whether said alarm is related to a problem... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080159155 - Method and apparatus for providing trouble isolation for a permanent virtual circuit: A method and apparatus for providing trouble isolation for a Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC) on packet networks are disclosed. For example, the method receives an alert or a ticket for a Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC) down or a PVC degraded and starts a correlation window for said PVC and port... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080159156 - Path status monitoring method and device: In a path status monitoring method and device which can enhance or reduce a band more rapidly, for example, SONET frames FR serially connected over 32 frames to which frame Nos. FN (“0”-“31”)) are assigned are cyclically generated respectively for paths P0-P2 in a cycle TC (=64 ms). After output... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080159157 - Method for configuring a usb phy to loopback mode: A method is disclosed for configuring a universal serial bus physical layer interface (USB PHY) to loopback mode without operational mode control signals supplied by an external tester. Loopback mode control signals are provided to the USB PHY from within the ASIC. Programmable storage elements in communication with control inputs... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20080159158 - Method for testing a maintenance and materials management system: A method for testing an airplane maintenance system, which comprises the steps of: testing communications and data transmission between an aircraft operator and a management service provider; testing general communications and data transmission between internal systems of the management service provider; and testing communications and data transmission between the internal... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP And The Boeing Company

20080159163 - Communications control: A client and a host communicate in a packet data network including a plurality of routing nodes such as routers and firewalls. The host is configured to provide the client with a session and to detect the accessibility of the client by repeatedly sending keep-alive messages to the client. In... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080159161 - Method and system for inserting selelcted comfort signal: During communication over the network, periods of silence may exist. During these periods, the system may enable a user at a user terminal to select a type of comfort signal to be played. The system may monitor transmission to detect periods of silence. The system may adapt the monitored transmission... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080159160 - Method of dynamic persistance control in wireless communication: The present invention provides a method of wireless communication. One embodiment of the method includes determining a persistence parameter for at least one packet transmission based upon information indicative of a congestion level.... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Suite 1100

20080159167 - Monitoring control system, monitoring device, monitoring control method, and monitoring control program: A monitoring control system including a monitoring device to monitor communication data communicated between communication terminals via a communication infrastructure. The monitoring device includes an address conversion table for storing a transmission source address and a transfer destination address in a corresponding relationship; a transfer unit receiving the communication data,... Agent: Myers Wolin, Llc

20080159164 - Symbol rate testing method based on signal waveform analysis: A symbol rate testing method based on signal waveform analysis is provided. A signal with a plurality of quasi bits 1 and a plurality of quasi bits 1 is received and sampled within an acquiring time. Maximum values of the quasi bits 1 are obtained by calculating sampling values of... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080159159 - System and method for global traffic optimization in a network: The present invention provides a system and method for providing global traffic optimization for a mix of applications running at multiple locations connected by a WAN Various means are provided via WAN accelerator, edge shapers, and WAN bandwidth, route, QoS, and packet control to maximize application performance while minimizing cost,... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20080159165 - Technique of analyzing an information system state: A system for analyzing an information system connected between a plurality of information processors through a communication line, including: a capturing unit for capturing communication packets sent through the communication line; a first counting unit for extracting an attribute value representing communication attributes from each of the captured communication packets... Agent: Bond Schoeneck & King, Pllc

20080159166 - Transmission quality measurement apparatus, transmission quality measurement method, and transmission quality measurement system: A transmission quality measurement method for measuring the transmission quality of data packets received via a network. The method includes storing reference data packets into a storage unit, receiving data packets produced by use of the reference data, identifying, based on the reference data, a data area in the received... Agent: Myers Wolin, Llc

20080159162 - Universal plug-and-play latency and delay compensation: A Universal Plug-and-Play (UPnP) device (200) determines a latency and propagation delay period (LPDP) that is added to a UPnP network (100) response time, based on UPnP network (100) conditions. The UPnP device (200) transmits a search command when connecting to the UPnP network (100), and waits a period of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080159168 - Packet measuring system, packet measuring program, probe and packet measuring method: A packet measuring system and method for sending and receiving a test packet between a plurality of probes located in networks of different protocols. The system includes a packet sending unit for embedding communication information used for a transmission quality measurement in a payload field of a test packet and... Agent: Myers Wolin, Llc

20080159172 - Apparatus and method for preventing disruption of fibre channel fabrics caused by reconfigure fabric (rcf) messages: An apparatus and method for preventing the disruption of Fibre Channel Fabrics caused by ReConfigure Fabric (RCF) messages is disclosed. The apparatus includes a storage area network and a plurality of Fibre Channel Switches arranged in a Fabric. Each of the plurality of Switches includes logic to selectively configure their... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080159169 - Dynamic intelligent discovery applied to topographic networks: A method, system, and computer program product for discovering status of a network topology. A network management framework provides the ability to specify a method for determining how to gather status of a data processing system. A data gathering technique (DGT) may be dynamically adjusted to discovery or monitoring of... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080159171 - Method and system for creating and implementing zones within a fibre channel system: In a system comprising a first fabric and a plurality of devices coupled to the fabric by Fibre Channel connections, the devices are logically grouped to form configurations and zones. A configuration includes at least one zone, and each zone includes at least one device as a member of the... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.l.p.

20080159170 - Organizing communications in a network: A method and system suitable for use in organize communications in a network. The organization process optionally being suitable to facilitating nodal communications so as to minimize energy consumption and activity periods associated with nodal communications. The process being adaptable for use with any number of nodes, such as but... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c. / Sun / Stk

20080159173 - Method and system for determining a network topology: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method for creating a DWDM optical fiber network topology based on a set of demands associated with a region of interest. The demands may be placed on one or more rings in a DWDM optical fiber network based on several... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080159174 - Network system, spanning tree configuration method, spanning tree configuration node, and spanning tree configuration program: A node that configures a spanning tree over a network to which a plurality of nodes are connected generates a tree after a cost change using another LAN while continuing to operate the tree that existed before the change, and switches the tree that is used for forwarding after the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080159175 - Intelligent management of application connectivity: Network connectivity is selectively established by monitoring, on a client, communications activity incident to accessing a network, the communications activity including a request to access the network. An application associated with the communications activity is be identified. A communications configuration associated with the application is accessed, the communications configuration indicating... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080159176 - Structure for preventing starvation in a slotted ring data communications network: A design structure is provided for a slotted ring network, in which a node may transmit a non-renewable slot reservation with any unreserved slot. The reservation restricts other nodes from transmitting a new packet in the slot. When the slot returns around the ring to the reserving node, the slot... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept. 917

20080159177 - Adaptive method of floor control with fast response time and fairness in communication network: In a floor control system for a network, a floor control server controls a floor-based application for communications between multiple participant terminals. The server carries out a floor determination process that includes an adaptive waiting function. Upon receiving an initial floor request message, the server waits for additional requests before... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080159178 - Detecting devices in overlapping audio space: Devices are able to identify other devices in a shared audio space (e.g., a room) by emitting a signal and receiving messages from other devices over a data connection indicating which of the other devices received the emitted signal. Devices that are determined to be in the same audio space... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080159179 - Scalable conference bridge: In one embodiment, a conference bridge receives a call initiated by a first caller endpoint. The conference bridge identifies a conference to which the call requests entry and determines whether the conference bridge has available resources to process the call. The conference bridge enables the call to join the conference... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080159180 - System and method for a high reliability base layer trunk: A method for transport of high-priority, loss-sensitive data and other less loss-sensitive data between parties in a conference or communication session on an electronic communications network includes establishing a high-reliability connection between two points in the network using a connection technology or transport method that is different than that used... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080159181 - Cid-based and group-id oriented call-gating, information processing, message pre-emption and response-multiplexing for smartphones, tads and networks: A method of managing input/output/access options and caller greetings within a SmartPhone (or similar) environment. The method is based on grouping Caller IDs (CIDs) of like community, activity, achievement, interests or functionality. These groups are assigned a Group ID code (GID) conferring specific rights to callers through GID-profiles and menu... Agent: David Toms Anderson

20080159183 - Adapting transmission and reception time in packet based cellular systems: A first transceiver in a packet-based communications system is operated to achieve efficiencies. The transceiver comprises a receiver and a transmitter for bidirectionally communicating with a second transceiver. In various embodiments, data and control traffic scheduling enables several unrelated items to be bundled during single transmission and/or reception instances. In... Agent: Potomac Patent Group Pllc

20080159182 - Coordination of transmissions in wireless communications devices: Techniques for coordinating transmissions in wireless communications are disclosed. For instance, an apparatus includes a first transceiver, a second transceiver, and a control module. The first transceiver communicates across a wireless link of a first type, and the second transceiver communicates across a wireless link of a second type. Examples... Agent: Kacvinsky Llc C/o Intellevate

20080159184 - Transmission control method, mobile station, and communication system: Conventionally, there is a problem that a state transition of E-TFC changes according to QoS for descriptions of data to be transmitted, and therefore a mobile station's operation is not decided uniquely. To solve this problem, a transmission control method in accordance with the present invention includes a step of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080159185 - Feedback control in an fdd tdd-cdma system: Active control feedback between a base station and user equipment in a wireless communications network is achieved by allocating a first time slot within a frame for a UE to transmit a beacon signal to the base station, where the beacon signal is separate from data signals in the frame,... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080159187 - Cellular network low noise amplifiers for use with multiple frequencies: An amplification circuit that enables a network amplifier to amplify multiple mobile telephone signals transmitted at different frequencies. The amplification circuit includes a first diplexer which receives a first signal having a first frequency band and a second signal having a second frequency band. The first diplexer generates a combined... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080159186 - Content differentiated hierarchical modulation used in radio frequency communications: The present invention employs hierarchical modulation to simultaneously transmit data over different modulation layers using a carrier RF signal. Each modulation layer may be of a higher or lower order than the other modulation layers. Certain embodiments of the present invention may transmit different information on the different modulation layers.... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080159188 - Serial interface apparatus performing asynchronous serial data transfer using asynchronous serial communication method: A serial interface apparatus includes a first signal terminal sharing a data transmitting terminal and a second control signal terminal, a second signal terminal sharing a data receiving terminal and a first control signal terminal, and first to fourth buffer amplifiers. Upon receiving two types of second control signals different... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080159192 - Apparatus and method for forward link outer loop rate control using hybrid automatic repeat request in mobile communication systems: An apparatus and method for Forward link Outer Loop Rate Control (FOLRC) using Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) in a mobile communication system are provided. The method includes receiving information, which indicates success or failure in receiving a packet transmitted in a previous frame, from Mobile Stations (MSs); and decreasing... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080159194 - Communication system and method for establishing a connection to a serving network element: The invention relates to a communication system and method wherein a user equipment contains, or is provided with, a list of items of service-related information. The list of service-related information represents a list of service provider names, services and/or service types or the like. When intending to establish or modify... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080159193 - Conveying data between computing devices: Techniques are provided for conveying data between computing devices. In certain implementations, a system and method for conveying data between computing devices include the capability to, at a wireless terminal, generate a computer interface message containing peripheral device registration information, receive a computer interface message containing data for a peripheral... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080159189 - Wireless card and external antenna connecting device of the same: A wireless card includes a body, a circuit device, an adjustable antenna and an external antenna connecting device. The body includes an insertion portion and an outer portion connected to an end of the insertion portion. The circuit device is mounted inside the body. The external antenna connecting device is... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080159191 - Wireless communication and display system and method: A wireless communication method for information display devices is provided. The wireless communication method includes identifying a base station capable of transmitting display information directed to a first information display device and display information directed to a second information display device, identifying the information display devices capable of communicating with... Agent: Akin Gump LLP - Silicon Valley

20080159190 - Wireless transmission method, apparatus, and system: A wireless transmission system for transmitting aggregated data units from a first layer to a third layer comprises an apparatus. The apparatus includes a receiver and a processor. The system transmits the aggregated data units from the first layer to the third layer. A wireless transmission method, performed in a... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, Pllc

20080159195 - Integration of wired and wireless network connections: Embodiments of an integrated device comprising portions of wired and wireless network communication devices are presented herein.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080159196 - Method and system for controlling power in a communication system: A method and system for controlling power in a communication system are provided, in which a base station calculates a power control value for an mobile station based on feedback information received from the mobile station, transmits power control information including the power control value to the mobile station, measures... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080159197 - Network device and packet transmitting method thereof: A network device (20) for connecting an Ethernet terminal device (10) to a communication network (30) includes a database (23), a first transceiving module (21), a second transceiving module (26), and a destination address determining module (25). The database is used for saving a reference address. The first transceiving module... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080159200 - Apparatus and method for a repeater using a multi-antenna in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for supporting a relay service using at least two antennas in a wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes at least two antennas, each of the at least two antennas for receiving a signal, at least two factor generators, each of the at least... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080159198 - Boc signal acquisition and tracking method and apparatus: A BOC signal acquisition and tracking apparatus and method. In the present invention, at least a BOC signal, a BOC-cos signal and a PRN coded signal are generated for a received signal. Depending on application condition (e.g. acquisition mode or tracking mode), autocorrelation of the BOC signal is combined with... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080159199 - System and method for managing forward channel access using a reverse channel: A system and method for managing forward channel access using a reverse channel in a wireless communication system is disclosed. A repeater receives requests on a reverse channel to access a forward channel. Each request includes a priority. The repeater selects a request based upon the priority. The repeater then... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080159201 - Method for using a base station to selectively utilize b and d channels to support a plurality of communications: A method for using a wireless digital base station to receive, process and transmit a plurality of communications having independent data rates establishing a first communication channel having a first data communication rate to support a first communication; determining the data rate required to support the first communication; selecting one... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080159202 - Method and apparatus for reducing access latency in a wireless communication system: To reduce latency in accessing a wireless communication system, which is highly desirable for time sensitive applications such as push-to-talk call, a wireless device performs an overhead update procedure and a transmit clock synchronization procedure in parallel. The overhead update procedure obtains up-to-date overhead information from the system, such as... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080159206 - Mobile-originated to http communications: A mobile device-to-HTTP protocol gateway (MHG, or “MO Gateway”) which translates between Wireless Mobile Originated commands from an SMSC, and an application server on the Internet (i.e., a “web IP Server”). A wireless Internet gateway establishes communications with one or more relevant SMSCs using standard format SMPP commands, and the... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter Pllc

20080159204 - Techniques for lossless packet transition across basic service sets in wireless networks: An embodiment of the present invention provides a system, comprising a wireless station (STA), a first access point (AP1) operable to communicate with the wireless station, a second access point (AP2) operable to communicate with the wireless station, and wherein the STA is adapted to transition wireless communications from the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080159205 - Wireless communication apparatus: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a wireless communication apparatus including an aggregation frame creating section which creates an aggregation frame into which a plurality of MAC frames are integrated, a transmission section which transmits the aggregation frame to a destination apparatus, a reception section which... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080159203 - Wireless communications mode switching apparatus and methods: Methods and apparatus are described herein to provide for wireless communications mode switching in a MIMO communications system. Other embodiments may include a method for communicating through a MIMO channel that includes choosing a communications level for each of at least two communications mode, and calculating the spectral efficiency for... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080159214 - Apparatus: An apparatus including a data processing entity configured to estimate at least one group quality value of a first set of at least one group of sub-carriers and to estimate the at least one group quality value of a second set of at least one group of sub-carriers, wherein the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080159217 - Apparatus and method for gathering and reporting interference signal information between relay stations in multi-hop relay broadband wireless access communication system: An apparatus and method for gathering and reporting interference signal information between Relay Stations (RSs) in a multi-hop relay Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system are provided. The method includes receiving, from the RS, scanning information of neighboring Base Stations (BSs) and neighboring RSs, computing the resource allocation to be... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080159220 - Device, system, and method for broadcasting predefined reference maps for wireless communication: A method, apparatus and system for transmitting a data link descriptor or MAP signal describing sub-burst transmissions having a common number of resource units allocated thereto. The MAP signal may include the length of the common number of resource units allocated thereto and the modulation and coding schemes to be... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080159213 - 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..

20080159215 - Integrated scheduling and power control for the uplink of an ofdma network: Managing radio resources and power for OFDMA uplinks is disclosed in which a threshold transmission rate for the reverse link is used by base stations to compare against the achievable reverse link transmission rate of a particular AT within the sector serviced by the base station. When the calculated rate... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.l.p.

20080159208 - Method and apparatus for allocation of shared spectrum in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for allocation of shared spectrum in a wireless communication system uses a radio frequency (RF) beacon signal that is transmitted between access points of the wireless communication system. The information content of the RF beacon signal includes an identifier of the access point that generated the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080159207 - Method and apparatus for cognitive spectrum assignment for mesh networks: A node of a wireless mesh network assigns a radio frequency (RF) channel for operation by sensing an interference level in a number of RF channels, determining which RF channels are available for use and selecting the available RF channel having the best performance. The node then attempts to communicate... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080159219 - Method and apparatus for scheduling downlink packets in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for scheduling downlink packets in a mobile communication system are provided, in which a BS prioritizes MSs, while accounting for types of services provided to the MSs, generates one single-user candidate transmission format and M multi-user candidate transmission formats corresponding to a DRC value received from... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080159211 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving resource allocation information through bitmap in a mobile communication system using shared control channel: A method for transmitting/receiving resource allocation information in a mobile communication system using a shared control channel. The transmission method includes performing scheduling for resource allocation to a plurality of terminals; generating, in a bitmap, information indicating allocation/non-allocation of resources which are not sequentially allocated beginning from a particular terminal... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080159209 - Method and system for allocating channels in a wireless network: A method and system for allocating channels in a wireless network is provided. The wireless network includes a plurality of electronic devices organized into clusters. The plurality of electronic devices communicates with each other through a plurality of channels. The method performed by an electronic device includes scanning the plurality... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080159212 - Method and system of using a wireless link in the backhaul connection: One embodiment of the communication system includes a switch, at least one base station, and a backhaul connection including at least one wireless link connecting the at least one base station to the switch. The wireless link may include at least one of a WiMax carrier and a WiFi carrier.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080159218 - Method of efficient state transition in enhanced cell fach: A method of efficient state transition between CELL_DCH and CELL_FACH states is provided. According to the method, the transmission of configuration data through a physical data channel is reduced by using pre-configuration information or previously received/stored information for state transition. The indication regarding the use of pre-configuration information or previously... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080159216 - Method, apparatus, communications system, computer program, computer program product and module: The invention relates to an apparatus that receives a request for a radio connection and checks at least one of: subscriber information, a service request and terminal information. On the basis of the at least one of: subscriber information, service request and terminal information, the apparatus directs data to be... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, Llc

20080159210 - System and method for automatic channel selection: Automatic channel selection in a wireless network includes measuring throughput influencing factors for a plurality of wireless channels. A channel capacity metric is calculated for each of the plurality of wireless channels based on the measured throughput influencing factors. A serving channel is determined from the plurality of channels according... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080159230 - Bridge-based cellular ethernet system and handover processing method therefor: A bridge-based cellular Ethernet system and a handover processing method therefore are provided. In the bridge-based cellular Ethernet system, an HLR manages configuration information about network entities, and a plurality of Base Station Bridges (BSBs) are connected to a plurality of Base Stations (BSs), each BSB including a layer 2... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080159225 - Channel search method and system for vertical handoff in wireless network environment: A channel search method for a vertical handoff in a wireless network environment is provided, the channel search method including: collecting channel information from a first terminal which is provided with a wireless local area network (WLAN) service via a channel connection with a WLAN node; and determining a channel... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080159221 - Communication system, mobile terminal and access router: A new technique is disclosed, by which a mobile terminal after executing handover between subnets can quickly perform packet transmission to outside immediately after the handover. According to this technique, after deciding the execution of handover, MN (mobile terminal) 10 requests an external transmission address (link local address of an... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc

20080159222 - Duplicate address detection optimisation: Duplicate Address Detection Optimisation is achieved by allocating a temporary address to a mobile node by an access muter that it uses to receive time critical data whilst the conventional DAD process completes on An address generated by the mobile node itself.... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080159228 - Handover method, mobile node and anchor point device: The present invention relates to an improved fast hand over method for the mobile IPVv6. An anchor point device (20) sends information to a mobile node (10) comprising information of multiple candidate access routers. The mobile node sends a request for fast binding update to set candidate access routers (30,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080159229 - Method and apparatus for handover in a communication system: A handover method and apparatus in a communication system are provided. A serving Base Station (BS) alternately receives a target BS indicator and a downlink (DL) channel status from a Mobile Station (MS) at intervals of predetermined frames in a BS switching period for handover of the MS. The serving... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080159223 - Method and apparatus for maintaining call continuity between packet and circuit domains in a wireless communication system: The present invention provides a method applicable to a mobile unit operating using Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology and having a single radio interface. The method controls a handover from a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call to a Circuit Switched (CS) call. The method comprises providing a CS call... Agent: Terry D. Morgan Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.c.

20080159227 - Methods and apparatus for implementing proxy mobile ip in foreign agent care-of address mode: A method for implementing proxy mobile Internet protocol (PMIP) in mobile IP foreign agent care-of-address mode may include determining a home address of an access terminal. The method may also include communicating with a home agent in order to bind an address of the network node with the home address... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080159226 - Methods of handling coverage within a wireless communications system: A first pilot signal is transmitted at a first frequency for a first coverage area (e.g., an outdoor area). A second pilot signal is transmitted at a second frequency for a second coverage area (e.g., an indoor area). The first pilot signal at the second frequency is transmitted into a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080159224 - Subscriber of wireles system and operation method thereof: A subscriber of wireless system and the operation method thereof are disclosed. The subscriber includes a buffer, a scheduler, a modem, an MAP decoder, a bandwidth allocator and a PDU constructor. The buffer receives the output data from the upper layer unit thereof. The scheduler is coupled to the buffer... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080159231 - System and method for performing handover operation in broadband wireless access communication system: A system and method for performing a handover operation in a broadband wireless access (BWA) communication system. The BWA communication system includes a serving BS (Base Station),(Subscriber Station), and a plurality of neighbor BSs adjacent to the serving BS. The SS handover method upon receiving a handover request from the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080159232 - Enhanced cross-network handoff for mobile ip service mobility: A system and method are described whereby an enhanced handoff scheme provides for monitoring of mobile device conditions and network conditions associated with a current access network attachment, as well as with a plurality of access networks on a preferred access network list, to proactively initiate a handoff operation, thereby... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080159233 - Method and apparatus for managing buffers during transitions between heterogenous networks: A method and apparatus that enables a mobile device to seamlessly transition between packet-switched wireless networks to while maintaining access to a resource is described. The invention includes a delay measurement component, a buffer management component and a mobile device component. The delay measurement component actively measures downlink packet delays... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras LLP

20080159234 - Sending pilots on secondary channels for improved acquisition and handoff in cellular communication: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate enhancing acquisition and handoff in a wireless network deployment by leveraging primary pilots and secondary pilots. The deployment can support more than one frequency band for operation, yet a mobile device can receive signals on one frequency band at a given time. Thus,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080159235 - System and method for performing handover in a broadband wireless access communication system: Disclosed is a system and a method for controlling a handover of a mobile subscriber station in a broadband wireless access communication system. When serving base station determines to perform a handover of the mobile subscriber station, neighbor base stations to which the mobile subscriber station can be handed over,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080159236 - Assigning code space to portable base stations: In addition to other aspects disclosed, a portable base station requests assignment of a portion of a code space from a remotely located control station. The assignment is based upon the location of the portable base station. The portable base station is also capable of transmitting an identification signal using... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080159237 - Power reduction methods in enhanced transmitters and receivers: Whether a receiver supports blind data channel detection is determined, and transmission of control channel information associated with a data channel is disabled if the determining step determines the receiver is capable of detecting the data channel without the use of control channel information. Data is transmitted to the receiver... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080159238 - Transmission power control method, mobile station, fixed station, and communication system: When a mobile station transmitting a plurality of channels having different transmission timings such as a DPDCH and a HS-DPCCH in uplink measures transmission power over a transmission power measurement period with a slot of the DPDCH as a reference, the transmission timing difference between the channels affects the accuracy... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080159239 - Method and apparatus for multiplexing signals having different protocols: A method and apparatus for multiplexing a plurality of communication signals where the communication signals may operate using different protocols is provided. A communication node (102) that is a part of a communications system or network (100) is provided. The access point includes a transceiver (202, 204) for transmitting and... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080159245 - Determination of a network identity for a network access point: An apparatus (101) for accessing an access point of a Wireless Local Area Network, (WLAN) comprises an access message generator (207) which generates encrypted probe messages that are encrypted in response to a plurality of test network identities. The access message generator (207) is coupled to a WLAN transceiver (203)... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080159243 - Local wireless communications within a device: A radio transceiver device includes circuitry for radiating electromagnetic signals at a very high radio frequency both through space, as well as through wave guides that are formed within a substrate material. In one embodiment, the substrate comprises a dielectric substrate formed within a board, for example, a printed circuit... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080159244 - Method and system for subterranean wireless data transmission between at least one mobile station and a fixed network by means of a radio network: The invention relates to a method and a system, for subterranean wireless data transmission between at least one mobile station and affixed network by means of a radio network for the monitoring and control of subterranean moving machines. The fixed network comprises a number of fixed base stations embodied as... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.c.

20080159240 - Method of conducting a communications session using incorrect timestamps: A wireless LAN can be used to support audio communication sessions between wireless communication devices and wired communication devices both configured to operate according to the Internet Protocol. Both the wired and wireless communication devices generate and transmit frames of voice information over the LAN to each other and in... Agent: Robert C. Schluer

20080159242 - Personal area network implementation within an infrastructure network: A wireless device is capable of communicating within a local area network (LAN) and a personal area network (PAN) concurrently, using a single wireless networking module or circuit. A wireless access point within an infrastructure-based network is used to manage the creation, maintenance, and termination of PANs within the LAN... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, Llc C/o Intellevele, Llc

20080159241 - Routing optimization in a wireless network using ip packets to convey user information: An exemplary method implements route optimization in an IP telecommunication network that supports wireless mobile stations (MSs). IP address information related to packet flow for MSs is identified and stored in records at a local mobility anchor point (LMAP). The records are compared to determine matching pairs, i.e. records that... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina Llc

20080159246 - Data transmission in mobile communication system: An apparatus, comprising a data processing entity for processing a signal for communication in a first subchannel, in which first subchannel communication occurs simultaneously with one or more second subchannels using the same radio resource.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080159248 - Management method and an apparatus for reverse link in a multicarrier wireless communication system: In a reverse link management method in a multicarrier wireless communication system, an access terminal AT sends a Reverse Link Management Message to an access network AN. The Reverse Link Management Message carries information of the reverse link that the AT dropped. The AN sends the Traffic Channel Assignment Message... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080159247 - Measurement opportunities for a mobile unit operating with a switched beam antenna in a cdma system: Measurement opportunities are provided to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) operating with a switched beam antenna in a CDMA wireless communication system. The switched beam antenna is a smart antenna generating a plurality of directional beams and an omni-directional beam. The bursty nature of packet data transmission generates periods of... Agent: Michael W. Taylor

20080159249 - Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method: The present invention achieves a flexible and efficient use of frequency bands in a radio communication system in which all or part of frequency bands available in a cell is allocated respectively as frequency bands available in each of a plurality of regions in the cell. An allocation control unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080159251 - Mobile communication system and radio resources assigning method for the system, and base station: A mobile communication system including a base station which divides a transmission frequency band into a plurality of frequency blocks, and assigns radio resources to each mobile station for each of the frequency blocks, the base station including: a frequency block assignment information creation portion that creates frequency block assignment... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080159250 - Systems and methods for transmitting a transmission time interval signal with staggered reference signals: A method for transmitting a transmission time interval signal in a cellular network is described. A multiplexed data signal is received. A demultiplexer is applied to the data signal. The data signal from the demultiplexer is encoded. A linear transform is applied to the data signal. A plurality of uplink... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080159252 - Method of coordinated transmission for broadcast-multicast services in high data rate networks: A method is provided for coordinating transmissions from a base station in a high-speed wireless communications system. The method comprises targeting a transmission from a base station into a first sector of a cell during a first selected portion of a communications period; targeting a transmission from the base station... Agent: Terry D. Morgan Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.c.

20080159254 - Apparatus and method for assigning resources in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for assigning resources to perform communication in a base station of a wireless communication system that assigns persistent resources and transmits a packet using the persistent resources are provided. A user buffer stores user data to be delivered to a terminal. A controller assigns the persistent... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080159253 - Method to increase link quality in multihop system: A method, apparatus, and electronic device for improving link quality in a multihop system are disclosed. The method may include reading with a mobile system a first transmission between a base system and a first relay system; reading with the mobile system a second transmission of an altered first transmission... Agent: Prass & Irving LLP

20080159255 - Emission power control for packet transmission: A method of transmitting data packets in a radio system between and emitter and a receiver. A nominal emission power for a data packet is determined according to a desired reception quality. The data packet is transmitted with an effective emission power. A new nominal emission power defined according to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080159257 - Methods and apparatus for reducing undeliverable server-initiated ip traffic in a wireless network: A host server is operative to control the pushing of user data messages to a plurality of mobile communication devices adapted to communicate in a wireless communication network. In particular, the host server is adapted to cause, for each one of the mobile communication devices operating in the wireless communication... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20080159256 - Outdoor hardened exo-modular and multi-phy switch: The present invention relates to a data distribution device comprising of a core electronics suite having at least two data ports where each port is in communication with its own network transport medium. At least two broadband transceivers, each in communication with its own broadband data port, enable sending and... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20080159258 - Enhanced coexistence beacon protocol (ecbp) for precise intercell synchronization of overlapping wireless base stations: A method for synchronizing overlapping cells covered by different base stations include obtaining a propagation delay between a first base station and a second base station, scheduling by the first base station a selected one of first users located in a first cell covered by the first base station to... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080159260 - Fibre channel over ethernet frame: A Fibre Channel over Ethernet (“FCoE”) frame format allows a Fibre Channel (“FC”) base frame to be transmitted and routed through an Ethernet network. In one implementation, an FCoE frame includes SCSI information represented in a FC frame to which is prepended an FCoE header. The FCoE header/FC frame combination... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, Llc

20080159259 - Routing method, transceiver station and computer program for carrying out the method: A transceiver station (10) forming a node of a telecommunications network, e.g. an ad hoc sensor network, comprises means (11) for receiving a request originating from another node of the network, means (19) for determining a delay as a function of a routing metric associated with the station, and means... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080159271 - Communication system and method: A method of establishing communication between a first and second user over a communications network, the second user being associated with contact information for at least one destination node. The method comprises allocating the contact information for the at least one destination node an identity from a set of available... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080159266 - Determining pairings of telephone numbers and ip addresses from caching and peer-to-peer lookup: A method for a first device to communicate with a second device over a public computer network includes detecting a user dialing a telephone number of the second device and searching a pairing list for a pairing including the telephone number and an IP address of the second device. If... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20080159270 - Integrated phase lock loop and network phy or switch: A node in for connection to a synchronous packet network includes a packet switch and a physical interface for connection to the packet network. A phase locked loop arrangement for synchronization is integrated into the physical interface, the packet switch or both.... Agent: Marks & Clerk

20080159263 - Integrated support for internet service providers: A switching center of a wireless communications network, the switching center comprising an internet gateway node integrated therein for accessing user information internally within the switching center and arranged to use the user information for at least one of: provision of services to an internet service provider from the wireless... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080159269 - Internet telephone set with additional function to reproduce sound differing from sound based on general internet telephone, and internet telephone system including such internet telephone set: An internet telephone set includes a receiver receiving a first radio signal converted from an audio signal corresponding to video to be displayed at another device and a second radio signal converted from an internet telephone signal, a control unit selecting the first or second radio signal, and an audio... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20080159267 - Method and system for inserting comfort signal in reaction to events: During communication over the network, periods of silence may exist. The system may enable a user at a user terminal to determine one or more events that trigger the addition of a comfort signal. The system may monitor packet transmission to isolate the one or more events. The system may... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080159268 - Methods and apparatus for controlling signaling associated with a private branch exchange within a session over internet protocol network: A method includes receiving a media signal at an interface device in communication with and disposed between an Internet Protocol private branch exchange (IP-PBX) and a first endpoint. The media signal is associated with the first endpoint and is associated with a session established between the first endpoint and a... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080159265 - Point-to-point communication using upnp protocol: A first device in a first local area network (LAN) searches for a first Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) enabled router with a first public network address. If found, the first device obtains the first public network address of the first router and configures a first mapping table of the... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20080159272 - Providing telephony services using intelligent end points: A system includes telephony devices that provide services and applications through the execution of scripts in web pages.... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080159262 - Routing calls in a network: A method includes receiving a session initiation protocol (SIP) invite message and identifying a particular service associated with the SIP invite message. The method may also include identifying a destination for the SIP invite message using status information associated with a number of servers and forwarding the SIP invite message... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080159264 - Routing of voice internet protocol packets to a selected processor: Methods and apparatuses for routing voice Internet Protocol (IP) packet to a selected processor are described herein. The methods may include initially receiving at a digital baseband receiver of a device a plurality of IP packets. After receiving the IP packets, the digital baseband receiver may determine whether the IP... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c.

20080159261 - System and method for processing calls to voip devices using the called party's email address: Systems and methods are disclosed for system for processing calls to a SIP or VoIP device using the called party's Email address in which a call redirect server component is provisioned with the called party's Email address and VoIP or SIP device address, and a DNS system is updated with... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080159275 - Ipt x11 mediation layer and process: The present invention discusses a method and apparatus for providing customer information, such as a physical address etc., to a call destination, such as a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), over an Internet Protocol (IP) communication link. A mediation layer maintains a table tracking information such as IP address, physical... Agent: Raman N. Dewan Jackson Walker, L.l.p.

20080159273 - Method and apparatus for facilitating migration from an analog network to a voice over internet protocol network: This invention relates to a method and system to migrate users from analog phone lines to VoIP connections on a per line basis. The method and apparatus mechanizes the multi-element network changes required for real time per line migration. All of the network elements are accessible from a single device.... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080159274 - Method and apparatus for improved routing necessitated by network element replacement: A method and apparatus for improved routing necessitated by network element replacement are provided. The contemplated system and technique control routing updates on a variety of systems, including target and legacy systems, during switch replacement on the public switched telephone network (PSTN). The routing changes are coordinated between multiple network... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080159276 - System, apparatus, and method for establishing circuit-switched communicaitons via packet-switched network signaling: A system, apparatus and method for establishing circuit-switched (CS) communications in packet-switched (PS) multimedia networks such as IMS, and providing services via the PS networks to CS domain users. A dialog is established between terminals through the PS multimedia network. A service is provided to at least one of the... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, Llc

20080159277 - Ethernet over fibre channel: A network architecture provides Ethernet services over a Fibre Channel (FC) storage area network infrastructure. The fabric provides transparent bridging services to Ethernet end stations connected at the edge of the FC fabric via multi-protocol switches that support Ethernet over Fibre Channel (EoFC) technology. An Ethernet frame is received from... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, Llc

20080159278 - Multiplexer to transmitter interface protocol: Multiplexer to transmitter interface protocol. A method for a data interface protocol is provided that includes receiving a first packet stream having at least one overhead information symbol (OIS) group and at least one multicast logical channel (MLC) group, and mapping each OIS group to an OIS descriptor packet and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080159283 - Communication control apparatus, communication control method and communication control program product: A communication control apparatus includes: a storage device, an input device, an output device, a communication control apparatus, a main storage device and a processor (CPU). The CPU includes an address segmentation unit, a weight detector and a connection controller. The address segmentation unit splits a received packet, the weight... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080159284 - Communication control unit and communication control method applied for multicast-supporting lan: A multicast processing section constructs, when it is determined that a received packet is a packet on a multicast packet and multicast group management protocol, a table showing a correlation between a host device and a multicast group in a port number-multicast physical address correlation storing section as well as... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080159280 - Event handling within multi-modal short range wireless networks: A method, apparatus, and electronic device for achieving simultaneous communication between multiple protocols are disclosed. The method may include receiving with a telecommunication device a first message on a first communications network using a first communications protocol; simultaneously receiving with the telecommunication device a second message on a second communications... Agent: Prass & Irving LLP

20080159282 - Mobile ipv6 network system and method for forwarding packet in the system: A home agent in a mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) network system. The home agent is constructed with a home address table including home addresses of a plurality of mobile nodes and binding cache entry indexes corresponding to the home addresses, a next-hop entry table including a plurality of... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080159281 - Systems and methods for providing hybrid communication in a transit environment: Embodiments of systems and methods include an access point onboard a vehicle configured to communicatively connect one or more computers on the vehicle to a path-based communication line. The communication line is adjacent to, or on, a defined path, and connects the vehicle to a connection point to a metropolitan... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, Llc

20080159279 - Unified interfacing for dvb-t/h mobile tv applications: Transmitting data in a digital video broadcasting for handheld (DVB-H) receiver comprises a transport stream (TS) demultiplexer adapted to extract internet protocol (IP) datagrams from TS data packets; a packet identifier (PID) filter adapted to extract the TS data packets based on the PIDs of the TS data packets; a... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080159286 - Contextualized broadcast message channel for activity-centric collaborative computing: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to broadcast messaging in a collaborative environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for contextualized broadcast messaging for activity-centric collaborative computing. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of contextualized broadcast messaging for activity-centric... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080159285 - Method and apparatus for improved multicast routing: The invention includes a method and apparatus for transmitting packets in a network comprising a plurality of nodes. A method includes encapsulating a packet intended for at least one of the nodes where the packet is encapsulated using a bit set, comparing the bit set of the packet and a... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080159289 - Dynamic address redemption by proxy in statically addressed wireless personal area networks: Described herein are one or more implementations for a mesh, peer-to-peer, cluster-tree, hierarchical wireless personal area network (WPAN) technology that uses a new approach to the static network address allocation scheme. As described herein, the new approach employs dynamic redemption or reallocation of free addresses from existing static allocations to... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080159287 - Efficient performance monitoring using ipv6 capabilities: The present invention provides a method for obtaining and reporting performance information on node-to-node data transfers, i.e., network hops, based on integrated capabilities in Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), specifically extension headers. The performance of a (real-time) data flow is monitored between a source-destination pair by inserting specific information in... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP

20080159293 - Entry compression/decompression method and apparatus performing an entry compression and decompression: An entry compression/decompression method for use in a packet relay apparatus carrying out flow identification based on an entry of a flow table describing a pattern of a packet as a subject of flow identification, comprising the steps of judging whether a new pattern to be registered in the flow... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080159291 - Method of detecting transport leaks in hybrid switching networks: A communications network component comprising a processor configured to implement a method comprising processing a frame, wherein the frame comprises a forwarding type associated with the frame. Also disclosed is a communications network component comprising a processor configured to implement a method comprising receiving a frame associated with a destination... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c.

20080159290 - Method of preventing transport leaks in hybrid switching networks: A communications network component comprising a processor configured to implement a method comprising receiving a first data structure comprising a first VID and a first forwarding type, determining whether the first data structure supersedes a second data structure comprising a second VID and a second forwarding type, and replacing the... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c.

20080159292 - Method of routing data packets in a communication system: A method of routing a data packet in a communication system includes receiving a data packet at a first communication party operating in accordance with a first protocol. The method also includes adding a header to the data packet to produce modified data packet, the header including an identifier identifying... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080159294 - Methods and apparatus for routing packets: In a first aspect, a first method is provided that includes the steps of (1) providing a pointer that includes a first keytype field and a second keytype field; and (2) assigning a value to the second keytype field of the pointer based on a tabletype field of an updated... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law

20080159288 - Traffic engineering and fast protection using ipv6 capabilities: The present invention provides a method for traffic engineering and fast protection of individual data flows using capabilities supported by IPv6. By utilizing IPv6 extension headers and flow labels a specific network route based upon quality of service (QoS) requirements of a data flow can be selected by a source... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP

20080159295 - Stream recording method, apparatus, and system: A stream recording method, apparatus, and system. When a packet loss is detected in packets constituting a stream while the stream transmitted from a server is recorded, the lost packet is retransmitted so as to be inserted into a specific portion of the recorded stream. Therefore, it is possible to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080159296 - Method of transmitting data through mobile communication equipment and mobile communication equipment utilizing the method: The invention provides a method for transmitting data through mobile communication equipment. The mobile communication equipment has a first communication mode and a second communication mode. In the method, it is first determined whether the mobile communication equipment is required to transmit the data by the first communication mode or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080159297 - Method and apparatus for hierarchial scheduling of virtual paths with underutilized bandwidth: A method and apparatus are provided for implementing hierarchical scheduling of oversubscribed virtual paths with underutilized bandwidth that works for both ATM (cell) and IP (frame) scheduling. A scheduler includes a first calendar for pipes and autonomous flows and a second calendar for pipe flows. A winner of a pipe... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept 917

20080159298 - System and method to provide multiple private networks: A system and method are supplied to provide multiple private networks. The system can include an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) interface configured to receive a plurality of data stream types from a cell switched network. A plurality of local area network ports can be configured to communicate data to local... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080159299 - Methods and systems for providing controlled access to the internet: Novel, Internet-related architectures, methods and devices are proposed that are based on a fundamentally different philosophy: hosts (e.g., source and destination nodes) are given the ability to specify their access control policies to the network they are a part of, and the network enforces these policies. The architecture proposed is... Agent: Capitol Patent & Trademark Law Firm, Pllc

20080159300 - Ring node apparatus: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a node apparatus used in at least part of nodes in a network formed by a plurality of nodes coupled in the shape of a ring, comprising: a working node function performing unit for performing functions as a working apparatus that selectively drops... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080159304 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating multi-media service in an ethernet network: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating performance of multi-media, and other communication, services at an Ethernet network. A bridge provides communication control operations at the Ethernet network. Audio-video bridge domains are defined at the network. Service discovery messages generated by communication devices of a particular domain are forwarded only... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080159301 - Enabling virtual private local area network services: The present invention provides a method for interconnecting a plurality of local area networks that are each communicatively coupled to one of a plurality of provider edge nodes. The method includes forming a plurality of tunnels to communicatively connect each of the plurality of provider edge nodes with each of... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.c.

20080159312 - Global reachability in communication networks: A method for handling connections of a first node located in a first network having a private address space is described. The method comprises receiving a service query for requesting a service concerning the first node from a second node, the service query comprising a global identifier of the first... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080159306 - Intelligent alg functionality in networks supporting endpoints performing network address translation: In one embodiment, a signaling message is received from an endpoint. It is determined from the signaling message whether, prior to sending the signaling message, the endpoint performed network address translation on the body of the signaling message. If it is determined from the signaling message that, prior to sending... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080159313 - Interworking policy and charging control and network address translator: A system and method set specific communication parameters, with the method including identifying a communication relay for allocating addresses. A STUN communication relay can be directed to a specific type of communication such as IMS-specific communication. The communication server ID information is then transmitted to a network, with the communication... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080159308 - Method and apparatus for linking identification data to a call in a network: A method and apparatus for linking caller identification data to a call that originates from a virtual private network is disclosed. Steps relating to the method receiving a call, including an identifier at a mobile switching center. The identifier would identify a termination point that initiated the call. The method... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080159314 - Method for bridging network protocols: Methods and apparatus for bridging network protocols are disclosed. A protocol bridge may be used to function as a target for a network processor while performing a target mode operation, while functioning as an initiator on behalf of the network processor while performing an initiator mode operation. In one embodiment,... Agent: Law Office Of Gerald Maliszewski

20080159311 - Method of providing data: ii. the first PEJ and second PEK nodes are arranged to communicate with one another such that the other of the nodes can provide data to the second network if a fault is detected, wherein the communications between the first and second node allow a fault to be detected.... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080159302 - Network communication equipment with pppoe bridging function: A method is provided for a telephone gateway device to bridge a local area network (LAN) equipment and a broadband modem to a wide area network (WAN). The method includes starting a PPPoE server process to establish a first PPPoE connection to the LAN equipment connected at a LAN interface... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20080159307 - Networking architecture for efficient communication between different types of home networks: A method is described that involves performing the following between first and second appliance networks: receiving a packet from the first appliance network; removing header information for the first appliance network from the packet; and, sending the packet's payload into the second appliance network without having appended any header information... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080159310 - Packet control apparatus, authentication server, and wireless communication system: A packet control apparatus 106 includes 3G authentication server communication means 201 for receiving a switch notification of a terminal switched from a mobile communication network to a WLAN network by conducting communications with a 3G authentication server 108 for performing network authentication processing; terminal address determination means 202 for... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080159303 - Regional service by phone: A method is provided to communicate regional services to a telephone gateway device over a public computer network. The method includes a distribution server sending a list of entities offering a desired service in a desired region to the telephone gateway device. The list includes probability parameters that the telephone... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20080159309 - System and method of mapping between local and global service instance identifiers in provider networks: A method of using a domain-global Service Instance identifier at the boundaries between networks is disclosed. The method performs Service VLAN identifier to Service Instance identifier mapping function within a provider bridge when transmitting a service instance across a provider network.... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c.

20080159305 - Virtual private communication devices and techniques: Virtual private communication devices and techniques are presented. A communication device includes a virtual private service that can be activated on the communication device with proper credentials associated with a private account. Once activated, the communication device is configured with settings, profiles, and call logs associated with the private account.... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20080159315 - Ring network with variable token activation: An apparatus including a ring network, a plurality of nodes on the ring network to act as senders, a node on the ring network to act as a receiver, the receiver having receiver logic to place a token on the ring, the token further having an indication of an activation... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.c.

20080159316 - Channel allocation for wireless mesh networks: An example embodiment includes determining a cut of a graph to obtain a bi-partite sub-graph, where the graph represents a plurality of nodes and links between the plurality of nodes in a wireless mesh network. A channel is assigned to the bi-partite graph, and the obtained bi-partite subgraph is removed... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080159317 - Data organization and evaluation using a two-topology configuration: A computer-implemented method for organizing data in a two-topology configuration is disclosed. The method includes providing a plurality of nodes, each node including data relating to a corresponding object state, and linking each of at least one of the plurality of nodes to one or more associated sub-nodes that each... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080159320 - Layer 3 switch device and its control method: A layer 3 switch device of a first packet system in which a first packet in the communication flow is sent via a packet transfer portion to a CPU for retrieving the header information, including a plurality of first shaper queues provided corresponding to a plurality of virtual routers and... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080159319 - System and method for aggregation and queuing in a wireless network: A technique for improved throughput at an access point (AP) involves when frames are received for transmission by the AP, queuing the frames for a particular station. A system constructed according to the technique may include an aggregation and queuing layer. Station queues may be processed by the aggregation and... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080159318 - System and method for extending sessions: A system and method of managing computer sessions are provided. The preferred method opens a session (such as for access to a database) and creates a token that includes a session opening time and a measure of the session duration. If the token is used within a predefined time window... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080159322 - Network apparatus and control method thereof: An L2/L3 switch comprises a plurality of ports for transferring data and exchanges data between the ports. Information of the ports exchanging data is registered in a database stored in memory. A communication system detects reception of a specified signal. A CPU comprised in a router controls the L2/L3 switch... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080159321 - System and method for adaptively setting connections to input/output hubs within an information handling system: A system and method is disclosed in which a switch is located between the I/O hubs of the computer system. The I/O hubs are coupled to I/O devices of the computer system. The I/O hubs are also coupled to one or more processors via direct point-to-point communication links. The I/O... Agent: Roger Fulghum Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080159323 - Shared control channel structure: A shared control channel structure includes at least one control channel to be