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 configurat