Multiplex communications inventions 08/08

20080205258 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving map information in a communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving MAP information in a communication system are provided. A base station acquires channel quality information of each mobile station, generates sub-MAPs using MAP information, to which at least one of a coding scheme, a modulation scheme and a repetition scheme is applied,... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080205259 - Recursive equalization matrix for multiple input multiple output systems: A method for receiving a signal in a wireless communication system based on Multiple-Input Multiple Output (MIMO)—Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) through multiple antennas. In the system, weight for a zero forcing based equalization matrix is determined by inverting a channel transfer matrix for each subcarrier of the signals. The... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080205260 - System and method for transmitting data bursts in communication systems: Disclosed is a method for transmitting data bursts by a base station in a communication system, including forming one group which includes at least one subchannel and transmitting at least two data bursts having an equal transmission characteristic through each subchannel included in the group.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080205261 - Multi-hop booster: A two-way wireless repeater and booster system and method are disclosed. The system and method improve signal quality and strength for the middle hop of a three-hop repeater, between User and Network Units operating in the unlicensed bands (ISM and/or UNII), and supporting the cellular (or wireless) network communications channels.... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64046

20080205262 - Node controller and node system: A communication network including non-GMPLS nodes is treated as a virtual single GMPLS node by a GMPLS integrated controller, in which, when fault recovery is possible within the communication network including the non-GMPLS nodes, the fault recovery is autonomously performed. When fault recovery is unlikely to be achieved within the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080205263 - System and method for advanced fail-over for packet label swapping: The present method for advanced fail-over packet label swapping for a packet network having a working path and a protection path, each of the working path and protection path interconnected by a near-end switch and a far-end switch includes: provisioning the working path, protection path, near-end switch, and far-end switch... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080205264 - Redundant router set up: Methods, systems, and devices are provided for controlling the power level of voice signal streams. One embodiment of a network device having router functionality includes a processor, memory in communication with the processor, and program instructions. The program instructions can be stored in memory and executable on the processor to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080205265 - Traffic routing: A method may include forming a primary label switching path (LSP) from a first node to a second node, where the primary LSP has a path metric that is less than a predetermined value. The method may also include detecting a failure in the primary LSP and identifying a second... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080205266 - Data burst assembly apparatus and data burst processing method thereof: A data burst assembly apparatus includes a receiver to receive a packet from at least one source; a monitor to monitor a data traffic condition of a network; and a data burst generator to dynamically determine a value of a generation parameter for generating a data burst with respect to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080205268 - Admission control method and admission control system: An admission control method for determining a session admission probability with respect to a new session admission of a path, so that a bandwidth measured in the path and corresponding to a sum of bandwidth used converges to a vicinity of a specified target value, includes computing the session admission... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080205267 - Service differentiation in the ip multimedia subsystem utilizing context-aware signaling: A system and method for service differentiation enabling a user to express the level of importance of a session being established and change the level during the session while satisfying QoS profiles. An extension of the 3GPP IMS architecture includes a Session Prioritization Function (SPF) in communication with a S-CSCF... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080205269 - Method and system for rerouting traffic: A traffic rerouting method for rerouting traffic to be passed to a receiving end from an old path to a new path includes rerouting the traffic by reducing the amount of traffic passing through the old route while at the same time increasing the amount of traffic passing through the... Agent: Jackson Chen Nec Corporation Of America

20080205270 - Strategies for selecting a format for data transmission based on measured bandwidth: A strategy is described for transmitting data from a first entity to a second entity. The data is transmitted using a format that is selected to accommodate available bandwidth in a communication coupling that connects the first entity and the second entity. The first entity or the second entity can... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080205275 - Communication resource scheduling: In a method for scheduling communication resources, data-flow-specific information relating to a next scheduling period for a set of data flows is determined in a first entity. The determined data-flow-specific information is submitted to a second entity, where communication resource properties for communication resources are estimated. Communication resources in the... Agent: Robert M Bauer, Esq. Macdonald Illig Jones & Britton LLP

20080205277 - Congestion control in an ip network: Upon detection of an overload condition at a network element, the network element sends two messages to those other network elements which may potentially send request messages to the overloaded network element. If the network utilizes the SIP signaling protocol, then the messages sent by an overloaded network element are... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080205278 - Method for actively managing central queue buffer allocation: A method is provided for packet flow control for a switching node of a data transfer network. The method includes actively managing space allocations in a central queue of a switching node allotted to the ports of the switching node based on the amount of unused space currently available in... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.c.

20080205279 - Method, apparatus and system for accomplishing the function of text-to-speech conversion: A method, apparatus and system can accomplish the function of text-to-speech conversion using the H.248 protocol. The method includes defining the H.248 protocol extended packet by the media resource control device to make the H.248 message carry the extended packet parameter which includes the associated information of the text string,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080205273 - Network traffic monitoring: Systems, methods, and devices are described that monitor network traffic. One method includes monitoring a number of packets received by a network device based on a number of criteria to determine a flow of the packets. For each monitored packet for a particular source IP address/destination IP address pair, the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080205272 - Sliced tunnels in a computer network: In one embodiment, a sliced tunnel is signaled between a head-end node and a tail-end node. One or more fork nodes along the sliced tunnel are configured to furcate the sliced tunnel into a plurality of child tunnels of the sliced tunnel. Also, one or more merge nodes along the... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080205276 - Slotted aloha congestion control: A slotted Aloha communication system is provided according to one embodiment of the invention. The system may include a hub and a plurality of RCSTs. According to one embodiment, congestion control may occur at the RCST based in part on the number of segments received at the hub, the number... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080205274 - System and method for monitoring network traffic: A transceiver (110, 120, 130, 140) is provided, comprising: a receiver circuit (230) configured to process an incoming signal received over a transmission channel; a transmitter circuit (240) configured to generate an outgoing signal; a preamble detector (260) configured to monitor the transmission channel to determine whether a preamble or... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080205271 - Virtual connection route selection apparatus and techniques: Virtual connection route selection apparatus and techniques are disclosed. At a communication traffic routing apparatus, metric information associated with multiple different routes for a virtual connection, such as a PseudoWire, toward a destination is collected. The metric information may be collected from one or more remote route computation elements capable... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, Llc.

20080205281 - Scheduling synchronization techniques for wireless networks: Various embodiments are described relating to scheduling synchronization techniques for wireless networks. According to an example embodiment, a technique may include receiving a first bandwidth grant from a first wireless node, estimating a time of receipt for a second bandwidth grant from the first wireless node based on the receiving... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080205280 - Scheduling system and method in a hierarchical temporal memory based system: According to one aspect of one or more embodiments of the present invention, a system comprises: an HTM network executable at least in part on multiple node processing units (NPUs). In one embodiment the NPUs include one or more nodes, each of which can be executed by its NPU. In... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080205282 - Method for protecting the service flow and a network device: A method for protecting the service flow is provided, wherein a back path is preset between the source node and the destination entity, the method includes steps: A, the source node switches the service flow to the backup path and transmits the service flow to the destination entity through the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080205283 - Cost containment of mobile datalink communications: A method for transmitting messages over a datalink communication system is disclosed. The method comprises assigning each message a cost index value based on prescribed factors for at least one message transmission attribute of the message and transmitting each message that satisfies a select transmission attribute over at least one... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080205284 - Label switched path oam wrapper: Methods and devices for logically segmenting an LSP so that OAM DTUs may be used to determine the performance and/or the status of LSP segments. To segment a previously determined LSP, a dedicated subpath (a logical LSP) within that predetermined LSP is defined between two LSRs that are capable of... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080205285 - Remote network element testing in a broadband communications network: An apparatus is provided for remotely monitoring and testing network elements using a broadband communications network which may be a digital subscriber line network. One or more network elements may be in communication with a remote terminal device via a network gateway over the broadband communications network. The remote terminal... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080205286 - Test system using local loop to establish connection to baseboard management control and method therefor: A test system using a local loop to establish connection to baseboard management control is provided. The test system includes more than one host terminals having at least one network interface card (NIC) and at least one baseboard management controller (BMC) having one NIC. After establishing a connection for test... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080205287 - Apparatus and method for controlling the transfer of communication traffic to multiple links of a multi-link system: An apparatus for controlling the transfer of communication traffic to an interface having a group of links comprises a detector for detecting the sizes of data units to be transferred to the interface, and a controller for causing data units to be transferred to the interface, wherein the controller is... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, Llc.

20080205288 - Concurrent connection testing for computation of nat timeout period: Concurrent testing of NAT connections using different timeout values to compute a keep-alive value for the NAT device. Computation of the approximate timeout value is accomplished concurrently over multiple test connections within about a time equivalent to the actual NAT timeout value. The architecture validates the computation of the approximate... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080205290 - Device and method for qos based cell capacity dimensioning: The invention relates to a method and system for monitoring QoS criteria of Traffic classes of at least one cell in a telecommunication system, comprising means for setting thresholds, means for monitoring the traffic with regard to the thresholds for the at least two different traffic classes, and means for... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080205289 - Network and systems management monitoring tool: A method and apparatus for managing networks and devices on the networks. The method may include collecting information pertaining to the infrastructure of a network and devices on the network, and presenting a user interface that provides a view of the network and the devices using the collected information. In... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080205300 - Checking and repairing a network configuration: Disclosed is a technique for correcting a configuration problem. The configuration problem is detected. It is determined whether there is at least one solution for the configuration problem in a knowledge data store. When it is determined that there is at least one solution in the knowledge data store, automatically... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080205299 - Configuration of fibre channel san path: System and computer program product are provided to configure a path between nodes through a fabric in a fibre channel storage area network (SAN). A node name is provided for a target node on the SAN and a port name is provided for each port in the target node. A... Agent: Law Office Of Dan Shifrin, Pc - Ibm

20080205295 - Creation of organizational hierarchies in a group-centric network via handshake mechanisms: Exemplary systems and methods for creating organizational hierarchies in a group-centric network are provided. In exemplary embodiments, a request to establish a new group within an organization on the group-centric network is received by the group-centric network host. The group-centric network host then determines if the request if from an... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080205292 - Detection of asymmetric network routes: Route asymmetry is detected in a network by running a route tracing program to trace routes between a first element of the network and a second element of the network. The route tracing program need be run at only a single network element, such as the first network element. Forward... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080205297 - Ip multicast delivery apparatus, content delivery system, and ip multicast delivery method being employed therefor: The present invention is an IP multicast delivery apparatus for relaying the content, which is delivered from the multicast delivery server with the IP (Internet Protocol) multicast, to the premise apparatus, comprising: managing unit for managing a dependence relation of the content between the multicast groups; and controller for stopping/restarting... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080205298 - Point to multipoint crosslink: A communication network comprises a first central digital subscriber line (DSL) unit having at least one application port and a plurality of DSL ports; a first remote DSL unit having at least one application port and at least one DSL port, wherein the first remote DSL unit is communicatively coupled... Agent: Fogg & Powers Llc

20080205291 - Smart pre-fetching for peer assisted on-demand media: A “Media Sharer” operates within peer-to-peer (P2P) networks to provide a dynamic peer-driven system for streaming high quality multimedia content, such as a video-on-demand (VoD) service, to participating peers while minimizing server bandwidth requirements. In general, the Media Sharer provides a peer-assisted framework wherein participating peers assist the server in... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080205294 - Synchronisation in a communications network: A communications network and corresponding method comprising topology means for detecting the topology of the network means for detecting the timing status of each node and for providing to at least one node of the communications network information on the detected topology of the network and timing status and for... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080205301 - System and program for selecting one of multiple paths to communicate with a device: Provided are a system, program, and data structure for selecting one of multiple data paths to a device. A selection is made of one of multiple paths indicated as enabled to transmit data. A path is indicated as enabled or disabled. Transfer time data is gathered for each enabled path... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080205293 - Time scale separated network management and network provisioning optimizations: A communication network is configured to implement time scale separated management and provisioning optimizations, for example, in a core optical network coupled to multiple data networks. Network management optimizations are performed at respective points in time separated by intervals of a first time scale, and network provisioning optimizations are performed... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080205296 - Vlan-based data packet transmission and ethernet bridge device: The present invention provides a VLAN-based data packet transmission method and an Ethernet bridge device. The method includes: learning a member port corresponding to a VLAN according to a data packet received by an Ethernet bridge device, and storing a correspondence between a VLAN and the learnt member port; and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080205302 - Preventing data traffic connectivity between endpoints of a network segment: Various systems and method of preventing data traffic connectivity between endpoints of a network segment are disclosed. One method involves receiving a segment protocol message from a first segment port within a network segment, which includes a plurality of network devices. In response to receipt of the segment protocol message,... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080205303 - Frame transmission apparatus: An apparatus including a first interface unit configured to perform frame communication processing with a ring network; a second interface unit configured to perform frame communication processing with a different network; a processing unit configured to convert a frame of a first format from the different network to a frame... Agent: Myers Wolin, Llc

20080205304 - System and method for real-time communications over http: A node comprising a processor configured to support full-duplex communications with another node over a half-duplex communications protocol.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP/ea

20080205305 - Joint detection (jd) method for adjacent cells in tdd-cdma system: A method for performing multi-user joint-detection in a neighboring cell in a TDD-CDMA system presets slot types and includes: a network device configuring a slot type of each uplink slot in its administrated cells and a base station of each cell obtaining a slot type of each uplink slot in... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080205306 - Communication apparatus and control method thereof: There is provided a communication apparatus that includes: a data communication unit which performs half-duplex communication of video frame data with an external device on a video frame-by-video frame basis, a switching unit which switches a transmission direction in which the data communication unit transmits the video frame data, a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080205307 - Transmitting signals via at least two hannels simultaneously: A transmitter (10) of an apparatus (1) for transmitting signals via at least two channels simultaneously is provided with a data processing system (30), a first serial branch (20) comprising a first inverse Fourier transformer (40,42), a second serial branch (21) comprising a second inverse Fourier transformer (41), a digital-to-analog... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080205308 - Accurate control of transmission information ad hoc networks: In communication system (SYS) including a first network (IN) with at least a first terminal node (CN), and an ad hoc network (AHN) with at least a second terminal node (RN1-RN4; MN), and a gateway (GW), transmission information (TI) is forwarded between the first terminal node (CN) of the first... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080205316 - Communication apparatus, communication method and communication system: A communication apparatus includes an image information acquisition unit configured to acquire new image information to be transmitted to a display terminal through a wireless access point, a storage unit configured to temporarily store the image information, a decision unit configured to decide to change a state of a wireless... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p.

20080205310 - Communications system and protocol for medical environment: A communications system and protocol are described for wirelessly interconnecting a pair of bed and wall units that communicate the patient information, including bed exit alerts, from the patient supporting equipment to the hospital nurse call system. A linking procedure is provided for establishing a communications link to interconnect the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080205311 - Communications system and protocol for medical environment: A communications system and protocol are described for wirelessly interconnecting a pair of bed and wall units that communicate the patient information, including bed exit alerts, from the patient supporting equipment to the hospital nurse call system. A linking procedure is provided for establishing a communications link to interconnect the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080205312 - Method and device for establishing a secure route in a wireless network: A method for establishing a secure route in a wireless network as provided improves network efficiency. According to one aspect, the method includes receiving at a first node in the wireless network a route request message from a second node, where the second node and the first node have not... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080205314 - Methods and apparatus for increasing data throughput by grouping data packets into maximum transmissible units: A mobile communication device has a wireless transceiver and one or more processors for communicating data in a wireless communication system. The one or more processors are operative to receive a plurality of data packets of varying payload size in a queue; associate one or more of the data packets... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080205313 - Route optimization between a mobile router and a correspondent node using reverse routablility network prefix option: In one embodiment, a method includes generating by a mobile router a home test message that includes a prefix option field specifying at least one mobile network prefix claimed to be owned by the mobile router. The method also includes outputting the home test message by the mobile router to... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20080205309 - Virtual adaptation layer for wireless communication: A system for improving communication efficiency in a communication medium. In at least one embodiment of the present invention, communication efficiency in a wireless communication medium may be improved by routing communication packets to destination layers in a wireless protocol stack using a minimal amount of information. Communication packets may... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080205315 - Wireless communication method for replacing wireless device to perform wireless communication after receiving confirmation from user and image device thereof: A wireless communication method and an image device thereof are provided. The wireless communication method includes determining whether a second, already connected, wireless device exists, if a need to establish a connection to a first wireless device exists; requesting whether to release the wireless connection to the second device, if... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080205318 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing power optimization in battery powered communication devices: A method includes determining, based on a received network device resource allocation for an impending operational period, whether a power saving mode can be entered, and if the power saving mode can be entered, selectively controlling at least one of clock signals and power supply voltages of at least a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080205317 - Link establishment in a wireless communication environment: The invention relates to link establishment in a wireless communication terminal. In order to obtain flexible and low power connections between a wireless terminal belonging to a short-range wireless network and an external wireless communication device not belonging to that network, a protection frame is sent either from the wireless... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk

20080205319 - Method and apparatus for managing information of terminal exiting idle mode: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for managing the information of a terminal exiting idle mode mainly includes: deleting relevant information of the terminal retained in a paging controller and a location register of a wireless communication system when the terminal has exited idle mode. With the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080205322 - Method and apparatus for scheduling and synchronizing a multimedia braodcast/multicast service: A communication system provides, via a single, serving Node B, scheduling information required by a user equipment (UE) to determine a start time for each Node B of multiple Node Bs with respect to a multicast, by each Node B of the multiple Node Bs, of soft combinable MBMS data.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080205320 - Method and system for selectively communicating with mobile platforms: There is provided a method for selectively communicating from a remote system to a subset of a plurality of vehicles. Each of the vehicles is equipped with a first wireless communications device and a second wireless communication device. The method comprises broadcasting a common message from the remote system to... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080205321 - Radio frequency multicasting: A method for radio frequency multicasting and a multicast site architecture are provided. The method includes assigning a different traffic multicast Internet Protocol (IP) address to each of a plurality of groups of LMR users and encapsulating the LMR content within IP packets. The method further includes transmitting the IP... Agent: Brian C. Oakes Tyco Electronics Corporation

20080205323 - Apparatus and method for resource allocation considering buffering in relay wireless communication system: A relay wireless communication system is provided. A Relay Station (RS) includes a buffer for storing packets to be sent to at least one Mobile Station (MS); a scheduler for allocating resources to the at least one mobile station of which the packets are stored to the buffer; a generator... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080205324 - Networked communications and early warning system: A networked communications system comprising one or more integrated satellite based devices each for broadband digital signaling, one or more customized segment addressable cable assembly for terrestrial signaling in operable communication with the integrated satellite based device and a command console, the command console further comprising interconnectivity with public data... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080205325 - Method and system for association in relay network: A method and system for association in a relay network are disclosed; a neighbor Base Station (BS) receives a ranging request from an associated neighbor station and the ranging request is received by the associated neighbor station from an MS; the neighbor BS sends a ranging response to the MS... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080205326 - Communications infrastructure for content delivery using edge servers: A communications infrastructure, such as a public land mobile network (PLMN) complying with the GPRS standards, is described comprising at least a local support node for packet stream communication with a plurality of terminals and a gateway support node for packet stream communication with an external network, which may be... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080205332 - Hybrid proactive on-demand routing in wireless networks: Key scalability issues in the management of routing information at each node in wireless networks running a proactive routing protocol have been identified and a solution is set forth based on hybrid proactive on-demand routing with focus on the STA association information management at each MP in a WLAN mesh.... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080205331 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving system information in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving system information in a mobile communication system are provided, in which a System Frame Number (SFN) is transmitted as system information, and other system information, which excludes the SFN, is transmitted using resources different from resources used to transmit the SFN on... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080205328 - Method of scaling soft symbols of an uplink enhanced dedicated transport channel (e-dch) and method for enabling use of a log-map turbo decoding algorithm for processing the e-dch: A method of scaling soft symbols of an uplink E-DCH is provided, where the E-DCH is received from a user in a network for processing in a base station receiver in the network employing a log-MAP turbo decoding algorithm to process the E-DCH. The E-DCH includes an E-DPDCH from which... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080205329 - Method of scaling soft symbols of an uplink enhanced dedicated transport channel (e-dch) and method for enabling use of a log-map turbo decoding algorithm for processing the e-dch: A method of scaling soft symbols of an uplink E-DCH is provided, where the E-DCH is received from a user in a network for processing in a base station receiver in the network employing a log-MAP turbo decoding algorithm to process the E-DCH. The E-DCH includes an E-DPDCH from which... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080205327 - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for providing dynamic assignment of slot cycle index for network nodes: An apparatus for providing dynamic assignment of slot cycle index includes a processing element. The processing element may be configured to send a registration message to a server for registering a network node to a service associated with the server, to receive a response to the registration message from the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080205330 - Tokenized compression of session initiation protocol data: Systems and methods are provided for compressing and decompressing session initiation protocol (SIP) messages. A serializer and parser compress and decode SIP data structures according to a tokenized binary protocol. The compression/decompression protocol uses tokens that represent message elements of the internal data structures that define SIP messages. Tokens may... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080205334 - Apparatus and method for data transmission/reception in mobile telecommunication system: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for data transmission/reception in a mobile telecommunication system, and more particularly to an apparatus and method for data transmission/reception in a mobile telecommunication system employing an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) scheme. The method includes identifying a CHannel IDentifier (CH_ID), which represents a first... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080205335 - Data transmitting method for wireless communication system: A data transmitting method for wireless communication system applied in a transmitting device for transmitting a number of data packets to a receiving device is provided. Firstly, n data packets are transmitted to the receiving device during the first time period, wherein n is a nature number. Next, the first... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080205338 - Method and apparatus for allocating resources in communication systems: A resource allocation method and apparatus in a communication system having backward compatibility are provided. In a transmission apparatus, a determiner determines a first frequency band for transmitting wireless resource allocation information to a terminal from among the frequency bands supporting the communication system, a MAP generator determines at least... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080205336 - Method and apparatus for joint scheduling to increase frequency efficiency and fairness in a multi-channel distributed antenna system using frequency reuse and common power control: A joint scheduling apparatus and method for increasing frequency efficiency and fairness in a multi-channel distributed antenna system using frequency reuse and common control power. One of a Base Station (BS) or Relay Station (RS) are selected to transmit packets to a Mobile Station (MSs), taking into account Quality of... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080205337 - Methods and devices for allocating data in a wireless communication system: A system and method for identifying a resource region including a plurality of symbols, allocating pilot signals to the resource region, identifying pilot-free symbols free of the pilot signals in the plurality of symbols, arranging sacrifice carriers for a first region of a group of symbols in the pilot-free symbols... Agent: Akin Gump LLP - Silicon Valley

20080205333 - Uplink scheduling for fairness in channel estimation performance: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate mitigation of interference through uplink scheduling in a wireless communication environment. Access points can assign multiple terminals to a single tile or segment of shared resource (e.g., a time frequency region) to maximize the number of terminals supported. However, combinations of certain types... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080205339 - Auto-provisioning of a mobile computing device for operation with a wireless network: An automatic provisioning methodology for a mobile computing device in a wireless network is disclosed herein. The mobile computing device can support open communication with a wireless switch, which is configured to function as a load request proxy between the mobile computing device and a mobile services system on the... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.c.

20080205343 - Method and system for allocating sfid in a worldwide interoperability microwave access network: A method for allocating an SFID in a WiMAX network including an ASN and a CSN may include: establishing, by the CSN a service flow in response to a service flow creation request from an MSS, and sending the service flow to the ASN; and allocating, by the ASN, a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080205344 - Method, medium, and system for searching crossover router and method, medium, and system for reserving resources in mobile network: A method, medium, and system for reserving resources in a mobile network. A mobile node reports a start of a handover to a present access router if the handover of the mobile node occurs, and the previous access router transmits specified session information to a candidate access router that has... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080205340 - Neighbor discovery in a wireless system: Beacons may be grouped to facilitate neighbor discovery in a wireless network. For example, neighboring access devices such as IEEE 802.11 access points may cooperate to transmit beacons in a group. In this way, a wireless device seeking to discover the neighboring access devices may scan for the beacons for... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080205342 - System and method for handoffs between technologies: Systems and methods for providing a handoff between technologies are disclosed. An intra-technology handoff occurs where the same integrated chassis handles the session for the different access technologies. In an intra-technology handoff, the same IP address and the session can be maintained through the handoff. The mobile node can undergo... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080205341 - Terminal having sctp-based handover function and sctp-based handover method of the terminal: A terminal having a stream control transmission protocol (SCTP)-based handover function and an SCTP-based handover methods, the terminal including: a session management unit to initiate an SCTP session with a second terminal; a link layer information collection unit to store beacon signals in a link layer state information database; a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080205345 - Means and methods for improving the handover characteristics of integrated radio access networks: The invention provides a method for assisting handover of a user terminal's, UT's, communication session in an integrated multi RAT network, said method to be carried out by an RNCI being installed in said network, said method comprising the following steps:— receiving a “Handover Candidate” message comprising a message type... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080205349 - Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding control information in a mobile communication system supporting high-speed packet data transmission: A method for encoding a control channel to transmit high-speed packet data in a base station of a high-speed packet data communication system. The method includes encoding a User Equipment Identifier (UE ID) of a UE that will receive the high-speed packet data, and rate-matching the encoded UE ID to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080205347 - Distribution method of channelization code in code division multiple access system: The invention discloses a distribution method of channelization code in code division multiple access system, which including: A. the spread spectrum codes distributed to every sector and the correlated coefficients between the spread spectrum codes distributed to every neighbouring sector are calculated according to the cellular codes and the channelization... Agent: Lackenbach Siegel, LLP

20080205348 - Mapping uplink acknowledgement transmission based on downlink virtual resource blocks: An acknowledgment (ACK) mapping automation that reduces overhead for a wireless communication systems such as UTRAN-LTE, Global System for Mobile communications (GSM: originally from Groupe Spécial Mobile), High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), or any packet-switched system, by providing a mapping of uplink (UL) location (i.e., modulation location in time, frequency... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080205346 - Transmitter/receiver system with efficient memory management in rate matching processes: An embodiment of a telecommunication transmitter/receiver device is provided. The transmitter device includes: means for providing a set of words, each word including a plurality of digital symbols; a first memory area for storing the set of words, the first memory area including a first sequence of memory locations each... Agent: Graybeal Jackson Haley LLP

20080205352 - Communication between overlapping wran cells working in different channels: A common control channel for base station (“BS”)/consumer premise equipment (“CPE”) communication in areas of overlapping coverage by wireless regional area network (“WRAN”) cells operating on different working channels is disclosed. A common control channel is selected from among the various working channels sensed in each of a plurality of... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080205350 - Multiple wireless networks management: A multiple wireless networks structure comprising a plurality of beacon groups each comprising one or more devices communicating via an associated wireless network utilising a superframe structure; wherein each device of each beacon group allocates a local control period and one or more neighbor control periods in each superframe; wherein... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080205351 - Subcarrier spacing identification: A cellular communications system that utilizes OFDM in its radio interface is capable of utilizing either a first subcarrier spacing or a second subcarrier spacing. Which of these is presently in use is indicated by generating a first type of synchronization signal in response to the first subcarrier spacing presently... Agent: Potomac Patent Group Pllc

20080205353 - Generalized \" evenly distributed mas allocation\" policy to support low-power uwb applications: In order that media access slots MAS are allocated based on minimum latency requirements of, for example, not less than 4 ms, or on a medium utilization efficiency or power consumption requirement for a minimum reservation block length, both high-efficiency and low-latency schemes (or category) need to coexist within a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080205362 - Address resolution protocol-based wireless access point method and apparatus: A wireless access point (200), upon determining (101) that a need exists to support a communication need of a mobile station, acquires (102) a first Internet Protocol (IP) address and automatically transmits (103) a gratuitous Address Resolution Protocol message to a local router to thereby cause the latter to correlate... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080205360 - Balancing clusters of a wireless mesh network: An apparatus and method of propagating a size of a cluster within a wireless mesh network is disclosed. The method includes a gateway within the cluster maintaining information of access nodes within the cluster. The gateway determines a cluster size based on the maintained information, and transmits routing packets that... Agent: Tropos Networks

20080205364 - Method and system for configuring a frame in a communication system: A method and system for configuring a frame in a communication system is provided. The method includes determining a number of frames for configuring one multi-frame, wherein the number is at least two, and configuring each of the determined number of frames, wherein the determined number of frames include a... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080205354 - Method for initiating a wireless transfer of data between at least two electronic devices, electronic device and software program therefor: The invention relates to a method of initiating a wireless transfer of data between two electronic devices. In order to make the initiation particularly user friendly, it is proposed that a concept called “hugging” is employed. A hugging state between two electronic devices is assumed to be given if a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080205363 - Method for operating a voip terminal device and a voip terminal device: In one aspect, a method for operating a cordless VoIP terminal device in a private network is provided. The VoIP terminal device is authorized to access the private network. Data stored on the VoIP terminal device is assessable via a standard interface for facilitating data access only after the VoIP... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080205355 - Optimal path routing method in wireless network: An optimal path routing method is provided for transmitting data from a source node to a destination node. The optimal path setting method includes transmitting a shortcut request (SCRQ) message from the source node to a topology server; determining shortcut information at the topology server based on the SCRQ message;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080205359 - Transmitter with digital up conversion and multimode power amplifier: A voice, data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes a transmitter processing module, coupled to receive outbound data and to produce processed data in accordance with a selected one of a plurality of protocols and that generates a control signal based on the selected on of the plurality of protocols.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080205358 - Usage of network load information for rate adaptation purposes: The present invention provides a method and apparatus that features obtaining in a terminal, node, point or device information containing one or more indications about a network load of a wireless short-range communication network; and adjusting rate adaptation logic in the terminal, node, point or device based on the network... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080205361 - Wireless communication system and terminal: The present invention provides a wireless communication system and a terminal. A base station includes means that notifies terminals of an intensity of a received interference power. The terminal includes means that controls a transmission power for transmitting data to the base station, which is one of base stations and... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080205356 - Wireless wide area broadband coverage in a vehicular area network (van): The disclosure relates to techniques and technologies for providing mobile wireless broadband coverage. In one implementation, Wireless Wide Area Broadband (WWAB) network elements are provided in a Vehicular Area Network (VAN) that also includes a Mobile Network Controller (MNC). The WWAB network elements in the VAN include at least one... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080205357 - Wireless wide area broadband coverage in a vehicular area network (van): The disclosure relates to techniques and technologies for providing mobile wireless broadband coverage. In one implementation, Wireless Wide Area Broadband (WWAB) network elements are provided in a Vehicular Area Network (VAN) that also includes a Mobile Network Controller (MNC). The WWAB network elements in the VAN include at least one... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080205365 - Method and apparatus for coexistence: A method for coexistence of an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) receiver (117) such as a WiMAX receiver with a synchronous frame-based transmitter (115) such as a Bluetooth transmitter within a mobile station (110) receives an estimated media access protocol (MAP′) signal indicating when a MAP message is expected... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080205368 - Base station and mobile unit and method for controlling them: A base station and a mobile unit and method for controlling them can retransmit a request for transition without any useless transmission. The base station receives from the mobile unit a request for transition of the mobile unit to a semi connected state in which the mobile unit comes into... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20080205366 - Baseband chip and method to implement multi-mode switching for mobile terminal based on baseband chip: The present invention discloses a baseband chip and a method to implement multi-mode switching for a mobile terminal based on the baseband chip, the baseband chip of the mobile terminal in the present invention includes three subsystems of a source encoding/decoding subsystem 102, a wireless transmitting/receiving subsystem 101, a wireless... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080205367 - Reception apparatus, path detection apparatus, method thereof, and computer product used in cdma system base station: A reception apparatus used by a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system base station includes a path detection unit performing path detection on a selected user equipment. Also included is a deriving unit using the detected path timing to despread incoming signals from said selected user equipment and deriving one... Agent: Myers Wolin, Llc

20080205369 - Apparatus and method for power distribution by frequency allocation in multi-frequency allocation broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for power distribution by Frequency Allocation (FA) in a multi-band broadband wireless communication system are provided. The method includes detecting at least one of a loading value and a performance efficiency value by band, calculating a power distribution value by band using the detected value and... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080205370 - Method for controlling use amount of radio channel in ad hoc network and communication apparatus using the same: The method for controlling a use amount of a radio channel for transmitting a packet from a node in a wireless Ad Hoc network that employs a contention-based protocol includes (a) estimating a total amount of data transmitted through packet transmission from the node; (b) controlling a backoff time that... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080205371 - Enhanced polling method for preventing deadlock in a wireless communications system: A method of polling in a wireless communications system includes prohibiting polling within a predetermined period and triggering a poll function while polling is prohibited. After the predetermined period has expired the method determines that there are no protocol data units (PDUs) scheduled for transmission or re-transmission and that the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080205372 - Enhanced polling method for preventing deadlock in a wireless communications system: A method of polling in a wireless communications system includes prohibiting polling within a predetermined period and triggering a poll function while polling is prohibited. After the predetermined period has expired the method determines that there are no protocol data units (PDUs) scheduled for transmission or re-transmission and that the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080205373 - Method to determine timeslot duration in a tdma-based mac protocol for voip over wireless: What is described is an approach to assigning timeslots of appropriate duration when using a TDMA based MAC protocol for forwarding VOIP traffic. It is known that a typical user speaks only 35% of the time in a voice session. Existing VOIP systems exploit this fact and reduce the amount... Agent: Dennis L. Cook, Esq. The Law Offices Of Dennis L Cook Pllc

20080205374 - Pilot signal enhancements for a wireless communication system: In a method and apparatus suitable to convey timely information for facilitating accurate reception of transmitted data, a pilot signal is modulated to convey information. The information may facilitate efficient interpretation of an associated traffic signal. Modulation of a pilot signal frame may be limited to ensure early detection, and/or... Agent: Martin J. Jaquez, Esq. Jaquez & Associates

20080205375 - Secondary synchronization channel design for ofdma systems: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmitter, a receiver and methods of operating a transmitter and a receiver. In one embodiment, the transmitter for use in a base station of an OFDMA system and includes a primary module configured to provide a primary synchronization signal that furnishes a partial... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080205376 - Redundant router having load sharing functionality: Methods, systems, and devices are provided for load sharing among network devices. One embodiment includes a network device having router functionality, including a processor, memory in communication with the processor, and executable instructions stored in memory and executable on the processor to provide router functionality redundancy for another network device... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080205377 - System and methods for providing server virtualization assistance: An improved system and method for network switching that provides the ability to automatically and seamlessly migrate policies for network hosts under certain conditions to local or remote switch ports. The improved switch automatically migrates switch policies for virtual and physical hosts from a source port to a destination port... Agent: Matlock Law Group

20080205382 - Intelligent routing of voip traffic: A method of routing communications traffic includes receiving, at a switch or server of an originating service provider, incoming communications traffic including a terminating number or address. The switch or server is programmed to send a query to a transaction server for a carrier routing. The transaction server determines whether... Agent: Alfred W. Froebrich, Esq. Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080205384 - Method and apparatus for implementing a high-reliability load balanced easily upgradeable packet technology: A network is defined with several alternative softswitches/proxies, which may be used for communication. Each softswitch/proxy has a unique Internet Protocol (IP) address. The softswitches/proxies receive configuration data from a centralized user-profile server, which maintains user-profile information. A centralized call-detail record (CDR) server also is connected to each softswitch/proxy and... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080205383 - Method and apparatus for routing data: A method and apparatus for handling internet access telephone calls made via cable company telephone services. A head end data terminal receives cable signals and converts them into individual signals. An intelligent switch detects signals destined for an internet service provider and routes those signals on a separate path to... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20080205381 - Method for providing on-line charging and device and system thereof: The present invention discloses a method for providing an online-charging to solve a problem that a related charging can not be processed correctly for a service involving simultaneously a CS domain and an IMS. The method includes: not invoking an online charging for the user in the CS domain when... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080205380 - Switchboard for multiple data rate communication system: A switchboard device and methods of operation of same are disclosed. Embodiments of the invention may provide a flexible means of interconnecting wideband and narrowband communications interfaces, where wideband communications interfaces may transfer low-band data and high-band data, and narrowband communication interfaces may transfer low-band data. Low-band data may be... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080205378 - System and method for recording and monitoring communications using a media server: A communication system including a media server through which communication packets are exchanged for recording and monitoring purposes is disclosed. A tap is associated with each communication endpoint allowing for cradle to grave recording of communications despite their subsequent routing or branching. An incoming communication is routed to a first... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080205379 - Systems and methods for enabling ip signaling in wireless networks: Under one aspect, a system for transmitting an IP-based message from an initiator to a receiver lacking an IP address via a packet-switched (PS) network capable of communicating IP-based messages and a circuit-switched (CS) network capable of communicating non-IP-based messages, includes: a serving node in communication with the PS network... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080205385 - Data frame formats to improve groupcast efficiency in multi-hop wireless networks: Unified groupcast data frame formats are provided for improving the efficiency of groupcast communications in multihop wireless mesh networks, and significantly reducing bandwidth consumption. The unified groupcast data frame formats modify existing BSS data frame formats by inserting a mesh end-to-end sequence number into a field that is normally reserved... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080205390 - Diagnostic tool for troubleshooting multimedia streaming applications: In one embodiment, a method includes correlating, for each intermediate device associated with a Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) application that connects endpoints through a plurality of intermediate devices across a network, one or more first RTP segments input into the intermediate device with one or more second RTP segments output... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080205388 - Discovery of network devices logically located between a client and a service: Otherwise network-transparent devices that are logically located between a client device and a service device are discovered by sending a probe packet that has a destination address of one of the client or service but that specifies a discovery network port such as a port of the transport layer. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080205392 - Method and system for mobile network nodes in heterogeneous networks: A method and a system for creating a communications link between at least two mobile network nodes. A first and a second interface administration module generates look-up tables including available network interfaces of the corresponding mobile network node. Configuration data of the corresponding mobile network node is transmitted to a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080205391 - Methods and apparatus for self partitioning a data network to prevent address conflicts: Methods, devices and computer program products for self partitioning a data network are provided. A network device that is using an address of another network device is identified, the network is automatically partitioned to eliminate the potential conflict, and address conflict resolution is initiated. Partitioning the network may include closing... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080205389 - Selection of transrate and transcode processes by host computer: A host computer manages and processes multiple requests for transmission of media content to other devices within a network. Hardware or software-driven media processing units format media content for streaming to the network devices. A policy engine manages processing constraints of the media processing units to determine the best combination... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080205393 - System and method for routing packets in portable internet system: The present invention relates to a system and method of routing packets using an IP address in portable Internet, in which an individual IP address is given to a portable Internet terminal attempting to access the portable Internet via a certain radio access station, thereby routing packets without interruption of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080205386 - System and method of user-directed dynamic domain selection: A mobile device configured for communication in both packet and circuit switched domains. The mobile device includes a domain selector. The domain selector is configured, responsive to selection by a user of one of the packet switched and circuit switched domains, to promote mobile device communication via the selected one... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080205387 - Transmitting a packet from a distributed trunk switch: A method of transmitting a packet from a distributed trunk (DT) switch and a computer-readable medium storing instructions therefor is described. The method comprises receiving a packet from a device connected to the DT switch, transmitting the received packet via a non-distributed trunk port of the DT switch, and forwarding... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080205398 - Method for distributing calls to a group of end points: A switching apparatus distributes incoming calls to end point terminals that belong to a service group and that interact with the switching apparatus via messages. The messages query the end point terminals by specifying a range and asking those end point terminals that meet a criterion associated with the range... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080205397 - Method for forwarding multicast packets in a virtual private local area network service: A method for forwarding multicast packets in a virtual private LAN includes: the VPLS VSI monitors PIM messages received by the interfaces and configures the L2 multicast route according to the messages; then the VPLS VSI forwards multicast packets according to the L2 multicast route configured. With the PIM Snooping... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080205394 - Overlay join latency reduction using preferred peer list: The embodiments of the invention relate to application-layer multicasting, particularly to reduction of join/attachment latency of a node when joining a multicast group, by providing to a joining node a flat peer list and a preferred peer list which contains candidate node entries with recent available bandwidth information.... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, Pc

20080205395 - Receiving multicast traffic at non-designated routers: A multicast stream is received. At a non-designated router, a multicast stream is received with respect to which the non-designated router is not a designated router responsible for sending the multicast stream to a host. The received multicast stream is discarded.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James, LLP And Alcatel

20080205396 - Time-based authorization of internet protocol (ip) multicast subscription services: A switching device (e.g., router, bridge) provides time-based authorization of multicast services. When a message is received to request the delivery of a multicast service or a first message is sent to a multicast group, a subscription policy for the IP multicast subscription service is retrieved. This subscription policy includes... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20080205405 - Classification support system and method for fragmented ip packets: A wire-speed forwarding platform and method for supporting multifield classification of a packet fragmented into a plurality of fragments in the wire-speed forwarding platform, comprising: receiving a fragment of the fragmented packet at the forwarding platform and deriving a key from one or more fields of the received fragment; and... Agent: Paul K Mathews

20080205400 - Low deviation field modulation for transfer of information: An interface receives a packet stream associated with a source and a destination. The packet stream includes multiple packets, each packet including a header and a payload. A system generates a modulated stream for inclusion in the packet stream and performs a low deviation modification to a header field in... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080205404 - Method and system for implementing virtual circuit status consistency: A method and a system for implementing virtual circuit status consistency. A transmitting provider edge router (PE) send an extended network layer reachability information (NLRI) message to a remote PE; the remote PE updates the status of the virtual circuit from the remote PE to the transmitting PE, according to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080205399 - Method and system for routing in communication networks between a first node and a second node: A system and a method of transmitting information between a first node (3) and a second node (5) interconnected by communications networks (7, 9), the first node (3) sending data to the second node (5) at two different addresses so that said data sent by the first node (3) to... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080205403 - Network packet processing using multi-stage classification: Methods and systems for processing packets in data network using multistage classification are disclosed. An example method for processing packets includes receiving a data packet at a first processing stage and examining the packet at the first processing stage to determine a first attribute of the packet. Based on the... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080205402 - Network resource teaming on a per virtual network basis: A computer system teams its network resource ports on a per virtual network basis. The system configures one or more virtual networks. For each of the one or more configured virtual networks, the system establishes a team comprising two or more of the network resource ports. The system selects a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080205401 - Setting a forwarding address in an internet protocol version 6 (ipv6) routing protocol domain at a boundary with a different routing protocol domain: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a neighbor discovery message and a border routing message through an interface at a particular router. The interface communicates with a border network segment between first nodes routing with IPv6 using a first routing protocol and different second nodes routing using a different... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, Pllc

20080205407 - Network switch cross point: A switching fabric having cross points that process multiple stripes of serial data. Each cross point includes a plurality of port slices and ports. Each port includes a plurality of FIFOs, a FIFO read arbitrator, a multiplexer, a dispatcher, and an accumulator. In one embodiment, each cross point has eight... Agent: Foundry Networks, Inc. Legal Department

20080205406 - Recording medium having reception program recorded therein, recording medium having transmission program recorded therein, transmission/reception system and transmission/reception method: s

20080205408 - Transmitting a packet from a distributed trunk switch: A method of transmitting a packet from a distributed trunk switch and a computer-readable medium storing instructions therefor is described. The method comprises populating an address table of the distributed trunk switch. The method also comprises receiving a packet from a device connected to the distributed trunk switch and transmitting... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080205409 - Method and system of implementing virtual local area networks (vlans) with teamed communication ports: A method and system of implementing virtual local area networks (VLANs) with teamed communication ports. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising teaming a plurality of communication ports to form a single virtual communication port (the single virtual port comprising a first set of ports and a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080205410 - Asymmetrical forwarding in layer 3 ip vpns: A first forwarding instance is provided that includes a first set of routes. A second forwarding instance is provided that includes a second set of routes comprising a subset of the first set of routes. The first routing instance and the second routing instance are associated with a same virtual... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James, LLP And Alcatel

20080205411 - Atm network and method of operating thereof: An Asynchronous Transfer Mode network (100) comprising at least one ATM node (102-106) and at least one network element (108) is disclosed. The network element is adapted to carry out signalling and routing in accordance with Private Network-Network Interface, PNNI, protocol for at least a portion of said ATM nodes.... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080205412 - Multiple-instance meshing: One embodiment disclosed relates to a switching system. The switching system includes first, second, and third sets of switches. The first set of switches is configured with a first instance of meshing software such that the switches in the first set are members of a first mesh domain. The second... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080205415 - Access, connectivity and interoperability for devices and services: Among other things, in a network, a mechanism enables a resource that has a pre-assigned unique identifier and is not otherwise capable itself of being accessible on the network, to maintain a resolution record for the resource in an identifier resolution mechanism of the network where the resolution record associating... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080205414 - Call rerouting: A device and method for rerouting a communication from a first communication device to a second communication device includes a rerouting circuit. The rerouting circuit is operative to reroute a communication intended for the first communication device to the second communication device. Rerouting of the communication may be initiated by... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080205420 - Determining bidirectional path quality within a wireless mesh network: An apparatus and method for communicating link quality information between access nodes is disclosed. A first step includes a first access node transmitting first routing packets. A second step includes a second access node receiving at least one of the first routing packets over a first direction of a first... Agent: Tropos Networks

20080205421 - Fibre channel arbitrated loop bufferless switch circuitry to increase bandwidth without significant increase in cost: A switch, switched architecture and process for transferring data through an FCAL switch is disclosed. The switch uses multiple switch control circuits each coupled to one FCAL network and all connected to a crossbar switch. The switch control circuits are coupled together by a protocol bus for coordination purposes. Local... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080205416 - Flight control computers with ethernet based cross channel data links: According to an example embodiment, a method includes communicating between redundant Flight Control Computers (FCCs) using Cross-Channel Data Links (CCDLs) that operate in accordance with an IEEE standard Ethernet protocol.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080205417 - Method and apparatus for bridging wired and wireless communication networks: Method and apparatus for bridging wired and wireless communication networks are disclosed. The method includes interfacing with a wired communication network, and interfacing with a wireless communication network, where the wired communication network and the wireless communication network have different communication media for transmitting communication signals, and the wired communication... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080205419 - Residential gateway system for home network service: Disclosed herein is a Residential Gateway (RG) system for home network service. The RG system receives various supplementary services through a Home Network Serving Node (HNSN) that provides home network service. The system includes an Open Service Gateway initiative (OSGi) framework, an RG agent, a virtual Universal Plug and Play... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080205418 - System and method for avoiding duplication of mac addresses in a stack: A system and method of operating a set of stack elements that are stackable and connected to form a ring. In one embodiment, the stack Media Access Control (MAC) address is stored in each stack element of the ring; and responsive to an assessment that communication with a primary stack... Agent: Craig A. Hoersten Alcatel Lucent

20080205413 - System and method to trigger a mobile device in different domains based on unsuccessful initialization or handover: A system to promote communication in a second domain responsive to a failure in a first domain. The system includes a first domain for communicating, and a second domain for communicating. The system includes a rejection message and a mobile device. The rejection message transmitted upon a failure of a... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080205423 - Method and apparatus for communicating variable-sized packets in a communications network: Methods and apparatus for managing a packet buffer memory are disclosed. One method includes providing a memory arranged as a plurality of cells identified by cell id, each cell having a granularity of k individual memory addresses. A cell list indexed by cell id is provided. The cell list includes... Agent: Davis & Associates

20080205422 - Method and structure to support system resource access of a serial device implementing a lite-weight protocol: On-chip resources of a serial buffer are accessed using priority packets of a Lite-weight protocol. A priority packet path is provided on the serial buffer to support priority packets. Normal data packets are processed on a normal data packet path, which operates in parallel with the priority packet path. The... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20080205424 - Bifurcate space switch: A space switch includes a buffer having a plurality of serial inputs, a plurality of de-serializers, each coupled to a respective input, a plurality n of buffers and a media access controller having inputs coupled to the plurality of de-serializers, data outputs coupled to the buffers, and two control outputs... Agent: Henneman & Associates, Plc

20080205425 - Methods and devices for generating and forwarding translated mac addresses: The number of MAC addresses and corresponding tables that need to be stored to forward messages in a network is substantially reduced. Conventional MAC addresses are converted to translated (sometimes called “virtual”) MAC addresses using a new hierarchical format which redefines the conventional 48-bit, MAC label. Though the MAC label... Agent: Capitol Patent & Trademark Law Firm, Pllc

20080205426 - System and method for presenting media services: A system and method for presenting media services is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media system having a controller element that contextually associates a plurality of portals with a corresponding plurality of multimedia broadcast channels as an aggregated service offering.... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080205427 - Method for integration of network nodes: In a data communications network building automation system, integration of wirelessly communicating network nodes is visualized in a process environment on an output unit of a commissioning device. The current spatial position of the commissioning device is detected and represented in the visualized process environment by detecting an identification signal... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080205428 - Use of intelligent directed broadcast in contact center solutions: In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) receiving a new contact in a contact center, where the new contact includes an expressed need; (ii) forming a resource set in response to the expressed need of the new contact, where the resource set includes one or more prospective resources; and... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080205430 - Bandwidth control apparatus, bandwidth control system, and bandwidth control method: The present invention provides a bandwidth control system capable of controlling the transmission of data frames using a control frame including bandwidth information. A reception-side communication apparatus 21 transmits, to a transmission-side communication apparatus 20, a control frame including bandwidth information S213 for controlling the bandwidth of data frames transmitted... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080205429 - Channel assignments in carrier sense wireless networks: In a method for assigning transmission channels to links based on link-directionality in carrier sense wireless networks. The transmissions between two nodes of a link can be split into two channels based on their link-directionalities, one channel for transmitting traffic in one direction while the other channel for sending traffic... Agent: Ping Chung Ng St. Catherine's College

20080205431 - Network communication scheduling: A method to schedule network communications includes determining nodes within a network, forming a node list based on the nodes in the network, determining a network schedule of communications for the nodes based on the node list. Determining a network schedule includes determining a timeslot. Each node receives data during... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080205432 - Network-on-chip environment and method for reduction of latency: The invention relates to an integrated circuit comprising a plurality of processing modules (21, 23, M, S; IP) and a network (NoC) arranged for coupling processing modules (21, 23, M, S; IP), comprising: the processing module (21, 23, M, S; IP) includes an associated network interface (NI) which is provided... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080205433 - Method for immediate access to a random access channel: A method is provided for transmitting a message comprising one or more preambles and a message body from a user equipment device to a network entity. The method includes determining whether it is allowed to transmit a first preamble of the message to the network entity in an immediately available... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080205434 - Method, system, and storage medium for resolving contention issues during channel program execution: An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method, system, and storage medium for resolving contention issues by a channel in a fibre optic switch environment that occur during channel program execution. The method comprises a channel receiving a status packet indicating a device is no longer busy. The... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080205435 - Broadband communication network provided with media storage: A Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) is provided which comprises: a network side interface adapted to receive a plurality of communication signals conveyed along a broadband network: a storage means adapted to receive at least some of the communication signals, associate one or more corresponding priorities therewith, and store... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080205436 - Media converter: A method of using a digital subscriber link unit as a media converter, the method comprising coupling a first signal of a first type to a first port of the digital subscriber link unit, converting the first signal of the first type to a second signal of the second type... Agent: Fogg & Powers Llc

20080205437 - Multi-mode integrated circuit for use in optoelectronic devices: A multi-mode SerDes may be implemented in at least two different optoelectronic device architectures. The serializer includes a dual-mode bypass block for allowing data signals to go straight from input nodes to a multiplexing block or for decoding encoded data signals. A final dynamic high speed multiplexer multiplexes two data... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080205439 - Method and device for compensating for delays of a plurality of communication channels: A device and method for compensating for delays of a plurality of communication channels, provides signals with a certain frequency range, wherein the signals form standing waves in the plurality of communication channels; calculates phase differences between the plurality of communication channels according to the signal frequencies at the peak... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080205438 - Multi-bus structure for optimizing system performance of a serial buffer: A serial buffer having a parser and multiple parallel processing paths is provided. The parser receives incoming packets, determines the type of each packet, and then routes each packet to a processing path that corresponds with the determined packet type. Packet types may include blocking priority packets (which implement bus... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20080205441 - Data frame processing: A method and apparatus for bridging network protocols is disclosed. In one embodiment, a data frame is received and stored in a dual-port memory queue by hardware logic. An embedded processor is notified of the data frame once a programmable number of bytes of the data frame have been received... Agent: Law Office Of Gerald Maliszewski

20080205440 - Method and device for controlling the switching of at least one network-enabled device, particularly home appliance, from a first network access device to a second network access device: At least one network-enabled device, particularly a domestic appliance, is switched from a first network access device, that is connected to a communication network device, to a second network access device, that is to be connected to the communication network device, without manual intervention on the device which sends a... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080205443 - Bandwidth-allocating device and method: In the bandwidth-allocating method of the present invention for PON (: Passive Optical Network), a bandwidth is allocated from an optical line terminal to each optical network unit. The optical line terminal stores a bandwidth contract table for indicating a correspondence relationship between communication flow IDs and service quality parameters,... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080205442 - Method of allocation of resources for transmission of a data content, corresponding computer program product, storage means and device:

20080205444 - Method and system for managing simultaneous electronic communications: A method for performing simultaneous synchronous or asynchronous communications. A first communication channel is established between a first entity and at least one second entity and a second communication channel is established between the first entity and at least one third entity over the network. Then, data associated with the... Agent: Ip Authority, Llc Ramraj Soundararajan

20080205445 - Optimizing tcp traffic via an sctp association: In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) pre-configuring a stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) association; (ii) receiving a transmission control protocol (TCP) packet in a network device, where the TCP packet is intended for a destination node; (iii) encapsulating the TCP packet into an SCTP payload; and (iv) transmitting... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080205446 - Method and device for data transmission between two components moving relative to one another: In a method and a device for data transmission between two components moving relative to each other, a first of the components has a number of transmission segments arranged along the movement direction and a second of the components has receiver units arranged along the movement direction. The data to... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080205447 - Systems and methods for compressing packet headers: A system processes data units in a network. The system receives a data unit that includes a group of headers and suppresses one or more of the headers to form a reduced data unit. The system suppresses one or more other headers of the reduced data unit to form a... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20080205448 - Serial interface circuit and serial receiver: A serial interface circuit includes a plurality of serial transmitters for a plurality of channels, respectively; and a plurality of serial receivers provided for said plurality of channels and connected with said plurality of serial transmitters, respectively. Each of said plurality of serial transmitters transmits a serial signal. Each of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080205449 - Cross-link: A communication network comprises a first digital subscriber line (DSL) unit having a plurality of application ports and at least one DSL port; and a second DSL unit having a plurality of application ports and at least one DSL port; wherein the first DSL unit is communicatively coupled to the... Agent: Fogg & Powers Llc

20080205450 - High speed power line network connector and method for power line networking: A power line module and method. In a preferred embodiment, the power line module is adapted to couple to a power line outlet, which is provided on a power line network within a spatial region. A power line chip is within a housing. In a preferred embodiment. the power line... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080205451 - Transmission scheme for uplink access in a fdma system: Transmission scheme for the uplink of FDMA systems that improves performance in an interference-dominated system by using a pilot scheme that provides enough information so that channel estimates can be obtained for a particular user, but which at the same time makes it possible to use pilot patterns that are... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080205452 - Method and apparatus to support voip calls in an ieee 802.16 interface: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a connect control module adapted to receive a dynamic service addition message containing a reserved bandwidth amount of a reserved bandwidth allocation for an uplink service flow. The reserved bandwidth allocation is capable of accommodating two or more Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c.

20080205453 - Distributing a timing reference over a communications bus: On a communications bus, a relatively low frequency timing reference is distributed by regularly transmitting numbers that represent its instantaneous phase. An active framer component maintains a wrapping count of root superframes and, during each block, transmits in encoded form an expected value for the root superframe count at the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080205454 - Method and device for transmitting a serial data frame: A serial data frame has a payload data frame and a synchronization frame. In addition to transmitting payload data in the payload data frame, payload data is also transmitted in the synchronization frame. Special bit patterns are transmitted in the synchronization frame at predetermined times. The synchronization of the transmission... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20080205455 - Wireless communication system and communication apparatus: A data-transmission-side communication apparatus includes a mapping unit that executes a mapping for a data sub-carrier based on a multipath delay time in a transmission path and a guard-band adding unit that changes an amount of a guard band to be added to a signal on the data sub-carrier depending... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080198740 - Service take-over system of multi-host system and method therefor: A service take-over system of a multi-host system and a method therefor are provided, in which the multi-host system includes a service host and at least one standby host with their operating state monitored mutually via a heartbeat mechanism. When the service host for providing a service externally fails, an... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080198741 - Method for providing alternative paths as a rapdid reaction to the failure of a link between two routing domains: The present disclosure relates to a method for providing substitute routes in rapid response to the failure of a link between two routing domains in a packet-oriented network. After the failure of a link has been identified, substitute routes are provided for routes which have been interrupted by said failure... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080198743 - Data flow control for simultaneous packet reception: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, a module, and a system for calculating a credit limit for an interface capable of receiving multiple packets simultaneously. Generally, the multiple packets are simultaneously received at an interface on the second device, each packet being one of a plurality of packet types,... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080198742 - Method and system for testing stateful network communications devices: The testing of stateful network devices at near wire-speed operation is accomplished by a tester that delivers realistic client-side and the server-side traffic to stateful network device under test, where the realistic traffic can simulate legal packets of a plurality of TCP sessions that are expected to be transferred over... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080198744 - Access control for packet-oriented networks: The invention relates to a method for access control to a packet-oriented network. An admissibility check for a group of packets is carried out by means of a threshold value for the traffic volume between the network input node and the network output node for the flow. The transmission of... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080198745 - Dynamic multi-hop negotiations: Negotiation of RSVP reservations prior to the setup of a call, rather than negotiating reservation parameters during the call. RSVP reservation parameters are negotiated prior to ringing a device, rather than after. In some embodiments, this is achieved by including information in the initial call signaling elements. This added information... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080198746 - Switch fabric end-to-end congestion avoidance mechanism: Aspects of a switch fabric end-to-end congestion avoidance mechanism are presented. Aspects of a system for end-to-end congestion avoidance in a switch fabric may include at least one circuit that enables reception of a congestion notification message that specifies a traffic flow identifier. The circuitry may enable increase or decrease... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080198747 - Efficient ethernet lan with service level agreements: A method of controlling the flow of data packet traffic from a first point to at least two second point in an Ethernet telecommunications network having a multiplicity of nodes interconnected by multiple network links, comprises monitoring the level of utilization of a link between the first and second points,... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20080198748 - System and method for burst traffic smoothing for sip processing elements: A system and method for burst traffic smoothing for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) processing elements are provided. A dispatch queue management engine determines whether a received packet is a TCP or UDP packet. If the packet is a TCP packet, the packet is automatically added to the dispatch queue. If... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080198749 - Technique for handling service requests in an information handling system: A technique for handling a service request in an information handling system includes receiving, at a data link layer device, a packet transmitted from a client, the data link layer device including multiple ports. The packet is examined to determine whether the packet includes a first-type request. The packet is... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080198750 - Bandwidth control module and bandwidth control method thereof: A bandwidth control method is adapted for use in a network device having a system clock. The network device has a register for storing a transmittable data amount to control bandwidth. The method includes: calculating a number of elapsed periods of the system clock so as to change a counting... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080198752 - Data replica selector: A method is provided for selecting a replication node from eligible nodes in a network. A multidimensional model is constructed that defines a multidimensional space and includes the eligible nodes, with each of the dimensions of the multidimensional model being a system characteristic. A data availability value is determined for... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080198751 - Method for implementing cross-domain constraint routing: The present invention discloses a method for implementing cross-domain constraint routing, through setting in addition the border node identifier in the ERO sub-objects saved in ERO corresponding to nodes that a route will pass, this invention realizes the distributed calculation of the route. When calculating the path of cross-domain constraint... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080198753 - Network monitoring and disaster detection: A method of monitoring a network that includes a number of nodes interconnected by trunks has a step of obtaining processor usage data pertaining to a plurality of node processors, the processor usage data including information representative of a rate of usage of each of the plurality of node processors.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080198754 - Method and system for testing a communication network: A multicast test of an Internet Protocol (IP) network is performed with an initial multicast probing frequency. The multicast probing frequency of the multicast test is increased, and an impairment of the IP network based on the multicast test is detected based on the multicast test. Based on detecting the... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080198755 - Probing-based mechanism to reduce preemption perturbation caused by higher priority tunnel establishment in a computer network: In one embodiment, a routing node (e.g., a head-end node) determines a desire to route a selected tunnel (e.g., reroute), and computes a path for the selected tunnel. The routing node probes the path to discover information about tunnels that would be displaced by the selected tunnel if routed over... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080198756 - Method and apparatus for enabling the detection of transparent defects: The present invention enables the network to determine the true state of events that appear normal but produce service disruptions by periodically probing the status of all network elements and endpoints and comparing this status to historical graphs of the network. Events that deviate from a historical view will be... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20080198758 - Communication monitoring apparatus, communication monitoring method, communication monitoring program, and recording medium: A communication monitoring apparatus (100) monitors a network (130) to which a plurality of devices are connected with an IEEE1394 serial bus. An obtaining unit (111) obtains information that concerns a communication control parameter that is determined or managed by another device on the network. A determining unit (112) determines... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080198757 - Mechanism and system for programmable measurement of aggregate metrics from a dynamic set of nodes: A method for measuring performance of system. The method includes the steps of retrieving a metric definition from a declarative metrics specification, obtaining a list of computing nodes from a database that are currently assigned to the metric definition, obtaining resource data provided by the computing nodes in the list... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080198759 - Traffic analyis on high-speed networks: The present invention provides a traffic analyzing system on a communications link having analyzer circuits connected to each other by a number of links, where each analyzer circuit has a data rate lower than the data rate of the communications link, and are adapted to perform respective different levels of... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080198760 - Trained data transmission for communication systems: Various embodiments are described for a trained data transmission for communication systems.... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20080198763 - Changing a radio access configuration between a terminal and a network: A method of changing a radio access configuration between a terminal and a network. The network performs the steps of: initiating a new configuration that is related to an old configuration for the same terminal; informing the terminal to apply the second configuration; and determining when the terminal uses the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080198764 - Communication path allocating entity and method: A communication path allocating entity and method are described. The entity (10) comprises a receiver (11) for receiving session requests for requesting one or both of an establishment of a new communication session and a change in existing communication session between a network and one or more terminals (20), and... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080198762 - Cross-subnet-nodes subnet node device detection method: A cross-subnet-nodes network node device detection method is provided, including the steps of disposing a boot module in each network node devices in an arbitrary subnet of a network; activating the first subnet node device to be a registry server and recording its registry information; activating other network node devices... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080198761 - Decentralized network architecture for travel related services: A decentralized grid architecture is disclosed for a travel-related network. The system moves the functionality previously performed by a GDS down to the travel consumers' computing devices. The grid architecture may include travel consumers and travel service providers, as well as a grid manager for implementing the network. Cross-selling and... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080198767 - Method and system for determining a path between two points of an ip network over which datagrams are transmitted: A system, computer program and method to determine a transmission path of a datagram in an IP network from a source device to a destination device. The source device sends a datagram to an IP network device along the transmission path to the destination device. The datagram comprises as destination... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20080198766 - Network reconfiguration method and router: According to the method, when the network is separated into a plurality of partial networks each including at least one of the plurality of routers, each of the separated plurality of partial networks is reconfigured as a subnet so as to transfer packets between the each of the plurality of... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080198765 - Signal interconnection system: The present invention relates to a signal interconnection system (1) characterised in that it comprises at least a programmable central unit (2), a first plurality of peripheral units, connected to said at least a central unit, and suitable to store and/or manage and/or generating data and/or different signals, one ore... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080198768 - Management interface and tool for benchmarking optical network topologies: A management tool facilitating benchmarking of optical network topologies. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an identification of an optical network element, including network address information of the optical network element; receiving an identification of one or more optical network traffic generators, including access information of the optical network... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080198769 - Method and system for a low-complexity spanning tree algorithm in communication networks: Aspects of a method and system for a low-complexity spanning tree algorithm in communication networks may comprise preventing loops in a communications network utilizing a distributed sequential algorithm in which there is a single token. Only a network node in possession of this single token may disable a network port.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080198770 - N-ways conference system using only participants' telephony devices without external conference server: An n-ways conferencing system using only the participants' telephony devices and without an external conference server. A plurality of telephony devices dial in to and report their mixing capability to a connection topology manager. The connection topology manager also determines the location of each telephony device and neighboring telephony device... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080198771 - Method, apparatus or software for a multicast network for providing indications of active multicast groups to one or more multicast receivers: A method, apparatus and software is disclosed for enabling data receivers in a multicast network to access data indicating active multicast groups that may be joined.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080198772 - System and method for transmitter leak-over cancellation with closed loop optimization: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for transmitter leak-over cancellation. In one example, a method includes transmitting a signal via a transmit chain in a wireless device, where a portion of the signal leaks over into a receive chain of the wireless device. A portion of the... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss

20080198773 - System and method for transmitter leak-over cancellation: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for transmitter leak-over cancellation. In one example, a method includes transmitting a signal via a transmit chain in a wireless device, where a portion of the signal leaks over into a receive chain of the wireless device and generates higher order... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss

20080198776 - Apparatus for optionally supporting time division duplex and frequency division duplex in a wireless communication system: A Radio Frequency (RF) front-end apparatus in a wireless communication system is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of BandPass Filters (BPFs) for band-pass filtering a transmission signal or a reception signal, at least one circulator for dividing a signal transmission path and a signal reception path and at least... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080198775 - Reducing automatic gain control process in time division duplex communication mode: In TDD mobile networks, an incoming signal is received during a time period where no uplink communication takes place. The incoming signal is measured and analyzed to determine a noise level. Based on the noise level and on an uplink signal level from expected in a future uplink time slot,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080198774 - Superframe having increased data transmission efficiency: A TDD/TDMA wireless superframe includes a slot having a plurality of OFDM symbols. A guard time interval is arranged after the slot containing the OFDM symbols. There are a plurality of packets arranged subsequent to the guard time interval. A majority of the plurality packets comprise payload frames that are... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080198777 - 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

20080198778 - Audio communication device and methods for reducing echoes by inserting a training sequence under a spectral mask: Embodiments of an audio communication device and methods for reducing echoes are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, echo-reduction circuitry may insert a training signal into digital audio signals at or below a noise floor and in a non-audible portion of the frequency... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner / Infineon

20080198779 - Multi-channel communication device and methods for reducing echoes by inserting a training sequence under a spectral mask: Embodiments of a multi-channel audio communication device and methods for reducing echoes are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, echo-reduction circuitry may insert training signals into digital audio signals at or below a noise floor and in a non-audible portion of the frequency... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner / Infineon

20080198780 - Dynamic bandwidth sharing: A Dynamic Threshold Rule is provided for sharing of bandwidth of a shared medium between multiple devices. In one embodiment, a device determines a measure of available bandwidth of said medium; reserves bandwidth up to the available bandwidth; receives a request from a device for bandwidth of a specified amount;... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080198781 - System and method for a software-based tcp/ip offload engine for implementing efficient digital media streaming over internet protocol networks: A method of sending data through a network from a first computing device to a second computing device is described, where the computing devices adhere to a packet-based network protocol. A connection between the first computing device and the second computing device is established for a session according to the... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080198782 - Information communication device, information communication method, and program: In an information communication apparatus 100 of the present invention, in which both isochronous data and asynchronous data which are received by an IEEE 1394 receiving unit 210 based upon IEEE 1394 are transmitted by an IEEE 802.11 transmitting unit 300 based upon IEEE 802.11, the information communication apparatus 100... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080198783 - Method and system for improving bandwidth utilization over a fixed network: Bandwidth utilization over bearers in a fixed cellular network is improved by reducing the amount of data required to be transported. At each side of the bearer, data blocks (such as Iub blocks) are received and, prior to transmitting them across the bearer, they are analyzed to determine if they... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080198784 - Dynamical sequentially-controlled low-power multiplexer device: Multiplexers are basic components widely used in VLSI designs. Switching activities of a multiplexer are one of the most important factors of power consumption. A multiplexer may have some sub-multiplexers. An extra dynamic controller is applied in the present invention to reconfigure control signals for decreasing switching activities of the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080198785 - Methods and apparatus for cellular broadcasting and communication system: In a cellular wireless network, methods and apparatus are disclosed for a signal broadcasting scheme that can be individually augmented for users with poor reception. The network employs a first downlink channel (broadcast CH) for broadcasting data to all mobile stations (S1, S2, S3), a second downlink channel (regular CH)... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080198786 - Automatic repeat request (arq) communication system using physical layer monitoring: A communication system includes a plurality of nodes forming a wireless mesh network. A plurality of wireless communication links connect the nodes together. Each node is formed as a communications device having a physical layer and a media access control (MAC) layer in accordance with the Open System Interconnect (OSI)... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080198788 - Hybrid automatic repeat request system and method thereof in a communication system: A method to transmit a packet of a BS in a communication system using a HARQ scheme is provided. The method includes assigning resource for transmitting a packet to a mobile station, and transmitting a first packet to the mobile station using the assigned resource; transmitting timing information on which... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080198789 - Method and system for establishing cooperative routing in wireless networks: A system and method is presented for establishing relayed communications involving (1) sending a request message from a source node to a destination node through a plurality of intermediate nodes, (2) receiving the request message at the destination node, and (3) sending an acceptance message from the destination node to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080198787 - Mobile data object transmission over wireless communication networks using udp and two level protocol: Systems and methods for data communication between multiple computing devices, comprising: transmitting data through a selectable communication medium by constructing a frame for data, dividing the frame into TXU packets, dividing each TXU packet into UDP segments; grouping the UDP segments into windows; and sending each window to a second... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080198790 - Device and method for exchanging information over terrestrial and satellite links: A method includes: defining a first range determination window within a first frame in response to expected propagation delays associated with a transmission of signals over a satellite link from a devices located within a first area, and defining a second range determination window within a second frame in response... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080198791 - Satellite communications interoperability module and down-conversion method: A satellite communications interoperability module and method for frequency down-conversion. The module insertable in-line with an intra-facility link communicating a multiplexed signal between the outdoor unit (ODU) and the indoor unit (IDU). Electrical circuitry of the module transforming and forwarding the multiplexed signal over the intra-facility link, the multiplexed signal... Agent: Babcock Ip, PLLC

20080198792 - Apparatus and method for channel coding and multiplexing in cdma communication system: A channel coding and multiplexing apparatus and method in a CDMA communication system is disclosed. In the channel coding and multiplexing apparatus, each of a number of radio frame matchers (equal in number or greater than the number of transport channels) has a radio frame segmenter and segments each of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080198797 - Apparatus and method for multicast and broadcast service in broadband wireless access system: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for an MBS service in a BWA system. An apparatus of a base station includes a time controller, a CAC processor, and a buffer controller. The time controller manages a broadcast start time and a broadcast end time and generates a broadcast start message... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080198796 - Method and apparatus for enhancing system efficiency in a wireless communications system: A method for enhancing system efficiency of a user equipment, called UE hereinafter, in a wireless communications system includes operating in a Cell Forward Link Access Channel, called CELL_FACH hereinafter, state with a common High Speed Downlink Shared Channel radio network transaction identifier, called common H-RNTI hereinafter, and a dedicated... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080198795 - Method and apparatus for processing uplink data by drx-mode terminal in mobile telecommunication system: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for transmitting uplink data by a terminal performing a DRX operation in a mobile telecommunication system. According to the method and apparatus, when a UE transmits the uplink data, the UE variably controls given active and sleep periods in consideration of whether or not... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080198798 - Method and network apparatus for adjusting communication resources within a community: A method and a network apparatus for adjusting communication resources in a community are disclosed. When the topological structure of the community changes, e.g., when new base station joins or exits, and when the community combines or splits, each base station re-allocates the communication resources by using a uniform algorithm,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080198793 - Point to multipoint device for communication with a plurality of telecommunications units: A point to multipoint device for use in a wireless network to provide wireless communication with a plurality of telecommunications units is described, for communication from the point to multipoint device to the telecommunications units, the point to multipoint device being operable to employ multiple sets of beams, at any... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080198794 - Viral-like electronic data propagation: Data propagation is provided with an originating transmitter that receives and processes data into a data packet that it transmits. A sensory input device is connected with and sends data to the transmitter. A plurality of transceivers are disposed in a geographic space and may receive and retransmit the packet.... Agent: James E. Bartek

20080198803 - Apparatus and method for retransmitting data in a wireless communication system: A retransmission apparatus and method in a wireless communication system are provided, in which it is determined whether a retransmission signal exists, when channels for transmitting signals are changed to new channels, a channel is allocated to the retransmission signal, taking into account state information about the new channels, when... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080198801 - Channel selection techniques for wireless networks: Channel selection techniques for a wireless network are described. An apparatus may comprise a device to communicate information over a common wireless communication link. The device may include a channel selection module to select a channel pair comprising a high rate physical channel and a low rate physical channel based... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20080198800 - Method and apparatus for enhanced uplink data transmission: The present invention provides a method and apparatus used for enhanced uplink data transmission, comprising the steps of: monitoring the communication status of a plurality of UEs (user equipment) which conduct uplink data transmission in the RAN; receiving the data transmitted on at least one dedicated uplink channel from at... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080198799 - Radio communication system: In a wireless communication system using the contention method, collisions between transmission signals sent from terminals to a base station are avoided, and a communication area is flexibly formed while suppressing unnecessary radiation of the communication area. The base station includes antennas disposed such that wireless zones cover mutually different... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080198802 - Scheduling based on rise-over-thermal in a wireless communication system: Techniques for scheduling users for transmission on the uplink in a wireless communication system are described. In one design, a total load for a cell may be determined based on a rise-over-thermal (RoT) measurement. An in-cell load for users served by the cell may be determined based on uplink transmissions... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080198804 - Handover between an ieee 802.16 wibro network and a umts network using media independent handover function: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include an IEEE 802.16 modem, a universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) modem and a media independent handover (MIH) entity. Software application programming interfaces provide the MIH entity with mechanisms to receive information about IEEE 802.16 and UMTS links, control IEEE 802.16 and UMTS modems... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080198806 - Method and system for managing address prefix information associated with handover in networks: Method and system for managing address prefix information associated with handover in network. A fast handover process is achieved for point-to-point communication model. A mobile node send a provisional new care-of-address with an aggregate prefix part to its previous access router, which forwards the address to a new access router.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080198807 - Method, component and system for network-based handover: A method for handover in a network is provided. The method includes receiving a first message from a first access network device associated with a mobile node (MN) associated with a first access router. A second message is sent to a second access router associated with a second access network... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080198810 - Methods and apparatus for broadcast optimization in mobile ip: Methods and apparatus for supporting broadcast traffic in Mobile IP are disclosed. When a Mobile Node registers via a Foreign Agent supporting Mobile IP, the Foreign Agent receives a registration request from a Mobile Node and sends the registration request to a Home Agent. A registration reply received from the... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080198809 - Mobile network and handover method thereof: In a mobile network and a handover method of the mobile network, the uniqueness of an Mobile Station (MS) Medium Access Control (MAC) address is verified when the MS initially enters the mobile network, so that a Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) process may be skipped when the MS hands over... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080198805 - Optimized reverse tunnelling for packet switched mobile communication systems: A method and a server acting as a Home Agent are provided for packet switched data transmission between a first mobile node and a correspondent mobile node in a mobile communication system comprising a plurality of mobile networks. Each of the first mobile node and the correspondent mobile node are... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080198808 - System and method for performing handover in wimax mobile communication system: Disclosed is a system and a method for performing handover in a Worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) mobile communication system supporting broadband wireless access. The system includes a plurality of Mobile Stations (MSs); at least one distributed antenna having the ability to perform simultaneous communications with the plurality of... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080198811 - Wireless node search procedure: An access terminal scans for nearby access points and maintains a candidate list of access point with which the access terminal may associate in the event the access terminal's communication with its current access point deteriorates for some reason. This search procedure may be performed in a proactive manner whereby... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080198812 - Multicarrier and multirate cdma system: In a multi-carrier and multi-rate CDMA system, a base station transmits an index tag to a number of mobile stations. The index tag has a length indicating a transmission rate and all index tags are nodes in a code tree. In the code tree, mother nodes and their child nodes... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080198813 - Multicarrier communication system, and method and device for configuring carrier channel: The present disclosure relates to mobile communication technologies and provides a multicarrier communication system, and a method and device for configuring a carrier channel, by which the reverse carrier and the corresponding forward carrier may be allocated flexibly, various multicarriers may be configured, the service requirements may be met better,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080198814 - Mapping of shared physical channels depending on the quality of service class: A method, a base station and a wireless communication system are provided which allow to provide optimized Quality of Service to each of a plurality of services belonging to different QoS classes and different users, transmitted over shared physical channels. Data packets are assigned to service categories. To each service... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080198815 - Nearly collision-free channel access system and method: Techniques for controlling access to a communication channel for each of a plurality of nodes in a wireless ad hoc communication network. According to one embodiment, each node uses a predetermined rule, such as a hash function, to compute which of a plurality of time slots during a contention window... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080198816 - Multiple appearance protocol for timely organized ad hoc network: The present invention comprises a plurality of timely organized ad hoc data communications networks and a method for data communication. A network from the plurality of networks includes media-independent communications links and plurality of network nodes, where a network node in the plurality could be coupled to at least one... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080198819 - Concurrent ad-hoc and infrastructure connectivity for a wireless lan: A system and methods are disclosed for concurrent ad-hoc and infrastructure connectivity for a wireless local area network. The system comprises an infrastructure access point, an ad-hoc personal device, and a wireless terminal device configured to communicate concurrently with the infrastructure access point and the ad-hoc personal device. Furthermore, the... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080198820 - Location-based pattern for scanning for wireless local area networks: A mobile device having a wireless local area network interface and one or more other wireless interfaces identifies a location of the mobile device via one or more of the other wireless interfaces, estimates a likelihood of finding a wireless local area network at the location, and scans for wireless... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20080198826 - Method and system of detecting duplicate ssid via self-scanning in wlan: A method and a system of detecting a duplicate service set identifier (SSID) via self-scanning in a WLAN are provided. An access point (AP), when a scan request is given, generates a probe request packet by inserting a SSID of the AP thereinto, transmits the probe request packet to neighbor... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080198823 - Method for establishing a wireless local area network link: A user can link a station to an access point by triggering buttons of the station and the access point respectively. After the buttons are triggered, the station scans the SSID of the access point. The access point updates SSID and sends out the new SSID to the station in... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080198821 - Public access point: The invention instantiates a Personal VLAN bridge, using IEEE Std. 802.11 elements. The result is a bridge, referred to as a public access point, that is better suited for implementing public wireless data networks than the IEEE Std. 802.11 architecture. The invention also provides a location-update protocol for updating the... Agent: Kymerie Schmidt Microsoft Corporation

20080198817 - System and method for enabling wireless data transfer: A method of enabling wireless data transfer to an electronic device having a first transceiver structured to interact with a first wireless network and a second transceiver structured to interact with a second wireless network including repeatedly powering up the second transceiver to await receipt of a second beacon signal... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080198818 - System and method for enabling wireless data transfer: A method of enabling wireless data transfer to an electronic device having a transceiver structured to interact in a first mode with a first wireless network and in a second mode with a second wireless network, including repeatedly powering up the transceiver and enabling the second mode to await receipt... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080198824 - System and method for qos provisioning in broadband wireless mesh networks: A method and system for QoS provisioning in broadband wireless mesh networks are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method, comprises providing a dual mode mesh router having a plurality of radios, wherein the mesh router is used in a cell of a plurality of cells that covers a... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080198825 - System and method for transmitting data packages with a classification mechanism of priority grade: A system and method for transmitting data packages with a priority grade, which applies to a processing procedure of transmitting a data package from an application layer to WLAN device is provided. The system includes at least an analysis module and a QoS classifier. The analysis module is used to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080198822 - Technique for negotiating on behalf of a mobile ambient network within a multi-operator wireless communication system: A mobile ambient network (MAN) negotiator 106 is provided for negotiating with ambient access networks (AANs) 102 on behalf of a MAN 104 to select a particular AAN to handle a wireless communication session for the MAN. The MAN is, e.g., either a user terminal (UT) or a private area... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080198827 - System for sharing cabling in a building: A system for sharing cabling in a building is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a converter having a plurality of connectors and corresponding processing elements for coupling to a wireless transceiver and a coaxial cable that traverses a building, wherein the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080198829 - Mechanism for automatic network formation and medium access coordination: The invention provides a set of mechanisms by which a wireless mobile mesh node equipped with a directional antenna may self form and self adapt its steady-state communications schedule. A link establishment handshake is carried out over an ongoing subtemplate-based discovery scan. During time not reserved for steady-state communications with... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080198831 - Method, system and device for distributing resource of base station node: A method, system and device for distributing resources of a base station node (Node B) are disclosed to enable F-DPCH resources of a local cell to be sufficiently used. In this invention, Node B reports to the RNC the F-DPCH capability of the local cell so as to provide a... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080198828 - Multiuser detector for variable spreading factors: A multiuser detector method and receiver that detects and decodes synchronous or asynchronous CDMA subchannels having different spreading factors with reduced computational complexity. The multiuser receiver is compatible with ZF-BLE, MMSE, decorrelating detectors and the like using Cholesky decomposition to minimize numeric operations. The receiver and method arranges the columns... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080198830 - Systems and methods for arranging mac layer pdus in a downlink burst: Embodiments of systems and methods for arranging data units in a downlink burst transmission are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments a group of data units are arranged by associated identifiers. These identifiers may also be associated with certain subscriber stations. Once arranged,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080198832 - Low level sequence as an anti-tamper mechanism: A method is provided for tamper detection of a transmitted signal. The method is comprised of generating a first digital data signal having a first data rate. The method is also comprised of generating a second digital data signal having a second data rate. The method is further comprised of... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20080198833 - System and method of real-time scheduling and control for multi-hop zero-queue distributed systems: A method for communication between at least 3 modes is provided. The method comprises the step of scheduling transmissions to minimize the average time between two consecutive transmissions from a node using linear programming.... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20080198834 - Wireless telecommunications system with improved transmission capacity: The invention discloses a wireless telecommunications system for stationary or semi-stationary equipment, Q and comprises a main node (C) and a first plurality (SI-S3) of terminals belonging to the same access subset and arranged to receive Q from and transmit to the main node (C). The main node transmits in... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080198836 - Method and apparatus for synchronization in wireless communication system: For a transmission signal for a wireless communication system and a method and apparatus for performing synchronization processing for the transmission signal provided by the present invention, the principal ideas is that, a synchronization sequence is respectively inserted into a group of transmission datum according to predetermined time offsets to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080198837 - System and method for transmitting and receiving signal in communication system: Disclosed is a method for transmitting and receiving a signal in a communication system, and a system for supporting the method. To this end, a first communication system transmits data during a first time slot and receives data during a third time slot, and a second communication system, differing from... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080198835 - Wireless transmission system and wireless transmission method and wireless station for use therein: The present invention provides a wireless station capable of increasing the probability that a path diversity effect can be obtained in a case where a plurality of wireless stations transmit packets using a modulation/demodulation scheme with an anti-multipath property. A delay amount determining section (48) randomly selects a delay amount... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080198838 - Apparatus and method for soft media processing within a routing switcher: A routing switcher performs various soft signaling processing within the router using one or more internal soft media processors (central processing units) to enable flexible solutions. The routing switcher includes a plurality of inputs and outputs operably connected by a cross-point matrix where the inputs are dynamically coupled to one... Agent: Duane Morris LLPIPDepartment (harris Corp.)

20080198840 - Ip extension phone system and server system: There is provided an IP extension phone system including: a first server; a second server; and a portable IP phone, wherein when the second server detects connection of the portable IP phone, the second server assigns an IP address corresponding to the connected position to the portable IP phone, the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080198842 - Phone appliance with display screen and methods of using the same: A phone appliance and method of use are provided where the phone appliance can be used to make VoIP communications calls. In a preferred embodiment, the phone appliance includes an RF connection for connecting to a computer or other computing device for facilitating the placement of the VoIP communications calls.... Agent: Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20080198839 - System and method of communication in an ip multimedia subsystem network: A system and method of communication in an IMS network is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a call processing server having a controller element that receives from a terminal device a calling ID for establishing communications with a called party, submits... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080198841 - Uma cs/ps split architecture and interface: An UMA network controller (SGW,D1,D2) is dedicated for an UMA mobile network comprising a CS core network (CN2) with an MSC and a MGW, a PS core network (CN1) with a SGSN. This UMA network controller comprises a) a security gateway (SGW), a PS part (D1) and a CS part... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080198843 - Method and apparatus for switching data in communication system: A method and apparatus for switching data in communication system which comprises of mainly a conversion circuit to receive source data possessing real coding dimension and covert it to converted data possessing tolerable coding dimension; judgment bit is set in the converted data to designate the data as source data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080198845 - Arrangement, nodes and a method relating to services access over a communication system: The present invention relates to an arrangement in a communications system participating in user station (UE; l) service request and/or access procedures and comprising a number of packet data support nodes (10), a number of charging and/or policy handling nodes (30) and a number of application functions (20) handling mobility... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080198844 - Cross-media communication coordination: Methods and a media system for cross-media communication coordination may include but are not limited to receiving one or more data packets via one or more modes of communication; providing a data storage format for the one or more data packets; providing an identification tag to enable manipulation of one... Agent: Anderson Law Group, PLLC

20080198848 - Multicasting system and multicasting method: A multicasting system includes a delivery server for multicasting a content via at least one upper router and a plurality of lower routers, a plurality of client devices for playing the content multicast by the delivery server, an upper router controller for controlling the upper router and a lower router... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080198847 - Multicasting system, client device, upper router controller, method of displaying content and computer program: A multicasting system includes a delivery server for multicasting a content via at least one upper router and a plurality of lower routers, a plurality of client devices for playing the content multicast by the delivery server and an upper router controller, a content retrieving unit, and a content playing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080198846 - System and method of data transmission and method of selecting communication path for dual-controller system: A data transmission system and method and a method of selecting a communication path for a dual-controller system are provided, which are applied in a first controller and a second controller of the dual-controller system. First of all, a corresponding transmission medium is selected according to a feature of a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080198852 - Address converter for gateways interconnecting networks of different address formats: In a gateway, a packet received from a first network contains first address data conforming to the first network in the packet header and second address data conforming to a second network in an auxiliary header. The first address data of the packet is then rewritten with the second address... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20080198853 - Apparatus for implementing actions based on packet classification and lookup results: A method and apparatus are provided for implementing predefined actions based upon packet classification and lookup results in a communications network processor. A plurality of sets of rules is defined. Each rule set includes at least one rule and each rule has a set of masked compares for comparing results... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20080198851 - Information processing system including information processing apparatus and terminals, and information processing method for the same: An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus configured to perform a call control; and terminals configured to communicate with the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus sets an SDP in an SIP message based on network connection environment data indicating existence or non-existence of a NAT (Network... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080198850 - Peer-to-peer communication system and method: A method and system of enabling communication between peers in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network in the presence of network address translators (NAT). The method includes: assigning a unique peer identifier to each one of the plurality of peers in the P2P network; establishing an overlay topology connecting each peer to... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20080198849 - Scaling virtual private networks using service insertion architecture: In one embodiment, service routers may register their serviced VPNs with a service directory/broker (SDB), and edge routers may register their attached VPNs. The SDB may then return service headers, each corresponding to a particular VPN, and also returns an address of a service router corresponding to each service header... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080198854 - System and method for local packet transport services within distributed routers: A system and method for routing packets within a router having a plurality of loosely-coupled route processors, including a first route processor, and a line card operably coupled to the plurality of distributed-route-processors. Each route processor includes an internal forwarding information base (IFIB). Each IFIB includes information that is used... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080198855 - Transmission-reception apparatus: A transmission-reception apparatus does not configure ARQ control information from only sequence number, but the transmission-reception apparatus configures the ARQ control information such that the ARQ control information is comprised of one sequence number containing first occurrence of a corresponding packet's error, and bit information representing existence of retransmission requirements... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080198856 - Systems and methods for modifying network map attributes: The disclosed systems and methods provide a user interface for modifying host configuration data that has been automatically and passively determined and for adding or modifying other parameters associated with a host. A host data table can store various parameters descriptive of a host including the applicability of specific vulnerabilities.... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080198863 - Bridged cryptographic vlan: The invention comprises three extensions of the IEEE 802.1Q VLAN bridge model. The first extension is the cryptographic separation of VLANs over trunk links. A LAN segment type referred to as an encapsulated LAN segment is introduced. All frames on such a segment are encapsulated according to an encryption and... Agent: Kymerie Schmidt Microsoft Corporation

20080198860 - Enabling routing of data on a network based on a portion of data accessed from a non-network enabled device: A system and method for enabling routing of data on a network based on a portion of data accessed from a non-network enabled device is disclosed. The technology includes a method for enabling routing of data on a network based on a portion of data accessed from a non-network enabled... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080198857 - Epon bridge apparatus and method for forwarding thereof: The invention relates to an EPON bridge apparatus and a forwarding method thereof. In case of receiving frame from the network port or the PON port, the apparatus associates the port having the received frame inputted with source MAC address of the received frame to learn the information in an... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080198864 - Gateway device: A gateway device according to the present art includes a storage part that stores a list having identification information identifying another gateway device that is selectable as a move-destination gateway device; a receiving part that receives a call-out signal from a device located in a telephone network; a move-destination-gateway-device selecting... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080198861 - Method for the routing and control of packet data traffic in a communication system: The invention relates to a method, which comprising initiating the establishment of a security association between a client node and a gateway node. User data is obtained from an authentication server and the user is au-thenticated. Authorization is obtained for the user for certain network services from a separate authorization... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080198862 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for using a location routing number based query and response mechanism to route calls to ip multimedia subsystem (ims) subscribers: Methods, systems, and computer program products for using an LRN based query and response mechanism (e.g., a switching office number portability processing system) to route calls to IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) subscribers are disclosed. According to one method, an LRN based response message including a communications service subscriber identifier is... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080198858 - Simple virtual private network for small local area networks: In one embodiment, a method includes establishing a control channel across a wide area network (WAN) from a first gateway that has a first public internetwork layer (L3) address to a second gateway that has a second public L3 address. Each gateway connects a local area network (LAN) to the... Agent: Eugene Molinelli Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20080198859 - System for advertising routing updates: A system for advertising routing updates is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a route reflector having a controller element that generates from a routing update a plurality of dissimilar routing advertisements transmitted in whole or in part to one or more... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080198865 - System and method for communicating over mesh networks using waveform-enhanced, link-state routing: A communication system includes a plurality of mobile nodes forming a mesh network. A plurality of wireless communication links connect the mobile nodes together. Each mobile node is formed as a communications device and operative for transmitting data packets wirelessly to other mobile nodes via the wireless communications link from... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080198866 - Hybrid method and device for transmitting packets: A method for transmitting packets, the method includes receiving multiple packets at multiple queues. The method is characterized by dynamically defining fixed priority queues and weighted fair queuing queues, and scheduling a transmission of packets in response to a status of the multiple queues and in response to the definition.... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080198867 - Hash and route hardware with parallel routing scheme: A multiprocessor switching device substantially implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit is described in connection with a parallel routing scheme for calculating routing information for incoming packets. Using the programmable hash and route routing scheme, a hash and route circuit can be programmed for a variety of applications, such... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080198868 - Method for establishing a global time base in a time-controlled communications system and communications system: A method for establishing a global time base in a time-controlled communications system comprising a network and multiple subscribers connected to it. At least one of the subscribers of the communications system is defined as a time master with which the remaining subscribers are synchronized. In order to allow for... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080198869 - Enhanced polling method for preventing deadlock in a wireless communications system: A method of polling in a wireless communications system includes prohibiting polling within a predetermined period and triggering a poll function while polling is prohibited. After the predetermined period has expired the method determines that there are no protocol data units (PDUs) scheduled for transmission or re-transmission and that the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080198871 - Dynamic adjustment of inactivity timer threshold for call control transactions: In general, this disclosure is directed to establishment and release of a connection between a communication device and an access network. More specifically, the techniques of this disclosure are directed to determining when a data flow used for exchanging call control requests becomes inactive. For example, a communication device may... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080198870 - Network connections for media processing devices: A media processing device includes a wireless network interface to establish a wireless network connection and a wired network interface to establish a wired network connection. The wired network connection is established if a network is connected to the wired network interface and the wireless network connection is established if... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080198872 - Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with multiplexed voice and image communication: An ultrasound system which is capable of sending images and/or reports over a data network by means of an Internet protocol has a sound card coupled to a microphone and a loudspeaker. When operator of the ultrasound system speaks into the microphone the voice is digitized by the sound card... Agent: Philips Medical Systems Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080198874 - Interworking device: An interworking device includes an IuCS interface unit for an IuUP protocol signal, an Mb interface unit for an RFC3267 protocol signal, and protocol conversion means for performing protocol conversion between the IuUP protocol signal and the RFC3267 protocol signal. The protocol conversion means is connected to the IuCS interface... Agent: Jackson Chen Nec Corporation Of America

20080198873 - Voice communications system using sip and method thereof: A voice communications system includes a first communications device and a second communications device. The first communications device uses data conforming to a predetermined protocol to perform voice communications. The second communications device uses data conforming to SIP to perform voice communications. The second communications device can convert data from... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080198875 - Method and system for bidirectional bandwidth reservation in wireless communication systems: A method and system for bandwidth allocation for communicating information over one or more wireless channels by wireless stations, is provided. The channel time is divided into one or more superframes. Available channel bandwidth is allocated by reserving one or more channel time blocks (CTBs) in a superframe for communication,... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080198876 - Exploitation of null packets in packetized digital television systems: A system and method for adding auxiliary data DA to an output data stream from a statistical multiplexer is disclosed. An auxiliary multiplexer accepts a statistically multiplexed data stream, and substitutes auxiliary data packets for null data packets. The auxiliary multiplexer controls the number of null packets in the statistically... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080198877 - Electronic device, method for frame synchronization, and mobile device: An electronic device is provided with a plurality of functional units (1-10) for communicating at least primary and secondary data (ISOC; BE) based on frames (FR) each being divided into a number of time slot (SL), at least one network node (S1-S4) for coupling functional units (1-10) comprising at least... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080198878 - Remote encoder system and method for capturing the live presentation of video multiplexed with images: A system for use with a speaker providing audio and video in conjunction with images being provided by a podium computer responsive to the speaker as part of a live multimedia presentation. A device provides video signals and audio signals wherein the video signals correspond to the video provided by... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080192621 - Data communication system and data transmitting apparatus: A data communication system and a data transmitting apparatus with improved noise immunity are disclosed. The data communication system includes an orthogonal transforming unit using an N times N orthogonal matrix; a signal transforming unit; a transmitting unit; a receiving unit; a signal inverse-transforming unit; and an orthogonal inverse-transforming unit.... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080192622 - Control channel signaling in a multiple access wireless communication system: A novel and useful method and system for control channel signaling for use in multiple access wireless communication systems. The control message portion of the frame is divided into two portions: a first portion for transmitting a list of u-ID information and a second portion for transmitting all other remaining... Agent: Zaretsky Patent Group Pc

20080192623 - Methods and devices for dual-tone multi-frequency (dtmf) signaling: A method for dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) signaling is implemented in a communication device and comprises the following steps. Transmission of a DTMF event of a digit is triggered if a button-down event occurs. A packet carrying the DTMF event with assigned non-zero event duration is generated regardless of the currently-detected... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080192624 - Method for protecion switching: The invention relates to a method for protection switching in a data network network including at least two rings (ERA, ERB) with a shared span (SP2,3) and a plurality of nodes (1-4). Each ring (ERA, ERB) has an associated ring manager (RMA, RMB) for checking its associated ring (ERA, ERB)... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080192625 - Redundant switching system, redundant switching method and recording medium: The present invention provides a redundant switching system capable of continuing to construct an uninterrupted redundant configuration. The redundant switching system 100 includes at least two pathways (e.g. pathways 10-1 and 10-2) that construct an uninterrupted redundant configuration, and allow uninterrupted pathway switching. In the event that a failure occurs... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080192626 - Service failure recovery method and system: A method and system for recovering from service failure, and the method includes: sending, by a failure detecting node of a cross-domain connection service, a CALL_ID (Call Identifier) that identifies the cross-domain connection service and information on a disabled link in the cross-domain connection service to a first node of... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080192627 - Method for providing alternative paths as rapid reaction in the failure of a link between two routing domains: The present disclosure relates to a method for providing substitute routes in rapid response to the failure of a link between two routing domains in a packet-oriented network. According to the present disclosure, an inter-domain router determines substitute routes for fault scenarios caused by link failures. The substitute routes are... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080192628 - Communication system: A controller for controlling the admit rate of messages passed to a node in a communications system according to a control value that controls the maximum average admit rate, in which the controller comprises means for periodically updating the control value in which the updated control value is the lesser... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080192629 - Wireless data packet classification: An apparatus and method of classifying data packets is disclosed. One method includes a wireless access node identifying a flow of data packets based on source and destination addresses of the data packets. The wireless access node classifies the data packets of the identified flow of data packets as requiring... Agent: Tropos Networks

20080192630 - Control method for managing the transmission capacity of at least one relay station of a transmission system, and corresponding control unit: A control method for managing the transmission capacity of at least one relay station of a transmission system, a respective control unit, an appropriately adapted transmitting station, receiving station and relay station. The control method includes coordinating the transmission of the traffic to be transmitted with consideration of traffic already... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080192632 - Ip multiservice nework and method for making resource reservations for priority traffic: A multiservice IP network and a method are described herein that use an enhanced QOS message which makes it possible for an IP router to reserve resources for and admit a high priority traffic flow without needing to terminate an existing low priority traffic flow. In accordance with the present... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080192631 - Method of controlling a data flow, transmitter and data transmission system: A method of controlling a data flow, a transmitter and a data transmission system are described. For example, in a method of controlling a data flow of a transmitter, first data is received at a first interface. The first data is buffered in a buffer. The first data is output... Agent: Coats & Bennett/infineon Technologies

20080192633 - Apparatus and method for controlling data flow in communication system: An apparatus and method for controlling data flow in a communication system are provided. In such an apparatus and method, a switch identifies a source address of a data frame received through each of a plurality of input ports, determines the size of the data frame received from the source... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080192634 - Packet aging in a wireless network: A method and software to cause a processor to implement a method to set a packet age limit in an access point of a wireless network for communicating time-sensitive data with an associated wireless client station. One method includes the client station sending feedback to the access point so that... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20080192635 - Transmission rate control method, mobile station and radio base station: The present invention enables, in a mobile communication system using “EUL”, to enhance radio quality by certainly allocating hardware resources at a radio base station. A transmission rate control method according to the present invention includes a step of transmitting, from the radio base station to a mobile station, an... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20080192636 - Policing networks: Methods and apparatus for policing flow in a data network by determining a measure of greediness of a flow through a node, comparing said measure of greediness with a measure indicative of acceptable greediness dependent on the expected greediness of a compliant flow experiencing substantially similar path conditions, and designating... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080192637 - Rule verification apparatus and rule verification method: A flow state monitoring part obtains a frame that is output from firewall units using former and new rules, and monitors a flow state to which each of the former and new rules is applied. When the flow has ended for both the former and new rules, the flow state... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080192638 - Telecommunications system and method: A telecommunications system provides mobile internet protocol related communications services to mobile nodes via a plurality of access networks. A mobility manager directs a change of affiliation of a first mobile node between the access networks, or a change of communications session level of the mobile node, in accordance with... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20080192639 - Intelligent self-healing networks and advanced troubleshooting of communication service problems: A problem detection and repair system receives a trouble indication indicating a problem with a network. The trouble indication may be the result of automated monitoring of the network, or a user of communication services contacting an operator of the network to report trouble. Communication services may include telephone service,... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080192640 - Loopback circuit: A loopback circuit connecting the output of a receiver section to a transmitter section of a transceiver circuit has two or more loopback channels. In this way, the data rate is reduced, reducing the signal loss that occurs even over such short distances at very high data rates.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080192641 - Automatic discovery of blocking access-list id and match statements in a network: In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) receiving an incoming probe packet in a network device; (ii) de-encapsulating the incoming probe packet to provide a packet content portion and a drop result portion; (iii) testing the packet content portion against a local access control list (ACL) to determine a... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080192642 - Determination of quality of service parameters of a network from a radio communication terminal: Radio communication terminal (M1) including communication means providing a connection to one or more application servers (AS) via a communication network (RAN1 CN, SN). It is characterized in that it includes measurement means adapted to send at least one message to at least one application server and to determine at... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080192643 - Method for managing shared resources: A method, system and program product for managing resources among a plurality of nodes in a computing environment. An exemplary method includes the operations of collecting information about the resources and their associations with the nodes, making such information available to the other nodes, and reiterating these operations, resulting in... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080192646 - Method for monitoring quality of service in multimedia communications: The present disclosure describes a method for monitoring the quality of service of H.264 multimedia communications. The present disclosure achieves the in-band QoS monitoring of the H.264 multimedia communications, thereby reducing extra overhead introduced by the QoS monitoring. The present disclosure makes direct use of the extension message mechanism of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080192645 - Methods and arrangements to model an asynchronous interface: Methods and arrangements to model an asynchronous interface are disclosed. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to generate a skew pattern for a semi-static or time-constrained, asynchronous interface and employ the skew pattern in data transfers during a time interval in which the asynchronous interface. Embodiments may... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080192644 - Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method: A radio communication apparatus that performs first radio communication using a first channel among two first channels each having a first channel width, and second radio communication using a second channel having a second channel width that is wider than the first channel width and also having a channel width... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080192647 - Detecting media rate for measuring network jitter: A method and apparatus for measuring network performance. A stream of packets of encoded data, sent by a transmitter across a network, are received. The stream of packets includes (n+1) packets having transmittal timestamps from a clock local to the transmitter, where n is an integer greater than or equal... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080192649 - Apparatus and method for producing identifiers regardless of mixed device type in a serial interconnection: A plurality of memory devices of mixed type (e.g., DRAMs, SRAMs, MRAMs, and NAND-, NOR- and AND-type Flash memories) is 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

20080192650 - Method and node for locating a network user: A method and network node for geographically locating an end node in a packet data communication network. The network node creates and stores information representing a path of data packets between first and second end nodes. At least one node address along the path is identified using the information. The... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080192648 - Method and system to create a virtual topology: A method and system to create a virtual topology is provided. The system, in one example embodiment, comprises a network layer to receive a request to create a virtual Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Express device, a device type detector to determine, from the request, a type of the virtual PCI... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080192651 - Network check using routing database: A system can check links of a plurality of networks that use different routing protocols. The system derives link states from a copy of a routing database according to the format of the routing database. The derived link states are formatted into a reference format and compared to reference link... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, Llc

20080192652 - Method of handling a group communication in a communications network and a computer software product, a network client, and a communication system therefor: The application relates to a method of handling a group communication in a communications network, comprising the steps of agreeing and arranging participating clients of a group; establishing a communication session for directed exchanging of streamed media between the participating clients, coordinating communication resources, especially the direction of exchanging of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080192653 - Storage medium containing parallel process control program, parallel processs control system, and parallel process control method: An efficient parallel process can be performed in a distributed manner by an original master node set in a highest-layer sub-cluster and one or more lower-layer master nodes set in respective lower-layer sub-clusters.... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080192654 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for implementing infiniband network topology simplification: A method, apparatus and computer program product implement InfiniBand (IB) network topology simplification. A Subnet Manager (SM) of an IB subnet sends a subnet discovery request to each switch requesting the number of ports that are attached to the switch. Each of the switches and target channel adapters (TCAs) within... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept 917

20080192655 - Systems and methods for providing enhanced telephone services: A method comprises establishing a first telephone connection between a first telephone line and a second telephone line via a switch; detecting by the switch entry of a service code from the second telephone line, the service code indicative of a request to transfer the telephone connection from the second... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080192656 - Systems and methods for providing enhanced telephone services: A switching platform comprises a first circuit for recognizing tones generated by an originating telephone line, the tones representing a common number of a party and associated with telephone lines of the party, a second circuit for recognizing that the party has answered one of the associated telephone lines, a... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080192657 - Systems and methods for providing enhanced telephone services: A switching platform comprises a first, second, and third circuit. The first circuit is adapted for recognizing a first set of tones generated by art originating telephone line. The originating telephone line is associated with a call origin telephone number. The first set of tones represents a request for a... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080192658 - Media distribution system with wireless local area network module: A multimedia distribution system comprises a control terminal having a decoder to decode a data from a data source, a tuner coupled to the data source to select a channel, a first WLAN module coupled to the decoder or the data source to transfer data; at least one client with... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080192659 - In-vehicle unit communication protocol: A vehicle control system communication method, including: receiving, at an in-vehicle unit (IVU), a command message from a hand-held unit (HHU), wherein the command message includes a first command frame and a second command frame; and sending, from the IVU, a response message to the HHU, wherein the response message... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080192660 - Method for supporting asymmetric service flexible in multi-carrier time division duplex mobile communication system: A method to support dissymmetry service for multicarrier time division duplexing mobile communication system, which contains adopting different uplink and downlink time gap conversion point to support dissymmetry service among multicarrier frequency of different cells and same cell, when the original configured uplink and downlink time gap ratio can not... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20080192662 - Method and arrangement in real-time data bi-casting mobile system: An object of the present invention is to provide an improved real-time application performance for user equipments. The object is achieved by a method for bi-casting real time data packets in a mobile system node. The node is comprised in a mobile system, which mobile system comprises an old Node-B... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080192664 - Method and related apparatus for enhancing resource utility rate in a wireless communications system: A method for enhancing resource utility rate in a medium access control layer of a wireless communications system includes generating at least one control element and receiving at least one data message, combining the at least one control element, the at least one data message, and a header to form... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080192661 - Radio transmission method: Retransmission control and retransmission are performed at a lower priority than the transmission of multicast packets from a transmission apparatus to two or more reception apparatuses. A communication apparatus performs wireless multicast transmission to reliable transmit packets. In a transmission side terminal, sequence numbers are attached at a layer higher... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080192663 - System and method for providing a distributed virtual mobility agent: An indication is received from the mobile station (114) indicating that the mobile station (114) is moving from an originating mobility agent (106) to a destination mobility agent (108). An identity of the destination mobility agent (108) is determined using the indication. Routing information is sent from the originating mobility... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080192667 - Contact management for mobile communication devices in wireless packet switched networks: Methods and apparatus for efficient communications in a wireless communication network are provided. The wireless communication network has a predetermined network paging pattern which includes a plurality of page transmission periods during which repeated attempts for initiating a communication with a mobile communication device are made until the communication is... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20080192666 - Method and system for dynamically utilizing a peer network to extend battery life: A system (100) and method (300) for utilizing peer networks to extend a battery life of a mobile device in a wide area network (WAN) using a Wireless_Local Area Network (WLAN) is provided. The method can include monitoring (302) a power-level of the mobile device, determining (304) if the power-level... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080192665 - Selecting an interface in a multi-radio enabled device: A device may identify interfaces, determine an energy-time product for each of the identified interfaces, and transmit data through one of the identified interfaces based on the determined energy-time products.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080192668 - Layer 2 mobility network: When an apparatus located at an edge of a network transmits a report message in a multicast procedure transmitted from a mobile terminal to a gateway switch, the apparatus snoops the report message and transmits an entry update request frame for causing an entry forming a transfer route for multicast... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080192669 - Method of operating a radio station: When a radio station terminates a first service on a first radio frequency channel and selects a second radio frequency channel for engaging in a second service, a time delay is inserted after the termination of the first service and before selecting the second radio frequency channel or before engaging... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080192673 - Connection maintenance in ieee 802.16 networks with relays via cid encapsulation: A method for transmitting data in a wireless network includes generating a packet of data having a connection identification (CID) indicating a connection to a final destination for the packet of data. A desired path for transmitting the packet of data to the final destination is determined. The desired path... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080192674 - Method and apparatus for acknowledgement signaling: An approach is provided for providing acknowledgement signaling. A transmission failure associated with data from a user equipment is determined. An allocation message is generated for signaling of the transmission failure to the user equipment. The allocation message provides allocation of resource for retransmission of the data.... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.c.

20080192672 - Method and equipment for data transmission by ad-hoc network: The invention relates to a method of data transmission by an ad-hoc network of mobile communication equipment (16a, 16b, 16c, 16d), from at least one source equipment (12) to at least one collection terminal (14), by means of mobile relay equipment (16c), in which for each communication equipment, at least... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080192671 - Mobile telecommunication: A node implementing an RLC (Radio Link Control) entity and being for use in a mobile communications system transmits a sequence of RLC SDUs (SDU=Service Data Unit) towards a peer node. As a result of re-establishment of an RLC entity not all SDUs may have been received. The peer notifies... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080192670 - Repeater device for transmission network: A repeater device includes a wireless network receiver device having a low power multi-frequency WLAN telecommunication protocol module for communicating with end users, and a high power multi-frequency WLAN telecommunication protocol module for communicating with wireless networks, a control device includes two servo devices coupled to the low power and... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esquire

20080192675 - Method and system for receiving broadcast service and unicast service: A method for receiving a broadcast service and a unicast service by a UE is provided. The method includes calculating a candidate interval for receiving the unicast service by referring to scheduling information of the broadcast service by the UE, when the unicast service begins to be provided through another... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080192676 - Quality dependent data communications channel: A data channel to transmit data from a transmitter to one or more of a plurality of receivers, each of which intermittently reports to the transmitter its reception quality of signals transmitted by the transmitter. The transmitter transmits the data in frames which include at least one block. Each block... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080192677 - Method and apparatus for providing ip mobility and ip routing in ad hoc wireless networks: The invention includes methods and apparatuses for supporting mobility management and packet routing in ad hoc wireless networks. A method for mobility management includes detecting, at a first base station, a request by a wireless device to establish an association with the first base station where the first base station... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080192682 - Mimo wireless communication system and method by a plurality of base stations and mobile station: In a state 1 in which a mobile station 21 is away from a first base station 11, a distance between the first base station and the mobile station is short, a propagation line state is good, and high speed transmission is possible. Therefore, the mobile station checks a propagation... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20080192679 - Mobile communication control method, mobile communication system, routing device, management device, and program: When a mobile terminal (10a) moves from an access network (21a) to another access network (21c), the unique information on destination of the mobile terminal (10a) in an access router (20c) is transferred as alternate information from an access router (20a) to a home agent (30a). The access router (20c)... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080192681 - Multi-mode user equipment and routing controlling method thereby: The present invention provides multi-mode user equipment for supporting wireless data communication with the Internet through various access networks. The multi-mode user equipment includes a plurality of network interfaces for supporting access to the respective access networks. In addition, the multi-mode user equipment collects information on the state of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080192680 - Packet scheduling in a radio access system: A method of scheduling data for transmission over the air interface of a wideband code division multiple access network, said data being transported over the air interface on a downlink shared channel. The method comprises receiving data in the form of IP packets at a radio network controller, segmenting said... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080192678 - Random access structure for optimal cell coverage: Apparatus and method for accessing a wireless telecommunications network by transmitting a random access signal. The random access signal includes a cyclic prefix signal and a guard interval. The cyclic prefix signal and the guard interval are adapted to optimize random access channel coverage in a telecommunications cell. The disclosed... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080192684 - Access reservation in wireless communications: The present invention relates to a method for arranging access reservation between wireless devices. A reservation establishment request is generated for requesting establishment or modification of uni-directional reservation by a second device for transmitting data to a first device, the reservation establishment request comprising an information element indicating reservation type.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080192683 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving packet data using multiple antennas in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving packet data using multiple antennas in a wireless communication system is provided. In a wireless communication, system using multiple antennas, the apparatus and method can efficiently transmit and receive packet data according to channel conditions without a waste of transmission bandwidth.... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080192686 - Cognitive radio based air interface method in wireless communication system: The air interface method for wireless communication in the cognitive radio-based wireless communication system of the present invention is provided in the cognitive radio-based wireless communication system including a base station system and a plurality of mobile station systems. The base station system and a certain mobile station system communicate... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20080192687 - Method for improving high-speed downlink operation in cell_fach state for a wireless communications system and related apparatus: A method of improving a high-speed downlink operation in CELL_FACH state for a network terminal of a wireless communications system includes using a first function but not using a second function when a user equipment, hereinafter called UE, initiates a cell update procedure. The network terminal wirelessly communicates with the... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080192688 - Method for improving high-speed downlink operation in cell_fach state for a wireless communications system and related apparatus: A method of improving a high-speed downlink operation in CELL_FACH state for a network terminal of a wireless communications system includes using a first function but not using a second function when a user equipment, hereinafter called UE, initiates a radio resource control establishment procedure. The network terminal wirelessly communicates... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080192685 - Transmission rate control method, mobile station and radio network controller: The present invention can flexibly adjust trade-off between the radio network capacity and the radio quality by changing increase stop of uplink user date in accordance with the congestion of uplink or the uplink user data type. A transmission rate control method according to the present invention includes the steps... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20080192689 - Wireless mesh network system enabling adaptive channel allocation and channel allocation control method in the system: A channel allocation control method in a wireless mesh network system in which an adaptive channel allocation is possible, including: determining whether an Ad-hoc Traffic Indication Message (ATIM) packet is received from a transmission node during an ATIM window period after transmission of a beacon; determining whether a received point... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080192690 - Enhanced beacon signaling method and apparatus: Methods and apparatus for using high power narrow signals, e.g., tones, for communicating transmitter information without putting the full transmission power available into the transmitted tone or tones are described. User data is transmitted in parallel with transmitter information in many embodiments with the user data being allocated more than... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080192695 - Enhancing protection of a mobile node's home address in a visited network: A Mobile Node, A Network Node and a method performed in a visited network of a telecommunications network. The Mobile Node has a home address (HoA) valid in a Mobile Node's home network of the telecommunications network or knows how to generate one. The HoA is used in the visited... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080192691 - Fast handover method, apparatus, and medium: A fast handover apparatus, method, and medium for performing a fast handover in a wireless LAN environment. The fast handover method includes (a) determining whether a beacon signal input from an access point (AP) to a mobile node (MN) contains border information indicating that the AP is located at the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080192700 - Handover control method and apparatus for efficiently buffering packets in wimax network: A handover control method and apparatus are provided to efficiently buffer packets in a Mobile Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WIMAX) network. A serving radio access station (S-RAS) and an access control router (ACR) divide and buffer packets to be sent to a mobile station before and after a predetermined... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080192696 - Handover optimisation in a wlan radio access network: The invention provides a method for assisting handover of a communication session associated with a UT from a first radio access point, AP1, to a second radio access point, AP2, in a radio access network, said method to be carried out by said AP1 and comprising the steps of:—receiving a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080192697 - Method and apparatus for supporting handover from lte/eutran to gprs/geran: A method and apparatus for handover of a dual mode wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) from an LTE system to a GERAN system uses measurements of the LTE and GERAN frequencies and a decision by a source evolved Node B to perform the handover. A GERAN access procedure includes PS attach... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080192693 - Method and device for determination of an address within an aeronautical telecommunication network: The present invention relates to the determination of the ground address that an aircraft must call within the aeronautical telecommunication network ATN to prepare a context for digital data exchanges with a ground air traffic control center. It consists in using the GSIF general data broadcast by certain ground telecommunication... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080192701 - Method and system for lossless transmission of mobile ip packets: Provided are a method and a system for transmitting mobile IP packets without loss. The method includes the steps of storing, by an old radio access station, packets that are not transmitted to a mobile terminal when a handover indication message is received, and creating, by the old radio access... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080192694 - Method of communicating signals in a mobile communication system: A method of signalling in a mobile communication system, and more particularly, to a method of processing control information associates with handover in a mobile communication system is disclosed. In a radio (UE) user equipment receiving a service from a radio network including a plurality of base stations (E-NODE B),... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080192699 - Wireless lan network, and mobile station and method of controlling handoff in the same: Provided are a wireless local area network (LAN) network, and a mobile station and method of controlling handoff in the wireless LAN network. The method includes the steps of: transmitting and receiving, at a mobile station, a data packet to and from a currently connected first base station using a... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080192698 - Wireless lan network, and mobile station, base station and method of controlling handoff in wireless lan network: Provided are a wireless local area network (LAN) network, a mobile station and a base station, and a method of controlling handoff in the wireless LAN network. The wireless LAN network includes a mobile station and a number of base stations. The mobile station notifies a previously connected first base... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080192692 - Wireless routing based on data packet classifications: A method of wirelessly routing based on data packet type is disclosed. The method includes a wireless access node wirelessly receiving a data packet. The wireless access node classifies the data packet, and selects one of multiple node interfaces based on the classification of the data packet, and/or characteristics of... Agent: Tropos Network

20080192702 - Method and apparatus for joint scheduling to increase frequency efficiency and fairness in a distributed antenna system using frequency reuse and common power control: A joint scheduling apparatus and method for increasing frequency efficiency and fairness in a distributed antenna system using frequency reuse and common control power Packets are selected for transmission to be transmitted to MSs are selected, taking into account QoS in at least one of a BS and an RS... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080192704 - Method and system for an alternating channel delta quantizer for mimo pre-coders with finite rate channel state information feedback: j

20080192703 - Method and system for recovering from drx timing de-synchronization in lte _active: A method for recovering from discontinuous reception (DRX) timing de-synchronization between the UE and the eNB in an LTE_ACTIVE state having the steps of: the eNB detecting DRX timing de-synchronization; transmitting an indicator to a User Equipment (UE) to resume continuous reception; and waiting for an indication from the UE... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080192705 - Sending station, receiving station, and radio communication method: A transmitting station includes: an error detecting code attachment block that attaches error detecting codes respectively to a plurality of data pieces; a transmitter block that transmits the plurality of data pieces with the error detecting codes attached thereto to a receiving station by using different radio frequencies, respectively; a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080192706 - Spread spectrum communication system and transmission power control method therefor: In a spread spectrum communication system, one (W.sub.n) of a series of orthogonal codes for spectrum spreading is assigned to signal-to-noise ratio measurement in a terminal. On the basis of a noise signal detected by de-spreading a signal received from an antenna with the above described orthogonal code (W.sub.n) and... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080192708 - Heterogeneous mac protocol for forwarding voip traffic on wireless networks: This disclosure describes a new Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol that combines contention-free and contention-based MAC protocols into a heterogeneous MAC protocol used for forwarding VoIP traffic in VoIP systems on wireless networks which addresses the need to transport high bit-rate data to multiple users over wired and wireless means.... Agent: Dennis L. Cook, Esq. The Law Offices Of Dennis L Cook Pllc

20080192707 - Reducing collisions in beamforming wireless systems: A device comprising transceiver logic and control logic coupled to the transceiver logic. The control logic is adapted to use the transceiver logic to broadcast a signal comprising either a Request-to-Send (RTS) signal or a Clear-to-Send-to-Self (CTS2S) signal to a plurality of other devices. The signal is adapted to cause... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080192712 - Data processing apparatus and power control method thereof: A data processing apparatus includes a connecting part to which a WiBro (Wireless Broadband Internet) module and a wireless LAN module are connected, a WiBro module driver that enables the WiBro module to operate. A communication controller includes the WiBro module driver and controls the WiBro module and the wireless... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080192713 - Hierarchical mesh network for wireless access: A wireless mesh network is configured as a multiple-level hierarchical network, with each level of the hierarchy having a plurality of nodes. Several clusters of nodes each acting as access points may be organized in numerous first-level meshes (102, 106, 110, 112), with each of the first-level meshes being coupled... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080192715 - Loseless roaming via bridging between access ports: In a network comprising a wireless device, a first access point (AP) and a plurality of neighbor APs, a method is provided for reducing the chances of packet loss when the wireless device roams from the first AP to one of the neighbor APs. For example, when the first AP... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080192716 - Method and apparatus for reporting 3gpp and non-3gpp interworking capabilities of a multimode wtru: A method for reporting interworking capabilities of a multimode capable wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) includes the WTRU transmitting a first message, including network interworking capability of the WTRU, the WTRU transmitting a second message including radio interworking capability of the WTRU, and the WTRU receiving a third message including network... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080192714 - Method and system for providing integration theme pack service: Disclosed is a method and system for providing an integration theme pack service in which, if a user receives an integration theme pack content from a content-providing server through a mobile communication terminal, the mobile communication terminal changes a background screen image into the integration theme pack content, employs the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080192710 - Method of providing feedback to a media server in a wireless communication system: The present invention provides a method involving a media server, a wireless network, and at least one media client associated with at least one air interface with the wireless network. The method includes accessing first information indicative of at least one state of the at least one media client. The... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.c.

20080192711 - Proxy-based signaling architecture for streaming media services in a wireless communication system: The present invention provides a method involving a media server, a wireless access network, at least one media client, and a proxy server. The method includes accessing, at the proxy server, at least one message including information indicating impending establishment of a media session between the media server and said... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.c.

20080192709 - Wireless lan device having terminal function, wireless lan device having base station function, and wireless network having the wireless lan device: In a wireless network including a wireless LAN device having a base station function compatible with the IEEE 802.11e standard and a wireless LAN device having a terminal function compatible with the standard, a band-guaranteed data reception check timer 104′ starts measuring a preset time when the terminal receives band-guaranteed... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080192717 - Method and system for an alternating delta quantizer for limited feedback mimo pre-coders:

20080192718 - Methods and systems for codeword to layer mapping: In a transmitter or transceiver, codewords from HARQ processes can be mapped or assigned to various layers for transmission and/or retransmission of information on a radio channel. Exemplary embodiments provide for various mappings which facilitate, for example, HARQ processes. For example, a codeword can be mapped onto a plurality of... Agent: Potomac Patent Group Pllc

20080192719 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving data in a communication system using multiple frequency bands: A method for transmitting/receiving data in a communication system using multiple frequency bands. The transmission method includes fragmenting a desired transmission Service Data Unit (SDU) in units of Packet Data Units (PDUs); and transmitting the fragmented PDUs over at least two frequency bands among the multiple frequency bands. Each of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080192720 - Shared control channel data-assisted channel estimation: An apparatus includes a channel estimator configurable to apply a first channel estimation algorithm to a resource mapping using known reference resources to obtain initial channel estimates; a decoder configurable to decode, based on the obtained initial channel estimates, a plurality of control channels to determine which of the plurality... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080192722 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving packet data in a wireless communication system using hybrid automatic repeat request: An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving packet data in persistent resources in a wireless communication system using Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) are provided, in which a user buffer stores user data to be transmitted to a receiver, a controller allocates persistent resources to the receiver according to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080192721 - Managing unscheduled wireless communication in a multiradio device: A system for managing the operation of a plurality of radio modules integrated within the same wireless communication device. A control strategy may be employed to manage both more predictable and more spontaneous wireless communication mediums, wherein a local controller may be employed in a radio module utilizing an unscheduled... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080192724 - Wireless device which can improve stability in wireless communications and wireless network using the same: When wireless communications are made between a first wireless device and a second wireless device along a route, two wireless devices which exist between the first and second wireless devices each determine the lowest maximum transmission rate (11 Mbps) in the wireless intervals on the route from themselves to the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080192723 - Wireless network system and method of transmitting and receiving data over the wireless network system: A wireless network system is provided in which time periods during which packets are transmitted or received for bandwidth allocation request and acknowledgement over a network are separately set in a superframe period, and data is transmitted or received through the bandwidths allocation. The wireless network system includes a frame-generation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080192725 - Method for transmitting data and related service data: A method of transmitting data and service information associated with said data, including an addressing step during which a set of service information D(Si) that is intended to be stored is referenced by means of an address AD. The address AD includes a session identifier Si, a session being defined... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080192726 - Wireless hd mac frame format: A media access controller (MAC) generates a composite packet having an optimized format for carrying audio, video, and data traffic. A header portion of the composite packet is encoded separately from a data portion of the composite packet. A physical device interface (PHY) is coupled to the MAC. The PHY... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080192727 - Reconfiguration of non-fully populated switch arrays: A system and method for configuring non-fully populated switch matrixes by identifying the initial configuration, developing a transition sequence, and executing the transition sequence. The transition sequence may include reconfiguring an existing connection by first making a bridge connection then breaking the original connection, prior to adding an additional connection.... Agent: Krajec Patent Offices, Llc

20080192734 - Communication system: A method of establishing a communication event in a communication system from an initiator device to one of a plurality of entities associated with the initiator device comprising assigning a calling identity to at least one of said entities at a first network node associated with a packet switched network;... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080192730 - Correlating calls after a referral: In one embodiment, a network device attaches a header including an identifier for an original call to an outgoing refer message and may also modify a table entry for a consultative call to include the identifier. The network device then monitors incoming invite messages for a header containing the identifier... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080192736 - Method and apparatus for a multimedia value added service delivery system: A multimedia multi-service platform for providing one or more multimedia value added services in one or more telecommunications networks includes one or more application servers configured to operate in part according to a service program. The platform also includes one or more media servers configured to access, handle, process, and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080192732 - Method and system for multi-modal communications: A system and method for provisionable, multi-modal communications, including detecting a provisioning condition, selecting a communications mode based on the provisioning condition from a first usage mode, a second usage mode, and a third usage mode, and displaying an interface corresponding to the selected communications mode. The first usage mode... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080192728 - Method for accessing to a service through a multichannel access network: The invention relates to a method for accessing to a service offered by a service provider on a communications network (2) from a terminal (T) through a multichannel access network (1), consisting in delivering by the service provider information at least concerning data about the address (@, P) of said... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080192731 - Mobile automatic location identification (ali) for first responders: Automatic Location Indication (ALI) data is digitally transferred from a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) to a first responder via a web site accessed by the first responder. The web site lists each live E911 call within their jurisdiction, and appends the caller's ALI and/or other location data relative to... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter Pllc

20080192735 - Multi-function bluetooth voip system: A multi-function Bluetooth® VoIP apparatus is adapted for conducting a talk over network with a network-accessible host. The multi-function Bluetooth® VoIP apparatus includes a memory module, a Bluetooth® module, a USB module, and a control module. In operation, the USB module is inserted into a USB port of the host.... Agent: Wpat, Pc Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080192729 - Multimedia gateway: In one aspect, a multimedia gateway for connecting a first computer network to a non-compatible second computer network is provided. The gateway having a first function block, a second function block and a third function block. The first function block establishes a multimedia data transmission with subscribers of the first... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080192733 - Sip based session setup method and terminal thereof: A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based session setup method and an terminal thereof, wherein the SIP based session setup method, in a session setup process performed between terminals in a SIP based network which includes at least one or more of the terminals and at least one or more entities,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080192737 - Switching apparatus and path monitoring setting method: I/F parts are connected to other switching apparatuses or terminal units and receive or transmit a signaling message and a packet from or to these other switching apparatuses or terminal units. A route setting part refers to the source address and the destination address of a packet included in a... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080192742 - Communication control apparatus, receiver apparatus, integrated circuit, and communication control method: A communication control apparatus (101) receiving packets transmitted via a network (1) includes a packet classifying unit (112) which classifies the received packets into either a first type packet including streaming data streaming-delivered or a second type packet not including the streaming data, based on protocol identifier information and a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080192739 - Ethernet encryption over resilient virtual private lan services: Encryption of Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 packet data units (PDUs) at the edge of the enterprise network, in such a way as to support resilient Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) network designs. The Ethernet traffic is securely tunneled within encrypted Ethernet tunnels from the edge to the edge of the enterprise network.... Agent: Triangle Patents, P.l.l.c.

20080192738 - Forward error correction for media transmission: A “Media Transmission Optimizer” provides a media transmission optimization framework for lossy or bursty networks such as the Internet. This optimization framework provides a novel form of dynamic Forward Error Correction (FEC) that focuses on the perceived quality of a recovered media signal rather than on the absolute accuracy of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080192741 - High speed data processing communication method and apparatus for embedded system: The present invention relates to a communication apparatus with a high-speed data processing function for an embedded system, and an apparatus thereof. A MAC process communication apparatus comprises hardware TCP/IP processing and socket decision means. Upon transmission of data, if data to be transmitted are previously set hardware processing data,... Agent: Christopher Paul Mitchell

20080192743 - Method and apparatus of preventing physical layer from establishing unsupported links: Methods and apparatus for preventing unsupported links between a host device and a link partner over a network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a link control signal is employed to release the reset of the candidate PHY, place a candidate PHY of the host device in a boot state, determining... Agent: Lewis And Roca LLP

20080192740 - Processing realtime media streams: In a data network having an internal data network, an external data network and an interface that connects the internal data network to the external data network, a method for processing packetized real-time media streams includes receiving an external data packet of a media stream by the interface from the... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20080192744 - Signaling system for telecommunications: A pair of devices (400, 401) appear to be a Common Channel Signaling (CCS) network nodes on each end of a pointdigital data link, that is, a normal CCS signaling link (402, 403). Multiple transport methods may be used to provide a redundant and diverse path for the signaling link.... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm Llc

20080192745 - Apparatus and method for treating addresses in an environmental control network: An apparatus for treating addresses employed in an environmental control network that involves at least one control unit communicating with a plurality of components, each respective component of the plurality of components having an address selected from a predetermined number of address values, includes: an address extending unit coupled with... Agent: Law Office Of Donald D. Mondul

20080192746 - Systems and methods for communicating secure media: An apparatus for communicating a video having a central processing unit and a communications circuit in communication with a source and destination computer is provided A memory coupled to the central processing unit stores a lookup table of accounts and a router module that controls the communications circuit by (i)... Agent: Jones Day

20080192747 - Frame concatenation with drop precedence assignment: A method for communication includes encapsulating multiple data packets, which carry data and have respective drop precedence (DP) values selected from a range of possible DP values, to produce a concatenated frame of a transport protocol. A composite drop precedence (CDP) value is assigned from the range to the concatenated... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080192749 - Method and system of efficient packet reordering: A method and system is provided to efficiently order packets received over a network. The method detects breaks in sequences for one or more packet flows by detecting out-of-sequence packets and enters the segment of sequential packets into a separate memory area, such as a linked list, for a particular... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080192748 - Method of broadcasting in a telecommunications network in a segmentation re-assembly mode: Provided is a method of broadcasting in a telecommunications network in a segmentation/re-assembly mode, wherein segmentation and/or re-assembly is performed based on ordering information or sequence number information generated from a transmission schedule.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080192753 - Method and system for providing qos service: A method and system for providing QoS service includes analyzing signaling packets by which various soft terminals/hardware terminals register to a system and call the system, extracting the user signaling feature codes, such as the telephone number or domain name of the user and the audio, video and data information,... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080192752 - Parameterized quality of service architecture in a network: A communication system and method including the steps of receiving a first request to initiate a guaranteed quality of service flow in a network, broadcasting a second request from a Network Coordinator to a plurality of nodes connected to the network and receiving a first response to the second request... Agent: Duane Morris, LLP Ip Department

20080192751 - Method and system for service provision: A service provisioning method includes: a corresponding relation between the physical address of a terminal and the service information of a user is stored in a service server; after a service request from the terminal is receipted by the service server, the service requested for the user is determined by... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080192750 - System and method for preventing ip spoofing and facilitating parsing of private data areas in system area network connection requests: A system and method for preventing IP spoofing and facilitating parsing of private data areas in system and network connection requests are provided. With the system and method, an identifier, such as the high order bit of a Q_Key, is utilized to determine if a communication connection request originates with... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.c.

20080192754 - Routing system and method for managing rule entries of ternary content addressable memory in the same: A method of managing rule entries of a Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM) in a routing system includes: creating a hash table having a hash key corresponding to each entry; creating a single linked list for linking nodes, the single linked list using the entry of the hash table as... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080192755 - Constituent virtual circuit connection evaluation method and apparatus: An aggregate virtual circuit multi-link frame relay-based platform can detect connection of at least one constituent virtual circuit to at least a second aggregate virtual circuit and then, prior to initiating ordinary use of that detected connection, automatically transmit, via each detected connection, an identifier to that second aggregate virtual... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080192756 - Traffic diversion in an ethernet-based access network: An arrangement and method for relieving the traffic load on an edge node in a broadband Ethernet-based access network, which normally employs traffic separation such that all traffic is routed via the edge node. Peer-to-peer traffic between end users places a large burden on the capacity of the edge node.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080192761 - Data processing system, method and interconnect fabric having an address-based launch governor: A data processing system includes an interconnect fabric, a protected resource having a plurality of banks each associated with a respective one of a plurality of address sets, a snooper that controls access to the resource, one or more masters that initiate requests, and interconnect logic coupled to the one... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080192759 - Media gateway and control method thereof: A media gateway, which generates a context based on a control message transmitted from a media gateway controller and controls bearer transfers between a first network and a second network, comprises a context determination unit, an optimization judgment unit, an optimization processing unit, and a context control unit. The context... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080192760 - Method and apparatus for assigning transcoding resources in a session boarder controller: control means (24) adapted to determine idle processing capacity of said digital signal processing means (23a, 23b, 23c) and to reject resource-consuming connections that require codec conversion, if the total amount of idle processing capacity would fall below a threshold that depends on the number of idle trunks.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080192758 - Mobile ipv6 route optimization in different address spaces: A route optimization method (300, 600) is described herein which is used by an IPv6 mobile node (402, 702) to communicate with another IPv6 node (404, 704) by transmitting and receiving IPv6 traffic within an IPv4/UDP bi-directional tunnel (407, 707) through an IP network (412, 712) without routing the IPv6... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080192757 - System and method for enabling transfer of data and communication between individuals: A system for relaying data from a first subject to a second subject is provided. The system includes a database server configured for receiving data associated with an identifier from the first subject operating a first user client connected to a first communication network and alerting the second subject to... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080192762 - Graceful restart for use in nodes employing label switched path signaling protocols: When a node has to restart its control component, or a (e.g., label-switched path signaling) part of its control component, if that node can preserve its forwarding information across the restart, the effects of such restarts on label switched path(s) the include the restarting node are minimized. A node's ability... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080192765 - Apparatus and method for packet buffer management in ip network system: An apparatus, computer program and method for packet buffer management in an IP network system. The apparatus includes at least one link queue buffer, a shared buffer, a buffer state detector, and a buffer manager. The at least one link queue buffer is allocated a buffer of a packet stored... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080192764 - Counter based quality of service (qos) class upgrade: A packet switched node (router), a queuing system and a method for queuing packets are described herein that use tags and manipulate counters in a manner that eliminates the reordering of the packets after a Quality of Service (QoS) class had been altered in one or more of the packets.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080192763 - Network discovery and dynamic adaptation of insufficient qos resources: In one embodiment, a method is illustrated as including receiving a data packet at a network device, and upshifting a Quality of Service (QoS) reservation, wherein the upshifting is based upon an observed increase type selected from the group consisting of an observed increase in network traffic, data packet size,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080192766 - Collision detection for random access procedure: A method, an apparatus and a communication system for collision detection for a random access procedure for an uplink data channel. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a module configured to transmit a data transmission on the uplink data channel, and an uplink scheduling and signal generating module configured to... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.l.p.

20080192767 - Method of transmitting a high-priority message in a lighting control system: A lighting control system having a plurality of control devices coupled to a communication link operates with a communication protocol that allows the system to expeditiously process high-priority events while operating communicate at a low enough baud rate to allow for a free-wiring topology of the communication link. The transmission... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080192769 - Apparatus and method for prioritizing communications between devices: An apparatus and method for prioritizing communications between devices are provided. According to one aspect, an interface device for providing communications between at least one source device and at least one destination device comprises an input, logic, and an output. The input of the interface device receives data in a... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080192768 - Apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium for interfacing communication devices: An apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium for interfacing communication devices are provided. According to one aspect, an interface device for providing communications between a first device and a second device comprises one or more inputs, one or more outputs, and logic. The one or more inputs of the interface device... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080192770 - Internetworking multiple communication technologies: The present disclosure includes a system and method for internetworking multiple communication technologies. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving services of a first communication technology in a first protocol. The first communication technology is internetworked with a second communication technology of an end user device.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080192771 - System for converting data based upon ipv4 into data based upon ipv6 to be transmitted over an ip switched network: Certain exemplary embodiments provide a method for converting data packets based upon IPv4 protocol into data packets based upon IPv6 protocol, said method comprising converting any data packet based upon the IPv4 protocol into a data packet based upon the IPv6 protocol before transmitting it to an IP switched network... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080192772 - Low-weight hybrid deterministic highspeed data bus: Switchless deterministic data bus networks and interfaces are disclosed. In one embodiment, a network includes a switchless shared bandwidth data bus; a plurality of nodes in communication with the shared bandwidth data bus; and a deterministic transport layer hosted on each node of the plurality of nodes, the deterministic transport... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20080192773 - Methods and apparatus to manage bandwidth utilization in an access network: Methods and apparatus to manage bandwidth utilization in an access network are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus comprises an access multiplexer communicatively coupled to a services network via a communication path, and configured to communicate with a first user device via a first connection and with a second user device... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, Llc

20080192774 - Method and system for aggregating multiple small packets in wireless communication: A method and system for packet communication in a wireless system, implementing a process for aggregating multiple data units into a single aggregated frame, transported as payload in a carrier frame having a header, and separately protecting said header and payload with error recovery information for transmission over a wireless... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080192775 - Transmitting and receiving system, transmitting apparatus, and receiving apparatus: A transmitting and receiving method of transmitting and receiving data between a transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus through a network that exchanges data using a packet includes: causing at least one of the transmitting apparatus and the receiving apparatus to secure a storage region corresponding to the data as... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080192776 - Mechanism for increasing uwb mac efficiency and bandwidth via the period inclusion of phy preambles for synchronization: A wireless device may select shorter preambles that enable the use of a newly defined Zero Length Inter-Frame Space (ZIFS). The shortened or zero length preambles may be inserted into a Physical Layer Convergence Protocol (PLCP) preamble as determined by the PHY while maintaining packet/frame synchronization.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080192777 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data: A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed. The method of processing data of a transmitting system includes generating signaling information including service-related transmission parameters of mobile service data, packetizing the generated signaling information to a predetermined data packet format, primarily multiplexing the packetized signaling information... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080186841 - Method and system for determining a frequency offset: A method for determining a frequency offset from a plurality of signal values is described wherein first correlation coefficients are determined from the signal values and second correlation coefficients are determined from the first correlation coefficients. The second correlation coefficients are linearly combined and the frequency offset is determined as... Agent: Crockett & Crockett, P.C.

20080186842 - Detect-and-multiplex technique for spectrum sharing: A wireless communication system and a detect-and-multiplex (DAM) spectrum sharing technique eliminate contention by secondary spectrum users by multiplexing multiple access methods. Suitable multiple access methods include time division multiple access (TDMA), frequency division multiple access (FDMA), code division multiple access (CDMA), space division multiple access (SDMA), orthogonal frequency division... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080186843 - Method and system for combining ofdm and transformed ofdm: Methods and systems are provided that enable an OFDM transmitter to be used for transmitting conventional OFDM or a form of transformed OFDM. A technique is provided for transforming a coded and modulated sequence of samples prior to an IFFT that enables the transformed sequence of samples to be transmitted... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20080186844 - Method for recovering service forward routing and system thereof: A method for recovering service forward routing includes the steps of: suppressing the service forward routing on a standby link from changing during a routing learning process when a primary link recovers from a fault state to a normal state, establishing a label distribution protocol (LDP) session on the primary... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080186846 - Finite state machine of traffic stream metrics for adaptation of load-based call admission control in wireless networks: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a call admission request; in a first state, applying a first call access control (CAC) algorithm to the call admission request; in a second state, applying a second CAC algorithm to the call admission request; and transition between the first state and the... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080186845 - Staging latency performances and orchestrating network resources with low latency requirements: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for orchestrating behavior of network resources while reducing latency. According to one embodiment, a system can comprise a first network resource communicatively coupled with a communications network. The first network resource can have predictable latencies and can be adapted to handle network signaling... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080186847 - Link-aware throughput acceleration profiles: An arrangement is provided for exposing TCP/IP profiles to a client application operating in a mobile computing environment where each profile comprises a set of TCP/IP configuration parameters that are mapped to a specific network type. An application programming interface (“API”) enables the client application to propagate configuration parameters in... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080186850 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data: A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed. Herein, additional encoding is performed on mobile service data, which are then transmitted, thereby providing robustness in the processed mobile service data, so that the mobile service data can respond more strongly against fast and frequent channel changes.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080186851 - System and method for dynamically controlling aggregate and individual packet flow characteristics within a compressed logical data tunnel: A system and method for dynamically controlling aggregate and individual packet flow characteristics within a compressed logical data tunnel. A logical data tunnel is formed and includes one or more packet flows. Each packet flow includes individual packets having a shared destination address. Bandwidth allocated to control an aggregated flow... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080186849 - Technique for dynamically controlling data packet transmissions: 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.

20080186848 - Video flow control and non-standard capability exchange for an h.320 call leg: In one embodiment, a system includes first and second gateway devices operable to communicate with respective first and second video terminals in accordance with H.323, the first and second gateway devices also being operable to communicate with each other over an H.320 call leg. Responsive to a first message received... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080186852 - Content-aware congestion control system: A content-aware congestion control scheme for software MPLS routers enables the MPLS routers to discard packets with less important content when there is congestion in the network. By employing such content-aware congestion control, the overall quality of multimedia content is not significantly affected, enabling graceful degradation of quality using a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080186856 - Default assignment of scheduled transmissions: Methods and apparatuses are presented for conducting communications over a shared communication medium, involving (a) sending a request from a first node, the shared communication medium organized to include (i) a request signal space including request segments each having a different location within the request signal space and (ii) a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080186858 - Method and apparatus for managing backhaul links in a communication network: A method and apparatus for managing communication in a communication network is provided. The method includes obtaining traffic information from one or more Base Stations (BSs). The traffic information of a BS corresponds to a traffic condition over one or more interfaces between the BS and a plurality of Mobile... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20080186853 - Method and apparatus for routing data in an inter-nodal communications lattice of a massively parallel computer system by employing bandwidth shells at areas of overutilization: A massively parallel computer system contains an inter-nodal communications network of node-to-node links. An automated routing strategy routes packets through one or more intermediate nodes of the network to reach a final destination. The default routing strategy is altered responsive to detection of overutilization of a particular path of one... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080186854 - Network monitoring system: The use of a configuration having monitoring equipment at every network termination, in conjunction with the application of measurements only across those paths where required, allows an improvement over prior art systems in the frequency and accuracy of measurements, and the rate at which measurement data can be collected and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080186855 - Reservation request system for controlling access to a shared communication medium: Methods and apparatuses are presented for conducting communications over a shared communication medium involving (a) sending a request from a first node, the shared communication medium organized to include a request signal space and a scheduled transmission signal space, the request signal space including a plurality of request segments each... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080186857 - Robust and efficient assignment of scheduled transmissions: Methods and apparatuses are presented for conducting communications over a shared communication medium, involving (a) sending a request from a first node, the shared communication medium organized to include (i) a request signal space including a plurality of request segments each having a different location within the request signal space... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080186859 - Code multiplexed requests for controlling access to a shared communication medium: Methods and apparatuses are presented for conducting communications over a shared communication medium involving a plurality of nodes, involving (a) sending a request from a first node, the shared communication medium organized to include a request signal space and a scheduled transmission signal space, the request signal space utilizing a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080186860 - Contention and polled requests for scheduling transmissions: Methods and apparatuses are presented for conducting communications over a shared communication medium involving a plurality of nodes, involving (a) sending a request from a first node, the shared communication medium organized to include a request signal space and a scheduled transmission signal space, the request signal space including a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080186861 - Successive scheduled requests for transmission: Methods and apparatuses are presented for conducting communications over a shared communication medium, involving (a) sending an initial request from a first node, the shared communication medium organized to include (i) a request signal space including a plurality of request segments each having a different location within the request signal... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080186862 - Congestion/load indication for high speed packet access: A radio access network (20) comprises a radio network controller (26) and a radio base station (28). The radio network controller (26) is configured to perform admission control and to allocate resources of a cell. The radio base station (28) is configured to determine load/congestion on a high speed shared... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080186863 - Method, system and article for improved tcp performance during packet reordering: TCP congestion avoidance is implemented upon retransmission of a packet and is reverted back to the original congestion state upon receipt of an early acknowledgement (ACK), indicating reordering of packets, thereby eliminating a needless restriction on TCP bandwidth. Upon receiving an ACK to a retransmitted packet, it is determined if... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080186864 - Flexible cost and constraint assignment method and system for hierarchical networks: A method and system for flexible cost management in a hierarchical network is disclosed. The method and system define paths and a cost function for each type of node in a hierarchical network. The cost function depends on the hierarchical level of the node, cost function of the node's parent... Agent: Michele Baillie

20080186865 - Hierarchical processing and propagation of partial faults in a packet network: A communications network component comprising a processor configured to implement a method comprising sending a fault message including degradation data, wherein the degradation data indicates a bandwidth reduction associated with a partial fault is disclosed. Also disclosed is a method comprising receiving a fault message comprising degradation data associated with... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080186866 - Communication-quality measuring apparatus, communication-quality measuring method, and computer program: A communication quality measuring apparatus comprising a connecting section establishing a connection to the packet exchange network, a capturing section capturing packets transferred over the packet exchange network, an accumulating section accumulating the packets, a control section repeating the capturing of packets in sections of fundamental processing times, a setting... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080186867 - Communications method: A method comprising determining information for the performance of a channel and sending the determined information to a transmitter is disclosed. The determined information can be sent to the transmitter with acknowledgement data. The determined information can include, for example, data rate and/or transmit power. The acknowledgement data can be... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080186870 - Controller area network condition monitoring and bus health on in-vehicle communications networks: A method and system monitor a communications network, e.g., a controller area network (CAN), and more specifically, an in-vehicle communications network, by maintaining a count of each type of error code and a histogram of all network messages seen by each of the controllers during a measurement period; and by... Agent: Deere & Company

20080186869 - Method and apparatus for establishing path in wireless network: A method and apparatus for establishing a path in a wireless network are provided where the method includes receiving location information about a first neighbor node and a second neighbor node, the first neighbor node being located within a range of a first hop from a source node, the second... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080186868 - Method and apparatus using varying length training sequences in radio communication: The present invention discloses a communication method for radio communication system, comprising the steps of detecting signals received from a mobile terminal so as to obtain detected results of a corresponding uplink channel of the received signals; determining the length criteria of training sequences in corresponding uplink bursts based on... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080186872 - Method for analyzing errors of a data stream, particularly a real-time data stream, in a data network, communication system, and monitoring computer: Disclosed is a method for analyzing errors of a data stream, particularly a real-time data stream, in a data network (100). According to said method, a time stamp and/or a sequence number is/are determined from or for each data packet transmitted between two communication terminals (10, 12) of the data... Agent: Hugh P. Gortler

20080186871 - Monitoring device mesh network systems and methods: Methods, systems, devices, and software are described for data transmission to and from a monitored device via a mesh network. Monitoring devices report usage, status, location, and other pertinent data via a mesh network, and perhaps other networks as well. Novel data collection, transmission, and aggregation techniques are described. Data... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080186877 - Method and apparatus for coordinating routing parameters via a back-channel communication medium: Systems and methods are described for enabling routers to coordinate via a back-channel communication medium. The information exchanged over the back-channel is used to increase the number of paths considered for the routers during route optimization. The Decision Makers may assert routes and prefixes to the routers under their control.... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080186876 - Method for classifying applications and detecting network abnormality by statistical information of packets and apparatus therefor: In a method for classifying the types of applications on an IP network, packets are received, and statistical information on at least TCP flags and TCP packet sizes of the received packets are gathered to store. On the basis of the statistical information on the stored TCP flags, the applications... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080186878 - Multimode network communication system: A multimode network communication system includes first equipment based on a first mode and second equipment based on a second mode, and the second equipment includes a local device and a remote device, the local device being arranged in the first equipment and the remote device being independent of the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080186873 - Network configuration optimization: A method for optimizing a network configuration of network resources includes receiving service attribute data associated with network resources and the traffic demand, based at least in part on the service attribute data, determining one or more network resources for providing communication between end user devices and a carrier network,... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080186875 - Network management apparatus and switching apparatus: A network management apparatus is for managing a plurality of switching devices that relay data through a data communication network. The network management apparatus includes a configuration information storage, a connectivity relationship detector and a configuration information modifier. The configuration information storage stores first configuration information. The first configuration information... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080186874 - Method and system for analyzing the topology of a multiprotocol label switching (mpls)/virtual private network (vpn) network: In general, embodiments of the invention relates to a method for analyzing a topology of a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)/Virtual Private Network (VPN) network. The method includes obtaining logical communication channel information for a plurality of virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) instances, wherein each of the plurality of VRF instances... Agent: Osha . Liang L.L.P. / Slb

20080186879 - Conferencing system having a user interface compatible with a variety of communication devices: Described is a conferencing system having a conference service, a Web-based service and an IP-telephony service, which enable the conferencing system to provide communication functions, such as conferencing and chat-room functionality, in response to at least one menu selection or menu navigation command received by a user interface. This user... Agent: Uriarte Law

20080186880 - Wireless communication system and wireless communication method: The present invention is a wireless communication system having a mobile station and a wireless base station, wherein the wireless base station further having a scheduling processing unit which divides system bandwidth into a plurality of wireless resource blocks in a frequency domain, performs scheduling so that other channels are... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080186884 - Apparatus and method for guaranteeing qos traffic rate in mobile communication system: Apparatus and method for guaranteeing a Quality of Service (QoS) traffic rate in a mobile communication system are provided. The scheduling method for guaranteeing a QOS traffic rate in a mobile communication system includes calculating a total sum of traffic rates based on a channel change and a total sum... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080186888 - Apparatus and method for home address recognition in mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for home address recognition in a mobile communication system is disclosed. A method for transmitting a Home Address (HoA) of a Mobile Node (MN) in a mobile communication system includes receiving an advertisement message in the MN; acquiring a network prefix from the advertisement message; checking... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080186886 - Apparatus and method for hybrid automatic repeat request signaling in broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) signaling in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. A communication method of a Base Station (BS) includes transmitting a Fixed Allocation (FA) message containing bitmap index information for all Mobile Stations (MSs) allocated with fixed resources; and transmitting bitmap... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080186885 - Method and apparatus for fragmenting a control message in wireless communication system: Techniques for sending control information are described. In an aspect, information to send in a control message may be fragmented into multiple parts, with each part including information of a particular type. The multiple parts may be segregated into multiple categories such as dynamic, semi-static, and static. A full message... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080186883 - Method and apparatus for offsetting a packet format table: A wireless communication infrastructure entity transmits an offset to a packet format table to a wireless terminal. The wireless terminal uses the received offset to determine the transmission characteristics for packets received from the wireless communication infrastructure entity.... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080186889 - Method of configuring and updating connection identifier in a broadband wireless access communication system: In a method of configuring connection identifier (CID) update information in a broadband wireless access (BWA) communication system where each service between an mobile station (MS) and a base station (BS) has a unique CID, a registration request message is received from the MS, requesting updating of at least one... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080186882 - Providing easy access to radio networks: An improved connectivity to radio access point is enabled by a server that includes a database storing data about various radio access points, and an evaluation module evaluating the quality of connection to each of the access points. Clients receive updates about relevant access points from the server and use... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080186881 - System for distributing radio signal: A method for distributing radio band signals between stations in a broadband structure. Radio band signals transmitted from a first station are converted to intermediate signals for transfer through a wire connection while maintaining code structure and modulation of the radio signals. The intermediate signals transferred over the wire connection... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20080186887 - Wireless communication device with physical-layer reconfigurable processing engines: Embodiments of a system and method for signal processing in a wireless communication device are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, the wireless communication device comprises a first reconfigurable processing engine for configuration by a processing unit to perform a plurality of baseband... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080186892 - Flexible dtx and drx in a wireless communication system: A data traffic responsive battery-saving approach for a wireless user equipment (UE) device such as an data packet capable cellphone incorporates flexible discontinuous transmission and reception (DTX-DRX) when in Long Term Evolution (LTE) active mode as dictated by an evolved radio access network (RAN) such as an evolved base node... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080186894 - Method and apparatus for automatic power saving mode insertion when an unknown or an offensive receiver detected in a wireless access system: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system, etc. for automatic power saving mode insertion when an unknown or an offensive receiver detected in a wireless access system. A method comprises generating a look-up-table from AGWN payloads in a plurality of AGWN packets. The look-up-table is then transmitted from a... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080186893 - Method and apparatus for providing efficient discontinuous communication: An approach is provided for receiving and transmitting data over a wireless network, while minimizing power consumption. A determination is made, as part of a discontinuous communication mechanism defining an on-period for permitting transmission of data over a network, whether a resource allocation has been made to a user equipment... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080186891 - Method and device for operating of two wireless services: The invention relates to a method and a device for operation of two wireless services whereas a first service is broadcasting signals within burst with known time distances between the bursts and a second service is transmitting signals at least between a first partner and a second partner. The problem... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080186890 - Method and system for power saving in wireless local area communication networks: A power saving process for wireless communications is provided, wherein a receiving station examines the header of each incoming frame and stops decoding data symbols of the frame, upon determining that the incoming frame is not intended for that receiving station. In one implementation, the receiving station stops receiving and... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080186895 - Communication method and apparatus for providing real-time wireless bulletin board system: The present invention provides a communication method executing by a network system, comprising the steps of: receiving a request for establishing a real-time wireless BBS (Bulletin Board Service) from a UE supporting P2P (Peer-to-Peer) communication mode among a group of UEs (User Equipments), wherein the request includes identification information of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080186896 - Wireless multicast proxy: Apparatus having corresponding methods and computer programs comprise: an input circuit adapted to receive a first packet of data, wherein the first packet has an Internet Protocol (IP) multicast destination address; a controller adapted to identify one or more wireless clients based on the IP multicast destination address and unicast... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080186900 - Enhancing wimax performance with subcriber stations acting as ad hoc repeaters: A wireless communications network includes a subscriber station acting as a relay station (or ad-hoc repeater) between another subscriber station (a child subscriber station) and a base station (BTS) when there is no LOS between the other subscriber station and the base station, but there is LOS between the other... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080186899 - Legacy wireless communication device coexisting amble sequence: The embodiments generate a new type of amble sequence for a wireless communication network with mixed nodes, by generating a first amble sequence invisible to a first node based upon an existing amble sequence for the first node and generating a second amble sequence having a low to zero cross-correlation... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080186897 - Methods and nodes in a communication system for controlling the use of access resources: The object of the invention is to achieve a solution for managing the use of simultaneously accessible access resources (211, 212, 213) connecting a mobile router (204) of a mobile network (201) and a home agent (216) in a home network (215) of the mobile router (204) by means of... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080186902 - System and method for operating a large-scale wireless network: There is described an inventive system and method for reducing route computational work load by restricting the routing calculation to a local portion of the data path based on the consideration of the location of those member devices within the same cell, each of which wireless member units is operably... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080186901 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication device and wireless communication method, and computer program: A wireless communication system, wherein packet transmission operations are carried out in an infrastructure mode, includes: a first terminal station serving as a data transmission source; a second terminal station serving as a data receiving destination; and a control station configured to contain each terminal station and relay a packet... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080186898 - Wireless network protocol system and methods: A system and method for providing wireless network communications between a plurality of remote devices and a site controller are provided. Each network and the site controller communicates using a communications protocol adapted to allow remote devices and the site controller to independently control the communication path for transmissions sent... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20080186903 - Derivation of user equipment identifiers: Solutions are described that enable a user equipment (UE) for a communication system always to derive required identifiers using an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) even when the UE has only a subscriber identity module. One solution is based on a table, or list, that is maintained in the UE.... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20080186904 - Data communication terminal, radio base station searching method, and program: By a search frequency information acquisition processing unit (11), search frequency setting information of a radio base station is received from a PC (30), and a condition such as a country name or the like is stored in a user setting information storage memory (21) whereas the frequency information to... Agent: Bruce L. Adams Adams & Wilks

20080186905 - Quality of service provisioning using periodic channel time allocation: To maximize power saving performance without compromising on the QoS requirement of an application stream, a method and wireless network device generates a subset of a periodic service interval can be used for medium time allocation and data and information can be transmitted in contiguous medium time allocated this way.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080186906 - Clock synchronization aid device for communication station(s) of a wireless network, and associated clock synchronization device: A device (DA1) is intended to aid a clock synchronization device (DS1) of a master station (SM) of a wireless network in performing time synchronizations, this master station (SM) comprising a master clock (HM) represented by the value of a master counter (CM) and means (MG1) for generating wireless frames... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080186909 - Apparatus and method for scheduling of high-speed portable internet system: The present invention relates to a scheduling apparatus and a method thereof in an HPi system. A scheduling algorithm is applied appropriate to a characteristic of each multimedia service (e.g., real-time service, non real-time service, best-effort service, etc.) and a transmission order of the IP packets transmitted from a network... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080186910 - Apparatus and method for supporting different frame structures in broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for supporting different frame structures in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. A communication method of a Base Station (BS) includes determining a frame structure to be provided. A MAP message including an indicator that indicates a new standard is generated, when the provided frame... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080186907 - Method for controlling communication route of wireless multi-hop network system and communication terminal: A wireless multi-hop network is formed by exchanging a control message including a HELLO message and a topology message between a plurality of communication terminals. A communication terminal adjusts a control message transmission interval so as to reduce the control load according to its movement state and transmits a control... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080186908 - Methods and apparatus for use in a communication system: Various methods and apparatus are directed to, among other things, an access node which is used in providing enhanced functionality and fault tolerance in a system which distributes home agent functionality between a home agent control node and a tunneling node, referred to herein as a home agent tunneling node,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080186914 - Access point and method of controlling channel change in the same: An access point and a method of controlling channel change in the access point. The access point includes: a channel change event detector for checking whether an event of requesting to change a channel used for transmitting and receiving a packet between the access point and a counterpart access point... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080186915 - Apparatus and method for scheduling for collaborative spatial multiplexing in a broadband wireless communication system: Provided is an apparatus and method for scheduling for collaborative spatial multiplexing in a broadband wireless communication system. An apparatus for a base station for supporting collaborative spatial multiplexing in a broadband wireless communication system includes a controller, an estimator, and a determiner. The controller selects a second mobile station... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080186913 - Data transmission method using the number of stations joined multicast service, base station and terminal device therefor, and wireless communication system having the same: The present invention relates to a wireless communication data transmission method considering the number of terminals requesting services. The present invention provides a wireless communication base station for use in a network where a multicast service is received from a network entity and is provided to at least one or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080186911 - Method of using uplink reference signals for access grant requests: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for using uplink reference signals for access grant requests. The method includes determining that at least one mobile unit is requesting access to at least one uplink channel based on information indicative of a change in a masking sequence applied to at... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080186912 - Method, apparatus, system, computer program product and computer program distribution medium for data transfer: A method for maintaining data transfer includes detecting user device inactivity in a communications system; releasing a user connection to a core network element for saving resources; and maintaining a user data service for enabling data transfer from the core network element via a radio network element to a user... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC Attorneys At Law

20080186916 - Wireless communication system, data transmission method for uplink thereof, base station device, and mobile station device: A wireless base station sends transmission parameters that specify a control signal coding rate and a data signal coding rate which satisfy a BLER (Block Error Rate) required for a control signal and a data signal in a TTI (Transmit Time Interval) scheduled in response to a transmission request from... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080186919 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing extended measurement control signal for handoff measurement under interference coordination: In one non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, a method includes: receiving radio resource control signaling with a user equipment, wherein the radio resource control signaling is indicative of at least one frequency sub-band to be measured by the user equipment for a particular cell in a manner transparent to at least one... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080186917 - Decoupling scanning from handoff for reduced delay over wireless lan: Methods and systems for handing off a wireless client between access points wherein the scanning for access points in decoupled from the handing off, thus reducing the delay in the handing off.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080186918 - Method and system for reducing backhaul utilization during base station handoff in wireless networks: Systems and methods are provided that facilitate active queue management of internet-protocol data packets generated in a data packet switched wireless network. Queue management can be effected in a serving base station as well as in an access terminal, and the application that generates the data packets can be executed... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080186920 - Seamless context switching for radio link protocol: Techniques to support handover of a terminal from a source base station to a target base station are described. In one design, a determination is made whether a change in personality is requested by the terminal. If the answer is ‘Yes’, then the personality of the terminal may be switched... Agent: Eric Ho/truong Dinh Qualcomm Incorporated

20080186921 - System, apparatus and method for providing services: A system and apparatus for providing services are provided by embodiments of the present invention. It is guaranteed that a UE is able to establish a call branch at the CS network side with a CSA. The CSA and the S-CSCF are able to establish a call branch at an... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080186922 - Wireless communications handoff method and system employing such: A method for reducing a delay in a wireless communications system resulting from a handoff while mitigating a risk of premature termination of wireless communications, the method includes comparing data indicative of actual use of the wireless communications systems to at least one predetermined criteria. If the comparing determines a... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080186923 - Qos signaling for mobile ip: A quality of service (QoS) signaling packet for arranging QoS connections upon handoff between a mobile node (MN) and a correspondent node (CN) using Internet Protocol (IP), the signaling packet includes one or more QoS flow requirements, one or more classifier parameters, QoS session identification information composed of a previous... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080186924 - Gsm cell broadcast sms message transmission in cdma communication systems: Techniques to send GSM CBS messages over a CDMA air interface. The encapsulation of a GSM CBS message in CDMA messages may be achieved using various schemes. An indication is provided at each of a number of pertinent layers to allow the terminals to determine whether a GSM CBS message... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080186932 - Approach for mitigating the effects of rogue wireless access points: According to an approach for mitigating the effects of rogue WAPs in wireless local area networks, a determination is made of one or more clients that are communicating with a rogue WAP. For example, messages may be intercepted and examined to identify messages that are sent by or to rogue... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080186933 - Approach for providing wireless network services using wireless access point groups: An approach for providing wireless network services using a WAP group includes establishing a WAP group that represents a logical grouping of WAPs. Communications between WAPs in the WAP group and clients are performed using a shared BSSID. One of the WAPs in the WAP group is designated as a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080186926 - Collecting implicit information for determining context of event actions: A device, system, and method are directed towards determining a start and/or an end time for a spontaneous event. A mobile device user creates a group for the spontaneous event, and sends the members an invite. During the event, members share media content and/or text messages with other members. Based,... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080186925 - Communication method, communication message processing method, program for executing these methods on computer: A technique for flexibly performing processes depending on the type of a path for providing an additional service when there are a plurality of paths for providing additional services for the same session between terminals communicating with each other over a network is disclosed. According to the technique, when a... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080186930 - Peer mobile router authentication method, and multiple peer care-of addresses registration method, and mobile router failover method for multi-homed mobile networks: Provided are a peer MR authentication method, a multiple peer CoAs registration method, a failover method for multi-homed mobile networks, and a computer readable recording medium thereof. The registering method includes the steps of: a) determining whether a second MR is around a first MR; b) at the first MR,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080186931 - Resource requests for a wireless communication system: Techniques for sending resource requests in a wireless communication system are described. Multiple types of quality of service (QoS) information may be supported for resource requests and may include QoS class and latency deadline. A terminal may have data to send on the reverse link and may determine QoS information... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080186927 - Switching within a communication network: This disclosure provides a system and method for intra-network switching. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a communication in an Internet Protocol network. The communication is based, at least in part, on a cellular radio technology associated with a mobile switching center. The communication is routed to a network... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080186929 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for communicating the state of a wireless user device in a wireless domain to an application server in an internet protocol (ip) domain: Systems, methods, and computer program products communicating the state of a wireless user device in a wireless domain to an application server in an internet protocol (IP) domain are disclosed. According to one aspect, a system for communicating the state of a wireless user device in a wireless domain to... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080186928 - Transmission rate control method, mobile station and radio base station: A transmission rate control method according to the present invention includes: transmitting, at a radio base station, an absolute grant channel including a mobile station identifier; judging, at a mobile station, in accordance with the mobile station identifier included in the received absolute grant channel, whether or not the received... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080186936 - Method of generating data block in wireless communication system: A method of generating a data block in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving at least one data block of an upper layer, and generating a data block of a lower layer comprising a header and the at least one data block of the upper layer,... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080186934 - Mimo control signaling in a wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a method for data transmission in a communication system. The method including, determining, at the transmitter, whether to transmit data signal using a single codeword or two codewords, when it is determined that the single codeword transmission is used, coding, by the transmitter, a control... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080186935 - Multiplexing and transmission of multiple data streams in a wireless multi-carrier communication system: Techniques for multiplexing and transmitting multiple data streams are described. Transmission of the multiple data streams occurs in “super-frames”. Each super-frame has a predetermined time duration and is further divided into multiple (e.g., four) frames. Each data block for each data stream is outer encoded to generate a corresponding code... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080186938 - Frequency sharing method, receiving station and transmitting station: In a frequency sharing radio system including a plurality of systems that share a specific frequency, upon establishment of a new system using a frequency that an existing system uses, a receiving station of the existing system receives a signal from a transmitting station of the existing system at a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080186937 - Interlaced complementary code sets based on codes with unity peak sidelobes: A new class of biphase complementary code sets is proposed. Individual codes in each set have peak sidelobes of unity magnitude. The individual codes could have gaps of zeros but they are interlaced together without gaps in the final scheme. A number of such codes, as introduced here, use Barker... Agent: Adly T. Fam

20080186939 - System and method for service interworking between heterogeneous communication systems: Disclosed is a system and method for service interworking between heterogeneous communication systems. The service interworking system includes a first system and a second system that is evolved from the first system and can decode control and broadcast signals used in the first system. The first and second systems provide... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080186940 - Assignment modes for a shared communication medium: Methods and apparatuses are presented for conducting communications over a shared communication medium involving (a) sending a request from a first node, the shared communication medium organized to include (i) a request signal space including a plurality of request segments each having a different location within the request signal space... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080186941 - Communication device, a method of operating a communication device and a communication system: A mobile station (100) in a mobile communication system obeys commands received from a serving base station (300) to decrease its transmission rate, and obeys commands received from the serving base station (300) to increase its transmission rate except when a predetermined time period is in progress. It obeys commands... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080186942 - Wireless base station apparatus capable of effectively using wireless resources according to sorts of data: A wireless base station apparatus according to the present invention has a plurality of wireless resources allocated in correspondence with communication processings on real-time data, non-real-time data and shared data, and a control section. The control section stores a table for recording states of use of the wireless resources, and... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080186943 - System and method for processing data and control messages in a communication system: A system and method for receiving data and control messages comprised of a series of data units is provided. The data units comprising each message are structured to follow a particular sequence, such as zero or more data units of a first type followed by one or more data units... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080186947 - Bi-directional packet data transmission system and method: A bi-directional packet data transmission system for a packet data transmission between a terminal and a radio access network includes an uplink resource and a downlink resource which are independently set. Memory resources can be effectively managed even in a packet data transmission service with the asymmetrical structure such that... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080186946 - Method and apparatus for versatile mac multiplexing in evolved hspa: Methods and apparatuses for versatile medium access control (MAC) multiplexing in evolved HSPA are disclosed. More particularly, methods for downlink optimization of the enhanced high speed MAC (MAC-ehs) entity and uplink optimization of the MAC-i/is entity are disclosed. Apparatuses for using the optimized downlink and uplink MAC entities are also... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080186944 - Method and system for robust mac signaling: A method for indicating and interpreting robust MAC signaling, the indicating method having the steps of: checking whether a MAC-PDU contains control information; and if yes, providing an indication to use a robust configuration for a HARQ feedback transmission, and the interpreting method having the steps of: receiving a MAC-PDU;... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080186945 - Wireless lan system and transmission method of data thereof: The present invention relates to a frame transmission scheduling method of a wireless communication considering frame transmission delay time information. The present invention provides a wireless communication system, which comprises a transmitting station for storing a transmission time in a transmission frame, calculating a delay time using the transmission time... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080186948 - Method and device for frame synchronization and coarse frequency offset estimation (cfe): A device for Frame Synchronization and coarse frequency offset estimation (CFE) and a method thereof is provided. The method may include the step of receiving a communication signal in a matched filter. The matched filter may be configured for selecting one or more blocks from the communication signal. The matched... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20080186949 - Preamble design for synchronization and cell search: A method of synchronizing signals in a wireless network uses a two part preamble transmitted on the downlink between a base station and a mobile station. The preamble includes a common pilot common to a plurality of base stations and a dedicated pilot unique to the transmitting base station. The... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080186950 - Wireless data frame structure among nodes: The embodiments provide transmitting at same time first and relay second node preambles aligning data frames among the first node and the relay second node wirelessly communicating in a channel and transmitting by the first node one or more radio resource control parameters managing radio resources of the wireless communicating... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080186951 - Method of setting bidirectional path, and communication system and node device for providing the same: Disclosed is a method of setting a bidirectional path between a first node and a second node in a network. A first path from the first node to the second node is established by a first path establishing procedure in which a first path message including a record of a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080186954 - Interworking supplementary call services between different communication protocols: A method for interworking supplementary call services between different VOIP protocols is provided. The method comprises receiving, during a call between a first end device and a second end device, a first message in a first protocol format for the second end device to transfer the call to a third... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080186956 - Method and system for processing call change request in an internet protocol multimedia subsystem: A method and system for processing a call change request in an IMS are provided, in which a network entity receives a call request message requesting a first call from a calling UE, stores call information and caller information of the call request message, forwards the call request message to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080186952 - Method and system for setting up a multimedia session in multimedia internetworking systems: This invention discloses a method and system for preparing for setting up a multimedia session between two terminals in a multimedia internetworking system, the method comprises receiving a call setup message by the gateway controller module from a first terminal for setting up the multimedia session with a second terminal,... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

20080186953 - System and method to identify voice call continuity (vcc) subscriber: A mobile device, method, and machine instructions for mobile device communication are provided. The mobile device includes a voice call continuity status checker to determine a voice call continuity status and use the voice call continuity status to determine whether to initiate voice call continuity related activities. The method includes... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080186955 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for registering enhanced 911 (e911) information using the session initiation protocol (sip): A method of registering a physical location of an Internet Protocol (IP) device with an Emergency 911 (E911) system includes subscribing to the IP device using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), receiving a message containing physical address information associated with the IP device, and storing the physical address information in a... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080186958 - Dynamic configuration of voip trunks: A method of configuring Internet telephony services for a private branch exchange includes providing the requirements for the private branch exchange to an Internet telephony service provider, establishing, at the Internet telephony service provider, configuration data for the requirements, providing the established configuration data to the private branch exchange, and... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20080186957 - Handheld electronic device including voice over ip quality indicator, and associated method: A method of placing a call from a handheld device to a receiving device using VoIP includes initiating the call, transmitting a plurality of voice data packets to the receiving device, determining whether the receiving device has detected one or more missing or delayed packets, and providing a poor voice... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080186959 - Method and system for employing underutilized communication channels as outbound gateways: Disclosed is a method and system for employing underutilized communication channels as outbound gateways. A call from a calling terminal to a called terminal is routed to a first residential gateway at a first customer premises via a broadband data network and then routed from the first residential gateway to... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080186960 - System and method of controlling media streams in an electronic device: The present invention provides a method of controlling media streams in an electronic device that includes receiving an input stream from a plurality of applications executed on the electronic device outside of an execution thread of any of the plurality of applications and routing each of the input streams to... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20080186961 - System and method for reevaluating granted arbitrated bids: A system and method are provided for fairly distributing grants for access to switch outputs, through crossbars, between switch input channels. Crossbars are granted access between specified switch inputs and switch outputs, and the least recently used input channels are associated with selected switch outputs. A history of the previous... Agent: Gerald Maliszewski Law Office Of General Maliszewski

20080186965 - Method and system for forwarding data in layer-2 network: A method and a system for forwarding data in layer-2 network are disclosed. The method includes: configuring a virtual MAC address and a virtual MAC forwarding table for each node in a management domain in a layer-2 network; encapsulating a data packet with a source virtual MAC address and a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080186963 - Method and system for supporting cross cluster extension mobility in internet-protocol telephony: A method to support cross cluster extension mobility (CCEM) in a communication network, which includes a plurality of clusters, each of the plurality of clusters including a call manager, the method includes receiving a request for cross cluster extension mobility from a user on a first telephony device located in... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080186964 - Method, apparatus and system for establishing a direct route between agents of a sender node and a receiver node: In the present technique of a communication system (100), an address of a forwarding agent (114) linked to a receiver node (112) is detected to provide a discovered address. The discovered address is then used to establish a direct route with the forwarding agent of the receiver node for subsequent... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080186962 - Policy-based tunneling of multicast streams: A policy-based multicast tunneling system. In particular implementations, a method includes maintaining a plurality of multicast tunnels with one or more remote network elements, each multicast tunnel being operable to carry one or more multicast streams; forwarding one or more packets of a multicast stream using selected multicast tunnels of... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080186966 - Method for ensuring the accessibility of communication network subscribers: An individual accessibility profile specific to each subscriber is created when the communication connection is established, and a connection to the at least one communication terminal is established as required, according to the data stored in the accessibility profile, the information being supplied to the subscriber via connection when the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080186967 - Method for supporting source-specific multicast forwarding over ethernet and device thereof: A method for supporting source-specific multicast (SSM) forwarding over Ethernet, includes: making a Source-Specific Virtual Local Area Network (SS-VLAN) include source IP (SIP) information of the SSM; using the SS-VLAN identifier as a VLAN identifier upon Ethernet encapsulation of an SSM IP message; and performing SSM forwarding on the basis... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080186969 - Internet protocol based encryptor/decryptor two stage bypass device: A system (706, 714) is provided for a network signaling protocol bypass around a cryptographic device (1008, 1108). The system is comprised of a first bypass device (1004-1, 1004-2) configured to parse a GIST signaling transport protocol identifier (960) from a transport layer protocol header (906) of a packet (900).... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20080186970 - System and method of fast adaptive tcam sorting for ip longest prefix matching: A system and method are provided for sorting IP routing table entries in a TCAM for longest IP prefix matching LPM of destination IP addresses. The IP routing table is divided into logical blocks, for each block an associated routing entry IP prefix length. Each block is of a respective... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080186971 - Systems and methods for processing access control lists (acls) in network switches using regular expression matching logic: A network node, such as an Ethernet switch, is configured to monitor packet traffic using regular expressions corresponding to Access Control List (ACL) rules. In one embodiment, the regular expressions are expressed in the form of a state machine. In one embodiment, as packets are passed through the network node,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080186968 - Triple-tier anycast addressing: In one embodiment, a solution is provided wherein redundant routers are treated as a single emulated switch. When a packet is received at a layer 2 edge switch from a host, the layer 2 edge switch may determine a switch identifier for the emulated switch using a destination anycast hardware... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080186973 - Communications apparatus and frame control method: In a frame control method in a communications system providing a multipath function for controlling a frame having a header area and a data area, attaching, in a transmission apparatus, order information indicating a transmission order to the data area of the frame; outputting, from the transmission apparatus to a... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080186972 - Data stream synchronization: The rate at which a receiving device processes a stream of data packets received from an asynchronous device is synchronized with the rate at which the asynchronous device is transmitting the data packets. The device stores the received data packets in a buffer “memory and processes the data from the... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080186974 - System and method to process data packets in a network using stateful decision trees: A method and device to process a packet received by a network device is described. The method may comprise analyzing the packet to identify at least one set of a plurality of sets, mapping the at least one set to at least one functional unit, and performing functionality associated with... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080186978 - Method and independent communications subnet for determining label-switched routes a communications subnet of this type: The basic idea of the present invention is to couple the label-distributing multi-protocol, hitherto only used in IP backbone networks, with an internal subnet route protocol that is used in independent communications subnets so as to be able to design the routing of information packets over different route topologies in... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080186976 - Multi-carrier scheduling: The invention provides a scheduling of data blocks on multiple data carriers and a selection of data carrier to listen to. A transmitting unit simultaneously transmits, during a communication session with at least one participating receiving unit, at least a first data block on a first data carrier and a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080186975 - Reservation request improvements: Methods and apparatuses are presented for conducting communications over a shared communication medium involving (a) sending a request from a first node, the shared communication medium organized to include (i) a request signal space including a plurality of request segments each having a different location within the request signal space... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080186977 - Terminal affiliation switchover system: In the terminal affiliation switchover system of the invention, in the case of allocation of an IP address to one terminal in a VPN#1 in response to an IP address allocation request, a DHCP server module 121 changes registry information in a DHCP table 122 provided for the VPN#1 and... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080186981 - Switching hub and lan system: A switching hub is provided with a control unit for setting, for a port, a VLAN-ID comprising a subgroup ID of a subgroup constituting a VLAN, and a sub-ID of a group contained in the subgroup ID, and a switching processing unit for relaying a frame, which contains the VLAN-ID,... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080186979 - Virtual ip-based a/v inputs for universal media servers: In one embodiment, a universal media server (e.g., a set-top box) has zero or more physical audio and/or video (A/V) inputs configured to receive A/V data, and at least one Internet Protocol (IP) input configured to receive IP data. In particular, the universal media server has one or more virtual... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080186980 - Vlan numbering in access networks: The invention relates to VLAN numbering in access networks.... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20080186984 - Apparatus and method of controlling ad hoc network route: In an ad hoc network formed by a plurality of nodes, a process of transmitting a request to a plurality of adjacent nodes is repeated in a forward flooding process from a source node to a destination node, and information about a route including an adjacent node is registered in... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080186983 - Integrated circuit with data communication network and ic design method: An integrated circuit (10) comprises a plurality of functional blocks (101, 102, 103, 104) and a data communication network (100) comprising a plurality of network stations being interconnected via a plurality of communication channels (150) for communicating data packages between the functional blocks (101, 102, 103, 104). Each data package... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080186982 - Load balancing of broadband subscriber sessions: We describe an example system that includes a plurality of aggregation nodes. Each aggregation node is configured to generate a node utilization data. A pool master is configured to generate a node utilization list responsive to the node utilization data received from each aggregation node and to activate the plurality... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080186985 - Methods and systems to communicate media data across different networks: Example methods and apparatus to communicate media across different networks are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves storing via a first network device in a first network a first descriptor in a first data packet. The first data packet is then communicated to a second network device in a second... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080186986 - Signalling gateway: A signalling gateway for transmitting messages between a first network and a second network, where the first network comprises an SS7 network and the second network comprises an IP network, the second network comprising a plurality of application servers, the signalling gateway being operable to store SS7 characteristic information corresponding... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080186987 - Multi-rate, muti-port, gigabit serdes transceiver: A multi-port SERDES transceiver includes multiple parallel ports and serial ports, and includes the flexibility to connect any one of the parallel ports to another parallel port or to a serial port, or both. Furthermore, the multi-port transceiver chip can connect any one of serial ports to another serial port... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080186988 - Crc checking and mac-hs processing in an hsdpa-compatible receiver in a 3g wireless network: In one embodiment, a method for processing a transport block having a MAC-hs protocol data unit (PDU) and a corresponding checksum in an HSDPA-compatible (high-speed downlink packet access) receiver in a 3GPP wireless communication network, the method including: (a) recovering the transport block, (b) performing, substantially in parallel: (i) a... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20080186989 - Zero-delay queuing method and system: A zero-delay queuing method and system. The zero-delay queuing method includes the steps of: when a packet corresponds to a class set to perform zero-delay queuing, transferring the packet to a zero-delay queue; when a size of the packet does not exceed a CR value set for the class, transferring... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080186991 - Integrated circuit and method of arbitration in a network on an integrated circuit: The invention relates to an integrated circuit and to a method of arbitration in a network on an integrated circuit. According to the invention, a method of arbitration in a network on an integrated circuit is provided, the network comprising a router unit, the router unit comprising a first input... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080186992 - Method and apparatus for flexible interface bypass options in switches: A network switching module includes N communication port modules that send and receive data packets that include physical layer addresses. A switch core module routes the data packets between N-2 of the communication port modules based on the physical layer addresses. A bypass module selectively routes the data packets between... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080186990 - Translation module, method and computer program product for providing multiple infiniband address support for vm migration using infiniband address translation: To provide for VM migration in an InfiniBand network, a translation module intercepts and InfiniBand packet and performs appropriate translation of the packet's virtual HCA address to a physical HCA address. The translation is based on the mapping table that is updated when a VM is created, destroyed, or migrated... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Research Triangle Park

20080186993 - Method of data transfer using tcp/ip protocol in a microcomputer environment: A method of data interchange within one or a network of microcomputers, wherein the microcomputers each have plural devices engaged for communication over a bus structure, the method including the steps of installing a TCP/IP protocol instruction set in each of the devices and in an operating system of each... Agent: Patent Law & Venture Group

20080186994 - Request detection error processing: Methods and apparatuses are presented for conducting communications over a shared communication medium, involving (a) sending a request from a first node, the shared communication medium organized to include (i) a request signal space including a plurality of request segments each having a different location within the request signal space... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080186995 - Mdu broadcasting signal distribution system: The present invention relates to MDU broadcasting signal distribution system, and more specifically, to MDU system that receives a broadcasting signal through a single broadcasting receiving antenna in a multiplex house or building where an IP network is provided, and then transmits the broadcasting signal to each MDU set-top box... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080186996 - Method and system for utilizing a 10/100/1g/10g base-t phy device for single channel and shared channel networks: Aspects of a method and system for utilizing a 10/100/1G/10GBase-T PHY device for single channel and shared channel networks are provided. In this regard, at least one switching element may be utilized to configure an Ethernet over twisted pair PHY device for communication over a single and/or shared channel. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080186998 - Network-on-chip environment and method for reduction of latency: The invention relates to an integrated circuit comprising a plurality of processing modules (IP) and a network (NoC) arranged for coupling processing modules (IP), comprising: the processing module (IP) includes an associated network interface (NI) which is provided for transmitting data to the network (NoC) supplied by the associated processing... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080186997 - Time multiplexed requests for controlling access to a shared communication medium: Methods and apparatuses are presented for conducting communications over a shared communication medium involving a plurality of nodes, involving (a) sending a request from a first node, the shared communication medium organized to include a request signal space and a scheduled transmission signal space, the request signal space including a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080187000 - Apparatus and method for generating subchannels in a communication system: An apparatus and method for generating subchannels in a communication system are provided. An apparatus and method of the invention includes a Base Station (BS) in which the BS groups J slots included in a subchannel generation zone into I groups, selects, from the J slots, M band-Adaptive Modulation and... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080186999 - Methods and apparatuses for circuit emulation multi-channel clock recovery: A method and system for providing multi-channel circuit emulation clock recovery wherein a single instance of the clock recovery logic effects circuit emulation clock recovery for multiple channels. For one embodiment of the invention, fine tuning clocking is effected by comparing an outgoing clock with a recovered clock and switching... Agent: Thomas Vanzandt

20080187001 - Method and system for transit between two ipv6 nodes of a utility network connected via an ipv4 network using encapsulation technique: One example embodiment provides a method and system where a node in an IPv6 utility network communicates with an IPv6 destination node through and IPv4 network. IPv6 utility nodes are reachable through at least one access point. IPv6 packets to be transmitted between an IPv6 access point an and an... Agent: Sean M. Fitzgerald

20080187003 - Piggyback requests in scheduled transmission: Methods and apparatuses are presented for conducting communications over a shared communication medium, involving (a) sending a request from a first node, the shared communication medium organized to include (i) a request signal space including a plurality of request segments each having a different location within the request signal space... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080187002 - Request signal designs for multiple service types: Methods and apparatuses are presented for conducting communications over a shared communication medium involving a plurality of nodes, involving (a) sending a request from a first node, the shared communication medium organized to include a request signal space and a scheduled transmission signal space, the request signal space including request... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080187004 - Parsing messages with multiple data formats: Provided are a method for parsing a bit stream including multiple data formats, and an apparatus and computer program including a set of parsers and parser-selection and invocation capabilities for handling parsing of multiple data formats. A first parser is selected and invoked to handle a first formatted component of... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080187005 - Method of data transmission in a multi-carrier based transmission system and device implementing the method: The proposed method concerns a mapping of data on physical resource in a transmission system where data of elementary streams is distributed over several physical resource blocks, and within each resource block in order to get data from a plurality of elementary streams on at least one sub-carrier and at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080187006 - Apparatus and method for reducing noise in seismic data: The disclosure herein provides a method of acquiring seismic data that includes receiving seismic signals at one or more sensors; sampling the received seismic signals into a plurality of samples, each sample having a same bit length; arranging the samples into a plurality of packets; compressing the plurality of packets... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20080187007 - Resuming a previously interrupted peer-to-peer synchronization operation: A method of synchronizing data between two devices can include starting, in a first device, a first synchronization operation comprising transmitting a first data set to be received by a second device, the first data set comprising changes to multiple different data elements in the first device that have occurred... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080187008 - Method for transmitting packets in a transmission system: A method for transmitting first packets encapsulated in second packets in a transmission system in which part of the first packets contain a first timing reference for synchronization of a receiver clock and at least part of said second packets contain a second timing reference for reducing transmission jitter of... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080187009 - Automatic delay compensated simulcasting system and method: A system and method of synchronizing transmissions in a simulcast system by continuously adjusting the signal transmission delay. Timing information that includes a GPS timestamp is continuously generated at a source site, encoded into a timing packet which along with a content signal can be transported over a network link... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.