Multiplex communications inventions 09/08

20080232233 - Concept for reducing crosstalk: A device for reducing mutual crosstalk of a signal routed across a first line and a second signal routed across a second line, wherein by the mutual crosstalk at an output of the first line a first interfered signal may be obtained and at an output of the second line... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080232234 - Channel sounding techniques for a wireless communication system: A technique for channel sounding in a wireless communication system includes determining respective geometries of multiple subscriber stations with respect to a serving base station. Respective time periods for sounding a channel between the multiple subscriber stations and the serving base station are then set based on the respective geometries... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080232235 - Systems and methods for reducing peak to average cross-correlation for sequences designed by alternating projections: A method for using a numerical method to design reference signals for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems is described. An input multiple input multiple output signal is determined. A nearest tight frame to one or more given structured vectors is obtained. One or more structured vectors from the nearest... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080232236 - Method and apparatus for channel estimation of ofdm with frequency inserted pilots: In an OFDM system having guard intervals interposed between symbols or frames, and having pilot signals distributed within the symbols or frames, a method for channel estimation is provided. The method comprising the steps of: in the time domain, performing an operation to obtain only a set of received pilots;... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20080232237 - Method and apparatus for robust timing recovery of ofdm system for fast fading channels: In an orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) communication system, a method comprising the step of performing time estimation in a time domain.... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20080232238 - Method and system for robust, secure, and high-efficiency voice and packet transmission over ad-hoc, mesh, and mimo communication networks: Using at least one MIMO-capable transceiver allows weighting calculations for signals transmitted and received, and enables individual packets to adapt, in a scalable, flexible, and responsive fashion to the real-world dynamics of a continuously varying communications network environment. The method and system of this invention use adaptively-derived diversity means to... Agent: George S. Cole, Esq.

20080232239 - Method and apparatus for communicating orthogonal pilot tones in a multiple antenna communication system: Methods and apparatus are provided for communicating pseudo-orthogonal pilot tones in a multiple antenna communication system. Data is transmitted in a multiple antenna communication system having N transmit antennas by generating a number of pilot tones for each of the N transmit antennas, wherein the pilot tones for each of... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080232240 - Method and apparatus for resource allocation within a multi-carrier communication system: A method and apparatus for performing resource allocation with lower required overhead is provided herein. Resource allocations for data transmissions are chosen in such a way as to provide channel quality information for various parts of the channel bandwidth (frequency selective channel quality information), such as allocating two different resource... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080232241 - Superimposed composite channel filter: Methods and systems are provided to generate digital coefficients for a filter. The generation of coefficients relies on a Fourier transformation of an impulse response in time domain that is zero padded, e.g., zeros are appended to an array corresponding to a sampled input signal of length M. A unit... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080232242 - Evaluating the position of a disturbance: The present invention relates to a method of and apparatus for evaluating the position of a disturbance on an optical link, in particular where the disturbance is a time-varying disturbance. An optical time domain reflectometry technique in which a series of low coherence test pulses is launched into an the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080232243 - Method and system for implementing redundancy for streaming data in audio video bridging networks: Aspects of a method and system for implementing redundancy for streaming data in audio video bridging networks are provided. Network resources may be reserved over a plurality of network paths. Reserved resources may be utilized for the transmission and/or reception of a corresponding plurality of data streams, wherein one or... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080232244 - Proactive protection mechanism based on advanced failure warning: In one embodiment, an apparatus can include: (i) logic configured to detect an advanced warning indication, such as for a degraded signal condition, on a first link between first and second network devices, where the detection can utilize a number of corrected bits and forward error correction (FEC), for example;... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080232245 - Transmission apparatus: A transmission apparatus includes an active programmable device; a standby programmable device upgrading the version; an external memory part that includes a table memory and a main signal memory and that is shared between the two programmable devices; and a switching part that selects either of the main signals processed... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080232246 - System and method for protection of a multicast traffic path: The core of a system and method for protecting multicast service path is: each multicast transmission coequal entity can transmit the service to another multicast transmission coequal entity by setting multiply multicast transmission coequal entities, accordingly, when there is abnormity in the service source of multicast transmission coequal entity, it... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080232247 - Network traffic demotion: A method and apparatus for demoting network traffic are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting traffic associated with a session over a first path, and maintaining state information identifying the first path as a forwarding path for the session. Traffic associated with the session is rerouted from the... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20080232248 - Multimodal multilevel precedence and preemption: A device comprising a network resource controller to preempt at least one multiple-user session over a primary modality of communication according to a precedence-level associated with users of the multiple-user session and to switch the multiple-user session to an alternate modality of communication without disconnection of the multiple-user session,... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080232251 - Flow control method and receiving end device: A method and device for a flow control over network devices includes a receiving end device and a transmitting end device. The receiving end device monitors an input buffer and determines whether an available space in the input buffer is less than a predetermined threshold. Upon determining that the available... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080232252 - Method of transmitting service information, and radio system: The invention relates to a radio system which transmits packet traffic and to a method of transmitting service information flexibly between a network part and a terminal in a radio system which transmits packet traffic and in which a connection set-up process is activated by means of a session management... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080232249 - Rank order filtering for randomly sampled data points: A method of rank order filtering and a rank order filter apparatus is defined by an established rank order and accepts into a buffer, data points to be filtered, each data point having a data value and an associated time stamp. Data points are accepted until the buffer contains data... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080232250 - Selection of an audio visual stream by sampling: The embodiments of the present invention provide for methods, devices, and systems for providing quality of service to network data that is received by an intermediate node in a local area network. In some embodiments, network data is categorized based on data flow, and based on such data flow, determining... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, PC

20080232253 - Port rate smoothing in an avionics network: A communication network is provided. The network includes a least one switch and a plurality of ports. Each port is in communication with the at least one switch. At least one of the ports is configured to introduce a time delay after each transmission of a frame based at least... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080232254 - Explicit service flow tear-down during connection setup in wireless network communications: Network circuitry and a method of operating the same in establishing and deleting a service flow in a wireless network. A network station receives a request, from an initiating network station, to establish a service flow. The network station receiving the request issues a response to that request, following which... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080232255 - Transmission apparatus, maintenance frame processing method, and recording medium having a transmission program: The disclosed apparatus and method include transmitting and receiving frame(s) to/from another transmission apparatus, storing header information of user frames that are currently being transmitted to the other transmission apparatus, detecting whether the maintenance frame was received, splitting user frames and interrupting the transmission processing of the user frames, adding... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080232256 - Mesh backhaul network planning: In an example embodiment, a number of contending nodes and colliding nodes for a plurality of links of a network is determined. The capacity of each of the plurality of links is determined. A sum of the traffic demand of each of the plurality of links divided the throughput of... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080232257 - Method of generically specifying congestion control and avoidance behavior: A method for controlling congestion control and avoidance behavior of a plurality of heterogeneous network processors in a network is disclosed. The network also includes at least one host processor that utilizes at least one congestion control application. The method include providing a plurality of generic application program interfaces (APIs).... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080232258 - Method and arragement for advanced routing metrics in multihop networks: The inventors have envisioned a multihop network scenario in which nodes are equipped with advanced multi-antenna arrangements, and recognized the advantage of exploring the presence of such advanced antenna arrangements in multihop network nodes for the specific purpose of determining link cost for routing in the network. A basic idea... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080232259 - Fault reporting tag for mesh access points: Mesh access point fault reporting. In particular implementations, a method includes receiving a fault indication indicating one or more failures; collecting fault data related to the one or more failures or a state of the mesh access point; and passing the fault data to the RFID tag, which wirelessly transmits... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080232260 - Method for requesting resource and scheduling for uplink traffic in mobile communication and apparatus thereof: The present invention relates to a resource allocation requesting method and a packet scheduling method for uplink packet traffic in a mobile communication system, and an apparatus of the packet scheduling method. For efficient scheduling for the uplink traffic, scheduling is performed according to characteristics of traffic between a base... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080232261 - Transmission apparatus, test method, and transmission apparatus control program: A transmission apparatus transmits/receives test frames to test connectivity between the transmission apparatus and another transmission apparatus to/from the other transmission apparatus at regular intervals. The transmission apparatus includes a frame length changing unit that changes a frame length, which is capacity of each of the test frames, at every... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080232267 - Apparatus and method for supporting quality of service in wideband wireless communication system using multiple frequency allocations: An apparatus and method for supporting Quality of Service (QoS) in a wideband wireless communication system using multiple Frequency Allocations (FAs) are provided. In a transmitting method for packet distribution in the wideband wireless communication system, the method includes, during a network entry process, determining a number of FAs through... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080232265 - Communication terminal, data exchange method, and computer product: When a first communication terminal retrieves data from a second communication terminal, the first communication terminal increases a reliability rank of the second communication terminal if the user of the first communication terminal selects a piece of data retrieved from the second communication terminals. When providing data to the second... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080232269 - Data collection system and method for ip networks: A system operative to collect and analyze data in a digital network includes a probe layer comprising a probe disposed in the digital work. The probe is configured to identify and capture data from frames passing through the probe. The system also includes an analysis layer operative to receive the... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080232268 - Lms adaptive filter for digital cancellation of second order inter-modulation due to transmitter leakage: A transmit signal second-order inter-modulation (IM2) canceller for a portable handset using a full duplex mode of operation (e.g., WCDMA) is used to controllably reduce IM2 introduced by a transmit signal that appears in a received signal in a receive channel of the portable handset. The transmit signal IM2 canceller... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080232262 - Method and apparatus for network topology discovery using closure approach: Improved network topology discovery techniques are disclosed. For example, an automated method for discovering a topology of a network, having a plurality of nodes, includes the following steps. A first traceroute process is performed for a given source node and one or more destination nodes listed in a target list... Agent: William E. Lewis Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080232266 - Network monitoring apparatus, network monitoring method and recording medium: A network monitoring apparatus that is in communication with a monitoring target apparatus through a network, receives traffic values transmitted from the monitoring target apparatus, accumulates the traffic values, calculates a traffic calculation value for judging congestion of the monitoring target apparatus by using the traffic values, and using a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080232263 - System and method for correlating a network packet exchange with a period of a transaction: A system and method of associating a period of a transaction over an IP network with the packet exchanges of data or functions on the IP network during such period.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080232264 - System and method for simulating dynamic routing of traffic over an ip network: A system and method of triggering a switch of transmission of signals from a first route of a virtual IP network to a second route of a virtual IP network upon detecting a pre-defined condition on a distant hop of the first route, and evaluating parameters of such switch from... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080232272 - Extensible micro-mobility wireless network architecture: A network having an access service network (“ASN”) configured to provide full mobility to mobile stations located within a service area. The ASN includes a Layer 2 or data link layer network that is larger, incorporates more nodes, or carries more data communications than Layer 2 networks incorporated in prior... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080232273 - Method and apparatus for adjusting a network device configuration change distribution schedule: The invention comprises a method and apparatus for adjusting a distribution schedule controlling distribution of network device configuration changes associated with a plurality of network devices. Specifically, the method comprises determining a distribution status of the distribution of network device configuration changes, comparing the distribution status to the distribution schedule,... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20080232271 - Remote management system: A disclosed remote management system includes an electronic device; a communication adaptor; and a management apparatus connected via the communication adaptor to the electronic device and configured to remotely manage the electronic device. The communication adaptor includes a network segment specification unit for specifying a network segment to be managed,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080232270 - Systems and arrangements for power conservation in network devices: Arrangements for a reduced power consumption network device are disclosed. In one embodiment, the device can join the network by communicating with a second network compatible device. After the network connection is made the device can place communication configuration or network status processing components in a low power mode until... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080232274 - Distributed synchronous batch reconfiguration of a network: A novel alternative concept for handling dynamic provisioning changes and ongoing network reconfiguration and incremental reoptimization in general. A prime motivation is concern about the dependency of existing concepts for dynamic provisioning on the real-time coherence of databases of network state at diverse geographic locations. Not only is the continual... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080232275 - Data-type-based network path configuration: Data-type-based spanning tree reconfiguration includes determining volumes for one or more types of data transmitted in information flows in an existing spanning tree in a network. The spanning tree is reconfigured based on one or more of the volumes and the types of data transmitted in the flows.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080232276 - Load-aware network path configuration: Load-aware spanning tree reconfiguration includes determining volumes for information flows in an existing spanning tree in a network. The spanning tree is reconfigured based on the volumes to provide higher-volume information flows with shorter paths in the reconfigured spanning tree.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080232277 - Audio sequestering and opt-in sequences for a conference session: In one embodiment, a method includes electronically prompting, in response to a triggering event, a participant connected to a conference session via a corresponding endpoint device to enter an affirmative response in order to continue attending the conference session. The participant is disconnected from the conference session in the event... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080232278 - Method and apparatus for communicating downlink and uplink sub-frames in a half duplex communication system: A method communicating downlink and uplink sub-frames between a base and at least one half duplex user equipment. For a scheduled synchronization time, beginning of reception of an effective part of the uplink sub-frame is separated from end of transmission of an effective part of the first downlink sub-frame by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080232279 - Method and system for sharing filters between transmit and receive paths in an integrated fm radio: Aspects of a method and system for sharing filters between transmit and receive paths in an integrated FM radio are provided. In this regard, a FM radio receive processing path and a FM radio transmit processing path may each be configured to share a filter. Accordingly, one or more switching... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080232284 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing semi-dynamic persistent allocation: A network element sets up a connection with an individual user equipment UE, provides an indicator that informs that a particular resource allocation to the individual user equipment is persistent, and sends resource allocations to a plurality of user equipments that includes the particular resource allocation to the individual user... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080232283 - Method and apparatus for handling random access procedure in a wireless communications system: A method for handling a random access procedure in a network of a wireless communications system comprises transmitting a downlink message comprising a special preamble identifier and other information of fields via addressing of a specific identifier for all UEs in a cell.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080232285 - Method and apparatus for real time scheduling of traffic in wireless networks: m

20080232281 - Precise node localization in sensor ad-hoc networks: Methods and systems for configuring ad-hoc networks, especially a self-configuring wireless sensor networks, are described. The network has an initial number of anchors with known positions that broadcast a signal. The signals are received by distributed nodes whose position is not yet known. The nodes rank the received signal based... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080232280 - Registration method of multiple care-of address: The present invention relates to a binding update identifier sub-option field configuration method and a binding update information configuration method. In the method, a binding update identifier sub-option field including current used interface and data characteristics and corresponding to one interface of the plurality of interfaces is generated, the binding... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080232282 - Smart accumulator for finite-precision arithmetic: Systems, methods, and devices that facilitate finite-precision data accumulation by utilizing precision binning and queuing are provided. A precision range of a data element received into a queue can be determined. Further, a stored data element of like precision can be selected. The stored data element can be added with... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080232289 - Apparatus, and associated method, for paging an access terminal in a radio communication system using sequentially assigned quick page identifiers: An apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating paging of an access terminal. A hash function is performed at a network entity to form a hash value. The hash value is utilized to identify a paging packet that is to be populated with paging information. Once formed, the paging packet... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080232288 - Keep-alive handling in a wireless network: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, in wireless network, keep-alive type packets may be received from a remote application for a mobile station. A determination may be made whether the mobile station is in an idle mode. If the mobile station is in an idle mode, a determination... Agent: Cool Patent, P.C. C/o Intellevate

20080232290 - Method and system for holistic energy management in ethernet networks: Aspects of a method and system for holistic energy management in Ethernet networks are provided. In this regard, based on activity in one or more nodes in a network, power consumption in the network may be controlled via computational capabilities of node(s) in the network and/or via a data communication... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080232287 - Method and system for power saving scheduling in wireless local area networks: A power saving (PS) scheduling process is provided for scheduling uplink and downlink frame transmissions between a PS transmitter and at least one PS receiver using PSAD sequences in a wireless communication system. The power saving scheduling process involves determining a power saving schedule of transmission opportunities for communication between... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080232286 - System and method for hibernation mode for beaconing devices: A system (400), device (500) (401), and method are provided for power saving in a wireless communication network (400), where all devices (401i) regularly transmit a beacon (600) but can enter a hibernation mode in which they do not transmit beacons (600) and operate in a power-saving state. A device... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080232294 - Method and apparatus for distinguishing broadcast messages in wireless signals: Methods and apparatus for processing and generating broadcast messages determined by a subband and OFDM symbols of frames in which signals are received. Overhead messages indicating resources used by broadcast messages in a wireless communication system are generated. Signals are received over a wireless system and broadcast messages are determined... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080232292 - Method for activating multimedia broadcast/multicast service: The present invention discloses a method for activating a Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) comprising the steps: a. sending a message which carries MBMS bearer capabilities of a user equipment (UE) from the UE to a SGSN which the UE belongs to after passing authorization; b. verifying whether the MBMS bearer... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080232293 - Method for providing group paging and messaging: The present invention provides a method of providing a group paging message. One embodiment of the method includes providing a first message during a first portion of a predetermined time period. The first message includes information indicating a second portion of the predetermined time period during which at least one... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080232291 - Packet data multicast communication system, a station, and a method of operating the system: A method of operating a packet data multicast communication system which comprises a network or NodeB (BS) and a plurality of mobile stations (MS1, MS2, MS3). The network and the mobile stations have transceiving equipment (14, 34) for the transmission of data packets on a downlink between the network and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080232295 - Methods, systems, and products for virtual personalized networks: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed for enabling a virtual personalized network. Communications are established with a personal digital gateway to control access, sharing, security, and/or management of up-to-date personalized data exchanged between or among a plurality of associated communications devices and/or communications networks. The associated communications devices are owned,... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080232296 - Apparatus and method for operating relay link in relay broadband wireless communication system: Provided is a relay broadband wireless communication system. The relay broadband wireless communication system includes a plurality of base stations, and one or more relay stations. The base stations perform communication with a relay station placed within a coverage area and generate state information to be provided to the relay... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080232297 - Node location method, node location system and server: A node location system for detecting a node by receiving two or more access points. The node location system includes a node, a reference station, multiple access points, a server, and a network. After receiving a location signal, the reference station sends a reference signal, and the access points receive... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080232298 - Apparatus and method for obtaining ip address of terminal using multiple frequency allocations in broadband wireless communication system: An Internet Protocol (IP) address acquisition in a broadband wireless communication system is disclosed. A terminal includes a driver for loading one of a plurality Media Access Control (MAC) addresses for a multi-Frequency Allocation (FA) connection when the terminal is initialized; an interface for registering the loaded MAC address to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080232305 - Distributed antenna system for mimo technologies: The invention is directed to a method and system for supporting MIMO technologies which can require the transport of multiple spatial streams on a traditional Distributed Antenna System (DAS). According to the invention, at one end of the DAS, each spatial stream is shifted in frequency to a pre-assigned band... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 30623

20080232303 - Ip mobile communication system and base station: When mobile communication exchange detects that SIP client has moved out of communication area of base station, the mobile communication exchange generates a BYE message, sends the generated BYE message to SIP client and ends a session.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080232307 - Method and apparatus to allocate resources for acknowledgments in communication systems: A method and apparatus for transmission between a plurality of units of user equipment and a base station in a wireless communication system. For each of the units of user equipment, a plurality of control channel elements are mapped to a plurality of downlink acknowledgement channel resources in accordance with... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080232299 - Method for wireless data transfer: A method for wireless data transfer between first and second multimedia devices connected via a wireless connection operated according to a first wireless standard or to a second wireless standard, which are different from and/or not compatible with each other. The method includes: choosing the first wireless standard or the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080232304 - Method of determining characteristics of access classes in wireless communication systems: The present invention provides a method of determining characteristics of access classes in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, a method is provided for implementation in an access network of a wireless communication system. The method includes mapping, at the access network, a plurality of priority levels to a... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20080232306 - Preserved bearers: The invention describes a method of providing services on radio resources to a mobile terminal (110, 230) in a mobile communication network (100), a mobile communication network 100, a node (102, 201) and a mobile terminal (110, 230), where in the event of a radio resource release, old traffic parameters... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080232300 - Reference signal selection techniques for a wireless communication system: A technique for improving link performance in a wireless communication system includes detecting whether subscriber stations in the wireless communication system are power-limited. The subscriber stations include at least a first subscriber station that is power-limited and a second subscriber station that is not power-limited. The technique assigns a first... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080232301 - Slow adaptation of modulation and coding for packet transmission: Systems and methods for performing MCS adaptation are provided. In some cases, the network performs MCS adaptation based on received NACKs. In other cases, the mobile station determines an MCS based on channel quality measurements, and feeds back the MCS adaptation decision to the network. In either case, NACK-only feedback... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080232302 - Wireless data transferring system for a lavatory with wireless local area network module: A wireless data transferring system for a lavatory comprises a host having a decoder to decode a data from a data source, a tuner coupled to the data source to select a desired data, a first WLAN module coupled to the decoder or the data source to transfer data; and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080232316 - Apparatus and method for performing initial network entry in broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for performing initial network entry in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. A communication method includes broadcasting, by a Base Station (BS), a Downlink Channel Descriptor (DCD) message including information on a different Frequency Allocation (FA) of the BS using all FAs; connecting, by one... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080232312 - Apparatus and method for transmitting uplink feedback data in a broadband wireless mobile communication system: An apparatus and a method for transmitting uplink feedback data in a broadband wireless mobile communication are provided. The method comprises dividing tiles used as a feedback channel into a preset number of groups, selecting one group among the preset number of groups using a downlink channel, selecting a number... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080232320 - Dynamic resource allocation method based on frequency reuse partitioning for ofdma/fdd system, and frame transmission method therefor: Provided are a dynamic resource allocation method based on frequency reuse partitioning for an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system, and a frame transmission method therefor. The dynamic resource allocation method includes: a) dividing a coverage into cells based on frequency reuse partitioning; b) selecting a candidate user to... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080232310 - Flexible user equipment-specified discontinuous reception: The embodiments of the present invention provide for methods, devices, and systems adapted to enable an eNodeB and a user equipment (UE) to negotiate a set of discontinuous reception (DRX) parameters, as well as enable an eNodeB to instruct a UE to directly apply a certain DRX level or period... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, PC

20080232317 - Method and apparatus for handling random access procedure in a wireless communications system: A method for handling a random access procedure in a user equipment, called UE hereinafter, of a wireless communications system, the UE assigned a dedicated preamble for the random access procedure, the method includes deciding whether to reuse the dedicated preamble when the UE doesn't receive a downlink message successfully... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080232318 - Method and apparatus of introducing xid frames for lapdm procedure: A method and apparatus for introducing exchange information (XID) frames for link access Procedure on the Dm (data) channel (LAPDm) Procedure comprises commencing a negotiation between a mobile station (MS) and a basic service set (BSS). XID frames are transmitted between the MS and the BSS.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080232308 - Method and system for wireless communications between base and mobile stations: A method and system for wireless communications between base and mobile stations use reference signals transmitted from base stations prior transmission of data signals. The reference signals are used to determine propagation characteristics of communication channels between the base and mobile stations and optimize, in real time, parameters of receivers... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080232313 - Method for enhancing data transmission efficiency for a radio resource control procedure for a wireless communications system and related apparatus: A method for enhancing data transmission efficiency for a radio resource control, hereinafter called RRC, procedure for a user equipment, also called UE, in a CELL_FACH state in a wireless communications system is provided. The method includes using a dedicated HS-DSCH radio network transaction identifier, hereinafter called H-RNTI, for a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080232311 - Method for multi-channel resource reservation in a wireless mesh network: In a mesh network a multiband OFDM Alliance (MBOA) system provides higher channel access efficiency through a Distributed Reservation Protocol (DRP). A MBOA Physical layer (PHY) and a MBOA Medium Access Control (MAC) are used to increase the efficiency of the mesh network.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080232315 - Method of managing coexisting packet streams: The invention concerns a method of managing coexisting packet streams (100, 110) in a wireless communication system, and a corresponding controller and a mobile terminal. A first packet stream (110) of the coexisting packet streams (100, 110) requires transmission resources of the wireless communication system at fixed time intervals, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080232314 - Method of providing a voip connection: This invention concerns a method of providing a VoIP connection through wireless communication links of a packet-based wireless communication system, and a corresponding base station and terminal. The wireless communication links comprise an uplink transmission path (2uc, 2us) from the terminal to the base station, and a downlink transmission path... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080232309 - System and method for adaptive queuing for discontinuous wireless channels: A method and system for data transmission on wireless discontinuous channels. The method and system include adjusting ordering of a plurality of transmission units in a queue to be transmitted in a wireless discontinuous channel to reduce unusable channel access time; determining transmission eligibility of each of the transmission units... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080232319 - System and method for transmitting/receiving resource allocation information in a wireless mobile communication system: A system for transmitting/receiving resource allocation information in a wireless mobile communication system is provided. A transmission apparatus allocates a data burst in a frame, the data burst including a two-dimensional region of a time domain and a frequency domain, and transmits resource allocation information on the allocated data burst.... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080232321 - Techniques for improved error detection in a wireless communication system: In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method including: determining whether first allocation information has been transmitted from a first device towards a second device in a wireless communication system; and transmitting a message including transmittal information and second allocation information from the first device towards the second device,... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080232322 - Method and apparatus for receiving a control channel in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for receiving control information in a mobile communication system. A controller acquires information indicating variable Control Channel Elements (CCEs) allocated for first User Equipments (UEs) among CCEs constituting control channels, acquires information indicating fixed CCEs allocated for second UEs, selects the variable CCEs when a UE... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080232324 - Handover control method: During handover, an origin base station saves data packets for a mobile station, as well as instructs the mobile station to switch communication to a destination base station, and requests a host station to switch the base station that communicates with that mobile station from the origin base station to... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080232323 - Method and apparatus for handover in a wireless communication system, and system thereof: A method and apparatus for handover in a wireless communication system and a system thereof, in which a Base Station (BS) allocates Scheduling Request/Channel Quality Information (SR/CQI) transmission resources to a Mobile Station (MS), an SR/CQI being periodically transmitted from the MS to a target cell, determines whether control information... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080232326 - Method and apparatus for reducing interference in wireless communication networks by enabling more opportune handover: According to the teachings presented herein, wireless communication network interference is reduced by sending handover measurement information from mobile stations in conjunction with sending uplink scheduling requests, and by correspondingly making combined handover and uplink resource scheduling decisions. In this context, the combined decision considers both the handover measurement information... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080232325 - Method and system for generating antenna selection signals in wireless networks: A method and system generating signal to select a subset of antennas from a set of antennas to transmit user data in a wireless communication system. User data are transmitted during a first transmission time intervals (TTI) using a first subset of antennas. Pilot tones are transmitted during a second... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080232327 - Decorrelating discrimination system of code division multiple access signals: here is provided a new multi-user receiver configuration technique which solves the problems of the user signal separation function of the multi-user receiver such as the interference canceller, decorrelator, and least square error detection. That is, there is provided a code-division multiplex signal decorrelation/identification method for realizing much more excellent... Agent: Koda & Androlia

20080232328 - Localization of a mobile device in distributed antenna communications system: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for localization of a mobile device in a distributed antenna communications system. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a distributed antenna system includes a plurality of distributed antennas that are communicatively coupled to a hub. A mobile communications device to... Agent: Westberg Law Offices

20080232329 - Method and apparatus for handling random access procedure in a wireless communications system: A method for handling a random access procedure in a wireless communications system comprises a network dividing access resources of a random access channel into at least one group, a UE randomly choosing a group of the at least group when the UE performs random access preamble or dedicated preamble... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080232330 - Method for ranging with bandwidth request code: The present invention relates to a ranging method using a bandwidth request code. For this purpose, the present invention provides a ranging method that includes transmitting a bandwidth request code for requesting a bandwidth for uplink traffic transmission from a radio access station, receiving a CDMA_Allocation_IE of a UL_MAP that... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080232333 - Method and system for scheduling in mobile communication system: A method and an apparatus for scheduling in a mobile communication system. According to the method, for data/message pre-promised between a UE and a network node, the UE transmits a scheduling request at a predetermined timing. When the network node receives the scheduling request at the predetermined timing, the network... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080232332 - Method for scheduling of service data in uplink, a base station, a user terminal and a communication network therefor: The invention concerns a method for scheduling of service data intended to be sent from a user terminal (UE1) over radio interfaces to a base station (BS1) by means of at least one control message sent from the base station (BS1) to the user terminal (UE1), whereby said at least... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080232331 - Mobile communication system, base station, and hsdpa transmission method used in them: To provide a base station which makes it possible to apply HSDPA to radio bearers in the RLC-TM, such as circuit switched calls, as well and which can use the radio capacity to the full. A call controller 23 terminates control signals, such as NBAP and ALCAP, and exercises control... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080232334 - Wireless communication network and data aggregation method for the same: A wireless communication network includes a network coordinator (NC) having plural channels and plural wireless transceivers, and plural nodes. Each node has status information, a number of channels and a number of wireless transceivers. Each node and the NC communicate in a Carrier Sense Multiple Access mode. Each node communicates... Agent: Martin J. Moran Eaton Electrical, Inc.

20080232337 - Apparatus and method for supporting frequency overlay in broadband wireless communication system: A broadband wireless communication system is provided. A sending apparatus in the broadband wireless communication system includes a controller for distributing packets to a plurality of processors to transmit the packets in a multi-Frequency Allocation (FA) access mode; the plurality of the processors for processing the packet provided from the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080232335 - Enhanced network allocation vector mechanism for optimal reuse of the spectrum in a wireless communication system: Wireless networks and methods of use includes a source that transmits a signal to at least one destination during a scheduled time period. The network also includes at least one node, which is hidden from the destination, and which transmits a signal during the scheduled time period. The networks and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080232338 - Methods and apparatus for secure, portable, wireless and multi-hop data networking: A mobile network solution provides secure and portable wireless networking service to mobile users with devices equipped with wireless network interfaces. The Secure Nomadic Wireless Network, or SNOWNET, follows a hierarchical approach. Special SNOWNET nodes are deployed in the area where networking service is needed and form a backbone network.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080232336 - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for communicating via a mobile wireless communication device: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for communicating via a mobile wireless communication device (MWCD). According to exemplary embodiments, a message is generated for a customer premises equipment located at a customer premises. The message is provided to the customer premises equipment via a mobile wireless communication device located... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20080232339 - Adapting txop requests for multi-radio platforms: A first radio in a wireless network may request a transmit opportunity (TXOP) of a certain duration, with the duration being based a likelihood that a TXOP of that duration would cause interference with a co-located second radio. The duration may be dynamically adjusted based on the likelihood of such... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080232340 - Method and transmission unit for adaptive coding, modulation and transmittion of data words in a wireless communication system: When transmitting data from a transmission unit to a reception unit over a channel in a wireless communication system, it has been observed that there are inherent losses in throughput, especially for a channel experiencing high channel quality variations over its frequency range. To improve the throughput over such a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080232341 - Scheduling for multi-carrier wireless data systems: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for scheduling multiple carriers to service multiple users in a multi-carrier wireless data network. A data transmission in a multi-carrier wireless data system can be scheduled in frames comprising one or more time slots. For each frame, each of multiple carriers in each time... Agent: Weinick & Associates, LLC

20080232342 - Method and system for adaptively obtaining bandwidth allocation requests: A method and apparatus for adaptively obtaining bandwidth requests in a broadband wireless communication system. The method and apparatus includes dynamically varying technique combinations enabling a plurality of users to efficiently request bandwidth from a shared base station. A user may “piggyback” a new bandwidth request upon, or set a... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080232343 - Apparatus and method for estimating uplink frequency offset in wireless communication system: Provided is an apparatus and method for estimating an uplink frequency offset in a wireless communication system. In a receiving apparatus of a wireless communication system using a random access channel composed of two equivalent sequences, the apparatus includes a channel receiver which extracts samples corresponding to the two sequences... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080232346 - Method, system and apparatus for synchronizing stream between bearer control layer and bearer layer devices: A method, a system and an apparatus for synchronizing the stream between the bearer control layer and bearer layer devices. Bearer layer device returns information corresponding to the stream synchronizing information distributed by the resource manager RM of the bearer control layer back to the resource manager RM (101, 102);... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080232344 - Systems and methods for synchronizing communication networks: In many aspects, the invention relates to systems and methods for synchronizing a communication network, particularly a slotted communication network, having a plurality of nodes. In slotted communication networks, the nodes are configured to transmit or receive data during selected time slots. During a selected time slot, each node transmits... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080232345 - Time-based coexistence method for wireless communication: A method for facilitating coexistence of wireless technologies competing for the same bandwidth includes, with a first component (14) residing in a first wireless network (20), initializing the first wireless network (20) with a superframe period (38) based on a superframe period (28) of a second wireless network (10) and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080232347 - Determining rerouting information for single-node failure recovery in an internet protocol network: For a survivable portion of a network, a backup port for a first router of the survivable network, to reach a destination node in the event of a single node failure, may be determined by (a) accepting a routing path graph having the destination node, wherein the routing path graph... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080232348 - Network-independent provision and registration for services: In a method for providing a service between a service unit and terminal devices of at least one communication network, a synchronization unit evaluates the service provided by a service unit with respect to at least one technical requirement for use by at least one terminal device, establishes at least... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20080232349 - Optimization of network adapter utilization in etherchannel environment: Method, system and computer program product for transferring data in a data processing system network. A method for transferring data in a data processing system network according to the invention includes determining an adapter among a plurality of adapters that has the lowest transmit latency, and assigning data to be... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080232350 - Computer-telephony integration: The invention provides a modification to the operation of the intelligent network instruction set whereby on transmitting an Initiate Call Attempt message between the SCP 7 and an SSP 4 an instruction is included which forces the SSP 4 to send a response message whereby the identity assigned to the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080232351 - Ip communication system and ip telephone apparatus: During an incoming call, when a client apparatus of an incoming side notifies a client apparatus of an outgoing side of hold of the incoming call, the client apparatus notifies the client apparatus of the hold of the incoming call with OK message which is a response to an INVITE... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080232354 - Ip telephone system, ip exchange, ip terminal, ip exchange backup method, and login method for ip terminal: The present invention provides a technique suitable for the case where three or more IP exchanges are multiplexed each other. Priorities are respectively given to a plurality of IP exchanges 1. Each IP exchange 1 autonomously changes its operating mode such that the IP exchange having the highest priority among... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080232352 - Method and apparatus for distributing application server addresses in an ims: A method of distributing application server addresses in an IP Multimedia Subsystem. Upon allocation of an application server to a subscriber, the allocated or another application server sends at least one application server address to a Home Subscriber Server (HSS). The HSS stores the address(es) in association with the subscriber... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080232353 - Method of transmitting data in a communication system: A method of receiving at a terminal a first signal transmitted via a communication network, said method comprising the steps of; receiving at the terminal the first signal comprising a plurality of data elements; analysing characteristics of the first signal; receiving from a user of the terminal a second signal... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080232355 - Session initiation protocol trunk gateway apparatus: According to one embodiment, a session initiation protocol trunk gateway apparatus includes a register which registers each connection ID of the plurality of terminals registered in a registration table into a registration server on the session initiation protocol network in accordance with a prescribed registration period, a connector which connects... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080232356 - Internet protocol compliant private branch electronic exchange and a method for redundantly configuring terminal interfaces: The IP-PBX includes a multimedia gateway controller in which a call control data master table stores call control data for all terminals falling under the control of the IP-PBX. In the event of failure of a PH accommodating IP phones and the like via the LAN, the multimedia gateway controller... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080232358 - Data distribution in a distributed telecommunications network: A technique is disclosed that enables a set of information to be represented by data packets, where those data packets can then be distributed as needed throughout the telecommunications system that uses the data. The data packet of the illustrative embodiment is an autonomous encapsulation of data, a subsection of... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080232364 - Device for coalescing messages and method thereof: A method of communicating messages between endpoints in a data processing system includes coalescing two or more messages into a single packet and communicating the packet. Each of the messages can be associated with a different communication protocol. In addition, each of the messages can be targeted for communication to... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080232359 - Fast packet filtering algorithm: Packets received at a network element are filtered according to a plurality of filtering rules, where each filtering rule includes filtering data associated with one or more fields of a received packet. Rule groups are defined to include a plurality of filtering rules having common associated fields. For each rule... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080232363 - Interval centroid based watermark: An interval centroid-based watermark encoder encodes a watermark into a packet flow. Intervals are defined for the packet flow. Some of the intervals are selected as group A intervals while other intervals are selected as group B intervals. Group A and group B intervals are paired and assigned to watermark... Agent: George Mason University Office Of Technology Transfer, Msn 5g5

20080232361 - Ip broadcast system, and multiplexer, receiving apparatus and method used in ip broadcast system: According to one embodiment, an IP broadcast system includes a transmitting side and a receiving side connected to the transmitting side through a broadcast network on an IP network. The transmitting side includes a multiplexer which generates a standardized multiplex frame including at least a header field and an information... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080232362 - Ip communication apparatus and ip communication method of such apparatus: An IP terminal apparatus has a SIP controller, a UDP packet controller, and an RTP controller. The SIP controller transmits and receives a call control message in order to establish a connection to and from a destination apparatus. The UDP packet controller transmits and receives media data with the destination... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080232357 - Ls digital fountain code: A packet transmission system having existing null packets is provided. The system comprises a transmitter side transmitting information packets having null packets filled with redundancy information or parity check information; and a receiver side receiving the information packets and decoding the information packets using a predetermined decoding method; whereby the... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20080232366 - Method for transporting data packets, data network system, and network nodes: A method for transporting data packets, a data network system and network nodes are provided. According to the present invention, subframes are classified according to their forwarding paths when entering a network from an ingress node; subframes with the same forwarding path are encapsulated into a multiframe; the multiframe is... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080232365 - Method, apparatus and system for error detection and selective retransmission: The invention relates to a method for use in a packet-switched communication system, the method comprising: sending a first packet from a source node to a destination node, the first packet containing a first set of data bits; sending a second packet from the source node to the destination node,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080232360 - Session admission control method and apparatus: For efficient and fast admission control with respect to a new session and for exchange of data stream packets between an edge router (14) and a packet gateway (10) it is proposed to execute, at the edge router (14), selection of traffic streams of certain types from specific source nodes... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080232367 - Method for managing a communication group of communication devices: A first communication device managing a communication group of communication devices in a communication network is disclosed. The first communication device sends one or more data objects to the communication group and receives an affiliation request from a second communication device. The first communication device determines the one or more... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080232368 - Network system: When a user terminal makes a connection request, a router acquires a group address that the user terminal can join from an authentication server. The router gives information of the router to a packet during joining check (Query) and transmits the packet to a layer 2 switch. The layer 2... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080232369 - Mapping mechanism for access network segregation: Communication nodes, systems and methods are described which provide an association between messaging and access resource and admission control functions (A-RACFs) within an IP addressing zone. The association can be communicated within messages using, for example, a topology zone identifier.... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080232374 - Method and apparatus for determining locations of fields in a data unit: At least a portion of a data unit is provided to a programmable memory unit to identify an attribute of a field in a header of the data unit. The header is parsed in response to an output of the programmable memory unit.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun, LLP (marvell)

20080232370 - Method of communication in lan without setting ip: A method of communication in LAN without setting IP is provided, especially for LAN with a host device and at least a peripheral device. The method includes: (1) the host device sending the peripheral device a broadcast search packet through LAN, (2) the peripheral device establishing a new routing table... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080232372 - Methods and systems for interworking rsvp-based external control plane protocols with internal control plane protocols: The present invention provides improved methods and systems for interworking Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)-based external control plane protocols with internal control plane protocols, such as Optical Signaling and Routing Protocol (OSRP). The present invention utilizes only a high-level mapping in which a trigger is created in the internal control plane... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20080232375 - Packet transmission device: There is provided a packet transmission device which comprises a packet transfer processing part and a control part. The packet transfer processing part includes a table memory comprising a path selection table, a link status table, and a node status table. In these tables, information of each of paths, links,... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080232371 - Remote data access techniques for portable devices: A wide-area network (“WAN”)-based service enables remote data access transactions between participating endpoints within a group of participating endpoints that includes at least one server and at least one portable electronic device. Each participating endpoint is configured for communication via one or more communication networks and stores the same or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080232373 - System and method for extending battery life: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method comprises determining whether a non-unicast message is to be transmitted by a transmitting device, which may involve a setting a Delivery Traffic Indicator Map (DTIM) Interval value to reflect a longer periodicity than associated with a Listen Interval. After such determination,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080232376 - Control method, system and function entity for reporting bearer event of signaling ip flow: A control method, system and function entity for reporting a bearer event of a signaling IP flow are provided. A 5-tuple is generated for a signaling IP flow and a media IP flow so as to unify a mechanism for reporting a signaling path status and a mechanism for reporting... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080232377 - Communication device and method for controlling the output of packets: An apparatus including a holding portion temporarily holding packets for each individual quality class; a counter counting the amount of data of packets output from the holding portion for each individual quality class; a comparison portion comparing count values of the counter for individual quality classes with threshold values which... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20080232378 - Data packet communication protocol offload method and system: A computing system, comprising a host computer system, a primary data packet communication protocol (such as TCP/IP) offload engine configured to act as an offload engine for the host computer system, and an alternate data packet communication protocol (such as TCP/IP) offload engine configured to act as an offload engine... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080232379 - Configuration tool for mpls virtual private network topologies: Configuration tool for virtual private network (VPN) topologies. In particular implementations, a method includes accessing a network topology configuration set comprising one or more route target groups (RTGs), wherein each RTG comprises a topology type identifier, one or more site identifiers, one or more role identifiers associated with each of... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080232381 - Method, terminal and media-relay for establishing a multi-media connection: In one aspect, a multi-media connection is established in a communications system based on packet oriented communication with at least a first station only supporting IPv6 data-packets, at least a second station only supporting IPv4 data-packets and at least a media relay station. A communication between the first station and... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080232380 - Network system and audio signal processor: An audio network system that performs transport of audio signals among nodes by cascading a plurality of nodes each including two sets of transmission I/Fs and reception I/Fs, and circulating among the nodes in each fixed period an audio transport frame generated by a master node, is configured such that... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080232382 - Mobile wireless communication system, mobile wireless terminal apparatus, virtual private network relay apparatus and connection authentication server: A mobile radio communication system (100) includes: a virtual private network relay device (105) for establishing an Ipsec tunnel with a network relay device (104) arranged in a private network (102) via a public network (101) and establishing an Ipsec tunnel with a mobile radio terminal device (110), thereby relaying... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080232383 - Transparent wireless bridge route aggregation: In an example embodiment, there is described herein a “Wireless Route Aggregation Protocol” (WRAP) that is used to aggregate multiple wireless links into a WRAP “route bundle” that functions as a single logical LAN bridge link. WRAP link aggregation can be used for example to increase the bandwidth and robustness... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080232384 - Virtual private network apparatus: A VPN apparatus is included in a VPN system with other VPN apparatuses to interconnect bases including first bases each having an access line and a second base having at least two access lines. The VPN apparatus comprises a first virtual VPN apparatus and a second virtual VPN apparatus. The... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080232385 - Communication system, node device and method for setting classes of service: A communication system comprises a plurality of packet rings, each composed of a plurality of node devices, the node devices each transmitting and receiving a packet and being interconnected in a ring; two of the packet rings being interconnected via a pair of node devices each in each of the... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080232386 - Priority based bandwidth allocation within real-time and non-real-time traffic streams: A method and system for transmitting packets in a packet switching network. Packets received by a packet processor may be prioritized based on the urgency to process them. Packets that are urgent to be processed may be referred to as real-time packets. Packets that are not urgent to be processed... Agent: Robert A. Voigt, Jr. Winstead Sechrest & Minick PC

20080232387 - Electronic device and method of communication resource allocation: An electronic device is provided, comprising an interconnect means (N) for connecting a plurality of modules (IP; A-D, M) to enable a communication between the modules (IP; A-D, M), wherein communication resources relate to a time division multiple access based on time slots for dividing and sharing an available communication... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080232388 - Forwarding apparatus, forwarding method, and computer product: An apparatus for forwarding a frame according to a transfer condition includes a transfer-condition storage unit, a deleted-area data storage unit, and a transfer-condition searching unit. The transfer-condition storage unit stores therein, destination data that is likely to be included in the frame, area data indicating an area of destination... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080232389 - Distributed overlay multi-channel media access control for wireless ad hoc networks: Systems and methods for distributed overlay multi-channel MAC for wireless ad hoc networks are described. In one aspect, the systems and methods divide channel frequencies defined by a wireless network protocol into a single home channel and multiple guest channels that are orthogonal to the home channel. Each of the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080232390 - Path multiplexing communication system, communication node, and communication method: s

20080232391 - Method and system for adaptively obtaining bandwidth allocation requests: A method and apparatus for adaptively obtaining bandwidth requests in a broadband wireless communication system. The method and apparatus includes dynamically varying technique combinations enabling a plurality of users to efficiently request bandwidth from a shared base station. A user may “piggyback” a new bandwidth request upon, or set a... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080232392 - Method and system for processing session initiation protocol messages: A method and system for processing session initiation protocol messages including receiving a session initiation protocol message by a front end, parsing the session initiation protocol message by the front end, grouping the token types and the token contents in the session initiation protocol message respectively, and setting up corresponding... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080232393 - Removal of ambiguities in forming new piconet controller (pnc) when the current pcn controller is suddenly unavailable: A piconet in which at least one master communication station and at least one slave communication station are self-designated implements a successor hierarchy. A wireless device (DEV) functioning as a piconet controller (PNC) poll a plurality of DEVs to obtain data concerning other DEVs in range of the respective polled... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080232395 - Apparatuses and methods for multi-antenna channel quality data acquisition in a broadcast/multicast service network: Various methods and apparatuses provide unicast channel data acquisition, such as antenna information, from MBMS subframes. A method of operating a wireless communications network infrastructure entity is disclosed comprising transmitting a subframe (300) comprising a unicast symbol (301) in a first predetermined symbol position within said subframe (300), said unicast... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080232396 - Apparatuses and methods for multi-antenna channel quality data acquisition in a broadcast/multicast service network using a multicast symbol: Various methods and apparatuses provide unicast channel data acquisition, such as antenna information, from MBMS subframes. A method of operating a wireless communications network infrastructure entity is disclosed comprising defining a subframe (400) comprising a unicast symbol (401) in a predetermined first symbol position within said subframe (400), said unicast... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080232394 - Method for regulating the transmission parameters of broadband transmission channels assembled to form a group: The invention relates to a novel algebraic method wherein sub-groups of subscribers that spectrally influence each other, in a group of broadband subscriber connections or transmission channels connected to an intelligent network node in a star-shaped manner are classified by observing status variations in operation or in test phases of... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080232397 - Selective mode phy device and method for managing power utilization using same: There is provided a method of managing power utilization for use by a first communication system having a first communication mode and a second communication mode, for communication over a PHY connection through a cable connecting the two systems. The method comprises establishing the PHY connection with the second communication... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080232398 - Virtual usb communications port: A method and system for accessing a remote real communication port (“COM port”) from a server blade in a server blade chassis by creating a virtual COM port in the server blade. A basic input/output system (BIOS) controller monitors an internal COM port in the server blade for communication traffic.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080232400 - Dynamic management of receiver resources: Techniques for dynamically managing receiver resources to achieve good latency and throughput performance are described. A receiver may have various types of receiver resources such as demod resources for demodulating packets, decode resources for decoding packets, packet processing resources, etc. These various types of receiver resources may be dynamically assigned... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080232399 - System and method for modifying parameters of an air link: A method, computer program product and electronic device for adjusting a conversion parameter (Cssi) associated with an individual user of a multi-user air link in response to, at least in part, a variation in the transmission quality of the air link. A bandwidth transmission rate (NIRi) is determined for the... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080232402 - Communication relay apparatus, resource releasing method, and program for communication relay apparatus: Suspendable candidate link group determining device 204 determines a suspendable candidate link group consisting of communication links whose communication in an upper layer is suspended, and outputs it. Link-incapable-of-handling-suspension excluding device 205 removes a communication link to an adjacent relay apparatus incapable of handling a suspended status from the communication... Agent: Jackson Chen Nec Corporation Of America

20080232401 - Logical and transport channel structures for mobile wimax wireless systems: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transceiver adapted to operate according to an Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) STD 802.16e-2005 or IEEE 802.16m standard and further adapted to use logical and transport/physical channelization. Furthermore, a virtual wideband RF channel concept (support of contiguous... Agent: James S. Finn. Intel Corporation Intel Corporation

20080232403 - H-arq acknowledgment detection validation by re-decoding: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate reliably receiving a sequence of data packets in a wireless communications environment. In particular, mechanisms are provided that enhance hybrid automatic repeat request protocols through validation of acknowledgment message detection by re-decoding. A transmitter sends a data packet from a sequence of packets... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080232404 - Discontinuous reception operation for constant data rate service: The present invention relates to communicating between a network and a mobile terminal in a wireless communication system. The invention includes receiving a channel during a transmission time interval, and determining not to receive a transmission from the network for a predetermined amount of transmission time intervals related to the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080232405 - Method and circuit for calculating a timeout parameter in a communication session: A method for calculating a timeout parameter in a communication session, comprises the steps of initiating a session; calculating a throughput of the connection during initialisation of the session by measuring a time span between sending and receiving a data packet on a target communication device 101 including a fixed... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080225687 - Multi-domain network with centralized management: One embodiment relates to a method for coordinating signals within a multi-domain network. At least one node within one network domain of the multi-domain network is identified, where the one node is affected by interference due to another node of another network domain of the multi-domain network. Global signals are... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20080225688 - Systems and methods for improving reference signals for spatially multiplexed cellular systems: A method for using a numerical method to design reference signals for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems is described. An input multiple input multiple output signal is determined. A nearest tight frame to one or more given structured vectors is obtained. One or more structured vectors from the nearest... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080225689 - Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing having tones with overlaid data and pilot symbols: In one embodiment, an OFDM transmitter generates sets of frequency-domain data symbols from a stream of digital data. For each set of frequency-domain data symbols generated, the transmitter generates a corresponding set of frequency-domain pilot symbols. Each corresponding set of data symbols and pilot symbols are then multiplexed onto a... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20080225694 - Method and apparatus for id identification using pn for tds-ofdm in transmission: In an OFDM system having PN sequences as guard intervals, a method is used for synchronization. The method comprises the steps of: providing a plurality of base stations; providing a plurality of mobile stations; both the base stations and the mobile stations are adapted to transmit and receive signals associated... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20080225693 - Method and apparatus for uplink scheduling signaling in a wireless communication: A method and apparatus for efficient uplink scheduling grant and scheduling request signaling for evolved universal terrestrial radio access (E-UTRA) are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit sends an uplink scheduling request to a Node-B, whereby the Node-B sends the uplink scheduling grant in response to the uplink scheduling request. The... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080225690 - Systems and method for orthogonal frequency divisional multiplexing: Systems and methods for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing are provided. In one embodiment, a multi-carrier modem comprises: a receiver configured to receive a waveform comprising spectrally overlapping carrier signals from at least two of a plurality of remotes, wherein the spectrally overlapping carrier signals are modulated using an inverse Fourier... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080225691 - Systems and method for orthogonal frequency divisional multiplexing: Systems and methods for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing are provided. In one embodiment, a multi-carrier modem comprises: a receiver configured to receive a waveform comprising a plurality of spectrally overlapping carrier signals from at least two of a plurality of remotes, the carrier signals are modulated using an inverse Fourier... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080225692 - Systems and method for orthogonal frequency divisional multiplexing: Systems and methods for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing are provided. In one embodiment, a multi-carrier modem comprises:a receiver configured to de-modulate symbols from at least one of a plurality of spectrally overlapping carrier signals; a transmitter configured to modulate symbols onto at least one of a plurality of the spectrally... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080225695 - Failure protection in a provider backbone bridge network using forced mac flushing: A technique for operating a network involves controlling the black-holing of traffic by forcing customer source MAC address (CMAC)-to-backbone source MAC address (BMAC) associations at provider backbone bridge (PBB) provider edge (PE) devices to be flushed from their corresponding forwarding information bases (FIBs) in response to a service failure so... Agent: Wilson & Ham

20080225696 - Virtual path restoration scheme using fast dynamic mesh restoration in an optical network: A method for restoring a virtual path, provisioned between a source and a target node, in a mesh zoned optical network is described. The method, in one embodiment, broadcasts or floods restore path requests in the network to expedite the identification of an alternate route and minimize the service disruption... Agent: Abdul R. Zindani Skjerven Morrill Macpherson LLP

20080225697 - Computing repair path information: An apparatus and method is described for computing repair path information around a failure component in a data communications network having a components nodes and links therebetween. Where, according to a routing protocol, a node sends to a neighbor node a metric indicative of reachability of a destination node, the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080225698 - Controlling multicast source selection in an anycast source audio/video network: Particular embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide methods and systems to support a multicast source selection system. In an example embodiment, the system includes a network element in data communication with a network, the network element being operable to: receive a request for withdrawal of a server as a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080225700 - Protocol definition for software bridge failover: A method, data processing system, and computer usable code are provided for protocol definition for software bridge failover. In a first aspect of the present invention, a first software bridge determines the proper working operation of a physical adapter. Limbo packets are sent to a second software bridge alerting the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080225699 - Router and method of supporting nonstop packet forwarding on system redundant network: A router (i.e., an electrical circuit) and method of supporting nonstop packet forwarding on a system redundant network are provided. The method includes, when the router again operates, identifying whether or not the router is connected with a neighboring router; and when the router is identified connected with the neighboring... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080225701 - Electronics apparatus, a management device for an electronics apparatus and a method of managing an electronics apparatus: An electronics apparatus comprises an electronic device having at least first and second ports in communication with respective first and second communication paths by each of which communications can be made with the electronic device. The electronics apparatus comprises a management device arranged to collect information concerning the performance of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080225702 - System and program product to recover from node failure/recovery incidents in distributed systems in which notification does not occur: Epoch numbers are maintained in a pair wise fashion at a plurality of communication endpoints to provide communication consistency and recovery from a range of failure conditions including total or partial node failure and subsequent recovery. Once an epoch state inconsistency is recognized, negotiation procedures provide an effective mechanism to... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080225703 - Congestion reducing reliable transport packet retry engine: A method, apparatus and computer readable medium for transmitting at least one packet across a network destined for reception by at least one network endpoint. A plurality of packets is processed sequentially from a queue to be sent to at least one network endpoint. At least a first packet from... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080225704 - Probes for predictive determination of congestion based on remarking/downgrading of packets: In one embodiment, a technique for detecting the re-marking of a parameter in a network packet is provided. The technique involves sending a request packet that contains a first value of a type of service parameter effecting how the packet is to be handled relative to other packets and receiving... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20080225709 - Advanced bandwidth management: An advanced bandwidth manager (ABM) comprises a session/call admission controller (S/CAC) to manage network ingress traffic when a packet-switched network nears or exceeds its capacity due to changes in the network, e.g., component failures or incremental growth. Ever-changing network topology information is gathered from remote listeners about how traffic is... Agent: Law Offices Of Thomas E. Schatzel, P.C. Fairmont Plaza

20080225707 - Advanced bandwidth management audit functions: An auditing function detects and corrects reservation and routing topology map errors by monitoring the operation of an advanced bandwidth manager (ABM). A session/call admission controller (S/CAC) attached to a network manages loading with policy enforcement points (PEP's) when the network nears or exceeds its capacity. Ever-changing network topology information... Agent: Law Offices Of Thomas E. Schatzel, P.C. Fairmont Plaza

20080225708 - Application-aware policy enforcement: An application-aware policy enforcement point (PEP) attaches to the edge of a packet-switched network to manage loading when the network nears or exceeds its capacity due to changes in the network, e.g., component failures or incremental growth. An advanced bandwidth manager (ABM) comprises a session/call admission controller (S/CAC) that monitors... Agent: Law Offices Of Thomas E. Schatzel, P.C. Fairmont Plaza

20080225705 - Monitoring, controlling, and preventing traffic congestion between processors: A system for monitoring congestion at processors includes queues and a congestion monitor. The queues receive packets, and each queue is associated with a processor. For each queue, the congestion monitor establishes whether a time-averaged occupancy of a queue exceeds a time-averaged occupancy threshold. The congestion monitor provides a notification... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080225706 - Under-assigning resources to video in triple-play virtual topologies to protect data-class traffic: A method for video-on-demand (VoD) admission control at a network edge assigns to a triple-play network virtual topology lesser resources than there exists in a corresponding underlying physical link bandwidth. This prevents video-on-demand (VoD) starvation of data-class traffic. At least one policy enforcement point (PEP) is attached to an edge... Agent: Law Offices Of Thomas E. Schatzel, P.C. Fairmont Plaza

20080225711 - Dynamic response to traffic bursts in a computer network: In one embodiment, a node receives traffic sent from one or more sources toward one or more destinations (e.g., Multipoint-to-Point, MP2P traffic). The node may detect a burst of received traffic based on one or more characteristics of the burst traffic, and, in response, may dynamically apply traffic shaping to... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080225712 - Policy enforcement points: A policy enforcement point (PEP) attaches to the edge of a network to manage loading when the network nears or exceeds its capacity due to changes in the network, e.g., component failures or incremental growth. Autonomous PEP's at the network's edges provide short-term, application-aware controls on their own that are... Agent: Law Offices Of Thomas E. Schatzel, P.C. Fairmont Plaza

20080225710 - Systems and methods for load balancing based on user selected metrics: The present invention provides improvements to load balancing by providing a load balancing solution that allows a user to select metrics, weights and thresholds from metrics collected or determined by a load balancing appliance as well as metrics obtained from another device, such as a server running the service. The... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080225713 - Source routing approach for network performance and availability measurement of specific paths: In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a first packet that has a first payload. The first payload identifies a first path between endpoints traversed by the first packet, and identifying information associated with a first node associated with the first path traversed by the first packet. The identifying information... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20080225714 - Dynamic load balancing: A system, method and associated resource balancer function for calculating a resource attribution proposal to be used in a load balancing mechanism supported by a plurality of monitored Service Nodes (SN). At the resource balancer function, receiving an updated remaining capacity value from a first SN of the plurality of... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080225716 - Quality of service admission control network: A network includes an advanced bandwidth manager (ABM) to manage loading when a network nears or exceeds its capacity due to changes in the network, e.g., component failures or incremental growth. The ABM gathers strategic information from remote listeners about how traffic is being routed over the whole network, and... Agent: Law Offices Of Thomas E. Schatzel, P.C. Fairmont Plaza

20080225715 - Systems and methods of providing proxy-based quality of service: Systems and methods for dynamically controlling bandwidth of connections are described. In some embodiments, a proxy for one or more connections may allocate, distribute, or generate indications of network congestion via one or more connections in order to induce the senders of the connections to reduce their rates of transmission.... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080225724 - Method and apparatus for improved data transmission through a data connection: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable code for receiving data from a sender across a network connection for the data transfer. An expected size for a congestion window for the sender is identified. An amount of the data received from the sender is tracked. An acknowledgment is sent... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080225723 - Optical impairment aware path computation architecture in pce based network: An apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising receiving a path computation request comprising at least one path computation constraint, and determining whether there is a path through an optical network that satisfies the path computation constraints. Also disclosed is an apparatus configured to process... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080225720 - Systems and methods for configuring flow control of policy expressions: Systems and methods for configuring and evaluating policies that direct processing of one or more data streams are described. A configuration interface is described for allowing users to specify object oriented policies. These object oriented policies may allow any data structures to be applied with respect to a payload of... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080225722 - Systems and methods for configuring policy bank invocations: Systems and methods for configuring and evaluating policies that direct processing of one or more data streams are described. A configuration interface is described for allowing users to specify object oriented policies. These object oriented policies may allow any data structures to be applied with respect to a payload of... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080225718 - Systems and methods for providing global server load balancing of heterogeneous devices: The present invention provides improvements to load balancing by providing a load balancing solution that distributes a load among a plurality of heterogenous devices, such as different types of local load balancers, using metrics collected from the different devices. The load balancing appliance collects metrics from heterogenous devices using a... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080225721 - Systems and methods for providing quality of service precedence in tcp congestion control: Systems and methods for dynamically controlling bandwidth of connections are described. In some embodiments, a proxy for one or more connections may allocate, distribute, or generate indications of network congestion via one or more connections in order to induce the senders of the connections to reduce their rates of transmission.... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080225719 - Systems and methods for using object oriented expressions to configure application security policies: Systems and methods for configuring and evaluating policies that direct processing of one or more data streams are described. A configuration interface is described for allowing users to specify object oriented policies. These object oriented policies may allow any data structures to be applied with respect to a payload of... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080225717 - Traffic engineering on wireless mesh networks: Techniques are described for intelligently allocating bandwidth in a wireless mesh network. The wireless mesh network includes a nodes and links interconnecting the nodes. In order to increase capacity and avoid congestion in the network, a network administrator may regulate network traffic by adjusting various parameters that control the operation... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080225725 - Method and apparatus for supporting uplink starvation avoidance in a long term evolution system: A method and apparatus for uplink (UL) starvation avoidance includes determining a current buffer status information. The current buffer status information is reported to an evolved Node B (eNB). A grant that includes a determination of a number of tokens a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may accumulate is received from... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080225727 - Communication system and router: A router checks traffic with respect to the SIP server at reception of a request message addressed to an SIP server from an SIP terminal. If the traffic exceeds a band allocated to the SIP server, the router transfers the request message to a congestion server.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080225726 - System and method for selfish child clustering: A system and method for selfish child clustering are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a selfish node; and a plurality of servicing nodes each connected to the selfish node, wherein the selfish node selects a first one of the servicing nodes to service requests therefrom; and wherein the... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080225728 - Systems and methods for providing virtual fair queueing of network traffic: Systems and methods for dynamically controlling bandwidth of connections are described. In some embodiments, a proxy for one or more connections may allocate, distribute, or generate indications of network congestion via one or more connections in order to induce the senders of the connections to reduce their rates of transmission.... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080225729 - Apparatus, methods and computer program products implementing fast bearer prioritization in a mac-hs packet scheduler based on required activity detection: Apparatus, methods and computer program products provide fast instantaneous overload control during scheduling operations involving users in a wireless communications network who are candidates to be scheduled in a next transmission time interval. Apparatus detect congestion conditions in a wireless communications network by determining an instantaneous operating region of a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080225730 - Method and apparatus for monitoring and displaying routing metrics of a network: The invention includes an apparatus and method for displaying path metrics associate with nodes and links within a network. The method includes determining path metric values associated with the network. The method further includes displaying only the path metric values that fall within a predetermined set. The predetermined set can... Agent: Tropos Networks

20080225732 - Electronic device centralized management apparatus and electronic device centralized management method: An electronic device centralized management apparatus manages a device connected through a network remotely. The apparatus stores information received from the device; extracts information based on a designated attribute of the device from the stored information; and compares a tendency held by the extracted information to a tendency held by... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080225733 - Methods and arrangements to detect a failure in a communication network: Methods and arrangements to monitor communication components such as a network adapters for activity, and identify components that have lower than normal levels of activity are provided. An identified communication component can become suspect component and a candidate for further testing, including different forms of interrogation. Process for interrogating candidates... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080225731 - Network system, node device and management server: Erroneous detection of a failure in spite of the absence of failure on the route on account of a communication delay is to be prevented. A node device detects a failure on the route to a remote node device is detected by a failure to receive a packet from the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080225740 - Detection of heavy users of network resources: A device includes a multistage filter and an elephant trap. The multistage filter has hash functions and an array. The multistage filter is operable to receive a packet associated with a candidate heavy network user and send the packet to the hash functions. The hash functions generate hash function output... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080225737 - Dynamic rate limiting in wireless mesh networks: A dynamic rate limiting mechanism for wireless mesh networks. In particular implementations, a method comprising monitoring one or more clients associated with a wireless mesh network and the respective hop counts of the clients to a root mesh node of the wireless mesh network; determining, responsive ton one or more... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080225734 - Method and apparatus for data rate detection using a data eye monitor: Methods and apparatus are provided for data rate detection using a data eye monitor. The data rate is one of a plurality of data rates comprising a base rate and one or more divide-by-N multiples of the base rate, where N is an integer. The data rate of a received... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080225744 - Method and apparatus for high speed downlink packet access link adaptation: A method of high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) link adaptation, comprises receiving a channel quality measurement metric over a Measured Results on random access channel (RACH) information element (IE). The link is adapted based upon the received channel quality metric.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080225739 - Method and apparatus for monitoring events in network traffic: A method of monitoring events in network traffic is described herein, in accordance with various embodiments. The method may provide for the reduction in the number of network traffic samples that need to be analysed in order to determine performance criteria for the traffic in the network. By selecting specific... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080225746 - Method and system for generating packet delay variation with a uniform distribution: A method and system for generating packet delay variation (PDV) with a uniformly distributed probability density function (PDF) for packet timing recovery stress testing. A delay-step method determines a delay for each packet in a stream of packets generated at a regular interval. In the delay-step method, delay-steps are determined... Agent: Weinick & Associates, LLC

20080225738 - Method and system for retrieving time series data: Systems and methods for analyzing time series data are disclosed. A query including a machine variable identifier may be received. The machine variable identifier may include an identifier pertaining to one or more of a state, a condition and a performance measure for a printer. A first time series data... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080225741 - Monitor for multi-protocol label switching (mpls) networks: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving label data that indicates all interface labels that belong to each path ID of multiple path IDs associated with corresponding multiple paths between provider edge nodes in a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. Each interface label is associated with a network interface on... Agent: Eugene Molinelli Evans & Molinelli PLLC

20080225745 - Packet network monitoring device: A network analysis device for a digital communication network includes a digitizer to digitize a waveform representing a signal to produce a plurality of digital samples indicative of the waveform. The signal is communicated on the network. The network analysis device also includes a processor operable to analyze the digital... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080225735 - Reducing effects of packet loss in video transmissions: An error correction system determines a level of error correction protection to apply to a frame of video data to be transmitted by a sending endpoint to a receiving endpoint based on the predicted impact of packet loss as well as the importance of the frame based on inter-frame dependencies,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080225743 - Reverse-link quality-of-service information in data packet header: Quality-of-service information provides details related to data packets, including delay information. A data packet header may be analyzed to determine a portion capable of retaining quality-of-service information. Quality-of-service information may be compressed and placed into the identified portion. The header may be transmitted to a base station, where the quality-of-service... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080225742 - Scheduling method and system for guaranteeing real-time service quality of wibro cpe: Provided are a scheduling method and apparatus for guaranteeing real-time service quality of Wireless Broadband (WiBro) customer premises equipment (CPE). The scheduling apparatus includes: a real-time protocol (RTP) packet monitoring unit for monitoring an RTP packet passing through a local area network (LAN) section and detecting a bandwidth of real-time... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080225747 - Simulating packet delay variation using step-target delay method: A method and system for simulating packet delay variation (PDV) is disclosed. The delay-step method for simulating PDV determines a delay for each packet is a stream of packets generated at a regular interval. Delay target values are randomly selected based on a statistical distribution, such as a Gamma distribution,... Agent: Weinick & Associates, LLC

20080225736 - Transmission of segments of data packages in accordance with transmission speed and package size: Adaptive data transmission is accomplished by allotting transmission to data of a data package via a communications connection. In one embodiment, the steps comprise determining the transmission speed available using an open connection; estimating time of transmission of the data package in accordance with the determined transmission speed and size... Agent: John H. Holcombe IBM Corporation,IPLaw Dept.

20080225749 - Auto-configuration of a network device: Exemplary systems and methods for auto-configuring a network device are provided. In exemplary embodiments, the network device receives network data, which is used to determine identification data for a client. A version of the client identification data is then sent to an ISP by the network device. In response, a... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080225752 - Communication resource allocation method of base station: A communication resource allocation method for solving resource request imbalance content in a cell is provided. Considering a propagation environment, the base station allocates a whispering resource to a whispering area, the whispering resource being one part of the communication resource and the whispering area being a peripheral area of... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080225751 - Method and apparatus for prioritized information delivery with network coding over time-varying network topologies: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for information delivery with network coding over time-varying network topologies. In one embodiment, the method comprises decomposing a sequence of topology graphs that model a time-varying network topology into a plurality of virtual graphs, where each virtual graph of the plurality of virtual... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080225750 - Method of transmitting data in a communication system: A method of establishing parameters to facilitate a communication event in a communication network comprising: establishing a first communication event; monitoring at least one parameter used to process data associated with the first communication event; storing said at least one monitored parameter; establishing a second communication event; selecting at least... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080225748 - Systems and methods for providing stuctured policy expressions to represent unstructured data in a network appliance: Systems and methods for configuring and evaluating policies that direct processing of one or more data streams are described. A configuration interface is described for allowing users to specify object oriented policies. These object oriented policies may allow any data structures to be applied with respect to a payload of... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080225754 - Automatically discovering architectural roles of packet switching devices: Network architectural roles of packet switching devices are automatically determined by retrieving and analyzing configuration information of the packet switching devices. The retrieved configuration information typically includes operational details of the packet switching operations performed by the packet switching device, with these retrieved operational details being analyzed in order to... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20080225755 - System and method for providing and using a vlan-aware storage device: The present invention provides secure IP protocol capable storage devices using Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) techniques. Specific embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for securing VLAN aware storage devices, and the like. In specific embodiments, techniques according to the present invention can provide Internet data centers that are... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080225753 - Systems and methods for configuring handling of undefined policy events: Systems and methods for configuring and evaluating policies that direct processing of one or more data streams are described. A configuration interface is described for allowing users to specify object oriented policies. These object oriented policies may allow any data structures to be applied with respect to a payload of... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080225756 - Method for synchronizing u-apsd trigger frames: A wireless LAN is comprised of a number of wired infrastructure devices, including at least one access point able to support a number of wireless communication devices configured to operate in the U-APSD mode. The wireless communications devices periodically contending for the wireless medium to transmit trigger messages to the... Agent: Robert C. Schluer

20080225757 - Web-based interactive learning system and method: A system and method for interactive web based learning may include providing at least one teaching node accessible by at least one teacher, and providing at least one student node accessible by at least one student. A bidirectional live interface may be provided between the at least one teaching node... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080225758 - Automatic gain control and filtering techniques for use in on-channel repeater: A repeater environment is provided operative to deploy a feedback cancellation loop that is adaptively coupled with an antenna array such that a selected metric can be derived by deploying a selected filter bank having an automatic gain control operative to process the signal on a bin by bin basis... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080225759 - Radio communication apparatus: A radio communication apparatus that transmits and receives a signal via an antenna duplexer, the apparatus that includes a dividing unit that divides part of a transmitting signal to be transmitted via the antenna duplexer. Also included is a conversion unit that converts a receiving signal of a first frequency... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080225761 - Estimating timing and frequency information for multiple channel wireless communication systems: One method of estimating timing and frequency information of a payload transmitted through two or more frequency separated channels combines training fields from preambles from the two or more frequency separated channels to construct combined values that may be used to estimate the frequency and timing information. In one embodiment,... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20080225763 - Group mmse-dfd with rate (sinr) feedback and without pre-determined decoding order for reception on a cellular downlink: In accordance with the invention, a method includes the steps of: i) initializing with channel matrix estimates and inner codes of all co-channel transmitter sources in a wireless network, modulation and coding schemes of all sources not of interest; ii) converting each channel matrix estimate into an effective channel matrix... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080225764 - Method and apparatus for improving configurations of serving grants for a user equipment in a wireless communications system: A method of improving configurations of serving grants for a user equipment in a wireless communications system includes providing a scheduling grant table for configuring a serving grant value according to a reference value when a relative grant message is received. The reference value is determined according to a previously... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080225766 - Method and apparatus for reconfiguring medium access control components in wireless communications: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to facilitate wireless communications between a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU), legacy base stations and base stations using different operating parameters, such as evolved high speed packet access (HSPA) systems Third Generation Partnership Project ((3GPP) Release 7, Release 8 and beyond). Preferred WTRUs are configured... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080225765 - Methods and apparatus for reordering data in an evolved high speed packet access system: Method and apparatus for receiving high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) transmissions are disclosed. An HS-DSCH medium access control (MAC-ehs) entity receives MAC-ehs protocol data units (PDUs) via a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) while in one of Cell_FACH, Cell_PCH, and URA_PCH states. The reordering PDUs included in the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080225762 - Municipal safety integrated infrastructure network for providing connectivity to public agencies, offices and fixed/mobile infrastructure elements: A communications network for making information available to a one or more government agencies. The network comprises antennas on publicly operated facilities, transceivers for sending messages to and receiving messages from one or more of the antennas, routers responsive to messages received at the antennas for routing the messages on... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20080225760 - System and method for intelligent paging of an idle mobile device: An access gateway comprises a processor. The processor is operable to determine a message type of a received packet. The processor is further operable to apply a paging rule. The paging rule is related at least in part to the message type of the received packet. The processor is further... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080225767 - Device for implementing a rnc using lvds: A device for implementing a RNC is provided with an interface interfacing between sub-systems of a system for the RNC. The interface uses cross duplication dualizing interfacing method. In the device of the present invention, the data transmission between the sub-systems is performed in the form of LVDS signals converted... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080225768 - Systems and methods for indicating buffered data at an access point using a traffic indication map broadcast: Stations in standby mode periodically wake up to check for buffered data at the access points. Traditionally, the information is available by checking the periodic beacon frame for a traffic indication map (TIM). Unfortunately, the length of beacons has steadily increased with the progression of the various wireless standards requiring... Agent: Conexant Systems , Inc.

20080225770 - Method and system for transmitting and receiving ethernet data to and from mobile terminal supporting high speed mobility: A method and a system for transmitting and receiving Ethernet data to/from a mobile terminal supporting high speed mobility are provided. The method includes: setting a wireless link between a specific access point among a plurality of wireless access points and the mobile terminal and registering identification information of the... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20080225771 - Point-to-multipoint wireless display method: The present invention discloses a point-to-multipoint wireless display method comprising steps of establishing connection between a data processing device and multiple display devices, acquiring pixel data, generating pixel data packets and transmitting the pixel data packets over the air in a multicast manner at the data processing device side, receiving... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080225769 - System for multicast broadcasting towards at least one roaming user terminal in a mobile ip network: The invention relates to a system for multicast broadcasting towards an IP network mobile system. Upon connection of the mobile router (MRx) and transmission (A) of a signalling to the site of origin (S1), said method consists in discriminating (B) the location of a mobile router (RMx) with regard to... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080225773 - Communication protocol for wireless data exchange via a packet transport based system: A protocol for wireless data exchange may be used in conjunction with two or more portable computer systems. One of the portable computer systems may be a personal digital assistant (PDA) having an internal or an external wireless communication unit. The protocol can be used by a sending application residing... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20080225772 - Explicit layer two signaling for discontinuous reception: The embodiments of the present invention provide for methods, devices, and systems adapted to enable an eNodeB to instruct a user equipment (UE) to adjust its current discontinuous reception (DRX) parameter by Layer 2 signaling, in particular, via Layer 2 protocol data units.... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, PC

20080225776 - Apparatus, methods, and computer program products providing unsolicited harq for system information in the downlink: In one non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, incremental HARQ combining is performed in the DL for system information (e.g., the BCCH) without the interactive ACK/NACK responses that are an element of conventional HARQ. Instead, a number of unsolicited HARQ repeats are sent. That is, one or more HARQ incremental repeats of the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080225774 - Optimal resource allocation in a multi-hop ofdma wireless network with cooperative relaying: An optimal resource allocation strategy for OFDMA multi-hop wireless networks is disclosed. The system allocates one or more resources in a multi-hop network by solving one or more higher-layer sub-problem; solving one or more physical layer and media access control (PHY/MAC) layer sub-problems per tone per time slot with one... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080225775 - Physical layer repeater utilizing real time measurement metrics and adaptive antenna array to promote signal integrity and amplification: Embodiments of a repeater environment can be operative to deploy a feedback cancellation loop that is adaptively coupled with an antenna array such that a selected metric can be applied to the antenna array and feedback cancellation loop combination to improve signal integrity and amplification. Illustratively, the feedback cancellation loop... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080225777 - Method and device for controlling write power in a recordable optical storage system: The invention provides an optimum write power control technique for controlling the write power during write processes in recordable optical storage systems, especially in Rewritable optical systems. In an Optimum Power Calibration (OPC) procedure an optimum write power level is determined from the jitter values of recorded test marks.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080225781 - Group mmse-dfd with order and filter computation for reception on a cellular downlink: A method for decoding in a wireless downlink channel, where all dominant transmitting sources use inner codes from a particular set, including the steps of: estimating a channel matrix seen from each dominant transmitter source in response to a pilot or preamble signal transmitted by each such source; converting each... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080225779 - Location-based networking system and method: A technique for creating a network model involves receiving location data associated with objects and using the location data to improve the size and/or accuracy of the network model. A technique for creating geo-tagged content involves providing a probable location associated with a client and geo-tagging content at that location.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080225778 - Service discovery mechanism in broadcast telecommunication network: Aspects of the invention are directed to service discovery in a digital broadcast network. A service discovery descriptor, which may be electronic service guide-provider and cell specific, provides mapping between a service identifier, a logical channel identifier, and a physical channel, which may be characterized by a frame identifier and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080225780 - Use of distributed hashtables for wireless access mobility management: A method, apparatus and system for management of a wireless communication network in which the system has a plurality of access nodes. A distributed hash table (“DHT”) is created. The DHT contains mobility management data of mobile devices using the wireless communication network. The DHT is stored across at least... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20080225784 - Method and apparatus for configuring a transport block size in a wireless communications system: A method of setting a transport block size for a user equipment in a wireless communications system includes providing a combination table for being looked up to generate a parameter value according to a combination of a modulation scheme and a number of channelization codes indicated by a base station,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080225782 - Method and apparatus for performing blind transport format detection: Methods and apparatus for performing efficient blind transport format (TF) detection in wireless communication systems are disclosed based on TF groups and efficient hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) assisted blind TF detection for retransmissions. When a receiver detects a failure for an initial transmission, a transmitter receives an HARQ negative... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080225786 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a control channel in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting a control channel of a base station in a mobile communication system. A downlink control channel signal generator generates a downlink control channel signal to be transmitted to a User Equipment (UE). A control channel candidate processor calculates a control channel decoding attempt order... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080225785 - Random access resource mapping for long term evolution: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) receives a mapping of access service classes (ASCs) to its assigned access class. The ASC mapping may be based on message priority and logical channel priority. ASC mapping is directly or indirectly mapped to RACH preamble burst groupings and RACH signature groupings.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080225783 - Resource allocation and signalings for group scheduling in wireless communications: Method and apparatus for resource allocation formatting, signaling, and procedures in wireless communications, the method reducing signal overhead. Wireless transmit/receive units are divided into one or more semi-static groups. Resource allocation takes place to a group and the resource sets are signaled to an individual unit needing the resources. The... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080225788 - Resource allocation control method and device in mobile radio communications system: For radio communications between a base station and a mobile station, resource allocation within a resource block including control resources used for control signals (CQI, ACK/NACK) and reference resources used for a reference signal is performed. The base station measures the quality of a channel between the mobile station and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080225787 - Resource allocation method and system: There is provided a communication system, comprising a network infrastructure comprising: a transmitter configured to transmit signaling information to user terminals, the signaling information being related to the allocation of the plurality of sub-carriers at a common frequency band used for data transmission between the multiple user terminals and a... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080225789 - System and method for allocating resources in a communication system: A method and system for allocating resources in a communication system including a first system having a use right for a plurality of frequency bands, and a second system having no use right for the plurality of frequency bands. The method includes acquiring first, second and third sensing informations indicating... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080225790 - Method and system for operating ultra wideband network in the presence of another network: A method for ultra wideband transmission and an ultra wideband device. The ultra wideband device includes a receiver that is connected to a controller; wherein the receiver is adapted to receive a transmission from a component of the non-ultra wideband network; wherein the controller is adapted to: (i) allocate a... Agent: Reches Patents

20080225791 - Methods for transmitting multiple acknowledgments in single carrier fdma systems: A mapping scheme between a plurality of control channel element sets and a plurality of acknowledgement channel resource sets is established. Each of the control channel element sets includes at least one control channel element, and each of the acknowledgement channel resource sets includes at least one acknowledgement channel resource.... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080225792 - Multiplexing of feedback channels in a wireless communication system: Techniques for sending signaling in a wireless communication system are described. Multiple feedback channels may be multiplexed such that they can share time frequency resources. Each feedback channel may be allocated a different subset of subcarriers in each of at least one tile. In one design, a subscriber station may... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080225794 - Communication method between at least one subscriber station and at least two base stations: c

20080225796 - Handover in wireless communications: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate handing over mobile device communications in a wireless network from a source base station to a target base station without using a random access channel (RACH). In this regard, the mobile device can monitor multiple base stations determining timing information related thereto and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080225795 - Mac and tcp coordination approach for performance improvement in ieee 802.16e mobile broadband access systems: A mobile device includes a communications protocol stack including a MAC layer and TCP layer separated by an IP layer. A cross-layer coordination module parallel to the communications protocol stack is coupled to both the MAC layer and TCP layer. The MAC layer generates a message sent to the cross-layer... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080225797 - Method and apparatus for optimizing neighbor list automatically in synchronous cdma network: A method for automatically optimizing a neighbor list for processing handover in a synchronous CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) network includes the steps of: collecting neighbor list data, call fault data, handover statistical data, base station location data and PN information data of each base station sector in a nationwide... Agent: Jones Day

20080225793 - Method and system for performing handoff in wireless networks: Method and system for performing handoff in wireless networks. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for wireless communication. The method includes providing an access terminal that is configured to perform wireless IP communication. The method also includes providing a first wireless connection for the access terminal... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080225798 - Proactive seamless service provisioning in mobile networks through transferring of application context: A method supporting relocation of an Internet Protocol session during a network layer handover is provided. Application context information is sent to a device. The application context information indicates activities to be executed pro-actively before a network layer handover and includes a requested communication requirement. A first message is received... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080225800 - Access router and method of processing handover by access router: An access router including a module buffering first data to be transmitted to a first mobile station, and transmitting the first data to a second access router when the first mobile station moves to the second access router.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080225799 - Method and apparatus for performing handover in a digital broadcasting system: A method is provided for performing handover by a terminal in a digital broadcasting system. The method includes measuring strength of a received signal from a serving broadcast transmitter while receiving a broadcast service, and comparing the measured strength of the received signal with a predetermined reference value; periodically measuring... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080225801 - Radio measurements in cellular telecommunication systems: A method of assessing for a mobile terminal 1 the suitability of a cell of a cellular telecommunications network includes measuring the radio signal at the mobile terminal 1 —step A; and calculating at least one of a first mean value of a plurality of the radio signal measurements over... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080225802 - Transmission method for a time divsion duplex mobile communication system: A method for a time division duplex mobile communication system comprises that setting a minimum unit of transmission time interval and a system frame structure, wherein each radio sub frame is composed of a downlink pilot time slot, a switching guard period, a synchronization time slot and a plurality of... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080225810 - Configurable zone-based location detection: An improved technique provides location detection using wireless net-works such as Wi-Fi networks in a flexible, configurable manner that allows for variations in the environment and tracks target movement accurately in such an environment. Zones of different relative sizes and sensitivities can be defined, so as to vary the degree... Agent: Raubvogel Law Office

20080225808 - Integrated media system and method: An integrated media system and method comprising a media server and one or more client interfaces disposed in communicative relation with a network. The media server may be structured to communicate an interactive media object to the client interface over the network. The interactive media object comprising at least one... Agent: Malloy & Malloy, P.A.

20080225805 - Method and apparatus for provisioning a communication device: A method and apparatus for provisioning a communication device is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller element that establishes wireless communication with a base unit operating according to a short-range cordless phone communication protocol, and receives... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080225813 - Personal network, and method to secure a personal network: Personal network, being associated with a user, the personal network comprising a plurality of personal devices associated with the user, wherein the personal devices are configured to be interconnected with each other via one or more communication connections, to allow datacommunication there-between; and at least one personal network control unit... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20080225804 - Real-time sessions for wireless mesh networks: A real-time data transport protocol directed to aggregating multiple packets of a real-time protocol session and transmitting redundant copies of the packets as defined by a sliding window. In particular implementations, a method comprising accessing a plurality of packets of a real-time protocol session; aggregating, over a sliding window, a... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080225806 - System and method for enabling mobility in internet protocol networks: A method to enable mobility while connected to an Internet protocol network comprises receiving a first data packet from a mobile node at a first mobile gateway in a mobile-gateway-communication network via a first access point and determining if a communication session is ongoing responsive to receiving the first data... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080225815 - System and method for providing messages on a wireless device connecting to an application server: A system and method for providing a message on the graphic display of a wireless device while the wireless device is connecting to an application download server across a wireless network. When the wireless device attempts to communicate with an application download server or changes files while navigating an application... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080225811 - Systems and methods for reliable broadcast and multicast transmission over wireless local area network: Broadcast and multicast (BM) systems have not been reliable in the wireless local area networks. Higher bandwidth and more reliable BM transmissions are necessitated by video and audio applications. A class of BM reliable frames is transmitted at a higher rate. The access point performs some rudimentary collision avoidance to... Agent: Conexant Systems , Inc.

20080225809 - Topology system of wireless network with dynamic balance: The present invention is to provide a topology system of wireless network with dynamic balance comprising at least one subsidiary topology system of wireless network each having a plurality of access points and only one access point automatically becomes a root access point which operates on a channel different from... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080225807 - Transmitter, receiver and system as well as related methods and computer programs for identifying at least one network capability: e

20080225803 - Transmitting device, wireless communications system, and program and computer-readable storage medium storing same: A worker uses a remote controller (80) to provide an instruction, so as to turn on signal output from a microcomputer (67) of a video transmitting unit (20) to be inspected to an antenna. For the video transmitting unit (20) and a display unit (30) paired with the video transmitting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080225812 - Voip-only base transceiver station: Embodiments for a low-cost, flexible, VoIP-Only Base Transceiver Station are disclosed.... Agent: David Burgess

20080225814 - Wireless access point service coverage area management: A Wireless Access Point (WAP) of a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) infrastructure includes a processor, a radio and a directional antenna. The radio supports communications with a first plurality of wireless terminals and listens to, but does not participate in transmissions of at least some of a second plurality... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080225816 - Interface, apparatus, and method for communication between a radio equipment control node and a remote equipment node in a radio base station: An interface, apparatus, and method are described for communication between a radio equipment control (REC) node and a radio equipment (RE) node in a radio base station that tranceives information over radio interface using multiple antenna carriers. The REC node is separate from and coupled to the RE node by... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080225820 - Mobile station capable of and a method for generating chip patterns for transmission: A mobile station for wirelessly transmitting to a base station by DS-CDMA a signal which is spread by multiplying a spreading code includes a high-precision transmission timing control unit configured to control transmitting timings of transmitting signals so that a time difference at the base station among timings of receiving... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080225817 - Receiving apparatus, transmitting apparatus, communication system and communication method: An acquiring unit (60) of a reception device acquires, from a transmission device, a notification of re-establishment of data in a lower layer. A notifying/instructing unit (70) of the reception device notifies, to the transmission device, a sequence number in a higher layer of data which is desired to be... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080225819 - System and method for processing wireless high definition video data using a shortened last codeword: A method and system for processing high definition video data to be transmitted over a wireless medium is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an information packet having the length of L bytes, wherein L=(M×n×K)+A, and where: M is the depth of an interleaver, n is the number... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20080225818 - System and method for processing wireless high definition video data using remainder bytes: A method and system for processing high definition video data using remainder bytes is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an information packet having the length of L bytes, wherein L=(M×n×K)+A, and where: M is the depth of an interleaver, n is the number of interleavers, K is... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20080225821 - Channel access arbitration mechanism for walkie-talkie devices: A mobile device with walkie-talkie functionality initiates a half-duplex transmission, which prompts a transmission request to be sent to a server mediating audio transmissions within channels of the network. The server receives the transmission request and determines if the requested channel is currently busy. An access grant or refusal message... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080225822 - Transmission of ack/nack and transmit power control feedback in evolved utra: A method for transmitting feedback information for a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) includes multiplexing the feedback information with an uplink shared channel, mapping the multiplexed feedback information to orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) symbols and transmitting the feedback information to an e Node B. The method also includes multiplexing... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080225823 - Scheduling of dynamic broadcast channel: System(s) and method(s) are provided that facilitate scheduling system information. Scheduling of system information exploits a control channel associated with a broadcast channel (BCH), and utilizes reference information (e.g., a time reference or a scheduling reference) in addition to system information typically carried by scheduling units (SUs). Scheduling proceeds primarily... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080225824 - Method and apparatus for polling in a wireless communication system: A data packet communication system employs radio link control (RLC) transmission between a transmitter and a receiver with an Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) arrangement whereby polling of the receiver is accomplished with reduced amount of redundantly transmitted data, such as between an access node and terminal. Upon a polling event,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080225825 - H-arq throughput optimization by prioritized decoding: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate data throughput optimization in a receiver through prioritized decoding of data transmissions. In particular, mechanisms are provided that assign priorities to obtained packets and/or sub-packets of a data transmission. The priorities can be assigned based at least upon prioritization rules that identify packets... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080225826 - Method of synchronizing the playback of an audio broadcast on a plurality of network output devices: Method of synchronizing the playback of an audio broadcast on a plurality of network output devices. The present invention relates to method of synchronizing the playback of an audio broadcast on a plurality of network output devices. Said method comprises the steps of: detecting (11) a set of network output... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080225829 - Communication system: A communication system is provided which is arranged for accessing a network by a group of first access paths and a group of second access paths. The first and second access paths have a different access technology. An access path monitor is provided for obtaining status information related to the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080225828 - Enabling routing of data on a network: A system and method for enabling routing of data on a network is disclosed. The technology includes a method for enabling routing of data from a non-network enabled devices on a network. The method includes detecting a non-network enabled device locally coupled to a first computer system, the first computer... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080225827 - 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

20080225833 - Apparatus for guaranteeing the availability of subscribers in communication networks over network boundaries: According to prior art, for example, when danger or environmental catastrophe are imminent, the population is warned by information guided via the communication network. This type of warning is however limited when the communication network consists of a plurality of sub-networks and the (warning) information must thus be transmitted over... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080225830 - Circuit with generating phone-call ring via computer system and internet phone system using the circuit: An internet phone system is implemented in a computer system, including an internet-phone software unit, for storing a software used by the computer system to operate as an internet phone. An audio-file storage software unit is for storing a plurality of audio files. A USB (Universal Serial Bus) audio interface... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080225835 - Communication server: The SIP server includes a SIP communication controller for controlling transmission/reception of a SIP message complying with SIP, a SIP call controller for controlling calls by using SIP, a call data manager for managing communication state information which indicates communication state with the opposing server and bypass requirement information which... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080225834 - Method for supporting the service features \"call hold\", \"conference calling\" and \"three-party service\" in fmc networks: The prior art cannot implement the feature call hold in a FMC network (fixed mobile conversion, i.e. mixed mobile fixed networks). This is due to the fact that the feature call hold as well as the features conference calling and three-party service have different definitions in the two standards ITU-T... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080225836 - Method of transmitting messages: To provide a method of transmitting messages, using a transmission protocol having time-slots, that allows the messages to be transmitted in a flexible way, it is proposed that each message has a message identifier assigned to it, that the messages are placed in order in a queue, and that the... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080225831 - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for processing session related protocol signaling measures: An apparatus for processing session related protocol signaling messages includes a simplification element. The simplification element may be configured to receive a message associated with a session related protocol, to determine whether the message is a per call based message and, in response to a determination that the message is... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080225832 - Multi-protocol telecommunications routing optimization: A telecommunications switching system employing multi-protocol routing optimization which utilizes predetermined and measured parameters in accordance with a set of user priorities in determining the selection of a telecommunications path to be utilized for transmitting a data file to a remote destination. The switching system has a first memory for... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates, LLC

20080225837 - System and method for multi-layer distributed switching: A system and method for multi-layer distributed switching is disclosed. In one embodiment, the distributed switching system comprises an external network connection connected to a plurality of computing nodes such that data signals can be sent to and from the computing nodes. An incoming director module is associated with a... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080225838 - Common rate matching slot for variable bit rate services: In accordance with at least one embodiment, fixed TDM slot/frame structure and statistical multiplexing are combined. A TDM slot, which is fixed (in size and position) is reserved for a variable bit rate service such that the bit rate of the TDM slot/channel is below the average rate of the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080225847 - Article for improved network performance by avoiding ip-id wrap-arounds causing data corruption on fast networks: The reassembly timer in a TCP/IP receiver is dynamically set to avoid data corruption on fast networks caused by IP identification wrap-around. A sender generates IP packets with a special option specifying a reassembly time for fragments based on the subnet of the destination or on the calculated round-trip time... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080225839 - Information processing device, port detecting device, information processing method, port detecting method, and program: There is provided an information processing device comprising bubble packet transmitter for transmitting a bubble packet via communications processing device, detecting packet transmitter for transmitting a detecting packet via communications processing device, the detecting packet used for detecting a position of a bubble packet transmission port, the detecting packet being... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080225842 - Method and system for accelerating transmission of data between network devices: A method and system for transferring data between a sender and a receiver in a packet-based network is disclosed. The method comprises establishing a data channel, establishing a feedback channel, sending data to the receiver over the data channel, sending an acknowledgment to a sender on the feedback channel at... Agent: Schneck & Schneck

20080225841 - Method and system for low power idle signal transmission in ethernet networks: Aspects of a method and system for low power IDLE signal transmission in Ethernet networks are provided. In this regard, during time periods between transmissions of actual data by a local Ethernet link partner, the local Ethernet Link partner may generate one or more signals, in place of a standard... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080225844 - Method of transmitting data in a communication system: A method of transmitting a first signal from a first terminal to a second terminal via a communication network including: receiving at the first terminal a second signal from the second terminal; outputting the second signal from an output device associated with the first terminal and determining information relating to... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080225845 - Methods and apparatus for receiving data in a packet network: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for transmitting data, such as biometric data or Internet telephone data, in a packet network. Packets are split and interchanged prior to transmission across a packet network, such that packets that teach their destination may be processed, even in the presence of lost or delayed... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080225846 - Methods and apparatus for transmitting data in a packet network: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for transmitting data, such as biometric data or Internet telephone data, in a packet network Packets are split and interchanged prior to transmission across a packet network, such that packets that reach their destination may be processed, even in the presence of lost or delayed... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080225843 - Release of resources in a communication system: A control mechanism for a packet data system is disclosed. The control mechanism includes a control entity configured to detect a defined period of inactivity on a packet data context for carrying packet data. A procedure for releasing resources associated with the packet data context are triggered in response to... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080225840 - Voip system: A Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) system cooperates with a phone and an access point storing default connecting information. The VOIP system includes a transmitting module, a receiving module, a decoding module and a comparing module. The transmitting module is disposed in the phone and transmits numeral information. The receiving... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080225848 - Emergency alert system enhancement using alert server and metro atm network for dsl deployment: An emergency alert system for alerting DSL subscribers of imminent perils includes an alert server connected over a direct link to an edge node of a metro network for receiving an event notification, configuring from an event notification a highest priority alert message, and broadcasting the alert message to subscriber... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080225849 - Automated validation of peripheral director hardware: A system and method of automating the validation and control of peripheral director hardware in a switched fabric network. A system is provided that includes a script language processor for interpreting high-level statements and generating command functions understood by an application programming interface (API) associated with the switched fabric network,... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080225851 - Enabling routing of data on a network based on segmented data accessed from a non-network enabled device: A system and method for enabling routing of data on a network based on segmented 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 segmented data accessed from a non-network enabled device. The method includes... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080225853 - Logical bridging system and method: A system and method of extending a standard bridge to enable execution of logical bridging functionality are disclosed. In some implementations, a logical bridge may assign source logical port information to a data packet based on characteristics of the data packet, employ the source logical port information to learn the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080225852 - Methods and apparatus providing two stage tunneling: A system receives a packet at a first node. The packet is destined for a second node. The system identifies a full routing node from a plurality of network devices. The full routing node is capable of providing routing information for each of the nodes within the plurality of network... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080225850 - Unified transmission scheme for media stream redundancy: In one embodiment, a network session is established for transmitting a media stream. The media stream is encoded into a first set of media stream packets and the first set of media stream packets transmitted according to the established network session. The media stream is also encoded into a second... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080225854 - Packet unstopper system for a parallel packet switch: A system for controlling egress buffer saturation includes, for each data packet flow, a comparator for comparing the number of data packets ‘WPC’ temporarily stored within an egress buffer to a predefined threshold value ‘WPCth’. The packet sequence number ‘PSNr’ of a last received in-sequence data packet and each highest... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080225855 - Method and system of auto-detecting network connecting mode: An auto-detecting method for determining a network connecting mode between a client and a server. The client has a transmitting module, a receiving module and a determining module. The method includes a first detecting-packet transmitting process for enabling the transmitting module to transmit a first network-connecting-mode detecting packet to the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080225859 - Method for scoring queued frames for selective transmission through a switch: A method includes determining a priority of each of a plurality of frames, wherein the priority is a function of an initial value dependent on content of each said frame and one or more adjustment values independent of content of each said frame, and selecting the frame with the highest... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080225856 - Network connection apparatus: In a network connection apparatus having a LLDP function, a comparison processing unit compares a local chassis ID/port ID of its own apparatus with a remote chassis ID/port ID of a neighboring apparatus. When the comparison processing unit detects a coincidence between the local chassis ID/port ID and the remote... Agent: Jackson Chen Nec Corporation Of America

20080225860 - Distributed routing table interface: Application programming interface (API) for starting and accessing distributed routing table (DRT) functionality. The API facilitates bootstrapping into the DRT by one or more devices of a group of devices (a mesh) seeking to collaborate over a serverless connection, establishing a node of the DRT, where each node is an... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080225857 - Low-impact call connection request denial: A policy enforcement point (PEP) attaches to the edge of a packet-switched network to manage loading when the network nears or exceeds its capacity due to changes in the network, e.g., component failures or incremental growth. Autonomous PEP's at the network's edges provide short-term, application-aware controls on their own that... Agent: Law Offices Of Thomas E. Schatzel, P.C. Fairmont Plaza

20080225858 - Data transferring apparatus and information processing system: A data transferring unit performs hit determination on a cache memory based on a management table and a request from a CPU board. If requested data is not available in the cache memory, the data transferring unit reads and sequentially transfers the requested data from a shared memory in packets... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080225863 - Data processing system, method and interconnect fabric supporting multiple planes of processing nodes: A data processing system includes a first plane including a first plurality of processing nodes, each including multiple processing units, and a second plane including a second plurality of processing nodes, each including multiple processing units. The data processing system also includes a plurality of point-to-point first tier links. Each... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080225861 - Installation of intelligent sensors for the high-speed acquisition of data via an ethernet network: d

20080225862 - Method and arrangement relating to messaging: An arrangement for handling control signal messaging in a distributed system comprising a number of sending nodes and a number of receiving nodes and implementing a control signaling communication protocol. The sending and/or the receiving node is adapted to send and/or receive the current message as a compressed message comprising... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080225868 - Allowing ipv4 clients to communicate using teredo addresses when both clients are behind a nat: Methods and systems for allowing clients behind a network address translation device to communicate when those clients are assigned Teredo IPv6 addresses.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080225864 - Communication network routing apparatus and techniques using logical communication links: Communication network routing apparatus and techniques using logical communication links are disclosed. A routing apparatus identifies a logical communication link that it is capable of being used to establish a virtual connection with another routing apparatus within a virtual connection operational domain, which includes multiple sub-domains, of an underlying communication... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC.

20080225865 - Cost reduction of nat connection state keep-alive: Keep-alive processing for NAT devices and reducing power consumption in wireless clients. A server driven keep-alive mechanism facilitates keep-alive messages to a NAT device currently providing a connection to a mobile client to refresh the NAT state, thereby reducing or eliminating power consumption in a wireless device to respond to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080225869 - Enabling sharing of devices on a network: A system and method for enabling sharing of devices on a network is disclosed. The technology includes a method for enabling sharing of non-network enabled devices on a network. The method includes detecting a non-network enabled device locally coupled to a first computer system, the first computer system coupled to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080225867 - Faster nat detection for teredo client: Methods and systems for allowing a Teredo client behind a network address translation device to detect more rapidly the type of network address translation device.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080225870 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing predicted likelihood of communication between users: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing predicted likelihood of communication between users are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for providing predicted likelihood of communication between users. The method includes predicting a likelihood that a first user will initiate communication with... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P.A.

20080225866 - Reducing network traffic to teredo server: Methods and systems for reducing network load on a Teredo server.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080225871 - System and method for bridging proxy traffic in an electronic network: A system and method are provided of bridging proxy traffic in an electronic network. The method can include the operation of receiving a data stream from a client into a packet scanning device using a first socket. This data stream can be directed to an external communication network. The socket... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080225872 - Dynamically defining queues and agents in a contact center: In one embodiment, an automatic call distributor apparatus is provided, including a network interface operable to receive a request for a service, and a processor operable to assign the request to a queue and to associate a number of resources with the queue based upon a determination of at least... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080225873 - Reliable network packet dispatcher with interleaving multi-port circular retry queue: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for managing network data packet transmission. A retry buffer is maintained that includes a single first in, first out retransmission retry buffer. A first data packet is inserted into the retry buffer in response to transmitting the first data packet to a remote node.... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080225874 - Stateful packet filter and table management method thereof: A stateful packet filter and a table management method thereof The stateful packet filter includes an index buffer storing a session table index address from a session table, which is searched for determining a session of a received packet when a packet is received; and a table manager updating a... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080225876 - Bifurcate arbiter: An arbiter for a space switch comprising a two buffers, a media access controller having data outputs coupled to the two buffers, and two control outputs coupled to respective buffers for buffering input data at a clock rate one-half that of the input data and a switch fabric connected to... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras LLP

20080225875 - Mapping discovery for virtual network: A virtual network has network interfaces coupled by tunnels (100) through a forwarding network (40), each interface having a forwarding address in an address space of the forwarding network, each network interface having a reconfigurable address mapper (320) for determining a forwarding address for a packet, and encapsulating the packet... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080225877 - Switching apparatus and frame exchanging method: A switching apparatus is provided which performs switching of a frame sent from a node, in a system of the switching apparatus and the node having redundant ports. The switching apparatus generates a virtual port based on an external setting signal, relates the redundant ports to the virtual port, and... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080225878 - Spectrum management in dynamic spectrum access wireless systems: A wireless system and method including a medium access control (MAC) layer adapted to transmit and receive spectrum management commands for wireless devices operating in restricted channels.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080225879 - Method and system for reducing transceiver power via a variable symbol rate: Aspects of a method and system for reducing transceiver power via a variable symbol rate are provided. In this regard, an Ethernet transmitter may be enabled to transmit data at a variable symbol rate, wherein the symbol rate is determined based on a state of a link coupled to said... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080225880 - Systems and methods for providing framing mapping, muxing and data processing: A method and system for providing Layer 1 time division multiplexing (TDM) framing, multiplexing, and mapping as well as Layer 2 data and protocol processing. One embodiment of the invention provides an integrated Layer1/Layer2 service aggregator within a single-device. Such an embodiment provides a complete System-on-Chip implementation for clear channel... Agent: Thomas Van Zandt #299

20080225881 - Method and system for reducing transceiver power via a variable signal constellation: Aspects of a method and system for reducing transceiver power via a variable signal constellation are provided. In this regard, an Ethernet PHY device may receive one or more signals indicative of a current state of an Ethernet link to which the PHY device is coupled and/or indicative of resources,... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080225882 - Multiplexed optical signal transmission apparatus: A transmission apparatus for multiplexing optical signals has a multi-rate signal processing unit that has a plurality of signal processing circuits in advance according to various signal speeds and frame formats and selects a necessary signal processing circuit as necessary. In addition, the transmission apparatus acquires a type code, used... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080225883 - Network device and network device control method: An object of the present invention is to provide network devices and a network device control method which enable control network devices connected to an IP network, AV devices connected over 1394IF through gateway devices from the IP network, and home devices connected to ECHONET to be controlled without distinction... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080225885 - Dual core crosspoint system: A dual core crosspoint system includes a differential signal core for receiving N differential input channels with common mode voltage removed and providing m differential output channels with m output stages associated with the m output channels; and a common mode core for receiving N common mode voltage input channels... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20080225884 - Methods and apparatus for controlling audio characteristics of networked voice communications devices: Methods and apparatus for controlling the audio characteristics of a networked voice communications device (NVCD) are presented. One method presented includes receiving a settings file, extracting at least one audio control parameter from the settings file, deriving audio processing parameters based upon a value selected from the at least one... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20080225886 - Serial communication system: A serial communication system includes a master processor and a slave processor. A CS signal for requesting a serial communication is output from the master processor, and an OK_INV signal for responding to the CS signal is output from the slave processor. When a CS signal is an active state,... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080225887 - Transponder, transmission system, transmission method and transmission program: The transponder includes a 64B/66B code synchronization bit determination circuit 1511a for notifying a PLL selection control circuit of a control signal which instructs on selection of a variable oscillator or a variable oscillator in response to a case where an electric signal sent from an optical signal reception unit... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080225888 - Optimizing return traffic paths using network address translation: In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises logic for optimizing return traffic paths using network address translation (NAT). The logic is operable to receive outbound data from a source node in a source network, and to replace a source address in a source address field in the outbound data with a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080225889 - Admission control for virtualized services in routers: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to provision a first customer interface to a service instance, and identifying a resource capacity for a resource associated with a service controller of a system. A determination is made as to whether a sum of resource requirements for a first... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20080225890 - Method, communication system and communication unit for synchronisation for multi-rate communication: Methods and systems for determining operating bandwidth in a multi-bandwidth communication system are provided. Determining operating bandwidth in a multi-bandwidth communication system includes receiving a signal having a first signal portion at a first, predetermined bandwidth. The signal contains an indication of an operating bandwidth selected from a plurality of... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080225891 - Flexible pdu sizes for unacknowledged mode radio link control: A method for determining an unacknowledged mode radio link control protocol data unit (PDU) size in a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) includes the WTRU setting a maximum PDU size, and the WTRU setting a maximum total data transferred size. The PDU size is flexible up to the maximum PDU... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080225892 - Using forward error correction with generic stream encapsulation in a digital broadcast network: Aspects of the invention are directed to using forward error correaction in a digital broadcast network that supports generic stream encapsulation. According to an embodiment, error correaction data is calculated over application data, and the application data and error correaction data are encapsulated in generic stream encapsulation packets. In another... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080225893 - Acknowledged mode radio link control architecture and method within evolved hspa systems: An acknowledged mode (AM) radio link control (RLC) architecture and method within evolved high speed packet access (HSPA) are disclosed. The RLC is configured to operate in AM and process protocol data units (PDUs) of flexible size. Specifically, an AM RLC architecture and method in which RLC SDUs are segmented... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080225894 - Method and system for reducing transceiver power via a variable number of channels: Aspects of a method and system for reducing transceiver power via a variable number of channels are provided. In this regard, utilization and/or availability of network and/or device resources may be determined and a configuration of channels utilized for transmitting data may be determined based on the determined utilization and/or... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080225895 - Apparatus and method for generating signal according to ifdma, and apparatus for receiving signal: A signal generation apparatus and signal receiving apparatus according to an Interleaved Frequency Division Multiple Access scheme is provided. The signal generation apparatus generates a plurality of complex symbols by digital-modulating a plurality of data symbols, and rotates the generated plurality of complex symbols in a plurality of each different... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080225896 - Receiving device: A clocking circuit of a receiving unit performs a clocking operation synchronously with a network clock. A packet output circuit of the receiving unit outputs a second packet included in a first packet and outputs a control signal indicating normality/abnormality of output timing of the second packet based on a... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080225898 - Method and apparatus for detecting and compensating for jitter in a communications network: Jitter in a clock signal can cause communications faults in communications networks, such as in networks in which downstream nodes use recovered clock signals as timing for upstream communications. An embodiment of the present invention detects and compensates for jitter in a network by recovering a reference clock associated with... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080225897 - Providing clock synchronization in a network: In one embodiment, an apparatus for providing clock synchronization in a packet-based network, the network having as components nodes and links therebetween and having a network topology, is arranged to compute a forward clock synchronization packet path to a synchronization destination from the network topology according to a computation rule... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080225899 - System and method for the synchronization and distribution of telephony timing information in a cable modem network: A method for synchronizing clocks in a packet transport network. The method comprises, receiving an external network clock at a central packet network node and transmitting timing information to a plurality of packet network devices, the timing information based upon the external network clock. The method further comprises, transmitting and... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080225900 - Dvb low bit rate services: The invention is directed to efficient transfer of low bit rate services in a communication system. A synchronization symbol which has known characteristics may be included as a first symbol of digital broadcast frames. The synchronization symbol, which can be decoded without having to resort to trial and error methods,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080225901 - Integrated services director (isd) overall architecture: A video enable answering machine having many new features including customized video announcement messages, caller ID based video announcement messages, and time based video announcement messages.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080225902 - Moca-compliant multiplexer circuit: A multiplexer circuit complies with Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) specifications and is adapted to be disposed between an input end and an output end. The multiplexer circuit includes a first adapter and a second adapter. The first adapter includes a first high pass filter and a first low pass... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080219145 - Method for scheduling heterogeneous traffic in b3g/4g cellular networks with multiple channels: A method includes tracking average user throughput, packet delay and jitter for every user that is serviced in an OFDM cellular system; using feedback to determine a potential schedule set responsive to user requirements for data and voice traffic responsive to minimum rate guarantee for data flows, and maximum tolerable... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080219144 - Timing adjustments for channel estimation in a multi carrier system: Apparatus and methods are provided for making timing adjustments in a multi carrier communications system. In an aspect, a timing correction method is provided for a multi-carrier system. This includes adjusting the time basis of two or more pilot interlaces with respect to each other in order to account for... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080219146 - Spectrum interpolation method, spectrum interpolation apparatus, and spectrum interpolation program storage medium: (where ω is an angular frequency of interest, FP(ω) is the spectrum value at the angular frequency ω, Δω is the distance between discrete spectra, ωo is an arbitrary reference angular frequency, including ωo=0, and Ψ(ω) is an interpolation function).... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080219148 - System and method for transmitting datain a multiple-branch transmitter-diversity orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (ofdm) system: A system and method for transmitting data in multiple-branch transmitter-diversity OFDM systems is presented. In one embodiment, an approach is taken where an inverse Fourier transform (IFT) is performed on data prior to encoding the data for transmission in the multiple-branch transmitter-diversity system. In another embodiment an IFT is performed... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080219147 - Transmitter and receiver: The transmitter of one embodiment of the present invention includes: a S/P section for converting original serial data to parallel data which will correspond to a plurality of subcarriers; and a second IFFT section for converting the parallel data from the frequency domain to the time domain. The transmitter includes,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080219149 - Flushing processing unit and method of switching device in network using spanning tree protocol: A flushing processing unit and method of a switching device in a network using Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). The method includes determining, by a switching device, whether there is a failure link; when there is the failure link, determining, by the switching device, which one of a root port and... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080219150 - Auto-negotiation by nodes on an infiniband fabric: A method and system for digital communication wherein nodes exchange messages at a first data rate in order to coordinate testing at a second, higher data rate. After testing is completed, the nodes exchange test results at the first data rate, and if conditions are satisfactory for operation at the... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080219151 - System and method for using a peer to peer mechanism to repair broadcast data in wireless digital broadcast networks: An improved system and method for repairing and/or retrieving lost or crushed data, such as files carried by the FLUTE protocol, by using a P2P network in wireless digital broadcast networks. According to various embodiments, when a peer device has failed to receive a data packet from operator, or when... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080219152 - Method and apparatus for providing packet ring protection: For a ring protection method in a packet transport network a failure is detected at a first network node (N4) in the ring (1, 2). The failure is communicated along the ring (1, 2) using an automatic protection switching protocol. At the first node (N4) or at a second node... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080219153 - Constructing a repair path in the event of failure of an inter-routing domain system link: An apparatus and method as described for constructing a repair path for use in the event of failure of an inter-routing domain connection between respective components in first and second routing domains of a data communications network. The apparatus is arranged to assign a propagatable repair address for use in... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080219154 - Method of sending data packets from a server to clients via a data link that has a given error rate: The present invention relates to a method of sending data packets from a server to clients via a first data link that has a given error rate. The clients are interconnected by a second data link that has a lower error rate than that of the first link. The server... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080219155 - Relay apparatus and relay method: A relay apparatus receives data from a first device via a first network. The relay apparatus then receives a first request from a second device via a second network, and sends a second request to the first network in accordance with the first request. Then, the relay apparatus sends, to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080219156 - Communication network protection systems: A communication network protection system made up of interconnected networks, at least one of which has an automatic control plane (for example ASTN) among which are terminal interconnecting nodes. With the terminal interconnection nodes, termed primary nodes, are associated corresponding secondary terminal nodes wherein a secondary terminal node is used... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080219157 - System and method for data reconfiguration in an optical communication network: A system and method are disclosed that may be operable to avoid upstream reassembly at an optical line terminal in a passive optical network.... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.l.p.

20080219158 - Media content distribution system and method: A system and method for media content distribution, including establishing a relation between a content source and a content destination, at least one of the content source and the content destination being external to an entity that establishes the relation. Transmission of the content is permitted from the source to... Agent: Patrick S. Yoder Fletcher Yoder

20080219161 - Method for generating burst in a communication system: A method for generating a burst in a communication system. The method includes estimating a first allocable PDU according to scheduling priority; generating a first burst in which the first PDU is to be included; and determining whether a total size of bursts to be allocated to a downlink subframe... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080219160 - Programmable hardware-based traffic policing: A hardware-based technique for policing traffic in a network node involves programming a set of algorithm-specific policing primitives that establishes a relationship between condition primitives and action primitives and populating a searchable memory with a set of indexed action primitives. Action primitives are then selected from the searchable memory in... Agent: Wilson & Ham Pmb: 348

20080219159 - Protocol dma engine: Apparatus and method for accelerating data handling in the protocol stack of a networked device. Embodiments of the disclosed invention may be used to increase the throughput rate of a networked device while offloading processing from the device's host processor. A method includes building a set of descriptors that describe... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080219162 - Method and system for controlling network access on a per-flow basis: Aspects of a method and system for controlling network access on a per-flow basis may comprise controlling access to a network by regulating at least one flow comprising one or more ingress packets based on a flow identifier associated with said one or more packets and based on an establishment... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080219165 - Communication device: A first controller calculates a first read-out speed based on the traffic volume in a first buffer and information of a request for the first read-out speed, sets the speed in a first scheduler. The first controller also generates information of a request for a second read-out speed based on... Agent: Jackson Chen Nec Corporation Of America

20080219164 - Communication terminal which perform low-delay communication: A communication terminal used in a communication system which sets a communication session between a plurality of terminals through a network to perform data transmission and reception includes a first transmission bandwidth control unit which performs transmission bandwidth control independently of a state of the network, a second transmission bandwidth... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080219166 - Node and fair rate calculating method: A topology database stores the number of RPR nodes which belong to an RPR network. A traffic rate measuring unit sends a variety of parameters for calculating a communication band available to a fairness controlled traffic packet to a fairness control unit. Upon detection of congestion, the fairness control unit... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20080219163 - Package switching network with a deterministic behavior: in which: the max latency value is a maximum residence time in an output buffer of the at least one switch, this value may be different for each switch in the network, BAGi is a minimum time between two consecutive frames belonging to a virtual link i, before they are... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080219167 - Method, system and device for processing device overload in communication network: A method for processing device overload in a communication network includes: a device involved in a service connection checking in real time whether processing capability of the device exceeds an overload threshold set in the device, and sending to a neighboring device of the device an overload alarm message containing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080219168 - Relay apparatus, path selection system, path selection method and program: An object of the present invention is to reflect a band of the bottleneck into the cost, to select an optimal path, and to enhance an efficiency of the net utilization without making a setting or a modification to the apparatus (bridge etc.) in which the path control protocol operates... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080219169 - Flexible, cost-effective solution for peer-to-peer, gaming, and application traffic detection & treatment: A method and apparatus for detecting, peer traffic based on a heuristic model and deep packet inspection is described. A suspect set of peer packets is detected using a heuristic model. From the suspect set of peer packet, a set of verified peer packets is detected using deep packet inspection.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080219170 - Systems and methods for allocating network bandwidth: An improved system for allocating bandwidth allows a network customer to dynamically modify bandwidth settings for their private networks. Applicable modified bandwidth settings may include port speed, committed access rate, and Ethernet flow. Port speed determines how much total data may pass through a node in a private network at... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080219172 - Forwarding plane data communications channel for ethernet transport networks: Described is a process and system for providing an extensible forwarding plane data communications channel adapted to selectively support operations, administration and maintenance (OAM) activity within one or more different domains of an Ethernet transport network. The data communication channel is established using Ethernet protocol data units forwarded within the... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20080219173 - Network test apparatus, network test method and network test program: According to an aspect of an embodiment, an apparatus is transmitting/receiving an OAM frame containing kinds of tests indicating one or more tests for Ethernet-OAM to/from a relay apparatus, storing configuration information to generate a network configuration needed for each of the plurality of tests in a pseudo manner, distinguishing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080219171 - Systems and methods for the implementation of a remote test access feature using virtual connection points and sub-network connections: The present invention provides systems and methods for the implementation of a remote test access feature using virtual connection points and sub-network connections by the merge-and-split of flexible permanent virtual circuits. The remote test access feature of the present invention represents a highly flexible and fully automated technique that utilizes... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20080219174 - Detecting inactive links in a communication network: The invention relates to a method and a management system for detecting inactive links in a network comprising interconnected switches (A, B, C). Initially, ports in a blocking state are identified. The present invention proceeds by deactivating a first port (2) in the blocking state, whereby a second port (1)... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080219175 - Connectionless configurations for stress testing timing and synchronization in data packet networks: A method and system for providing connectionless configurations for stress testing timing and synchronization in data packet networks. Packet traffic of interest is transmitted through multiple interconnected switching nodes such that different packets can be transmitted over different paths through the switching nodes. The nodes can support background traffic in... Agent: Weinick & Associates, Llc

20080219180 - Derivative packet delay variation as a metric for packet timing recovery stress testing: A method and system for analyzing simulated packet delay variation (PDV) using derivative PDV is disclosed. The delay-step method for simulating PDV determines a delay for each packet in a stream of packets generated at a regular interval. Delay target values are randomly selected based on a statistical distribution, such... Agent: Weinick & Associates, Llc

20080219181 - High-speed traffic measurement and analysis methodologies and protocols: We formulate the network-wide traffic measurement/analysis problem as a series of set-cardinality-determination (SCD) problems. By leveraging recent advances in probabilistic distinct sample counting techniques, the set-cardinalities, and thus, the network-wide traffic measurements of interest can be computed in a distributed manner via the exchange of extremely light-weight traffic digests (TD's)... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.c.

20080219177 - Method and apparatus for voice conference monitoring: This method and apparatus is used to process call control protocol messages and quality of service media streams from an internet protocol conferencing session. The status and attributes processed from call control protocol messages are combined with the quality of service information for the parties connecting to a conferencing session... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080219178 - Method of data analysis in a packet switched network: This invention relates to an apparatus and method for analysis of packet media streams. In particular for analysis of media streams from different network monitoring points where it is desirable to compare analysis of a particular media packet stream from different monitoring points in the network. The invention provides a... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080219182 - System and method for adjusting digital subscriber line based services: A system and method for adjusting digital subscriber line based services is provided. In a particular embodiment, a computer readable medium is provided including computer-executable instructions that when executed, cause a computer to modify a value of a first control parameter associated with a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) network based... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080219176 - Transmission device: A flow calculation unit classifies packets of data to be transmitted according to each packet header. A stream data determination unit organizes a set of packets having the same packet header as a packet group according to the classified result by the flow number calculation unit, and determines whether to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080219179 - Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, and communication system: A communication system includes: a transmission device configured to transmit predetermined information; and a reception device configured to receive the predetermined information; wherein the transmission device includes an encoding unit configured to encode the information such that the error rate of the information in the case of a signal-to-noise ratio... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080219184 - Discovery of network devices: Network devices, systems, and methods are described for visually identifying physically linked network devices. One network device includes a memory in connected to a processor. A network chip on the device is connected to the processor and the memory. The network chip includes logic and a number of ports. A... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080219186 - Energy switch router: In various embodiments, a policy-based residential networked meter can be an energy switch router device (ESRD) that provides policy-based advanced metering, load control and shaping, energy services delivery and accounting, and secure web services interfaces and internetworking communications. The ESRD can be integrated and inter-related with advanced policy-based sensory, metrology,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080219185 - Method and system for radio frequency management in a mesh network with a path distance factor: A method and system for radio frequency management (RFM) in a mesh network using a path distance factor (PDF) is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method, comprises calculating a path distance factor (PDF) between a first mesh router and a portal. A frame is transmitted to a second... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP Ip Prosecution Department

20080219183 - Switch method for ensuring communication continuity in mobile communication system: The present invention discloses a switch method ensuring communication continuity, mainly including: when a switch occurs to an Mobile Station (MS), the MSC Server controlling the MGW establishing in a context a new termination connected with a new ground circuit; after the MS switching to a new wireless channel, the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080219187 - Method for data processing in bridged network, bridge and bridged network: A method for data processing in a bridged network includes: spanning tree is generated in the bridged network, and a unicast forwarding table of the spanning tree is established by using a register packet by the bridge; when a data packet out of the bridge network arriving the bridge network,... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080219188 - Home media switch: A media switch includes a backplane. A controller module is connected to the backplane for transferring a user command to a media device. A set of audio/video signal busses are connected to the backplane for transferring signals. A power bus is connected to the backplane for supplying power. A bus... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.c. (ibm)

20080219189 - Redundant multicast service in wireless network: In a wireless network in which the base station has full duplex capability (can transmit on the downlink channel and simultaneously receive on the uplink channel), but the mobile stations have only half duplex capability (each can transmit on the uplink channel and receive on the downlink channel, but not... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080219190 - Random access in time division duplex communication systems: A mobile terminal is operated in a cellular communications system that comprises a base station operating in a time division duplex mode. The mobile terminal detects a downlink transmission from the base station and determines therefrom a future moment in time at which an end part of a downlink transmission... Agent: Potomac Patent Group Pllc

20080219191 - Robust synchronization for time division duplex signal: The present invention relates to a method, apparatus, system and computer program product, wherein a time division multiplex signal is received with a periodic first time period allocated to a downlink transmissions and a periodic second time period allocated to uplink transmissions. A decision time metric is obtained by correlating... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.c.

20080219195 - Method and apparatus for generating and processing a mac-ehs protocol data unit: A method and apparatus for generating and processing a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) medium access control (MAC-ehs) protocol data unit (PDU) are disclosed. MAC-ehs service data units (SDUs) are multiplexed based on a logical channel identity. Reordering PDUs are generated from the multiplexed MAC-ehs SDUs. A reordering PDU... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080219194 - Method and apparatus for scheduling multiple users in a communication system: A method and apparatus for scheduling multiuser terminals in a communication system is provided. A receiver receives feedback information from a plurality of user terminals. A user grouping unit selects terminals having a maximum Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) among terminals having the same beam index and beam... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080219193 - Wireless network interface card and mobile wireless monitoring system: A wireless network interface card applied with a portable wireless terminal device includes a wireless communication module, a processing module and a connection interface module. The wireless communication module transmits or receives a wireless communication signal having sensing information according to a communication protocol of a personal wireless area network... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080219192 - Wireless network system and communication method in a wireless network: Disclosed is a wireless network system and a method for transmitting and receiving various information and data related to broadcast or multicast services in a wireless network.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080219196 - Infrastructure offload wake on wireless lan (wowl): Aspects of an infrastructure offload wake on wireless LAN (WOWL) are described. An aspect of the system may include a networked device, or station, which may communicate one or more filters to an infrastructure networking device. The infrastructure networking device may utilize the filters to perform pattern matching operations on... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080219197 - Low power data streaming: To save power, a controller formats data packets for transmission to a remote device and then enters a low power mode. A direct memory access unit reads the formatted data packets and presents them to a communication interface for transmission to the remote device. A hardware logic unit matches acknowledgement... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun, LLP (marvell)

20080219198 - Method for scheduling packet data transmission: In a packet data transmission and reception system, a media access control (MAC) message is broadcast by a base station to a plurality of mobile stations. The MAC message contains packet data transmission scheduling information which allows the base station to preemptively control mobile station access to traffic channels in... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080219199 - Wcdma device and method for discontinuous reception for power saving in idle mode and flexible monitoring of neighboring cells: A WCDMA enabled user equipment device configured to have functions collectively or selectively idle to conserve power. A discontinuous receiver is used to detect and read network messages and report the messages to the computer within the WCDMA enabled user equipment device. The computer then activates functions previously powered down... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080219200 - Wcdma device and method for discontinuous reception for power saving in idle mode and flexible monitoring of neighboring cells: A WCDMA enabled user equipment device configured to have functions collectively or selectively idle to conserve power. A discontinuous receiver is used to detect and read network messages and report the messages to the computer within the WCDMA enabled user equipment device. The computer then activates functions previously powered down... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080219201 - Method of clustering devices in wireless communication network: In a wireless communication network (200) comprising a base station (210) and a plurality of remote terminals (220), the plurality of remote terminals (220) are divided into a plurality of clusters (230) for communication with the base station (210), and each of the remote terminals (220) is assigned to a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080219205 - Apparatus and method for releasing mobile station information in wireless access communication system using multi-hop relay scheme: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for releasing MS information in a wireless access communication system using a multi-hop relay scheme. In a method for a communication operation of a BS, when a data transmission path of an MS changes, one or more RSs from which information about the MS... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080219204 - Apparatus and method for requesting packet retransmission in a wireless communication system: A method for requesting packet retransmission in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes checking, by a receiving-side Automatic Retransmission reQuest (ARQ) layer, sequence numbers of received packets to determine whether there is any missing packet, and starting a first timer in association with the missing packet; stopping... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080219202 - Method and apparatus for relay station neighbor discovery: A method and apparatus for relay station neighbor discovery by providing predictable timing for relay station preambles and route advertisements, minimizing signaling overhead by keeping these times fixed, scheduling a subset of relay stations for transmission of relay station preamble during any given transmission zone, and allowing the scanning relay... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080219203 - Method for mac process and flexible connection in wireless multi-hop relaying network: A method for processing a frame received at a relay station in a wireless multi-hop relaying network, the frame including first control data in a header of the frame and second control data in a body of the frame includes examining the header of the frame to determine whether the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080219206 - Distribution of routing tables for satellite with reference terminal functionality: Satellite communications systems, methods, and related devices are described. A satellite communications system may include routing and switching functionality onboard the satellite. Such a system may include a satellite in communication with terminals (e.g., subscriber terminals or gateways) either directly, or via one or more other satellites through an inter-satellite... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080219207 - Base stations routing traffic over a packet backhaul network to multiple routing elements: System, methods, and networks are disclosed that allow base station systems of a wireless communication network to transmit outgoing traffic over a packet backhaul network to multiple routing elements on the MSC side of the network. A base station system described herein identifies a primary routing element and a backup... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080219209 - Method and system for multiuser wireless communications using anti-interference to increase transmission data rate: A method and system for multi-user wireless communications between a sender and a receiver enables effective blocking of interference signals by other senders and improving the channel data rate. The receiver uses two or more receiving devices, such as antennas or smart antennas, to receive multiple wireless input signals. By... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080219208 - System and method for optimizing roaming in a wireless data network: A system and method for a mobile client device to associate with a preferred access point in a wireless network A determination is made as to whether the mobile client device is stationary within the wireless network The preferred access point is determined between the different access points within the... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080219210 - Reconfigurable mobile mode and fixed network mode endpoint meters: A meter data collection system in which endpoint meters are reconfigurable to operate in either a mobile mode or a fixed network mode is disclosed herein. While operating in the mobile mode, the endpoint meters transmit their meter data to a mobile device such as a “walk by” or “drive... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080219211 - Frequency domain direct sequence spread spectrum with flexible time frequency code: A spread spectrum radio frequency communication system includes a Forward Error Correction (FEC) algorithm to encode digital data to provide a plurality of symbol groups, the FEC algorithm using a Reed Solomon FEC code, an interleaving algorithm to map each one of the plurality of symbol groups into a corresponding... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080219213 - Dynamic sharing of wireless resources among different communication networks: Various embodiments are described to enable multiple, independent communication networks to share in an autonomous and dynamic manner unlicensed wireless resources. Generally, this involves determining that a first network node (122) is using at least a portion of a wireless resource to provide network service to at least one remote... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080219218 - Gtp for integration of multiple access: A network architecture comprising at least one core network, each core network comprising a number of packet data gateway access supporting nodes GASNs handling mobile user station access over an access network, said core network(s) further providing access to one or more global packet data communication networks (IN), and one... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080219212 - Handover method for mixed mobile communication system of asynchronous network and synchronous network: A method for improving a success rate of handover in a mobile communication system in which an asynchronous network and a synchronous network are mixed is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: an asynchronous system instructing an asynchronous modem of a mobile station to initiate a synchronous modem according... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080219216 - Hierarchical cell deployment: A hierarchical cell structure that may be applicable to any wireless communications network utilizing cells. One or more characteristics associated with a mobile device configured to communicate with the base stations via a wireless communications protocol are determined while the mobile device is communicating with a base station. The one... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080219215 - Method and apparatus for media independent handover capability discovery: A first media independent handover function (MIHF) receives a media independent handover (MIH) capabilities discovery request from a second MIHF and generates a MIH capabilities discovery response message, including one or more parameters. Then the first MIHF then sends the MIH capabilities discovery response to the second MIHF. Based on... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080219217 - Method and system for transmitting and receiving data in a heterogeneous communication system: A method and system for transmitting/receiving data in a heterogeneous communication system. A terminal accesses a first controller of a first communication system supporting a first communication service to make a communication path to the first communication system. After making the communication path to the terminal, the first controller determines... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080219214 - Wireless wide-area communication network multihop relay station management: A system and method for managing a multihop relay station in a wireless wide-area communication network includes determining whether any mobile stations are being served by the relay station. If not, inactivating the relay station by; inactivating transmitted signals from the relay station, leaving a receiver active, and monitoring signals... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080219220 - Cdma to packet-switching interface for code division switching in a terrestrial wireless system: An access radio port is provided that includes means for spreading a payload data signal, extracted from an ATM packet, with a uniquely assigned orthogonal code, means for transmitting the spread payload data signal to one of a group of mobile subscriber terminals located within a microport cell of a... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080219219 - Method and apparatus for transmission within a multi-carrier communication system: A method and apparatus are provided for indicating to a communication unit a plurality of modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) to be utilized for communication. During a first MCS is determined for first resource blocks to be sent to a first remote unit or base station, and a second MCS... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080219221 - Orthogonal variable spreading factor (ovsf) code assignment: The invention includes a system and methods for orthogonal variable spreading factor (OVSF) code assignment, de-allocation and code tree pruning. The invention also includes OVSF code identification and storage schemes. Embodiments are provided for code tree pruning, code assignment and de-allocation. These embodiments apply to both slotted and non-slotted code... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080219222 - Optimizing downlink throughput with user cooperation and scheduling in adaptive cellular networks: User cooperation is an emerging transmission framework where users act as relays of each other to provide extra diversity paths for better overall performance. In various embodiments, systems and methods for transmitting data from a basestation to a mobile device in an adaptive communications network including user cooperation are provided.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080219223 - Communication network unit and method for exchanging capability information: A communication network unit having a memory for storing, for each communication terminal of a plurality of first communication terminals which are each associated with a same user identification, information about communication capabilities of the respective communication terminals a determining unit for determining which communication capabilities can be used for... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080219232 - Lan based wireless communications system: A method of routing calls from a mobile unit to a destination location can include registering the mobile unit with a wireless adjunct, wherein the wireless adjunct is in communication with a switching unit and a packet based network and is operable to receive data from the switching unit and... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080219227 - Method and apparatus to create multicast groups based on proximity: Devices and methods use close range communication links, such as near field communication (NFC) protocol links, to enable users to authenticate mobile devices to one another to create or expand secure multicast groups. Once the two or more devices establish a close range communication peer-to-peer link the devices exchange multicast... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080219230 - Method and system for authentication of wlan terminal interworking with broadband wireless access network: A method and a system for interworking with a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) network in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) terminal. According to the method, a relay station for connecting the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) terminal with the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) network sets a connection with the... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080219225 - Method for bearer independent call control (bicc) optimization for ip bearer support: A method is disclosed for the optimization of a BICC (Bearer Independent Call Control) IP Bearer Support in a WCDMA R4 Telecommunication system, and provides for exchange of IPAddress and Port Id between two MGWs by avoiding tunneling between two MSCs, reducing the number of message exchanges, and reducing the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080219228 - Peer power save mode in tunneled direct link setup (tdls) wireless network: A protocol for a peer power save mode (PPSM) in a tunneled direct link setup (TDLS) wireless network and a system therefor are provided. A station (STA) set up a TDLS link can send a frame having a power management bit set to a peer STA to enter into a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080219224 - System and method for providing secure mobility and internet protocol security related services to a mobile node roaming in a foreign network: A method for connection roaming a Mobile Node (MN) to a Network GateWay (NGW) for providing secure data path using Internet Protocol (IP) security procedure. Also Mobile IP (MIP) is required for providing mobility to the user, when the MN moves from one sub-network to another. However, when the Home... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080219226 - Wireless lan system and its broadcasting station: In a wireless LAN system according to the present invention, when a first communication station transmits packets to a second communication station, the first communication station can select a first method in which the second communication station returns first transmission-confirmation information to the first communication station for each packet that... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080219231 - Wireless packet communications system and method: An access point in a wireless packet communication system is disclosed. The access point has an antenna for receiving IP data encoded according to a wireless IP communication protocol. The access point also has a combiner having an input coupled to said antenna and having first and second outputs. The... Agent: Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP

20080219229 - Wireless relay communication system and method: A wireless relay communication system and method are provided. The system includes a BS, at least one RS and subscriber terminals. The method includes: configuring a downlink relay zone and an uplink relay zone in downlink sub-frame and uplink sub-frame of physical layer frame structure of a BS, respectively, configuring... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080219233 - Method and apparatus for locating a wireless user: A plurality of antennas transmit a first spread spectrum signal having an associated code. The first spread spectrum signal is received at the wireless user. For each received first spread spectrum signal, a second spread spectrum signal is transmitted having an associated code having a same phase as that received... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080219234 - Method and apparatus for receiving code transmissions over timeslots and antennas: A plurality of antennas transmit a first spread spectrum signal having an associated code. The first spread spectrum signal is received at the wireless user. For each received first spread spectrum signal, a second spread spectrum signal is transmitted having an associated code having a same phase as that received... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080219235 - System and method for frequency division multiple access communications: A method and system for wireless frequency division multiple access communications in the uplink and/or downlink directions, having an improved pilot insertion scheme for single carrier based communications is provided. A first time duration for transmission of a data payload block (7) is established, and the transmission is processed using... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.a.

20080219236 - Control signaling resource assignment in wireless communication networks: A method in a wireless communication network scheduling entity (101) including allocating time-frequency radio resources in a sub-frame to a particular wireless communication device, wherein the sub-frame has a time dimension and a frequency dimension spanning a spectrum allocation, and wherein the time-frequency radio resource allocation includes a contiguous set... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080219237 - Multicast support by mobile routers in a mobile ad hoc network: In one embodiment, a mobile router receives a multicast-supported router advertisement message from an attachment mobile router in a mobile ad hoc network, the multicast-supported router advertisement message specifying an attachment prefix and a multicast-capable identifier. The mobile router attaches to the attachment mobile router in response to the multicast-supported... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20080219238 - Methods and systems for transmitting data between systems: A system and method for transmitting, receiving, and processing data. The method includes receiving data at a first data receiving port located in a first system. The received data is processed at a first module, which communicates with the first data receiving port. The processed data is relayed to a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080219239 - Policy-based utility networking: In various embodiments, a policy-based residential networked meter can be an energy switch router device (ESRD) that provides policy-based advanced metering, load control and shaping, energy services delivery and accounting, and secure web services interfaces and internetworking communications. The ESRD can be integrated and interrelated with advanced policy-based sensory, metrology,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080219245 - Automated method and system for selectively updating communications parameters representing subscriber services in telecommunications networks: Methods and systems for updating subscriber service parameters in a communications network wherein a central provisioning unit automatically locates subscriber ports having subscriber service parameters that require updating and automatically issues commands for updating the subscriber service parameters of the ports requiring updating.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080219240 - Digital browser phone: A graphical representation of a telephone set or other telephone-related form is provided on the computer display and accessed by the mouse, keyboard or other command device, this being accomplished by a computer program providing graphical interface implementation. A significant advantage of the system is computer access to and utilization... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, Pllc C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080219242 - Method for charging for a communication link routed via a packet-switched communication network: Disclosed is a method for charging for a communication link established from a first communication terminal (A) to a target communication terminal (B) via a packet-switched communication by transmitting message packets, the target communication terminal (B) featuring forwarding to at least one additional communication device (C). The inventive method comprises... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080219244 - Speech codec selection for improved voice quality in a packet based network: A method of improving voice quality in a packet based network. The method includes receiving an incoming call from a first endpoint and matching capabilities between the first endpoint and the second endpoint. The method also includes completing the incoming call if the capabilities match and tracking the packet loss... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080219241 - Subscriber access authorization: A method for registering a session initiation protocol (SIP) client to an internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS), in which a SIP client having a given IP address, public identity and private identity sends a registration request to a session border controller (SBC) for registering the public identity to the IMS,... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080219243 - Systems and methods for monitoring quality of customer service in customer/agent calls over a voip network: A system and method for monitoring call quality for calling centers using packet based call technology. A distributed system manages packet flow between a caller and a call center agent and storage servers. The distributed system is used to monitor, record and analyze real time communications between the caller and... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20080219246 - System and method for switching using coordinated phase shifters: A switching circuit (100) is provided, comprising: a signal coupler (110) configured to receive first and second input signals and provide first and second coupled signals; a first phase shifter (130) configured to shift a first phase of the first coupled signal by zero degrees or ninety degrees based on... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080219247 - Network switch deployment: Network devices, systems and methods are described that may be used in network switch deployment. One method embodiment includes physically connecting a network switch to a network prior to booting the network switch, booting the network switch into a non-bridging mode, and providing the network switch with a configuration while... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080219248 - System and method for rapidly configuring wireless transceivers: A system and method for configuring a wireless transceiver are disclosed. As one example, a system for configuring a wireless transceiver is disclosed, which includes a first data storage unit coupled to a configuration bus disposed in the wireless transceiver, a second data storage unit coupled to the configuration bus,... Agent: Fogg & Powers Llc

20080219249 - Fibre channel transparent switch for mixed switch fabrics: A method and a Fibre Channel switch element are provided that allows communication between a host system and a target device attached to a proprietary switch fabric in a network. The Fibre Channel switch element includes a first port that communicates with the target device through the proprietary switch fabric... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20080219253 - Apparatus and method for transmitting multimedia stream: An apparatus and method are provided for variably transmitting a multimedia stream according to requirements of a client device and the state of a channel. The multimedia stream transmission apparatus includes: a plurality of virtual machines corresponding to the multiple client applications, each of the virtual machines determining a specific... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080219251 - Combining packets in physical layer for two-way relaying: A method of transmitting two packets to two different nodes may include encoding a first packet according to a first channel to obtain an encoded first packet and encoding a second packet according to a second channel different than the first channel to obtain an encoded second packet. The encoded... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080219256 - Content delivery system, terminal, and content delivery method: A content delivery system can deliver information content matching with a user's attribute or preference. The system includes information delivery means, service history recording means, media retrieval means, and message transmission means. The information delivery means provides an information delivery service to a terminal. The service history recording means records... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080219257 - Device for controlling the implementation of functions in a service device belonging to an internet communication network core: An device (A) is dedicated to controlling the implementation of functions linked with providing at least one communication service to at least one communication terminal (T1) in a service equipment (SA1) belonging to an Internet communication core network (NC). The device (A) comprises control means (CM) which, upon receipt of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080219258 - Load balancing in data networks: Load balancing apparatus for a data communications network comprises hash logic for computing a hash function on incoming data packets. A threshold detector is connected to the hash logic for triggering, in response to utilization of the downstream objects exceeding a predefined threshold, redefinition in the hash logic of parameters... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080219255 - Method, wireless communication system, communication apparatus, and tangible machine-readable medium for establishing a routing path during a network entry process of a subscriber station based on a multi-hop relay standard: A method, a wireless communication system, a communication apparatus, and a tangible machine-readable medium for establishing a routing path during a network entry process of an SS based on a multi-hop relay standard are provided. The wireless communication system comprises a BS, an SS, and an RS. The SS transmits... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080219252 - Shared communication protocol for controller area network: A method of communicating messages in a CAN network is provided. The method obtains data to be transmitted that relates to an event, prepares a unique event message identifier for first data that relates to the event and prepares a common data message identifier for the event. The common data... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080219250 - Use of communication service identifiers: Disclosed is a method in an application server. A request for initiating a communication session is received, and responsive to the request including a first service identifier pertaining to a service not supported by the application server, the first service identifier is removed from the request. A response to the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080219254 - Wide area network using internet with high quality of service: A wide area network using the internet as a backbone utilizing specially selected ISX/ISP providers whose routers route packets of said wide area network along private tunnels through the internet comprised of high bandwidth, low hop-count data paths. Firewalls are provided at each end of each private tunnel which recognize... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080219260 - Multicast supported virtual local area network switching system and method thereof: A multicast-supported virtual local area network switching system and a method thereof comprise a switching engine (10), a CPU unit (20), further comprising a mapping storage unit (30) for storing the mapping relationship of the virtual local area network and the multicast stream pushed to the switching system by it,... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080219259 - System and method for transmitting call information in a communication system with long link delays: A system and method for transmitting call information in a communication system having sites with long link delays. Upon a call being initiated within the communication system, a zone controller determines the participating sites that are to be involved in the call and assigns an IP multicast group address for... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080219261 - Apparatus and method for processing data streams: A system and method for processing data streams is disclosed. The system receives data packets for data streams, screen the data packets for searched patterns, and forward the data packets for their respective stream processing. Generally, the data packet is scanned for viruses before being forwarded for further processing. When... Agent: Wang Law Firm, Inc.

20080219262 - Generic udp multiplexing for voice over internet protocol (voip): In one embodiment, data for a plurality of sessions is received. For example, a plurality of packets for voice data may be received from a plurality of end points. A destination for each of the connections is then determined. For example, the voice data may be destined for different gateways... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080219265 - Method for tagging sip contact headers while preserving the contact header format towards softswitches: A private communications network and method of managing calls in a private communications network. A Session Border Controller (SBC) listens for private network voice communications originating from private communications devices, e.g., Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) devices sending/receiving Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications such as SIP messages. The SBC assigns... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080219263 - Method of sharing network identifier and mobile router: In a case where internal links connected to plural mobile routers in a mobile network respectively have unique network identifiers initially set, the mobile router, when receiving a network identifier different from the initial setting advertised from another mobile router, selects either one of the network identifier initially set to... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080219266 - Routing paths onboard satellite with reference terminal functionality: Satellite communications systems, methods, and related devices are described. A satellite communications system may include routing and switching functionality onboard the satellite. Such a system may include a satellite in communication with terminals (e.g., subscriber terminals or gateways) either directly, or via one or more other satellites through an inter-satellite... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080219264 - Upstream label allocation on ethernets for mp2mp lsps: An apparatus or method for upstream label allocation on LANs for multipoint (MP) label switched paths (LSPs). In one embodiment of the method, a first router receives a first incoming labeled data packet, wherein the first incoming labeled data packet comprises a first data packet and one or more first... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080219267 - Method for transmitting network packets: A method for transmitting network packets is provided. Reordered network packets received by a receiving end are put into a buffer queue. When a waiting time expires or when a network packet with a sequence number equal to the current transmission sequence number is received, the receiving end picks and... Agent: G. Link Co., Ltd.

20080219268 - Software control plane for switches and routers: A Provider Network Controller (PNC) addresses the challenges in building services across Next Generation Network (NGN) architectures and creates an abstraction layer as a bridge, or glue, between the network transport and applications running over it. The PNC is a multi-layer, multi-vendor dynamic control plane that implements service activation and... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080219269 - Method and device for scheduling unicast and multicast traffic in an interconnecting fabric: A method for scheduling unicast and multicast traffic in an interconnecting fabric performs within each time slot the following steps. First a multicast cell scheduling (61) and independently thereof a unicast cell scheduling (62) is performed. Then, the unicast cell schedule and the multicast cell schedule are merged to a... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080219270 - Apparatus for limiting vpnv4 prefixes per vpn in an inter-autonomous system environment: An apparatus for limiting Virtual Private Network (VPNv4) prefixes per VPN in an inter-autonomous system environment are presented. A limit on the number of VPNv4 routes per VPN for a Route Distributor (RD) or a group of RDs associated with a VPN is defined, at an Autonomous System Border Router... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates Llc

20080219271 - Ip multicast based systems, apparatuses and methods for tcp connection migration: Systems, apparatuses and methods for changing an address during a session between at least two network nodes is described, wherein at least one network node is able to change its address, comprising associating the session with a network routing entity performing group-based routing, changing the address of at least one... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, Llc

20080219275 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing neighbor discovery, handover procedure and relay zone configuration for relay stations in a multi-hop network: Methods for use in multi-hop relay networks are described. One method includes receiving a first message from a first relay station requesting a temporary suspension of communication between the first relay station and one or more user equipment. In response to receiving the first message, a second message is transmitted... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080219272 - Inter-domain point-to-multipoint path computation in a computer network: In one embodiment, distributed path computation elements (PCEs) collaboratively build local portions of an inter-domain P2MP path to each path destination or to each ingress border router of one or more respective successor domains based on a cost associated with using one or more local ingress border routers received from... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080219276 - Methods and apparatus for automated edge device configuration in a heterogeneous network: A PE device learns the address of a local CE device by monitoring the control messages, such as address resolution messages, originating from those local devices. In one embodiment, automated configuration of the PE devices participating in a Layer 2 VPN is facilitated by permitting a PE device to share... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080219274 - On-vehicle gateway device, method for controlling an on-vehicle gateway device, connection device and connection control method: An on-vehicle gateway device connected to an information system network and a control system network of a vehicle executes monitoring the status of an information system via an information system access circuit taking charge of message transmission and reception to and from the information system network, and an information system... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080219273 - Scheduling method for executing job, scheduling apparatus for executing job, and commutative recording medium having recorded thereon scheduling program for causing execution of job: A router is interposed between a subnet, configured of a plurality of layer 2 switches, which relay an ARP response packet and learn an MAC address, and a plurality of terminals, and a backbone network. The router has a severance detection unit; an ARP transmission/reception unit which transmits an ARP... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080219277 - Modelling service flows in dynamic access domains: A topology aware system that facilitates activation of a new service in a dynamic network is provided. The system automatically determines changes in network topology and provides current topology information to determine an optimal service activation path for the new service. The optimal service path is determined by combination of... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080219278 - Method for finding shared sub-structures within multiple hierarchies: Shared sub-structures are found within a collection of multiple hierarchies. A label is associated with each node in the collection of hierarchies, and an inverted index mapping node labels to lists of hierarchies is created. Each pair of hierarchies in each hierarchy list is iterated over in a certain order,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080219279 - Scalable and configurable queue management for network packet traffic quality of service: Various embodiments are directed to scalable and configurable queue management for network packet traffic Quality of Service (QoS). In one or more embodiments, the queue management may be implemented by a network processor comprising a queue manager to assert interrupts indicating that one or more queues require service, and a... Agent: Kacvinsky Llc C/o Intellevate

20080219281 - Access line bonding and splitting methods and apparatus: Methods and apparatus for aggregating communication channels. In one exemplary embodiment an aggregation device is required only on one side of the set of communication channels being aggregated. Advantageously, no modifications to the source and/or destination of data transfers are required for operation of the invention. In one embodiment utilized... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20080219280 - Method and apparatus for flexible fxs port utilization in a telecommunications device: An apparatus for flexible FXS port utilization includes a switch adapted for connection to a plurality of Internet Protocol (IP) based communication lines, a subscriber line interface card (SLIC) connected to the switch and having a single FXS port and an IP based handset connected to the switch. The switch... Agent: Vonage

20080219282 - Customer termination point in the subscriber premises of a telecommunication and/or data link and method for changing providers: The invention relates to a customer termination point (1) in the subscriber premises of a telecommunication and/or data link, comprising at least one device for connecting subscriber lines, wherein the customer termination point (1) comprises at least two devices for subscriber lines of at least two providers (a-c), wherein in... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20080219283 - File transfer method in converged ip messaging system: A method for performing a one-to-many file transfer in a converged IP messaging system includes receiving a list of target receiving terminals from a transmitting terminal; verifying whether the transmitting terminal can transfer a file; inquiring each receiving terminal server corresponding to each target receiving terminal whether to receive the... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080219284 - Digital data exchange device in a cdma system: The invention relates to a device for exchanging digital data between several sources and at least one hub in a CDMA system, characterised in that it comprises a number n of digital transmission/reception circuits (1) installed in parallel, each circuit (1) comprising a transmitter (2i) comprising means of generating an... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080219286 - Method and system for contention resolution in telecommunication networks: A method and system for contention resolution in a communications network are disclosed. As one example, a method for contention resolution in a communications network is disclosed. The method includes the steps of transmitting a first contention message during a first time interval, determining if a second contention message has... Agent: Fogg & Powers Llc

20080219285 - Multi-channel communications protocol: There is a need to improve design of communications protocols in which two or more channels are provided and, optionally, in which collision avoidance is not available. An improved protocol is provided in which communications nodes pick a channel on which to transmit and collisions may occur where two nodes... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080219287 - Device for determining a number of data packets: The invention is directed to a device for determining a number of data packets which are to be converted into a coded sequence with a predetermined number KN of bits by a coder. The device determines the number of data packets in such a manner that a difference between the... Agent: Thomas G. Eschweiler, Esq. Eschweiler & Associates, Llc

20080219288 - Local area network of serial intelligent cells: A serial intelligent cell (SIC) and a connection topology for local area networks using Electrically-conducting media. A local area network can be configured from a plurality of SIC's interconnected so that all communications between two adjacent SIC's is both point-to-point and bidirectional. Each SIC can be connected to one or... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080219289 - 10gbase-t link speed arbitration for 30m transceivers: A method of power management in a 10GBase-T Ethernet transceiver is provided. The 10GBase-T Ethernet transceiver is according to an IEEE 802.3an standard. The method includes determining a cable length from a transmitter to a receiver in the Ethernet. A low-power mode of the transceiver is enabled when the cable... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm, Inc.

20080219290 - Adaptive margin and band control: Configuration or otherwise controlling parameters of a DSL system related to power, band usage and margin is based on collected operational data. Operational data are collected from at least one DSL system operating under a known configuration and/or a profile. A target profile is selected based on binder-level information. The... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080219291 - Radio communication apparatus and transmission method: The transmission side adds retransmission identification information to the RLC sub-PDUs obtained by dividing an RLC PDU, and transmits the RLC sub-PDU with the retransmission identification information added thereto. The reception side refers to the retransmission identification information added to the received RLC sub-PDUs, and stores only the RLC sub-PDUs... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080219292 - System of frequency allocation for user access local area network, and uplink and downlink transmission methods thereof: A system of frequency allocation for a user access local area network, and uplink and downlink transmission methods thereof are provided. The system of frequency allocation for a user access local area network comprises: an information processing apparatus, a switch, a plurality of first modulators, a broadband high frequency synthesizer,... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20080219293 - Pulsed wave interconnect: A method for transmitting signals along an interconnect in a VLSI system comprising receivers is disclosed. The VLSI based systems operate in the high Giga hertz range. The signals are transmitted along the interconnect as a localized wave packet i.e. as a pulse. The interconnect may be either electrically linear... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.c.

20080219294 - Network element manager resynchronization: A network element manager (111) manages a plurality of network elements 101-109 of a communication system. The network element manager (111) comprises a service processor (213) which is arranged to detect a service resumption following a service disruption which is associated with the plurality of network elements 101-109. An ordering... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080219295 - Communication system, communication apparatus, and control method thereof: Data is transmitted by using continuous frames each of which includes a variable-length part having a length that varies depending on an input period and a fixed-length part containing data of one input period. The transmitted continuous frames are received, a frame period is detected, and data is reproduced based... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080219296 - Method of transmitting mpeg streams over ip and corresponding device, receiving method and receiver: The invention concerns a method of transmitting, via a sending device, a data stream made up of data packets, at least some of these packets including time references for synchronizing the clocks of the sender and the receiver. The method includes at least a correction of the time references by... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080212460 - Robust transmission scheme for wireless networks: Systems and methods are described that facilitate assigning a predefined manner in which interfering transmissions may be fully or partially orthogonalized, as well as transmission time periods during which the orthogonalization protocol(s) may be employed. Depending on interference conditions, flexible resource reuse may be implemented to mitigate interference without unduly... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080212461 - Transform-based systems and methods for reconstructing steering matrices in a mimo-ofdm system: Embodiments provide a transform-based method for representing steering matrices in transmit beamforming for a multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system. Beamforming embodiments generate a transform-based representation of steering matrices for at least a subset of sub-carriers for which channel information is known. In some embodiments, a beamformer is... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080212462 - Apparatus for generating down link signal, and method and apparatus for cell search in cellular system: A method for generating a downlink signal and searching for a cell from the downlink signal in an OFDM-based cellular system is provided. Thus, a pilot pattern is formed in the downlink signal, and the pilot pattern is formed of a product of a cell-specific scrambling code and a cell... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080212463 - Amble modulation series: m

20080212464 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving control information in a single carrier fdma system: Provided is a method and an apparatus for transmitting a large quantity of control information in a mobile communication system. When there is no uplink data to be transmitted, a UE spreads second control information, a quantity of which is less than or equal to a pre-defined threshold, by using... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080212465 - Method for switching route and network device thereof: A method for switching route and a network device are disclosed, wherein the method comprises: setting a relationship between a port number of each destination port and a port number of the transmitting port, the port number of each transmitting port is the port number of the corresponding destination port;... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20080212466 - Apparatus, transmission method, and tangible machine-readable medium thereof for relaying a data signal in a milti-hop network: An apparatus, a transmission method, and a tangible machine-readable medium thereof for relaying a data signal in a multi-hop relay network are provided, wherein the multi-hop relay network comprising a plurality of relay stations. The apparatus comprises a storage module, a receiving module, and a transmission module. The storage module... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080212467 - Apparatus, transmission method, and tangible machine-readable medium thereof for relaying data signal in a milti-hop network: An apparatus, a transmission method, and a tangible machine-readable medium thereof for relaying a data signal in a multi-hop relay network are provided, wherein the multi-hop relay network comprising a plurality of relay stations. The apparatus comprises a storage module, a receiving module, and a transmission module. The storage module... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080212468 - Apparatus, methods and computer program products providing estimation of activity factor and enhanced radio resource management: In one non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, a method includes: estimating an activity factor for a priority class based at least in part on a provided bit rate for the priority class and a guaranteed bit rate of the priority class; and using the estimated activity factor to estimate at least one... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080212469 - System and method of defense against denial of service of attacks: A system and method comprise a first buffer having a first capacity and a first threshold level adapted to store data frames having the lowest priority, a second buffer having a second capacity greater than the first capacity and a second threshold level greater than the first threshold level adapted... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080212470 - Method for application layer synchronous traffic shaping: A method, a system, and a computer program product implements traffic shaping by processing as a synchronous request, tasks representing one or more units of work contained within the request. Before a request is sent through the network, the request is inspected in order to derive the amount of work... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080212471 - Data transmission: Audio-visual data is provided to a network-connected terminal. First audio-visual data containing first information encoded at a first data rate and second audio-visual data containing first information encoded at a second data rate that is more than the first data rate are received. The first audio-visual data is provided to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080212472 - Backpressure mechanism for switching fabric: Roughly described, a packet switching fabric contains a separate queue scheduler for each combination of an input module and a fabric output port. The schedulers may also be specific to a single class of service. Each queue scheduler schedules its packets without regard to state of other input queues and... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20080212477 - Apparatus and method for transmitting data using multi-round contention avoidance: An apparatus and method for transmitting data by using Multi-round Contention Avoidance (MrCA) are provided. The method includes initializing a contention window for each of a plurality of contention rounds and setting a backoff counter corresponding to a size of the contention window for each contention round, starting from a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080212475 - Method and device for management of flow in a packet-telecommunication network: This A flow management method includes a step (E10) of computing an image value of a flow identifier; a step (E30) of initializing a credit representing the activity of the flow in a directly addressable register of a data structure (TA, TB); and a step (F20) of updating that credit,... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080212474 - Method for synchronous traffic shaping: A method, a system, and a computer program product implements traffic shaping by processing as a synchronous request, tasks representing one or more units of work contained within the request. Before a request is sent through the network, the request is inspected in order to derive the amount of work... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080212478 - Service based bearer control and traffic flow template operation with mobile ip: A method for updating filters, at a Packet Data Serving Node, with a care-of-address associated with at least one of a mobile station or a correspondent node. The method includes the steps of implementing a soft filtering rule at a Packet Data Serving Node and receiving, by the Packet Data... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080212473 - System and method for aggregated shaping of multiple prioritized classes of service flows: A system coupled between at least one input port and at least one output port comprises at least one queue, each queue being identified by a QID and operable to receive and buffer data in at least one service flow from the at least one input port. The system further... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080212476 - Wlan transmit scheduler comprising an accelerated back-off function: This invention can generally be described as an overall transmit (TX) scheduler state-machine that is broken down into two different state-machines: One first TX-scheduler state-machine (FTSM), executed in software, and one second TX-scheduler state-machine (STSM) executed in hardware, which is operating in four different basic states. The functional partitioning between... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080212480 - Communication terminal which perform low-delay communication by using a broadband line: A communication terminal which sets a communication session between a plurality of communication terminals through a network to perform data transmission and reception includes a measuring unit which measures round-trip delay time (RTT) or one-way delay time between the communication terminals for performing transmission and reception on the basis of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080212479 - Method for controlling radio access bearer in a communication system: A radio access bearer in a mobile communication system is controlled by disposing a radio resource control layer having radio access bearers in a user side, disposing a radio link control layer, a media access control layer, and a physical layer in the user side beneath the radio resource control... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080212481 - Novel dynamic firewall for nsp networks: Method for protecting an NSP data network against data overflow, according to which the NSP data network is divided to a protected sub-network and an unprotected sub-network. Connectivity to external data networks is allowed through the unprotected sub-network via a set of predefined controlled data ports. Each user is connected... Agent: Kevin D. Mccarthy Roach Brown Mccarthy & Gruber, P.C.

20080212482 - Congestion control system, congestion control method, congestion control program, and program recording medium: In the present invention, a service network includes, when user terminals are divided by area, subscriber accommodation nodes that accommodate the user terminals present in the respective areas and relay nodes that perform relay of information among the subscriber accommodation nodes. The congestion control system further includes an edge router... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080212483 - Method and apparatus for end-to-end link detection and policy routing switching: In a method for end-to-end link detection, a link state of a first network device is bound to a reliability detection mechanism session established between the first network device and a second network device, and the first network device detects the link state of the first network device and notifies... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080212484 - Tracing connection paths through transparent proxies: In one embodiment, a method for tracing a connection path from a source node to a destination node through a network having one or more transparent proxies includes generating a trace packet at the source node, transmitting the trace packet over the network towards the destination node, and receiving trace... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20080212486 - Checking of broadband network components: Systems and methods for checking broadband network components are provided in which an automated interactive system permits a field technician to check various conditions of a communication line or other broadband network components without the assistance of a support technician. While options to request assistance from a support technician are... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080212485 - Transmission links: Implementations related to transmission systems are presented herein.... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20080212487 - Method and apparatus for monitoring tcp sessions in a mobile data network and developing corresponding performance metrics: These teachings provide for monitoring TCP sessions in a mobile data network and developing corresponding performance metrics to aid in monitoring session quality. The performance metrics can be used to form a corresponding indicator of aggregated session quality that can be used to facilitate the monitoring of TCP session quality.... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080212488 - Network load detection system, method, apparatus, and program: A system including a unit transmitting test packets to a to-be-measured communication link at a first time interval, a unit transmitting burst loads each including a series of load packets to the communication link at a second time interval, a unit performing measurement of delay time periods in a manner... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080212489 - Wireless communication device capable of switching antennas according to data transmission information on network: A wireless communication device includes a communication module including a plurality of networking units and a radiator control circuit. Each of said networking unit includes at least two radiators for transmitting wireless signals, and said radiator control circuit connects to said networking units for controlling switching on and off of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080212494 - Ad hoc network formation and mangement based on aggregation of ad hoc nodes according to an aggregation hierarchy: Each mobile ad hoc node has an assigned hierarchy position within an identified tree-based aggregation group. Each ad hoc node is configured for selectively attaching to one of a plurality of available ad hoc nodes based on identifying a best match, for the assigned hierarchy position within the identified aggregation... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20080212491 - Apparatus and method for improving the integrity and performance of an ad-hoc wireless network: Several transceivers can be combined together to form a relay which can be used to form an ad-hoc network. A computation unit within the ad-hoc network determines the best placement of a new relay to improve the link integrity of the network. Furthermore, a database of power outlets, their locations... Agent: Thaddeus Gabara

20080212495 - Configuration mechanism in hosted remote access environments: In the exemplary embodiments of the invention there is a method including setting up a first tunnel between a first device and a remote access relay, setting up a second tunnel between the remote access relay and a remote access server, and updating the first device with related parameters and... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080212490 - Method of setting up connections in a communication environment, communication system and contact elemenet for same: A method of setting up a connection in a communication environment controlled by a communication system between a first node allocated to a first contact and a second node allocated to a second contact includes the steps of providing a contact element within the first node for the first contact,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080212493 - Robust remote reset for networks: An approach provides a reset trigger signaling in a network, wherein a reset trigger is generated, which carries a device indicator for indicating a target device. To trigger a reset procedure, the reset trigger is signaled over the network by using a protocol layer lower than a network layer. At... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080212492 - System and method for resource discovery: In distributed networks of cooperating nodes, it is useful to perform resource discovery in a manner that is efficient but that also minimizes communication complexity. A system and method in which nodes in a network efficiently are provided with information about the presence of, and other information about, other nodes... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080212496 - Communication network system and signal transmission method between leaf-nodes of multicast tree and node thereof: A method of leaf-node of the multicast tree signal transmission and communication network system and node thereof in the communication network. Establishing the connection between the source leaf-node and root node of the transmitting signal in the multicast tree; the source leaf-node of the transmitting signal in the multicast tree... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080212497 - Method and system for span-based connection aggregation: The present invention provides a method and system for the restoration of an optical mesh network subsequent to the simultaneous failing of a large number of network connections due to a transmission failure. The system and method increase the restoration speed of a large number of failed network connections through... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20080212498 - Systems for distributing data over a computer network and methods for arranging nodes for distribution of data over a computer network: Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a system for distributing data (e.g., content data) over a computer network and a method of arranging receiver nodes in a computer network such that the capacity of a server is effectively increased (e.g., the capacity of a server may be effectively... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080212499 - Web and multi-media conference: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for providing multi-media conferencing. According to one embodiment, a method for providing a multi-media conference can comprise receiving a request to participate in the conference from a first client via a signaling protocol. For example, the signaling protocol comprises Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080212500 - Systems and methods of efficient band amplification: Systems and methods for multi-band amplification. In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the multi-band amplification device has an uplink amplifier with a first port and a second port and a downlink amplifier with a first port and a second port. Furthermore, the multi-band amplification device has a first... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080212501 - Half duplex frequency division duplex scheduling: A method, computer program, and a wireless system for scheduling half duplex frequency division duplex bursts includes populating a burst frame having an uplink sub-frame and a downlink sub-frame with one or more block pairs, each block pair including an uplink block and a down link block. Populating the burst... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080212502 - Systems and methods of band amplification with a shared amplifier: The present invention provides systems and methods for band amplification with a shared amplifier. In an exemplary embodiment, the wireless band amplification device has with an amplifier with an input port and an output port. The wireless band amplification device also provides two circulators, the first circulator in communication with... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080212507 - Apparatus and method to combine wired and wireless uwb applications: A system and method set up a beacon group for both wired and wireless UWB nodes along a single superframe with a single time frequency code and then transmits data between the wired and wireless nodes per the single superframe and time frequency code.... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080212506 - Device and method for transmitting control channel with pre-allocated resources: The method for an eNodeB transmitting control channels with pre-allocated resources comprising steps of the eNodeB determining whether to transmit the control channels according to its needs; the eNodeB transmitting the control channels with pre-allocated resources according to properties of the signaling to be transmitted. With the method proposed in... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080212504 - Dynamic stack-based networks for resource constrained devices: A wireless sensor network provides a communication link between a plurality of nodes. Communication among the plurality of nodes is based one or more protocol components that are associated with a selected quality of service (QoS). A preamble byte can have bit values assigned based on application preferences, and the... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080212505 - Method and receiving apparatus for processing arq block in wibro system: Disclosed is a receiving apparatus of a Wireless Broadband (WiBro) system and a method for processing an Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) block for the same. In the receiving apparatus, ARQ blocks are grouped and are then processed by the group, thereby greatly reducing memory resources and overhead processing time, which... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080212503 - Method and system for tailoring wimax device provisioning based on device capability information communicated to network: Before a WiMAX-equipped device is distributed to an end-user, the manufacturer or distributor of the WiMAX-equipped device will record in the device a set of data that describes characteristics (e.g., type, features, capabilities, and limitations) of the device. When the end-user powers on the device or otherwise brings the device... Agent: Sprint

20080212508 - Power saving method in wireless lan system for permitting terminal station to promptly transition to doze state by transmitting empty data frame: A power saving method in a wireless LAN system is disclosed for permitting a terminal station to promptly transition to a doze state irrespective of the presence or absence of data destined to the terminal station in a base station. Upon receipt of a PS-Poll signal from a terminal station... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080212509 - Apparatus and method for selecting, releasing, and changing mcbcs channel of mobile station in broadband wireless access system: An apparatus and method for selecting, releasing, and changing a MultiCast and BroadCast Service (MCBCS) of a Mobile Station (MS) in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system are provided. The method includes, upon receiving a request to select a specific channel, transmitting a channel selection request message for selecting the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080212511 - Communication apparatus, communication program, and comminication method: A communication apparatus of the present invention used for communicating with an external communication device is provided with a memory section to store a correspondence table associating users of external communication devices with contact addresses for contacting the users via the communication apparatus; a communication section to transmit data destined... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080212510 - Method and arrangement for coding and scheduling in packet data communication systems: The method and arrangement according to the present invention relates to scheduling and coding in communication systems utilizing automatic repeat request (ARQ) and/or multihop scheduling and forwarding. According to the inventive method the receiving nodes selectively stores received information, also overheard information, as a priori information and feed back information... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080212516 - Appartus and method for negotiating frame offset between base station and relay station in broadband wireless communication system using multi-hop relay scheme: Provided are an apparatus and method for negotiating a frame offset between a Base Station (BS) and a Relay Station (RS) in a wireless communication system using a multi-hop relay scheme. A communication method of a superordinate station includes, upon detecting an initial access of an relay station, determining an... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080212514 - Collision-free group hopping in a wireless communication system: Techniques for supporting data transmission with little or no control overhead are described. In an aspect, data may be sent based on a hybrid scheme that utilizes a combination of group hopping for transmissions of new packets and static grouping for retransmissions of pending packets. For the hybrid scheme, a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080212512 - Method and device for indirect communication within a wimax network: A method for indirect communication in a WiMAX network includes: determining a wireless broadband terrestrial transmission scheme by a base station; transmitting, in response to the wireless broadband terrestrial transmission scheme, a first preamble and a first data frame, by a first set of relay stations, towards multiple subscriber devices,... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080212513 - Protocol data units and header in multihop relay network: The invention provides a data structure embodied in a computer readable media. The data structure is a protocol data packet (PDU) communicated in a mobile multihop network between stations. The data structure includes a relay media access header, a payload and an optional cyclical redundancy checksum for the protocol data... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080212515 - System and method for transmitting and receiving signals in a communication system using relay scheme: A system and method for transmitting and receiving a signal in a communication system using a relay scheme. A base station receives a first signal in a first time interval from a first mobile station which is at least one mobile station located in a third region which is a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080212517 - Quality of service enhancements for adaptive coding and modulation: A process is described to build frames for transmission with a modcode adapted to the signal quality of a destination terminal. The order of transmission may be based, at least in part, on the age of a packet as defined by a timestamp. Data packets assigned to the same modcode... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080212518 - System and method for multiple access control in a communications system: A satellite communications system (10) includes a hub (14), a satellite (32), and any number of remote terminals (16). Each remote terminal (16) includes a remote receiver (38), a monitor (40), and a network access controller (42). Each remote receiver (38) is configured to receive and down convert the system's... Agent: Meschkow & Gresham, P.L.C

20080212521 - Method and apparatus for acknowledging a reception of a data packet in a cdma communication system: In a communication system (100), a method and an accompanying apparatus provide for acknowledging reception of a packet of data. A receiver (400) at a serving base station (101) receives a message on an acknowledgement channel (340) for indicating the reception of the packet of data at a mobile station... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080212520 - Method and apparatus for frequency hopping with frequency fraction reuse: A method and apparatus for a wireless communication system, for frequency hopping using frequency fraction reuse scheme. The frequency hopping pattern is generated by dividing a portion of frequency into plurality of sub-bands, dividing a portion of time into plurality of sectors, each sector comprising the divided sub-bands, designating one... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080212519 - Method for establishing a call rapidly in cdma cluster communication system: A method for establishing a call rapidly in a cluster communication system based on code division multiple access, comprising the following steps: a dispatching station server transmitting a normal group call request to a base station subsystem after receiving a normal group call request sent by a calling terminal; the... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080212522 - Method and apparatus for receiving system information from base station in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for receiving system information from a Base Station (BS) in a Mobile Station (MS) in a mobile communication system are provided, in which it is determined whether there is buffered system information in a buffer, if current system information has an error, it is determined whether... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080212523 - Session based communication: A user terminal requesting a session establishment although the session already exists, is informed on the existing session in a response to the request. If the user terminal offered in the request one or more media types that were rejected, the response contains an indication of a reason for rejection.... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20080212529 - Apparatus and method for changing a multicast and broadcast service (mcbcs) broadcasting channel in a broadband wireless access system: An apparatus and a method for changing a MultiCast and BroadCast Service (MCBCS) broadcasting channel in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system are provided. The method includes, if an MCBCS initialization request message is received from an MCBCS server, sending a burst reservation request message for MCBCS burst allocation to... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080212530 - Apparatus and method for frequency reuse in a multi input multi output system: A frequency reuse apparatus and method for a Mobile Station (MS) using a multiple-antenna in a broadband wireless access communication system are provided. The method includes dividing a first frequency band into ‘N’ second frequency bands where ‘N’ equals a number of Base Stations (BSs); dividing each second frequency band... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080212526 - Link adaptation and antenna selection in cooperative multiple access systems: Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for applying link adaptation and antenna selection in cooperative multiple access systems where multiple user devices act cooperatively to communicate with a network access station through a MIMO channel.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080212527 - Method and system for optimal allocation of bandwidth and power resources to ofdma voip channels: A method and system of allocating a bandwidth and a power for a wireless user. The method includes for an allocated bandwidth determining a transmission power and adjusting the transmission power based on whether a bit rate and an error rate associated with the transmission power and the allocated bandwidth... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080212531 - Method and system for transmitting/receiving signal in a communication system: A method and system for transmitting a signal in a communication system is disclosed, in which a BS transmits control information in a predetermined third zone of a frame, the frame being divided into a first and a second zones in frequency and the third zone being included in the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080212524 - Mobile station, base station, communication system, amount-of-data information transmission method, transmission-control-information notification method, and wireless communication method: A mobile station includes an amount-of-data information determining means for monitoring data which are stored on a communication-service-by-communication-service basis or on a transmit-channel-by-transmit-channel so as to determine communication-service-by-communication-service or transmit-channel-by-transmit-channel amount-of-data information. The mobile station transmits the communication-service-by-communication-service or transmit-channel-by-transmit-channel amount-of-data information determined by the amount-of-data information determining means to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080212528 - Srb enhancement on hs-dsch during cell change: The present invention relates to a radio network controller and a radio base station for prioritisation of signalling radio bearers (SRB) with regard to their content to achieve an efficient resource usage. The radio network controller can retrieve knowledge about the resource status in a Node B serving a certain... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080212525 - Using device profile to determine the most suitable resource reservation for an application: A system, method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for introducing a specific Device Profile into a wireless protocol that defines some basics of how the WiMedia UWB radio platform can be used to transmit audiovisual data. Further, embodiments enable the Device Profile information and other significant parameters, such... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, LLP

20080212532 - Apparatus and method for allocating resources in a single carrier-frequency division multiple access system: An apparatus and method for allocating resources in an Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) communication system are provided, in which a Node B determines on a cell basis whether to turn or off inter-subband hopping and whether to turn on or off mirroring for a resource unit for the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080212535 - Controlling and enhancing handoff between wireless access points: A process of maintaining access information between wireless hotspots is disclosed. A logon request from a wireless portable device is received by a first access point of a first wireless hotspot and use of the first access point by the wireless portable device is authenticated to establish an access session.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080212534 - Data forwarding controller, communication terminal apparatus, data communication system and method, and computer program: A communication terminal apparatus of a mobile type performs data transmission/reception via a network and changes access points based on data receiving conditions. The communication terminal apparatus is configured to acquire a MAC address of a next access point to which a communication terminal apparatus is scheduled to be connected... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080212533 - Method for the reconfiguration of an information processing unit of a terminal: The invention relates to a method for the reconfiguration of an information processing unit of a terminal (1), said terminal being/arranged in such a way as to receive information from a communication system (2, 3). The inventive method comprises the following steps: a reconfiguration phase of the information processing unit... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080212536 - Policy based mechanisms for selecting access routers and mobile context: In mobile IP networks, when a mobile node (MN) moves from one cell to another, handover occurs. The result of the handover is that the MN connects to the network through a new access router (AR). The handover may occur between access routers of the same or different administrative domains.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080212537 - Data packet handover control: A method of and apparatus for packet data streaming handover between disparate wireless and wired end-user agents may address changes in circumstances surrounding packet communications between end-user agents connected over various communications networks. The end-user agents may be coupled to at least one handover controller. One or more handover controllers... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080212538 - Antenna selection for multi-input multi-output system: A transmitting station in a radio network includes at least one radio frequency (RF) chain, a packet generator configured to generate a sounding packet including a number of training frames and a signaling frame, and at least one antenna element coupled to the at least one RF chain and configured... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080212541 - Data delivery in conjunction with a hybrid automatic retransmission mechanism in cdma communication systems: Techniques for delivering data recovered by a HARQ entity in proper order to higher layers in a CDMA system. In a method, packets are received from the HARQ entity by the re-ordering entity and missing packets among the received packets are detected. Packets may be transmitted in a sequential order... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080212540 - Frequency scanning method, memory and terminal to implement the method: A frequency scanning method to locate a carrier frequency of a base station in a CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) communication system, the method comprising a cell detection step (76) to determine if a listening frequency is the carrier frequency of a base station by identifying a synchronization code within... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080212539 - Method and apparatus for resource reuse in a communication system: Method and apparatuses taught herein enable link adaptation feedback to be determined in advance for future transmit intervals, based on one or more data sending units sending indications of future transmit resource allocations, and receiving corresponding link adaptation feedback from data receiving units. Knowledge of the future transmit resource allocations... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080212542 - Communication methods and devices for dual-mode communication systems: A method for wireless communication determines, for a client device having a first wireless connection with a first connection point, to initiate a second wireless connection between the client device and a second connection point, wherein the first connection point includes an Access Point and the second connection point includes... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080212543 - Radio communication system, base station and radio communication method: The present invention is provided with a control channel searching unit 90 which measures reception power levels of a plurality of control channels, searches for a control channel having a small reception power level and thereby determines the control channel to be used, a format specification unit 140 which specifies... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080212545 - Demand-driven prioritized data structure: A system and method for optimizing the efficiency of data sharing among a set of radio nodes in a radio environment is provided. The technique includes identifying a data unit and assigning it a class, identifying a connectivity type, computing a significance factor based on connectivity type and assigned class,... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20080212546 - Hierarchical service list: The present invention relates to communicating between a network and user equipment in a wireless communication system. The invention includes receiving an indicator on a first transmission frequency having no associated uplink service. The indicator indicates at least one transmission frequency different from the first transmission frequency and having no... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080212544 - Method in a wireless sensor reader for obtaining sensor data from a radio frequency addressable sensor: A method in a wireless sensor reader for obtaining sensor data from one or more radio frequency (RF) addressable sensors includes transmitting signals to the one or more RF addressable sensors wherein the signals initialize the one or more RF addressable sensors; interrogating the one or more RF addressable sensors... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20080212547 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and computer program: A wireless communication network that forms an ad-hoc network without the arrangement of a controlling station sets a period that a communication apparatus can utilize with priority and performs isochronous communication in the period as required. When isochronous communication has not been performed or after isochronous communication has finished in... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080212549 - Apparatus and method for receiving signal in a communication system: A signal reception method and apparatus for a communication system. One input unit and dc−1 delay nodes each receive one input message. A comparison unit compares magnitudes of the input messages being input to the dc−1 delay nodes, and outputs an input message having a minimum magnitude as an output... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080212550 - Method and apparatus for managing control channel in a mobile communication system using multiple antennas: A method for transmitting and receiving a control channel message in a mobile communication system using multiple antennas is provided. A base station determines whether a common pilot is used or a dedicated pilot is used. It also determines whether a corresponding Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) mode is a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080212548 - Terminal power control method: A terminal power control method includes following steps according to the quality of received signal, the terminal obtains quality parameter of received signal, received power of terminal occupying channel, and all the channel power in present cell which have the same carrier frequency and time slot with terminal occupying channel... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080212551 - Wireless data transmission method, transmitting system, and receiving system: A wireless data transmission method is disclosed, in which a transmitter buffers current RLC layer data. The method includes the following steps: the transmitter transmits the current RLC layer data to a receiver; receives a data-receiving packet indicating that the data is incorrectly received, the physical layer of the receiver... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080212554 - Apparatus and method for automatically setting a configuration of a home base station: An apparatus and method for automatically setting a configuration in a home base station. In the method for automatically setting a configuration in a home base station, wireless setting information of a neighbor base station and a neighbor home base station is retrieved through a communication interface for a terminal... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080212553 - Low latency frequency switching: Techniques for improved low latency frequency switching are disclosed. In one embodiment, a controller receives a frequency switch command and generates a frequency switch signal at a time determined in accordance with a system timer. In another embodiment, gain calibration is initiated subsequent to the frequency switch signal delayed by... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080212552 - Multi-band high frequency circuit, multi-band high-frequency component and multi-band communications apparatus: A high-frequency circuit comprising a switch circuit for properly switching the connection of an antenna terminal and four input/output terminals; a first received-signal output terminal being connected to a receiving circuit of a first communications system via a filter circuit; a second received-signal output terminal being connected to a receiving... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080212556 - Apparatus and method for allocating resources in a single carrier-frequency division multiple access system: An apparatus and method for allocating resources in an Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) communication system are provided, in which a Node B performs inter-subband hopping on a resource unit for a User Equipment (UE) on a frequency axis along which at least two subbands are defined, at each... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080212555 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving control information to randomize inter-cell interference in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving control information in an SC-FDMA system are provided, in which different cyclic shift values are generated for different SC-FDMA symbols in one of a slot and a subframe, a sequence allocated for CDM of control information is cyclically shifted by the cyclic... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080212558 - Communication set up between wireless devices: m

20080212560 - Encoding for efficient use of an upstream channel in burst mode: Alignment-enabled secondary nodes of a DAMA network monitor the alignment of for-transmission data as it is received, and actively align the data frames into encoded blocks such that the number of blocks occupied by encoded data resulting from an unencoded datastream of a particular length is predictable rather than variable.... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080212557 - Method and apparatus for battery-aware dynamic bandwidth allocation for wireless sensor networks: A method and apparatus that allocates bandwidth among wireless sensor nodes in a wireless sensor network (WSN) is disclosed. The method may include allocating transmission time slots for a plurality of wireless sensor nodes based on at least one channel quality metric, determining battery levels in each of the plurality... Agent: Prass & Irving LLP

20080212559 - Wireless proximity estimation: A wireless content protection system includes a coordinator, a source device, and a sink device. The coordinator includes a scheduler. The source and sink devices each have a content protection manager. One of the content protection manager allocates and releases bandwidth via the coordinator for a test message and a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080212561 - Method and apparatus for enhancing rlc for flexible rlc pdu size: Enhancements are provided for the radio link control (RLC) protocol in wireless communication systems where variable RLC packet data unit (PDU) size is allowed. When flexible RLC PDU sizes are configured by upper layers, radio network controller (RNC)/Node B flow control, RLC flow control, status reporting and polling mechanisms are... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080212562 - Method and apparatus for facilitate communications using surrogate and care-of-internet protocol addresses: A wireless access point (300A, 300B, 300C) provides (101) a surrogate Internet Protocol address to use on behalf of a mobile station (401). That wireless access point then uses (102) that surrogate Internet Protocol address along with its own Internet Protocol address to facilitate establishing one or more data tunnels... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080212564 - Clock synchronization method for wireless 1394 heterogeneous networks: Provided is a clock synchronization method in a heterogeneous network. The method includes the steps of: at a cycle master, transferring a cycle begin packet with a current time to a transmitting-side bridge; at the transmitting-side bridge, synchronizing using the time included in the cycle begin packet and a time... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080212565 - Method and apparatus for determining propagation delays for use in wide area networks: A system and method for determining a signal propagation delay between a transmitter and a receiver, and for adjusting a transmission time based on the propagation delay. A central station inserts a marker into a transmitted signal at a time corresponding to a received timing signal. The MCT receives the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080212563 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing wireless receiver: A method (200) and system (300) for detecting a received signal, such as a UWB signal, select a first band (210) and search (230) for an autocorrelation peak in the signal in the first band. The autocorrelation peak is compared to a threshold (250), and it is determined that a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080212572 - Extended handset functionality and mobility: A system includes an enterprise network having a call control system that manages telephony services for wireless handsets. At a remote site, a computing device establishes a secure, wireline communication session with the enterprise network. The computing device also establishes wireless, packet-based links with one or more handsets. The device... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080212569 - Method and apparatus for allocating application servers in an ims: A method, application server, and Serving Call/Session Control Function (S-CSCF) for allocating a SIP Application Server to a subscriber in an IP Multimedia Subsystem. A Home Subscriber Server (HSS) identifies for the subscriber, a set of provisioned initial filter criteria, which contains at least one generic SIP Application Server identity.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080212567 - Method and apparatus for non-intrusive single-ended voice quality assessment in voip: An apparatus (1240), method, and computer program to assess VoIP speech quality (130) using access to degraded signals is provided. Different types of impairment (110) have different effect on speech quality. Preferred embodiments address up to four different types of impairment that affect VoIP signal quality: packet loss (230), speech... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080212566 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving voip packet with udp checksum in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting a voice packet through a radio link in a mobile communication system providing a voice service through a packet network inter-working with the Internet are provided, in which a voice packet based on an Internet protocol (e.g. a VoIP packet) is received, the voice... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080212571 - Method and system for monitoring and recording voice from circuit-switched switches via a packet-switched network: Some embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and system for monitoring and recording voice from circuit-switched switches via a_packet-switched network. A circuit-switched or VoIP recording system may record and/or live-monitor telephone calls by trunk and/or extension tapping over a packet-switched network. Alternatively, a circuit-switched or VoIP... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080212570 - System and method for selectively coupling various communication devices through common channel: A communication system with a common channel for selectively coupling a subscriber line port of a telephone system to one of a plurality of voice communication devices including a fixed network communication module, an internet-based phone module, and a wireless internet-based phone module is provided. When a phone unit of... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080212568 - Wire and wireless internet phone terminal using wideband voice codec: A wire/wireless Internet phone terminal using a wideband voice codec is provided. The wire/wireless Internet phone terminal using a wideband voice codec includes: a multimedia application processor for including a process core to perform a protocol according to a wire and wireless interface communication scheme and supporting wideband voice service;... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080212573 - Enhanced call detail record with information provided by user: The present invention is related to a method of handling a call between a plurality of users via a circuit switched telecommunications network. Each of said plurality of users comprises a terminal connected to say network for establishing said call. A call between said users are established, and call detail... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080212575 - Codec rate adaptation as a function of air-interface as wel as network in a packet-based network: Codec rate adaptation for wireless circuit-switched voice communications routed through a packet-based network. A Mobile Station (MS) preferably with Circuit Switched services participating in a voice communication with a distant terminal transmits an initial CMR identifying an initial maximum speech coding rate selected as a function of a downlink radio... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080212576 - Communications methods, system and apparatus: Various methods and apparatus are directed to 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, which performs packet forwarding under direction of the home agent... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080212574 - Synchronization of vodsl of dslam connected only to ethernet: A forwarding unit such as a DSLAM (8) receives (21) Ethernet packets and forwards information therein on digital subscriber lines (27). For forwarding voice information of received Ethernet packets a reference clock signal is generated by a clock device (28) and provided to modems (23) for the digital subscriber lines.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080212577 - Chip circuit for combined and data compressed fifo arbitration for a non-blocking switch: A system for switching data packets through a multiple (m) input, multiple (n) output switching device providing switching having a fast one-cycle throughput. A respective switching device behaves like an output queued switch from a set of distributed output queues reading the incoming input control information from the plurality of... Agent: Floyd A. Gonzalez IBM Corporation

20080212580 - Interface device and inter-chip communication interface apparatus: An interface device transforms data to a packet and inverts at least a portion of the packet to reduce a number of bit toggles at corresponding locations in a previous packet. A reverse bit appended to the packet indicates whether the packet is inverted. A transmission packet including the reverse... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080212579 - Packet tunneling: Network devices, systems, and methods are provided for packet processing. One network device includes a network chip having a number of network ports for the device. The network chip includes logic to select original data packets, based on a set of criteria, received from or destined to a particular port... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080212581 - Switching circuit implementing variable string matching: A content matching engine (CME) uses a content addressable memory (CAM) array that stores a plurality of strings in separate entries. The strings define one or more rules to be matched. The strings of each rule are linked, thereby providing a required order. The strings of each rule can be... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20080212578 - System and method for constrained machine address learning: A system and method for constrained machine address learning comprises provisioning a first network port as being associated with at least one virtual connection at a second network port, and constraining machine address learning to only between the provisioned first network port and its associated at least one virtual connection.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080212583 - Adaptive and scalable qos architecture for single-bearer multicast/broadcast services: The present invention relates to a method for filtering a multiplexed packet stream in a network entity of the core network or the radio access network of a mobile communication system. The multiplexed packet stream provides a multicast or broadcast service and is delivered from a service center via the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080212584 - Method and system for presentation of multicast trees: A method and system for rendering a plurality of multicast trees for presentation on a display. A multicast routing state may be accessed from a plurality of routers in a multicast group. The multicast routing state may include identification of at least one of an upstream router or a downstream... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080212582 - Wireless audio transmission system and method: A system and method transmit a data stream from a source to a destination over a communication channel. A transmitter includes devices for processing inputs to assemble data packets for the data stream, and a multiplexer for assembling a data frame to be transmitted over the communication channel, in which... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080212586 - Method and apparatus for classifying packets: A method and apparatus for classifying packets, e.g., at wire speed are disclosed. The method receives a packet and processes the packet through a hardware-based packet classifier having at least one evolving rule. The method then processes the packet through a software-based packet classifier if the hardware-based packet classifier is... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080212585 - Preventing loops during recovery in network rings using cost metric routing protocol: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving advertised costs to reach a destination address from neighbor routers. Based on the advertised costs, a minimum first cost to reach the destination address from the local router through the neighbors is determined. The first cost corresponds to a successor among the neighbors.... Agent: Eugene Molinelli Evans & Molinelli PLLC

20080212587 - Relay apparatus and packet relay method: A relay apparatus to relay packets transmitted/received between apparatuses connected via a network and method. The relay apparatus includes physical ports to transmit/receive the packets. The relay apparatus also rewrites transmission-destination identification information of a packet transmitted to the relay apparatus based on a transfer rule stored in advance. The... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080212588 - System and method for avoiding stall using timer for high-speed downlink packet access system: At least one timer is used to prevent a stall condition. If a timer is not active, the timer is started for a data block that is correctly received. The data block has a sequence number higher than a sequence number of another data block that was first expected to... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080212589 - Method and network apparatus for carrying multiple services: A method for carrying multiple services includes: transmitting services to bearer channels at a physical port of an XDSL chipset according to different requirements of the services on service latency; and mapping the services on the bearer channels into different latency paths according to preset relations between the bearer channels... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080212591 - Parameterized quality of service in a network: A method for managing data transmission comprising making a bandwidth on a network resource available to at least one requester for transmitting or receiving data according to a first request of a first type, the first type have a prescribed quality of service guarantee; transmitting first data in accordance with... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20080212592 - Apparatus and method for route summarization and distribution in a massively parallel router: A router for interconnecting external devices coupled to the router. The router comprises a switch fabric and a plurality of routing nodes coupled to the switch fabric. Each routing node is capable of transmitting data packets to, and receiving data packets from, the external devices and is further capable of... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080212590 - Flexible protocol engine for multiple protocol processing: Embodiments of the invention relate to a flexible protocol engine for operation with multiple communication protocols. The flexible protocol engine may include a programmable protocol processor operable to process data by implementing a selected technique, the selected technique selectable from multiple selectable techniques. Each of the multiple selectable techniques may... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080212593 - Automatic adaptation of quality of service over packet-switched networks: An end node in a packet-switched network is proposed wherein the end node is arranged to exchange packets consisting of a packet header and payload data with a server node connected to the packet-switched network. The end node includes at least one module adapted to extract quality of service parameter... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080212595 - Mapping pbt and pbb-te traffic to vpls and other services: Transferring data in a network is disclosed. Transferring includes receiving a Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) frame, identifying a plurality of location specific identifiers in the PBT frame, mapping the PBT frame to a service based at least in part on the plurality of location specific identifiers, formatting the PBT frame... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080212596 - Method for gate controlling a media gateway: A method for gate controlling a media gateway mainly includes the following: the media gateway receives gate control information for gate controlling media streams of the media gateway from a media gateway controller; and the media gateway performs gate control to the media streams passing through the media gateway according... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080212594 - Optimized interworking between different communication protocols: Methods and systems for optimizing interworking between various communication protocols are provided. The method comprises establishing a communication connection between a first endpoint and a second endpoint, wherein the first endpoint communicates over a first communication protocol and wherein the second endpoint communicates over a second communication protocol; and monitoring... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080212597 - Method and apparatus for filtering data packets: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for filtering received data packets. A hierarchical tree is maintained. The tree includes nodes organized in a plurality of levels. Each level above a root node of the tree has one or more of the nodes, with each of the one or more of... Agent: Weinick & Associates, LLC

20080212598 - System and method for transparent virtual routing: A transparent routing device disposed within an access network configured in accordance with one or more lower-layer protocols is disclosed herein. The device includes a set of subscriber-side ports. Each of the subscriber-side ports is associated with a plurality of virtual subscriber-side interfaces disposed to effectively terminate a corresponding plurality... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080212599 - Methods and systems for encoding data in a communication network: Methods and systems for encoding data in a communication network are presented. In an aspect, a method is provided for processing multimedia data. The method includes detecting a smoothness factor associated with one or more portions of the multimedia data, and determining that smoothing is required based on the smoothness... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080212600 - Router and queue processing method thereof: A queue processing method and a router perform cache update and queue processing based upon whether or not the packet capacity stored in the queue exceeds a rising threshold, or whether the packet capacity stored in the queue is below a falling threshold after the packet capacity stored in the... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080212601 - Voip telephone location system: A documentation system for a network is provided. The system has a data port and a destination device, each of which includes an electronic module with an identification code. A source device sends query signals along a network path addressed to the data port and destination device. Each of the... Agent: Panduit Corp.

20080212602 - Method, system and program product for optimizing communication and processing functions between disparate applications: A method, system and program product for optimizing communication and processing functions between disparate applications. The method includes sending, from a contemporary application to a routing application, a condensed request message having a reduced data size for optimizing communication. Further, the method includes reformatting, by the routing application, the condensed... Agent: Silvy Anna Murphy

20080212603 - Method for path selection and signal processing in wireless communications system: A method of path selection in a multi-path channel communications system that includes providing path information including at least path parameters and path statuses, setting a plurality of thresholds for the path parameters, comparing the path parameters to the thresholds corresponding to the path parameters, assigning a weighting to the... Agent: Akin Gump LLP - Silicon Valley

20080212604 - Systems and methods for contention control in wireless networks: Systems and methods provide for controlling contention in a wireless network device. The systems and methods transmit a packet on a wireless network. If the transmission is not successful, then a contention window parameter is adjusted according to a fast backoff operation. If the packet transmission was successful and the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20080212605 - 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

20080212606 - Data transfer circuit: A data transfer circuit is provided for sending digital data at high rates across short but significant distances within an integrated circuit. The data is sent on parallel conductors that are divided into a number of groups. At the receiving end, a multiplexer selects each of the groups in turn... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080212607 - Data transfer circuit: A data transfer circuit is provided for sending digital data at high rates across short but significant distances within an integrated circuit. The data is sent on parallel conductors that are divided into a number of groups. At the receiving end, a multiplexer selects each of the groups in turn... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080212608 - Method, apparatus and computer program to signal additional modulation scheme without additional signalling overhead: A method and apparatus are provided for jointly encoding bits containing information about an existing modulation technique or an existing antenna transmission technique in order to extend signaling to include new information about an additional modulation technique or the use of an additional antenna transmission technique without having to increase... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080212609 - Icmp translator: When an IPv4/v6 dual stack terminal communicating via TCP on IPv6 fails to promptly switch over to IPv4 after the ICMPv6 fails due to a soft error, the problem should be resolved at the prior stage server rather than on the complicated terminal. The server at a stage prior to... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080212610 - Communication techniques and generic layer 3 automatic switching protection: In one embodiment, software code in a respective computer system such as one or more data communication devices establishes multiple layer 2 network links between a first data communication device and a second data communication device. The first data communication device and the second data communication device include corresponding layer... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080212611 - 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

20080212612 - Method and system for acknowledgements in wireless communications: A packet communication process for a wireless system that includes a sender and a receiver, is provided. The packet communication process dispenses with the need to send multiple block acknowledgments, one per Traffic Identifier (TID), from the receiver to the sender. This involves aggregating multiple MPDUs having a plurality of... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080212613 - Multilink meshed transport service: One embodiment relates to a method of transporting data packets between a plurality of transport units in a building. Transmit flows are created and associated with source-destination address pairs of new data streams received from outside a network of the transport units. A separate sequence space is provided for each... Agent: Okamoto & Benedicto, LLP

20080212614 - Method and system for extending transmission distance of adsl signal: A method for extending transmission distance of an ADSL signal includes: increasing power spectral density (PSD) of an ADSL signal when a parameter of the ADSL signal is equal to or greater than a preset threshold; and sending the ADSL signal with the increased PSD. A system for extending transmission... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080212615 - Method and apparatus for communicating data in a communications system: Disclosed are a user equipment and a communications node for communicating data in a communications system including a plurality of user equipments, as well as a method for communicating the data by a user equipment and a method for communicating data by a communications node, wherein data are transmitted from... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080212619 - Clock synchronisation over a packet network: A method of synchronising first and second clocks coupled respectively to ingress and egress interfaces 6,7 of a packet network 1, the method comprising calculating a minimum packet Transit Time over the network 1 in each of successive time intervals, and varying the frequency of the second clock so as... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080212618 - Method and system for transmitting a clock rate on an ethernet network link and applications thereof: The invention relates to a method for transmitting a clock rate on a network link, seat of a speed timing signal (DR), consisting of at least synchronizing (A), at an input point (I) of this network, this speed timing signal with a reference external clock rate (ESR) for generating a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080212616 - Services for data sharing and synchronization: Systems and methods for sharing and synchronizing data using the addition of synchronization data to a feed that contains data items, and at least a node or endpoint that provides synchronization-related services to other endpoints, are disclosed. Such systems and methods, and client and service endpoints, may use the added... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080212617 - System and method for synchronization of time sensitive user events in a network: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for synchronization of time sensitive user events in a network. In one example, the method includes receiving an event from a client during a time window and receiving another event from another client during the time window. The events, which are... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss