Multiplex communications inventions 10/08

20080259784 - Failure notification in a network having serially connected nodes: Multicast capabilities of a link state protocol controlled network are used to accelerate the flooding advertisement of topology change notifications within portions of the network. This flooding mechanism may be particularly efficient in a network with a large number of two-connected nodes such as a ring network architecture. A control... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras, LLP Attn: John C. Gorecki

20080259785 - Link adaptation: The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for adapting a transmission parameter in a transmitting node of a data communication system to the current link quality of a data communication channel. The adapted transmission parameter is selected by the transmitting node from a set of transmission parameters in dependence... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080259786 - System and method for supporting sdh/sonet aps on ethernet: An Ethernet PHY hardware device supports Ethernet MAC SDH/SONET Automatic Protection Switching (APS) functionality for managing protection from failures and recovery from failures on an Ethernet network. An Ethernet PHY sublayer stored on the Ethernet PHY hardware device is configured to monitor working and protect channels and generate an interrupt... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20080259787 - Backup cell controller: A wireless local area network for data communications between a computer and mobile units is provided with at least two cell controllers connected to the computer and one or more rf ports each connected to a primary interface of one cell controller and to a backup interface of another cell... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080259788 - Method for routing mobile node in wireless mesh network and a communication system thereof: A wireless mesh network includes several mesh networks and the wireless mesh network access points to which the mesh networks belong. A method establishing backbone routing and network tolopogy among each wireless mesh network access points, selecting one said wireless mesh network access point as a location inquiry sever for... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080259789 - Method and apparatus for re-establishing anonymous data transfers: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for re-establishing anonymous data transfers between a first endpoint and a second endpoint in a network includes receiving, from a first node, the identity of a second node connected to the first node, where at least the first node is a neighbor... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080259791 - Method and apparatus for normalizing service level agreements in a network: This disclosure provides a method and apparatus for normalizing service level agreements across entire networks. By utilizing a new parameter called the virtual call count, a wholesale network provider can monitor a variety of related network status indications and provide to their customers increased insight into the nature of the... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080259790 - Reliable and resilient end-to-end connectivity for heterogeneous networks: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to connectivity management in a heterogeneous network and provide a method, system and computer program product for resilient and reliable end-to-end connectivity in a heterogeneous network. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for resilient and reliable... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080259793 - Network traffic control in peer-to-peer environments: A method and an electronic unit are disclosed for controlling traffic on a network, especially for controlling peer-to-peer related traffic. A filter unit is intercepting messages related to peer-to-peer application from a network line, irrespective of the messages' destination, A control logic then manages a request represented by an intercepted... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080259792 - Packet shaping for mixed rate 802.11 wireless networks: A method of shaping data packet transmissions by nodes in a wireless network is presented. Each node sets a maximum limit for MAC service data unit size based on data rate so that maximum transmission times for data packet transmissions by all of the nodes are approximately the same.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080259794 - Apparatus and method for providing end-to-end qos guarantee within service network: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and a method for providing end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) guarantee within the service network. The apparatus is implemented by a Service Resource Monitor/Manager (SRM), and includes a service processing unit and a resource management unit. The method includes: configuring an SRM within the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080259795 - Automatic connectivity adaptation of packet traffic in a transport network: A method for automatic adaptation of connectivity by means of virtual concatenation groups of packet traffic in a circuit switched transport network in which an estimate of the packet traffic is made and the band available between packet interfaces which engage the transport network is increased or decreased by creation... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080259796 - Method and apparatus for network-adaptive video coding: Methods and devices for a media processing is provided. In one respect, the methods can provide initiating a bandwidth throttle or a frame rate throttle when resources of a network exceed resources of client device. The methods of the present disclosure may also provide techniques for handling lost packets during... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20080259801 - Apparatus and method for controlling reverse-link data transmission rate during handoff: Method and apparatus for controlling data transmission rate in a wireless communication system during handoff comprises a terminal recognizing an active set comprising a serving base station and at least one non-serving base station with respect to the terminal communicating with the network at a first data transmission rate, receiving... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080259798 - Flow and congestion control in switch architectures for multi-hop, memory efficient fabrics: A shared memory switch and switch fabric architecture are described which employ partitions of the shared memory to implement multiple, independent virtual congestion domains, thereby allowing congestion to be handled for different classes of traffic independently.... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080259802 - Frequency domain packet scheduling under fractional load: Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement frequency domain packet scheduling in a fractional load situation by detecting a fractional load situation in a wireless communications network; receiving information indicative of signal conditions in a cell; using the information indicative of signal conditions in the cell to determine physical resource... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080259797 - Load-balancing bridge cluster for network nodes: A network load-balancing cluster configured to function as a transparent bridge, by connecting the load-balancing nodes in series rather than in parallel, as is done in prior-art configurations. A load-balancing algorithm and method are disclosed, by which each node in the configuration independently determines whether to process a data packet... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080259800 - Method and system for correlating streams within a packet network: A method and system for correlating data streams within a packet network. The method relies on independently selecting the same packets as reference packets at different places and times within the network. Once selected, the data contained in a given reference packet is utilized to generate a unique tag for... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080259799 - Packet scheduling with quality-aware frame dropping for video streaming: The embodiments of the invention relate to video streaming, particularly to quality-aware adaptive and selective transmissions. The embodiments of the present invention provide for a set of scheduling patterns to be evaluated, and from such set determine the target scheduling pattern that is calculated to provide the least distortion increment... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, PC

20080259803 - Method and apparatus for adaptive bandwidth control with a bandwidth guarantee: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to monitor transmission of data to target. A determination is made as to whether the transmission of the data exceeds a threshold. The bandwidth used to transmit the data to the target is controlled using an adaptive bandwidth control process... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080259804 - Device and methods for increasing wireless connection speeds: Various embodiments include wireless client device comprising an application subsystem including a processor and a storage device coupled to the processor, a communication subsystem coupled to the application subsystem, the communication subsystem including a media access control (MAC) device and a physical (PHY) device, wherein the physical device is operably... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080259805 - Method and apparatus for managing networks across multiple domains: A method and apparatus for managing networks across multiple domains are disclosed. For example, the method stores a mapping table that correlates one or more Customer Edge Routers (CERs) with one or more Route Processing Modules (RPMs) in at least one seed-file distributor, where each of the one or more... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Suite 100

20080259808 - Method for detecting an available/unavailable state of packet transport network: A method for detecting an available/unavailable state of a packet transport network, includes the steps of: in the packet transport network, detecting a severely errored second (SES) using performance parameters of the packet transport network, and detecting an available/unavailable time with the SES as a reference, and thus providing a... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080259807 - Method, system and maintenance point for controlling continuity check of ethernet link: A method, system and maintenance point is provided to control the continuity check for the Ethernet links. The method includes: starting to send a continuity check message carrying exit check information to a sink end maintenance point of the link when a source end maintenance point of the link receives... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080259806 - Signature matching methods and apparatus for performing network diagnostics: A system for identifying problems in networks receives test data which may include statistical information regarding packet loss on a path. The system creates a signature from the test data and compares the signature to example signatures corresponding to various network conditions. The system identifies one or more of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080259810 - Broadband service applications test tool: A broadband internet system comprises a speed test tool, a database, and an internet portal. The speed test tool determines available bandwidth for a communication link. The database stores the available bandwidth for the communication link from the speed test tool. The internet portal offers a service to the customer... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080259812 - Dimensioning methods for hsdpa traffic: A method for determining the capacity that is needed on an lub link to fulfill Grade of Service (GoS) requirements in a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) for both Dedicated Channel (DCH) traffic and High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) traffic, the method comprising the steps... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080259814 - Method and apparatus for adjusting value of statistic parameter: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for adjusting the value of the statistic parameter so as to enable an MGC dynamically adjust the statistic parameter under H.248 framework. The method extends the H.248 protocol. The MGC sends adjustment information to the MG. The MG adjusts the value... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080259813 - Method and apparatus for quality of service determination: A method of estimating bandwidth capacity, available bandwidth and utilization along a path in an IP network is disclosed. ICMP time-stamp requests are sent from a source host on the edge or inside the network to all routers on the end-to-end path to a desired destination. Differences between time-stamp values... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080259809 - Performance measurement in a packet transmission network: A data packet transmission network comprises a stream of packets of data sent by a first terminal passes in transit through at least one network equipment with which there is associated a stream measurement unit; wherein said first terminal and said measurement unit are connected to a collection unit. The... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080259811 - Spectrum measurement management for dynamic spectrum access wireless systems: A wireless system (100) and method (401-403) includes a medium access control (MAC) layer adapted to request and receive measurement reports from wireless devices (102) operating in restricted channels.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259819 - Automatic device detection and configuration in a network-aware print fulfillment engine: Disclosed is a system and method for automatically detecting the topology of output devices present in a network, and for automatically configuring those output devices for outputting a specific media type. One or more network devices are present in a computer network environment configured for processing orders for physical and/or... Agent: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP Attn: Gregory M Stone

20080259818 - Home-to-home delivery of media content via cable: A residential services gateway operating within a networked home setting that is enabled by a Strings software program to obtain, view, and/or repurpose content obtained from within the networked home setting or exterior of the networked home setting.... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080259817 - Media access control (mac) address management system and method: A media access control (MAC) address management system, comprises logic configured to generate a MAC address for at least one network device of a computing device based on a MAC address of another network device of the computing device.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080259815 - System and method of mapping and analyzing vulnerabilities in networks: Systems and methods for mapping and analyzing vulnerabilities in networks. In one embodiment, a network is mapped, comprising: converting network line data into point data; associating the point data with cells of a grid overlaying the network; and analyzing the network by determining the relationship of the point data to... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080259816 - Validating a cabling topology in a distributed computing system: Validating a cabling topology in a distributed computing system comprised of cabled nodes connected using data communications cables, each cabled node characterized by cabling dimensions, each cable corresponding to one of the cabling dimensions, includes: receiving a selection from a user of at least one cabled node for topology validation;... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080259820 - Creating non-transit nodes in a link state network: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first link state initiation (HELLO) message from a first neighboring router. The HELLO message requests that a recipient node send a unique identifier for itself in a link state routing protocol. In response to receiving the first HELLO message, a first response... Agent: Eugene Molinelli Evans & Molinelli PLLC

20080259821 - Dynamic packet training: A packet control mechanism for a computer data system that dynamically adjusts packet training depending on the utilization load on the processor. The dynamic adjustment of packet training can be to enable and disable packet training, or adjust the number of packets in the packet train. In preferred embodiments, the... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080259822 - Dynamic packet training: A packet control mechanism for a computer data system that dynamically adjusts packet training depending on the utilization load on the processor. The dynamic adjustment of packet training can be to enable and disable packet training, or adjust the number of packets in the packet train. In preferred embodiments, the... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080259823 - Efficient error response in a video conferencing system: Elements in a video conferencing system may respond to error message(s) by aggregating any related error messages and responding based on a severity of the error indicated by the related error messages. A multipoint control unit (MCU) may identify an active stream from a first endpoint and forward the active... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080259824 - Identity-based conferencing systems and methods: Described in this paper are systems and methods of providing conferencing services where a conference participant is identified by the conferencing system when calling into the system. The system and methods focus on individual users instead of groups of participants. Instead of using a conference identity as the driver, embodiments... Agent: Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP

20080259825 - Method and apparatus for performing jrnso in fdd, tdd and mimo communications: A method and apparatus for performing Joint Randomness Not Shared by Others (JRNSO) is disclosed. In one embodiment, JRNSO is determined in Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) using a baseband signal loop back and private pilots. In another embodiment, JRNSO is determined in Time Division Duplex (TDD) using a baseband signal... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080259826 - System for coordination of communication within and between cells in a wireless access system and method of operation: Apparatus, and an associated method, for providing WLAN (wireless local area network) service through a fixed wireless access communication system. WLAN transceivers are fixed in position at subscriber stations of the fixed wireless access communication system. Each WLAN transceiver defines a coverage area. Through appropriate positioning of the WLAN transceivers... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080259827 - Communication system using frequency according to security or transmission distance: A communication system using a frequency determined according to information security protection or a transmission distance of a signal is provided. A local area communication requiring information security protection uses a frequency less than a predetermined frequency, and a local or wide area communication requiring no information security protection uses... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080259828 - Method and apparatus for reducing timestamp noise in audio echo cancellation: A communication end device of a two-way communication system is shown. The device includes an audio signal capture device for capturing local audio to be transmitted to another end device, an audio signal rendering device for playing remote audio received from the other end device, and buffers for buffering the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080259834 - Cross-layer optimization method for controlling bit rate of video codec in transmission of video data in wibro system: A cross-layer optimization method for controlling a bit rate of a video coder/decoder (codec) in video data transmission for wireless devices such as a wireless broadband (WiBro) system terminal that adapts to changing transmission/reception characteristics and usage. The method typically includes checking, by a sender, radio channel state information of... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080259833 - Method and apparatus for controlling data transmission in a wireless communication system: Techniques for controlling data transmission are described. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) determines whether to send a packet based on available transmit power. The UE determines a first packet size based on the available transmit power and sends a packet of the first packet size if it is... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080259832 - Method and apparatus for improving reordering functionality in a wireless communications system: A method for improving a reordering functionality in a wireless communications system comprises configuring a reset timer, utilized for controlling the reset of a reordering functionality of a protocol entity, reassembling all received protocol data units in the protocol entity with previously stored protocol data unit segments, and discarding all... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080259829 - Personal area network systems and devices and methods for use thereof: Systems and methods are provided for interfacing wireless communications between two devices such that a device devoid of a relatively long-range communications protocol can access that protocol. This may be accomplished by providing a host device having relatively short-range communications circuitry integrated therein, which circuitry may be operative to communicate... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080259831 - System and process for internet protocol multimedia subsystem centralized service with enhanced unstructured supplementary service: A method of handling Service Data initiated by a wireless network for a mobile station, the mobile station configured to operate in a circuit-switched network and a packet-switched network, includes registering a Circuit Switched Access Adaptation Function in the mobile station for Supplementary Service, and sending a Service Data message... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20080259830 - Wireless communication system, information and communication terminal, portable telephone, reader/writer, communication method and computer program: There is provided a wireless communication system that includes two information communication terminals with built-in IC chips engaged in alternating wireless communication with each other through noncontact communication, wherein one of the information communication terminals includes a reception unit that receives a packet originating from the other information communication terminal,... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080259837 - Communication in dual protocol environments: A communication device (1) comprising: a first communication system (4) for transmitting and/or receiving signals according to a first protocol; a second communication system (3) for transmitting and receiving signals according to a second protocol, the second protocol having the facility that a receiver (3) can indicate to a transmitter... Agent: Novak Druce Deluca + Quigg LLP

20080259835 - Locating content in broadband wireless access networks: In some embodiments, only one multicast connection identifier is used in a WiMAX network per zone. This may result in power savings because it is not necessary for the mobile station to query a base station to obtain the correct information about how to locate desired channels in a WiMAX... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080259836 - Power saving function for wireless lans: methods, system and program products: A wireless data communication system has a first station or mobile unit is linked to a second station configured as an access unit to support packet communication, voice or data, where the voice packets are transmitted in the Continuously Aware Mode (CAM) mode while other packets are buffered by the... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080259838 - Method and device for inverse multiplexing of multicast transmission: A stream of multicast messages is forwarded through a network to a plurality of subscriber devices (18). The stream is inverse multiplexed and transmitted distributed over a plurality of communication channels (14). A plurality of inverse demultiplexers (16) is provided, to reassemble a plurality of copies of the stream from... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080259839 - Redundant wireless base station: In a redundant wireless base station, a redundancy parameter solicitation is sent by a first baseband processing unit via a multicast to a local area network including at least a second baseband processing unit. Advertised redundancy parameters are received via a multicast to the local area network from the second... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080259840 - Relay station, base station, relay method, transmission method, and computer readable medium thereof for use in a multi-hop network: A relay station (RS), a relay method, a base station (BS), a transmission method, and a computer readable medium thereof are provided. The BS is configure to generate a DL-R-MAP for the BS and a first frame according to a resource usage status of the multi-hop network, and transmit the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080259848 - Communication node and communication control method: A technique is disclosed whereby, in the case of wherein a communication node includes both a mobility management function and a multihoming function, based on a condition that occurs due to moving, an appropriate address can be selected from multiple addresses in a multihomed state. According to the technique, a... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080259846 - Cooperative transceiving between wireless interface devices of a host device: A circuit includes a first wireless interface circuit that transceives packetized data with a first external device in accordance with a first wireless communication protocol. A second wireless interface circuit transceives packetized data with a second external device in accordance with a second wireless communication protocol and wherein the operation... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080259847 - Coordinated beacon period (bp) mergins for distributed wireless networks: The application describes a method to merge two wireless networks in which each terminal gets a beacon slot within the beacon period. In order to merge two networks, the beacon slots have to be time-coordinated such that the beacon slots of the first network are completed before the beacon slots... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259849 - Macro-diversity region rate modification: A system including a buffer to receive and store a stream of content data. A controller module may be configured to determine the macro-diversity region size based on a set of pre-selected configuration parameters including an incoming rate of the content data and to allocate at least a portion of... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080259843 - Method and apparatus for user equipment for long term evolution multimedia broadcast multicast services: A user equipment is provided that includes a processor programmed responsive to receiving a point-to-multipoint (PTM) broadcast of a service at a low quality, to request a point-to-point (PTP) communication from the network. A method is provided for user equipment to receive a service. The method includes receiving a point-to-multipoint... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080259845 - Method and system for supporting multi mesh operation modes using single wi-fi interfacing: A wireless-fidelity (Wi-Fi) interfacing method and a Wi-Fi interfacing system are provided. The Wi-Fi interfacing method includes: determining an interfacing operation mode related to a received packet, in interoperation with the receiving of the packet; and processing the packet via a single Wi-Fi interface, according to the determined interfacing operation... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080259850 - Method for realizing mobile ip management and the network system thereof: A method for realizing mobile IP management includes: a mobile node (MN) sends a mobility registration signal to a mobility control (MC) entity in a control function entity of the transmission layer of the network; a home mobility control entity of the mobile node registers the mobile node, returns a... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080259842 - Multicast control channel design: A system for providing a multicast control channel (MCCH) including information related to a service is provided. The system includes a processor programmed to promote transmission of a MCCH including a multi-cell information portion that contains information common to a plurality of cells in a wireless telecommunications network, and a... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080259844 - Over the air microcontroller flash memory updates: Techniques for over the air (OTA) microcontroller flash memory updates using a wireless network are disclosed herein. A control node first transmits the microcontroller flash memory update to all devices that can receive the message. Each packet of the message is relayed through multiple communication levels until all devices receive... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080259841 - Subscription aggregation and load balancing in a broadband router: In one embodiment, a bandwidth aggregation router is provided including a wireless broadband modem interface for communicating with a wireless network, a wired wide area network interface, and a processor configured to aggregate bandwidth from the wireless broadband modem interface and the wired wide area network interface. The router may... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080259856 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing dynamic sharing of resources between uplink and downlink allocations for separately coded users: Apparatus, methods and computer program products operate an electronic device to generate downlink allocation information and uplink allocation to be signaled to other electronic devices operative in a wireless communications system; and to operate radio apparatus to signal the downlink allocation information and uplink allocation information in a control channel,... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080259855 - Auxiliary ack channel feedback for control channels and broadcast multicast signals: A method for providing an assignment acknowledgement includes receiving a forward link overhead channel message at an access terminal (AT), the overhead channel message including parameters used to indicate which shared control channel (SCCH) message data blocks are to be acknowledged by the AT and the timing for transmitting the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080259854 - Communication terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and resource assigning method: A communication terminal apparatus of wireless communication system wherein the data amount of report values is reduced and the accuracy of the report values is enhanced in OFDM wireless communication. In a communication terminal apparatus (200), a reception quality measuring part (206) measures, based on information outputted from a demodulating... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080259865 - Handling traffic flows in a mobile communications network: A method includes receiving a request for establishing a communication pathway end-to-end over a network. The communication pathway includes a radio communication channel and a packet communication channel. The request identifies a plurality of traffic flows to be carried by the communication pathway and quality-of-service attributes associated with the traffic... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080259863 - Method for configuring channel and carrier resources for multi-carrier high speed downlink packet access: A channel for multicarrier high speed downlink packet access and a method for allocating the carrier resource include: the wireless network controller configures the multicarrier high speed downlink packet access resource of a multicarrier cell, the multicarrier high speed downlink packet access resource includes the high speed physical downlink shared... Agent: Walker & Jocke, L.p.a.

20080259862 - Method for scheduling in mobile communication and apparatus thereof: The present invention relates to a scheduling device and method of a mobile communication system. In the packet scheduling method, a base station performs packet scheduling for a terminal station in a mobile communication system, and a transport channel comprising an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) and a physical channel comprising... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080259857 - Method, system and apparatus for implementing bandwidth allocation based on a relay station: The present invention relates to a method, a system and an apparatus for implementing bandwidth allocation and scheduling management based on a relay station. A mapping information unit for controlling a RS (MAPRS) is set in a frame structure of the physical layer of a BS and an extended frame... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080259858 - Methods and apparatus for distributing content in a multi-frequency network: Methods and apparatus for distributing content in a multi-frequency network. A method includes combining service overheads with a content multiplex to generate service layer multiplexes, determining regions of the multi-frequency network where a service layer multiplex is to be distributed, combining distribution overheads with the service layer multiplex to generate... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080259852 - Mobility manager: A mobility manager provides mobility management of mobile nodes, which have subscribed to an applications server for a communications service. The applications server is arranged to control a level of a service in accordance with bandwidth allocated to the applications server for the mobility-managed mobile nodes by the mobility manager... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20080259861 - Preamble transmission method for wireless communication system: A preamble transmission method for a wireless communication system is provided for improving the probability of successful transmission and reducing unnecessary retransmission power consumption. The preamble transmission method of the present invention calculates an initial transmission power; transmits a preamble with the initial transmission power through a random access channel;... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080259860 - Radio frame control apparatus, radio frame control method, and radio communication apparatus: A radio frame control apparatus for controlling a radio frame of an orthogonal frequency division multiple access system, having a placement information generation section generating first placement information including a radio resource amount assigned to each terminal station based on a received radio resource request, a pseudo placement information generation... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080259853 - Radio lan system, and base station and terminal station thereof: A wireless LAN system that includes a plurality of stations and an access point, interconnected via a network, and supports QoS has infrastructure mode and a Direct Link. In the infrastructure mode, data communication is performed between stations STA via an access point AP. In the Direct Link, data communication... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080259859 - Spectrum management in dynamic spectrum access wireless systems: A plurality of MAC/PHY stacks is adapted to support wireless devices. A superframe structure includes a preamble and a superframe initialization header.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259864 - System and method for dynamic allocation of capacity on wireless networks: A wireless communication system is described for allocating limited network access according to priorities designated for requested transactions of wireless communications. The wireless network has a number of access links for transmitting transactions for wireless communications. A plurality of wireless communications devices request transmission of transactions on the wireless network.... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20080259851 - System and method for enabling subscribers of a communications carrier to access a network of other subscribers: A system and method for enabling subscribers of a communications carrier to communicate over a network of wireless access points of other consumer subscribers of the communications carrier is provided. In response to a wireless device of a user attempting to access a wireless access point of a subscriber, a... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080259866 - Wlan having load balancing by access point admission/termination: A network includes access points that admit/terminate mobile station associations based upon the loading level of the access point and/or whether a mobile station can associate with a further access point. Mobile stations transmit information indicative of the access points to which they can associate. The access points determine whether... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080259867 - Method and system for scheduling packets from different flows to provide fair bandwidth sharing: A method and system for scheduling packets to provide fair bandwidth sharing is provided. A packet scheduling system is composed of a communication link and flows from different network applications. These flows share the same communication link and have different bandwidth reservation according to different application requirements. In this invention,... Agent: Chuanxiong Guo

20080259874 - Flow based layer 2 handover mechanism for mobile node with multi network interfaces: A method for handing-off a mobile node (MN) from one network interface to another network interface, the network interfaces being connected to a same level 2 (L2) network. The method includes detecting at least two network interface cards (NICs) of the MN that are connected to the same L2 network... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080259872 - Media independent handover-based network system having a vertical handover capability and vertical handover method thereof: A heterogeneous network system performs a vertical handover based on media independent handover (MIH) in different networks in which a WiMAX (Wireless Broadband Internet) network (or a WiBro (Wireless Broadband Internet)) and a WLAN (Wireless LAN) network are coexisted. The heterogeneous network system cyclically acquires neighboring network information in advance... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080259870 - Method and apparatus for media independent handover: A method and apparatus for performing a handover are disclosed. An Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) client registers with an IMS network and establishes an MIH session with an MIH application server using an SIP. The IMS client establishes a session for IP-based service, (e.g., VoIP), with a communication... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080259869 - Method and apparatus for handoff between access systems: Systems and methods for switching among networks (e.g., heterogeneous) and inter-working between a source access system and a target access system, by implementing tunneling from the AT to the target access system via the source access system. An inter-system handoff control component can facilitate setting tunneling by the mobile unit... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080259873 - Method and apparatus for providing gateway relocation: An apparatus and method for providing gateway relocation to an external network wherein a user equipment (UE) includes an initial external network connection via a source core node, comprises initializing a mobility event, reallocating the initial external network connection from via the source core node to via a target core... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080259871 - Method of performing vertical handover between different wireless networks: A method of performing a vertical handover between different wireless networks based on media independent handover (MIH) includes the steps of checking a link state of the first network to transmit a handover notify message from the mobile node to an old access router when a handover is needed, and... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080259868 - Wireless communication system and associated method for routing messages to wireless networks: A wireless communication system is provided that includes a base station and a routing map. The base station is in wireless communication with a plurality of wireless networks. The routing map stores information relating to a location of a mobile station in wireless communication with a first wireless network. The... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080259876 - Dormant session management associated with handover: Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for selectively transmitting a pre-registration, re-registration or de-registration initiation message associated with handing off user equipment between different access systems, e.g., a long term evolution (LTE) system and a high rate packet data (HRPD) system, to reduce dormant sessions. The decision... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080259875 - Sleep scheduling for geographically distributed network nodes: Techniques for implementing sleep scheduling in a distributed network environment are described. The sleep scheduling attempts to optimize routing of communication among nodes of the distributed network, while still conserving energy by allowing nodes to occasionally transition to sleep mode. The sleep scheduling is performed as a function of the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080259878 - Method and apparatus for a scheduler for a macro-diversity portion of a transmission: A method, apparatuses, and system of broadcasting content data in a macro-diversity region of a data frame includes receiving a stream of transport packets. Selecting at least one burst size, from amongst a set of a plurality of predetermined burst sizes. Allocating one or more data bursts with the selected... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080259879 - Method and apparatus for service identification in a wireless communication system: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for announcing services available in a macro-diversity region of a data frame broadcast by a plurality of base stations in a single frequency network to a plurality of subscriber stations, includes a data frame with at least a data region and a macro-diversity region. A media... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080259877 - System and method for a dynamic beacon period in a mac distributed reservation protocol: A system (400), device (401), and method are provided for decentralized medium access control comprising periodic beacon (600) transmissions of all active devices in beacon slots (204) (302) (303), grouping such beacon slots (204) (302) (303) in at least one contiguous dynamic beacon period (301), and expanding or shrinking this... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259880 - Method of allocating uplink radio resources: A method of allocating uplink radio resources to a mobile device, in which uplink and downlink timeslots are allocated, and the sum of the allocated uplink timeslots and the allocated downlink timeslots within a predetermined period is less than the total number of assigned time slots and does not exceed... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080259889 - Communication method and system for terminal entering and leaving idle mode: A communication method and system for terminal entering and leaving idle mode in a mobile communication system are disclosed. The communication method for a terminal entering an idle mode includes: triggering a flow of entering the idle mode for the terminal; and a serving access service network gateway sending the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080259888 - Communications system and communication apparatus: Disclosed herein is a communications system that uses multiple transmission media, the system including: communications interface combining adapters connected via a power-line transmission path and a wireless transmission path between wireless LAN access points, each adapter having a power line communication interface and a wireless LAN interface, the wireless LAN... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080259882 - Determining a wlan regulatory domain: A mobile station is in a wireless local area network ‘WLAN’ environment and receives beacon frames that lack any WLAN regulatory information. The mobile station nonetheless determines a WLAN regulatory domain and configures the physical layer of its WLAN interface for operation in that WLAN regulatory domain.... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20080259885 - Dual mode device with mac address capture and pairing: Seamless connectivity by a user device between a licensed and an unlicensed network is provided through capturing of MAC address information relating to one or more access points servicing the licensed and/or the unlicensed networks. One or more access points can be chosen as a designated access point. If the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP C/o At&t Mobility Ii LLC

20080259884 - Ims network-based multimedia briefcase: A system for managing multimedia is provided. The system includes an IMS (Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem) network that has a media server and a Call Session Control Function (CSCF) server. The system includes a data store that is in communication with the IMS network. The system also includes an application... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080259883 - Method and system for client-driven channel management in wireless communication networks: A method and system for assigning channels to a plurality of access points (APs) of a wireless communication network is disclosed. The method includes obtaining first information regarding first interference experienced by a first client due to multiple APs being positioned in proximity of that client, and obtaining second information... Agent: Whyte Hischboeck Dudek S.c./warf

20080259881 - Method of testing the availability of a connection to a home authentication server prior to associating with a wlan access point: A method of determining availability of a connection between a wireless local area network and a home network of a mobile user device prior to initiating connection or authentication comprises selecting a network device; and sending a probe signaling message comprising a user device to the selected network device. The... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080259886 - Plain old telephony equivalent services supported via unlicensed mobile access: An access point (21) of an unlicensed mobile access network is provided with an analogue physical interface (26), arranged for communication with plain old telephony system—POTS—equipment (60). A converter (22) connected to the analogue physical interface (26) converts POTS signalling (65) into signalling (25) for a mobile communications system, and... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080259887 - Systems and methods for presenting multimedia objects in conjunction with voice calls from a circuit-switched network: The present invention provides systems and methods for presenting a multimedia object to a handset in conjunction with voice call from a circuit switched (CS) network. The voice call is delivered over the CS network and the multimedia object is delivered over a packet-switched (PS) network. The multimedia object can... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080259890 - Voip service threshold determination by home wireless router: A home wireless router establishes a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) that supports wireless communications within a WLAN service area. The home wireless router establishes broadband communications via a broadband connection with a VoIP service accumulator. The home wireless router services a plurality of wireless terminals within the WLAN service... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080259892 - Method for determining user channel impulse response in td-scdma system: The present invention discloses a method for determining user channel impulse response in the TD-SCDMA system, including: setting one or more than one synchronous ID code and establishing corresponding relations between channel estimation parameters of each user and the synchronous ID code and a sub-frame number of a sub-frame transmitting... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080259893 - Mobile terminal based on w-cdma system having receive diversity function and system thereof: A mobile terminal having a receive diversity function using a plurality of receive antennas, having a calculation section which combines respective level measurement results of the receive antennas and calculates a level measurement value after being combined as the level measurement result of the mobile terminal.... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080259891 - Multiple packet source acknowledgement: A multi-bit acknowledgement word (44) is prepared by a first communications station 22 (such as a base station) for separately acknowledging the success or failure of data packets received over plural communication channels (42) from respective plural second communication stations 28 (such as terminals). The acknowledgement word (44) is a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080259894 - Methods and apparatus for distributing and acquiring overhead flow data in a multi-frequency network: Methods and apparatus for distributing and acquiring overhead flow data in a multi-frequency network. In an aspect, a method includes generating primary flow (PF) overhead data associated with one or more multiplexes to be distributed in the multi-frequency network, identifying multiplex specific overhead (MSO) data associated with the one or... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080259899 - Apparatus and method for uplink scheduling considering characteristic of power amplifier in mobile communication terminal: An UpLink (UL) scheduling method and apparatus considering a characteristic of a power amplifier in a mobile communication terminal are provided. The UL scheduling method includes calculating a packet transmission time, which minimizes energy consumed in packet transmission, by using a Direct Current (DC) voltage used in a power amplifier... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080259896 - Device, method and protocol for private uwb ranging: An apparatus, system, method and computer program product for secure ranging between at least two devices in radio communications with each other. In particular, an apparatus, system, method and computer program product for secure ranging between at least two devices communicating via ultra wideband (UWB) protocols. Either ternary-IR or time-hope-IR... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080259898 - Method and apparatus for dynamic radio resource controlling: A method and a mobile terminal for communicating with a mobile network element (IWF) comprising communicating with a mobile network element (IWF) using a bearer that is modifiable by a negotiation between the mobile terminal (MS) and the mobile network element (IWF). The data is divided into data units (60)... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080259897 - Method and arrangement for wireless communication of signals in a mr system: A method and an arrangement for uni- or bidirectional wireless communication of signals or data especially in a reflective environment like a MR imaging system, between at least one first transmitter and/or receiver unit (501, 601, 701; T/R1) and at least one second transmitter and/or receiver unit (801; T/R2) is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259895 - System and method for an ultra wide-band medium access control distributed reservation protocol: A system (300), apparatus (301), and method are provided for decentralized medium access control comprising an enhanced protocol for UWB MAC that includes a distributed reservation protocol (DRP) for distributed reservation of the medium (310). The invention also relates to any wireless system (300) that uses a MAC protocol comprising... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259900 - Mobile wireless communcation system, base station, mobile terminal and random access control method used therefor: s

20080259901 - Adaptive coding and modulation for synchronous connections: A method for communication includes accepting input data from two or more data sources, one or more of which include continuous synchronous tributaries, for transmission over a wireless communication link having a variable data rate. Relative priorities are assigned to the respective data sources. A currently-available data rate of the... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Welsh & Katz

20080259903 - Error control method, medium access control (mac) frame designing method, and terminal registration method in wireless communication system, and recording medium: The MAC frame in a wireless communication system includes a terminal ID allocated to each of multiple terminals. At least one connection ID is allocated to each terminal having the terminal ID, and sub-carrier allocation information is allocated to each connection having the connection ID. The sub-carrier allocation information includes... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080259902 - Header compression and packet transmission method in sensor network and apparatus therefor: A header compression and packet transmission method in a sensor network and an apparatus therefor, for selecting technologies related to Internet Protocol (IP) header compression according to characteristics of each node, and processing the technologies. The header compression and packet transmission method and apparatus therefor distinguishes a node supporting the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080259904 - Apparatus and method of frame synchronization in broad band wireless communication systems: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of frame synchronization in broad band wireless communication systems. In an apparatus of frame synchronization in a mobile station, a time variant phase rotation compensator eliminates time variant phase rotation carried in received signals by conjugated multiplication between adjacent signal samples.... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080259905 - Base station synchronization for a single frequency network: Methods, apparatus and systems for generating and synchronizing a macro-diversity region transmitted by base stations in a network includes a receiving module configured to receive a plurality of packets of content data. A controller module coupled to the receiving module and configured to generate a macro-diversity region data that includes... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080259910 - Dynamic media content for collaborators with voip support for client communications: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for delivering dynamic media content to collaborators. Embodiments include providing collaborative event media content, wherein the collaborative event media content includes a grammar and a structured document; selecting a VOIP protocol for communications between a client and a dynamic context generation server;... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080259907 - Interworking between h.320/h.324 and sip: Disclosed are a method, apparatus and system for interworking between H.320 or H.324 and SIP. The method comprises receiving a SIP message indicative of capabilities supported by a first endpoint device and deferring responding to the SIP message. The method further comprises receiving from a second endpoint device an H.320... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080259908 - Location object proxy: The function of determination of location is separated from the function of gathering information based on determined location by use of a Location Object (LO) proxy between an initiating VoIP capable device and a positioning center. The LOProxy queries an appropriate location database using a location key, and injects a... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20080259909 - Signaling of early media capabilities in ims terminals: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for processing Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) INVITE messages that include an early media capability indicator. The early media capability indicator provides information regarding the early media handling capabilities of the device originating the message, and is used by various network nodes that process the INVITE... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080259906 - Targeted television advertisements based on online behavior: In a method for delivering targeted television advertisements based on online behavior, IP addresses indicating online access devices and IP addresses indicating television set-top boxes are electronically associated for a multitude of users. Using user profile information derived from online activity from one of the online access IP addresses, a... Agent: Louis J. Hoffman, P.C.

20080259912 - Assisted wireless transmit/receive unit paging and call session routing: A method and apparatus are disclosed for communicating with a Wireless Transmit/Receive Unit in wireless communications. The WTRU, capable of communicating in a 3GPP network and a non-3GPP network, receives messages with the assistance of the non-3GPP network through a Paging Entity.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080259911 - Methods and apparatus for distributing and acquiring overhead flow data in a multi-frequency network: Methods and apparatus for distributing and acquiring overhead flow data in a multi-frequency network. In an aspect, a method includes generating initial acquisition flows (IAFs) that describe how content multiplexes are distributed in the multi-frequency network and provide flow identifiers for overhead flows associated with the content multiplexes, and transmitting... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080259913 - Achieving super-fast convergence of downstream multicast traffic when forwarding connectivity changes between access and distribution switches: In one embodiment a switch has active and standby LAYER 2 switch interfaces coupled, respectively, to device interfaces of first and second LAYER 2/LAYER 3 network devices. The active switch interface is configured to forward all egress traffic and accept all ingress traffic and the standby switch interface is configured... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20080259914 - Secondary protection approach for power switching applications: An apparatus and method for providing a primary and a secondary protection to a load in a power switching application uses an electronic circuit breaker to selectively permit a flow of current from an input to a load. The circuit breaker comprises a plurality of first switches coupled in parallel,... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20080259915 - Communication module having a communication interface element and communication interface element: A communication interface element for a communication module is provided, which module contains a message memory and a first data path to and from the message memory via which data and/or messages are transmitted to and from the message memory. The communication interface element provides an additional, second data path... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080259918 - Method and apparatus for managing telephone calls: A system and method for managing telephone calls is disclosed. The system includes a central controller that receives and processes telephone calls. The identity of a caller is first determined. Based on predetermined settings designated by an end user, a call is directed to one or more telephones of the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080259919 - Method for dynamic sensor network processing: Described are a method and a sensor aware network for dynamic processing of sensor data. Network context data are inserted into data packets from sensors or local sensor networks coupled to the sensor aware network. Sensor aware nodes in the sensor aware network can read the context data and can... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20080259916 - Opportunistic queueing injection strategy for network load balancing: Embodiments of the invention include a method, system, and article of manufacture that provide opportunistic queuing injection strategy used for data communication between nodes of a parallel computer system. A message may be encapsulated into a set of data packets. When the packets are sent, an opportunistic injection queue may... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080259917 - System and method for improved ethernet load balancing: A system for Ethernet load balancing includes a bus interface configured to couple to a device driver and to receive transmit packages for transmission over an Ethernet network. A descriptor processor direct memory access (DMA) scheduler (DPDS) couples to the bus interface and comprises a port list. A plurality of... Agent: Ibm Corporation (pec) C/o Patrick E. Caldwell, Esq.

20080259920 - Method and apparatus for establishing virtual resilient packet ring (rpr) subrings over a common communications path: A method and corresponding apparatus allows multiple virtual switches in a physical switch to share one physical Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) in an RPR network. Modules in the multiple virtual switches add multicast information to traffic to direct the traffic along a common path to other physical switches on the... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080259921 - System and method for multi-rate video delivery using multicast stream: Systems and methods for multi-rate media data delivery using multiple IP multicast streams are provided. According to example embodiments disclosed herein, the method may include determining a plurality of stream bit rates based on a plurality of demanded bit rates of a plurality of output media data streams and a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080259925 - Extensions to ipv6 neighbor discovery protocol for automated prefix delegation: In one embodiment, a method comprises detecting, by a router, a first router advertisement message from an attachment router that provides an attachment link used by the router, the first router advertisement message specifying a first IPv6 address prefix owned by the attachment router and usable for address autoconfiguration on... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20080259923 - Forwarding data in a data communication network: An apparatus for forwarding data in a data communications network having as components nodes and links therebetween is described. The apparatus is arranged to forward data towards a destination on a label switched path and advertise in a label advertisement to nodes in the network in a label advertisement its... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080259922 - Intersection-based configuration management: A configuration management system and related methods are provided to facilitate intersection-based management of configuration information for network devices. In one example, a method includes polling a plurality of network devices to determine address entries stored by address tables of the network devices. The method also includes applying a hash... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080259924 - Marked packet forwarding: A network, network devices, and methods are described for marked packet forwarding. A network device includes a network chip having a number of network ports for receiving and transmitting packets. The network chip includes logic to decapsulate a packet received from a tunnel, mark the packet with a handle associated... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080259927 - Information dissemination method and system having minimal network bandwidth utilization: An information disseminating apparatus that transmits information between nodes of a network while expending minimal or no network bandwidth for transmitting the information. The apparatus can include a message processor that generates or receives a message to be transmitted from a first note to a second node in the network,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259928 - Method and apparatus for out-of-order processing of packets using linked lists: These and other aspects of the present invention will be better described with reference to the Detailed Description and the accompanying figures. A method and apparatus for out-of-order processing of packets using linked lists is described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving packets in a global order, the packets... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080259926 - Parsing out of order data packets at a content gateway of a network: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a local node of a network, a sequenced data packet of a flow made up of multiple sequenced data packets from a source node directed toward a destination node. The flow is to be parsed by the local node to describe the... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20080259929 - Secure one-way data transfer system using network interface circuitry: Network interface circuitry for a secure one-way data transfer from a sender's computer (“Send Node”) to a receiver's computer (“Receive Node”) over a data link, such as an optical fiber or shielded twisted pair copper wire communication cable, comprising send-only network interface circuitry for transmitting data from the Send Node... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20080259930 - Message flow model of interactions between distributed services: A computer-implementable method, system and computer-usable medium for defining a message flow model of interactions between distributed services are presented. In a preferred embodiment, the method includes the steps of: capturing unidirectional network-level message traffic between services in a network; identifying service end-points from information obtained from the uni-directional network-level... Agent: Law Office Of Jim Boice

20080259931 - Method and apparatus for reserving network resources for pseudo point-to-point connections: c

20080259933 - Path controller, path control method, and program therefor: A path controller 10 creates a logical tree LT having a plurality of member trees MT1 and MT2 within a routing table 52 at the time of initial setting. Direct tables DT1 and DT2 for the member trees MT1 and MT2 have the same DT entries (root). Unlike a conventional... Agent: Ibm Coporation (rtp) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080259932 - Method and system for facilitating a first and second protocol between a data processing system and an isp: An access unit (25) for configuring a first and second network-layer protocol for use over the point-to-point link and to facilitate communication between an Internet Service Provider (ISP) (20) and a data processing system (12) over the link. The data processing system (12) includes a first 28(1) and second protocol... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080259934 - Distributed virtual system to support managed, network-based services: Methods and systems are provided for allocating network resources of a distributed virtual system to support managed, network-based services. According to one embodiment, a VR-based switch having multiple processing elements is configured for operation at an Internet POP. An NOS is provided on each of the processing elements. Resources of... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20080259935 - Method and network for transferring data and signals: In a method and network for transferring data and signals between terminal equipment via one or more switching stations, the data and digitized signals are combined in cells, with each cell having a header in which connection information is contained that designates a transmission or routing target. The terminal equipment... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080259936 - Service processing switch: A system and method for providing IP services. A packet is received at a line interface/network module and forwarded to a virtual routing engine The virtual routing engine determines if the packet requires processing by a virtual services engine. If the packet requires processing by the virtual services engine, the... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20080259937 - Circuit arrangement and method for the analysis of a network: According to one aspect a network analyzer is configured such that destination addresses are allocated to measured quality-of-service values in network transfer units. Addresses of network nodes which do not meet the expected quality of service values are determined in a central network management system. An adequate quality-of-service can be... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080259940 - Method and apparatus for peer-to-peer connection assistance: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for assisting a peer-to-peer connection between a first node and a second node includes receiving, at a third node, a request for connection assistance from one of the first and second nodes. The third node then connects to both the first node... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080259939 - Method for distributing resources to network nodes in a decentralized data network: A method is disclosed for distribution of resources to network nodes in a decentralized data network. In at least one embodiment of the method keywords, which are allocated to digital resources, are mapped onto digital bit sequences. These bit sequences are modified, with the subsequent bits after a predetermined bit... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080259938 - Session announcement system and method: A cluster system and method. The cluster includes a first and a second interface and two or more nodes, wherein each node is connected to the first and second interfaces, wherein exactly one node includes a first redirector and wherein exactly one node includes a second redirector. The first and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080259942 - Arrangements for providing peer-to-peer communications in a public land mobile network: A node (200) for routing Peer-to-Peer, P2P, communication between subscribers in a public land mobile network, PLMN, adapted to be located as a gateway between the packet switched domain of the PLMN and an external Packet Data Network, PDN, comprising a routing functionality for routing messages between the packet switched... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080259943 - Ip communication apparatus and nat type determination method by the same: In a NAT type determination method pursuant to RFC 3489, address information added in a binding response from a STUN server in response to a binding request issued in a latest transmission test is compared with address information added in a binding response in response to any transmission test executed... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080259944 - Method and apparatus of providing resource allocation and admission control support in a vpn: Method and apparatus for effectively supporting resource allocation and admission control of a Virtual Private Network in a service provider network.... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20080259941 - System and apparatus for managing ip addresses: A system and apparatus for managing IP addresses is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a gateway having a controller element to receive a block of IP addresses from a dynamic host configuration protocol server. Additional embodiments are disclosed.... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080259945 - Communication circuit for a vehicle: A communication circuit for use within a vehicle includes a first network port and a second network port that is remotely located from the first network port. The networks are digitally connected together and digitally communicate a signal therebetween. The communication circuit is used between two or more coupled train... Agent: Franz Bonsang C/o Equinox Protection

20080259946 - Vehicle network system: A vehicle network system is provided with a plurality of star networks, a plurality of devices mounted on a vehicle are connected in a star shape through respective branch lines in each of the star networks, and a trunk line for connecting the plurality of star networks, the branch lines... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259947 - Method and system for high-concurrency and reduced latency queue processing in networks: The method further comprises processing a grant of a scheduling request, an acknowledgement of a speculation request or a negative acknowledgement of a speculation request. Grants and speculation responses can be processed concurrently to reduce operation count and latency. A queue controller allows request queues to be dequeued concurrently on... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080259948 - System and method for operating a communications system: A method (500, 600) is provided of operating a local transceiver (300), comprising: setting the local transceiver into an operational mode; operating the local transceiver in a polling mode (520); receiving a quiescent begin indicator identifying a beginning of a quiescent mode (520); setting a portion of the local transceiver... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080259949 - Data processing circuit wherein data processing units communicate via a network: Data is processed in a circuit that contains a plurality of data processing units interconnected by a network of node circuits. The node circuits use resources on a time slot multiplexing basis. Stream are started between source data processing units and destination data processing units. Each stream contains messages that... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259950 - Method for the transmission and reception of data contents in a communications network, corresponding computer program product, storage means and devices: Each node of the network implements a second clocking which defines a second cycle, called a local cycle, for data transmission between the node of the network and its associated application, the network cycle being equal to an integer multiple P, P≧1, of the local cycle, the start of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080259951 - Method and apparatus for unplanned and uninterrupted network adapter replacement: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for dynamically replacing a network adapter with minimal or no communications downtime. When a notification to replace a first network adapter is received, the process in the illustrative embodiments detects a replacement network adapter and a network interface corresponding... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080259952 - Point-to-point protocol data transmission: Methods for transmitting data according to point-to-point protocols from first devices (1) to second devices (2) via logical links (3) transmit (52) requests comprising specifications for specifying said data from second devices (2) to first devices (1) and transmit (55) responses comprising said data from first devices (1) to second... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259953 - Method, system, and storage medium for providing continuous communication between process equipment and an automated material handling system: A system and storage medium for providing continuous communication between passive and active equipment are provided. The system includes a conversion unit coupled to at least one the passive and active equipment, which monitors signals received from the equipment. The signals relate to an equipment state. Upon detecting a state... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20080259955 - Memory-efficient adsl transmission in the presence of tcm-isdn interferers: A method of communicating data across a channel that experiences near-end cross talk (NEXT) interference and far-end cross talk (FEXT) interference in alternate intervals. In one embodiment, a first data rate is determined for a first carrier-number mode that is to utilize a first bit table, a second data rate... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080259954 - Method and systems for bandwidth scheduling and path computation for connection-oriented networks: A connection-oriented network includes a control server. The control server receives requests to establish and utilize dedicated channels in the network. The control server utilizes various scheduling methods and algorithms to determine channels based on the request's requirements and resources of the network. For example, the control server may determine... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP

20080259956 - Data processing method for network layer: The present invention discloses a data processing method for network layer in a home network system (1) based on a living network control protocol. The data processing method for network layer based on a protocol, that is composed of at least a physical layer, a data link layer, a network... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080259957 - Mac to phy interface apparatus and methods for transmission of packets through a communications network: A system for serving an individual node in a shared communication network having a MAC layer and a PHY layer, the system being operative to interface between the MAC layer and the PHY layer. The system may include a first physical channel transferring at least one packet between the layers,... Agent: Weiss & Arons, LLP

20080259958 - High speed industrial control and data acquistion system and method: A high speed industrial control system and data acquisition system and method are disclosed that enable high speed data transmission rates from an control system to a remote client application. In one embodiment, the system includes a first processor, a second processor, an open-socket interface, and a client application. The... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(fy)

20080259959 - Method for carrying frame relay over ethernet: A method for carrying Frame Relay over Ethernet comprises: receiving a Frame Relay frame, and removing header and tail flag sequences from the Frame Relay frame; determining a control word and performing payload encapsulation; mapping a DLCI to a VCE ID and encapsulating the VCE ID; encapsulating an Ethernet frame... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080259960 - Method and apparatus for out-of-order processing of packets: A method and apparatus for out-of-order processing of packets are described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving packets in a global order, the packets being designated for different ones of a plurality of reorder contexts. The method also includes, for each of the plurality of reorder contexts, assigning reorder... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080259961 - Data unit relay device and method of controlling the same: A method of controlling a data unit relay device is described, applied to a relay ARQ protocol in accordance with which a source peer sends data units to a destination peer via at least one relay peer. The relay ARQ protocol provides for a first type and second type of... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080259962 - Contents reproducing apparatus: A contents reproducing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a plurality of packets that convey an elementary stream containing encoded video or audio data and time information, a detecting unit configured to detect a discontinuity of timebase if the difference between first time information contained in a first... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080259963 - Systems and methods for switching multi-rate communications: A method for switching multi-rate communications is described. The method includes filling a first set of p timeslots with p sets of data from a first data collection of a first type, where the first data collection includes m sets of data and p is less than m. The method... Agent: The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080259964 - Communication processing device, communication control method, and computer program: A configuration is provided that performs retransmission control in accordance with a processing state in which playback of received data is performed or a processing state in which playback and recording of the received data is performed. When a communication processing apparatus receives streaming data, the communication processing apparatus is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080259967 - Method and arrangement for transmitting time stamp information: The invention relates to transmitting time information between elements of a data network. In the present invention, it has surprisingly been discovered that in a network transmitting packet, frame or cell switched data traffic, time stamp information can be transmitted from a network element (101) to another network element (102)... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080259965 - Receiving data comprising synchronization information: A method receives data including synchronization information. The method includes obtaining a synchronization for receiving the data based on the synchronization information. The method includes generating, during receiving of the data, maintenance information indicative of whether the synchronization is being maintained based on the synchronization information. The method includes continuing,... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080259966 - Synchronization of one or more source rtp streams at multiple receiver destinations: In one embodiment, a method includes synchronizing to a common reference timeframe between a sender node and a plurality of receiver nodes connected over a packet-based network. The sender node sends Real-Time Protocol (RTP) frames to the receiver nodes, and also sends a RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) sender report to... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080259968 - Differential quadrature phase-shift keying transmission system with variable transmission rate: Methods and apparatus for varying the transmission rate of a signal transmitted within a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) system or network are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method includes obtaining a first signal and determining a transmission rate associated with the first. If it... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20080259784 - Failure notification in a network having serially connected nodes: Multicast capabilities of a link state protocol controlled network are used to accelerate the flooding advertisement of topology change notifications within portions of the network. This flooding mechanism may be particularly efficient in a network with a large number of two-connected nodes such as a ring network architecture. A control... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras, LLP Attn: John C. Gorecki

20080259785 - Link adaptation: The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for adapting a transmission parameter in a transmitting node of a data communication system to the current link quality of a data communication channel. The adapted transmission parameter is selected by the transmitting node from a set of transmission parameters in dependence... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080259786 - System and method for supporting sdh/sonet aps on ethernet: An Ethernet PHY hardware device supports Ethernet MAC SDH/SONET Automatic Protection Switching (APS) functionality for managing protection from failures and recovery from failures on an Ethernet network. An Ethernet PHY sublayer stored on the Ethernet PHY hardware device is configured to monitor working and protect channels and generate an interrupt... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20080259787 - Backup cell controller: A wireless local area network for data communications between a computer and mobile units is provided with at least two cell controllers connected to the computer and one or more rf ports each connected to a primary interface of one cell controller and to a backup interface of another cell... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080259788 - Method for routing mobile node in wireless mesh network and a communication system thereof: A wireless mesh network includes several mesh networks and the wireless mesh network access points to which the mesh networks belong. A method establishing backbone routing and network tolopogy among each wireless mesh network access points, selecting one said wireless mesh network access point as a location inquiry sever for... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080259789 - Method and apparatus for re-establishing anonymous data transfers: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for re-establishing anonymous data transfers between a first endpoint and a second endpoint in a network includes receiving, from a first node, the identity of a second node connected to the first node, where at least the first node is a neighbor... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080259791 - Method and apparatus for normalizing service level agreements in a network: This disclosure provides a method and apparatus for normalizing service level agreements across entire networks. By utilizing a new parameter called the virtual call count, a wholesale network provider can monitor a variety of related network status indications and provide to their customers increased insight into the nature of the... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080259790 - Reliable and resilient end-to-end connectivity for heterogeneous networks: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to connectivity management in a heterogeneous network and provide a method, system and computer program product for resilient and reliable end-to-end connectivity in a heterogeneous network. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for resilient and reliable... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080259793 - Network traffic control in peer-to-peer environments: A method and an electronic unit are disclosed for controlling traffic on a network, especially for controlling peer-to-peer related traffic. A filter unit is intercepting messages related to peer-to-peer application from a network line, irrespective of the messages' destination, A control logic then manages a request represented by an intercepted... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080259792 - Packet shaping for mixed rate 802.11 wireless networks: A method of shaping data packet transmissions by nodes in a wireless network is presented. Each node sets a maximum limit for MAC service data unit size based on data rate so that maximum transmission times for data packet transmissions by all of the nodes are approximately the same.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080259794 - Apparatus and method for providing end-to-end qos guarantee within service network: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and a method for providing end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) guarantee within the service network. The apparatus is implemented by a Service Resource Monitor/Manager (SRM), and includes a service processing unit and a resource management unit. The method includes: configuring an SRM within the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080259795 - Automatic connectivity adaptation of packet traffic in a transport network: A method for automatic adaptation of connectivity by means of virtual concatenation groups of packet traffic in a circuit switched transport network in which an estimate of the packet traffic is made and the band available between packet interfaces which engage the transport network is increased or decreased by creation... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080259796 - Method and apparatus for network-adaptive video coding: Methods and devices for a media processing is provided. In one respect, the methods can provide initiating a bandwidth throttle or a frame rate throttle when resources of a network exceed resources of client device. The methods of the present disclosure may also provide techniques for handling lost packets during... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20080259801 - Apparatus and method for controlling reverse-link data transmission rate during handoff: Method and apparatus for controlling data transmission rate in a wireless communication system during handoff comprises a terminal recognizing an active set comprising a serving base station and at least one non-serving base station with respect to the terminal communicating with the network at a first data transmission rate, receiving... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080259798 - Flow and congestion control in switch architectures for multi-hop, memory efficient fabrics: A shared memory switch and switch fabric architecture are described which employ partitions of the shared memory to implement multiple, independent virtual congestion domains, thereby allowing congestion to be handled for different classes of traffic independently.... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080259802 - Frequency domain packet scheduling under fractional load: Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement frequency domain packet scheduling in a fractional load situation by detecting a fractional load situation in a wireless communications network; receiving information indicative of signal conditions in a cell; using the information indicative of signal conditions in the cell to determine physical resource... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080259797 - Load-balancing bridge cluster for network nodes: A network load-balancing cluster configured to function as a transparent bridge, by connecting the load-balancing nodes in series rather than in parallel, as is done in prior-art configurations. A load-balancing algorithm and method are disclosed, by which each node in the configuration independently determines whether to process a data packet... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080259800 - Method and system for correlating streams within a packet network: A method and system for correlating data streams within a packet network. The method relies on independently selecting the same packets as reference packets at different places and times within the network. Once selected, the data contained in a given reference packet is utilized to generate a unique tag for... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080259799 - Packet scheduling with quality-aware frame dropping for video streaming: The embodiments of the invention relate to video streaming, particularly to quality-aware adaptive and selective transmissions. The embodiments of the present invention provide for a set of scheduling patterns to be evaluated, and from such set determine the target scheduling pattern that is calculated to provide the least distortion increment... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, PC

20080259803 - Method and apparatus for adaptive bandwidth control with a bandwidth guarantee: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to monitor transmission of data to target. A determination is made as to whether the transmission of the data exceeds a threshold. The bandwidth used to transmit the data to the target is controlled using an adaptive bandwidth control process... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080259804 - Device and methods for increasing wireless connection speeds: Various embodiments include wireless client device comprising an application subsystem including a processor and a storage device coupled to the processor, a communication subsystem coupled to the application subsystem, the communication subsystem including a media access control (MAC) device and a physical (PHY) device, wherein the physical device is operably... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080259805 - Method and apparatus for managing networks across multiple domains: A method and apparatus for managing networks across multiple domains are disclosed. For example, the method stores a mapping table that correlates one or more Customer Edge Routers (CERs) with one or more Route Processing Modules (RPMs) in at least one seed-file distributor, where each of the one or more... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Suite 100

20080259808 - Method for detecting an available/unavailable state of packet transport network: A method for detecting an available/unavailable state of a packet transport network, includes the steps of: in the packet transport network, detecting a severely errored second (SES) using performance parameters of the packet transport network, and detecting an available/unavailable time with the SES as a reference, and thus providing a... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080259807 - Method, system and maintenance point for controlling continuity check of ethernet link: A method, system and maintenance point is provided to control the continuity check for the Ethernet links. The method includes: starting to send a continuity check message carrying exit check information to a sink end maintenance point of the link when a source end maintenance point of the link receives... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080259806 - Signature matching methods and apparatus for performing network diagnostics: A system for identifying problems in networks receives test data which may include statistical information regarding packet loss on a path. The system creates a signature from the test data and compares the signature to example signatures corresponding to various network conditions. The system identifies one or more of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080259810 - Broadband service applications test tool: A broadband internet system comprises a speed test tool, a database, and an internet portal. The speed test tool determines available bandwidth for a communication link. The database stores the available bandwidth for the communication link from the speed test tool. The internet portal offers a service to the customer... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080259812 - Dimensioning methods for hsdpa traffic: A method for determining the capacity that is needed on an lub link to fulfill Grade of Service (GoS) requirements in a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) for both Dedicated Channel (DCH) traffic and High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) traffic, the method comprising the steps... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080259814 - Method and apparatus for adjusting value of statistic parameter: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for adjusting the value of the statistic parameter so as to enable an MGC dynamically adjust the statistic parameter under H.248 framework. The method extends the H.248 protocol. The MGC sends adjustment information to the MG. The MG adjusts the value... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080259813 - Method and apparatus for quality of service determination: A method of estimating bandwidth capacity, available bandwidth and utilization along a path in an IP network is disclosed. ICMP time-stamp requests are sent from a source host on the edge or inside the network to all routers on the end-to-end path to a desired destination. Differences between time-stamp values... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080259809 - Performance measurement in a packet transmission network: A data packet transmission network comprises a stream of packets of data sent by a first terminal passes in transit through at least one network equipment with which there is associated a stream measurement unit; wherein said first terminal and said measurement unit are connected to a collection unit. The... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080259811 - Spectrum measurement management for dynamic spectrum access wireless systems: A wireless system (100) and method (401-403) includes a medium access control (MAC) layer adapted to request and receive measurement reports from wireless devices (102) operating in restricted channels.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259819 - Automatic device detection and configuration in a network-aware print fulfillment engine: Disclosed is a system and method for automatically detecting the topology of output devices present in a network, and for automatically configuring those output devices for outputting a specific media type. One or more network devices are present in a computer network environment configured for processing orders for physical and/or... Agent: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP Attn: Gregory M Stone

20080259818 - Home-to-home delivery of media content via cable: A residential services gateway operating within a networked home setting that is enabled by a Strings software program to obtain, view, and/or repurpose content obtained from within the networked home setting or exterior of the networked home setting.... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080259817 - Media access control (mac) address management system and method: A media access control (MAC) address management system, comprises logic configured to generate a MAC address for at least one network device of a computing device based on a MAC address of another network device of the computing device.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080259815 - System and method of mapping and analyzing vulnerabilities in networks: Systems and methods for mapping and analyzing vulnerabilities in networks. In one embodiment, a network is mapped, comprising: converting network line data into point data; associating the point data with cells of a grid overlaying the network; and analyzing the network by determining the relationship of the point data to... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080259816 - Validating a cabling topology in a distributed computing system: Validating a cabling topology in a distributed computing system comprised of cabled nodes connected using data communications cables, each cabled node characterized by cabling dimensions, each cable corresponding to one of the cabling dimensions, includes: receiving a selection from a user of at least one cabled node for topology validation;... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080259820 - Creating non-transit nodes in a link state network: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first link state initiation (HELLO) message from a first neighboring router. The HELLO message requests that a recipient node send a unique identifier for itself in a link state routing protocol. In response to receiving the first HELLO message, a first response... Agent: Eugene Molinelli Evans & Molinelli PLLC

20080259821 - Dynamic packet training: A packet control mechanism for a computer data system that dynamically adjusts packet training depending on the utilization load on the processor. The dynamic adjustment of packet training can be to enable and disable packet training, or adjust the number of packets in the packet train. In preferred embodiments, the... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080259822 - Dynamic packet training: A packet control mechanism for a computer data system that dynamically adjusts packet training depending on the utilization load on the processor. The dynamic adjustment of packet training can be to enable and disable packet training, or adjust the number of packets in the packet train. In preferred embodiments, the... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080259823 - Efficient error response in a video conferencing system: Elements in a video conferencing system may respond to error message(s) by aggregating any related error messages and responding based on a severity of the error indicated by the related error messages. A multipoint control unit (MCU) may identify an active stream from a first endpoint and forward the active... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080259824 - Identity-based conferencing systems and methods: Described in this paper are systems and methods of providing conferencing services where a conference participant is identified by the conferencing system when calling into the system. The system and methods focus on individual users instead of groups of participants. Instead of using a conference identity as the driver, embodiments... Agent: Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP

20080259825 - Method and apparatus for performing jrnso in fdd, tdd and mimo communications: A method and apparatus for performing Joint Randomness Not Shared by Others (JRNSO) is disclosed. In one embodiment, JRNSO is determined in Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) using a baseband signal loop back and private pilots. In another embodiment, JRNSO is determined in Time Division Duplex (TDD) using a baseband signal... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080259826 - System for coordination of communication within and between cells in a wireless access system and method of operation: Apparatus, and an associated method, for providing WLAN (wireless local area network) service through a fixed wireless access communication system. WLAN transceivers are fixed in position at subscriber stations of the fixed wireless access communication system. Each WLAN transceiver defines a coverage area. Through appropriate positioning of the WLAN transceivers... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080259827 - Communication system using frequency according to security or transmission distance: A communication system using a frequency determined according to information security protection or a transmission distance of a signal is provided. A local area communication requiring information security protection uses a frequency less than a predetermined frequency, and a local or wide area communication requiring no information security protection uses... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080259828 - Method and apparatus for reducing timestamp noise in audio echo cancellation: A communication end device of a two-way communication system is shown. The device includes an audio signal capture device for capturing local audio to be transmitted to another end device, an audio signal rendering device for playing remote audio received from the other end device, and buffers for buffering the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080259834 - Cross-layer optimization method for controlling bit rate of video codec in transmission of video data in wibro system: A cross-layer optimization method for controlling a bit rate of a video coder/decoder (codec) in video data transmission for wireless devices such as a wireless broadband (WiBro) system terminal that adapts to changing transmission/reception characteristics and usage. The method typically includes checking, by a sender, radio channel state information of... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080259833 - Method and apparatus for controlling data transmission in a wireless communication system: Techniques for controlling data transmission are described. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) determines whether to send a packet based on available transmit power. The UE determines a first packet size based on the available transmit power and sends a packet of the first packet size if it is... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080259832 - Method and apparatus for improving reordering functionality in a wireless communications system: A method for improving a reordering functionality in a wireless communications system comprises configuring a reset timer, utilized for controlling the reset of a reordering functionality of a protocol entity, reassembling all received protocol data units in the protocol entity with previously stored protocol data unit segments, and discarding all... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080259829 - Personal area network systems and devices and methods for use thereof: Systems and methods are provided for interfacing wireless communications between two devices such that a device devoid of a relatively long-range communications protocol can access that protocol. This may be accomplished by providing a host device having relatively short-range communications circuitry integrated therein, which circuitry may be operative to communicate... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080259831 - System and process for internet protocol multimedia subsystem centralized service with enhanced unstructured supplementary service: A method of handling Service Data initiated by a wireless network for a mobile station, the mobile station configured to operate in a circuit-switched network and a packet-switched network, includes registering a Circuit Switched Access Adaptation Function in the mobile station for Supplementary Service, and sending a Service Data message... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20080259830 - Wireless communication system, information and communication terminal, portable telephone, reader/writer, communication method and computer program: There is provided a wireless communication system that includes two information communication terminals with built-in IC chips engaged in alternating wireless communication with each other through noncontact communication, wherein one of the information communication terminals includes a reception unit that receives a packet originating from the other information communication terminal,... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080259837 - Communication in dual protocol environments: A communication device (1) comprising: a first communication system (4) for transmitting and/or receiving signals according to a first protocol; a second communication system (3) for transmitting and receiving signals according to a second protocol, the second protocol having the facility that a receiver (3) can indicate to a transmitter... Agent: Novak Druce Deluca + Quigg LLP

20080259835 - Locating content in broadband wireless access networks: In some embodiments, only one multicast connection identifier is used in a WiMAX network per zone. This may result in power savings because it is not necessary for the mobile station to query a base station to obtain the correct information about how to locate desired channels in a WiMAX... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080259836 - Power saving function for wireless lans: methods, system and program products: A wireless data communication system has a first station or mobile unit is linked to a second station configured as an access unit to support packet communication, voice or data, where the voice packets are transmitted in the Continuously Aware Mode (CAM) mode while other packets are buffered by the... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080259838 - Method and device for inverse multiplexing of multicast transmission: A stream of multicast messages is forwarded through a network to a plurality of subscriber devices (18). The stream is inverse multiplexed and transmitted distributed over a plurality of communication channels (14). A plurality of inverse demultiplexers (16) is provided, to reassemble a plurality of copies of the stream from... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080259839 - Redundant wireless base station: In a redundant wireless base station, a redundancy parameter solicitation is sent by a first baseband processing unit via a multicast to a local area network including at least a second baseband processing unit. Advertised redundancy parameters are received via a multicast to the local area network from the second... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080259840 - Relay station, base station, relay method, transmission method, and computer readable medium thereof for use in a multi-hop network: A relay station (RS), a relay method, a base station (BS), a transmission method, and a computer readable medium thereof are provided. The BS is configure to generate a DL-R-MAP for the BS and a first frame according to a resource usage status of the multi-hop network, and transmit the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080259848 - Communication node and communication control method: A technique is disclosed whereby, in the case of wherein a communication node includes both a mobility management function and a multihoming function, based on a condition that occurs due to moving, an appropriate address can be selected from multiple addresses in a multihomed state. According to the technique, a... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080259846 - Cooperative transceiving between wireless interface devices of a host device: A circuit includes a first wireless interface circuit that transceives packetized data with a first external device in accordance with a first wireless communication protocol. A second wireless interface circuit transceives packetized data with a second external device in accordance with a second wireless communication protocol and wherein the operation... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080259847 - Coordinated beacon period (bp) mergins for distributed wireless networks: The application describes a method to merge two wireless networks in which each terminal gets a beacon slot within the beacon period. In order to merge two networks, the beacon slots have to be time-coordinated such that the beacon slots of the first network are completed before the beacon slots... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259849 - Macro-diversity region rate modification: A system including a buffer to receive and store a stream of content data. A controller module may be configured to determine the macro-diversity region size based on a set of pre-selected configuration parameters including an incoming rate of the content data and to allocate at least a portion of... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080259843 - Method and apparatus for user equipment for long term evolution multimedia broadcast multicast services: A user equipment is provided that includes a processor programmed responsive to receiving a point-to-multipoint (PTM) broadcast of a service at a low quality, to request a point-to-point (PTP) communication from the network. A method is provided for user equipment to receive a service. The method includes receiving a point-to-multipoint... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080259845 - Method and system for supporting multi mesh operation modes using single wi-fi interfacing: A wireless-fidelity (Wi-Fi) interfacing method and a Wi-Fi interfacing system are provided. The Wi-Fi interfacing method includes: determining an interfacing operation mode related to a received packet, in interoperation with the receiving of the packet; and processing the packet via a single Wi-Fi interface, according to the determined interfacing operation... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080259850 - Method for realizing mobile ip management and the network system thereof: A method for realizing mobile IP management includes: a mobile node (MN) sends a mobility registration signal to a mobility control (MC) entity in a control function entity of the transmission layer of the network; a home mobility control entity of the mobile node registers the mobile node, returns a... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080259842 - Multicast control channel design: A system for providing a multicast control channel (MCCH) including information related to a service is provided. The system includes a processor programmed to promote transmission of a MCCH including a multi-cell information portion that contains information common to a plurality of cells in a wireless telecommunications network, and a... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080259844 - Over the air microcontroller flash memory updates: Techniques for over the air (OTA) microcontroller flash memory updates using a wireless network are disclosed herein. A control node first transmits the microcontroller flash memory update to all devices that can receive the message. Each packet of the message is relayed through multiple communication levels until all devices receive... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080259841 - Subscription aggregation and load balancing in a broadband router: In one embodiment, a bandwidth aggregation router is provided including a wireless broadband modem interface for communicating with a wireless network, a wired wide area network interface, and a processor configured to aggregate bandwidth from the wireless broadband modem interface and the wired wide area network interface. The router may... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080259856 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing dynamic sharing of resources between uplink and downlink allocations for separately coded users: Apparatus, methods and computer program products operate an electronic device to generate downlink allocation information and uplink allocation to be signaled to other electronic devices operative in a wireless communications system; and to operate radio apparatus to signal the downlink allocation information and uplink allocation information in a control channel,... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080259855 - Auxiliary ack channel feedback for control channels and broadcast multicast signals: A method for providing an assignment acknowledgement includes receiving a forward link overhead channel message at an access terminal (AT), the overhead channel message including parameters used to indicate which shared control channel (SCCH) message data blocks are to be acknowledged by the AT and the timing for transmitting the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080259854 - Communication terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and resource assigning method: A communication terminal apparatus of wireless communication system wherein the data amount of report values is reduced and the accuracy of the report values is enhanced in OFDM wireless communication. In a communication terminal apparatus (200), a reception quality measuring part (206) measures, based on information outputted from a demodulating... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080259865 - Handling traffic flows in a mobile communications network: A method includes receiving a request for establishing a communication pathway end-to-end over a network. The communication pathway includes a radio communication channel and a packet communication channel. The request identifies a plurality of traffic flows to be carried by the communication pathway and quality-of-service attributes associated with the traffic... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080259863 - Method for configuring channel and carrier resources for multi-carrier high speed downlink packet access: A channel for multicarrier high speed downlink packet access and a method for allocating the carrier resource include: the wireless network controller configures the multicarrier high speed downlink packet access resource of a multicarrier cell, the multicarrier high speed downlink packet access resource includes the high speed physical downlink shared... Agent: Walker & Jocke, L.p.a.

20080259862 - Method for scheduling in mobile communication and apparatus thereof: The present invention relates to a scheduling device and method of a mobile communication system. In the packet scheduling method, a base station performs packet scheduling for a terminal station in a mobile communication system, and a transport channel comprising an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) and a physical channel comprising... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080259857 - Method, system and apparatus for implementing bandwidth allocation based on a relay station: The present invention relates to a method, a system and an apparatus for implementing bandwidth allocation and scheduling management based on a relay station. A mapping information unit for controlling a RS (MAPRS) is set in a frame structure of the physical layer of a BS and an extended frame... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080259858 - Methods and apparatus for distributing content in a multi-frequency network: Methods and apparatus for distributing content in a multi-frequency network. A method includes combining service overheads with a content multiplex to generate service layer multiplexes, determining regions of the multi-frequency network where a service layer multiplex is to be distributed, combining distribution overheads with the service layer multiplex to generate... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080259852 - Mobility manager: A mobility manager provides mobility management of mobile nodes, which have subscribed to an applications server for a communications service. The applications server is arranged to control a level of a service in accordance with bandwidth allocated to the applications server for the mobility-managed mobile nodes by the mobility manager... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20080259861 - Preamble transmission method for wireless communication system: A preamble transmission method for a wireless communication system is provided for improving the probability of successful transmission and reducing unnecessary retransmission power consumption. The preamble transmission method of the present invention calculates an initial transmission power; transmits a preamble with the initial transmission power through a random access channel;... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080259860 - Radio frame control apparatus, radio frame control method, and radio communication apparatus: A radio frame control apparatus for controlling a radio frame of an orthogonal frequency division multiple access system, having a placement information generation section generating first placement information including a radio resource amount assigned to each terminal station based on a received radio resource request, a pseudo placement information generation... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080259853 - Radio lan system, and base station and terminal station thereof: A wireless LAN system that includes a plurality of stations and an access point, interconnected via a network, and supports QoS has infrastructure mode and a Direct Link. In the infrastructure mode, data communication is performed between stations STA via an access point AP. In the Direct Link, data communication... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080259859 - Spectrum management in dynamic spectrum access wireless systems: A plurality of MAC/PHY stacks is adapted to support wireless devices. A superframe structure includes a preamble and a superframe initialization header.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259864 - System and method for dynamic allocation of capacity on wireless networks: A wireless communication system is described for allocating limited network access according to priorities designated for requested transactions of wireless communications. The wireless network has a number of access links for transmitting transactions for wireless communications. A plurality of wireless communications devices request transmission of transactions on the wireless network.... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20080259851 - System and method for enabling subscribers of a communications carrier to access a network of other subscribers: A system and method for enabling subscribers of a communications carrier to communicate over a network of wireless access points of other consumer subscribers of the communications carrier is provided. In response to a wireless device of a user attempting to access a wireless access point of a subscriber, a... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080259866 - Wlan having load balancing by access point admission/termination: A network includes access points that admit/terminate mobile station associations based upon the loading level of the access point and/or whether a mobile station can associate with a further access point. Mobile stations transmit information indicative of the access points to which they can associate. The access points determine whether... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080259867 - Method and system for scheduling packets from different flows to provide fair bandwidth sharing: A method and system for scheduling packets to provide fair bandwidth sharing is provided. A packet scheduling system is composed of a communication link and flows from different network applications. These flows share the same communication link and have different bandwidth reservation according to different application requirements. In this invention,... Agent: Chuanxiong Guo

20080259874 - Flow based layer 2 handover mechanism for mobile node with multi network interfaces: A method for handing-off a mobile node (MN) from one network interface to another network interface, the network interfaces being connected to a same level 2 (L2) network. The method includes detecting at least two network interface cards (NICs) of the MN that are connected to the same L2 network... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080259872 - Media independent handover-based network system having a vertical handover capability and vertical handover method thereof: A heterogeneous network system performs a vertical handover based on media independent handover (MIH) in different networks in which a WiMAX (Wireless Broadband Internet) network (or a WiBro (Wireless Broadband Internet)) and a WLAN (Wireless LAN) network are coexisted. The heterogeneous network system cyclically acquires neighboring network information in advance... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080259870 - Method and apparatus for media independent handover: A method and apparatus for performing a handover are disclosed. An Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) client registers with an IMS network and establishes an MIH session with an MIH application server using an SIP. The IMS client establishes a session for IP-based service, (e.g., VoIP), with a communication... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080259869 - Method and apparatus for handoff between access systems: Systems and methods for switching among networks (e.g., heterogeneous) and inter-working between a source access system and a target access system, by implementing tunneling from the AT to the target access system via the source access system. An inter-system handoff control component can facilitate setting tunneling by the mobile unit... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080259873 - Method and apparatus for providing gateway relocation: An apparatus and method for providing gateway relocation to an external network wherein a user equipment (UE) includes an initial external network connection via a source core node, comprises initializing a mobility event, reallocating the initial external network connection from via the source core node to via a target core... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080259871 - Method of performing vertical handover between different wireless networks: A method of performing a vertical handover between different wireless networks based on media independent handover (MIH) includes the steps of checking a link state of the first network to transmit a handover notify message from the mobile node to an old access router when a handover is needed, and... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080259868 - Wireless communication system and associated method for routing messages to wireless networks: A wireless communication system is provided that includes a base station and a routing map. The base station is in wireless communication with a plurality of wireless networks. The routing map stores information relating to a location of a mobile station in wireless communication with a first wireless network. The... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080259876 - Dormant session management associated with handover: Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for selectively transmitting a pre-registration, re-registration or de-registration initiation message associated with handing off user equipment between different access systems, e.g., a long term evolution (LTE) system and a high rate packet data (HRPD) system, to reduce dormant sessions. The decision... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080259875 - Sleep scheduling for geographically distributed network nodes: Techniques for implementing sleep scheduling in a distributed network environment are described. The sleep scheduling attempts to optimize routing of communication among nodes of the distributed network, while still conserving energy by allowing nodes to occasionally transition to sleep mode. The sleep scheduling is performed as a function of the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080259878 - Method and apparatus for a scheduler for a macro-diversity portion of a transmission: A method, apparatuses, and system of broadcasting content data in a macro-diversity region of a data frame includes receiving a stream of transport packets. Selecting at least one burst size, from amongst a set of a plurality of predetermined burst sizes. Allocating one or more data bursts with the selected... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080259879 - Method and apparatus for service identification in a wireless communication system: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for announcing services available in a macro-diversity region of a data frame broadcast by a plurality of base stations in a single frequency network to a plurality of subscriber stations, includes a data frame with at least a data region and a macro-diversity region. A media... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080259877 - System and method for a dynamic beacon period in a mac distributed reservation protocol: A system (400), device (401), and method are provided for decentralized medium access control comprising periodic beacon (600) transmissions of all active devices in beacon slots (204) (302) (303), grouping such beacon slots (204) (302) (303) in at least one contiguous dynamic beacon period (301), and expanding or shrinking this... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259880 - Method of allocating uplink radio resources: A method of allocating uplink radio resources to a mobile device, in which uplink and downlink timeslots are allocated, and the sum of the allocated uplink timeslots and the allocated downlink timeslots within a predetermined period is less than the total number of assigned time slots and does not exceed... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080259889 - Communication method and system for terminal entering and leaving idle mode: A communication method and system for terminal entering and leaving idle mode in a mobile communication system are disclosed. The communication method for a terminal entering an idle mode includes: triggering a flow of entering the idle mode for the terminal; and a serving access service network gateway sending the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080259888 - Communications system and communication apparatus: Disclosed herein is a communications system that uses multiple transmission media, the system including: communications interface combining adapters connected via a power-line transmission path and a wireless transmission path between wireless LAN access points, each adapter having a power line communication interface and a wireless LAN interface, the wireless LAN... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080259882 - Determining a wlan regulatory domain: A mobile station is in a wireless local area network ‘WLAN’ environment and receives beacon frames that lack any WLAN regulatory information. The mobile station nonetheless determines a WLAN regulatory domain and configures the physical layer of its WLAN interface for operation in that WLAN regulatory domain.... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20080259885 - Dual mode device with mac address capture and pairing: Seamless connectivity by a user device between a licensed and an unlicensed network is provided through capturing of MAC address information relating to one or more access points servicing the licensed and/or the unlicensed networks. One or more access points can be chosen as a designated access point. If the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP C/o At&t Mobility Ii LLC

20080259884 - Ims network-based multimedia briefcase: A system for managing multimedia is provided. The system includes an IMS (Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem) network that has a media server and a Call Session Control Function (CSCF) server. The system includes a data store that is in communication with the IMS network. The system also includes an application... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080259883 - Method and system for client-driven channel management in wireless communication networks: A method and system for assigning channels to a plurality of access points (APs) of a wireless communication network is disclosed. The method includes obtaining first information regarding first interference experienced by a first client due to multiple APs being positioned in proximity of that client, and obtaining second information... Agent: Whyte Hischboeck Dudek S.c./warf

20080259881 - Method of testing the availability of a connection to a home authentication server prior to associating with a wlan access point: A method of determining availability of a connection between a wireless local area network and a home network of a mobile user device prior to initiating connection or authentication comprises selecting a network device; and sending a probe signaling message comprising a user device to the selected network device. The... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080259886 - Plain old telephony equivalent services supported via unlicensed mobile access: An access point (21) of an unlicensed mobile access network is provided with an analogue physical interface (26), arranged for communication with plain old telephony system—POTS—equipment (60). A converter (22) connected to the analogue physical interface (26) converts POTS signalling (65) into signalling (25) for a mobile communications system, and... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080259887 - Systems and methods for presenting multimedia objects in conjunction with voice calls from a circuit-switched network: The present invention provides systems and methods for presenting a multimedia object to a handset in conjunction with voice call from a circuit switched (CS) network. The voice call is delivered over the CS network and the multimedia object is delivered over a packet-switched (PS) network. The multimedia object can... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080259890 - Voip service threshold determination by home wireless router: A home wireless router establishes a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) that supports wireless communications within a WLAN service area. The home wireless router establishes broadband communications via a broadband connection with a VoIP service accumulator. The home wireless router services a plurality of wireless terminals within the WLAN service... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080259892 - Method for determining user channel impulse response in td-scdma system: The present invention discloses a method for determining user channel impulse response in the TD-SCDMA system, including: setting one or more than one synchronous ID code and establishing corresponding relations between channel estimation parameters of each user and the synchronous ID code and a sub-frame number of a sub-frame transmitting... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080259893 - Mobile terminal based on w-cdma system having receive diversity function and system thereof: A mobile terminal having a receive diversity function using a plurality of receive antennas, having a calculation section which combines respective level measurement results of the receive antennas and calculates a level measurement value after being combined as the level measurement result of the mobile terminal.... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080259891 - Multiple packet source acknowledgement: A multi-bit acknowledgement word (44) is prepared by a first communications station 22 (such as a base station) for separately acknowledging the success or failure of data packets received over plural communication channels (42) from respective plural second communication stations 28 (such as terminals). The acknowledgement word (44) is a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080259894 - Methods and apparatus for distributing and acquiring overhead flow data in a multi-frequency network: Methods and apparatus for distributing and acquiring overhead flow data in a multi-frequency network. In an aspect, a method includes generating primary flow (PF) overhead data associated with one or more multiplexes to be distributed in the multi-frequency network, identifying multiplex specific overhead (MSO) data associated with the one or... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080259899 - Apparatus and method for uplink scheduling considering characteristic of power amplifier in mobile communication terminal: An UpLink (UL) scheduling method and apparatus considering a characteristic of a power amplifier in a mobile communication terminal are provided. The UL scheduling method includes calculating a packet transmission time, which minimizes energy consumed in packet transmission, by using a Direct Current (DC) voltage used in a power amplifier... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080259896 - Device, method and protocol for private uwb ranging: An apparatus, system, method and computer program product for secure ranging between at least two devices in radio communications with each other. In particular, an apparatus, system, method and computer program product for secure ranging between at least two devices communicating via ultra wideband (UWB) protocols. Either ternary-IR or time-hope-IR... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080259898 - Method and apparatus for dynamic radio resource controlling: A method and a mobile terminal for communicating with a mobile network element (IWF) comprising communicating with a mobile network element (IWF) using a bearer that is modifiable by a negotiation between the mobile terminal (MS) and the mobile network element (IWF). The data is divided into data units (60)... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080259897 - Method and arrangement for wireless communication of signals in a mr system: A method and an arrangement for uni- or bidirectional wireless communication of signals or data especially in a reflective environment like a MR imaging system, between at least one first transmitter and/or receiver unit (501, 601, 701; T/R1) and at least one second transmitter and/or receiver unit (801; T/R2) is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259895 - System and method for an ultra wide-band medium access control distributed reservation protocol: A system (300), apparatus (301), and method are provided for decentralized medium access control comprising an enhanced protocol for UWB MAC that includes a distributed reservation protocol (DRP) for distributed reservation of the medium (310). The invention also relates to any wireless system (300) that uses a MAC protocol comprising... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259900 - Mobile wireless communcation system, base station, mobile terminal and random access control method used therefor: s

20080259901 - Adaptive coding and modulation for synchronous connections: A method for communication includes accepting input data from two or more data sources, one or more of which include continuous synchronous tributaries, for transmission over a wireless communication link having a variable data rate. Relative priorities are assigned to the respective data sources. A currently-available data rate of the... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Welsh & Katz

20080259903 - Error control method, medium access control (mac) frame designing method, and terminal registration method in wireless communication system, and recording medium: The MAC frame in a wireless communication system includes a terminal ID allocated to each of multiple terminals. At least one connection ID is allocated to each terminal having the terminal ID, and sub-carrier allocation information is allocated to each connection having the connection ID. The sub-carrier allocation information includes... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080259902 - Header compression and packet transmission method in sensor network and apparatus therefor: A header compression and packet transmission method in a sensor network and an apparatus therefor, for selecting technologies related to Internet Protocol (IP) header compression according to characteristics of each node, and processing the technologies. The header compression and packet transmission method and apparatus therefor distinguishes a node supporting the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080259904 - Apparatus and method of frame synchronization in broad band wireless communication systems: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of frame synchronization in broad band wireless communication systems. In an apparatus of frame synchronization in a mobile station, a time variant phase rotation compensator eliminates time variant phase rotation carried in received signals by conjugated multiplication between adjacent signal samples.... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080259905 - Base station synchronization for a single frequency network: Methods, apparatus and systems for generating and synchronizing a macro-diversity region transmitted by base stations in a network includes a receiving module configured to receive a plurality of packets of content data. A controller module coupled to the receiving module and configured to generate a macro-diversity region data that includes... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080259910 - Dynamic media content for collaborators with voip support for client communications: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for delivering dynamic media content to collaborators. Embodiments include providing collaborative event media content, wherein the collaborative event media content includes a grammar and a structured document; selecting a VOIP protocol for communications between a client and a dynamic context generation server;... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080259907 - Interworking between h.320/h.324 and sip: Disclosed are a method, apparatus and system for interworking between H.320 or H.324 and SIP. The method comprises receiving a SIP message indicative of capabilities supported by a first endpoint device and deferring responding to the SIP message. The method further comprises receiving from a second endpoint device an H.320... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080259908 - Location object proxy: The function of determination of location is separated from the function of gathering information based on determined location by use of a Location Object (LO) proxy between an initiating VoIP capable device and a positioning center. The LOProxy queries an appropriate location database using a location key, and injects a... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20080259909 - Signaling of early media capabilities in ims terminals: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for processing Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) INVITE messages that include an early media capability indicator. The early media capability indicator provides information regarding the early media handling capabilities of the device originating the message, and is used by various network nodes that process the INVITE... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080259906 - Targeted television advertisements based on online behavior: In a method for delivering targeted television advertisements based on online behavior, IP addresses indicating online access devices and IP addresses indicating television set-top boxes are electronically associated for a multitude of users. Using user profile information derived from online activity from one of the online access IP addresses, a... Agent: Louis J. Hoffman, P.C.

20080259912 - Assisted wireless transmit/receive unit paging and call session routing: A method and apparatus are disclosed for communicating with a Wireless Transmit/Receive Unit in wireless communications. The WTRU, capable of communicating in a 3GPP network and a non-3GPP network, receives messages with the assistance of the non-3GPP network through a Paging Entity.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080259911 - Methods and apparatus for distributing and acquiring overhead flow data in a multi-frequency network: Methods and apparatus for distributing and acquiring overhead flow data in a multi-frequency network. In an aspect, a method includes generating initial acquisition flows (IAFs) that describe how content multiplexes are distributed in the multi-frequency network and provide flow identifiers for overhead flows associated with the content multiplexes, and transmitting... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080259913 - Achieving super-fast convergence of downstream multicast traffic when forwarding connectivity changes between access and distribution switches: In one embodiment a switch has active and standby LAYER 2 switch interfaces coupled, respectively, to device interfaces of first and second LAYER 2/LAYER 3 network devices. The active switch interface is configured to forward all egress traffic and accept all ingress traffic and the standby switch interface is configured... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20080259914 - Secondary protection approach for power switching applications: An apparatus and method for providing a primary and a secondary protection to a load in a power switching application uses an electronic circuit breaker to selectively permit a flow of current from an input to a load. The circuit breaker comprises a plurality of first switches coupled in parallel,... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20080259915 - Communication module having a communication interface element and communication interface element: A communication interface element for a communication module is provided, which module contains a message memory and a first data path to and from the message memory via which data and/or messages are transmitted to and from the message memory. The communication interface element provides an additional, second data path... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080259918 - Method and apparatus for managing telephone calls: A system and method for managing telephone calls is disclosed. The system includes a central controller that receives and processes telephone calls. The identity of a caller is first determined. Based on predetermined settings designated by an end user, a call is directed to one or more telephones of the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080259919 - Method for dynamic sensor network processing: Described are a method and a sensor aware network for dynamic processing of sensor data. Network context data are inserted into data packets from sensors or local sensor networks coupled to the sensor aware network. Sensor aware nodes in the sensor aware network can read the context data and can... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20080259916 - Opportunistic queueing injection strategy for network load balancing: Embodiments of the invention include a method, system, and article of manufacture that provide opportunistic queuing injection strategy used for data communication between nodes of a parallel computer system. A message may be encapsulated into a set of data packets. When the packets are sent, an opportunistic injection queue may... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080259917 - System and method for improved ethernet load balancing: A system for Ethernet load balancing includes a bus interface configured to couple to a device driver and to receive transmit packages for transmission over an Ethernet network. A descriptor processor direct memory access (DMA) scheduler (DPDS) couples to the bus interface and comprises a port list. A plurality of... Agent: Ibm Corporation (pec) C/o Patrick E. Caldwell, Esq.

20080259920 - Method and apparatus for establishing virtual resilient packet ring (rpr) subrings over a common communications path: A method and corresponding apparatus allows multiple virtual switches in a physical switch to share one physical Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) in an RPR network. Modules in the multiple virtual switches add multicast information to traffic to direct the traffic along a common path to other physical switches on the... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080259921 - System and method for multi-rate video delivery using multicast stream: Systems and methods for multi-rate media data delivery using multiple IP multicast streams are provided. According to example embodiments disclosed herein, the method may include determining a plurality of stream bit rates based on a plurality of demanded bit rates of a plurality of output media data streams and a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080259925 - Extensions to ipv6 neighbor discovery protocol for automated prefix delegation: In one embodiment, a method comprises detecting, by a router, a first router advertisement message from an attachment router that provides an attachment link used by the router, the first router advertisement message specifying a first IPv6 address prefix owned by the attachment router and usable for address autoconfiguration on... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20080259923 - Forwarding data in a data communication network: An apparatus for forwarding data in a data communications network having as components nodes and links therebetween is described. The apparatus is arranged to forward data towards a destination on a label switched path and advertise in a label advertisement to nodes in the network in a label advertisement its... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080259922 - Intersection-based configuration management: A configuration management system and related methods are provided to facilitate intersection-based management of configuration information for network devices. In one example, a method includes polling a plurality of network devices to determine address entries stored by address tables of the network devices. The method also includes applying a hash... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080259924 - Marked packet forwarding: A network, network devices, and methods are described for marked packet forwarding. A network device includes a network chip having a number of network ports for receiving and transmitting packets. The network chip includes logic to decapsulate a packet received from a tunnel, mark the packet with a handle associated... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080259927 - Information dissemination method and system having minimal network bandwidth utilization: An information disseminating apparatus that transmits information between nodes of a network while expending minimal or no network bandwidth for transmitting the information. The apparatus can include a message processor that generates or receives a message to be transmitted from a first note to a second node in the network,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259928 - Method and apparatus for out-of-order processing of packets using linked lists: These and other aspects of the present invention will be better described with reference to the Detailed Description and the accompanying figures. A method and apparatus for out-of-order processing of packets using linked lists is described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving packets in a global order, the packets... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080259926 - Parsing out of order data packets at a content gateway of a network: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a local node of a network, a sequenced data packet of a flow made up of multiple sequenced data packets from a source node directed toward a destination node. The flow is to be parsed by the local node to describe the... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20080259929 - Secure one-way data transfer system using network interface circuitry: Network interface circuitry for a secure one-way data transfer from a sender's computer (“Send Node”) to a receiver's computer (“Receive Node”) over a data link, such as an optical fiber or shielded twisted pair copper wire communication cable, comprising send-only network interface circuitry for transmitting data from the Send Node... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20080259930 - Message flow model of interactions between distributed services: A computer-implementable method, system and computer-usable medium for defining a message flow model of interactions between distributed services are presented. In a preferred embodiment, the method includes the steps of: capturing unidirectional network-level message traffic between services in a network; identifying service end-points from information obtained from the uni-directional network-level... Agent: Law Office Of Jim Boice

20080259931 - Method and apparatus for reserving network resources for pseudo point-to-point connections: c

20080259933 - Path controller, path control method, and program therefor: A path controller 10 creates a logical tree LT having a plurality of member trees MT1 and MT2 within a routing table 52 at the time of initial setting. Direct tables DT1 and DT2 for the member trees MT1 and MT2 have the same DT entries (root). Unlike a conventional... Agent: Ibm Coporation (rtp) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080259932 - Method and system for facilitating a first and second protocol between a data processing system and an isp: An access unit (25) for configuring a first and second network-layer protocol for use over the point-to-point link and to facilitate communication between an Internet Service Provider (ISP) (20) and a data processing system (12) over the link. The data processing system (12) includes a first 28(1) and second protocol... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080259934 - Distributed virtual system to support managed, network-based services: Methods and systems are provided for allocating network resources of a distributed virtual system to support managed, network-based services. According to one embodiment, a VR-based switch having multiple processing elements is configured for operation at an Internet POP. An NOS is provided on each of the processing elements. Resources of... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20080259935 - Method and network for transferring data and signals: In a method and network for transferring data and signals between terminal equipment via one or more switching stations, the data and digitized signals are combined in cells, with each cell having a header in which connection information is contained that designates a transmission or routing target. The terminal equipment... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080259936 - Service processing switch: A system and method for providing IP services. A packet is received at a line interface/network module and forwarded to a virtual routing engine The virtual routing engine determines if the packet requires processing by a virtual services engine. If the packet requires processing by the virtual services engine, the... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20080259937 - Circuit arrangement and method for the analysis of a network: According to one aspect a network analyzer is configured such that destination addresses are allocated to measured quality-of-service values in network transfer units. Addresses of network nodes which do not meet the expected quality of service values are determined in a central network management system. An adequate quality-of-service can be... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080259940 - Method and apparatus for peer-to-peer connection assistance: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for assisting a peer-to-peer connection between a first node and a second node includes receiving, at a third node, a request for connection assistance from one of the first and second nodes. The third node then connects to both the first node... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080259939 - Method for distributing resources to network nodes in a decentralized data network: A method is disclosed for distribution of resources to network nodes in a decentralized data network. In at least one embodiment of the method keywords, which are allocated to digital resources, are mapped onto digital bit sequences. These bit sequences are modified, with the subsequent bits after a predetermined bit... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080259938 - Session announcement system and method: A cluster system and method. The cluster includes a first and a second interface and two or more nodes, wherein each node is connected to the first and second interfaces, wherein exactly one node includes a first redirector and wherein exactly one node includes a second redirector. The first and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080259942 - Arrangements for providing peer-to-peer communications in a public land mobile network: A node (200) for routing Peer-to-Peer, P2P, communication between subscribers in a public land mobile network, PLMN, adapted to be located as a gateway between the packet switched domain of the PLMN and an external Packet Data Network, PDN, comprising a routing functionality for routing messages between the packet switched... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080259943 - Ip communication apparatus and nat type determination method by the same: In a NAT type determination method pursuant to RFC 3489, address information added in a binding response from a STUN server in response to a binding request issued in a latest transmission test is compared with address information added in a binding response in response to any transmission test executed... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080259944 - Method and apparatus of providing resource allocation and admission control support in a vpn: Method and apparatus for effectively supporting resource allocation and admission control of a Virtual Private Network in a service provider network.... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20080259941 - System and apparatus for managing ip addresses: A system and apparatus for managing IP addresses is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a gateway having a controller element to receive a block of IP addresses from a dynamic host configuration protocol server. Additional embodiments are disclosed.... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080259945 - Communication circuit for a vehicle: A communication circuit for use within a vehicle includes a first network port and a second network port that is remotely located from the first network port. The networks are digitally connected together and digitally communicate a signal therebetween. The communication circuit is used between two or more coupled train... Agent: Franz Bonsang C/o Equinox Protection

20080259946 - Vehicle network system: A vehicle network system is provided with a plurality of star networks, a plurality of devices mounted on a vehicle are connected in a star shape through respective branch lines in each of the star networks, and a trunk line for connecting the plurality of star networks, the branch lines... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259947 - Method and system for high-concurrency and reduced latency queue processing in networks: The method further comprises processing a grant of a scheduling request, an acknowledgement of a speculation request or a negative acknowledgement of a speculation request. Grants and speculation responses can be processed concurrently to reduce operation count and latency. A queue controller allows request queues to be dequeued concurrently on... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080259948 - System and method for operating a communications system: A method (500, 600) is provided of operating a local transceiver (300), comprising: setting the local transceiver into an operational mode; operating the local transceiver in a polling mode (520); receiving a quiescent begin indicator identifying a beginning of a quiescent mode (520); setting a portion of the local transceiver... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080259949 - Data processing circuit wherein data processing units communicate via a network: Data is processed in a circuit that contains a plurality of data processing units interconnected by a network of node circuits. The node circuits use resources on a time slot multiplexing basis. Stream are started between source data processing units and destination data processing units. Each stream contains messages that... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259950 - Method for the transmission and reception of data contents in a communications network, corresponding computer program product, storage means and devices: Each node of the network implements a second clocking which defines a second cycle, called a local cycle, for data transmission between the node of the network and its associated application, the network cycle being equal to an integer multiple P, P≧1, of the local cycle, the start of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080259951 - Method and apparatus for unplanned and uninterrupted network adapter replacement: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for dynamically replacing a network adapter with minimal or no communications downtime. When a notification to replace a first network adapter is received, the process in the illustrative embodiments detects a replacement network adapter and a network interface corresponding... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080259952 - Point-to-point protocol data transmission: Methods for transmitting data according to point-to-point protocols from first devices (1) to second devices (2) via logical links (3) transmit (52) requests comprising specifications for specifying said data from second devices (2) to first devices (1) and transmit (55) responses comprising said data from first devices (1) to second... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259953 - Method, system, and storage medium for providing continuous communication between process equipment and an automated material handling system: A system and storage medium for providing continuous communication between passive and active equipment are provided. The system includes a conversion unit coupled to at least one the passive and active equipment, which monitors signals received from the equipment. The signals relate to an equipment state. Upon detecting a state... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20080259955 - Memory-efficient adsl transmission in the presence of tcm-isdn interferers: A method of communicating data across a channel that experiences near-end cross talk (NEXT) interference and far-end cross talk (FEXT) interference in alternate intervals. In one embodiment, a first data rate is determined for a first carrier-number mode that is to utilize a first bit table, a second data rate... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080259954 - Method and systems for bandwidth scheduling and path computation for connection-oriented networks: A connection-oriented network includes a control server. The control server receives requests to establish and utilize dedicated channels in the network. The control server utilizes various scheduling methods and algorithms to determine channels based on the request's requirements and resources of the network. For example, the control server may determine... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP

20080259956 - Data processing method for network layer: The present invention discloses a data processing method for network layer in a home network system (1) based on a living network control protocol. The data processing method for network layer based on a protocol, that is composed of at least a physical layer, a data link layer, a network... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080259957 - Mac to phy interface apparatus and methods for transmission of packets through a communications network: A system for serving an individual node in a shared communication network having a MAC layer and a PHY layer, the system being operative to interface between the MAC layer and the PHY layer. The system may include a first physical channel transferring at least one packet between the layers,... Agent: Weiss & Arons, LLP

20080259958 - High speed industrial control and data acquistion system and method: A high speed industrial control system and data acquisition system and method are disclosed that enable high speed data transmission rates from an control system to a remote client application. In one embodiment, the system includes a first processor, a second processor, an open-socket interface, and a client application. The... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(fy)

20080259959 - Method for carrying frame relay over ethernet: A method for carrying Frame Relay over Ethernet comprises: receiving a Frame Relay frame, and removing header and tail flag sequences from the Frame Relay frame; determining a control word and performing payload encapsulation; mapping a DLCI to a VCE ID and encapsulating the VCE ID; encapsulating an Ethernet frame... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080259960 - Method and apparatus for out-of-order processing of packets: A method and apparatus for out-of-order processing of packets are described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving packets in a global order, the packets being designated for different ones of a plurality of reorder contexts. The method also includes, for each of the plurality of reorder contexts, assigning reorder... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080259961 - Data unit relay device and method of controlling the same: A method of controlling a data unit relay device is described, applied to a relay ARQ protocol in accordance with which a source peer sends data units to a destination peer via at least one relay peer. The relay ARQ protocol provides for a first type and second type of... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080259962 - Contents reproducing apparatus: A contents reproducing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a plurality of packets that convey an elementary stream containing encoded video or audio data and time information, a detecting unit configured to detect a discontinuity of timebase if the difference between first time information contained in a first... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080259963 - Systems and methods for switching multi-rate communications: A method for switching multi-rate communications is described. The method includes filling a first set of p timeslots with p sets of data from a first data collection of a first type, where the first data collection includes m sets of data and p is less than m. The method... Agent: The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080259964 - Communication processing device, communication control method, and computer program: A configuration is provided that performs retransmission control in accordance with a processing state in which playback of received data is performed or a processing state in which playback and recording of the received data is performed. When a communication processing apparatus receives streaming data, the communication processing apparatus is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080259967 - Method and arrangement for transmitting time stamp information: The invention relates to transmitting time information between elements of a data network. In the present invention, it has surprisingly been discovered that in a network transmitting packet, frame or cell switched data traffic, time stamp information can be transmitted from a network element (101) to another network element (102)... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080259965 - Receiving data comprising synchronization information: A method receives data including synchronization information. The method includes obtaining a synchronization for receiving the data based on the synchronization information. The method includes generating, during receiving of the data, maintenance information indicative of whether the synchronization is being maintained based on the synchronization information. The method includes continuing,... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080259966 - Synchronization of one or more source rtp streams at multiple receiver destinations: In one embodiment, a method includes synchronizing to a common reference timeframe between a sender node and a plurality of receiver nodes connected over a packet-based network. The sender node sends Real-Time Protocol (RTP) frames to the receiver nodes, and also sends a RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) sender report to... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080259968 - Differential quadrature phase-shift keying transmission system with variable transmission rate: Methods and apparatus for varying the transmission rate of a signal transmitted within a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) system or network are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method includes obtaining a first signal and determining a transmission rate associated with the first. If it... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20080253275 - Barcode reader, location finder, gps, navigational interactive tdma, gsm, gprs, edge, cdma, ofdm, wi-fi wireless and wired system: Barcode reader, location finder, Global Positioning System (GPS), navigational interactive Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Global Mobile System (GSM), spread spectrum Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) wireless and wired communication systems. Processors and readers for processing and reading barcode signals, location finder and user signals. Processed and filtered cross-correlated in-phase... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20080253276 - Method and apparatus for multiplexing and demultiplexing asynchronous bitstreams: Provided is a method and apparatus for multiplexing bitstreams that are coded to have different frame lengths using asynchronous time alignment, in which, based on the length of each frame of a bitstream selected as a reference bitstream from among bitstreams coded to have different frame lengths by a plurality... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080253277 - Ofdm receiving circuit having multiple demodulation paths using oversampling analog-to-digital converter: Embodiments according to the application relates to an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) receiving circuit and methods thereof configured to have a plurality of demodulation paths for an oversampling ADC, which can increase or improve an overall performance of the circuit.... Agent: Rene A. Vazquez Williams Mullen

20080253278 - Techniques to compress modulation patterns for adaptive bitloading: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising using a predetermined limited set of modulation patterns to perform adaptive bit loading (ABL) to compress the modulation patterns in wireless communications.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080253279 - Pilot design for ofdm systems with four transmit antennas: Pilot, preamble and midamble patterns are provided that are particularly suited for four transmit antenna OFDM systems. Pilots are inserted in a scattered manner for each of the four antennas, either uncoded, space-time coded in pairs, space-time frequency coded in pairs, or space-time-frequency coded.... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20080253280 - Redundant wireless base station: In a redundant wireless network, a first baseband processing unit is defined as an active baseband processing unit and a second baseband processing unit as a standby baseband processing unit. An active address is associated with the first baseband processing unit and a standby address is associated with the second... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080253281 - Bandwidth management for mpls fast rerouting: Certain exemplary embodiments provide a method comprising: in a network at a node located on a label switched path: selecting a backup path to respond to a failure; and for each link along the backup path, reserving a backup bandwidth, wherein the backup bandwidth is sufficient to reroute traffic around... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080253282 - System and method for transmitting a data flow via bundled network access links as well as an auxiliary transmitter and receiver device and transmission and receiving methods therefore: The present invention relates to a system for transmitting a data flow (a) from a transmitter device (1) to a receiver device (2) via a network (3) with a packet-based transmission protocol, in particular via the TCP/IP-based internet, with the devices (1) and (2) being connected to the network via... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080253283 - Methods and apparatus for effective on-line backup selection for failure recovery in distributed stream processing systems: A failure recovery framework to be used in cooperative data stream processing is provided that can be used in a large-scale stream data analysis environment. Failure recovery supports a plurality of independent distributed sites, each having its own local administration and goals. The distributed sites cooperate in an inter-site back-up... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080253285 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product providing improved silence suppression detection: Apparatus, methods and computer program products provide improved silence suppression detection that may be utilized, for example, in conjunction with an extended real-time polling service (ertPS) in a worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX, IEEE 802.16 standard) system. In one non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, a method includes: in response to receiving... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080253284 - Controlling a transmission rate of packet traffic: Controlling a transmission rate of packet traffic includes receiving packets from a network processor. The packets are stored in a buffer associated with a processor. If an occupancy level of the buffer is greater than a predetermined threshold, it is determined that the processor is congested. A message is transmitted... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080253286 - Available bandwidth estimation: Feature vectors for nodes in a network are computed based on a network metric. Clusters of the nodes are formed based on the feature vectors. A cluster head is selected for each cluster. Available bandwidths between the cluster head and nodes outside the cluster are determined. The available bandwidths between... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080253287 - Methods and apparatus for flow data acquisition in a multi-frequency network: Methods and apparatus for flow data acquisition in a multi-frequency network. In an aspect, a method includes receiving flow registrations associated with flows, assigning a priority to the flow registrations, grouping the flows into flow groups based on their priority and RF channels carrying the flows, wherein each flow group... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080253288 - Traffic shaping circuit, terminal device and network node: In order to allow priority transfer (fluctuation) over VLL packets while keeping each contracted bandwidth constantly, a leaky bucket model is expanded to have a threshold 1509 for permitting transmission of a packet (e.g. a WFQ packet) other than an LLQ packet and a threshold 1501 (larger than the threshold... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080253289 - Method for congestion management of a network, a signalling protocol, a switch, an end station and a network: A method of congestion management within a switch or network of connected switches is provided, wherein the or each of the switches has a plurality of ingress ports and a plurality of egress ports. The method involves, when congestion is detected at a first ingress or egress port, sending a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080253290 - Optimization of traffic distribution in multipath routing: A method for optimization of traffic distribution in a communication network with multipath routing is provided. Distribution weightings are provided for a node of the communication network which has several alternatives or downward links for the routing to a target. The distribution weightings are modified relative to each other as... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080253291 - Network management method: A network management method is applied to a network management system, which includes at least one user apparatus and a network managing agent apparatus connected to the user apparatus. The management method includes the steps of: adopting at least one information string, which is set by a network management protocol... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080253292 - Method and device for controlling network elements in a decentralized network: In decentralized networks such as, for example, peer-to-peer networks, services are not furnished by centralized units, but between the network elements. These also carry out access controls and notify the centralized servers of charge registrations of the services utilized. By suitable valid or invalid inquiry messages, it is monitored by... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080253294 - Data link fault tolerance: A method is provided for automatically generating code to define and control a system of connected hardware elements. The method comprises: accepting a system configuration macro with sub-macros for system elements, subsystem elements, and connections there between; accepting a plurality of tables with a plurality of system element behaviors, a... Agent: Law Office Of Gerald Maliszewski

20080253293 - Optimization of serdes sampling parameters: One or more modules configured to cause a network diagnostic component to perform the following: an act of selecting first specific sampling parameters at which the SERDES is to receive network traffic; an act of determining a number of errors included in a signal output by the SERDES at the... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080253295 - Network system and node apparatus: A failure detection protocol is applied so that failure detection requests for the same aggregated link can be processed even when the failure detection requests differ among routing protocols. The failure detection protocol is executed for each of the physical links that form an aggregated link, and a notification is... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas LLP

20080253296 - Method and communication arragement for testing subscriber lines: To test at least one subscriber line that can be connected to a line unit, at least one test signal is emitted along the subscriber line, when the latter is not actively connected, and at least one resultant first echo signal is received, recorded and stored. In the short-circuited or... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080253300 - Communication quality judgment method, mobile station, base station, and communications system: In order to carry out high-speed packet communications using a large-volume transmission channel like an E-DCH, uplink communication quality must be good. However, in a state in which a link imbalance occurs, a mobile station cannot estimate the uplink communication quality from downlink communication quality. Therefore, the mobile station calculates... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080253297 - Communications method and apparatus: A method of maintaining a communication link between a network node and a mobile node of a communications network comprises providing at least two downlink transmission beams (A to D) and designating a first of the at least two beams as a primary transmission beam (e.g. B). The beams are... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080253298 - Method and system for managing routes in a wireless network of nodes: A method for manages routes in a wireless network of nodes by determining a distances between each pair of nodes in a set of nodes of a wireless network. The distances are maintained in a memory of a particular node of the wireless network as a distance map in a... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080253299 - Priority trace in data networks: A diagnostic tool for identifying priority errors within a data network is realized using a priority trace data packet. The priority trace data packet is originated at an originating node of interest and terminated at a terminating node of interest. At various intermediate network nodes along the data path between... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080253301 - Systems and methods for computing data transmission characteristics of a network path based on single-ended measurements: Systems and methods for computing data transmission characteristics of a network path are disclosed. In some embodiments, the network path has a sending host, at least one intermediate host, and a receiving host, and the data transmission characteristics are computed based on single-ended measurements performed at the sending host.... Agent: Wilmerhale/columbia University

20080253303 - Method to determine a relative position of devices in a network and network of devices for carrying out the method: The invention discloses a method to determine a relative position of devices in a network, and to a network of devices for carrying out the method. In a network with a power cable (10) connected to a plurality of devices (A-I), one needs to know the physical position thereof in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080253302 - Network formation method and communication apparatus: A determination is made as to whether a communication apparatus is a data sender or a data recipient and, based on the results of the determination, it is determined whether the apparatus constructs a network or joins a constructed network.... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080253304 - Service discovery method in a network: A centralized service discovery process performed in a data or telecommunications network collects a list of services available to user terminal equipment connected to a network based on user-specific data (e.g., the user's identification and preferences, the location and capabilities of the user terminal equipment). The list of services is... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080253306 - Distributed routing table architecture and design: A Distributed Routing Table (DRT) mesh can comprise two or more nodes, each of which maintains its own routing table that represents some or all of the overall routing knowledge of the DRT mesh. Each node can be comprised of modular components that can perform various defined functions such that... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080253305 - Undirected cross connects based on wavelength-selective switches: Undirected cross connects are provided based on wavelength-selective switches A demand d={i, j} is routed over a path pd between ports i and j in a multi-layer network based on one or more wavelength selective switches, by determining a middle layer node n in the multi-network for which there is... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080253307 - Multi-station media controller: A system including a plurality of software-controlled broadcast stations each having at least one media asset, and a controller to allow a user to link a first media asset of a first one of the stations to a second media asset of a second one of the stations. When the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080253310 - Mobile communication terminal, and multipath interference eliminating method: Properties of a mobile communication terminal car be improved by eliminating interference according to environments of various reception paths. The mobile communication terminal generates a delay profile by a common pilot chapel sent from a base station and measures received electric power and delay amount of the reception path. Next,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080253308 - Wireless broadband licensed networking system for local and wide area networking: A licensed microwave radio multi-functional broadband system with multiple numbers of installed edge smart wireless hubs. The system provides dynamic, automated selection of transmission types, including Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM), Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for broadcast over point-to-point, point to multipoint and omni-directional... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080253309 - Wireless node and installation method for wireless infrastructure: A node for a wireless communication infrastructure is provided. The node comprises a transceiver, a routing circuit, a power supply and switch. The transceiver is configured to transmit and receive wireless communication signals. The routing circuit is configured to route signals to and from other nodes and data sinks via... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080253312 - Method for transitioning radio resource control state of user equipment to idle state, system therefor, and the same user equipment: In a WCDMA mobile communication system, when the amount of packet traffic transmitted to or received from a UE decreases during a predetermined time in a CELL_DCH state in which a WCDMA packet data connection has been established, the UE transitions to a CELL_FACH state by a radio network controller... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080253311 - System and method for real-time data transmission using adaptive time compression: A system and method is provided for real-time data transmission using adaptive time compression that is based on an estimation of network load, one or more media properties of the real-time data, and/or a battery level of the mobile device. A first embodiment provides a mobile device operable to transmit... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20080253313 - Method and apparatus for integrating a soft mobile voip client in a cellular pc card: A method and apparatus for integrating a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) client in a wireless PC card are disclosed. A soft mobile phone client is combined with a cellular PC card to create a single physical device that is capable of providing VoIP services to a computer user through... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080253314 - Wlan diagnostics using traffic stream metrics: Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to facilitating WLAN diagnostics and management using traffic stream metrics. In a data collection stage, according to one implementation of the present invention, localized uplink measurements are taken at a wireless client associated with a wireless access point. During periodic intervals (e.g., every 5 seconds),... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080253315 - Communication network and a communication element and method of operation thereof: The invention relates to a communication network in which a first communication element (103) transmits an inquiry message to determine the presence of other communication elements (105, 107). A second communication element (105) comprises a receiver (113) for receiving the inquiry message. A controller (115), coupled to a timer (119),... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080253318 - Configurable acknowledgement processing in a wireless communication system: Techniques for sending and receiving acknowledgement (ACK) information in a wireless communication system are described. A base station sends control information and data to a user equipment (UE) and receives ACK information from the UE. The base station performs detection for the ACK information based on (i) a first hypothesis... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080253316 - Method and system for providing flow direction in a network: Method and system for providing flow direction in a network. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for providing network connections. The method includes providing a first host. The first host includes a plurality of interfaces. The plurality of interfaces includes at least a first interface and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080253319 - Restrictive reuse for a wireless communication system: For restrictive reuse, each cell (or each sector) is assigned (1) a set of usable subbands that may be allocated to users in the cell and (2) a set of forbidden subbands that is not used. The usable and forbidden sets for each cell are orthogonal to one other. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080253317 - Wireless networks for vehicles: Vehicles having corresponding methods comprise a media source to provide digital data; a first wireless network station comprising a first transmitter to wirelessly transmit first packets of the digital data; a second wireless network station comprising a first receiver to wirelessly receive the first packets of the digital data; and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080253321 - Air link bandwidth allocation for voice over ip communications: A system, method, and computer program product for receiving a Session Initiation Protocol (“SIP”) packet and analyzing at least a portion of the SIP packet to determine if the at least a portion of the SIP packet includes a request related to a bandwidth requirement. If the at least a... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080253325 - Apparatus and method for uplink bandwidth request in broadband wireless access system: An UpLink (UL) bandwidth requesting apparatus and method in a broadband wireless access system are provided. The apparatus includes a queue length controller for determining an amount of bandwidth-request using a difference between a current queue length and a target length and a determiner for the final amount of bandwidth-request... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080253323 - Method of transmitting on a random access channel: Optimizing call setup procedures by determining whether a trigger for a random access procedure is independent for a restricted number of terminals, and performing a preamble transmission with or without a delay based upon the determining.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080253324 - Multiple channel communication: A communication device (1) for communicating in a multiple channel communication system comprises means (9) for calculating an effective noise level of one of the channels of the system by applying an expectation operator to an estimated noise level affecting the channel based on time varying characteristics of the estimated... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080253326 - Synchronous adaptive harq: Synchronous adaptive HARQ is utilized to mitigate resource fragmentation. Bitmaps are utilized instead of scheduling uplink grants for retransmission. The location of one or more resource blocks can be changed if there is a release of resources in a location of a corresponding resource block. Changing the location of the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080253320 - System and method for facilitating co-channel and co-existence via enhanced frame preambles: Enhanced frame preambles facilitate co-channel co-existence in a wireless communication environment by having at least one preamble characteristic that connotes channel-sharing information regarding the wireless communication environment. In an exemplary embodiment, a downlink subframe is received in one or more wireless communication signals in a wireless communication environment. A preamble... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080253322 - Wimax multicast broadcast network system architecture: Techniques and system architectures for supporting Multicast Broadcast Services (MCBCS) over a WiMAX network.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080253327 - Energy efficient wireless sensor network, node devices for the same and a method for arranging communications in a wireless sensor network: A wireless sensor network, a node device thereof and a method for arranging communications therein are presented. A first frequency is used in wireless communication of information between a headnode and subnodes of a first cluster (103) using a time slotted channel access scheme. A headnode of a second cluster... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20080253328 - Hybrid multiple access method and system in wireless networks: A method and system access a channel in a wireless network of nodes. A coordinator transmits periodically a beacon, in which time between two consecutive beacons constitute a beacon interval. The coordinator and other nodes transceive a superframe during the beacon interval, in which the superframe begins with an active... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080253333 - Call admission control method for use in packet based communication system: Provided is a call admission control method for use in a packet based communication system, which can secure a handoff and a quality of service (QoS) by discriminating a new call and a handoff call and borrowing a shared bandwidth, a reserved bandwidth, and a bandwidth of other service according... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080253329 - Communication handover method, communication system, communication message processing method, and communication message processing program: There is disclosed a technique capable of lessening the delay which can occur in a conventional FMIP (fast handover technique) and of reducing packet loss. According to this technique, upon receipt of an FBAck message from a PAR (access router to which a mobile terminal (MN) 10 has a connection... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080253334 - Downlink solution for seamless and lossless cell change in a cellular system: The present invention relates to a UE, base station network node and methods thereof in a cellular mobile communication system. One method concerns handover from a first radio base station to a second radio base station wherein, it comprises the steps receiving a notification from the first radio base station... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080253331 - Methods and apparatus for rf handoff in a multi-frequency network: Methods and apparatus for RF handoff in a multi-frequency network. A method includes generating seamless and partially seamless handoff tables for multiplexes carried in a current LOI, wherein the seamless and partially seamless handoff tables comprise neighboring RF channels carrying one or more of the multiplexes in the current LOI,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080253332 - Selectively acquired system information: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided that improve mobility procedures between base stations based on rules configurable by the operator that govern both the mobile terminal and the base stations. A method is provided in which a mobile terminal obtains system information from a neighboring base station.... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080253330 - System and method for dynamically changing service characteristics based on device and network connectivity attributes: A system and method for dynamically changing service characteristics based on device and network connectivity attributes. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: establishing a wireless communication channel with a wireless data processing device over a first type of wireless network; determining a first compression ratio associated with the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080253335 - Method of video distribution in wireless networks: The present invention provides a method of allocating resources for transmission a broadcast data in a distributed network. One embodiment of the method may include selecting a first base station router from a plurality of base station routers. The first base station router is selected to allocate resources of the... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20080253336 - Multi-carrier cqi feedback method and apparatus: A radio base station transmits data symbols to a mobile terminal on multiple frequency carriers, e.g., in accordance with the MC-WCDMA or cmda2000 3x air interface protocols. The radio base station instructs the mobile terminal to report channel quality measurements obtained by the terminal for the multiple carriers over the... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080253337 - Method and system for sfbc/stbc transmission of orthogonally coded signals with angle feedback in a diversity transmission system: Aspects of a method and system for SFBC/STBC transmission of orthogonally coded signals with angle feedback in a diversity transmission system are presented. Exemplary aspects of the system may include one or more circuits that enables generation of a plurality of concurrently transmitted signal groups based on a computed matrix... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080253338 - Receiving apparatus: LCCH steal receiving is done by a receiving unit which uses TDMA method without overloading to the control processor. A UW detecting unit 10 for detecting a UW by setting a UW expected value for control channel according to a timing signal TM3 from a LCCH timing unit 30, a... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20080253343 - Communication terminal and method of searching: A communication terminal capable of wireless LAN communication includes: a search unit that searches for a base station that should be an access point; a database that stores an application of the wireless LAN communication and search information utilized for searching associated with the application; a set-up unit that sets... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080253340 - Hybrid mobile communication system comprising multi-hop-ad-hoc and circuit-switched modes: According to the present invention, connection can be always maintained between the mobile node and the access router, and disruption of on-going transport session can be prevented by making effective use of two architectures (hierarchical and mesh architectures). The mobile nodes 1000-1, 1000-2 and 1000-3 are attached to the access... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080253339 - Interconnection device for a radiocommunication network: Local radiocommunication device comprising an IP access point adapted to communicate outwards from the network in IP mode, a point-to-point communication module adapted to communicate with a terminal according to at least one point-to-point communication protocol, and an interface adapted to allow the IP access point to communicate with the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080253341 - Method for improving self-coexistence of wireless communication networks: Self-coexistence of first and second wireless communication networks (200) is improved by transmitting a coexistence beacon from a first station (210, 220) of the first wireless communication network (200) to a first station (210, 220) of the second wireless communication network (200. The coexistence beacon includes information about a traffic... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080253342 - Signaling in convergence sublayer in wimax: Examples and implementations of techniques for providing an efficient and flexible convergence sublayer service enablement strategy in establishing the initial service flows and pre-provision service flows during the initial Mobile Subscriber (MS) Terminal network entry time (i.e. attachment to the WiMAX access network).... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080253344 - Wireless lan medium access controller supporting mode change and mode change method therreof: A wireless LAN medium access controller supporting mode change and the mode change method thereof are proposed. A physical layer detects signal strength in the environment and writes a mode index value of the stronger signal into a register. When the written mode index value is different from a mode... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080253345 - Wireless communications circuitry with antenna sharing capabilities for handheld electronic devices: Handheld electronic devices are provided that contain wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may have first and second transceiver circuits that operate in the same radio-frequency band using different communications protocols. The wireless communications circuitry may have a configurable radio-frequency combiner and divider circuit that is coupled between an... Agent: G. Victor Treyz

20080253346 - Mac architecture in wireless communication systems supporting h-arq: A medium access control-high speed (MAC-hs) comprises a hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) device configured to receive data blocks over a wideband-code division multiple access (W-CDMA) high speed-downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH). The H-ARQ device generates an acknowledgement (ACK) or negative acknowledgement (NYACK) for each said data block received. Each received... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080253347 - Notification of incumbent users in dynamic spectrum access wireless systems: A wireless system and method including a medium access control (MAC) layer adapted to notify a wireless station of the presence or absence of an incumbent wireless are described.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080253352 - Communication in dual protocol environments: A radio transceiver comprising: a signal receiver for receiving signals in the form of bursts according to a first protocol; a transmitter for transmitting signals in the form of bursts according to a second protocol, the first and second protocols being such that signals of the first and second protocols... Agent: Novak Druce Deluca + Quigg LLP

20080253350 - Method and device using randomized hough transform for detecting radio systems with periodic emission pattern: The invention includes a method and device for identifying opportunities to transmit in a radio network. The method and device listen for a first, second, and third period of time to detect first, second, and third busy slots. A processor recognizes a sequence of the first, second, and third busy... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080253349 - Method of and an apparatus for effecting a smooth transition between adjacent symbol bursts transmitted in different modulation formats: A smooth transition is effected between adjacent digital information bursts transmitted in different modulation formats by selecting a first sequence for a first digital symbol burst to be transmitted, which first sequence comprises a set of end symbols with a first particular symbol pattern. A second sequence for a second... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080253351 - Multiradio power aware traffic management: A system for managing the operation of a plurality of radio modules integrated within the same wireless communication device. In at least one embodiment of the present invention, time may be allocated for use in communicating over one or more wireless communication mediums. This time may be allocated based on... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080253348 - Transmitter device, bridge device, and receiver device, and network system including the devices: A network system includes a transmitting apparatus; a transmission path; a relaying apparatus that receives real time information transmitted through the transmission path; a wireless network; and a receiving apparatus that receives data transmitted through the wireless network. The relaying apparatus has a reference time generating part that generates a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080253353 - Mimo polar, non-quadrature, cross-correlated quadrature gsm, tdma, spread spectrum, cdma, ofdm, ofdma and bluetooth systems: Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system for receiving signals received from multiple inputs and transmitting signals to multiple output signal transmitters and multiple receivers for receiving transmitted signals. Processor for processing received location finder signals and for providing location finder processed baseband signals to a polar modulator for polar modulation... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20080253354 - Communication apparatus, control method for controlling communication apparatus, program for controlling communication apparatus, and storage medium storing such program: A communication apparatus determines a hibernation period on the basis of the amount of an offset in beacon period start timing among multiple beacon groups. The communication apparatus is placed in a hibernation status in accordance with the determined hibernation period. Thus, an offset in beacon period start timing among... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080253355 - Wireless base station apparatus and wireless communication system using that apparatus: A radio base-station apparatus with improved frame transmission efficiency by avoiding interference of preambles and frame control information between sectors of a cell or between cells with a frequency reuse factor. In the apparatus OFDMA multiple-access processing is performed for each of a plurality of sectors of a cell, and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080253357 - Computer system with internet phone functionality: A computer system with internet phone functionality is provided. The computer system keeps running application programs when it turns the processing rate and the voltage of the central processor unit down (e.g. enter to the sleep mode). When the internet phone or a traditional telephone has an incoming call, the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080253364 - Information delivery system and information delivery method using the same: A mobile type service provider terminal registers a service providing area to a presence management server before a service starts. The presence management server creates a status management table of the mobile type service provider terminal. When the presence of the mobile type service provider terminal is detected in an... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080253356 - Method and system for a power reduction scheme for ethernet phys: Aspects of a method and system for a power reduction scheme for Ethernet PHYs are provided. An Ethernet PHY in a link partner may disable transmission via a transmit DAC integrated during an inactive connection, 10Base-T autonegotiation operation, and/or active 10Base-T connection with no data packet transmission. The DAC may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080253362 - Method for providing local and toll services with lnp, and toll-free services to a calling party which originates the call from an ip location connected to a sip-enabled ip network: A method for providing combined local, toll, toll-free services, and number portability, to a calling party originating calls from an IP-based communication devices which are coupled to an IP-based multi-media service provider. The method includes receiving a SIP INVITE message, which includes a multi-media service identifier, at the multi-provider. The... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080253361 - Receiving party based web-to-phone communication: A method for communicating in a communication system, said communication system comprising a network terminal of a network user, a server of a telecommunication company, and a telephone of a receiver, the method comprises the steps of: (A) the receiver registering an encoded object from the telecommunication company, the encoded... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080253363 - Systems and methods to facilitate real time communications and commerce via answers to questions: Methods and systems to facilitate real time communications and commerce via answers presented to questions. One embodiment includes one or more web servers to receive from a second user an answer to a question of a first user, and to present the answer with a communication reference of a connection... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080253360 - Terminal apparatus and computer program: A terminal apparatus includes a communication unit connected to a private branch exchange and other terminal apparatus; a memory unit for storing address information for the other terminal apparatus; and a controller which, when receiving an incoming call command containing address information for the terminal apparatus as destination information from... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080253358 - Terminal-to-terminal communication connection control method using ip transfer network: Both a connection server and a relay connection server are installed in an IP transfer network; a function similar to a line connection control of a subscriber exchanger is applied to a connection server; a function similar to a line connection control of a relay exchanger is applied to the... Agent: Robert Popa C/o Ladas & Parry, LLP

20080253359 - Terminal-to-terminal communication connection control method using ip transfer network: Both a connection server and a relay connection server are installed in an IP transfer network; a function similar to a line connection control of a subscriber exchanger is applied to a connection server; a function similar to a line connection control of a relay exchanger is applied to the... Agent: Robert Popa C/o Ladas & Parry, LLP

20080253365 - Wireless networking communication system and communicating method for voip: A wireless networking communication system is disclosed. The wireless networking communication system includes a wireless communicating gateway connected to a personal computer, which in turn connects with a network, and a handheld communicating device in communication with a first communicating transceiver. The wireless communicating gateway includes the first communicating transceiver,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080253366 - L2/l3 multi-mode switch including policy processing: Methods and apparatus for processing data packets in a computer network are described. One general method includes receiving a data packet; examining the data packet to classify the data packet including classifying the data packet as a L2 or L3 packet and including determining at least one zone associated with... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080253367 - Method for establishing multi segment pseudowire across domains having different pseudowire signaling protocol: A method of establishing a multi-segment pseudowire across domains executing different pseudowire signaling protocols augments the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) label message to include a MS-PW TLV. The MS-PW TLV carries pseudowire signal 22 FEC TLV protocol information associated with signaling protocols of other segments of the MS-PW. As a... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras LLP

20080253368 - Policy control of multiplexed real time protocol and real time control protocol: A system can include an application function which is configured to indicate per each multiplexed flow to a rules function that a flow includes multiplexed real time protocol data packets and control packets flow and to indicate the status of each component of the multiplexed flow. The rules function can... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080253370 - Maintenance of bandwidth allocation for traffic including multicasts: Multicast packets that are received on a port of a network device and forwarded to multiple output ports are stored in memory and respective primary control entries which define them are converted to secondary control entries defining multiple unicast packets before a scheduling algorithm is applied. The packets are reconstituted... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080253369 - Monitoring and correcting upstream packet loss: An upstream error controller monitors a media stream at a location upstream from an associated set of receivers receiving the media stream. The upstream error controller sends out suppression notices for any media packets lost upstream causing the receivers to suppress sending lost packet notices. In another embodiment, a repair... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080253371 - Multicast and broadcast operations in ethernet switches: A switch and a process of operating a switch are described where a received data frame is copied one or more times into a memory before being transmitted out of the switch. The switch and method determine how much space in the memory is needed to store all of the... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20080253374 - Apparatus and method for communicating with receiving end via internet: The invention provides a method for a transmitting end to communicate with a receiving end, which is assigned with an IP address, via the Internet. The method of the invention includes the steps of: the transmitting end receives an information stream from a DVB-H network; the information stream contains a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080253372 - Scheduling packet transmission: Scheduling packet transmission. A plurality of data packets is received, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of data packets is associated with one media unit and comprises different quality information. Profit-to-size ratios or distortion-to-size ratios for the data packets are determined. A plurality of schedules of the data... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080253373 - System and method for supporting flexible overlays and mobility in ip communication and computer networks: There is provided a system and method for providing a simple yet flexible overlay network on top of any IP networks to enable diverse network applications whereby much of the rigidities of IP protocol suite are eliminated without any modifications to the applications. In particular, the system includes: a plurality... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080253375 - Data transmission method for hsdpa: In the data transmission method of an HSDPA system according to the present invention, a transmitter transmits Data Blocks each composed of one or more data units originated from a same logical channel, and a receiver receives the Data Block through a HS-DSCH and distributes the Data Block to a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080253376 - Method and arrangement for verifying an originating address transmitted in a call request for the purpose of establishing a communications link in an ip communications network: The invention relates to a method for verifying an originating address transmitted in a call request for the purpose of establishing a communications link in an IP communications network between a user terminal of a first subscriber (A) and a terminal of a second subscriber (B). The transmitted originating address... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080253377 - System and method for controlling process end-point utilizing legacy end-point system: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention allow a second end-point determination (EPD) system to actively control the end-pointing of a semiconductor process chamber, by leveraging a legacy EPD system that is already integrated with the chamber. In one embodiment, the second EPD system controls a shutter that regulates the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080253378 - Delivery of peak performance services: Systems for providing peak performance services include a peak performance service provider that provides peak performance services to enhance individuals' performances in sports, and at least one institution that purchases peak performance services from the peak performance service provider for individuals associated with the institution. The peak performance provider makes... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080253379 - Label switching system: A packet router in a label switching system includes a logical router configuring module for logically dividing a label switching router (LSR) into a plurality of LSRs each having a label switching function, and a module for specifying, when setting a label switched path on the basis of an explicit... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080253380 - System, method and program to control access to virtual lan via a switch: System method and program for controlling access to a VLAN via a port of a VLAN switch system. In response to receipt of a message packet at the port, the switch system determines if a MAC address of the packet matches a MAC address for which the port has been... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080253381 - Pseudowire load balancing: In one embodiment, a communications distribution process maintains at least two pseudowires through a network such that the pseudowires share a burden of delivering data through the network. The communications distribution process receives feedback data concerning operation of each pseudowire. The communications distribution process utilizes the feedback data to distribute... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080253382 - Multiple interface mobile node with simultaneous home- and foreign network connection: The invention relates to a method for node management in a packet-switched network, wherein a first node acts as a proxy for a second node, both nodes having network-layer addresses and link-layer addresses, the network-layer addresses at the network layer and the link-layer addresses at the link layer being used... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080253383 - Communicating using the port-preserving nature of symmetric network address translators: Methods for establishing connections between computing devices when the computing devices are behind Network Address Translators (NATs). Embodiments of the present invention are directed to enabling a first client computer to communicate with a second client computer when both client computers are positioned behind NATs, wherein at least one of... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080253384 - Communication control method, relaying method and relaying device: Method and device for heightening communications security. Gateway 3 receives packet P1 from caller terminal 1a, and creates and transmits to receiver terminal 1b packet P2, in which destination IP address, source IP address, destination port, source port, and session ID for packet P1 are rewritten. Gateway 3 also receives... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080253385 - Flexible ethernet bridge: In one embodiment, an Ethernet bridge operates in either VLAN aware mode or VLAN unaware mode as specified by a user. The width of a CAM used for storing address table can be minimized by using a mapping of VLAN identifiers to small numbers, which are stored in the CAM.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080253386 - System and method for distributing communications through a dense mesh network: A system and method for distributing communications through a dense mesh network having a plurality of nodes coupled to one of at least two gateway controllers is disclosed. A node location of each node is calculated relative to other nodes in the mesh network. Nodes that are less than a... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080253387 - Method and apparatus for improving sip server performance: A method and apparatus for improving SIP server performance is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an enqueuer for determining whether a request packet entering into the server is a new request or a retransmitted request and its retransmission times and for enqueuing the request packet into different queues based on results... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080253388 - Home networking system: One embodiment relates to a network. The network includes a first splitter having an input port and N output ports. A first network node is associated with a first of the N output ports. A second network node is associated with a second of the N output ports and is... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20080253389 - Method and system of radio communications with various resolution levels of signal modulation depending on propagation conditions: The present invention relates to communications. More especially it relates to multiple access communications over channels of diverse channel qualities, e.g. signal to noise and interference ratios. Particularly it relates to data communications over radio links with diverse propagation path losses and exploitation of diverse path losses for multiplexing and... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080253390 - Method and apparatus for priority services management: Apparatus and method for adapting a control plane of a communications network normally using a call session control function (CSCF) in communication with a resource access control function (RACF) by providing a priority service functional element (PS-FE) to handle call admission and priority services.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080253392 - Poe communication bus, interface, and protocol between poe subsystem and phy or switch subsystems: Provided is a communications interface system. The communications interface system includes one or more protocol modules configured to include interface protocols that facilitate direct communication between a switching subsystem, a physical layer subsystem, and a Power over Ethernet subsystem. The protocol modules are connectable to a communications bus, the direct... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080253391 - Protocol negotiation for a group communication system: Methods and systems are provided in a group communication system for dynamically changing a version of a group communication protocol from a first version to a second version transparently to external sources and destinations. The system accommodates newly joining members that can only support versions of the protocol other than... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080253394 - 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

20080253393 - System and method for managing network traffic: A system and method for managing network traffic is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a data switch having a controller element to transmit telemetry data representative of bandwidth usage by one or more users of the data switch. Traffic for the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080253397 - Bandwidth control device, computer readable recording medium storing program and method of controlling bandwidth control device: A register stores the earliest time (IRL) at which a packet can be subsequently transmitted from a transmitting device in order to obey an allowable bandwidth given to the transmitting device, the earliest time (RL−1 to n) at which the packet of each class can be transmitted in order to... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080253396 - Protocol stack: There are disclosed processes and systems relating to protocol stacks. The protocol stack may be run entirely in a single memory space. There may be a communal memory region available to certain layers of the protocol stack. The layers of the protocol stack may form condensed versions of data and... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080253395 - Tcp/ip processor and engine using rdma: A TCP/IP processor and data processing engines for use in the TCP/IP processor is disclosed. The TCP/IP processor can transport data payloads of Internet Protocol (IP) data packets using an architecture that provides capabilities to transport and process Internet Protocol (IP) packets from Layer 2 through transport protocol layer and... Agent: Patent Docket Department Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080253398 - Selective header field dispatch in a network processing system: A method and structure is disclosed for dispatching appropriate data to a network processing system comprising an improved technique for extracting protocol header fields for use by the network processor. This technique includes basic classification of a packet according to the types of protocol headers present in the packet. Based... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080253399 - Optimization methods and apparatus for transmitting multiple plmn-ids: This application is related to a method and apparatus for optimizing the transmission of PLMN-IDs in a wireless network. This is accomplished by reducing the amount of bandwidth required to transmit a given set of PLMN-IDs.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080253400 - Non-orthogonal frequency-division multiplexed communication through a non-linear transmission medium: A method for non-orthogonal frequency division multiplexed communication through a non-linear transmission medium includes the steps of selecting at least one desired bandwidth, selecting a non-orthogonal pair of base frequencies within a first bandwidth of the at least one desired bandwidth, identifying where primary intermodulation products formed as a result... Agent: Antony C. Edwards

20080253403 - Nomadic subscriber data system: A logical network directory database compliant with the X.500 standard for a directory data system is disclosed. The network directory database provides a source of subscriber and service data accessible by various control and management processes that require subscriber information. The network directory database may be extensible across various communications... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080253402 - Timing device and method: A logical network directory database compliant with the X.500 standard for a directory data system is disclosed. The network directory database provides a source of subscriber and service data accessible by various control and management processes that require subscriber information. The network directory database may be extensible across various communications... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080253401 - Transient robust channel for communication systems: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a network device. The network device includes a receiver configured to be coupled to a transmission medium supporting a multi-carrier channel over which data is communicated as symbols in a first communication state according to an initial bit-loading configuration. The receiver is... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20080253404 - Dynamic time division multiplexing circuit without a shadow table: In a telecommunication system adapted to exchange n-bit frames according to a dynamic time division multiplexing access method for a maximum of N accessible channels, the use of a shadow time slot assignment table is eliminated by use of a circuit that includes (a) an n×p memory block to store... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20080253405 - Method and system for providing error resiliency: A method and system for providing error resiliency in processing a multimedia bitstream. The bitstream includes a start code pattern and the method and system detect the start code pattern and track its location to prevent the bitstream processor from overrunning the start code pattern of a subsequent block of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Amd

20080253406 - Transport stream encapsulated trick modes: A representation of an audiovisual asset is obtained and is processed to obtain at least one normal playback video elementary stream, (optionally, at least one audio elementary stream), and at least one trick mode video elementary stream. A transport stream is formed from the at least one normal playback video... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080247306 - Companded transmit path for wirless communication: This disclosure describes companded transmit path techniques that may be implemented in a wireless communication device to reduce power consumption and possibly simplify signal modulation. In accordance with this disclosure, in phase (I) and quadrature phase (Q) components of a transmit waveform are compressed at baseband, and an emphasis envelope... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080247307 - Method, apparatus and system for detecting mode and guard interval: The present invention is directed to a method, apparatus and system for detecting the mode and the guard interval of a received orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, which includes a guard interval with length Ng, and a useful part with length Nu. Mode is detected by searching for the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p

20080247308 - Providing session redundancy using priority during a syncing process: In one embodiment, sessions are synced from an active device to a standby device according to a priority. One or more attributes are determined for a plurality of sessions that need to be synced between an active device and a standby device. The attributes may be used to determine a... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080247309 - Method and device for realizing primary-backup protective of low order cross apparatus: A method and device are used for realizing primary-backup protective of low order cross apparatus of SDH low order virtual container deploy based on switching network. The method includes distributing multicast ID as the destination address of code flow of high order virtual container, wherein the high order virtual container... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080247312 - Configurable multislot class for wireless devices: A solution is provided wherein the mobile device selects a multislot class based on the profile of the traffic to be utilized by the mobile device. This may be performed manually by a user, or may be performed automatically where an application or driver software automatically and dynamically determines the... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080247310 - Method of improving communication between mobile nodes: To improve a method of improving communication between mobile nodes in an ad-hoc wireless network and in particular to reduce the amount of data to be transmitted, all the nodes are organized into application-specific clusters and the information that is relevant to each application is stored in the head element... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080247311 - Signaling in a cluster: Various techniques for signaling in a cluster are disclosed. The cluster includes a number of nodes that support communications by an apparatus. The apparatus may be configured to support a wireless connection with a first node in the cluster. The apparatus may be further configured to support a first control... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080247313 - Slot-cache for caching aggregates of data with different expiry times: Techniques for collecting and displaying sensor data captured by a spatially and temporally representative sample of sensors requested in a search query are described. The sensors are represented in an index structure (e.g., a data tree) having a plurality of leaf nodes and internal nodes. The leaf nodes are associated... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080247314 - Automatic policy change management scheme for diffserv-enabled mpls networks: A policy change management scheme for network resource management through dynamic policy adaptations especially suitable for DiffServ-enabled MPLS networks is presented. The scheme incorporates automated resource adaptation capabilities to assure QoS for user traffic and to promote resource utilization in DiffServ-enabled MPLS networks. A suite of resource management policies, an... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20080247315 - Flooding of data packets in a switching telecommunications device: A technique is described for flooding data packets in a telecommunication switching device comprising a plurality of interface blades. The technique comprises arranging a logical ring by interconnecting a group of interface blades of the telecommunication switching device, wherein the interface blades of the group comprise all leaf ports of... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080247316 - Method circuit and system for data flow control: Disclosed is a method and circuit for a receiver to receive data from an associated data transmitter. The receiver may include a signaling module adapted to transmit a Ready-To-Receive (“RTR”) signal to the associated transmitter when a number of vacant bits in a data buffer exceeds a delay associated value.... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080247317 - Monitoring network conditions of a wireless network: A method of determining a location of a network condition within a wireless mesh network is disclosed. The method includes a test device testing a first plurality of wireless hops of the wireless mesh network. The test device also tests a second number of wireless hops of the wireless mesh... Agent: Tropos Networks

20080247318 - Low cost method of communication via the power supply grid: This invention describes a low cost method for electrical and electronic appliances to communicate with a master control appliance (such as a computer). It has often been said that very soon all appliances will be connected to the internet. However this is economically infeasible at this time. The minimum cost... Agent: Sitaramarao Srinivas Yechuri

20080247319 - Method and system for remotely automating cross-connnects in telecom networks: A method and system for automating cross-connects for a telecommunication system comprising a network of communication lines for connecting subscriber locations to a central office exchange 112. The communication lines extend to the subscriber locations from a main distribution frame (MDF) (320) in which a plurality of standard termination blocks... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20080247320 - Network service operational status monitoring: Network service operational status monitoring methods and apparatus are disclosed. Responsive to a service status request associated with a network service, an operational status of the network service is determined by an intermediary between a service status requester and the network service. The operational status is a service-specific operational status... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC.

20080247321 - System and method for networking educational equipment: A system, method and computer program product for monitoring availability of end user devices needed for performing tasks. The system comprises a first network including one or more devices associated with an end user, at least one device adapted for communicating with a service provider over a second network, the... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080247322 - Method for monitoring the transmission quality of connections in mpls networks: The invention relates to a low-effort monitoring method of the transmission quality of connections in MPLS networks. Specially configured MPLS-OAM packets (MPLS-OAM-LAV packets) are defined and are periodically inserted into the traffic flow of user data packets at the source of a connection or a partial section of a connection,... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080247323 - Transmitting data packets over an air interface: A method of transmitting data packets over an air interface is disclosed. At least a first and second stream of data packets are multiplexed, wherein a multiplexed stream of data packets is generated. The multiplexed stream of data packets is processed by a forward error correction function, wherein the forward... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080247324 - Detection of specific bfd path failures: Improved detection of specific BFD LSP path failures is herein disclosed. The improved detection described herein allow for faster fault isolation of a failure along a LSP path, which in turn may allow for faster repair of the failure. When opening a BFD session with a LSP egress node, the... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080247328 - Communication checker, communication-state detection system and method for checking communication state: A simple-structure communication checker capable of detecting the communication state of devices communicating in different communication methods is provided. The communication checker includes an SLPR communication detector that detects the communication state through the SLPR service and a FOMA communication detector that detects the communication state through the FOMA service.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080247327 - Identifying correlations within wireless networks: Methods of correlating wireless network performance of a wireless network are disclosed. One method includes collecting wireless network performance parameters at a location of the network, observing at least one of activities and conditions of the wireless network over the period of time, and correlating the wireless network performance parameters... Agent: Tropos Networks

20080247330 - Method and apparatus for selecting antenna in a communication system: A method and apparatus for selecting an antenna in a communication system is provided. The apparatus includes a mobile station for determining a set of transmit antennas by considering statistical channel information, for determining a subset of the transmit antennas, which can increase a diversity gain and reduce an effect... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080247326 - Method, system and apparatus for dynamic quality of service modification: A method, system and apparatus for dynamically modifying the quality of service provided to a mobile communication device. The method includes the steps of establishing a secure tunnel between the mobile communication device and a remote network through a wireless network; communicating through the secure tunnel at a first quality... Agent: Danamraj & Emanuelson, P.C.

20080247329 - Signal-to-interference + noise ratio estimator and method, mobile terminal having this estimator: The SINR (signal-to-interference+noise ratio) estimator comprises a low-pass filter (66) to filter a variance σκ computed from the received pilot symbol amplitude to obtain an estimated variance σκ with a reduced bias, wherein the low-pass filter has an adjustable coefficient and the estimator comprises an electronic controller able to adjust... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080247325 - System and method of determining data latency over a network: A system and method of determining data latency in a network is provided. A first data sample of application level data (e.g., financial data) is provided from a data stream received at a first network point. A second data sample of application level data (e.g., financial data) is also provided... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080247331 - Method and apparatus for high resolution passive network latency measurement: A method includes receiving a first capture time corresponding to a first time that a data packet is received at a first probe and a second capture time corresponding to a second time that the data packet is received at a second probe. The data packet is from existing network... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080247333 - Method and apparatus for self-configuring routing devices in a network: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for configuring routing devices in a network data processing system. A routing change is identified in the network data processing system. In response to the routing change being identified, a node topology is generated for a set of routing devices present in the network... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080247332 - Network configuration management method, network band management method, network participation method, and communication terminal device: A network configuration management includes the steps of sending from the management terminal (1100) participation terminal information stored in the management terminal; receiving by the participation terminal (1200, 1300, 1400) other than the management terminal, participation terminal information sent from the management terminal (1100); judging by the participation terminal other... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080247334 - Frequency scanning to form a communication network: A node forms a network by scanning for an existing network. If an existing network is not found, the node operates as a network controller node of the first network and admits at least one client node to the first network. As a network controller node, the node designates one... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC Entropic Communications

20080247335 - Ad-hoc network routing protocol including the use of forward and reverse multi-point relay (mpr) spanning tree routes: A method of operating an ad-hoc network having a plurality of wireless nodes includes operating the wireless nodes using a routing protocol, such as OLSR, so that the wireless nodes store forward multi-point relay (MPR) spanning tree routes and reverse MPR spanning tree routes. A first wireless node communicates with... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080247338 - High-frequency amplifier, and transmission/reception system: In a high-frequency amplifier for amplifying transmission and reception signals, an integrated circuit area is reduced to reduce production costs. A high-frequency amplifier (101) includes a reception signal amplifying part (102), a transmission signal amplifying part (103), and a spiral inductor (104). An output of the reception signal amplifying part... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080247337 - Method and apparatus for joint detection in downlink tdd cdma: A method and apparatus for implementing downlink JD (Joint Detection) in TDD CDMA communication systems, wherein the steps to be executed in the UE comprises: receiving downlink signals from a network system in a specific timeslot; acquiring the active primary and secondary channelisation codes in the specific timeslot, through processing... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080247336 - Radio communication system and door phone system using the same: A transmission information construction unit 104 of a base station 500 divides image information, designate order number thereto, and performs transmission multiple times at slots notified with notification information. A control unit 620 of a sub station 600 receives the notification information, establishes synchronization of TDMA and frequency hopping with... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080247340 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a Base Station (BS) of a communication system are provided. A controller determines a location of a Mobile Station (MS), and determines a transmission/reception scheme for data transmission and reception to/from the MS according to the location of the MS.... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080247339 - Mobile radio device synchronization: Method for synchronizing a plurality of mobile radio devices, mobile radio devices and a method for synchronizing a mobile radio device. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for synchronizing a plurality of mobile radio devices is provided including transmitting a downlink synchronization signal in a shared downlink synchronization... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080247341 - Digital video interface with bi-directional half-duplex clock channel used as auxiliary data channel: A digital video interface system and method for communicating digital video data from a source device to a sink device is provided, where the clock channel is used to transmit data as well as clock signals in a bi-directional, half-duplex manner using time division multiplexing. The digital video interface system... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080247346 - Communication node with multiple access support: A node configured to communicate with a user equipment via at least two access network domains. The node is configured to generate access network domain selection information, and further configured to route data packets dependent on the network domain selection information... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080247342 - Connection setup for the exchange of data of an ip-based service: The invention relates to a method and a device for setting up a connection between a terminal (MS) in a communication network and a network element (AS, IPU) in an IP network for exchanging data of an IP-based service. The invention is characterized by setting up a connection between at... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080247345 - Devices, systems and methods for ad hoc wireless communication: The current options for wireless communication have changed the way people work and the way in which networks can be deployed. However, there remains unresolved problems in the setup and configuration of wireless communication links. Both known cellular and ad hoc wireless networking protocols and systems are deficient in that... Agent: Herman & Millman

20080247343 - Method for requesting information: A method for requesting information about at least one object via a network having multiple links, this at least one object is situated amidst multiple objects and each of these objects has at least one module for the exchange of data, one of the links being established in each case... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080247344 - Signaling over cellular networks to reduce the wi-fi energy consumption of mobile devices: Techniques for increasing the battery life on a mobile device by decreasing the energy consumption of the mobile device's wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) interface are described. In one embodiment, the mobile device's Wi-Fi interface is automatically disabled when the device is not engaged in a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) call... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080247347 - Mobile communication system and control device: The present invention can improve a reception quality of mobile stations and utilize radio resources effectively, by resolving the problem caused when the conventional multicast communications system. The present invention relates to a radio communications system for transmitting same data to a plurality of cells via at least one base... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080247348 - Communication between mobile terminals and service providers: An intermediate service provider operates to mediate communications between mobile terminals and various service providers. In one embodiment, the intermediate service provider and a given mobile terminal establish a persistent session supported by a logical communication channel that is used to convey communications for all of the various service applications... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080247349 - Method, wireless communication system, tangible machine-readable medium, and communication apparatus for transmitting downlink hybrid automatic repeat request packets based on a multi-hop relay standard: A method, a wireless communication system, a tangible machine-readable medium, and a communication apparatus for transmitting downlink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) packets based on a multi-hop relay standard are provided. The wireless communication system comprises a BS, an SS, and a plurality of RSs. The BS transmits a plurality... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080247350 - Relay station, transmission method, and tangible machine-readable medium thereof for use in a multi-hop network: A relay station, a transmission method, and a tangible machine-readable medium thereof for use in a multi-hop network are provided. The relay station comprises a receiving module, a decoding module, and a transmission module. The receiving module is configured to receive a frame, the frame comprising an extended information element... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080247351 - Scalable satellite deployment: A scalable subscriber terminal for bi-directional communication with a gateway through one or more satellites is provided according to another embodiment of the invention. The scalable subscriber terminal may comprise a plurality of antennas and be configured to operate in at least a first communication mode prior to switching to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080247352 - Determination by a communication terminal of the propagation time of a reference signal coming from a communications management equipment: A communication network including at least one piece of communication management equipment (SG) having a management component (MG) in charge of generating reference signals to be transmitted in a signaling channel to communication terminals (UE) connected thereto, and provided, along with each of the terminals (LIE), with an internal time... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080247353 - Cluster head election in an ad-hoc network: The ad-hoc network includes a plurality of mobile nodes including at least one group of mobile nodes operating as a cluster with a currently elected cluster head node. The mobile nodes include a controller and a wireless communications device cooperating therewith to determine whether the currently elected cluster head node... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080247355 - Duplicate detection method for ad hoc network: A duplicate detection method is disclosed for reducing redundant traffic in an ad hoc network. The duplicate detection method of the present invention includes receiving a first packet having a content identifier and a subcontent identifier, storing the content identifier and the subcontent identifier of the first packet, receiving a... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080247354 - Method, wireless communication system, tangible machine-readable medium, and communication apparatus for transmitting uplink hybrid automatic repeat request packets based on a multi-hop relay standard: A method, a wireless communication system, a tangible machine-readable medium, and a communication apparatus for transmitting uplink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) packets based on a multi-hop relay standard are provided. The wireless communication system comprises a BS, an SS, and a plurality of RSs. The RS transmits a plurality... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080247358 - Method and apparatus for channel sensitive scheduling in a communication system: Method and apparatus for a channel sensitive scheduler for scheduling transmissions in a communication system. The scheduler is defined by a priority function of the channel condition as determined by amount of transmission power needed by a mobile station. In one embodiment the channel condition is determined based on the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080247357 - Method for adaptive delay threshold-based priority queueing scheme for packet scheduling in mobile broadband wireless access system: Disclosed is a method for adaptive delay threshold-based priority queueing for packet scheduling in a mobile broadband wireless access system, which corresponds to a resource allocation method capable of satisfying Quality of Service (QoS) requested by realtime and non-realtime users in a mobile communication environment, and simultaneously maximizing the capacity... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP Attn: Jim Coffman

20080247356 - Wireless base station, mobile station, radio communication system, and radio communication method: The object of the present invention is to achieve reduction of interference between cells and improvement of maximum throughput so as to improve spectrum efficiency. A wireless base station which transmits a radio signal between itself and a plurality of mobile stations by means of OFDMA includes: a multiplexing part... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080247360 - Handoff of data attachment point: In a communication system in which a gateway entity is linked to a plurality of infrastructure entities which in turn are operable to communicate with an access terminal, the access terminal needs first to establish a data attachment point (DAP) with one of the infrastructure entities. Handoff of the DAP... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080247359 - Mobile device handoff controller and method and system including the same: A hand-off controller for use in a system including an application server, the application server being connected to a mobile device via a first network connection to conduct an application session involving data communications between the application server and the mobile device. The hand-off controller is operatively coupled to the... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080247361 - Traffic transmission path relocation method for radio communication system: A method for effectively relocating a traffic transmission path when a mobile terminal changes a gateway for a traffic transmission that may include: when a mobile terminal performs handover from a first radio network node to a second radio network node, determining a gateway for processing traffic most suitable for... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080247362 - Method for estimating reception quality of communication area, apparatus thereof, and program thereof: A reception quality estimating method estimates reception quality of a wireless communication area for estimating success or failure of handover processing occurring in a service area of a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations. The method includes a first step and a second step. In the first... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080247363 - Method for providing mobile service using code-pattern: A method and apparatus for providing a mobile service with the use of a code pattern is disclosed In one embodiment, the method comprising: taking a photograph of a code pattern image, decoding the photographed code pattern image so as to obtain code information, extracting uniform resource locator (URL) information... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080247364 - Cyclic delay diversity and precoding for wireless communication: Techniques for sending a MIMO transmission using a combination of cyclic delay diversity and precoding are described. A set of delays (e.g., zero delay, small delay, and large delay) for cyclic delay diversity and a set of precoding matrices may be supported. In one design, a Node B may select... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080247365 - Throughput optimized carrier allocation: A cell plan operation, a Routine and a base station are disclosed wherein user entities are allocated to at least two carriers (C1; C2) in at least one cell (A; B) of a system (node B), the first carrier (C1) having at least a first channel (DPCH), the second carrier... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080247372 - Data synchronization for multicast/broadcast service in wireless relay network: Wireless communication relay networks and techniques for providing data synchronization in Multicast Broadcast Services (MBS).... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080247366 - Forced silencing of transmitting device: Various embodiments are described relating to sharing scanning operations among nodes in a wireless network, such as a WiMedia ultra-wideband (UWB) network. In an example embodiment, a message may be sent from a sending node to one or more receiving nodes requesting the receiving nodes to reduce transmissions on a... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080247368 - Non centralized security function for a radio interface: A module dual mode device architecture and method of use is disclosed. The system architecture provides a distributed design of an IEEE 802.11i compliant supplicant module that provides security to data/voice packets sent over the wireless local area network (“WLAN”) radio interface from a dual mode device to an access... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080247369 - System and method for presence in wireless networks: The invention relates generally to a method for providing presence and instant messaging in a computer network. In particular, the invention is directed to a modified implementation of known wireless networking protocols to provide instant messaging and presence services to mobile units using. The instant messaging and presence services are... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080247367 - Systems and methods for scheduling transmissions for coexistence of differing wireless radio protocols: Embodiments of systems and methods for Bluetooth and WiMAX coexistence are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments systems and methods are described to determine a temporal reference associated a frame, and then align another wireless frame with that temporal reference. Once aligned, transmissions... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080247370 - Training signals for selecting antennas and beams in mimo wireless lans: A computer implemented method selects antennas in a multiple-input, multiple-output wireless local area network that includes multiple stations, and each station includes a set of antennas. Multiple consecutively transmitted sounding packets are received in a station. Each sounding packet corresponds to a different subset of the set of antennas. A... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080247371 - Wireless network system and method of configuring the same: Provided are a wireless network system and a method of configuring the same, in which stations that perform directional communication in a high-frequency band can share information regarding their communication capabilities with each other. An apparatus for managing stations that transmit/receive data using millimeter wave (mmWave) includes a communication capability... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080247373 - Multicast push to talk groups, apparatus, and methods: A terminal (such as that belonging to or carried by an emergency first responder, for example) participates in a push to talk multicast group in either of two modes or levels. In a first mode or first level of participation, the terminal can join a multicast address for the push... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080247374 - Receiving station for cdma wireless system and method: A communication station, such as a UE or Node B of a 3GPP system, configured to receive channelization coded signals on physical channels of at least one composite channel within timeslots of a system time frame. The actual number of channelization codes received for the composite channel within a system... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080247375 - Network-based inter-cell power control for multi-channel wireless networks: A method is described for operating a cellular network, where the cellular network uses a plurality of frequency division multiplexing (FDM) bands for wireless communication from user equipment (UE) to a base station (NodeB). At least one band-specific cell parameter is computed for at least one the plurality of FDM... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080247376 - Beaconing protocol for ad-hoc networks: A distributed MAC protocol is provided that includes a superframe (102) having a slotted Beaconing Period (104) and a data transfer period (103). The provided superframe (102) comprises a plurality of medium access slots (107) and a plurality of medium access slots (107) is assigned to the slotted Beaconing Period... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080247377 - Independent medium access control for discovering wireless networks: In one aspect, a wireless transceiver transmits and receives wireless signals, and medium access controller independently initiates transitions from a scanning state to a power conserving state and from the power conserving state to the scanning state. In the scanning state, the medium access controller directs the wireless transceiver to... Agent: Edouard Garcia Attorney At Law

20080247378 - Multi-network overlaid cell detection: A communications system includes a wireless telephony network and a wireless Local Area Network (LAN), both accessible by a mobile communications device (16). To facilitate transitioning of the mobile communications device to the wireless LAN from the wireless telephony network, the wireless LAN includes a beacon transmitter, which generates a... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080247380 - Locating original port information: A network, network devices, and methods are described for locating original port information. A network device includes a network chip having a number of network ports for the device for receiving and transmitting packets. The network chip includes logic to locate original port information for a packet returned from a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080247379 - Method and network for managing an interface for session-based synchronization: A method and network node for supporting a synchronization of a connectivity session location function (CLF) in a communication network. The method uses a processor for sending and receiving messages from a communication network, detecting the unavailability of the CLF, detecting that access information related to the session of the... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080247384 - Ims call routing using tel-uris: The present invention proposes a specific handling of tel URIs in an IMS terminating network so as to enable routing of calls using telephone numbers (and not SIP URIs with embedded telephone numbers) as identifiers of the target users of those calls. Specifically, the present invention introduces a conversion module... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080247385 - Provision of ims services via circuit-switched access: The present invention proposes a solution for providing IMS services to users having circuit-switched controlled terminal being not adapted to provide IMS services to the users. In particular, it is proposed, in order to allow IMS to take the full call and service control, to place a user agent being... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080247381 - Provisioning of redundant sip proxy resources: A resolution of the address of an SIP proxy in an SIP network, with redundant SIP proxy resources, is provided. To establish a connection in an SIP network, an SIP client typically transmits a request to a DNS server system to obtain an address to gain access to SIP proxy... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080247382 - System and method for providing improved voip services: The invention provides a system and method for providing voice over Internet protocol (“VoIP”) services with an improved quality of service (“QoS”). In one embodiment, a number of gateways or proxies are connected with dedicated links to form a dedicated network. Each gateway is also on one or multiple communication... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20080247383 - Voice over internet protocol phone: A VoIP phone includes a signal port, a comparison and distribution module, a first communication protocol module, a second communication protocol module, and a communication interface for a user to dial and talk. The comparison and distribution module is connected with the signal port for sorting signal outputted from the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080247386 - Fax relay tunneling: A system comprising a first network gateway coupled to a circuit-switched network, the first network gateway to initiate a tunnel through the circuit-switched network responsive to packetized fax relay data received from a packet-switched network, and a second network gateway couple to the circuit-switched network, the second network gateway to... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080247387 - Scalable hybrid switch fabric: In one embodiment, a three-stage scalable hybrid switch fabric has an input stage with one or more electronic input crossbar switches, a middle stage, and an output stage with one or more electronic output crossbar switches. The middle stage has (1) tunable optical transmitters that convert electrical signals received from... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20080247389 - Signaling in a cluster: An apparatus includes a flow unit configured to support a first control flow with a first node in the cluster. The flow unit is also configured to support a second control flow, through the apparatus, between the first node and a second node in the cluster. The first and second... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080247390 - System and method for correlating messages within a wireless transaction: A method and system for correlating messages within a wireless transaction, each of the messages requiring a unique message identifier, the method having the steps of: creating a transaction identifier, the transaction identifier being the same for related messages; and adding to the transaction identifier a message index, the message... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080247388 - Transferring a session in a cluster: Various techniques for transferring a session in a cluster are disclosed. In one configuration of a cluster, an apparatus may be configured to communicate with an access terminal. The apparatus may be configured to store a session for the access terminal, the session including a plurality of attributes. The apparatus... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080247391 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a communication system: A method for receiving multicast service data by a terminal in a communication system. The method includes receiving a pilot from a base station, measuring channel state information using the received pilot, and transmitting the channel state information to the base station; receiving a frame from the base station, and... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080247394 - Cluster switching architecture: A network switch including at least one data port interface supporting a plurality of data ports, at least one stack link interface configured to transmit data between the network switch and other network switches, and a CPU interface configured to communicate with a CPU. A memory management unit in communication... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080247395 - Internet protocol switch and use of the switch for switching a frame: Internet Protocol (IP) switch and method for switching an IP frame to an IP destination address. The IP switch includes access ports, interswitch ports, and a switching table. Each access port is connected to a corresponding host in a LAN. The interswitch ports are configured to be statically connected to... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080247396 - Method, system and computer processing an ip packet, routing a structured data carrier, preventing broadcast storms, load-balancing and converting a full broadcast ip packet: Method for processing content of an Internet Protocol (IP) packet and method for processing a full broadcast IP packet. Processing content of an IP packet includes: extracting IP source and destination addresses and payload from the IP packet; and generating an IP frame encapsulating the IP source and destination addresses... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080247393 - Methods and systems for using a link management interface to distribute information in a communications network: In various exemplary embodiments, the present invention provides a low-cost, low-processing overhead mechanism for distributing routing, topology, reachability, and recovery information across the interface between two nodes that may then be used by a network or client device to populate a topology database, route a connection, recover from a connection... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20080247397 - Network clustering for improving connection management and re-routing capabilities: Embodiments of the present invention relate to re-routing data packets in a communication network according to at least a first version and a second version of a protocol.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080247392 - Validating internal routing protocol information passed through an external routing protocol: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving authenticated site data that includes site ID data and address data. The site ID data indicates a unique site ID for each site among multiple sites for a first network that uses an internal routing protocol. Multiple edge sites of those sites are... Agent: Eugene Molinelli Evans & Molinelli PLLC

20080247398 - Method for reduction of data packet losses on updating of an address table: Reduction of data packet losses on updating of an address table, stored in a computer of a local network is provided. The address table comprises allocations of computer addresses, valid in the local network, to computer addresses valid in the Internet for transmission of data packets, whereby an address allocation... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080247399 - Modification of a switching table of an internet protocol switch: Methods for modifying a switching table of an Internet Protocol (IP) switch. The methods include: receiving a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) option 43 request from a host of a LAN at an access port of the IP switch; transmitting the request to a DHCP server; intercepting a DHCP response... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080247405 - Apparatus and method for switch zoning: An apparatus for assigning a device to a network zone comprises a switch component operable to receive an attachment request, port and device name data and device operating characteristics data from the device; and a rules engine operable to acquire the device operating characteristics data from the switch component; the... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080247402 - Communication relaying apparatus, communication relay, and controlling method: A wide area network is constructed by connecting a plurality of bases to a multipoint switching apparatus. Each base has a certain contracted communication band. If a packet is received from a first base having a higher contracted communication band and the packet is directed to a second base having... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080247406 - Layer 2 virtual private network over pbb-te/pbt and seamless interworking with vpls: A Layer 2 Virtual Private Network (L2VPN) system is provided. A Provider Backbone Bridge (PBB) network is provided which comprises a plurality of sites to be connected via a L2VPN. The plurality of sites in the PBB network is connected using a plurality of provider backbone trunks that includes a... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080247403 - Network bridge apparatus and communication method thereof: A network bridge apparatus and a communication method using the network bridge apparatus are provided. In the network bridge apparatus, a storage stores first attribute information which is provided by a first device of a first cluster for communication, an external communicator transmits the stored first attribute information to a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080247401 - Remote access to home communication services: A home-link gateway system for providing remote access to contracted telephone services at a home or other physical location is disclosed. The home-link gateway manages communications at the home location, for example between a PSTN or VoIP telephone network and local telephone handsets. A remote client agent requests access to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080247400 - System and method for increasing the efficiency in the delivery of media within a network: The present invention is directed to providing a system and method for using pre-established sub-networks within a larger network to improve the efficiency of transmitting media. Specifically, the current invention eliminates the need to re transmit a particular medium from its source to a sub-network. In using pre-established sub-networks, the... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080247404 - Telephone system and gateway device: According to one embodiment, a gateway connects a plurality of telephones to a packet network including a server processes calls using address information, includes a registration processor requires registrations of a plurality of items of address information to be used for call origination to packet network, a table records the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080247407 - Combined scheduling and network coding for wireless mesh networks: An architecture by which combined scheduling and network coding can be used in mesh networks, and more particularly wireless mesh networks. In various embodiments, this architecture includes a scheduling MAC protocol for scheduling nodes in the mesh network in order to take advantage of network coding opportunities. The schedule takes... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080247408 - Reliable broadcast protocol and apparatus for sensor networks: A method for broadcasting messages in an ad hoc wireless network having a tree-based architecture is provided. When a node receives a broadcast message for re-broadcasting to other nodes in the network, it builds a list of identifiers of other nodes in the network from which the node requires reception... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080247410 - Creating a low bandwidth channel within a high bandwidth packet stream: Creating a low-bandwidth channel in a high-bandwidth channel. By taking advantage of extra bandwidth in a high-bandwidth channel, a low-bandwidth channel is created by inserting extra packets. When an inter-packet gap of the proper duration is detected, the extra packet is inserted and any incoming packets on the high-bandwidth channel... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080247409 - Queuing and scheduling architecture using both internal and external packet memory for network appliances: Enhanced memory management schemes are presented to extend the flexibility of using either internal or external packet memory within the same network device. In the proposed schemes, the user can choose either static or dynamic schemes, both or which are capable of using both internal and external memory, depending on... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080247411 - Method to operate a crossbar switch: A method is described to operate a crossbar switch comprising a crossbar fabric with N sending and M receiving ports, with port cards connected to at least one sending and/or receiving port each of the crossbar fabric, said crossbar switch further comprising a control unit connected with the port cards... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080247412 - Hybrid channel assignment method and router thereof: A hybrid channel assignment method comprising the steps of negotiating among routers to select one router to act as a central server; collecting, at the selected router, information on an entire network transmitted from the other routers, and assigning channels based upon the information on the entire network; and reassigning... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080247413 - Communication apparatus and communication method: A communication apparatus includes: a storage section that stores a packet; a copy section that creates one or more copies of the packet stored in the storage section; and a transmission section that transmits at least two among the copies created by the copy section and the packet stored in... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080247414 - Clock stretching in an adaptive two-wire bus: Techniques for improving the quality or fidelity of a digital signal transmitted via a two-wire bus interconnect utilizing an open-terminal configuration at one or both end devices of the bus interconnect are disclosed. An intermediate two-wire bus is used to connect two open-terminal-based two-wire busses. A bus adapter device is... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080247415 - Method for indirect access to a support interface for memory-mapped resources to reduce system connectivity from out-of-band support processor: A method and apparatus are provided for a support interface for memory-mapped resources. A support processor sends a sequence of commands over and FSI interface to a memory-mapped support interface on a processor chip. The memory-mapped support interface updates memory, memory-mapped registers or memory-mapped resources. The interface uses fabric packet... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080247416 - Circuit for tapping a line in a network diagnostic component: The embodiments disclosed herein relate to a network diagnostic component and related circuit for tapping a line in the network diagnostic component. The network diagnostic component includes a first network port configured to connect with a first node, a second network port configured to connect with a second node and... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080247417 - Method and device for transmitting data via a transmission link: The invention relates, inter alia, to a method in which, by reducing the spectral power density in an underfrequency range (UB) of a transmitting/receiving unit, the fact that the underfrequency range (UB) should not be used to send data is indirectly transmitted. This method is particularly suitable for xDSL processes.... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080247419 - Method and apparatus for adaptive bandwidth control with user settings: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to receive a user input defining settings at an application layer to form a set of received settings. An adaptive bandwidth control process is executed using the received settings to identify a transmission rate for transmitting data packets across a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080247418 - Method and device for controlling access to a communications network: According to the invention, in order to control the access of traffic streams (VS) to the communications network (KN), an available capacity (VK), placed at the disposal of an access node (ZK) for transferring traffic streams (VS) to said communications network (KN), is determined from an access node (ZK) of... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080247420 - System and method for monitoring information handling system interfaces through cables having plural links: A port width module operating in association with SAS controllers determines the operational state of communication across an SAS cable by comparing the number of links at opposing controllers that are capable of supporting communication with the number of links in DWord synchronization. For example, an information handling system capable... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080247421 - Service assembly architecture: A method for effecting communication between devices in a communications network, the method comprising managing a communications process control flow; providing a plurality of re-usable components of the process control flow in which each component comprises a process control activity between two of the devices; aggregating the plurality of re-usable... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080247422 - Asynchronous line interface rate adaptation to the physical layer with synchronous lines at the connection layer: A method for adapting the rates of a certain number of asynchronous HDLC channels (15) to a single clock domain suited for interfacing with an HDLC processor (13) through a synchronous pseudo-TDM interface (14) in which the HDLC channels are multiplexed in time and vice versa in the opposite direction.... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080247423 - System and method for transporting multiple client data signals via a signal server signal: Systems and methods for conveying multiple low-bit-rate data streams over a data transport medium which is configured to transport data in a single, high-bit-rate data stream. In one embodiment, a plurality of low-bit-rate signals are received and a corresponding data rate is determined. Each of the signals is formatted in... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080239939 - Frequency domain echo and next cancellation: A cancellation system is disclosed for processing incoming and outgoing signals in a transform domain to create a cancellation signal for reducing or removing unwanted interference. Data is ordered based on Good-Thomas indexing into a two dimensional array in a buffer. The two dimensional array may have lr rows and... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20080239936 - Method and apparatus for mitigating interference in multicarrier modulation systems: A method and apparatus for mitigating the effect of adjacent channel interference in a multicarrier modulation system is provided. The method includes receiving an encoded signal over multiple subcarriers at different frequencies. The signal includes a plurality of pilot symbols and data symbols modulated onto the subcarriers using a modulation... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080239938 - Method and system for uplink coordinated reception in orthogonal frequency division multiple access systems: Embodiments disclose a method of coordinating reception of uplink transmissions in order to reduce interference among transceivers in an OFDM wireless transmission system, or similar communication system, including a number of receivers communicating with one or more basestations in cell or sector arrangements. A basestation within each sector includes an... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080239937 - Mitigation of interference and crosstalk in communications systems: Signals in a multi-channel, impaired communication system are post-processed at the receiver. A triangular matrix Decision Feedback Demodulator (DFD) at the receiver extracts channels without requiring delivery of receiver parameters to the transmitter. Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) processing matrices and DFD parameters are computed by first applying matrix transformations to diagonalize... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP (tokyo Electron)

20080239940 - Method of qam soft demapping: A method of demapping in a receiver including deriving M intermediate soft bit values yj for each of the I and Q data of the input signal as a function of the spacing in the constellation; and limiting the range of the M values yj. A look-up table index is... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080239941 - System and method for fft window timing synchronization for an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexed data stream: A system and method for determining an FFT window location for reception of an OFDM signal received over a transmission channel. The OFDM signal includes a plurality of symbols each having a guard interval. The system includes a correlation module that determines a location of maximum correlation in a first... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP Z2002

20080239944 - Classification of signaling protocol errors to trigger network connectivity troubleshooting: In an embodiment, a system and method which monitors a signaling plane for error events among one or more network nodes in a converged network. The system and method classifies and calculates, based on user defined parameters, a threshold value or percentage of error events which occur within a desired... Agent: Cisco - Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080239942 - Systems and methods for verifying recovery from an intermittent hardware fault: Systems and methods for verifying recovery from intermittent hardware faults. Exemplary embodiments include a method for verifying recovery from intermittent hardware faults, the method including generating an error in a computer interface by forcing a hardware fault after setting an error injection enable control bit in a register coupled to... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20080239943 - Traffic protection in a communication network: A loop protection mechanism including dynamically determining a link connecting two adjacent nodes of a loop in a communication network in accordance with a predefined criterion, and reconfiguring the loop so that the loop is broken at the determined link which is an optimal link in terms of the predefined... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080239946 - Communication system, switch: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a communication system comprises: a. a first information processing device; b. a first communication line and a first backup line connected to the first information processing device, respectively; c. a second information processing device; d. a second communication line and second backup line... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080239945 - Peripheral component switch having automatic link failover: Disclosed are a PCI switch assembly, having automatic link failover, and a computer system including that switch assembly. The switch assembly comprises first and second interconnected, peripheral component switches. Each of the these switches has first and second primary ports and a plurality of secondary ports. The switch assembly has... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080239947 - Method and apparatus for failure resilient forwarding of data over a computer network: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and an apparatus for failure-resilient forwarding of data over a computer network. In one embodiment, a marker is introduced into the data stream, e.g., at the sending node, and allows, in turn, forwarding nodes and/or receivers to efficiently track data stream... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan LLP IBM Corporation

20080239952 - Flexible ethernet bridge: In one embodiment, an Ethernet bridge operates in either VLAN aware mode or VLAN unaware mode as specified by a user. The width of a CAM used for storing address table can be minimized by using a mapping of VLAN identifiers to small numbers, which are stored in the CAM.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080239949 - Load-balanced cell switch device and priority control method: In cell read from a buffer for each priority provided in the intermediate stage buffers 1-5-1-1-5-N, cells can be read even from a low priority buffer within a fixed time period and at the output interfaces 1-12-1-1-12-N, cell arrival can be monitored individually on a priority basis and on a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080239951 - Method for applying stochastic control optimization for messaging systems: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for controlling when to send messages in a stream processing system. A policy is determined by utilizing probability statistics and a cost function prior to stream processing. The policy specifies under which conditions a message is sent eagerly and under... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080239948 - Speculative congestion control system and cross-layer architecture for use in lossy computer networks: Methods and apparatus are provided to improve data throughput in a wireless, wireline or a combination wireless and wireline communication system. A congestion control manager selects between an assumption based congestion control algorithm and a speculation based congestion control algorithm. The selected algorithm generates data recovery instructions including instructions for... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080239950 - Telecommunications method and system involving active nodes having full receive state and isolated receive state from non-allocated traffic: A telecommunications system. The system includes a communications network. The system includes N nodes, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, which run a same or different applications and process a same or different ranges of application level traffic, and which communicate with each other through... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080239953 - Method and apparatus for minimizing congestion in gateways: Methods and apparatus are provided to reduce data congestion and thus improve data throughput in gateways used in a wireless, wireline or a combination wireless and wireline communication system. The congestion management system optimally resizes, or not, congestion window (or buffer) sizing and threshold for the communication gateways based upon... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080239954 - Method and system for communication between nodes: A method of communicating with a network interface includes providing a packet to the network interface, where the packet includes an address field indicating a destination of the packet. The network interface analyzes the address field, and determines if it reflects an address associated with the network interface. If not,... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080239955 - Adaptive cross-network message bandwidth allocation by message servers: In one embodiment, a network device is described as including a rate monitor to monitor an actual individual message rate of event messages sent from each one of a plurality of sending devices operatively in communication with the network device, an allocator to allocate an individual message rate limit to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080239956 - Data and control plane architecture for network application traffic management device: A data and control plane architecture for network devices. An example system architecture includes a network processing unit implementing one or more data plane operations, and a network device operably coupled to the network processing unit that implements a control plane. In a particular implementation, the network processing unit is... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080239963 - Bypassing routing stacks using mobile internet protocol: Methods, systems and computer program products for load balancing using Mobile Internet Protocol (IP) Version 6 are provided. A request for a connection is received from a client at a routing stack. A Mobile IP Version 6 Binding Update message is transmitted from the routing stack to the client responsive... Agent: Elizabeth A. Stanek Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080239959 - Methods and apparatus for routing using bifurcated network flows: Methods and apparatus are provided with improved routing techniques for bifurcated flows. Routing methods and apparatus are provided that obtain a fractional flow from a set of nodes to a given destination having a maximum load, L, on any link between a node in the set and the given destination;... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP Suite 205

20080239962 - Network resource management system and method, and radio control apparatus: RNC includes an RNSAP protocol unit that receives a protocol message containing TFS (maximum number of blocks, TB size, TTI), a data definition unit that defines a first factor which is an average value of transport blocks and a second factor which is an average value of data size of... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080239961 - Packet routing based on application source: A traffic manager may monitor network performance, detect that the network performance has changed, and may prioritize network traffic based on which application or function is associated with the traffic. Each packet of network traffic may be analyzed to determine a source application or source function and allowed or disallowed... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080239960 - Path-based adaptive prioritization and latency management: An improved solution for managing messages through a request response protocol network utilizing a path-based adaptive prioritization and latency management is provided. In an embodiment of the invention, a method of managing a message being conveyed through a request response protocol network via a path includes: receiving the message; determining... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080239957 - Ransmission capacity allocation method, communications network, and network resource management device: The invention implements inter-terminal transmission with guaranteed capacity based on the single-path configuration function of networks composed of switching hubs with an MAC address learning function and centralized management of transmission capacity, without control over hubs. The capacity to be used by transmission links on a network is stored in... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080239958 - Routing path calculation apparatus and methods: Routing path calculation apparatus and methods are disclosed. Calculation of routing paths within different routing areas of a communication system is handled by respective routing path calculation devices. Multiple devices may be requested to perform respective routing path calculations for segments of a routing path between endpoints in different routing... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC.

20080239964 - Congestion control system, service edge node, guidance server, congestion control method, program therefor, and recording medium recorded therewith: In an edge region between an access network for connection to an IP communication terminal of a subscriber via a gateway and a core network for providing the subscriber with an IP telephone service, a service edge node and a guidance server are disposed. The service edge node controls a... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080239965 - Method and system for reporting terminal information, and method and system for maintaining terminal device, as well as device management system: The invention discloses a method and a system of reporting terminal information in Device Management (DM) field. The method includes: the terminal reporting terminal information through an information reporting interface provided by a DM Agent module; the DM Agent module forwarding the terminal information to a DM Server; and the... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080239967 - Network performance estimating device, network performance estimating method and storage medium having a network performance estimating program stored therein: A network performance estimating device for estimating network performance of a parallel computing machine for executing plural processes in parallel, includes a communication data obtaining unit that obtains communication data output from plural calculation nodes when the plural processes are executed by using the plural calculation nodes, a design estimating... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080239968 - System and method for gateway call routing: Methods and apparatus are provided for routing calls or call information. A gateway may span a plurality of networks and determine call routing information based on one or more rules defining a dial plan. Various actions may be taken in response to incoming calls matching rules of the dial plan.... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080239966 - Test apparatus, test method, waveform generator and waveform generating method: A test apparatus for testing a device under test including a receiving circuit for receiving signals transmitted through a communication cable is provided. The test apparatus includes: a waveform generating section for outputting waveform data to define a waveform to be provided to an input terminal of a receiving circuit;... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080239969 - Method and system for data forwarding in label switching network: The present invention discloses a method for data forwarding used in label switching networks, with which, at the source node, sequence numbers are added to the data packets forming an original data flow to be forwarded according to the forwarding order, then the data packets are mapped to label switched... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080239970 - Ring topology discovery: A method is provided for determining the integrity of a domain defined in a network. The method includes processes and systems to facilitate the discovery a conceptual ring topology of the domain in the network, and the determination of the integrity of the domain based on the conceptual ring topology... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080239971 - Voip device test system and test method: An MAC address of each of devices under testing is entered. An IP address is assigned to each entered MAC address. The IP addresses and telephone numbers assigned to the devices and a failure test terminal are associated with one another and registered in a system server. Out of telephones... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080239973 - Method of data integrity control in an afdx network:

20080239972 - System and method of performance monitoring of multicast services with mobility support: An approach is disclosed for monitoring performance of a network providing multicast and mobility services. A test profile is generated for determining performance of the multicast network. The test profile is uploaded on a mobile host that is configured to communicate over the multicast network, wherein the mobile host is... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080239978 - Automatic data rate and power adjustment on communications uplink based on communications activity on communications downlink: An Internet Protocol (IP) telephone operates a communications uplink to a switch based on activity on a separate communications downlink (such as to a personal computer) to conserve power when possible. The IP telephone monitors the communications activity of a link partner on the communications downlink, and when the link... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20080239981 - Communication device, communication control system, communication control method and recording medium recording communication control program: The present invention provides a communication control system that monitors a status of a transmission line, and can dynamically change a communication band used by a communication device included in an access line based on the monitored result. Line terminal devices (200-1 to 200-n) monitor a status of transmission lines... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080239976 - Communication link interception using link fingerprint analysis: A method for monitoring communication includes intercepting one or more communication links, which are part of a communication system that includes a plurality of the communication links. Data content that is carried by the one or more communication links is decoded. First and second mathematical fingerprints related to the one... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080239980 - Linear time interference map for 802.11 networks: The present invention advantageously provides a method for estimating an interference map for nodes in a network by continuously broadcasting packets from a jammer node at maximum capacity, simultaneously recording a delivery ratio from the jammer node to every other network node, concurrently, for all nodes except the jammer node,... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080239974 - Measurement of network performance in transporting packet streams: A method and apparatus for measuring network performance. A packet from a stream of multimedia data packets is received from across a network during a measurement interval. The time interval from the start of the measurement interval to receiving the packet is measured. The response of a buffer to the... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080239975 - Message collision handling: A collision handling receiver for use in a data communication network. The collision handling system and method comprises collision handling receivers together with transmitters inserting pseudo-random delays. Accordingly, multiple sources may transmit simultaneous messages to a receiver so that the messages arrive with varying signal levels and times of arrival.... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080239983 - Method for integrating downstream performance and resource usage statistics into load balancing weights: In datacenter environments, many copies of servicing components (application servers, http servers, etc) are used to handle larger loads. In these cases, incoming service requests typically go to a load balancer to be directed to the appropriate servicing component. Modern advances in technology, like the Server/Application State Protocol, have allowed... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080239982 - Method for monitoring impulse noise: In a network for digital data packet transmission, quality records are stored in a memory. Each of the quality records is indicative for a reception quality being sensed of one or more received data packets. Thereupon, upon overflow of the memory, one or more of the quality records is discarded... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080239977 - Methods and arrangements for selection of a wireless transmission method based upon signal to noise ratios: Methods and arrangements for wireless communications are contemplated. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to determine the signal to noise ratios (SNRs) of multiple stations associated with an access point in a wireless network. The embodiments may also include selecting whether one of the stations communicates with... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080239979 - Web service monitoring system using policy: A system uses policy to monitor web services. A request of quality of service (QoS) is thus achieved. A control center monitors and manages service monitors to collect data from QoS units. A service level agreement (SLA) can be used with the policy for assigning tasks. The QoS request from... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080239984 - Energy saving system/network: An energy saving system/network is used to control the power of air conditioners (AC) in hotels/motels. The system includes a master device and an array of slave devices. The master device may be installed in the hotel/motel front desk area, while the slave devices may be installed in guest rooms.... Agent: Wilson Daniel Swayze, Jr.

20080239985 - Method and apparatus for a services model based provisioning in a multitenant environment: A method, system and computer usable program code is disclosed for mapping a logical topology to information technology (IT) resources. The method comprises the steps of generating a logical topology of resources for a solution to a given request for resources, extracting information about shared rules and constraints on IT... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080239991 - Method and apparatus for efficient routing of variable traffic: A method and apparatus for provide highly efficient traffic routing for a wide range of possible traffic matrices (TM) in an intra-domain network. That routing optimally balances the traffic loads over a range of traffic matrices so as to minimize the deviation for any particular traffic matrix from the optimal... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20080239988 - Method and system for network infrastructure offload traffic filtering: Aspects of a method and system for network infrastructure offload traffic filtering are disclosed and 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 implement filtering rules upon traffic received by... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080239989 - Method of routing and resource allocation in a wireless communication system: The present invention provides a method for route and resource allocation. One embodiment of the method includes determining at least one network variable associated with a network that includes a plurality of nodes connected by a plurality of links. The network variable(s) are determined based on a plurality of basic... Agent: Docket Administrator Lucent Technologies Inc.

20080239990 - Networking apparatus and computer usable medium therefor: A networking apparatus electrically connectable with a removable device and an external device through a network is provided. The networking apparatus includes a removal instruction receiving unit to receive a disconnection instruction to electrically disconnect the removable device from the networking apparatus, an approval inquiry transmission unit to transmit an... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080239986 - System and method for automatic detection of utran topology: System and method for automatically detecting nodes, components and interfaces in a network. A preferred embodiment comprises detecting nodes in a network, wherein the nodes are coupled to a network controller, comprises identifying ports for the network controller, capturing messages received by the network controller at the ports, parsing the... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20080239987 - System and method for real-time iub and iur link detection and aal5 channel detection in utran: System and method for identifying interfaces and channels in a network using messages passing through the network. An embodiment comprises detecting components of a network, comprises capturing a message from the network, extracting a network node identifier from the captured message, comparing the network node identifier to a database of... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20080239992 - Methods and apparatus for performing channel tree operations: Methods and apparatus for performing channel tree operations in a communication system are disclosed that order a channel tree to effect improved computation speed for channel tree operations for scheduling channel resources in the communication system. The disclosed methods include mapping each of one or more node identifiers of real... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080239993 - System and method for providing premium transport in a docsis-compliant cable network: A system and method for providing premium transport in a DOCSIS-compliant cable network. An edge server in a DOCSIS-compliant cable network maintains a list of preferred content providers (PCPs). For each PCP, the PCP list comprises matching criteria. The edge server monitors the header of incoming packets for the matching... Agent: Roberts, Mardula & Wertheim, LLC

20080239995 - Method and system for the automatic configuration of conference resources: A method for the automatic configuration of conference resources includes receiving a user request identifying at least one conference resource to be used in a conference. The at least one conference resource is reserved for the conference. Operation of the conference resource is automatically initiated without user interaction.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080239994 - Multimedia conference resource sharing system and method: A multimedia conference system is provided that includes a conference server, a file server, an organizer system, and one or more participant systems. The conference server is configured to promote participants conferencing. The file server is configured to maintain conference related multimedia content. The organizer system is used by an... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080239997 - Distributed real-time data mixing for conferencing: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving data that indicates a maximum number of end nodes with which to set up real-time data sessions that is less than a conference number of nodes whose data is mixed in a single real-time data conference. Real-time data sessions are established with a... Agent: Eugene Molinelli Evans & Molinelli PLLC

20080239996 - Sharing ongoing data session: The present invention discloses a solution for performing a sharing an ongoing data session between a first user and a group of at least one additional user in a telecommunication system. The basic idea of this invention is to provide a network integration node with a shared streaming session logic,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080239998 - Sip communication system, call control server and sip communication method: There is provided a SIP communication system or the like which, by performing SIP communication between a terminal and a call control server, performs position registration or calling control of the terminal and provides one or multiple supplementary services for an incoming/outgoing call in accordance with subscriber information managed by... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080239999 - Methods and apparatus for customizing the audio characteristics of networked voice communications devices: Methods and apparatus for customizing the audio parameters of a networked voice communications device (NVCD) are presented. One method includes receiving a settings file, determining a group parameter, extracting at least one audio control parameter from the settings file based upon the group parameter, deriving audio processing parameters based upon... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20080240000 - System and method for radio operation in umts bands i and iv utilizing a single receiving port: A portable electronic device comprises a multi-band wireless transceiver for communication with a remote device. The portable electronic device comprises a transceiver: i) generating a first band modulated carrier at a first transmitter port; ii) generating a second band modulated carrier at a second transmitter port; and iii) including a... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080240001 - Time division duplex wireless network and associated method using modulation groups: A transceiver for use in a wireless access network comprising a plurality of base stations, each of the plurality of base stations capable of bidirectional time division duplex (TDD) communication with wireless access devices disposed at a plurality of subscriber premises in a corresponding cell site of the wireless access... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080240002 - Wireless transmission method of using efficient high performance frame structure in wideband tdd system: The present invention provides a method of wireless transmission using a high-efficiency and high-performance frame structure used by the broadband TDD system, wherein the method includes: dividing a sub-frame with a fixed length into N+1 basic slots and three special slots, wherein one basic slot is used to transmit broadcast... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080240003 - Transmission method in a wireless telecommunication system including at least a base station intended to communicate with terminals: e

20080240004 - Controlling a jitter buffer: A method and a network device for controlling a jitter buffer are disclosed. The method comprises providing a jitter buffer to counter the effect of jitter in a communication channel and comprises determining a duplex mode of the communication channel. The method further comprises adjusting parameters of the jitter buffer... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080240007 - Inter-ring fairness control method and rpr node device: The fairness of communication traffic guaranteed within an RPR ring is guaranteed also at a ring interconnection. Transmit weight information used for fairness control is extracted from RPR control information in an arrival packet. In addition to this transmit weight information, a source address, a service class, a fairness bit,... Agent: Jackson Chen, Nec Corporation Of America

20080240006 - Mobile communication device and power conservation method thereof: A mobile communication device and a power saving method thereof are provided. The method determines whether to enter a normal mode or a power saving mode according to the moving state of the mobile communication device to achieve the objective of saving power. The timing start function of the mobile... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080240005 - Processing wireless and broadband signals using resource sharing: Methods and structures are described for processing signals formatted according to a plurality of different wireless and broadband standards. In some embodiments, network resources are shared to enable energy efficient, pseudo-simultaneous processing. In some embodiments, a timestamp is prepended to input data to remove jitter associated with time division multiplexed... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080240009 - System and method for data transmission/reception in a communication system: Disclosed is a system and method for transmitting data based on an operational state of a mobile station in a communication system. The method includes, when detecting a low battery state of the mobile station, storing one or more data packets to be transmitted to the mobile station, extracting at... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080240008 - Wireless network apparatus and system field of the invention: The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically choose a channel such that channel usage is optimized. Furthermore, APs can... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras LLP

20080240010 - Intelligent orchestration of cross-media communications: A method and architecture for managing a communication campaign direct toward a plurality of media consumption devices associated with a common user (101), including obtaining communication addresses for each of the plurality of media consumption devices (110, 116, 122) associated with the common user, associating the common user with a... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080240011 - Method and apparatus for error correction in mbms receipt system: Provided is an error correcting method that can provide improved error correction efficiency in a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) by marking the presence of an error in a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) with an error instead of discarding the erroneous PDU in an MBMS terminal of the MBMS system, which... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080240012 - Information exchange system and method: A system and method for providing on demand information exchange between a data store and a portable recipient data storage device includes a source of data and a data transfer initiator, coupled to the source of data and configured for initiating the transfer of data from the source of data... Agent: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd Co/amc Intellectual Property Grp

20080240014 - Apparatus and method for asynchronous control message transmission for data retransmission in wireless relay communication system: An apparatus and a method for data retransmission in a multihop relay wireless communication system are provided. The retransmission method includes determining whether an error is detected in data received from an upper node; generating a message indicative of the data error; and sending the message to the upper node... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080240013 - Power control for compressed mode in wcdma system: To perform closed loop power control, a receiving station measures the signal strength of a received signal transmitted from a transmitting station, generates periodic power control commands based on the signal strength measurements, and transmits the periodic power control commands to a transmitting station to control the transmit power level... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080240015 - Repeater device and repeater system: A repeater device that is placed between a transmission device connected to a server device and a reception device connected to a console device that controls the server device. The repeater device repeats a signal between the transmission device and the reception device, and includes an equalizer amplifier that amplifies... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080240018 - Dynamic multi-access relaying for wireless networks: Methods, apparatuses and systems for communicating in a wireless network are disclosed. One embodiment includes a method for communication in a wireless network that comprises determining a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for channels between a base station, one or more relay stations, and a user and selecting a relay station based... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080240016 - Ims networks providing business-related content to wireless devices: IMS networks and methods are disclosed for providing business-related content to wireless devices that are located within a business. For a business that has a WLAN, wireless devices within range of the wireless access point of the business receive an identifier for the wireless access point. The wireless devices then... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080240021 - Mac coordination architecture for multi-ratio coexistence and a method for connecting over sideband channels: A wireless device with a multi-radio platform includes a scheduling coordinator connected by a control bus to enable the radios to share frequency spectrum by operating during time slots requested by the radios, avoid collisions, mitigate interference and control shared hardware components.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080240017 - Method and apparatus of establishing connection in wireless local area network: An access point and a method to discover an associated station in a wireless network is presented. The access point scans the wireless network in order to discover one or more associated stations and establishes a connection with the discovered station.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080240019 - Methods and devices for scheduling the transmission of multicast messages in wireless local area networks: Real-time broadcast and multicast based packet transmissions/services over a wireless, local area networks (WLAN) may be improved by reducing the interference across neighboring access points (APs) while minimally impacting the performance of unicast transmissions/services. Minimal impact is assured by scheduling the transmission of multicast packet flows such that the duration... Agent: Capitol Patent & Trademark Law Firm, PLLC

20080240020 - Routing support in heterogeneous communications networks: A device comprises a first binding unit which provides for a binding to a first tunnelling server using a first protocol, a second binding unit which provides for a binding to a second tunnelling server using a second protocol different from the first protocol, and an authorizing unit which causes... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080240029 - Aircraft communications system selectively allocating data communications channel capacity and associated methods: A communications system for an aircraft carrying personnel having personal electronic devices (PEDs) for wireless data communications outside the aircraft includes a ground-based communications network, and an access point in the aircraft for providing a WLAN for data communications with the PEDs. An air-to-ground transceiver in the aircraft cooperates with... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080240023 - Central frequency modification without communication disruption: Methods for modifying a central frequency of a channel following a change in channel width between wireless devices are disclosed. The station desiring a channel width change notifies the AP and enters a constructive power management mode, which keeps the AP from sending frames to the station. This enables the... Agent: Carrie A. Boone, P.C.

20080240026 - Distributed channel allocation method and wireless mesh network therewith: A distributed channel allocation method and a wireless mesh network with the same are provided herein. By the distributed channel allocation, interference situations are avoided in a wireless network communication, and the allocated bandwidth can then be fully utilized. Besides, unnecessary depletion of an allocated bandwidth due to the interference... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080240031 - Extensions to adaptive beam-steering method: A radio frequency (RF) transmitter is coupled to and controlled by a processor to transmit data. A physical layer circuit is coupled to the RF transmitter to encode and decode between a digital signal and a modulated analog signal. The physical layer circuit comprises a high rate physical layer circuit... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080240028 - Filtering and guard band for non-synchronized transmission: A wireless terminal capable of communicating with a wireless communication system comprised of a plurality of wireless terminals and a plurality of base stations. The wireless terminal selects a sequence from a group of certain sequences for random access. At least one sub-carriers on an uplink channel including at least... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080240024 - Method and apparatus for detecting and identifying spectrum opportunities: A method (20,200) and apparatus (10) for detecting and identifying spectrum opportunities, including the steps of communicating a location of at least one node (12) to at least one base station (14) (24), transmitting a list of at least one channel from the at least one base station (14) to... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080240022 - Method for allocating and accessing radio resources in ofdma system: Disclosed is a method for allocating and accessing downlink resources in the OFDMA communication system. In the resource allocation method, bursts having the same modulation and channel encoding level are arranged in a predetermined temporal order on a physical layer. Information on the allocated unit resources is included in a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080240033 - Support of disparate addressing plans and dynamic ha address allocation in mobile ip: Methods and apparatus for enhancing Mobile IP signaling and to support use of disparate addressing plans and dynamic Home Agent allocation in Mobile IP Regional Tunneling are described. The enhanced methods of signaling use an intermediate node, e.g., a Gateway Foreign Agent, straddling different addressing domains, when the signaling controls... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080240032 - System and method for condensed frequency reuse in a wireless communication system: A legacy spectrum allocation results in inefficient use of the spectrum now allocated to broadband services. A broadband wireless OFDMA communication system allocates channels with overlap between adjacent channels to make more efficient use of the allocated spectrum. Guard tones are eliminated to reduce channel bandwidth requirements leaving a smaller... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080240025 - System and method for controlling the transmission power of a node: A system (10) and method (50) for controlling the transmission power of a node (14) that includes at least one base station (12), at least one node (14), a sensor (16), and a control unit (20). The node (14) is in communication with the base station (12). The sensor (16)... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080240030 - Transmission adaptation in a wireless network: Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to transmission adaptation in a wireless network. According to another example embodiment, an apparatus may include a processor. The processor may be configured to measure a channel quality for a plurality of wireless resources (e.g., physical resource blocks), determine one or more proposed resources... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080240027 - Wireless network system: In a wireless network system for interconnecting a wireless network and another network different from the wireless network, the wireless network system includes: a plurality of wireless nodes for establishing the wireless network; a control device connected to the other network; and a plurality of gateways for interconnecting the wireless... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080240034 - Methods for frequency-selective persistent scheduling: Methods for allocating wireless resources are provided. In one method, time domain resources are persistently allocated to a user for a data transmission during a transmission time interval, and frequency domain resources are dynamically allocated to the user for the data transmission during the transmission time interval. Methods provide flexibility... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080240038 - Aircraft communications system with hard handoff and associated methods: A communications system for an aircraft carrying at least some personnel having personal electronic devices (PEDs) for wireless data communications outside the aircraft includes a ground-based communications network comprising spaced apart base stations, and an access point in the aircraft for providing a WLAN for data communications with the PEDs.... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080240039 - Apparatus and method of performing a handoff in a communication network: Apparatus and methods enable an efficient, low-latency handoff of a communication session, which may be especially effective in a high data rate network. The apparatus and methods provide for a source transceiver module to complete a transmission in-progress while at the same time informing a target transmission module of an... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080240042 - High-density wireless local area network: A data communication system includes an access point and a plurality of stations each for exchanging wireless data communication messages with the access point. At least some of the messages are in a format that includes at least one message header and a plurality of data units. Each of the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080240040 - Ip address allocation in evolved wireless networks: A networking system includes a first wireless network module that transmits a request to attach to a network and a second wireless network module. The second wireless network module receives the request, determines whether the first wireless network module requires an IP address based on the request, and selectively allocates... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080240037 - Method and apparatus to facilitate mobile station communications using internet protocol-based communications: In a communication network (400), wireless access points (300) utilize one or more agents (302, 306) to support the operating needs of corresponding mobile stations. Pursuant to one approach, the agent supports translation of the mobile station's end-to-end protocol-based messages to Internet Protocol-based messages that are readily ported through an... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080240035 - Method and system for base station change of packet switched communications in a mobile communications system: The invention provides a method for fastening a polymeric label to a glass, plastic, or metal container or surface by means of a water based composition containing ac least 30% by dry weight of animal glue; that is activated into an adhesive by the following steps: (a) applying a layer... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080240041 - Method and system of reducing handover time in mobile ip network: A method and system of reducing handover time in a mobile IP network. An Foreign Agent (FA), when a terminal carries out a handover between mobile Internet Protocol Version-4 (IPv4) sub-networks of the Foreign Agent (FA), identifies whether or not a registration request message from the terminal is transmitted from... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080240036 - Method for resource management and method for traffic guidance in the multimode radio: The application discloses a method for resource management and a method for traffic guidance in a multimode radio network comprising a plurality of mobile communication networks of different modes that share wideband transmission links and sites of centralized base stations, the centralized base stations of the plurality of mobile communication... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080240043 - Method for performing handover by considering quality of service in broadband mobile communication system and system for providing the same: A system and method for performing a handover of a mobile station (MS) by considering Quality of Service (QoS) in a broadband mobile communication system. The method can include the steps of: receiving information about one or more neighbor base stations and reception strengths for the neighbor base stations from... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080240046 - Base station for controlling initial power ramp-up using short codes: A base station for controlling transmission power during the establishment of a communication channel utilizes the reception of a short code during initial power ramp-up. The short code is a sequence for detection by the base station which has a much shorter period than a conventional access code. The ramp-up... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080240045 - Method and apparatus for allocation of radio resources: Characteristics of an unknown application on the wireless network are compared with characteristics of previously classified wireless applications. When the characteristics of the unknown application match those of a previously classified application, the bandwidth requirement associated with the matching previously classified application is allocated to the unknown application by the... Agent: Zagorin O'brien Graham LLP (037)

20080240047 - Method and subscriber unit for controlling initial power ramp-up using short codes: A base station for controlling transmission power during the establishment of a communication channel utilizes the reception of a short code during initial power ramp-up. The short code is a sequence for detection by the base station which has a much shorter period than a conventional access code. The ramp-up... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080240044 - Packet data load generator system for 1x-evdo wireless network: A packet data load generator (PDLG) system, and method for testing the PDLG system, includes a Linux-based computer terminal having multiple 1x-EVDO wireless interface cards, e.g., Sierra Wireless AirCards®, directly interfaced therewith. PCI-to-PCMCIA adapter cards are used for connecting the wireless cards to the terminal. The terminal also includes a... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080240064 - method for transmitting frames in a wireless local area network: On the case of receiving data frame from a station, the method of the present invention instructs the repeater to replace the content of the receiver address field by the address of the bridge when receiving the frame transmitted from the station, and then forwards the frames to the bridge.... Agent: Harold V. Stotland Seyfarth Shaw

20080240057 - Accessing hardware initialization data of wlan module using die identifier: A method, system and apparatus of accessing hardware initialization data of WLAN module using die identifier are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a die identification data of a WLAN module when the WLAN module is integrated to a device having a non-volatile memory, and writing initialization data... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080240056 - Air-time control of wireless networks: A method and apparatus for controlling transmission air-time available to a wireless node within a wireless network is disclosed. The method includes occupied by transmission packets. The method includes the wireless node monitoring air-time available to the wireless node for wireless transmission. The wireless node controls wireless transmission of neighboring... Agent: Tropos Networks

20080240061 - Aircraft communications system with data memory cache and associated methods: A communications system for an aircraft carrying at least some personnel having personal electronic devices (PEDs) for wireless data communications outside the aircraft includes a ground-based communications network, and an access point in the aircraft for providing a wireless local area network (WLAN) for data communications with the PEDs. An... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080240062 - Aircraft communications system with network selection controller and associated methods: A communications system for an aircraft carrying at least some personnel having personal electronic devices (PEDs) for wireless data communications outside the aircraft includes a ground-based communications network, and a satellite-based communications network. An access point is in the aircraft for providing a WLAN for data communications with the PEDs.... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080240052 - Client-based information service for seamless vertical handovers: A system and method to enable a wireless device having multiple radios to obtain information about wireless networks without each radio having to independently scan for all available networks. The wireless device downloads information from a remote information server, such that the information is later accessible locally. The local information... Agent: Carrie A. Boone, P.C.

20080240063 - High-density wireless local area network: A data communication system includes an access point and a plurality of stations each for exchanging wireless data communication messages with the access point. At least some of the messages are in a format that includes at least one message header and a plurality of data units. Each of the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080240048 - Multiradio management through shared time allocation: A system for managing the operation of a plurality of radio modules integrated within the same wireless communication device. In at least one embodiment of the present invention, time may be allocated for use in communicating over one or more wireless communication mediums. The allocated time may take the form... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080240053 - Quality of service (qos) negotiation between network nodes in a mobile ip network: Techniques for negotiating QoS between a foreign agent and a home agent of a Mobile IP network are described herein. According to one embodiment, quality of service (QoS) parameters are extracted from a registration reply message received from a home agent of a home network in response to a registration... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080240054 - Relay scheduling in wireless networks: Methods, apparatuses and systems for communicating in a wireless network are disclosed. One embodiment includes a method for communication in a wireless network that comprises scheduling relay transmissions by stations in separate cells of the wireless network based on out-of-cell interference. The method may also include transmitting data by one... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080240059 - Resource allocation method of subscriber of service negotiation system: A resource allocation method of a subscriber station in a service negotiation system is provided. The resource allocation method includes gathering statistics of bursty data, bandwidth grant situation, and measuring wireless signal quality. The subscriber station switches its operation mode according to the statistics and bandwidth data derived by the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080240058 - Simultaneous wlan communications to carry personal area network communications: An integrated circuit radio transceiver and associated method comprises a multi-mode device operable to support personal area network communications as well as traditional wireless local area network communications. In one embodiment, IEEE 802.11 protocol IBSS communications are used to transport Bluetooth communication data packets. In another embodiment, a direct link... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080240049 - System and method for controlling throughput of access classes in a wlan: A system comprises a monitoring module operative to monitor traffic on a wireless medium, the traffic belonging to one or more of two different access classes (ACs), one access class (AC) being a higher-priority AC and the other being a lower-priority AC; a throughput adaptation module communicatively coupled to the... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080240060 - System and method for real-time correlation of aal2 and aal5 messages for calls in utran: System and method for correlating multiple frames of data associated with a single call into a call record. One embodiment comprises correlating data in a radio access network by capturing data passing to and from a radio network controller, identifying ATM Adaptation Layer type 5 (AAL5) frames within the data,... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20080240050 - Tdma mobile ad-hoc network (manet) with second order timing and tracking: A communication system includes a plurality of mobile nodes forming a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) and having a network clock time. A plurality of wireless communications links connects the mobile nodes together. Each mobile node includes a communications device and controller for transmitting and routing data packets wirelessly to other... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080240051 - Wireless diagnostic monitoring system and method for monitoring wireless devices: A wireless diagnostic monitoring system and a method for monitoring wireless devices are provided. The system includes at least one wireless device having a first RF transceiver and a first microprocessor operably coupled to the first RF transceiver. The wireless device is configured to transmit an RF signal having a... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080240055 - Wireless network beacon timing: An apparatus and method of a wireless network timing transmission of multiple BSSID beacons is disclosed. The method includes identifying multiple personalities of the wireless network, wherein a separate MAC address corresponding with each of the personalities. A beacon type is assigned for each of the personalities. During each transmission... Agent: Tropos Networks

20080240065 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data: A service multiplexer of a digital broadcasting system includes a null data generator, a mobile service multiplexer, a main service multiplexer, and a multiplexer. The null data generator may generate null data. The mobile service multiplexer may multiplex and output compression encoded mobile service data, additional data for a mobile... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080240066 - Wireless communication apparatus: A wireless communication apparatus including: a specific external communication section configured to communicate with a specific external communication device through a wireless communication while successively changing a communication frequency band that is a frequency band in which a communication is performed; and a communication condition recognizing section configured to recognize... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080240067 - Time shared rake fingers and path searcher: A rake receiver having a rake receiver finger operated in a time multiplexed manner to perform the task a plurality of fingers, each of these fingers being a virtual finger allocated to a time slot in an operation cycle of the rake receiver finger, and wherein a buffer is provided... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080240068 - Wireless network system, and wireless device included in the system: A wireless network system having an access point, and wireless devices capable of wireless communication with the access point, each wireless device being capable of wireless communication with the other wireless device in an ad hoc mode without via the access point, wherein the access point includes a registrar setup...