Multiplex communications inventions 12/08

20080316909 - Coherent detection for differentially encoded ofdm systems: A method and system for coherent detection in which a OFDM symbol is multiplied by the complex conjugate of the previous OFDM symbol, which is obtained by one OFDM symbol delay and a complex conjugation circuit. This soft decision is passed through a QPSK slicer to obtain a hard decision.... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080316910 - Complex vector quantization codebook for use in downlink multi-user mimo mobile broadcast systems: A wireless communications device having a complex vector quantization codebook for use in a downlink multi-user MIMO (multiple-input-multiple-output) mobile broadcast system with feedback enables the interference between data simultaneously sent by the base station to a plurality of mobile terminals to be reliably minimized. The codebook contains many subsets of... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20080316912 - Combined ofdm and wavelet multi-carrier transceiver: A multicarrier transmitter and receiver uses a first inverse fast Fourier transformer for performing an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) on a parallel input data signal, an imaginary component filter for filtering out the imaginary component of an output signal of the first transformer and a real component filter for... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080316913 - Method and apparatus for transmitting by using transmit diversity at dft spread ofdma: The present invention relates to a packet data transmission method in an OFDMA system and an apparatus thereof. The present invention provides a user packet data transmission method including generating a RACH burst for channel information estimation, selecting a first antenna among a plurality of antennas, transmitting the RACH burst... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080316911 - Simultaneous cell group and cyclic prefix detection method, apparatus and system: A method, and associated apparatus and system, for simultaneous cell group and cyclic prefix (CP) detection, having the steps of determining primary synchronization signal (P-SyS) timing τ using the P-SyS; based on τ, determine a secondary synchronization signal (S-SyS) timing; placing a single Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) window; FFT processing... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080316915 - Method & apparatus for identifying the cause of communication session faults: A communication network includes a wireless LAN and associated wireless communication devices and a computational device either located remotely from the wireless LAN or located in the wireless LAN. The wireless communication devices operate to conduct communication sessions with other communication devices associated with the communication network and they operate... Agent: Robert C. Schluer

20080316914 - Method and system for fault and performance recovery in communication networks, related network and computer program product therefor: A system for fault and performance recovery in a communication network includes a set of network apparatuses as well as a plurality of sites connected by means of connections having a given topology. The network also includes routers for implementing given routing policies and has associated therewith at least one... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080316916 - Method for transmission of information between nodes of a network and network using said method: The invention describes a method for communication between nodes (UR1, UR2; UC1-UC16) of a network, interconnected by a transmission channel and each identified by a node identification number in which at least one transmitter node emits at least one message to at least one message recipient node. The message comprises... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20080316917 - Method of generating spanning trees: A method of generating spanning trees in a network in which a plurality of network nodes are interconnected by links. The spanning trees are utilized for handling link and node failures. For link failures, each link has at least one tree that does not include that link. For node failures,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080316918 - Packet ring network system and packet transport method: The present invention can reestablish a communication path between two packet ring networks through another packet ring network even if a fault occurs therebetween and can prevent occurrence of broadcast storm or the like. Therefore, a packet ring network system of the present invention includes a plurality of packet ring... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080316919 - Trunk interface in resilient packet ring, method and apparatus for realizing the trunk interface: A trunk interface in Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) is provided and a method and an apparatus for implementing interface trunking in RPR with a plurality of stations, where at least one of the stations includes a plurality of RPR interfaces. A plurality of physical link ports in an RPR interface... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080316920 - Apparatus and method for multi-protocol label switching label-switched path protection switching: Provided are system and method for multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) label-switched path (LSP) protection switching in an MPLS system employing a working LSP and a protection LSP in a 1:1 mode, the apparatus and method prepare a dedicated LSP for one working LSP and are capable of rapidly processing a... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20080316922 - Data and control plane architecture including server-side triggered flow policy mechanism: 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: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080316923 - Distributing intelligence across networks: Methods and apparatus relating to distribution of intelligence across a network are described. In one embodiment, one or more content processors may be provided at the edge of a computer network (e.g., prior to a point where data is aggregated or routed by the network). Other embodiments are also disclosed.... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080316921 - Hierarchical rate limiting with proportional limiting: A network flow controller to manage network traffic bandwidth is described. Embodiments of the network flow controller include a hierarchical flow creditor, a proportional flow creditor, and a rate limiter. The hierarchical flow creditor is configured to manage a plurality of hierarchical credit accounts. The hierarchical credit accounts include a... Agent: Wilson & Ham

20080316924 - Shaping device and router device: A shaping unit includes FIFOS for accumulating a packet which is so designed as to arrive at a destination address. A packet (ordinary packet), which has one destination address, is accumulated into the FIFO corresponding to the one destination address. A packet (virtual multicast packet), which will be copied in... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080316925 - Aggregating and searching profile data from multiple services: Profile data from multiple networking services can be combined and queried from one networking service. A primary networking service may store user profile data for one or more secondary networking services and the primary networking service. When stored, the data from the multiple networks may be aggregated or merged. The... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080316927 - Controlling network traffic: In an ATM exchange, a cell transmission control section transmits an ATM cell to a transmission path of an ATM network. A traffic monitor monitors traffic of the cell transmissions. A statistical process section performs a temporal statistical process on the result of the traffic monitoring using a clock and... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20080316926 - Correlation-based rate adaptation for communication networks: A correlation-based rate adaptation scheme (CORA) is enabled for practical communication devices that provides for communication data rate adaptation in a complex and/or rapidly changing communication environment. Correlations may be determined between adjustable parameters of a communication scheme and one or more performance metrics and/or communication scheme operating regimes. In... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080316928 - Method and apparatus for scheduling packets in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (ofdma) system: A method and apparatus for scheduling packets in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system is provided. More particularly, the presently described embodiments relate to a scheduling system whereby packets are prioritized based on packet delay information. The system also handles poor geometry users in an improved manner.... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080316929 - Method and network element for guaranteeing a quality of service in a decentralized network: A guaranteeing a quality of service in a decentralized network, wherein at least one first network element at least temporarily provides a service for at least one second network element is provided. The parameters relevant for the quality of service are provided via an authentication of the first network element.... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080316930 - Robust cable connectivity test receiver for high-speed data receiver: A system is provided for detecting a fault in a signal transmission path. In one embodiment, the system can include a variable amplitude signal attenuator which is operable to modify an input signal by variably attenuating a signal voltage swing of the input signal. Desirably, the input signal is attenuated... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20080316931 - System and method of monitorinig network performance: A method of monitoring network performance is disclosed and includes receiving a session initiation protocol (SIP) response message from one of a plurality of serving-call session control function (S-CSCF) systems at a centralized error monitoring server of an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). The SIP response message includes at... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080316932 - Identifying method for network device: An identifying method includes the following steps. First, a network device automatically retrieves a network address as the address thereof. Then, a testing host transmits at least one network protocol package to the network device. The network protocol package includes a network protocol header and the network protocol data, which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080316936 - Data transfer rate variance measurement method, apparatus, system, and storage medium for storing program: Therefore, a packet transfer time interval is measured, and a data transfer rate variance indicator which is obtained based on a relative entropy value between the measured packet transfer time interval and a packet transfer time interval in a case where transfer is performed at a constant transfer rate is... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080316935 - Generating a node-b codebook: A method and apparatus generates a codebook and associated scheduling and control signaling. A plurality of channel combinations is generated for a plurality of wireless transmit receive units (WTRUs). The channel for each WTRU is quantized based on the WTRU codebook. A codebook for beamforming is generated for a plurality... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080316933 - Method and device for evaluating degradation of quality caused by an invariance of a stimulus, as perceived by a recipient of said stimulus: A method and apparatus are provided for evaluating a quality, as perceived by a recipient, of a signal carrying a stimulus. The method includes a step for detecting absences of variation of said signal and a step of quantifying at least one deterioration corresponding to an absence of variation. The... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080316937 - Method and device for obtaining crosstalk information: A method for obtaining crosstalk information includes the following steps: obtaining the transmission power variation of the crosstalk source and the noise power of the crosstalk destination; based on the obtained transmission power variation of the crosstalk source and the noise power of the crosstalk destination, obtaining the crosstalk coefficient... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080316938 - Method, system and device for allocating network resources in communication network: A method for allocating network resources, including: obtaining a current network performance parameter and preset service SLA; selecting service levels corresponding to the current network performance parameter from a preset resource usage strategy according to the current network performance parameter, and selecting service levels which are equal to or higher... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080316934 - Reception quality measurement method, transmission power control method and devices thereof: A mobile station that receives F-DCPH symbols and CPICH symbols from a base station: (1) averages a plurality of CPICH symbols in a time sequence before a certain time of interest and estimates a channel, then uses the obtained channel estimation value and the CPICH symbol at the time of... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080316941 - Method and apparatus for providing dynamically changed upnp description: Provided is a method, medium and apparatus for providing a dynamically changed universal plug and play (UPnP) description. The method includes sensing a change of a service configuration of a device complying with a predetermined standard, updating a description including information about a service based on the change of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080316942 - Methods and devices for exchanging peer parameters between network devices: Methods and devices are provided for detecting whether peer ports interconnecting two network devices can perform a novel protocol called Exchange Peer Parameters (“EPP”). If the peer ports are so configured to perform EPP, EPP services are exchanged between the peer ports. In a first phase, information is exchanged about... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080316940 - Methods and systems for using managed port circuitry to map connections among structured cabling apparatus and network devices: A managed port circuit includes a detection circuit that is disposed in a communication channel between a first local port and a second local port and a controller that is coupled to the detection circuit and is operable to configure the detection circuit in a detection configuration in which the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080316939 - Presence display system and gateway apparatus: Synchronization of presence information is established between different presence services. Presence information of each user is stored on the presence server 27 of the presence display system comprising mobile phones. Presence information of the SIP phone system comprising the SIP phone 29 and the SIPG/W (enterprise side) 30 is stored... Agent: Kirk Hahn

20080316943 - Method for establishing a wireless, autonomous communications network, transceiver and base station of a wireless, autonomous communications network and corresponding wireless, autonomous communications network: The present disclosure provides optimal network performance and network illumination in a wireless, autonomous communications network with a dynamic network topology achieved by auto-configuration. Functional alogorthemic enhancements of the communications network are used, enabling the communications network to automatically determine the current network configuration and the accessibility of the transceivers... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080316944 - Identifying participants of an audio conference call: An apparatus for identifying participants of a conference call in a telephony network, each participant using a respective channel to participate in the conference call, the apparatus including: a sampler, deployed in the telephony network, and configured to continuously sample each of the channels during the conference call, a dominant... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080316945 - Ip telephone terminal and telephone conference system: In a telephone conference system including IP telephone terminals for transmitting and receiving packeted and encoded voice information that are connected to each other through an IP network; a storage server for being connected through the IP network and storing the encoded voice information is equipped, a marker assigning unit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080316946 - System and method for providing virtual multiple lines in a communications system: An exemplary system and method for providing virtual multiple lines in a communication system is provided. The exemplary system allows a plurality of simultaneous phone calls to be conducted via a single access identifier (e.g., phone number). In exemplary embodiments, the system comprises a hub configured to route calls via... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080316947 - Method and apparatus for 3g lte fdd and tdd detection using reference signal correlation: A method and apparatus for use in a wireless communication system to detect frequency division duplex (FDD) or time division duplex (TDD) after the radio timing and cell group ID have been determined from the S-SyS during a cell search, by correlating reference symbols (RSs) and detecting whether the RSs... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080316948 - Time division duplex front end module: An RF module adapted for direct surface mounting to the top surface of the front end of the motherboard of a wireless base station such as, for example, a femtocell. The module comprises a printed circuit board having a plurality of direct surface mounted electrical components defining respective signal transmit... Agent: Daniel J. Deneufbourg Cts Corporation

20080316949 - Communication apparatus and control method thereof: A discrimination unit of a communication apparatus discriminates information on devices configuring a network, and a selection unit of the communication apparatus selects whether or not to execute a process of selecting an antenna to be used in communication, based on the information discriminated by the discrimination unit. The information... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080316950 - Methods and apparatuses for power control: Downlink power control commands are mapped to resources used for uplink communications within a wireless communication system. An eNode B receives communications from UEs and determines the resources used by the UEs for those transmissions on the uplink which are transmitted at non-optimum power levels. Power control messages are formulated... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080316951 - Method for discovering a route to an intelligent access point (iap): In a wireless multi-hop network including a plurality of multi-radio meshed nodes, a method is provided for a particular recipient multi-radio meshed node to optimize a route to an intelligent access point (IAP). Each of the multi-radio meshed nodes include a plurality of radio modules, and each radio module comprises... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080316952 - Method of selecting between multiple operation modes of providing a broadcast or multicast service:

20080316953 - Audience response system and method with multiple base unit capability: A wireless response system and method of retrieving user selections includes providing a plurality of response units and a plurality of base units. Each of the response units has a wireless response transceiver and an input device. The input device is adapted to receiving a user input selection. The wireless... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20080316954 - Relay system and method for bandwidth allocation and scheduling: A relay system and a bandwidth allocation and scheduling method. The method includes: adding, in control packets of a downlink subframe of a physical layer frame structure of a base station, information elements specifying locations and profiles of respective bursts for connections corresponding to a subscriber station/mobile subscriber station; receiving,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080316955 - Method and apparatus for sdma in a wireless network: Techniques for enabling SDMA in a wireless network without using special SDMA related protocols in user terminals are disclosed. By emulating multiple non-SDMA base stations co-located at the same cell site, a base station is capable of communicating with regular user terminals on SDMA channels without requiring special SDMA protocols... Agent: Xiaoming Yu Adaptwave Technologies Inc

20080316956 - Method and apparatus for route optimization in a telecommunication network: A method and apparatus for controlling the routing of a data packet sent from a first node towards a second node of a telecommunication network. The first node is a mobile node having an associated home network. An access router intercepts the data packet and determines whether the packet relates... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080316957 - Selection of orthogonal covering sequences and phase ramped sequences: A transmission of information from a secondary to a primary node occurs in a plurality of N logical time durations. The transmission from the secondary to primary node in a wireless network is obtained using a first and a second sequence. Embodiments of the present invention mitigate interference by restricting... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080316964 - Conditional procedure handling in a wireless communication system: The present invention relates to communicating between a network and a mobile terminal in a wireless communication system. The invention includes receiving a first message from the network for processing a first procedure, and receiving a second message from the network for processing a second procedure, wherein execution of the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20080316963 - Cross layer optimized medium access control: Various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide cross layer medium access control systems and methods that dynamically adjusts each node's transmission probability according to physical layer characteristics. Accordingly, when a backoff time counter reduces to zero, each node can selectively transmit according to network population, current CSI, and MPR... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080316965 - Method and apparatus optimizing a radio link: Optimizing a radio link is done by acquiring at least OSI layer one and two performance measurements, determining an optimum setting collection for at least OSI layer three to a top layer, then configuring at least the OSI layer three to the top layer based upon the optimum setting collection.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080316958 - Method of fair scheduling channel access in a wireless network: characterised in that said calculation step includes an evaluation step of a first size representative of the ratio between a real use of the channel by the first node and a real use of the channel by a group of the plurality of nodes, during the transmission on the network... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080316959 - Method of transmitting scheduling requests over uplink channels: In various embodiments of the present invention, methods are provided for transmitting scheduling requests over uplink channels. One embodiment includes determining whether a first resource for transmission of a scheduling request over an unscheduled uplink control channel is allocated concurrently with a second resource for transmission of user data over... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20080316962 - Method, system and apparatus for performing mobile internet protocol deregistering: A method, a system and an apparatus for performing mobile Internet protocol deregistering, includes that the network element in the ASN to which the terminal attaches detects whether the MS terminates unconventionally, and sends the message with the MS identifier of the MS which terminates unconventionally to the ASN GW/DP.... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080316960 - Regulating network service levels provided to communication terminals through a lan access point: Network services provided by network access points to a plurality of communication terminals are regulated. Subscriber information that defines which of a plurality of network service levels is allocated to the communication terminals is maintained by at least one network service provider system. Network service levels that are provided by... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20080316961 - Signaling of random access preamble parameters in wireless networks: User equipment (UE)-initiated accesses within a cellular network are optimized to account for cell size and to reduce signaling overhead. A fixed set of preamble parameter configurations for use across a complete range of cell sizes within the cellular network is established and stored within each UE. A UE located... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080316967 - 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: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080316966 - Optimizing positions of time slots in a hybrid time division multiple access (tdma)-carrier sense multiple access (csma) medium access control (mac) for multi-hop ad hoc networks: A hybrid TDMA-CSMA MAC protocol is provided for allocating time slots within a frame having a structure in which transmission time is divided into a first number of actual TDMA time slots and a second number of “virtual” CSMA time slots. Each time a given node receives a Hello message,... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080316969 - Carrier switching in a multi-carrier wireless communication network: Techniques for performing carrier switching in a multi-carrier access network are described. A terminal may be assigned to a carrier among multiple carriers having different transmit power levels, e.g., by the access network during system access or handoff. The terminal may receive a switch threshold from the access network. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080316968 - Fast relay station handover: A method of signalling a handover condition to a mobile station in a network, comprising the steps of determining handover conditions based on the topology in the network; and signalling a handover condition to the mobile station. A base station and relay station operating in accordance with the method are... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080316970 - Inter-network packet transmission method and system: An inter-network packet transmission method and system in a vertical handover between the two different technology networks is provided. An inter-network packet transmission method includes tunneling between gateways of heterogeneous networks though an interface, updating a routing table of at least one of the gateways by exchanging information through the... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080316971 - Method and apparatus for resource management in handover operation: A method and apparatus for resource management during handover operation includes initiating a handover from a first access network to a second access network. A policy update message is sent and a policy update confirmation message is received. A general packet radio service (GPRS) tunneling protocol (GTP) message and a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080316973 - Method and apparatus for supporting a handover using an interactive channel in a dvb-h cbms system: An apparatus and method for continuously providing a selected service being watched when a user moves out of a cell or network in a Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) Convergence of Broadcasting and Mobile Service (CBMS) system. Information required for a handover is provided to a terminal using an interactive channel.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080316972 - Resource management for mobility between different wireless communications architectures: A method of and apparatus for handover between a 3GPP based network and a non-3GPP network is disclosed where a policy update to a new gateway is requested. A confirmation of the policy update is sent from the policy and charging rules function (PCRF) to the 3GPP packet data network... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080316974 - Vertical handoff: Methods, Mobile Node and Mobility Access gateway for enabling vertical handoff of the Mobile Node between a first and second network interfaces using a pad translator.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080316977 - Channel interleaving structure for a wireless communication system: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate employing a hybrid transmission structure in a wireless communication environment. Each transport block (e.g., MAC PDU) can be split into multiple code blocks. Moreover, each of the code blocks can be further divided into two or more code block segments. Further, code block... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080316975 - Method and apparatus for quantizing complex vectors in communication system: Improved techniques are disclosed for quantizing complex vectors in communication systems. For example, a method includes the following steps. At least one complex vector representative of at least one element of a communication system is obtained. A codeword that approximates the complex vector is identified. The identified codeword is a... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080316976 - Method and apparatus for signaling interworking cdma 3g1x mobiles and evdo mobiles with an ims core network: A basestation 3G1x network architecture which is used to convert 3G1x control and signaling to IMS/SIP in basestation is disclosed. The system includes a user agent that bi-directionally translates between SIP messaging and CDMA messaging. The system also includes a 1x basestation emulator which may act as an interface for... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080316978 - Transmit and receive transition accelerator: A transmit and receive machine (TRM) is part of a medium access controller (MAC), in support of the 802.11 wireless standard. The TRM is a control machine that changes the MAC within which it resides from a purely software-based MAC into a software and hardware management system. Timing-critical tasks that... Agent: Carrie A. Boone, P.C.

20080316980 - Arrangement and a method in communication networks: The present invention relates to an arrangement comprising a functional server node forming part of a conglomerate, or pool, of functional server nodes in common controlling a number of radio network control means, each functional server node being able to control any, or a number of, radio network control means,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080316979 - Configuring a host device by way of mmp: The claimed subject matter relates to configuring a host device through utilization of MMP, which is a protocol that is based upon MIP but not associated with several deficiencies associated therewith. In particular, a wireless terminal can be configured to run MMP and send messages that conform to MMP over... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080316984 - Information processing appartus and control method of an information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a radio communication unit, a searching unit which searches for an external device with which the radio communication unit is capable of performing data transfer, a detecting unit which detects all of radio communication functions provided in the external device, a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080316982 - Managing dense wireless access point infrastructures in wireless local area networks: Techniques for enhancing the throughput capacity available to client devices connected to a wireless local area network (WLAN) are described. Specifically, existing WLAN resources are converted into wireless access points (APs) to create a dense infrastructure of wireless APs. To leverage this dense AP infrastructure, central management techniques are employed.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080316990 - Method and apparatus for enhancing link range in a wireless network using a self-configurable antenna: Embodiments of the invention facilitate providing wireless links with longer link ranges and/or better suppression of interference than can be provided by the integrated antennas of a typical wireless network node. While, in some cases, it is possible to install intermediate wireless network nodes to hop through long expanses between... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20080316987 - Method and apparatus to enable multiple receivers: Briefly, a wireless communication device that includes a processor to enable a determined number of receivers of a MIMO system according to a value provided with a request to enable the receivers is provided. A method for enabling the receivers of MIMO system is also provided.... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP C/o Landon Ip, Inc.

20080316989 - Method and equipment for accessing a telecommunication network: A method for accessing a network in a telecommunication system which comprises at least one terminal and a plurality of networks in which information sets describing settings needed to access networks and their resources are stored in the terminal. The terminal scans for information about available networks. Available information sets... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080316988 - Method for fast roaming in a wireless network: A roaming service method for a fast and secure wireless network is provided. In an embodiment of the present invention, an AP, which an STA associates with, transmits proactive keys needed for roaming to neighbor APs of the AP. When the STA moves to one of the neighbor APs, a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080316981 - Modulation coding schemes for control frame transmission under 802.11n: A control frame transmission algorithm is disclosed for 802.11n devices operating in a wireless neighborhood that includes both high-throughput (HT) devices and non-high throughput devices. The control frame transmission algorithm establishes the characteristics of a control frame initiated by the station, as well as the characteristics of a response control... Agent: Carrie A. Boone, P.C.

20080316986 - Remote antenna for wireless access point: A center access point (34) is connected to a wired local network. One or more remote access points (36, 38) communicate with the center access point (34) via associated cables (62, 64, 66, 68). A plurality of mobile wireless units (121, 122, . . . , 12n) is located within... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080316983 - Service information in a lan access point that regulates network service levels provided to communication terminals: A LAN access point maintains service information that defines which of a plurality of network service levels is allocated to a plurality of communication terminals. The LAN point regulates the network service levels that it provides to the communication terminals in response to the service information. The service information may... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20080316985 - Wlan having load balancing based on access point loading: A network having distribution of access point loading includes access points to which mobile stations can associate themselves based upon access point beacon signal levels and loading levels for the various access points. A mobile station receives beacon signals from various access points and determines a signal strength for the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080316991 - Control method for reaccessing after the terminal in the trunked system has existed the group call: The present invention relates to a control method for re-access after the terminal in the trunking system exits the group call, which includes the following steps: it is to maintain one message number for every group call for updating and send the message number to the terminal when the call... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080316992 - Provisioning of non real time services in wireless networks: A method is described for the provisioning of latency-tolerant services in an access network. The method comprises the steps of: setting a demand to provide a service to a user; determining the network resources required to provide this service; establishing based upon the resources required to provide that service, the... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080316993 - Method and apparatus for implementing matched filters in a wireless communication system: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for implementing matched filter in a system using QPSK modulation. In the present invention, a multiplier is changed as a multiplexer by using the characteristic of the pilot sequence (or training sequence) so as to implement the matched filter.... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080316994 - Synchronization in a mobile communications network: A basestation, for example a femtocell basestation for use in a mobile communications network, has a frequency synthesizer, for generating signals at desired frequencies, and also has a wireless communications interface, for transmitting and receiving signals in the mobile communications network. The femtocell basestation also has a packet data interface,... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080316995 - Broadcast channel signal and apparatus for managing the transmission and receipt of broadcast channel information: The present invention provides a broadcast channel signal and apparatus for managing the transmission and receipt of broadcast channel information, where a known difference in the data prior to encoding for transmission produces a predictable difference, which can be removed or cancelled from the multiple received active frames, such that... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080316996 - Controlling timing of synchronization updates: A base station for use in a mobile communications network may include a frequency synthesizer for generating signals at desired frequencies and a packet data interface for transmitting and receiving packet data signals over a wide area network. The basestation is adapted to determine an elapsed time since it last... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080316997 - Multi-radio node with a single routing module which manages routing for multiple different radio modules: A multi-radio meshed node is provided which includes a first radio module, a second radio module, and a single routing manager module that is common to or shared by the first radio module and the second radio module. The multi-radio meshed node has a node MAC address associated therewith which... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080317003 - Adaptive routing for packet-based calls using a circuit-based call routing infrastructure: A method in one example has: implementing an incoming voice call routing preference in a telecommunication system, routing bias settings for incoming packet calls and incoming circuit calls being set for any candidate trunk group lists as per desired call routing preferences; and selecting one of packet routing and a... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20080317005 - Computer telephony system: A method and apparatus for securely registering an association between a computer terminal and a selected one of a plurality of communications terminals in a computer telephony system. An association is established according to a known technique between the identity of the selected communications terminal and the identity of the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080317006 - Method for managing a communication terminal device, a commmunication terminal and a communication system: A method for managing communication terminal device includes sending a device management command which includes a control instruction for an activity state of a designated function, to a terminal; and performing, by the terminal, an operation on the activity state of the designated function according to the control instruction. The... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080316998 - Method, and related mobile communications system, for providing combinational network services: In a mobile communication system including a circuit-switched (CS) mobile communications network, a packet-switched (PS) mobile communications network and an interworking function adapted to enable a signaling exchange between the CS and PS mobile communications network, a method of providing combinational CS+PS services to mobile users includes receiving, at a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080317000 - Methods and apparatus to provide a call-associated content service: Methods and apparatus to provide a call-associated content service to voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) devices are disclosed. An example method comprises receiving a message comprising a uniform resource identifier (URI) and a call dialog parameter at a content mediator, the call dialog parameter associated with a first communication session... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080317004 - Sip endpoint configuration in voip networks: VoIP networks and methods are disclosed for configuring SIP endpoints of VoIP networks. An application server of a VoIP network identifies an endpoint configuration for the SIP endpoints, and generates a configuration command based on the endpoint configuration. The application server formats a SIP message to include the configuration command,... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080317001 - System and method for distributed processing in an internet protocol network: A system and method for distributed processing in an Internet Protocol network is provided. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an application server can have a controller element to receive a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) INVITE message from a communication device, establish a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080317007 - System and method for supporting concurrent communication over multiple access points and physical media: A system and method for enabling communication concurrently over multiple access points and multiple physical media including but not limited to: cellular, network (e.g., Ethernet), broadband wireless, audio communication schemes.... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080316999 - System for deploying voice over internet protocol services: A system for deploying Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services is provided. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a Call Session Control Function (CSCF) having a controller element to receive a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)message from an originating communication device requesting communications with... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080317002 - Tamper-resistant communication layer for attack mitigation and reliable intrusion detection: A Tamper-Resistant Communication layer (TRC) adapted to mitigate ad hoc network attacks launched by malicious nodes is presented. One embodiment of the invention utilizes TRC, which is a lean communication layer placed between a network layer and the link layer of a network protocol stack. All aspects of the network... Agent: Mr. Christopher John Rourk Jackson Walker LLP

20080317008 - Voice-over-ip hybrid digital loop carrier: Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a method of use comprising: for a call between a local IP network and a remote non-IP network, converting between IP packets and PCM robbed bit signaling via a VoIP channelized router; providing the PCM robbed bit signaling to a TDM switch via the VoIP... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080317009 - Arrangement for implementing voice transmission: The invention relates to an arrangement for implementing voice transmission using a subscriber line of a public switched telephone network in a system having a concentrator network part connected to the subscriber line for connecting a plurality of subscriber lines to a data transmission network. The concentrator network part includes... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080317010 - System and method for signaling optimization in ims services by using a service delivery platform: Systems and methods for reducing signaling traffic in the provision of data services to a plurality of user endpoints (UEs). The UEs are in communication with a radio access network, which is the in communication with an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) core for providing data service to the UEs, the... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080317011 - Voip multiline failover: Tools and techniques are provided to provide Voice-over-IP (VoIP) communications. On receiving a user request to initiate a telephonic connection from a local site, at which the user is using a VoIP telecommunication device which has no link failover functionality, a system establishes over wide area network links at least... Agent: Ogilvie Law Firm

20080317012 - Method and computing system for controlling access: A method and computing system for controlling access by a user to a computing resource located in respective source and destination domains in a hierarchy of domains. The method comprises establishing a path of domains in the hierarchy from the source domain to the destination domain, specifying for at least... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080317013 - Efficient transmission of packets within a network communication device: Systems and methods for efficient transmission of packets within a network communication device are described herein. Some illustrative embodiments include a network communication device that includes a plurality of ports (each port configured to communicate with one or more network devices), and a bus coupling the plurality of ports to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080317015 - Large-scale packet switch: A packet switch that scales gracefully from a capacity of a fraction of a terabit per second to thousands of terabits per second is disclosed. The packet switch comprises edge nodes interconnected by independent switch units. The switch units are arranged in a matrix having multiple rows and multiple columns... Agent: Maged E. Beshai

20080317016 - Large-scale packet switch: A switching node comprises edge nodes interconnected by independent switch units. The switch units are arranged in at least one switch plane and the switch units of each switch plane are arranged in a matrix having several rows and several columns. Each edge node has a channel to a switch... Agent: Maged E. Beshai

20080317014 - Method for optimizing spatial modulation in a wireless link and network element thereto: The selection of the spatial mode together with modulation and encoding schemes based on channel condition measurements requested from MS forms a basis for selecting a best transmission data rate in a wireless link in every channel conditions. A method and network element comprising multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) capable antenna technology... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080317017 - Data unit sender and data unit relay device: New methods and devices for implementing an ARQ mechanism over a multi-hop connection (sender-relay-receiver) are proposed. A communication protocol is described in accordance with which data units are arranged in a sequence and each sent data unit is identifiable by a sequence position identifier. The sender implements a sending peer,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080317020 - Ip connectivity with nat traversal: Method and apparatus for establishing direct IP bi-directional or unidirectional connectivity between communication devices (6,24), accommodating the circumstance of either or both communication devices residing behind a Network Address Translator (NAT). When a communication device requests IP connectivity to another communication device, either the local or remote communication device's associated... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080317019 - Managing mobile nodes in a lawful intercept architecture: In an embodiment, a care-of address associated with a first node coupled to a communications network via an access node is received. The care-of address may be contained in a notification message sent by a home agent associated with the first node or by a binding update message sent by... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080317023 - Method and device for the configuration of new and modified services in a switching unit of an ip multimedia subsystem: A switching unit in an IP multimedia subsystem includes at least one operator service list. A new service and/or a modification in an existing service is configurable in the at least one operator service list by means of an administration unit. The services configured in the at least one operator... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20080317021 - Method and system for determining physical location of equipment: Systems and methods are provided for automatically determining certain physical characteristics of a network device. In one embodiment, a method is employed to automatically determine the physical location of a network device. This method may employ a computer based system to acquire network device information, instruct the network devices to... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080317026 - Method of doing business over a network by transmission and retransmission of digital information on a network during time slots: The present invention is a method of doing business over a network that: receives a request for transmitting digital information after a start time and before an end time, determines the time required to transmit the digital information based on the number of packets in the information and the network... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080317022 - Robust technique for frame synchronization in dab-ip systems: FEC frame synchronization in a DAB-IP system comprising FEC frames includes receiving FEC packets each comprising a FEC packet header and a FEC data field comprising padding bytes at an end of a last FEC packet received; comparing a received FEC packet header with a known FEC packet header until... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080317024 - Switch arbitration: A method of providing switch arbitration for the passing of packets between transmitters and receivers in a switch having a plurality of transmitters and receivers, comprises globally distributing information about buffer contents and packet requests between transmitters and receivers.... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080317025 - Switch matrix: A switch system comprises a switch matrix providing a configurable, protocol agnostic, packet switching core, the switch matrix providing a non-blocking switch connecting a configurable number of ports together.... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080317027 - System for reducing latency in a host ethernet adapter (hea): A system for reducing latency in a host Ethernet adapter (HEA) includes the following. First, the HEA receives a packet with an internet protocol (IP) header and data in the HEA. The HEA parses a connection identifier from the IP header and accesses a negative cache in the HEA to... Agent: Ibm Rp-rps Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080317018 - System for switching from an established media path to a new media path in a packet based network: There is described a system for switching from an established media path to a new media path for packets transmitted between first and second end points in a packet based network. An instruction is transmitted to the first end point instructing it to set up a new receiving channel for... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080317028 - Multicasting in a communication network: Systems and methods for managing connections among nodes in a communication network are provided. The method comprises determining one or more topics of interest for a first node in the network, selecting a second node in the network that shares at least a first topic of interest with the first... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080317029 - Unicast/multicast system: A unicast/multicast system has an internal cell generating section that generates an internal cell to include its output index information based on user data, and an output port conversion table that stores the relation of output index information and output port number for the internal cell in the form of... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20080317031 - Communication apparatus and data processing method: A communication apparatus which receives data including a destination address from an external apparatus, changes the destination address included in the received data to an address of the communication apparatus, and sends the data whose destination address was changed to an address of the communication apparatus.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080317030 - Method of creating address forwarding table in ethernet ring network: Provided is a method of creating an address forwarding table in an Ethernet ring network. The method includes the steps of: broadcasting, at each Ethernet node, a ring learning frame having information for measuring cost in the frame's payload in both directions; and receiving, at each Ethernet node, two ring... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20080317032 - Methods for using a translation/instruction system to redirect a multiprotocol label switching (mpls) packet: A multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) packet is processed by receiving an MPLS packet that has first header information including at least a first MPLS label at a first MPLS network node. A translation system is operated to obtain second header information that includes at least a second MPLS label. The... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20080317033 - Apparatus and method for requesting bandwidth allocation and allocating bandwidth in a communication system: A method and apparatus for requesting bandwidth allocation and allocating a bandwidth in response to the request in a communication system are provided, in which an mobile station detects a second CID requiring bandwidth allocation, the second CID being different from a first CID included in a MAC header, generates... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080317034 - Method and system for apportioning channels in a programmable multi-source, multi-destination system: This invention further features a method of apportioning channels in a programmable multi-source, multi-destination system, the method including determining the source for each channel by: a) computing the sum of the number of channels carried by the current and all preceding sources, b) computing a source identifier for each channel... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20080317035 - Method and device for managing channel matrix: A method for managing a channel matrix is provided. The method includes: obtaining whether a user logs on or logs off; adding a history record of channel information of the user to a channel matrix when the user logs on; recording current channel information of the user in the channel... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080317040 - Managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles: Apparatus are provided for managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles. According to one embodiment, a router includes multiple virtual interfaces and a policy engine. The virtual interfaces define connections between the router and corresponding subscribers of a service provider. A first virtual interface is operable to receive packets from a first... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20080317036 - Secure communications within and between personal area networks by using private and public identifiers: A Personal Area Network Security Domain (PSD) (50) is formed between PDA (52), mobile terminal (54), PC (56) and printer (58). The PSD (50) allows the sharing of resources between the devices within the PSD. If the devices within the PSD (50) are located remotely from one another, communication between... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20080317037 - Method of doing business over a network by transmission and retransmission of digital information on a network during time slots: The present invention is a method of doing business over a network that: receives a request for transmitting digital information after a start time and before an end time, determines the time required to transmit the digital information based on the number of packets in the information and the network... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080317041 - Method for scheduling atm cells and a device having atm cell scheduling capabilities: A method for scheduling a transmission of ATM cells, the method includes: receiving an indication that a scheduling session should starts; and repeating the stages of: selecting a channel representative queue out of multiple queues that are associated with different quality of service traffic threads that belong to that channel;... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080317039 - Methods, systems, and/or devices for providing network access: Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method that can comprise, via an Ethernet Channel Service Unit (ECSU), providing a packet conversion between a Serial Wide Area Network (WAN) protocol and an Ethernet network protocol. The ECSU can be adapted to provide access to a network service between a first device adapted... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080317038 - Multiprotocol label switching (mpls) interface with virtual private network (vpn) application: A method comprising receiving, from a first node, a first packet at a network application server via a first local area network (LAN); receiving, from a second node, a second packet at the network application server via a second LAN; associating the first packet with a first VPN based on... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080317042 - Extensible framework for compatibility testing: A method of receiving mobile code includes receiving, from a source node, a dependency descriptor describing at least one permitted configuration, each configuration comprising necessary conditions on a destination node to execute mobile code, executing, on the destination node, checker code associated with the conditions described in the dependency descriptor,... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom/parc

20080317043 - System and method for dynamic distributed communication: Growth of a distributed communication system is facilitated through dynamic addition of routing elements. A new routing element may be added to a network of routing elements by first establishing a connection between the new routing element and an existing routing element in the network. The connection may be either... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080317044 - Seamlessly switching overlay network relay trees: Technologies for switching a set of nodes in an overlay network from one relay tree configuration to another without duplicate packets or packet loss at any of the nodes. A commander node calculates a new relay tree as well as a media stream set configuration for each node in the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080317046 - Communication node and communication route selecting method: The present invention discloses a communication node including a communicating part connected to one or more communication ports, a deriving part configured to derive route candidates for transmitting a packet to a destination node with a connectionless oriented method, and a selecting part configured to select one of the communication... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20080317045 - Method and system for providing differentiated service: The present invention relates to a method and a system for providing differentiated services (Diffservs). The core of the method is: determining a service level of the first hierarchy for a received service according to a type of the received service; determining a service level of the second hierarchy according... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080317050 - Hybrid tree/mesh overlay for data delivery: Hybrid tree/mesh overlays for data delivery involve using a tree overlay network and a mesh overlay network to delivery a data stream via a push mechanism and a pull mechanism, respectively. In an example embodiment, a network node enters a mesh overlay network and attaches to a tree overlay network.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080317053 - Load-balanced nsapi allocation for iwlan: In one embodiment, a load balancer receives a message from a tunnel termination gateway (TTG) associated with a mobile device. The load balancer may receive messages from a plurality of TTGs. A gateway node in a plurality of gateway nodes in which to send the message is determined. The load... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080317052 - Location of packet data convergence protocol in a long-term evolution multimedia broadcast multicast service: A system for compressing an Internet Protocol (IP) header for a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) is provided. The system includes an access gateway and a plurality of cells, each of which has an enhanced node B (ENB). When the quantity of cells that will provide the MBMS is known... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080317048 - Method and apparatus for routing of network addresses: Methods and apparatuses for a management console to configure a router and one or more servers to route and bind network addresses respectively are described herein. In various embodiments, the management console may configure one or more servers of one or more local area networks, each of the one or... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080317049 - Method and system for assigning routers to hosts: A system and method in an IP-based network for defining a specific router for a host to utilize as a default router. The host is configured with a plurality of preferred correlation values, each of which has a different corresponding preference level. Routers send Router Advertisement (RA) messages to the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080317047 - Method for discovering a route to a peer node in a multi-hop wireless mesh network: A method is provided for a particular multi-radio meshed node to discover a route to a peer multi-radio meshed node in a wireless multi-hop network including a plurality of multi-radio meshed nodes. Each of the multi-radio meshed nodes each includes a plurality of radio modules, and each radio module comprises... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080317051 - Methods and system for highly ordered transaction processing: Improved techniques are disclosed for processing transactions or requests in a data processing system. For example, a method for processing requests in a system including a plurality of nodes includes the following steps. At least two nodes of the plurality of nodes receive a plurality of requests. The two nodes... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080317054 - Service gateway, serving system, qos negotiation method and serving recourse release method: Embodiments of the present invention provide a service gateway, comprising a service session detection unit adapted to detect a service session request and the end of a service session. The service gateway further comprises a QoS negotiation unit, adapted to acquire quality of service (QoS) information of a service session... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080317055 - Shared risk group handling within a media gateway: A media gateway controller (MGC) is described herein that implements a shared risk group package to control and prevent a media gateway (MG) from establishing redundant links like a primary link and a secondary link that use resources that share the same risk of failure. Essentially, the MGC uses the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080317056 - System, method and program for network routing: Computer system, method and program for making routing decisions. A best routing path according to an OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP or other routing function that can provide multiple routing paths is determined. A first multiplicity of routers in the best routing path is determined. If each of the first multiplicity... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080317057 - Methods for processing two data frames with scalable data utilization: The present invention provides a framework for the processing of blocks between two data frames and in particular application to motion estimation calculations in which a balance among the performance of a motion search algorithm, the size of on-chip memory to store the reference data, and the required data transfer... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20080317058 - Accessory queue management system and method for interacting with a queuing system: A virtual queuing system and method provides for dynamic control of queue data in accordance with queue control instructions provided by a separate queue control source. The virtual queuing system comprises an interface to a queuing system and an interface to the separate queue control source. The interface to the... Agent: Timothy P. O'hagan

20080317059 - Apparatus and method for priority queuing with segmented buffers: Apparatus and methods for efficient queuing and dequeuing using segmented output buffers comprising sub-buffers and priority queues. Output buffers are monitored for empty sub-buffers. When a newly empty sub-buffer is discovered, a refill request is enqueued in a ranked priority queue wherein the rank of the destination priority queue is... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080317060 - Efficient load balancing and heartbeat mechanism for telecommunication endpoints: The present invention is directed to load balancing call signaling channels at the times that they are established, the use of variable frequency keep alive mechanisms depending on the state of the call signaling channel, and the establishment of a call signaling channel when resources are available or otherwise based... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20080317061 - Methods and systems for dynamic subring definition within a multi-ring: Embodiments of the present invention automatically determine via heuristics optimal configurations to form sub-rings of nodes and where to position gateway processors among these sub-rings. The heuristics may be applied at a predefined timing interval configured by the user or in response to various events, such as a node failure... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080317062 - Method for configuring mutli-channel communication: A method of configuring communication with a plurality of non-overlapping channels and between communication units with first communication units and second communication units is disclosed. The first communication units are privileged with respect to the second communication units, the second communication units having dynamically adaptable transceivers enabling channel switching, at... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080317064 - System and method to enable combination of network controlled mobility and ue controlled mobility between different ip versions: The present invention provides session continuity when a User Equipment (UE) moves from one network to another network. A method and system for providing access to nodes supporting, for example, both Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol Version (IPv6) on a network supporting only one of the IP... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080317063 - Systems and methods for providing a home network conversion interface: Systems and methods are provided wherein an incoming plain old telephone systems (PSTN) signal is input into a home network conversion interface. The home network conversion interface first determines the data type of the incoming signal. Next, the home network conversion interface creates a routing sequence of the incoming signal... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080317065 - Utilization of media capabilities in a mixed environment: An apparatus and method for negotiating media capabilities is described. The method may comprise receiving an invite to establish a connection between a caller endpoint device and one of a plurality of callee endpoint devices of a shared line and identifying an initial common media capability between the caller endpoint... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080317066 - Voting comparator method, apparatus, and system using a limited number of digital signal processor modules to process a larger number of analog audio streams without affecting the quality of the voted audio stream: A method and apparatus for selecting a preferred signal from homogenous streams of a subscriber call in an analog or mixed mode wireless communication network. The method and apparatus have particular significance to un-decoded analog radio packets which require digital signal processing to decode at least their signaling information. The... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20080317067 - Broadband radio connection communication device: The communication device extracts frame data originated by the base station and obtains the parameters of using bandwidth, stored in the header of the frame data. Free bandwidth is calculated by subtracting an already used band from the full band of the base station. It is determined whether the free... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080317068 - Server-assisted and peer-to-peer synchronization: Systems and methods for synchronizing data between endpoints using elements of centralized and decentralized synchronization systems and communication topologies are disclosed. Such systems and methods may in some cases synchronize some subset of data with a centralized endpoint while another subset of data is synchronized in a decentralized fashion directly... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080317069 - Speed negotiation for multi-speed communication devices: A method includes defining a pattern of time intervals, each time interval having a respective assigned communication speed, which alternates among multiple communication speeds supported by a first communication device. Synchronization requests are transmitted over a communication medium from the first communication device to a second communication device at the... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080317070 - Power line communication network: A media access control (MAC) controller is disclosed for a network providing communication for network stations located at a plurality of customer premises and sharing a communication medium, each of the premises having a plurality of network stations. The MAC controller includes a virtual local area network (vLAN) controller, providing... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080310296 - Systems and methods for transmit-only peak-to-average ratio reduction in the oversampled regime using reserved tones: Systems and methods for reducing the peak-to-average power ratio (PAR) at the transmitter can reduce the dynamic range required in various analog components. PAR can be reduced by applying a time-domain compensation signal in the oversampled regime, using tones reserved for PAR reduction. A set of vectors corresponding to PAR... Agent: Conexant Systems , Inc.

20080310297 - Error control apparatus: A plurality of system board modules are connected to a crossbar module. An error detection unit detects an error in a packet received from a corresponding system board module. When an error is detected by the error detection unit, a transmission control unit issues a completion data generation request. When... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080310298 - Providing bypass switches to bypass faulty nodes: A streamer or cable for use in subterranean surveying includes a communications link, a plurality of network nodes interconnected by the communications link, where each of the plurality of network nodes is configured to perform a self-test to detect a fault condition of the corresponding network node, and bypass switches... Agent: Westerngeco L.L.C. Jeffrey E. Griffin

20080310299 - Virtual path restoration scheme using fast dynamic mesh restoration in an optical network: A method for restoring a virtual path, provisioned between a source and a target node, in a mesh zoned optical network is described. The method, in one embodiment, broadcasts or floods restore path requests in the network to expedite the identification of an alternate route and minimize the service disruption... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080310302 - Load balancing distribution of data to multiple recipients on a peer-to-peer network: A method and system for load balancing the distribution of a file or block of data to multiple recipients on a peer to peer network is disclosed.... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20080310301 - System and method for managing pre-emption of quality of service (qos) allocations in a network: A system and method manages Quality-of-Service (QoS) in a network by allocating resources, such as available network bandwidth. The network devices transmit and receive data traffic streams, each of which includes QoS parameters, including a priority level and bandwidth allocation. The method includes choosing which existing QoS allocations are pre-empted,... Agent: Thomas R. Berthold

20080310300 - Traffic activity-based forwarding table updates for ethernet-based mobile access networks: A system and method for granting an association request from a mobile terminal, determining, during a predetermined time interval after granting the association request, if the mobile terminal has received traffic from a network and sent traffic to the network and sending a broadcast update packet to the network if... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080310303 - Quality of service information configuration: Quality of service information can be used to facilitate wireless communication. A network entity, such as a terminal, as well as a network can initialize an authorization to establish a link using quality of service information. Various features can be integrated with the use of quality of service information, such... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080310304 - Extended reach data network: In one embodiment, estimating a length of a network connection, determining whether the estimated network connection length deviates from a predetermined threshold range, modifying one or more signal characteristics when it is determined that the estimated network connection length deviates from the predetermined threshold range are provided.... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080310305 - Interruption control: A communications system in which a user may control interruptions to ongoing communications operations is provided. Using a communications device, a user may perform any suitable communications operation (e.g., voice, video or data communications). In response to receiving a communications request from another device, the communications device may determine whether... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080310307 - Ip converged system and packet processing method therein: An IP converged system includes a VoIP ALG module and a policer module. The VoIP ALG module acquires dynamically changing RTP IP/port information of a packet by parsing a VoIP SIP message, and transmits the RTP IP/port information to the policer module. The policer module sets IP/port, which provides a... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080310306 - Programmable pseudo virtual lanes for fibre channel systems: A method and switch element for assigning priority to pseudo virtual lanes (“PVL”) using a fibre channel switch element is provided. The method includes, assigning received R_RDYs based on a PVL distribution scheme; and determining traffic congestion on a PVL if there is no credit available to transfer frames from... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20080310308 - System and method for adaptive flow control: The system and method for adaptive flow control transmits pause off packets to network nodes after a calculated time based on switch resource usage thereby alleviating congestion is a network switching system.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080310309 - Sending content from multiple queues to clients: In an embodiment, a content server has multiple queues, each of which includes records. Each record in a queue represents a frame in a logical group of frames. Each of the queues transitions between a control state, an ingestion state, and a distribution state. During the control states, records are... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080310310 - Algorithm for network route selection: A method for selecting a path in a physical network that selects nodes for the path based on the coordinates of the nodes in a representation of the subject network in space. From a working node M that is included in the selected path, the next node that is selected... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080310311 - Method and system for providing network and routing protocols for utility services: A method and system for providing a network and routing protocol for utility services are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises discovering a utility network, wherein a utility device (for example, a constant powered meter) sends network discovery messages to find the utility network. Neighboring meters are discovered... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080310312 - Method for monitoring sip call-flows by tracking message transformation: Systems and methods are provided for monitoring session initiation communications without modifying the operational code of the session initiation protocol proxy servers through which the messages that constitute a given communication are routed. The inbound and outbound versions of session initiation protocol messages are identified at a plurality of proxy... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080310313 - Protocol data unit recovery: Information can transfer from a transmitter to a receiver; however, the transmission can consume valuable resources. Therefore, a number of times a transmission is attempted can be tracked and compared against a threshold value. If the transmission occurs too many times—based upon the comparison—then a reset can occur. Tracking can... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080310314 - Method for detecting a message interface fault in a communication device: In one aspect, a method for detecting the fault of a message interface in a communications device is provided, wherein the message interface comprises at least two layers which communicate with each other, a top layer accesses to the services of the lower layer and offers the services thereof to... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080310315 - Equalized trigger: A data acquisition apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus comprises a receiver for receiving an analog data signal, an equalizer for equalizing the received analog data signal. A trigger element is provided for generating a trigger signal in accordance with the equalized analog data signal. A memory element stores... Agent: Lecroy Corporation

20080310318 - Apparatus and method for monitoring base station signal in communication system having multiple antennas: In a signal monitoring apparatus of a base station of a communication system having multiple antennas, a transmitting/receiving unit transmits a plurality of transmit signals by using the multiple antennas or processes a plurality of receive signals received through the multiple antennas. A radio frequency calibration unit calibrates the transmit... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080310320 - Apparatus and method for parameter rollback in a self configurable broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for rolling back operation parameters of a base station in a self-configurable broadband wireless communication system are provided, in which in a manager server, an optimizer for determining optimized operation parameters of the base station based on information which is needed to optimize and is received... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080310317 - Information acquisition: A method of acquiring network information from a network is disclosed. The network comprises an end terminal and a target terminal and installed on the end terminal is (a) a plurality of applications; and (b) mediation means arranged in operation to mediate between the plurality of applications and the target... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080310321 - Method and apparatus for time-aligning transmissions from multiple base stations in a cdma communication system: Schemes to time-align transmissions from multiple base stations to a terminal. To achieve time-alignment, differences between the arrival times of transmissions from the base stations, as observed at the terminal, are determined and provided to the system and used to adjust the timing at the base stations such that terminal-specific... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080310319 - Server, network system, and network connection method used for the same: A server includes a packet monitoring unit for monitoring a packet that is sent from a terminal without a function of automatically allocating an Internet Protocol (IP) address to a destination via an unknown network so as to detect the destined IP address of the packet; and a setting changing... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080310316 - Surrogate stream for monitoring realtime media: In one embodiment, a separate surrogate monitor stream provides real-time media monitoring statistics for non-media savvy protocols. The surrogate monitor stream contains packet transmission parameters, such as sequence numbers and time stamps, for associated media packets in the non-savvy media stream. The surrogate monitor stream also contains checksums derived from... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080310322 - Methods and arrangements for estimating uplink coverage in wireless communication networks with dynamic cell coverage: The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in cellular communication networks exhibiting dynamic cell coverage, in particular, to estimate the uplink coverage in a network in operation. According to the method of the present invention a received rate is determined from at least one mobile terminal being in a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080310324 - Aborting a packetized wireless communication: Systems and methods are provided for a signaling an ongoing communication of a data unit in a data packet is to be aborted. Upon a determination to abort an ongoing communication is made, a code-point in a data unit header is utilized to indicate the ongoing communication is to be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080310323 - Method and apparatus for dns update triggered ipv6 neighbor advertisement: In a 3GPP2 Converged Access Network (CAN), IPv6 stateless auto configuration can be used to configure an IPv6 address of an access terminal (AT) for Simple IPv6 operation. A domain name system (DNS) update is triggered by IPv6 Neighbor Advertisement addresses a need for a DNS update when the full... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080310325 - Method for constructing virtual backbone in wireless sensor network: Disclosed is a method for constructing a virtual backbone in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). The method including the steps of setting a ‘Dominator’ status for a gateway or a sink node within the WSN, setting a ‘CoveredByDominator’ status for each neighbor node positioned in the transmission range of a... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080310326 - Network physical connection inference for ip tunnels: The physical connection corresponding to IP tunnels in a network are found by tracing through the device configuration and routing tables at the routers in the network to determine the outbound interface associated with each tunnel endpoint, and then inferring a likely return interface associated with the opposite tunnel endpoint.... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20080310327 - Registry of modular services and a method for automatically selecting an appropriate service to provide particular logical guarantees: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for selecting a service to provide a service operation.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080310328 - Client-side echo cancellation for multi-party audio conferencing: A “Client-Side Echo Canceller” provides a unique system and method for reducing Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) computational overhead in a multi-point audio conference. In general, the local audio input signal of each client is transmitted in real-time to the MCU. The MCU then combines the audio input signals of all... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080310329 - Method and apparartus for mitigating psp interference psp-enabled communication systems: A method to be performed by a network system is proposed, for P2P communication to cancel interference, comprising steps of: determining the redundant code group information, according to the code group usage information of the cell in which two UEs to establish P2P connection camp and its adjacent cells; detecting... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080310330 - Startup protocol for high throughput communications systems: A startup protocol is provided for use in a communications system having a plurality of transceivers, one transceiver acting as a master and another transceiver acting as slave, each transceiver having a noise reduction system, a timing recovery system and at least one equalizer. The operation of the startup protocol... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080310331 - Apparatus, and associated method, for configuring an ims service for use by a circuit-switched device: Apparatus, and an associated method, to facilitate performance of an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) service to a circuit-switched-connected user equipment. The user equipment includes a USSD message generator that generates an initiation message that is sent to a network of a radio communication system. The message is routed through the... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080310334 - Communication system, server, control apparatus and communication apparatus: Disclosed herewith is a communication system, which can solve the following conventional problem that if packets exchanged between a terminal and an HA are encapsulated with use of the mobile IPv6 protocol, the PDSN cannot identify any IP flows in the mobile IPv6 tunnel. Consequently, there is no QoS usable... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080310336 - Dynamic receiver filter adjustment across preamble and information payload: A method and apparatus is disclosed to dynamically select among two or more receiver filter bandwidths to more closely approximate a bandwidth of a corresponding signal field included in a received communications signal. A communications transmitter may transmit a transmitted communication signal in at least one formatted blocks of data... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080310335 - Method and apparatus for accounting in a mobile data packet network: In a converged communication network, IP data packet services are provided by a core network to access terminals via radio access nodes (RAN). By positioning accounting report triggering closer to the usage, accuracy and comprehensive of accounting is achieved, which can also reduce overhead burdens on the core network. Additional... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080310332 - Method and system for utilizing a 60 ghz phy layer for high speed data transmission between bluetooth devices: Wireless devices may utilize a Bluetooth stack to setup a data transmission session between the devices. The data transmission session may comprise a Bluetooth PHY and/or MAC/PHY layer that enables the wireless devices to perform discovery, pairing, and security setup operations. A secondary physical layer may be utilized to perform... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080310333 - Semi-persistent resource allocation method for uplink transmission in wireless packet data systems: A wireless telecommunications network supplies a semi-persistent resource that a wireless station can use for special purposes (such as a retransmission of packets for ARQ purposes or a control signal. The semi-persistent resource can be allocated by the system to other terminals if, e.g., a retransmission is not required. Since... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080310337 - Periodic heartbeat communication between devices and a control point: A method, apparatus and system of periodic heartbeat communication between devices and a control point is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a periodic heartbeat signal using a counter of a system on chip embedded in a device, and communicating the heartbeat signal to a control point managing... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes, LLP

20080310338 - Configurable acknowledgement mode for a hybrid automatic repeat request protocol: The present invention relates to a method for configuring an acknowledgement mode of an HARQ re-transmission protocol used for acknowledging the delivery of data packets of a service provided from a transmitting entity to a receiving entity in a wireless communication system comprising a controlling entity in a radio access... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080310339 - Radio communication system, radio communication apparatus and radio communication method: Provided is a radio communication method including: notifying a reception-side radio communication apparatus of omitted-source-address information indicating a first source address permanently assigned to a source device of a first data frame to be transmitted to the reception-side radio communication apparatus; determining whether or not the first source address is... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080310342 - Addressing messages in a two-tier network: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a frame including a baseline header including a recipient address (RA) field, a transmitter address (TA) field, a destination address (DA) field, and a source address (SA) field. The method includes inserting into the frame a mesh header including a mesh destination address... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080310346 - Communication protocol for a wireless mesh architecture: A wireless mesh communication protocol that dynamically assigns communication time-slots and frequencies to mesh nodes. A first node is established as a PC that sequentially polls other nodes. A second node responds at a predetermined time with information that includes database records, and then a third node responds similarly. The... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20080310340 - Communication system, communication method, communication terminal device, control method thereof, and program: The present invention proposes a highly reliable communication system and communication method, a communication terminal device used for the communication system, a control method thereof, and a program installed on the communication terminal device. In communication system and communication method, the communication terminal device used for the communication system, the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080310345 - Method of generating lower layer data block in wireless mobile communication system: A method of generating a data block including control information in a specific layer of a mobile communication apparatus having a hierarchical structure constructed with a plurality of layers is disclosed. The present invention includes the steps of inserting a control data block including control information into a first region... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20080310343 - Methods of jointly assigning resources in a multi-carrier, multi-hop wireless communication system: Methods for jointly determining tones, power, scheduling and routing of links in a multi-carrier, multi-hop network to achieve certain desired throughput objectives between source and destination nodes. The methods effectively enhance or optimize throughput received by each destination router under node traffic constraints such as power, scheduling and flow constraints... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080310347 - Mobile communications system pdif and method for peer detection of mobile terminal: With a system having no paging function, dead peer detection control and cutoff of a session are implemented as is the case with a system having a paging function. There is provided a method for dead peer detection of a mobile terminal, to be executed in a mobile communications system... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080310349 - Multiple bindings having independent forward and reverse link bindings for mobile internet protocols: Methods, apparatus, systems and computer program products are defined that provide multiple bindings in a Mobile Internet Protocol (MIP) network environment. The multiple bindings that are established are independent of one another, such that a forward link binding is decoupled from, or otherwise does not affect, a reverse link binding... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080310351 - Preamble formats for mimo wireless communications: A method for generating a preamble of a frame for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication begins by, for each transmit antenna of the MIMO wireless communication, generating a carrier detect field, wherein, from transmit antenna to transmit antenna, the carrier detect field is cyclically shifted. The method... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080310344 - Tunnel overhead reduction: Reduction of overhead normally caused by the addition of a second IP header in case of tunneling between a home agent and a mobile node located in a foreign network is achieved by replacing an encapsulated first IP header by a tunnel identifier. The home agent and the mobile node... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080310350 - Wireless mesh network: A wireless mesh network where a portion of the nodes have reduced receive sensitivity. The negative effects of the density of the wireless mesh network, such as interference, are reduced when fewer nodes receive messages to rebroadcast. In an alternative embodiment, some of the nodes of the mesh network are... Agent: Warner Norcross & Judd LLP

20080310348 - Wireless systems and methods including cooperative communication medium access control: A complementary medium access control (CMAC) method and apparatus are described.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080310341 - Wireless transmission system: In the present invention, a wireless transmission system includes a plurality of mobile stations in a cell area, and a base station. The base station divides each of an uplink frame and a downlink frame into a plurality of blocks, assigns a specific one of the plurality of blocks to... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080310361 - Apparatus and method for retransmission in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for retransmission in a wireless communication system. The method includes transmitting data to a Mobile Station (MS), identifying if there is an error in the transmitted data through a control message, if there occurs an error in the data, allocating resources for retransmitting data for erroneous... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080310357 - Method and apparatus for processing tuneaway in open state in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for processing TuneAway operation by an access terminal and an access network in a wireless communication system is described. The beginning and end of tune away is determined from a TuneAway attribute, a TuneAwayRequest and a TuneAwayResponse messages. The access terminal and the access network operate... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20080310358 - Method and apparatus for providing cell information list for non-3gpp capable user equipment operating in a 3gpp network and supporting layer-2 based handoff from a utran system to a non-3gpp system: Method and apparatus providing cell information list for non-third generation partnership project (3GPP) capable wireless transmitter/receiver unit (WTRU) operating in a 3GPP network, which camps on a 3GPP channel to obtain information of at least one network available in the cell. The WTRU may request a list having at least... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080310352 - Method and apparatus for reusing packet data control assignment bits for resource allocation indications: The PDCAB packet (300) and the RRA packet (308) are transmitted together on the F-SCCH. For example, 9 RRA bits (305) are appended to the PDCAB field (303), in place of the pad bits (205), thereby allowing both the PDCAB (303) and RRA (311) messages to be protected against errors... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080310359 - Method and apparatus for sharing resources in a wireless system: A method and apparatus of signaling radio resource allocation in a wireless communication system comprises establishing a set of virtual resources; assigning one or more of the virtual resources to one or more mobile stations; transmitting a remapping bitmap to the mobile stations, wherein the remapping bitmap contains a resource... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080310360 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving channel quality indicator in communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) in a communication system are provided. It is determined whether there is any uplink data to transmit, when a CQI transmission time arrives according to a predetermined CQI transmission period. If there is uplink data to transmit, a part... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080310353 - Method and apparatus to facilitate use of default transmitter-receiver configurations: A wireless communications system base station (101), upon receiving (202) from a mobile station (102) a wireless transmission that comprises a suggested transmitter-receiver configuration, can respond (in appropriate instances) by automatically transmitting (203) to the mobile station a wireless transmission comprising an indication to use instead a default transmitter-receiver configuration.... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20080310354 - Method and system for low rate mac/phy for 60 ghz transmission: One or more coordinating devices may be utilized to control high speed data transmission among a plurality of wireless devices utilizing 60 GHz for high speed data transmission. Control messages may be sent and/or received between each of the plurality of wireless devices and the one or more coordinating devices... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080310356 - System and method for large packet delivery during semi-persistently allocated session: Systems and methods of delivering large IP packets during a semi-persistently allocated resource session. An additional resource allocation is dynamically made and signalled to a mobile device to indicate a resource to be used to deliver the large IP packet. The packet is then transmitted using the resource thus allocated.... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080310355 - System and method for semi-persistent and dynamic scheduling and discontinuous reception control: Methods of combining semi-persistent resource allocation and dynamic resource allocation are provided. Packets, such as VoIP packets, are transmitted on the uplink and downlink using respective semi-persistent resources. For each mobile device, awake periods and sleep periods are defined. The semi-persistent resources are aligned with the awake periods so that... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080310362 - Method and apparatus for assigning resources in a wireless system: A method and apparatus of signaling radio resource allocation in a wireless communication system includes the time-frequency resources into multiple regions; defining a channel tree within at least one region, wherein the channel tree has base nodes which are determined using the area of the region and the area of... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080310364 - Method and apparatus for assigning resources in a wireless system with multiple regions: A method and apparatus of signaling radio resource allocation in a wireless communication system includes transmitting at least one region boundary to a mobile station indicating a division of the time-frequency resources into at least two regions, determining a time-frequency resource assignment for the mobile station, transmitting an indication of... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080310363 - Method and apparatus for sharing a group resource in a wireless sdma system: A method and apparatus of signaling radio resource allocation in a wireless communication system includes establishing groups of mobile stations which monitor a shared group scheduling bitmap; transmitting a group scheduling bitmap to the mobile stations, wherein the group scheduling bitmap contains a mobile station presence bitmap and an SDMA... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080310370 - Communication terminal and recording medium: A communication terminal has a plurality of wireless communication units. An access control unit determines whether or not a selected wireless interface is in a state where a connection request is possible based on communication state information on the wireless interface selected beforehand in the plurality of wireless interfaces. When... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080310368 - Downlink packet data convergence protocol behavior during handover: The present invention relates to maintaining an order of received data units during a handover procedure in a wireless communication system. The present invention includes receiving a plurality of data units from a source station according to a sequence prior to handover to a target base station, wherein each data... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20080310367 - Method and apparatus for pdcp reordering at handoff: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate management of data delivery and processing in a wireless communication system and, more particularly, that support Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) reordering of packets during a handoff operation. Various aspects described herein can mitigate processing delays associated with PDCP reordering of packets at... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080310365 - Method and system for caching content on-demand in a wireless communication network: The present invention provides methods and systems for caching content in a wireless communication network. The method includes receiving a request for a content at a first base station from a mobile station. In response to receiving the request for the content, the first base station caches a first fragment... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20080310369 - Method and system for fast handover in hierarchical mobile ipv6: A method and system for fast handover in hierarchical mobile IPv6 includes: a mobile node which transmits a proxy route request message to a previous access router of the mobile node according to a handover expectation provided by the link layer, the previous access router transmits a network prefix information... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080310366 - Mih pre-authentication: A system and method for performing MIH pre-authentication, which includes providing support for both direct and/or indirect pre-authentication and providing support for both network-initiated and mobile-initiated pre-authentication.... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLC

20080310371 - Seamless multistage handoff algorithm to facilitate handoffs between hetergeneous wireless networks: A method for automatically adapting a multi-protocol wireless device to facilitate a seamless multistage handoff according to various embodiments can include initiating a seamless multistage handoff process using a multi-protocol wireless device when the multi-protocol wireless device crosses a boundary area into an overlapping region where the multi-protocol wireless device... Agent: Doster Greene, LLC

20080310373 - Distribution method of multi basic midamble and joint detection method: A distribution method of multi basic midamble includes following step A. determining the number of channelizing code of a cell or sector (s101); B. configuring more than one of basic midamble to the cell or sector (s102); C. generating midamble which is no less than said channelizing code using said... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080310372 - Method for estimating direction-of-arrival of terminal in multiple co-frequency cells: The present invention discloses a method for estimating DOA of a terminal in multiple co-frequency cells, including the steps of: A. obtaining a channel estimation result of at least one terminal expecting a calculation of DOA in an expecting co-frequency cell; B. performing a Direction-of-Arrival estimation for the expecting terminal... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080310374 - Mitigation of interference in cell search by wireless transmit and receive units: A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) provides facilitation of cell search. In one embodiment, received samples are split into a plurality of sample sets for processing. Each of the sets is processed and an accumulated result is divided by an estimated noise value. In another embodiment, a code correlator correlates... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080310380 - Adaptive history aware beam steering: The present invention relates to the field of multi-path wireless communication. The present invention provides a system for assisting in providing a wireless communication link between a first communication device and a second communication device based on a plurality of communication paths comprising a history manager for providing, based on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080310381 - Generic wireless services discovery: Embodiments of the invention relate to wireless communications. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to generic discovery mechanisms that may be utilized in wireless communications.... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080310377 - Method and system for providing routing protocols in a frequency hopping spread spectrum network: A method and system for providing a network and routing protocol for utility services are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises discovering a utility network, wherein a utility device (for example, a constant powered meter) sends network discovery messages to find the utility network. Neighboring meters are discovered... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080310376 - Method and system for routing packets in an ad hoc wireless network: A system for routing packets in an ad hoc wireless network. In response to entering the ad hoc wireless network, location data is broadcast to other nodes within the ad hoc wireless network. Location data is received from the other nodes within the ad hoc wireless network. The received location... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080310375 - Return routability optimisation: A method of managing switching of a virtual private network (VPN) tunnel termination point from a first address to a second address. The VPN operates between a fixed network node and a mobile node which defines the termination point. The address of the mobile mode is switched from the first... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080310378 - Selective phase connection establishment: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate multiple-phase selective connection establishment in wireless communications networks. Radio resource control (RRC) layer communications can be instantiated between a mobile device and base station. Additional information can be required by a downstream network component regarding the mobile device. Accordingly, the RRC resources can... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080310379 - Short-distance wireless data transmitting apparatus and method: A short distance wireless data transmission system and method which are capable of minimizing data loss are disclosed. The short distance wireless data transmission system can monitor variation amount of memory data, which is buffered in the master side when data transmission errors occur, can perform re-transmission of data having... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080310382 - Low-voltage control high-frequency switch and composite high-frequency component: In a transmission/reception selection switch, a first diode is arranged in series with a transmission signal line and a second diode is arranged in shunt with a reception signal line. A first current route where a direct current passes through the first diode is connected in parallel to a second... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080310384 - Ranging apparatus and method in a wireless mobile communication system: A ranging apparatus and method of a mobile station in a wireless mobile communication system are provided, in which the mobile station completes a code-based ranging with a base station, transmits a ranging request message to the base station, increases a first count by 1 if the mobile station fails... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080310383 - Systems and methods for designing a sequence for code modulation of data and channel estimation: A method for using a numerical method to design a sequence for code modulating data is described. An input multiple input multiple output signal is determined. A nearest tight frame to one or more given structured vectors is obtained. One or more structured vectors is obtained from the nearest tight... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080310387 - Protocol data unit priority management: A single receiver can collect multiple protocol data units at one time originating from different sources. While it can be desirable for higher priority protocol data units to be processed, loss of data unit portions can cause confusion to the receiver. Therefore, even if a higher priority protocol data unit... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080310385 - Radio base station apparatus and transmission rate notifying method: A radio base station apparatus wherein the consumption of transmission power resources in a high-rate packet transmission can be suppressed. In the apparatus, a scheduling part (31) limits the candidates of an upstream line packet transmission rate to part of a plurality of transmission rates indicated by transmission rate combination... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080310386 - Techniques for optimization of location determination in wireless network: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transceiver operable in a wireless network, wherein said transceiver is configured to optimize location determination in said wireless network by preventing scheduled uplink (UL) transmissions at a reference base station (BS) from interfering with an uplink (UL) reference signal... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080310388 - Transmission of radio blocks in reduced transmission time interval mode: A method and apparatus for operating a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) in basic transmission time interval (BTTI) and reduced transmission time interval (RTTI) mode includes a WTRU in RTTI mode and a WTRU in BTTI mode receiving a plurality of coded radio blocks, the WTRU in RTTI mode decoding... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080310389 - Method and system for dynamic ack/nack repetition for robust downlink mac pdu transmission in lte: A method and apparatus for dynamic acknowledgement repetition for a downlink medium access control packet data unit transmission ‘MAC PDU’ requiring multiple acknowledgements, the method having the steps of: receiving the downlink MAC PDU requiring multiple acknowledgements; and utilizing a differentiating factor and acknowledgement scheme, sending the multiple acknowledgements.... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080310390 - Tdma communications system with configuration beacon and associated method: A communications system includes a plurality of nodes forming a time division multiple access (TDMA) communications network. Each node within the TDMA communications network includes a controller and wireless communications device allowing the nodes to communicate with each other using respective timeslots in a TDMA frame, also sometimes referred to... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080310391 - Apparatus for and method of power save traffic control in client/server networks: A novel and useful apparatus for and method of handling traffic congestion during power save mode in client/server systems such as wireless local area networks (WLANs). A reduction in response time is achieved by minimizing communications between the host and the MAC processing entities in client devices. The host sends... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080310392 - Virtual connection of a remote unit to a server: Apparatus and associated methods are provided which allow a remote user to maintain a virtual session with a server. A virtual session allows a remote and possibly mobile user to maintain a virtual presence in an office environment without actually being present. Using the present invention, a remote user can... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080310395 - Method and apparatus for providing timing alignment: An approach includes generating a control message having a format designated for resource allocation, wherein the control message includes a plurality of control fields. One of the control fields is reserved to specify information other than information for resource allocation, the value indicating timing alignment information or information for starting... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080310394 - Method and system for multisession bluetooth communication using multiple physical (phy) layers: A wireless device may utilize a plurality of Bluetooth sessions to perform a plurality of applications simultaneously in said wireless device. A Bluetooth interface may be utilized to perform initial connectivity and/or control functionality associate with each of said plurality of Bluetooth sessions. The connectivity and/or control functionality may comprise... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080310396 - Method of performing uplink synchronization in wireless communication system: A method of performing uplink synchronization in a wireless communication system includes transmitting a random access preamble which is randomly selected from a set of random access preambles, receiving a random access response, the random access response comprising a random access preamble identifier corresponding to the random access preamble and... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20080310393 - Wireless synchronizing bridging device, wireless synchronizing bridging system and wireless synchronizing bridging method: A wireless synchronizing bridging device, which operates in conjunction with an electronic device and a mobile terminal device having a connecting interface, includes a connecting interface module, a signal transforming module and a wireless transceiving module. The mobile terminal device electrically connected with the connecting interface module through the connecting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080310398 - Call priority based on audio stream analysis: A method and system of prioritizing calls based on audio stream analysis includes receiving a plurality of calls, wherein each call comprises an audio stream. The audio stream associated with one of the calls is analyzed for pre-determined audio characteristics. The call is processed based on the audio characteristics of... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080310402 - Communication systems and qsig communications methods: This invention relates to communication systems and QSIG communication methods. According to a first aspect, a communication system includes a control component; and a data network configured to communicate packets of information intermediate an originating location and a terminating location, the originating location being configured to receive a QSIG communication... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080310397 - Method and device for session control in hybrid telecommunications network: Combinational networks may provide simultaneous connectivity over networks of different type between terminals. Communication sessions on different network types such as Circuit switched and Packet switched, belonging to the same user equipment can be correlated. In case a communication session on a circuit switched network is halted by a supplementary... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080310403 - Method for switching connections between an ip-only phone and a soft phone to a server: A method for switching connections between an IP-only phone and a soft phone to an IP gateway server is disclosed. An identical telephone number is allocated to the IP-only phone and the soft phone. When the soft phone has been moved such that a connection destination to a local-area network... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080310399 - Methods and systems for connecting phones to internet users: Methods and systems for connecting a phone to a client via a network by using an electronic notification system, which may include a third-party internet electronic messenger service, such as, Yahoo messenger™, Google Talk™, MSN messenger™ software, or email systems. The system includes a server that is connected to the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080310400 - System and method for link adaptation overhead reduction: Systems and methods of providing link adaptation information feedback are provided. A mobile device that receives packets generates link adaptation information based on incorrectly received packets. This can involve sending link adaptation information in association with NACKs (negative acknowledgements) generated by the mobile device. The network receives this link adaptation... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080310401 - Systems and methods to provide communication references based on recommendations to connect people for real time communications: Methods and apparatuses to selectively present communication references based on recommendations from related entities to connect people for real time communications. One embodiment includes: receiving from a user a selection of a first listing, including a reference to be used to request a connection for real time communications between the... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20080310404 - Local switching in radio access networks: The invention relates to a telecommunication system, to a local media gateway, to an MSC server, to a radio base station and to a radio network controller for set-up, release and control of local calls in the telecommunication system. The telecommunication system comprises a core network and at least a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080310405 - Cooperative multiple access in wireless networks: A cooperative cluster of wireless nodes exchange data before cooperatively communicating with a destination node over a MIMO channel. In a cooperative cluster of M nodes, each node shares 1/M of its own data with each of the other nodes, and keeps 1/M of its own data for transmission. Each... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC

20080310406 - Method and system for implementing self service by using circuit switched terminal: A method and a system for implementing a self service by using a circuit switched terminal are provided. The method includes receiving a self-service signaling associated with a self service from a circuit switched terminal; and converting the self-service signaling to a self service request, which is adapted to indicate... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080310407 - Initiating router functions: A method of initiating router functions includes providing a router device having an integrated user interface having a user control and an indicator. From the router device, a first data link to a wide area network is established. From the router device, a second data link to enable a local... Agent: Ormiston & Mckinney, PLLC

20080310408 - Internet protocol television: Distributing data includes establishing an asset classification for an asset or group of assets and assigning at least one of the asset classifications to a network device and another asset classification to a first set of data. The first set of data is transmitted over a network that includes the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080310411 - Communication apparatus and integrated circuit for communication: A communication apparatus that sequentially transmits a plurality of pieces of packet data over a network, each piece of packet data including a piece of block data, the communication apparatus including a storage circuit operable to generate a plurality of pieces of verification data in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080310412 - Information relay apparatus, control method and information processing system: In a multi-processor system, an exit control circuit unit 330 of a crossbar-network module 300 to which a plurality of nodes 200 are connected is provided with a staying-time monitoring circuit 410 for issuing a special BC packet 530 for all of the exit control circuits 330 when the staying-time... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080310409 - Method and arrangement for coding and scheduling in a retransmission communication system: A sending node (405) is adapted for communication with several receiving nodes (410, 420) by transmitting information in the form of a regular data packet to at least one intended receiving nodes, said sending node comprising -means to receive, identify and store a priori information in feedback from receiving nodes... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080310410 - Method for detecting topology of computer systems: One embodiment is a method that transmits a packet having a bit field with a Time-to-live (TTL) value from a requesting node to a plurality of receiving nodes. The TTL value is decreased at each of the receiving nodes, and the packet is sent back to the requesting node that... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080310413 - Method of performing multicast admission control in a communications network, central admission controller and communications network: The invention relates to a method of performing multicast admission control in a communications network (1′), comprising the steps of: a) receiving, at a first node (1-1) of the communications network (1′), a request (6) for a multicast channel (4b) from a host system (5b) communicatively coupled to the first... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080310414 - Retransmission of broadcast and multicast traffic over a shared medium: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for communicating among stations in a network. Broadcast or multicast traffic in the network can be selectively retransmitted according to one or more retransmissions rules established for the network. Retransmission rules can be established based on an analysis of network topology data and designed... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080310415 - Apparatus for processing packets and method of doing the same: An apparatus for processing a packet includes a packet processor operating in accordance with a clock signal having a predetermined frequency, to process a packet, and a clock-signal generator producing the clock signal and transmitting the clock signal to the packet processor, wherein the clock-signal generator generates a clock signal... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080310417 - Differential forwarding in address-based carrier networks: The invention relates to enabling differential forwarding in address-based carrier networks such as Ethernet networks. There is described a method of and connection controller for establishing connections (76, 77) in a frame-based communications network comprising nodes (71-75 and 78) such as Ethernet switches. The connections are established by configuring, in... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080310418 - Output queued switch with a parallel shared memory, and method of operating same: A network switch includes an input layer to receive a data stream with a set of cells. Each cell includes data and a header to designate a destination device. The input layer includes a set of input layer circuits. A selected input layer circuit of the set of input layer... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC- Rmi

20080310416 - Vlan server: A method for processing data received from at least one of VLANs, the method including: obtaining, based on a VLAN tag included in a MAC header of a MAC frame received from the VLAN and a first destination IP address included in an IP header of the MAC frame, a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080310420 - Method and system for transparent tcp offload with transmit and receive coupling: Certain aspects of a method and system for transparent transmission control protocol (TCP) offload with transmit and receive coupling are disclosed. Aspects of a method may include collecting at least one received TCP segment for a determined network flow via a network interface card (NIC) processor. The state information for... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080310422 - Data center virtual local area network system and method: A method, system and service for a data center computer network. A core network switches data using a first protocol layer. A first access switch is in electrical communication with the core network. The first access switch communicates the data to the core network using the first protocol layer. A... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20080310421 - Managing connectivity in a virtual network: Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for managing connectivity in a virtual network. One embodiment determines if information received from a device in a virtual land area network (VLAN) matches a configuration of a virtual connect domain (VCD) in order to label links as being either internal or external.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080310423 - Synchronization of message stream in a multi-tier messaging system: A group communication service is adapted for multi-point to multi-point communication. Identical message streams are received by a tier of processing servers from a tier of sources. The processing servers deliver the message streams to a tier of destinations. The group communication service enables the processing servers to deal with... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080310424 - System and method to provide multiple private networks using mpls: A system and method are supplied to provide multiple private networks. The system can include an Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) interface configured to receive a plurality of data stream types from a packet switched network. A plurality of local area network ports can be configured to communicate data to local... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080310425 - System and method for automatic detection and reporting of the mapping between device identity and network address in wireless networks: A method and system for communicating the identity of devices detected in a wireless communication system. The devices connect to a mobile wireless network comprising a wireless access network and a core Internet Protocol (IP) network. The identities of devices so detected are specified by a combination of device and... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC

20080310419 - Network interface selection using historical connection information: A computer may be capable of communicating with devices via network through multiple interfaces. When a new connection is to be established, the computer may select an interface to use for the connection. In some embodiments, the interface may be selected based on historical connection information representing the performance of... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080310430 - Control system, data message transmission method and network device in the ethernet: A control system, a data transport method and a network device include: the control system obtains the link information in the Ethernet based on the layer 2 control protocol of the Ethernet, and establishes and maintains the network topology of the Ethernet based on the link information; the control system... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080310429 - Equivalent switching method for transmission devices in mpls networks: In prior art, one of the problems of equivalent switching MPLS packets is that the transmission of MPLS packets is defined unidirectionally. The inventive method provides a solution to the problem in the form of a configuration which allows for bidirectional and 1:n unidirectional transmission (requiring a reverse LAN channel).... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080310428 - Method for identifying real-time traffic hop by hop in an internet network: A method for identifying real-time traffic hop by hop in an Internet network including a sender, a receiver, and routers in the network is provided. The method comprises steps of registering source port number and/or destination port number of the UDP respectively for RTP, RTCP and RTSP with the Internet... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080310427 - Method of determining reliability of information: A method of determining reliability of information received at a destination (16) in a communication network sent from a source with which the destination does not have a security association comprises generating first and second data (12, 13) representative of the information at the source. The first data is sent... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080310426 - Networks: (iii) a neighbouring node receiving the mixture in a channel filter that contains a similar Gaussian representation of its own estimate of system state, and dividing the incoming mixture by the existing mixture, for updating the estimate of the system state that is maintained at the node.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080310432 - Autonegotiation over an interface for which no autonegotiation standard exists: A method for enabling autonegotiation over an interface for which no autonegotiation standard exists comprises establishing network communication between a first network device and a second network device over a communication link. The first network device includes a first media access controller (MAC) associated with a communication port coupled to... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20080310433 - Fast re-routing in distance vector routing protocol networks: In one embodiment, a method includes sending an adjacency discovery message 1 from a local router over a direct link to a first neighbor router. An adjacency discovery message is not forwarded and includes a repair address. The repair address indicates the local router but is not advertised as reachable... Agent: Eugene Molinelli Evans & Molinelli PLLC.

20080310434 - Method and apparatus for the creation of tcp segments by simultaneous use of computing device components: A method and apparatus for segmenting data into TCP data segments using a first network communication component, and transmitting TCP data segments over a second network using a second network communication component. TCP data segments may be created by a first network card that may be in a loopback mode... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080310431 - Method for automatic discovery of a transaction gateway daemon of specified type: A method is provided in a system wherein a transaction gateway daemon of a specified type is connected between first and second spatially separated servers, in order to integrate applications running on the first server with operation of the second server. The method automatically determines whether a detected address space... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080310435 - Method for establishing a unicast media session: A method and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) gateway for establishing a unicast media session between a media receiver and a media source in an IMS network via a Network Address Translation (NAT) function acting on behalf of the media receiver. A media source controller in the IMS sends a Session... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080310436 - Broadband multi-drop local network, interface and method for multimedia access: A broadband multi-drop local network, interface and method for multimedia access. A local network architecture include a wired bus coupleable directly to an external data network terminal and configured for carrying broadband packetized data traffic over a frequency spectrum uninterrupted by other defined data channels or services; and one or... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20080310437 - Method and apparatus for carrying unknown traffic over a resilient packet ring (rpr) without flooding: A method and corresponding apparatus allows unknown packet traffic, such as Ethernet traffic, to be carried on a Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) network without flooding the traffic on the RPR network. Modules in a station of the ring network compare a destination address in a packet traffic signal with known... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080310438 - Methods and system for fast session establishment between equipment using h.324 and related telecommunications protocols: Methods of establishing multimedia telecommunication (a multimedia “call”) between equipment (“terminals”). More particularly, the invention provides methods for reducing the time required to establish calls between terminals implementing ITU-T Recommendation H.324 and derived or related standards or recommendations such as 3G-324M. More specifically, it relates to methods and apparatuses for... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080310439 - Communicating prioritized messages to a destination queue from multiple source queues using source-queue-specific priority values: There is disclosed a method, apparatus and computer program for communicating messages between a first messaging system and a second messaging system. The messaging system comprises a set of source queues with each source queue owning messages retrievable in priority order. It is determined that a message should be transferred... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080310440 - Network interface system with filtering function: A network interface system with packet filtering function is disclosed herein. The network interface system includes interfaces, a packet buffer and a controller. The packet buffer stores data packets received by the network interface system. The controller provides security defense for the host system and the network by filtering the... Agent: O2micro Inc C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080310441 - General purpose physical data transmission port: A physical data transmission port in a network element of a data network, suited for realizing for instance both an electric packet switched Ethernet connection and an electric time slot switched E1/T1 connection. It has surprisingly been found out that the electric connector (101) and connected circuits provided in the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080310442 - Method and system for performing edge to edge pseudo wire emulation of bundling interface: A method and system for performing edge to edge pseudo wire emulation of the bundling interface in telecommunication field. The method includes: assigning the sub-channel number for the established member bundling interface and negotiating the bundling parameter; forwarding the user message through the aforementioned established bundling interface; and sending the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080310443 - Communication link allocation based on dynamic trend analysis: A method and/or apparatus is provided for performing traffic allocation based on dynamic trend analysis of communication links between two devices. Devices monitor the performance of their available communication links to determine which communication link is best to receive transmissions on. A device selects the best communication link on which... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080310444 - Group communication system achieving efficient total order and state synchronization in a multi-tier environment: A group communication service maintains synchronization limiting the group to the processing entities that receive a plurality of source message streams from sources outside the group and transmit delivery message streams to destinations that are outside the group. Synchronization of message ordering and other state synchronization directives are communicated from... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080310447 - Methods and apparatus for testing adaptive timing characteristics of packet-based timing protocol: Methods and apparatus for testing adaptive timing characteristics of a packet-based timing protocol are provided. A packet delay variation test sequence is applied to packet-based traffic as the packet-based traffic passes through a packet delay variation generator during transmission between nodes. Adaptive timing characteristics at a node that receives the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080310445 - Provisioning bandwidth for a digital media stream: Provisioning bandwidth for a digital media stream, the digital media stream characterized by a bandwidth, including adapting by a media server a first portion of the bandwidth for transmission of the content of a first channel and at least one second, smaller portion of the bandwidth for transmission of the... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080310446 - Provisioning bandwidth for a digital media stream: Provisioning bandwidth for a digital media stream, the digital media stream characterized by a bandwidth, including monitoring, by a media display device, a user's viewing behavior to create a user profile; transmitting, to a media server, the user profile; and responsive to receiving, by the media server, a user selection... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080310448 - Apparatus, and associated method, for selecting and negotiating frame size of communication data communicated in a radio communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for negotiating an LLC frame size for a UMA/GAN network. A calculator, embodied at a mobile station, calculates an optimal frame size, i.e., an N201-U value. A negotiation initiator initiates a frame size negotiation with a network entity. The frame size negotiation utilizes the calculated... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080310452 - Data link layer headers: A system for communicating protocol layer processing information is disclosed herein. A transmitter includes a protocol layer header generator that generators a header for a first protocol data unit. The header generator provides a first header comprising a first sequence number field that determines the order in which a receiving... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080310449 - Method and apparatus for upper level protocol message: Upper level protocol message transmitting method and apparatus are provided based on a new management message to be used in a portable Internet system. When a base station receives the upper level protocol message to be broadcast, it includes the same in the management message and transmits the included message... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080310450 - Method of passing a constant bit rate digital signal through an ethernet interface and system for carrying out the method: System and method for passing a constant bit rate signal through an Ethernet interface (TX, RX) wherein an original clock rate (102) of the constant bit rate signal (1) is used for transmitting Ethernet packets (2, 3, 4) containing fragments (20, 30, 40) of the constant bit rate signal (1).... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080310451 - Splitting of a data stream: The present invention relates to a method of splitting a data stream into packets which comprise either only video units or only non-video units in order to better enable the enhancement of a displayed video stream using IFD without causing any audio artifacts. The gist of the present invention is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080310453 - Communications system to feed multiple single frequency networks with multiple content: A system and processes create a transport stream carrying several encapsulated contents, watermarks, and other ancillary data. The transport stream is re-multiplexed while keeping synchronous and deterministic operation. Synchronous deterministic operation allow each derived transport stream to be broadcasted in Single Frequency Networks, as all re-multiplexers have the same signal... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20080310454 - Provisioning bandwidth for a digital media stream: Provisioning bandwidth for a digital media stream, the digital media stream characterized by a bandwidth, including receiving, by a media server from a media display device, information describing a user's anticipated viewing requirements; selecting, by the media server in dependence upon the information describing the user's anticipated viewing requirements, a... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080310455 - Multi-code-set channel estimation method in a time-slot cdma system: A multi-code-set channel estimation method in a time-slot CDMA system having steps of: A. performing uni-code-set channel estimations and obtaining channel estimation result; B. extracting a maximum interference tap from the channel estimation result; C. reproducing interference components suffered respectively by response signals corresponding respectively to the plurality of code-sets... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080310456 - Communication system over a power line distribution network: The present disclosure provides a system for receiving signals over a power line distribution. Typically, problems of noise and interference are being solved at the receiver side. Systems of the present disclosure, however, are not limited to the receiver-side solution. Systems according to the present disclosure may also be used... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080310457 - Data communication system, data transmitting device, data receiving device, data communication method, and data communication program: There is provided a data communication system that performs power line communication having satisfactory communication quality by disposing data in channels where notches or noises do not exist in a distributed manner. There is included a step S01 of transmitting a pilot tone from a data transmitting device to a... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080310458 - Electronic device and method of communication resource allocation: An electronic device is provided which comprises an interconnect means (N) for coupling a plurality of processing modules (IP1-IP5) to enable a communication between the processing modules (IP1-IP5). The electronic device further comprises a plurality of network interfaces (NI) for coupling the interconnect means (N) to one of the processing... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080310459 - Telecommunications control device autonomously determining transmission timing and a method therefor: A network node constituting a telecommunications system together with one or more neighboring nodes includes a telecommunications control device, which includes a timing control signal receiver for receiving timing control signals transmitted from the neighboring nodes, and a transmission timing calculator for determining data transmission timing of the network node,... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080310460 - Deterministic program clock reference re-stamping for synchronous bit rate adaptation based on mega-frame initialization packet: A system and processes create a transport stream carrying several encapsulated contents, watermarks, and other ancillary data. The transport stream is re-multiplexed while keeping synchronous and deterministic operation. Synchronous deterministic operation allow each derived transport stream to be broadcasted in Single Frequency Networks, as all re-multiplexers have the same signal... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20080310461 - System and method for transmitting and distributing audio or video data over a network system having multiple receivers: A system for transmitting and distributing audio or video information. The system includes a multi-channel input module and multiple receivers arranged along at least one chain of high speed serial data links where each receiver can tap into a common set of digital channels generated by a transmitter. Each receiver... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080304403 - Method and system for diversity receiver based on tds-ofdm technology: A method for selecting parameter comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of paths each path associated with an independent antenna, and each path comprising: a set of parameters associated with a particular channel; and deriving a parameter among each and every of the set of parameters associated with a... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20080304404 - Architecture for owa based tdd-ofdm system: As no single wireless standard can provide both broadband high-speed and seamless mobility for commercial wireless communications in terms of technology, cost, spectrum and performance, a new wireless convergence platform based on Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) has been disclosed, wherein the OWA-based TDD-OFDM is utilized as the principal air interface... Agent: Wei Lu

20080304405 - Signal generating unit and signal receiving unit: A signal generating unit (100) is provided for generating signals. The signal generating unit comprises an IFFT unit (101) for generating an output signal; a filter unit (102) operatively connected to the IFFT unit; and a subtractor (103) operatively connected to the IFFT unit and to the filter unit, said... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20080304406 - Method and apparatus for error messaging in a multimedia network: In certain home multimedia networks having a plurality of terminals, there are no provisions for sending error messages when a service cannot be delivered owing to conflicts with another service. The present invention proposes to let the media server of the tuner in such a network provide an image bearing... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080304407 - Efficient protection mechanisms for protecting multicast traffic in a ring topology network utilizing label switching protocols: Efficient protection mechanisms for ring-based label-switching networks, such as multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) networks. The protection mechanisms are designed to protect point-to-multipoint label switching paths (LSPs). In steering ring protection embodiments, the nodes of the ring network are provided with pre-configured tables that enable each node to operate in both... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080304409 - Receiving data in a sensor network: A sensor network has a plurality of wireless sensors which transmit to an intermediate receiving device which relays data to a central server. A method is provided for receiving data packets at the intermediate receiving device from a plurality of the transmitting devices. Data packets are sensed on a communication... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080304408 - System and method for improving service and device discovery in a upnp-based wireless communication network: A system and method that improve service and device discovery in a UPnP-based wireless communication network and avoids unnecessary broadcast messages on a MAC sublayer of a DLC layer caused by UPnP multicast messages on an IP layer by intercepting UPnP multicast messages in a network protocol stack below the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080304410 - Method for avoiding collision using identifier in mobile network: A method for avoiding collision among transmissions from user equipment in a mobile network is provided. The method includes transmitting a preamble to a base station via a random access channel (RACH) and transmitting a response signal including an identifier of the user equipment to the user equipment in response... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20080304411 - Bandwidth control system and method capable of reducing traffic congestion on content servers: A bandwidth control system controls the bandwidths used by plural web crawlers. The bandwidth control system receives a connection request from one of the web crawlers for establishing a connection between that web crawler and a content server. The control system records each of the web crawlers in association with... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080304412 - Architecture for optical metro ethernet service level agreement (sla) management: A system for managing one or more service level agreements associated with a switched metro Ethernet network is disclosed and manages one or more service level agreements associated with a switched metro Ethernet network. The system also includes a service level agreement (SLA) management reporting system (MRS) and a performance... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080304413 - Control of data flow in a network: Methods and apparatus for encoding a number of small dynamic values over an n-bit field. Also methods and apparatus allowing for the stateless extraction of separate sequences from repetitions of a single field whereby to communicate more than one signal at once.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080304414 - Method and device for remotely controlling the congestion of meshed flow in a packet mode telecommunication network: t

20080304415 - Packet flow control in switched full duplex ethernet networks: A method, system, and computer program product for controlling data packet traffic flow into a link partner device such as an ethernet adapter. In one embodiment, an occupancy level of an adapter receive queue is monitored to detect a receive queue overrun or underrun condition or event. The detected overrun... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080304416 - Method and apparatus for solving data packet traffic congestion: The present invention relates to data packet traffic congestion solving mechanism in a node of a Radio Access Network (RAN), said mechanism is capable of blocking the transmission of data packets between a user terminal (UT) and said node in both uplink and downlink directions, if a created blocking table... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080304418 - Maintenance system for a set of equipment: The invention relates to a maintenance system for a set of equipment of an aircraft, forming a physical network (106) configured by configuration files (101). The maintenance system according to the invention comprises a model M (104) of the set of equipment of the physical network, taking into account the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080304417 - Method, network apparatus, and tangible machine-readable medium thereof for detecting a looping network packet: A method, a network apparatus, and a tangible machine-medium thereof for detecting a looping network packet are provided. A receiving module receives a network packet. A memory stores a routing table comprising an address related variable, a sequence number related variable and a radius related variable. A determining module determines... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080304419 - Determining connectivity between endpoints in a network: A method of determining connectivity between two endpoints in a communications network is described. The method includes identifying transport addresses associated with each of the two endpoints and determining pairs of the transport addresses identifying a transmission path between the two endpoints. The method then proceeds to determining, at each... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20080304420 - Apparatus and method for performing a loopback test in a communication system: The invention is test apparatus and methods for performing loopback tests. The tests involve generating a packet-based test message having a source address and a destination address. When the test message arrives at the destination, the addresses are exchanged and the message is returned to the source. The addresses can... Agent: Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP

20080304421 - Internet latencies through prediction trees: A prediction tree for estimating values of a network performance measure. Leaf nodes of the prediction tree are associated with networked computing devices and interior nodes are not necessarily representative of physical network connections. Values are assigned to edges in the prediction tree and the network performance measure relative to... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080304422 - Methods and devices for providing robust nomadic wireless mesh networks using directional antennas: The number of directional antennas and associated radios needed to ensure a nomadic wireless mesh network (NWMN) remains operational in the event of node or link failures, while minimizing delay and other unwanted effects, may be determined using novel methods and devices. Such a determination may reduce the number of... Agent: Capitol Patent & Trademark Law Firm, PLLC

20080304423 - Network traffic monitoring in a server network environment: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with monitoring a server port in a server network environment are described. In one embodiment, a graphical user interface (GUI) allows server port(s) to be selected for monitoring. The GUI also allows for an uplink port to be selected, where the uplink port is... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080304426 - Logical routers: Systems and methods include providing a router that may be deployed as multiple logical routers that share a common fast interconnect. These logical routers may functionally serve as core routers, peering routers, aggregation routers, etc. A further aspect of the system and methods is that the resources assigned to a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080304425 - Method and system for a configurable communication integrated circuit and/or chipset: A deployed configurable communication integrated circuit (IC) and/or chipset which may be integrated within a wireless communication and/or multi-media communication device may be operable to monitor its operating conditions, performance and/or utilization characteristics. It may send information via a wireless, optical and/or wired network to a remote analysis and/or development... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080304424 - Multi-topology and multi-service routing system: A system and method is disclosed for routing a stream between several nodes, Ni, forming a network. The stream is transmitted by a source and is intended for one or more destinations taking account of the mobility requirements of the users and of the network nodes. The network nodes have... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080304427 - Node self-configuration and operation in a wireless network: A device performs a self-configure process for operations in a managed network to allocate a network address for the device by determining if the device will operate as a gateway of the managed network, obtaining a network address for communication with external devices outside of the managed network in response... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080304428 - Method for establishing a loop-free tree structure in a data transmission network and associated network element: The invention relates to, among other things, a method during which a network element (58, 60) of a data transmission network (50) is automatically integrated into a method for establishing a loop-free tree structure or is automatically removed from such a method. By taking preset criteria into account, it is... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080304429 - Method of transmitting data in a communication system: A method of transmitting a combined audio signal to at least one of a plurality of participants in a communication event comprising; receiving an audio signal from each of said plurality of participants together with audio activity information associated with each of said received audio signals; analysing a measure of... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080304430 - Method and device for decreasing a transmission delay in a multi-channel data transmission: The present invention relates to a method and a device to improve the transmission characteristics of physical layer (PHY) hybrid automated repeat request (HARD) in multi subchannel frequency division duplex (FDD) links. The present invention provides a method for decreasing a transmission delay in a multi-sub-channel data transmission of physical... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20080304431 - Method and system for a digital diary system: A wireless communication device may generate an interactive digital diary for one or more users. The device may handle location information, multimedia data, transactions and/or secure communications via a plurality of technologies. Digital diary information may be stored internally or externally, it may be searchable and/or may comprise moving images,... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080304433 - Methods and devices for daisy chain ce device power save modes: A daisy chain device including a first active mode of operation and a second low power mode of operation. In the first active mode of operation the daisy chain device supplies or receives multimedia data containing at least two types of data. In the second low power mode of operation... Agent: Active Knowledge Ltd.

20080304432 - System and method for an energy efficient rf transceiver: An energy efficient radio having a clocking system utilizing two clocks with very different precision and power characteristics. In another aspect, the time that a radio spends on listening/receiving is optimized so that energy is not wasted when there is no need to keep receiving. In another aspect, to further... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080304434 - Inter-system idle mode mobility: Providing for inter-system idle mobility management for independent mobile networks is described herein. By way of example, registration of multiple mobile IP (MIP) addresses to a mobile device can be utilized to facilitate inter-system device tracking. An Internet Protocol (IP) home agent that serves the mobile device can associate the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080304435 - Local oscillation routing plan applicable to a multiple rf band rf mimo transceiver: Local oscillation circuitry for use in an RF transceiver Integrated Circuit (IC) includes local oscillation generation circuitry operable to produce a local oscillation and local oscillation distribution circuitry. The local oscillation distribution circuitry includes a splitting circuit, a first distribution portion, and a second distribution portion. The splitting circuit receives... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080304436 - Wireless viral mesh network and process for using the same: A sending subscriber system may participate in a wireless network by generating a message to transmit in a wireless network, identifying a local wireless subscriber system with which communications may be established, and determining whether to use the wireless local subscriber system as a relay.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080304437 - Tcp start protocol for high-latency networks: In a TCP start protocol for a network including a link for which a minimum guaranteed transmission bandwidth has been negotiated, packets are transmitted at an initial rate that is inversely dependent on the guaranteed bandwidth, until an acknowledgement is received from the receiver. In this way, congestion in the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080304439 - Automatic base station configuration: A basestation in a cellular communications network is configured such that it has a different Location Area Identification from other local basestations in the cellular network. This has the effect that a Location Area Update procedure is performed when a mobile device wishes to camp onto that basestation. The basestation... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080304438 - Method and apparatus for multimedia communication: A method and apparatus for enabling communication of IP multimedia content to a called user during a circuit-switched call between a calling terminal (A) having called a primary communication unit (B1), when the call has been forwarded to a secondary communication unit (B2). The calling terminal receives a connected number... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080304441 - Mobility management mode selection in multiple access wireless networks: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate indicating and determining mobility management modes in access identifiers for wireless communications networks. Wireless devices can indicate mobility management modes to be utilized by choosing a target system and communicating the chosen system and a home system to one or more network components.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080304443 - Standards based communictions for a container security system: A container security system includes a plurality of wireless communication devices, each wireless communication device being associated with a respective container, and a sensor assembly located in the interior of each container. Each sensor assembly includes a sensor component and a wireless communication component that is configured to wirelessly communicate... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20080304440 - Terminal and method for accessing wireless connection: A method for establishing a wireless connection performed by a subscriber station (SS) to receive Internet services from a given terminal node through a base station (BS), the method including: a) when an initial connection with the BS is established, establishing a first MAC connection with the BS, and setting... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080304442 - Wireless base station for communications network: A wireless base station includes: a trend factor regression expression calculator for determining, on the basis of measured wireless communication environment factor, the trend of the variation in the environment factor; a trend prediction value calculator for calculating, on the basis of the determined trend of the variation in the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080304445 - Apparatus and method to support voip calls for mobile subscriber stations: In some embodiments, a base station includes a service flow management module having an admission control module and a data path function module in communication with the admission control module. The data path function module is adapted to generate a first dynamic service addition (DSA) request message for a first... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080304444 - Enhanced site report for low latency roaming by passive scanning in ieee 802.11 networks: In order to reduce the average wait time, information regarding radar presence, a component of channel availability, may be obtained through an apparatus and method for determining available channels in a wireless network. This includes determining available channels in a wireless network by: receiving regulatory domain information within the wireless... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080304449 - Fa assignment method, fa assignment module and policy server in the wireless portable internet system: Provided are a broadband wireless access communication system, and a method for assigning a frequency assignment (FA) to a newly accessing portable subscriber station (PSS) when a radio access station in a portable Internet system serves a number of FAs. The method for assigning a FA includes the steps of:... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080304446 - Frequency division communication system: An orthogonal frequency division communication system which enables flexible modification of the ratio of allocation between uplink and downlink transmissions, while maintaining advantages similar to those of TDD (Time Division Duplex) systems, has a base station and a plurality of mobile stations connected by uplinks and downlinks, and a plurality... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20080304447 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving packet data between a node b and a ue using harq in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving packet data between a UE and an Enhanced Node B (ENB) using a Hybrid Auto Repeat Request (HARQ) scheme in a mobile communication system. The method includes the steps of receiving configuration information from an ENB, the configuration information including a first... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080304448 - System and method for dynamic resource allocation in wireless communications networks: System and method for dynamic resource allocation in wireless communications networks. A method for dynamically allocating resources of a contention channel comprises computing an expected delay for a transmission made by a user over the contention channel, determining a target probability of collision from the expected delay, computing an allocation... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080304454 - Heterogeneous network and method for handover between heterogeneous networks: A heterogeneous network includes a terminal side and a network side. The network side includes an original PoA and handover candidate PoAs. The terminal side is used to select the handover candidate PoAs, initiate a media independent handover request, terminate a connection with the original PoA, and establish a connection... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080304450 - Inter-mode/inter-rat handover: There is disclosed a method of packet switched handover in a communications system having at least two modes of operation, the method comprising, at a terminal of the system, associating identifiers of each mode of operation, and responsive to a packet switched connection handover to a new mode, allocating the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080304453 - Method and apparatus for sequential messages: A method and apparatus for sequential measurement reporting in media independent handover communications are disclosed. In a first embodiment a measurement time field is added to existing IEEE 802.21 measurement report messages. In a second embodiment a measurement sequence number field is added to existing IEEE 802.21 measurement report messages.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080304452 - Method for a mobile phone to automatically adapt to different frequency bands: A wide area communication network includes a first and second local wireless communication network, each local network operating in a different frequency band. A mobile phone previously configured to operate in the frequency band of the first local wireless communication network is transported to the second local wireless communication network... Agent: Robert C. Schluer

20080304451 - Method to allow hand-off of a cdma mobile from ims femtocell to circuit msc: A method for hand-off of a cell division multi-access mobile from an internet protocol base network to a circuit mobile switching center is disclosed. The system includes determining whether a hand-off is appropriate based at least in part on signal strength of a call for a mobile unit. The method... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080304460 - Cellular network/wlan voip service interaction by home wireless router: A home wireless router establishes a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). The home wireless router services a plurality of wireless terminals within the WLAN service area, the plurality of wireless terminals including at least one Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) wireless terminal. The home wireless router receives a request to... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080304456 - Communication system, radio lan base station control device, and radio lan base station device: There are provided a communication system, a radio LAN base station control device, and a radio LAN base station device capable of increasing the control reliability and improving communication stability and safety between the radio LAN base station control device and the radio LAN base station device. In this communication... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080304458 - Inter-working of networks: In a heterogeneous network environment comprising a plurality of first wireless networks and a second wireless network, said plurality of first wireless network utilizing a first wireless communication protocol and said second wireless network utilizing a second wireless communication protocol different to said first, a method of gathering data from... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: BoxIPDept.

20080304459 - Method for controlling a control station, a method for controlling a terminal station, a control station, a terminal station, and a computer readable storage medium: A method for controlling a control station (H1) includes the steps of performing wireless connection processing (204) with a terminal station (D1) and when a wireless connection is established, sending, to the wirelessly-connected terminal station (D1), a capture request signal (205) for causing the terminal station to capture a control... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080304455 - Method, system, mobile communication terminal and a node adapted for end-to-end quality access selection of an access network: In a method of selecting an access network from among one or more access networks capable of providing service to a mobile communication terminal, measuring (S1), for at least two access networks, an end-to-end quality through the whole communication path between the terminal and a destination node, and selecting (S2)... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080304457 - Secure mobile ipv6 registration: In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving by an agent a request from a network node for generation of a secure IPv6 address for use by the network node, the request including a selected subset of parameters selected by the network node and required for generation of the secure IPv6... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20080304461 - System and method for multi-network coverage: A system and method are provided for a multi-network wireless communications access terminal (AT) to access multi-network coverage. The method registers a multi-network AT in a first communications network. In response to registering with the first network, the AT receives information via the first network that is required for accessing... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080304464 - Low complexity precoding matrix selection: A method of determining indices for matrix codewords in a matrix codeword codebook. The matrix codewords are adapted for communicating information between a transmitter and a receiver. The method includes retrieving from temporary storage, an eigenmode representation for a communications channel, where the eigenmode representation is based upon on a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080304463 - Reduced search space technique for codeword selection: A method of determining indicators for matrix codewords in a matrix codeword codebook, where the matrix codewords are adapted for communicating information between a transmitter and a receiver. The method includes providing a lookup table that is associated with multiple codewords that are associated with a codebook. The lookup table... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080304462 - Session initiation protocol/internet protocol multimedia subsystem based architecture for supporting 3g1x voice/data: A core network architecture for supporting an internet protocol based network is disclosed. The system includes a base station which is configured to convert a signal from a first network to an internet protocol network signal and send the converted signal through the internet protocol base network. The network also... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080304465 - Wireless communication system and wireless communication method: A wireless transceiver device employing the code select code division multiple access method includes an encoder configured to execute error correction coding on data having a predetermined number of bits among data inputted from outside, and a code selector configured to select a code corresponding to the data subjected to... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080304467 - Control and data signaling in sc-fdma communication systems: Apparatus and method for multiplexing control information bits and data information bits into sub-frame symbols depending on the location of symbols carrying a reference signal (RS), to provide an estimate for the channel medium and enable coherent demodulation for signals carrying information bits. The control information bits include ACK or... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080304466 - Wireless multipoint voice network: In general, a mobile unit for communicating with other mobile units assigned to a group within a Multipoint Voice Network (“MVN”) having a plurality of groups is shown. The mobile unit may include transmitter, receiver, and controller. The transmitter is enabled to transmit a set of multiple carrier frequencies, where... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20080304468 - Multiple spatial channel transmission with rate control: A MIMO ARC transmitter derives demux streams (15, 20) carrying different parts of the information, at given data rates, processes each demux stream by coding and modulation (25, 30) before transmission over the channels, and varies (50, 165) the coding or modulation according to channel conditions, and controls the data... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080304469 - Radiocommunication system mobile station which can communicate directly with another mobile station: M

20080304472 - Communication embodiments and low latency path selection in a multi-topology network: In one embodiment, a source device (e.g., a VOIP phone) establishes a call connection with a remote device depending on which of multiple network paths provides an acceptable latency (e.g., a lower latency). For example, in response to receiving a request to establish a connection with a remote destination device... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay

20080304473 - Enhanced terminal adapter: An enhanced terminal adapter (ETA) allows multiple communication devices connected to either similar or dissimilar networks, and typically accessible through different access numbers/addresses, to be used as extensions of each other when any of the devices are accessed via their access number/address. In the case of a PSTN call, communications... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080304470 - Method and system for providing intelligent call rejection and call rollover in a data network: A system and method may include receiving an invite message associated with a calling device over a data network, the invite message requesting establishment of a voice over data communication session, and presenting a plurality of call rejection options, each of the plurality of call rejection options being associated with... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080304471 - Methods and apparatus to perform call screening in a voice over internet protocol (voip) network: Methods and apparatus to perform call screening in a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) network are disclosed. An example method comprises sending a call initiation request to a VoIP endpoint, receiving a call screening indication from a user of the VoIP endpoint in response to the call initiation request and... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080304474 - Techniques to synchronize packet rate in voice over packet networks: Method and apparatus to synchronize packet rate for audio information are described.... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20080304475 - Hybrid fiber twisted pair local loop network service architecture: A new architecture capable of utilizing the existing twisted pair interface between customer premises equipment and an associated serving local switching office is used to provide a vast array of new services to customers. Using an intelligent services director (ISD) at the customer services equipment as an interface for the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080304476 - Ethernet over mpls circuit emulation service: A method and apparatus are provided for providing CES using both Ethernet and MPLS networks. TDM data is packetized and Ethernet encapsulated, and then MPLS encapsulated. Following insertion into an MPLS core network, the packet is routed to a destination MPLS router using MPLS routing. The MPLS encapsulation is then... Agent: Marks & Clerk

20080304477 - Carrier class resilience solution for switched ethernet local area networks (lans): A Carrier Class Ethernet switch is described herein that has a resilient switch control system (RSCS) which manages redundant switch matrixes that use redundant links to connect to one or more application blades (e.g., switches, end stations). The Ethernet switch has Carrier Class characteristics because a Rapid Link Supervision Protocol... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080304478 - Communications network: A distributed Internet Protocol communications network comprises a central control system comprising control processing means and at least one access point remote from the central control system for providing access to the packet based communications network. Under normal operating conditions the at least one access point is controlled by the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080304482 - Device and method for communicating with a legacy device, network or application: A translation device allows communication between two entities that are not compatible. The two entities can include a legacy entity that uses an address format not compatible with a newer entity. The translation device receives a packet for the legacy entity and converts its address to one that is compatible... Agent: Christopher W. Brody Clark & Brody

20080304480 - Method for determining the forwarding direction of ethernet frames: A method and switch for determining the routing direction of Ethernet frames in order to route them to a destination, e.g. a computer, by means of Ethernet switches, according to which a frame is received by a first switch are provided. The first switch determines that the source address of... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080304479 - One-way message notificatoin with out-of-order packet delivery: A multiprocessor computer system comprises a sending processor node and a receiving processor node. The sending processor node is operable to send packets comprising part of a message to a receiver, and to send a message complete packet after all packets in the message are sent. The message complete packet... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080304483 - System and method for achieving accelerated throughput: Systems and methods for transporting data between two endpoints over an encoded channel are disclosed. Data transmission units (data units) from the source network are received at an encoding component logically located between the endpoints. These first data units are subdivided into second data units and are transmitted to the... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080304481 - System and method of offloading protocol functions: A method of communicating a packet sent from a sending processing element to a recipient processing element over a fast Ethernet network is provided, wherein an offload engine is used to process portions of the Ethernet protocol functions. The offload engine is a field-programmable gate array in communication with a... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin, LLP

20080304484 - Method for operating multipoint control system: The present invention provides method for operating a multipoint control system. It utilizes start packets pass through every one of controlled units which could be modified and transmitted to the next stage to achieve addressing for all of the system. The method comprises providing the multipoint control system, wherein the... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080304485 - Centrally controlled routing with tagged packet forwarding in a wireless mesh network: Embodiments of the present invention include a method, an apparatus, and logic encoded in one or more computer-readable tangible medium to carry out a method. One method includes tagging packets and forwarding packets in a wireless mesh network using stored forwarding information for the tag, wherein the forwarding information is... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20080304487 - Enhancing subscriber location tracking mechanism for voice over internet protocol services: A system for providing a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service has an Internet Protocol (IP) address detector for detecting an IP address assigned to a customer by an IP network during a VoIP communication session with the customer. An IP address database stores detected IP addresses. The IP address... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080304486 - Multiplexed data stream protocol: Multiplexed data stream protocols are described. In one embodiment, a method to provide a multiplexed data stream protocol includes packetizing a data stream to provide packets with headers and transmitting the packets through an interface which is not designed to use Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. The headers contain data for... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080304488 - Non-stop switching equipment for packet based communication links: When packets reach from the 0 system and the 1 system, the packet selecting means 21 determines, based on the sequence numbers held in the packet output record register 22, whether or not the corresponding packet has passed, interrupts passing of the corresponding packet to the output side if passed,... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080304490 - Systems and computer program products for header suppression in a network that guarantees in order delivery of packets: A method and computer program product for providing RTP suppression across a DOCSIS network. An index number and a set of rules are sent to a receiver. The index number indicates the type of header suppression technique (i.e., RTP header suppression) to be performed, and the set of rules define... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080304489 - Apparatus and method to set the signaling rate of a network disposed within an information storage and retrieval system: A method is disclosed to set the speed of a network. The method supplies a network interconnected with a system controller and a plurality of switch domains, where each of those plurality of switch domains comprises one or more information storage devices and a switch domain controller, and sets by... Agent: Dale F. Regelman Quarles & Brady, LLP

20080304491 - Reliable message transport network: A multiprocessor computer system comprises a sending processor node and a receiving processor node. The sending processor node is operable to send packets comprising part of a message to a receiver, to maintain a message buffer entry in the sender comprising the sent packets, to track acknowledgment from the receiver... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080304492 - Vcat transmission system and vcat band control method: A source node or a sink node retains path information of a VC path and actualizes an efficient process in an LCAS process on the basis of the path information. This can actualize an efficient process procedure in the LCAS and reduce an amount of loss data.... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080304493 - Adaptive dht node relay policies: In a distributed hash table overlay network, messages directed to a message ID are relayed one or more nodes that have published interest in that message ID. Messages are distributed, processed, and/or cached in accordance with relay policies, which enable a wide variety of different applications. Nodes to specify relay... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080304494 - Communication device: A communication device comprising: a checking unit checking whether a bandwidth from the ingress of first path down to the egress thereof and a bandwidth from the ingress of second path down to the egress thereof as a standby of a partial zone of first path, are established or not;... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080304500 - Architecture of gateway between a home network and an external network: A Home Gateway (HGW) interconnects a Home Network (HN) and an External Network (EN), and is adapted to communicate with the HN and EN at a Network layer. HGW is provided with a Service Application Programming Interface Layer (SAPI Layer) capable of performing, at an Application layer, mediator functions for... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080304499 - Gateway device, network system and data converting method applied to vehicle using plurality of network protocol different from each other: The present invention relates to a gateway device, a network system and a data converting method using a plurality of network protocols different from each other. A gateway device includes a first communication controller connected to first device via a first bus in accordance with a first network protocol to... Agent: Park Law Firm

20080304496 - Inferred discovery of a data communications device: Methods, apparatus, and products for inferred discovery of a data communications device connected to a router, unreachable by a management module, and characterized by a device address are disclosed that include querying, by the management module, the router for connection data and identifying, by the management module in dependence upon... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080304497 - Methods of route control in communications network: Methods of route control in a communications network are provided. In an example, routing information is received from a first router, the received routing information reporting at least one routing path between a first autonomous system and a second autonomous system. Next, a determination is made as to whether the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080304498 - Packet mirroring: Network devices, systems, and methods are provided for packet processing. One network device includes a network chip including logic and a number of network ports for the device for receiving and transmitting packets therefrom. The logic is operable to mirror packets on a per port per virtual local area network... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080304495 - System for communicating with an internet protocol multimedia subsystem network: A system for communicating with an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network is provided. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an intermediate node having a controller element to receive from a non IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) compliant node a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080304501 - Tunneling service method and system: A tunneling service method and system enabling data communication between different networks, in which an address of a tunneling service server used in a client node can be easily designated, the tunneling service method includes: transmitting an information request message, which requests information required for connection to the network, to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080304502 - Vehicle gateway device, a communication data control method and computer program product therefor: A vehicle gateway device is provided with a relay function unit (11) for relaying communication data to a bus line (BL2) if communication data flowing on a bus line (BL1) is relay data to be relayed to a bus line (BL2) and a (NM) function unit (21) for performing a... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080304503 - Traffic manager and method for performing active queue management of discard-eligible traffic: A traffic manager and a method are described herein that are capable of performing an active queue management of discard-eligible traffic for a shared memory device (with a per-CoS switching fabric) that provides fair per-class backpressure indications.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080304504 - Pci express switch with backwards compatibility: There are disclosed apparatus and methods for switching. Transparent and non-transparent ports are provided. Data units are transferred between the transparent ports, between the transparent and non-transparent ports, and between the non-transparent ports.... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080304505 - Packet transmission control apparatus and method: A packet transmission control apparatus includes a plurality of controllers, an arbitrator, a BUSY control circuit, and a memory. The controller controls a transmission of a packet to an interface and manages a request for data to a memory and a reception of data from the memory. The arbitrator selects... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080304506 - Multiple request intervals: Methods and apparatuses are presented for communicating using a shared communication medium. A request is sent over the shared communication medium. The shared communication medium is organized to include a request signal space and a scheduled transmission signal space. The request signal space includes a plurality of request segments each... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080304507 - Quasisynchronous reservation requests: Methods and apparatuses are presented for communicating using a shared communication medium. A request is sent in a request signal space where the request represents a code sequence that is a member of a set of code sequences. Each member is characterized by an autocorrelation function that has a peak... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080304508 - Time slot interchanger: There is provided a time slot interchanger for processing channel setting data functioning as control data for interchanging time slots of multiplexed transmission data. In the time slot interchanger, processing of the channel setting data based on alarm data is performed in accordance with a preset first transmission capacity, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080304509 - Out of band signaling enhancement for high speed serial driver: An integrated microelectronic serial driver is provided which is operable to transmit a differential pattern signal during a burst interval and a predetermined common mode voltage level during a second interval between adjacent burst intervals, the serial driver including at least one pre-driver and a driver coupled to an output... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20080304511 - Data transmitting apparatus, data transmitting method, and recording medium including data transmission program: According to an exemplary aspect of the invention, a data transmitting apparatus 1 includes a plurality of switches 100-1 to 100-n (n is an arbitrary integer) that perform different data transmission processes, and uses the switches 100-1 to 100-n to transmit data. The data transmitting apparatus 1 is connected to... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080304510 - Method and apparatus for controlling radio connection based on inputs from applications: Techniques for detecting end of activity and controlling a radio connection are described. In one design, inputs may be received from at least one application exchanging data with a wireless communication network via a radio connection. Whether to maintain or close the radio connection may be determined based on the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080304512 - Context associating for context designated destination communication system: One aspect relates to associating an at least one identifiable person and/or identifiable communication device with an at least one context at least partially by specifying an at least one context designated destination that designates the at least one identifiable person and/or identifiable communication device based at least partially on... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080304513 - Method for signaling of splitting information: A signaling method for signal division information is disclosed. The signaling method divides a signal into several signals, and effectively represents division information of the divided signals. The present invention provides the method signaling for signaling signal division information comprising: assigning number of lower nodes equal to the number of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080304515 - Communication system and communication method: A communication system includes a transmitting unit transmitting a packet data and a receiving unit receiving a packet data. The transmitting unit includes a first detection unit receiving a packet data transmitted using a first protocol, detecting a predetermined bit pattern in the received packet data, and determining the packet... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080304514 - Method and apparatus for communicating with a heterogeneous terminal: Provided are a method and apparatus for communicating with a heterogeneous terminal, more particularly, a method and apparatus for communicating with a heterogeneous terminal in which the communication between terminals using different modulation methods can be initialized by transmitting throughout a network a preamble with a waveform that is commonly... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080304516 - Distributed joint admission control and dynamic resource allocation in stream processing networks: Methods and apparatus operating in a stream processing network perform load shedding and dynamic resource allocation so as to meet a pre-determined utility criterion. Load shedding is envisioned as an admission control problem encompassing source nodes admitting workflows into the stream processing network. A primal-dual approach is used to decompose... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20080304517 - Ieee 1394 transmitter, ieee 1394 receiver and audio data content transmission method: There is provided an IEEE 1394 transmitter for transmitting a plurality of audio data contents, having an audio data generator configured to sample the plurality of audio data contents sequentially to generate format data of an audio data content; and an IEEE 1394 transmission controller configured to add an IEEE... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080304518 - Network device for embedding data in a data packet sequence: Techniques for embedding selected data in a data packet sequence are disclosed. Accordingly to one embodiment, a network device is deployed in an in-line fashion, preferably at a data traffic point along a network. Depending on the constraints of data packets in a data packet sequence from a website, the... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Agency

20080304519 - Method for ethernet power savings on link aggregated groups: This invention provides the ability to significantly lower the power consumed by a group of Ethernet links when organized in a Link Aggregation Group. When the server or switch senses low bandwidth utilization across multiple links in the group, it will negotiate the transition of un-necessary links to a lower... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080304520 - Time-interleaved simulcast for tune-in reduction: A system and method for providing faster tuning into a chosen program in a time-sliced multicast and/or broadcast transmission environment. Multimedia data of the same source material but of different transmission and presentation characteristics are coded and compressed. According to various embodiments, simulcast streams of a program are time-sliced, placed... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080304521 - Internal signaling method to support clock synchronization of nodes connected via a wireless local area network: This invention discloses a set of internal signaling (i.e., management primitives) to support a clock-synchronization protocol for wirelessly synchronizing clock registers of wired or wireless nodes via a wireless local area network (i.e., 802.11 network). The clock synchronization is performed between two higher-layer protocol entities residing within two different wireless... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080298223 - Packet detecting circuit and method thereof: A packet detecting circuit detects a packet inputting time via calculating a delay correlation function and an autocorrelation function. In order to prevent a DC offset from affecting the calculation of the delay correlation function and the autocorrelation function, when the packet detecting circuit calculates the delay correlation function and... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080298224 - Methods and apparatus for mapping modulation symbols to resources in ofdm systems: A method for transmission, by dividing a transmission resource in a time domain subframe into a plurality of equal duration resource elements in a time and frequency domain, segregating the plurality of resource elements into a plurality of resource regions, modulating information to be transmitted to generate a sequence of... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080298225 - Transmitting apparatus for transmitting in a multi-carrier system using multiple antennas and receiving apparatus in the same system: A transmitting apparatus and receiving apparatus of a multi-carrier system using multiple antennas is proposed. An LCF encoder of the transmitting apparatus performs a liner precoding to input signals to be transmitted to a receiving apparatus using a liner complex matrix considering the number of multiple antennas and the number... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080298226 - Vehicular communication device and control information generating device: A vehicular communication device switches over a communication method between the OFDM method and the SS method. A PLC master set includes a LAN communication unit for performing data communications with control units such as an engine control ECU via an in-vehicle LAN. In the PLC master set, a microcomputer... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080298227 - Method for interference estimation for orthogonal pilot patterns: In an OFDM communications system receiver, channel estimates are processed to remove or reduce noise, exploiting the orthogonality of pilot patterns. The de-noised channel estimates are then used to compute inter-cell interference. The noise effects of orthogonal pilot patterns are selectively removed from channel samples in estimating inter-cell interference, depending... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080298228 - Transmitting/receiving apparatus of wideband wireless channel apparatus using multiple carriers: The present invention relates to transmitting/receiving apparatuses of a wideband radio channel measuring device using a multi-carrier. The wideband radio channel measuring device using the multi-carrier may measure radio channel characteristics at a frequency domain. Since the radio channel is measured at the frequency domain by the wideband radio channel... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080298229 - Network wide time based correlation of internet protocol (ip) service level agreement (sla) faults: In particular embodiments, receiving a first connectivity fault notification, establishing a predetermined time period when the first connectivity fault notification is received, receiving one or more additional connectivity fault notifications during the predetermined time period, performing a root cause analysis for the connectivity fault notification based on the received first... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080298230 - Scheduling of workloads in a distributed compute environment: A method of workload scheduling in a distributed compute environment includes assigning a subscriber of a network service to a first compute node instance (“CNI”) of a plurality of CNIs within a network node interposed between the subscriber and a provider of the network service. The subscriber traffic associated with... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080298231 - Ring node and redundancy method: To provide a technology capable of improving fault-tolerance by redundancy-structuring each of ring nodes building up a ring network with an active termination block and a non-active termination block and, if a fault occurs in the active termination block, continuing an operation by switchover to the non-active termination block. A... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080298232 - Systems and methods for wireless transmission and reception of data including processing and buffering features: The present invention relates to a wireless data system which has a transmitter including a transmission buffer. The transmitter is configured to transmit a plurality of packets of encoded data, wherein a level of the transmission buffer is encoded in one of the packets of encoded data. The system further... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080298233 - Systems for detecting nagling on a tcp network connection: Systems for detecting Nagling on a TCP network connection are disclosed. Embodiments may generally include a system with a Nagle detection threshold determiner for determining a Nagle detection threshold based on the network connection. The system may also generally include a Nagle detection module in communication with the Nagle detection... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080298234 - Bandwidth policing method and packet transfer apparatus with bandwidth policing function: In a bandwidth policing apparatus which accommodates a large number of user groups, bandwidth policing for each user group is performed at high speed. When there is any extra bandwidth in bandwidth for a user group, the contracted committed information rate for each user is guaranteed invariably while using this... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080298236 - Dynamic link aggregation: A method and apparatus for dynamically distributing traffic over links grouped together in a data transmission channel are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving data at the network device, distributing the data over a first array, mapping the first array to a second array having entries corresponding to... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20080298235 - Response time estimation for intermittently-available nodes: Message exchanges may be executed between a middleware component and at least one intermittently-available node, during connected phases of the intermittently available node with the middleware component. Transmission parameters associated with the message exchanges may be monitored, and a current request message to be sent to the intermittently-available node may... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080298237 - Methods, systems, and apparatus of providing qos and scalability in the deployment of real-time traffic services in packet-based networks: s

20080298244 - Apparatus and method for caching lookups based upon tcp traffic flow characteristics: The classification system of a network device includes a cache in which a mapping between predefined characteristics of TCP/IP packets and associated actions are stored in response to the first “Frequent Flyer” packet in of a session. Selected characteristics from subsequent received packets of that session are correlated with the... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080298241 - Apparatus and methods for reduction of transmission delay in a communication network: Apparatus and methods for reducing latency in coordinated networks. The apparatus and methods relate to a protocol that may be referred to as the Persistent Reservation Request (“p-RR”), which may be viewed as a type of RR (reservation request). p-RR's may reduce latency, on average, to one MAP cycle or... Agent: Weiss & Arons, LLP

20080298238 - Filtering in bandwidth sharing ad hoc networks: Systems and methods for filtering in bandwidth sharing ad hoc networks. A method includes maintaining at least one filtering parameter associated with formation of a bandwidth sharing ad hoc network. The method further includes preventing data transfer across the bandwidth sharing ad hoc network when a parameter of a request... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080298239 - Method and apparatus to provision network routes: A method to provision routes in a network having a plurality of nodes includes receiving a designation of a primary source node, determining possible destination nodes from the designated source node and outputting information indicating the possible destination nodes. The method further includes receiving a designation of a destination node... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080298240 - Node availability prediction-based grid network congestion control device and method therefor: A system and method are disclosed, which controls congestion to efficiently transmit data through a network of grid node network in a grid computing environment where a large amount of data is processed. The system and method are performed in such a way that, according to a grid application program's... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080298242 - Systems and methods for transmission and reception of data including processing and buffering features: The present invention relates to a wireless data system which has a transmitter including a transmission buffer. The transmitter is configured to transmit a plurality of packets of encoded data, wherein a level of the transmission buffer is encoded in one of the packets of encoded data. The system further... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080298243 - Traffic policing: An apparatus and a method are described in which a flow of packets is distributed in several separate flows over several links (12) forming a logically aggregated link (11). The flow outgoing from each physical link is sent to its own policer (18) which applies to said flow a traffic... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080298245 - Scheduling strategy for packet switched traffic: The invention provides a leaky-bucket method for delivering packets from a first node (A) to a second node (B) in a packet switched network, comprising the steps of: receiving at the first node (A) of at least one transmission comprising buffered packets, and at least one transmission comprising real-time packets;... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080298246 - Multiple link traffic distribution: In one embodiment, a node comprises a plurality of interface circuits coupled to a node controller. Each of the plurality of interface circuits is configured to couple to a respective link of a plurality of links. The node controller is configured to select a first link from two or more... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel (amd)

20080298248 - Method and apparatus for computer network bandwidth control and congestion management: In one embodiment, a network switch includes first logic for receiving a flow, including identifying a reaction point as the source of the data frames included in the flow. The network switch further includes second logic for detecting congestion at the network switch and associating the congestion with the flow... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080298247 - Method and apparatus for vocoder rate control in a wireless network: A packet filter function in a wireless communication network monitors congestion and communicates a congestion indication to one or more vocoders. In one embodiment, the congestion indication comprises a vocoder source rate calculated by the packet filter function in response to the congestion. The reduced vocoder source rate frees system... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080298251 - Integrating local congestion and path interference into qos routing for wireless mobile ad hoc networks: A method and apparatus is provided for using a distributed multi-path QoS-aware routing scheme that considers basic MANET characteristics to meet transport service requirements of real-time applications and makes use of multiple discovered paths to calculate a next-hop decision. The QoS Routing scheme superimposes distributed neighborhood congestion, neighborhood density, and... Agent: Bae Systems

20080298250 - Method and arrangement for link cost determination for routing in wireless networks: The invention relates to determination of a link cost employable in route determination and data forwarding in a multihop communication network (1). This link cost is adapted to the particular characteristics of wireless contention-based networks (1), in which both network nodes (10, 20) involved in node-to-node data forwarding block neighbor... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080298249 - Method for selection of an association access point for a station in a mesh network: A method for selection of the association access point for a station in an infrastructure mesh network based on received signal strength and one or more “association bias” weights received from neighboring access points. Each weight corresponds to a packet length category. In one embodiment, stations measure received signal strength... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080298252 - Method of routing traffic in a network: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for communicating among stations in a network. A station in the network can determine costs between that station and a headend through a number of other stations and selecting a low cost path from among the possible paths. Cost data from the determination can... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080298253 - Managing recordings of communications sessions: A device for recording the content of live communications sessions allocates each session with a unique identifier which is also communicated to a server, exchange, switch or endpoint having control of that session. A log of events occurring in the session is updated with the unique identifier of the recorded... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080298254 - Time-slotted protocol with arming: The method augments the time-slotted protocols with additional features that allow arming functions to be implemented as an inherent part of the protocol.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080298255 - Communication terminal: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a communication terminal including: an interrupt factor detecting unit configured to detect an interrupt factor causing data transmission interrupt if data transmission is performed with an external terminal; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a response added with an... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080298256 - Distributed system: There is provided a distributed system having a plurality of nodes connected via a network. Each node in the distributed system includes: an error monitor unit for monitoring an error in each of the other nodes; a send/receive processing unit for sending and receiving data to and from each of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080298257 - Method and apparatus for detecting a router that improperly responds to arp requests: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that detects a non-compliant router that incorrectly responds to all address-resolution-protocol (ARP) requests, including ARP requests and ARP probes for link-local IP addresses. This is accomplished by sending an ARP request asking for an Ethernet address associated with a link-local IP... Agent: Pvf -- Apple Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080298259 - Apparatus and methods of determining configurations for handling communication path management traffic: Apparatus and methods of determining configurations for handling communication path management traffic are disclosed. Respective communication path management traffic handling configurations of communication system elements that terminate a communication link, which is a portion of a communication path, are determined. If the respective communication path management traffic handling configurations indicate... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080298258 - Information transfer capability discovery apparatus and techniques: Information transfer capability discovery apparatus and techniques are disclosed. A received tracing message for tracing a communication path in a communication system is processed in some embodiments by generating and sending a response to the received tracing message. The tracing message response includes an indication of an information transfer capability... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080298260 - Operational status testing apparatus and method for ethernet-based automatic protection switching process: Provided is an operational status testing apparatus and method for an Ethernet-based APS process. A test command signal which contains a command to perform an operational test for the APS process of a first node and a second test response signal that indicates that the operation of the APS process... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20080298261 - Reconfigurable test system: There is disclosed a reconfigurable network test system. The reconfigurable test system may include a plurality of test modules, a plurality of network interface units, a plurality of bypass units, and a multi-port switch. Each of the network interface units may have a first end and a second end adapted... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080298262 - Broadband test line access circuit, broadband test-line access board and broadband test device: A broadband test line-access unit, including a first test terminal, a second test terminal, a third test terminal, a signal splitter, a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a first interface terminal, a second interface terminal and a third interface terminal. A broadband test line-access board, including at... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080298267 - Automatic configuration of network for monitoring: A system, method and computer readable medium are provided for configuring network interfaces grouped into nodes for monitoring functionality. According to the method, a base address and subnet mask for the network interfaces are received, and a monitoring address is automatically generated for each of the network interfaces based on... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080298268 - Communication system, information processing apparatus, controlled device, information processing method and program: A communication system including a controlled device to be controlled and an information processing apparatus, in which the controlled device includes a transmission means for transmitting a message indicating that an event has occurred to the information processing apparatus and a control means for performing processing according to a request... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080298271 - Communication-quality measuring apparatus, communication-quality measuring method, and computer program: A communication quality measuring apparatus comprising a connecting section establishing a connection to the packet exchange network, a capturing section capturing packets transferred over the packet exchange network, an accumulating section accumulating the packets, a control section repeating the capturing of packets in sections of fundamental processing times, a setting... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080298265 - Convergence measurement in computer network: A system and method for measuring convergence performance in a network are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a plurality of probes at a network device, temporarily storing data from at least a portion of the received probes and deleting at least a portion of the temporarily stored... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20080298264 - Method and apparatus for channel estimation in a transmit diversity environment: A method of channel estimation for a signal having a first portion transmitted using a transmit delay diversity scheme and a second portion transmitted using another multi-antenna transmission scheme includes determining a composite channel estimate from the transmit delay diversity portion of the signal. The method continues with segregating the... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080298269 - Method and device for buffering data packets transmitted via a plesiochronous signal: The device for buffering packets emanating from a sending source (1) over a communication network (3) comprises recording means capable of recording elements obtained from the received packets into a buffer memory (8). The buffering device further comprises measurement means (9, 10, 11, 12) capable of measuring the difference between... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080298266 - Method and system for assessing statuses of channels: An assessment system classifies a plurality of channels to several channel groups according to the characteristics of the channel groups and assesses the status of each channel by a corresponding method, such as a period comparison method or a SNR comparison method, defined based on the channel groups. Hence, the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080298263 - Terminal apparatus, terminal apparatus control method, network system, network system control method, program and recording medium: There is provided a terminal apparatus capable of, when the volume of packets received by the terminal apparatus is abnormally increased, disconnecting the terminal apparatus from a network and continuously performing a process other than a process regarding received packets by the steps of detecting the number of packets received... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080298270 - Upstream signal quality monitoring: The problem is that a measurement of the average signal quality (average modulation error ratio), does not identify poor quality signals that may be originating from an individual cable modem. The device of the present invention displays the modulation error ratio (MER) for each packet received. Since the media access... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080298272 - Interleaving of information bits: The disclosed embodiments relate to a method in a transmitter for interleaving information bits from a data block into transmission bursts. Each of the information bits is assigned with an index. The interleaving includes computing positions of the information bits in the transmission bursts such that the values of the... Agent: Perman & Green

20080298274 - Method for configuring virtual network and network system: A first computer stores a correspondence between a virtual channel and a physical channel(s) in physical channel information and transmits the correspondence between the virtual channel and the physical channel(s) to a second computer having a virtual network interface to which a data transmission instruction is addressed. Upon receiving the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080298273 - Method for establishing a communication relationship in at least one communication network: The invention relates to a method for establishing a communication link. According to said method, to establish said link, a communications unit transmits at least one message that initiates the establishment of the communications link in at least one communications network and at least one corresponding confirmation is transmitted with... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080298276 - Analytical framework for multinode storage reliability analysis: A analytical framework is described for quantitatively analyzing reliability of a multinode storage system, such as a brick storage system. The framework defines a multidimensional state space of the multinode storage system and uses a stochastic process (such as Markov process) to determine a transition time-based metric measuring the reliability... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080298275 - Autonomous infrastructure wireless networks: A method for deploying a cellular wireless communication network is provided. The method consists of: providing one or more micro base stations; autonomously deploying the micro base stations using a network access point linked to a cellular wireless communication network; and enabling configuration of the micro base stations to execute... Agent: Miller Thompson, LLP

20080298277 - Neighbor discovery proxy with distributed packet inspection scheme: A network device is to receive traffic including neighbor discovery messages from requesting customer devices, and can detect the neighbor discovery messages within the traffic according to a distributed inspection scheme that includes the network device and a remote component. The network device is to then examine the neighbor discovery... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080298279 - Security and support for flexible conferencing topologies spanning proxies, firewalls and gateways: A method and system for setting up and managing secure data/audio/video conferences with a wide range of topologies is described. The disclosed method and system allow extending the range of topologies possible with the H.323 conferencing standards while overcoming T.120 negotiating constraints. Security in such conferences may be based on... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080298278 - Techniques for a mixed audio conference: Techniques for a mixed audio conference are described. An apparatus may comprise an audio video multipoint control unit to mix call information from multiple call connections established over a packet-switched network for a conference call. The apparatus may comprise a telephony gateway communicatively coupled to the audio video multipoint control... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080298281 - Method and system for automated determination of inter-system border thresholds: A method and system for determining thresholds for evaluating inter-system handovers in a wireless communication system includes determining a quality level of a first digital duplexing type, determining a quality level of a second digital duplexing type, and comparing the quality levels to determine whether to handover from the first... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080298280 - Method for dynamically identifying locations of mobile nodes in a time division multiple access based ad hoc communication network: Disclosed is a method for dynamically identifying locations of a plurality of mobile nodes in a time division multiple access (TDMA) based ad hoc communication network, wherein one or more mobile nodes are being moved in and out of a predefined region. The method comprises allocating a hello slot in... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080298283 - Coalition formation and service provisioning of bandwidth sharing ad hoc networks: Method, system, and computer program product for enabling dynamic creation of a coalition of multiplexed ad hoc networks to form larger ad hoc networks for service provisioning, in which multiplexers can be connected together in either a hierarchical structure or a parallel structure. Includes method, system, and computer program product... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080298282 - Efficiency and resiliency enhancements for transition states in ad hoc networks: A method includes establishing an ad hoc network between at least a borrower and at least one lender of bandwidth and downloading requested data from a data source via the ad hoc network. The method further includes leaving the ad hoc network while maintaining some of the downloaded requested data.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080298285 - Efficient, secure digital wireless voice telephony via selective encryption: Secure, digital, packet-switched, voice telephony calls are wirelessly transmitted in an efficient manner that reduces air interface bandwidth consumption by encrypting only vocoder data frames containing encoded speech, and not encrypting vocoder data frames that do not contain speech, such as those containing silence parameters. The collective reduced bandwidth consumption... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080298286 - Framework for managing network data processing elements: In one embodiment an apparatus comprises a transceiver in data communication with an associated network and control logic coupled to the transceiver. The control logic is operable to send data to the associated network and receive data from the associated network via the transceiver. The control logic is configured to... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080298284 - Market-driven variable price offerings for bandwidth-sharing ad hoc networks: Systems and methods to establish and execute market-driven variable price offerings among the lenders and borrowers in a bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network for shared bandwidth usage. The method comprises establishing and executing market-driven variable price offerings among lenders and borrowers. A bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network for shared bandwidth usage is... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080298289 - Power management for wireless devices: In some embodiments, a method to manage power in a wireless communication device, comprises in a wireless networking adaptor, changing an operational status of a wireless networking adaptor to a sleep mode and transmitting a sleep message from the wireless networking adaptor to a host driver in an electronic device... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080298288 - Power save mode for wireless station with station-to-station link association: While maintaining a direct station-to-station link (STSL) with a second wireless client device in a centralized network, a first wireless client device may enter a doze mode, in which it cannot transmit or receive, and wake up periodically only to check for queued-up traffic from its associated access point. If... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080298287 - Priority scheme for communication system: A priority scheme method (300) for a communication system (100) at a base station (110) is described herein. The method can include the steps of receiving (310) from one or more mobile devices (120, 130) a power status message and allocating (315) a data profile of a frame based on... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080298291 - Semiconductor device: Aiming at realizing high breakdown voltage and low ON resistance of a semiconductor device having the super-junction structure, the semiconductor device of the present invention has a semiconductor substrate having an element forming region having a gate electrode formed therein, and a periphery region formed around the element forming region,... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080298290 - Systems and methods for indicating buffered data at an access point with efficient beacon handling: Stations in standby mode periodically wake up to check for buffered data at the access points. Traditionally, the information is available by checking the periodic beacon frame for a traffic indication map (TIM). Unfortunately, the length of beacons has steadily increased with the progression of the various wireless standards requiring... Agent: Conexant Systems , Inc.

20080298292 - Wireless broadband mobile station and method for measuring preamble and determining effective sleep period: A wireless broadband Internet (WiBro) terminal and a method of determining a sleep mode of a WiBro terminal, which can measure a strength of a preamble signal and determine an effective sleep interval are provided. A WiBro terminal, which can measure a strength of a preamble signal in the listening... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080298294 - Inter-domain group-communications: The invention relates to group communication services, i.e. communication services involving two or more users (or service participants). The invention provides a method for distributing multicast data of a multicast service to different domains and a method for distributing multicast data to service participants in a domain. Further, the invention... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080298293 - Peer-to-peer group call support in a communication system: A method for supporting telecommunications over a wide area network. The method can include receiving telecommunications content and a group identifier from a first remote unit (104). From the group identifier, a plurality of recipient identifiers can be identified. The telecommunications content and the plurality of recipient identifiers can be... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080298295 - Apparatus and method for modulating of on-channel repeater: Provided is a modulating apparatus and method of an on-channel repeater. An object of the present invention is to provide a modulating apparatus of an on-channel repeater for reducing time delay by configuring and up-sampling a baseband signal, filtering the up-sampled baseband signal with an Equi-Ripple (ER) filter or in... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080298296 - Method for transmitting multicast data in wimax/wibro relay system: A method for transmitting multicast data in a WiMax/WiBro relay system, including transmitting carrier-interference-noise ratios from UEs to corresponding Relays; selecting the minimum value among the carrier-interference-noise ratios; determining the modulation and coding mode according to the selected minimum value; transmitting the modulation and coding mode to BS; selecting a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080298297 - Integrated access control system and a method of controlling the same: An access control system including a base station located near a stationary target site used to control access to the stationary target site and satellite access station coupled to the exterior of a satellite target site used to control access to the satellite target site. The base station includes an... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080298298 - Low profile mobile tri-band antenna system: Provided is a mobile tri-band antenna system having low profile. The antenna system includes a tri-band feeding unit for dividing a satellite broadcasting signal by a signal channel in an azimuth angle and an elevation angle, and transmitting/receiving the satellite communication signal through distinguishing the satellite communication signal; a beam... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080298299 - Upstream resource optimization: Systems, methods, and devices are described for scheduling and mapping upstream communications in a satellite communications system. The disclosure includes various channelization and frequency hopping techniques. A gateway is described to perform novel allocation of time slots on upstream frequency channels to allow frequency hopping. A subscriber terminal may perform... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080298307 - Apparatus, method and computer program for seamless session transfer: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method in a telecommunication system for controlling communication services between client terminals (10, 20, 30) in a network, comprising at least one application server (40) hosting a core communication service, at least one intermediate communication node (50), hosting a network residing communication... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080298300 - Communication control method and system for carrying out said method: A system including communications means (3), an application server (7) and a gateway (2) between the communication means and the application server is adapted to effect communications with terminals in relation to services offered by said application server, each communication being effected via said communications means using a bearer service... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080298305 - Communication system, output device, input device and wireless communication method: The objective of the invention is to enable easy recognition of a wireless communication device at the connection destination and to enable connection when wireless connection is newly made between wireless communication devices. On display 302 of digital television receiver 3, image pattern 301 obtained by converting the SSID and... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080298310 - Cross channel coexistence beaconing protocol for wireless dynamic spectrum access networks: A wireless system including a plurality of WRAN's operating on different channels identifies and addresses a number of important issues relating to the current CBP mechanism (in D0.3) used for inter-cell discovery and communication. The present invention provides fundamental remedies to respectively resolve these issues. Moreover, an Enhanced Coexistence Beaconing... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080298308 - Event notification in a half duplex communication environment: The present invention is directed towards providing event-triggered communication in a half duplex communication environment of a wireless communication network (10). A first end terminal (12) sends a selection of an end terminal (14) in a group of terminals to act as an event notifying device to a server (22).... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080298306 - Implicit signaling for link adaptation: Briefly, the invention concerns the issue of supporting link adaptation in a wireless network, and basically involves implicit signaling for link adaptation based on transfer of transmit duration information. More particularly, a designated originating node sends (S1) a first message, including an indication of a current transmit duration for transfer... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080298312 - Method and system for establishing tunnel in wlan: A method and a system for establishing a tunnel in a wireless local area network (WLAN) are described. The method includes the following steps. A WLAN terminal initiates a tunnel establishment request in an Internet Key Exchange Security Association (IKE SA) that has been established. It is judged whether the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080298311 - Method and system for interconnecting broadband wireless access network with optical access broadband network: A method and system for interconnecting a broadband wireless network with a wired network includes interconnecting a broadband wireless access (BWA) network with an optical access (OAN) broadband network at any reference point among reference points T, a, ODN, and V in the OAN broadband network, and interconnecting them with... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080298301 - Method to switch between network-controlled and mobile-controlled mobile ip functionality: A method for prioritizing Mobile IP between PMIP and CMIP includes the steps of connecting a mobile device (118) to a communication network (102) and determining (308) if the network provides mobility control, such as the network being PMIP-enabled. When it is determined that the network provide mobility control, the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080298303 - Multi-link support for network based mobility management systems: The claimed subject matter relates to systems and methods for processing messages in a wireless communications environment. In an aspect, a communications method is provided. The method includes establishing a communications link though an access component with a network domain node and enabling at least one other communications link through... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080298309 - Providing advanced communications features: Advanced communications features are provided in a mobile communications network having at least one mobile switching center and at least one mobile station subsystem. The mobile switching center and mobile station subsystem each communicate signaling messages according to a mobile signaling protocol.... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080298304 - Routing method in wireless multi-hop network and communication terminal: A wireless multi-hop network communication terminal 11 uses a Hello information suppression function 21 to suppress a part of information included in a Hello message for a given time after start-up or a new neighbor terminal is detected, thereby reducing message length. Further, the communication terminal 11 uses a Hello... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080298302 - Sensor device, server node, sensor network system, method of establishing communication path, control program, and storage medium: For the purpose of allowing a sensor device (10) to carry out wireless communication with a server node (11), the sensor device (10) makes an inquiry about the server node (11) connectable to the sensor device (10) (S12). The server node (11) responds to the sensor device (10) (S13). The... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080298318 - Apparatus and method for requesting bandwidth and allocating uplink resources based on group in wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for allocating resources in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes when one or more Connection IDentifiers (CIDs) request UpLink (UL) resources, checking the UL resources requested by the CIDs; and requesting the UL resources requested by the CIDs to a base station... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080298313 - Heterogeneous network system, network node and mobile host: The invention relates to a system that dynamically integrates a set of communication networks to increase the overall heterogeneous network system performance and capabilities. In particular, the present invention relates to a technique of providing a Dynamic Heterogeneous Network System, and providing a Network Node entity and a Mobile Host... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080298316 - Low peak-to-average power ratio transmission in frequency-division multiple access systems: A method for communication includes allocating, in a multiple-access communication system (20) that uses multiple subcarriers, first subcarriers to a first communication terminal for transmitting first data, and second subcarriers to a second communication terminal for transmitting second data. The first communication terminal is assigned to modulate the first data... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080298317 - Method and apparatus for wireless communication of packet data using transmit diversity weighting: A method and apparatus for transmit diversity in packet data communications includes applying an initial transmit antenna weight. A link adaptation signal is received and analyzed. A transmit antenna weight change is determined based upon the analysis of the link adaptation signal, and the transmit antenna weight is updated based... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080298315 - Method of transmitting and receiving information of allocating uplink region in broadband wireless access: A method of receiving the uplink region allocation information is disclosed. In a broadband wireless access system, in which a mobile terminal receives uplink region allocation information, the present invention includes the steps of receiving an uplink map message from which an uplink map information element (UL-MAP IE) for a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20080298314 - Optimization process and system for a heterogeneous ad hoc network: Method and system for optimizing selection of a network. The method includes identifying available lenders and existing networks within a vicinity of a borrower, selecting an optimization technique for completing a task of the borrower, calculating, for a plurality of network options, a value for completing the borrower's task according... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080298319 - Data receiving method for mobile communication terminal: A method of receiving control information by a terminal in a mobile communications system having a single control channel and a plurality of common channels and having a network that periodically transmits the control information via the control channel, the method comprising: periodically receiving the control channel; detecting, at a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20080298321 - Multimode terminal for supporting fast handover between heterogeneous networks: A multi-mode terminal (MMT) including a plurality of interfaces which provides access capability to heterogeneous networks respectively to provide quick handover between the heterogeneous networks, is provided. In this instance, when a Binding Update (BU) message is transmitted to a home agent via each of the plurality of interfaces, routers... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080298320 - System to synchronize a gsm device: A global system for mobile communications (GSM) mobile station (205) acquires and decodes a frequency channel (FCH) signal using unallocated frames in a half-rate traffic channel in a GSM network (215). The mobile station 205 also uses the unallocated frames to acquire and decode a synchronization channel (SCH) signal and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080298322 - Data transmission method and data re-transmission method: A method which can reduce loss in data transmission is provided. A data block is prepared in a high-level layer and the data block is transmitted in a low-level layer. Status report information associated with reception or non-reception of the data block is received through the low-level layer. When a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20080298324 - Method and apparatus for sequentially conducting independent data contexts using a mobile communications device: A mobile communications device including a processor operable to conduct with a wireless packet data service network a PDP context associated with a first application running on the mobile communications device. The processor is further operable to release the PDP context associated with the first application and establish with the... Agent: Danamraj & Emanuelson, P.C.

20080298323 - Packet transmission scheduling technique: A packet data transmission method of the HSDPA system includes collecting information on the quality of physical channels, a status of the MAC buffer, the priority level of data, the delay of data, and the like, determining the transmission order of data and the size of a data block to... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080298326 - Guard subcarrier placement in an ofdm symbol used for synchronization: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmitter, a receiver and methods of operating a transmitter and a receiver. In one embodiment, the transmitter is for use with a base station in a cellular communication system and includes a partitioning unit configured to provide first and second groups of guard... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080298325 - Method and protocol for handling access attemptsfor communications systems: An improved access attempt procedure for call establishment is achieved by deriving a probability of access transmission as a function of both a priority level for access attempts and a random access cause, and performing link establishment authentication and security control call establishment based upon the deriving.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20080298329 - Method of beacon management for merging piconets: A method for synchronizing communications between first and second piconets is provided. It is determined whether superframes corresponding to the first and second piconets are synchronized according to respective beacon period start times from the detected beacons. When the superframes are not synchronized, a type of overlap is determined. The... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080298332 - Packet data communication method, radio base station and control station: A packet data communication method including a radio base station receiving packet data from a mobile terminal, and generating a data frame having a packet frame error detection code and transmitting to a control station. The control station detects an error in a packet frame contained in the data frame... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20080298333 - Scanning procedure in wireless lan, station supporting the same, and frame format therefor: Provided is a scan procedure in a wireless local access network, and station and frame format for the scan procedure. In the scan procedure, a second station receives from a first station a probe request frame which comprises a Homogeneous Extended Service Set Identifier (HESSID) field containing a desired HESSID... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20080298327 - Systems and methods for establishing gateway bandwidth sharing ad-hoc networks: Systems and methods for establishing gateway bandwidth sharing ad hoc networks. In a first aspect, a method includes establishing a relationship with a gateway that retrieves data from a remote location and divides the data into at least a first portion and a second portion. The method further includes establishing... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080298328 - Trusted wireless communications with station-to-station link association: After establishing a direct station-to-station link (STSL) with a second wireless client device in a centralized network, a first wireless client device may initiate a process with the second wireless device to secure the link. Prior to securing the link, any exchange of frames that are routed through the intermediate... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080298330 - Using presence detection to control a wireless network: A wireless system coupled to a local area network (LAN) (101). The wireless system provides wireless network services to a wireless communication device disposed in an area within which the wireless system is deployed. A presence detector (301, 302, 303, 304) detects a presence of a user within a detection... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080298331 - Wireless communication apparatus and control method therefor: When a wireless communication network is built in an ad hoc mode, it is possible to appropriately build the wireless communication network regardless of start timings of wireless communication functions of image capturing apparatuses. In order to achieve the object, there is provided the image capturing apparatus which is capable... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080298334 - Reducing false detection in an hsdpa 3g terminal: In one embodiment, a method for determining whether an encoded message in a shared channel is not intended for a communications device. The method includes: (a) decoding the message to recover a multi-bit codeword; (b) determining whether the codeword is valid or invalid, wherein, if the codeword is determined to... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20080298335 - Multi-carrier cdma transmitting device and method using block-based multi-carrier spreading: A multi-carrier CDMA transfer device using block-based partial-carrier spreading uses block-based partial-carrier spreading in the multi-cell environment to be applied to MC-CDMA models (FH-MC/CDMA TDD) that are strong against multi-path fading. A transmitter of the transfer device spreads carriers per block in the frequency domain by using the block-based partial-carrier... Agent: LexyoumeIPGroup, LLC

20080298336 - macro-diversity technique for multicast transmission in a wireless communication system: The present invention provides a method multicasting that provides macro-diversity. Embodiments of the method may include receiving, at a mobile unit, a plurality of encoded signals indicative of at least one packet over a corresponding plurality of substantially orthogonal frequency channels associated with a plurality of transmitters. The method may... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20080298338 - Method for efficient transmission and reception of audio digital signals: The present invention relates to a method of wirelessly transmitting and receiving audio digital signals of the type having a first plurality of blocks with each block having a second plurality of frames, with each frame having a third plurality of subframes, with each subframe having a preamble and a... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080298337 - Time slicing and statistical multiplexing in a digital wireless network: In accordance with an aspect of the invention, flexible burst boundaries, within an allowable range, allow statistical multiplexing to be performed in conjunction with time slicing in a digital broadcast network. The signalling of the delta-t is performed such that data of the service is not missed. Similar to deterministic... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080298339 - Method for frequency division duplex communications: The high quality PCS communications are enabled in environments where adjacent PCS service bands operate with out-of-band harmonics that would otherwise interfere with the system's operation. The highly bandwidth-efficient communications method combines a form of time division duplex (TDD), frequency division duplex (FDD), time division multiple access (TDMA), orthogonal frequency... Agent: Zagorin O'brien Graham LLP (037-a)

20080298340 - Method and apparatus for improving transmission of downlink shared channel in a wireless communications system: A method for improving transmission of a downlink shared transport channel in a wireless communications system is provided in the present invention to avoid redundant signaling. The method includes steps of mapping a broadcast control channel to a downlink shared transport channel for transmitting a system information broadcast message through... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080298341 - Radio communication system and radio communication method: A radio communication system having an interference reduction function and enabling random access is constructed without complicating a terminal structure. A base station has an interference signal detection function, performs interference signal detection intermittently and transmits a beacon signal when no interference signal is detected. A terminal starts up from... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080298342 - Inter-domain communication: A computer-implemented method for performing inter-domain communication in a web browser includes receiving first data from a first domain at a router associated with one or more domains other than the first domain, identifying at the router the one or more domains for receiving data associated with the received data,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080298346 - Apparatus and system for controlling signal filtering: According to embodiments of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus and system for controlling signal filtering. According to some non-limiting embodiments, a selective filtering apparatus is provided. The selective filtering apparatus comprises an input interface connectable to a source of a composite signal within a first frequency range... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20080298345 - Cross-connect for emulated circuit-base communications: In one embodiment, a software-based cross-connect routes packets in an asynchronous Ethernet packet network to emulate circuit-based switching in a conventional circuit-oriented synchronous TDM network. The cross-connect has Ethernet interfaces for receiving and storing incoming Ethernet packets transmitted over the packet network from various source nodes. A cross-connect processor manipulates... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20080298350 - Method and apparatus for automated calendar selections: A method and apparatus for reserving an appointment in a communications network is described. In one embodiment, a request is received from a caller to schedule an appointment with an enterprise customer, wherein the request is processed in accordance with a media server in the communications network. A scheduling calendar... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20080298344 - Method and apparatus to facilitate assessing and using security state information regarding a wireless communications device: Upon determining (101) that a wireless communications device (501) seeks access to an Internet Protocol-based communications network (500), a security state as corresponds to the wireless communications device is accessed (104). A network controller (505) for the Internet Protocol-based communications network is then informed (105) as to whether the wireless... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20080298347 - Method and system for playing packetized annoucements to telephone network end office switching systems from a centralized digital recorded announcement unit: A computer readable medium stores a computer program that provisions an announcement to be played to a requester. The computer readable medium stores and include code segments. A storing code segment stores multiple announcements. A receiving code segment receives a request to send the announcement to be played to the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080298348 - System and method for providing audio cues in operation of a voip service: An exemplary VoIP service provides call participants cues to indicate that an enhanced service is being employed. When calling, the standard dial tone may be replaced with a distinctive dial tone or sound that indicates to the call participant that enhanced service is active (e.g., a service active sound). In... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080298349 - System for transmitting high quality speech signals on a voice over internet protocol network: The VoIP quality speech process is activated when a subscriber accesses a speech quality sensitive resource or in response to an activation of the feature by the subscriber, or when it is determined that the originating subscriber terminal device requires the transmission of high quality speech signals. A transmit buffer,... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080298343 - Voip phone number discovery on pstns using two way fxo communication: A method for placing a telephone call using a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), the method including using a foreign exchange office (FXO) of a first VoIP system, making a public switching telephone network (PSTN) connection with an FXO of a second VoIP system; exchanging at least an Internet telephone... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20080298351 - Message generation system and method for managing the delivery of mobile-terminated (mt) calls in ims network environment: In one embodiment, a message generation scheme is disclosed that is operable with respect to user data information relating to the signaling of an IMS message over a CS network. A number of User Data Items (UDIs) may be configured at one of the entities, e.g., a UE device or... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080298353 - Interworking network element, interworking system between the csi terminal and the ims terminal and the method thereof: An interworking network element, an interworking system between the CSI terminal and the IMS terminal and the method thereof, which relate to the communication technology, enable the CSI terminal and the IMS terminal to interwork and the effective bearing link to be established according to the actual requirement. The interworking... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080298352 - Method for portable fixed line: The present invention provides a method to make a fixed line of telephone network virtually portable, particularly to a method of expansion of a plain old telephone service, to be able to provide new communication service via Internet for a subscriber by integrating phone adapter with software phone terminal, comprising:... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080298357 - Logical addresses: A method and apparatus for processing message is described. In one embodiment, a channel layer is configured to form a logical address upon a creation of a channel of a group communication protocol, to store an association of the logical address with a message received with a sender's address in... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080298358 - Method and apparatus to control access to content: The present invention provides a method, apparatus and computer program product for accessing content via a packet-switched network based on a content access policy. The content is marked with a rating. The rating is extracted from the content, to verify conformance with the content access policy. On verification of the... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20080298361 - Method and system for network based call-pickup: A method and system for network based call-pickup is provided. In one embodiment a first user agent communicates in a communication session with a second user agent in a network telephony system. The second user agent may request that a third user agent replace the second user agent in the... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080298360 - Method to transport bidir pim over a multiprotocol label switched network: A method, system and an apparatus to transport bidir PIM over a multiprotocol label switched network is provided. The method may comprise receiving a multicast packet at a network element, the multicast packet including an upstream label. The method may further comprise identifying, from the upstream label, a Multicast Distribution... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080298355 - Out of band messages: A method and apparatus for processing message is described. In one embodiment, an application programming interface is configured for receiving and sending messages. A building block layer is coupled to the application programming interface. A channel layer is coupled to the building block layer. A transport protocol stack is coupled... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080298354 - Packet signaling content control on a network: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for packet signaling content control on a network. The content control includes two sets of filters—an ingress filter set and an egress filter set. For packets coming into an internal network, the packets (e.g., SIP packets) are filtered by an... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080298359 - Selection method for message paths in communication systems: In multilink capable transport protocols, e.g. Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP, several paths or links exist between two endpoints (110, 120). Whilst a communication system (100) is operating with this type of transport protocol, situations arise wherein a path (140,142) must be selected for the transmission of messages, such as... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080298356 - Systems and methods for wireless transmission and reception of data including frequency and channel code selection: Systems and methods are disclosed for wireless transmission and reception of data including processing and buffering features. According to one or more exemplary aspects, there is provided a wireless audio receiver for receiving a plurality of packets of encoded audio data. Moreover, the receiver includes at least one receiving component... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080298364 - Flush support for virtual synchrony: A method and apparatus for processing message is described. In one embodiment, an application programming interface is configured for receiving and sending messages. The application programming interface provides for a flush protocol to force members of a group to send all of their pending messages prior to a predetermined event,... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080298363 - Message handling multiplexer: A method and apparatus for processing message is described. In one embodiment, an application programming interface is configured for receiving and sending messages. A multiplexer receives messages from different servers. A service name is coupled to each message with the corresponding destination service. A single shared channel is formed. The... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080298365 - Packet relay method and device: A node according to a packet relay method which enables a multicast transfer or broadcast transfer of a packet effectively is provided. When the node receives a packet set with a multicast address or broadcast address as a destination address from a source client, the packet is added with an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080298362 - Session border control using multiple processors: In one embodiment, a router receives a call request for establishing a multimedia exchange between two remote endpoints. The router selects a processing entity to manage a subset of connections with the remote endpoints according to an endpoint identification such as a remote address included in the call request. A... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080298366 - Agnostic network architecture: Procedures for agnostically redirecting WAN link communications for WAN link throughput optimization are described. In an example, a WAN communication, targeted to a remote resource, is redirected to a local port proxy. The local port proxy may enforce WAN link policy on the communication to optimize communication flows occurring over... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080298368 - Collective network routing: Disclosed are a unified method and apparatus to classify, route, and process injected data packets into a network so as to belong to a plurality of logical networks, each implementing a specific flow of data on top of a common physical network. The method allows to locally identify collectives of... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080298367 - Virtual network connection system, virtual network connection apparatus, and computer-readable medium: There is provided a virtual network connection apparatus including a first storage unit that stores first correspondence information representing a correspondence relationship between a real address of an information processor in a site and a virtual address of the information processor in a virtual network, an address conversion unit that... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080298369 - System and method for handling out-of-order frames: A system for handling out-of-order frames may include one or more processors that enable receiving of an out-of-order frame via a network subsystem. The one or more processors may enable placing data of the out-of-order frame in a host memory, and managing information relating to one or more holes resulting... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080298371 - Relay apparatus capable of preventing mistaken learning of mac address learning table: A relay apparatus includes a MAC (Media Access Control) address learning table for recording transfer destinations for frames. The relay apparatus is connected to other relay apparatuses to compose a network of a ring redundancy method. The relay apparatus includes a port move detecting circuit for detecting a port move... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080298370 - Router: Even when session control traffic such as SIP traffic to be unitarily subjected to QoS management by a manager of a session control network such as an SIP network, and loopback traffic to be freely subjected to QoS management by users coexist, QoS processing can be appropriately performed. The edge... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080298372 - Structure and method for scheduler pipeline design for hierarchical link sharing: A pipeline configuration is described for use in network traffic management for the hardware scheduling of events arranged in a hierarchical linkage. The configuration reduces costs by minimizing the use of external SRAM memory devices. This results in some external memory devices being shared by different types of control blocks,... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080298373 - Secure vlans: A VLAN is implemented with a logical hub and spoke topology that obviates local switching. Member devices are connected to a hub device such as a router via intermediate devices such as Layer 2 switches that support individual IP subnets within the VLAN. The Layer 2 switch does not allow... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras LLP

20080298374 - Apparatus for monitoring network connectivity: An apparatus for monitoring network connectivity is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network device having a controller element to route packets to one or more locations of a virtual private network utilizing Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) functionality, and route... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080298375 - Operating ad-hoc wireless local area networks using network identifiers and application keys: Methods wireless communication terminals are disclosed that operate an ad-hoc wireless local area network. A network identifier and an application key are maintained within a first wireless communication terminal. The application key is defined for at least one application program hosted on the first wireless communication terminal. An ad-hoc wireless... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080298377 - Method for processing data packets while communicating with a machine via one or more secondary networks: An apparatus and associated methodology for processing at least one data packet received by a receiving entity from a machine after transmission via at least one data transmission network. Identification data is obtained of a device involved in the transmission of said data packet. A decoding function associated with said... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080298376 - Network communication with path mtu size discovery: A method for network communication and an apparatus for discovery of a maximum transmission unit (MTU) size in a path between two nodes of a network are disclosed. A plurality of test packets of varying transmission unit (TU) size may be sent from the first host to the second host.... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20080298379 - Full mesh status monitor: A method for verifying full mesh status in a network is disclosed. The network includes endpoint entities in full mesh configuration. The method includes a step of maintaining a first value in the endpoint entities. The first value is related to counting of network endpoint entities. Another step in the... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20080298378 - Media conversion device for interconnecting communication terminal devices with media converted and a method therefor: A gateway device includes a SIP server and a media converter. The SIP server uses media communication control data output from communication terminal devices (CTDs) to discriminate the communication media standards adopted by the CTDs, based on a call control, to call-control the CTDs. The media converter uses the communication... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080298381 - Apparatus for queue management of a global link control byte in an input/output subsystem: Apparatus for communicating global link control words (LCW) between chips. A queue stores LCWs and has an input for receiving an LCW from a previous chip, and an output for outputting a stored LCW to a subsequent chip. A management circuit compares an incoming LCW with a previously stored LCW,... Agent: Floyd A. Gonzalez IBM Corporation

20080298380 - Transmit scheduling: There are disclosed apparatus and methods for scheduling packet transmission. At least one scheduled traffic queue holds a plurality of scheduled packets, each scheduled packet having an associated scheduled transmit time. At least one unscheduled traffic queue holds plurality of unscheduled packets. A packet selector causes transmission of scheduled packets... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080298382 - Method, apparatus and system for progressive refinementof channel estimation to increase network data throughput and reliability: A communication method and device operates in a network in which a multiplicity of communication devices communicate over a shared communication channel. The communication device includes a transmitter that transmits to a second communication device over the shared communication channel a first packet P1, employing a starting tone map TMS... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080298383 - Buffer minimization in interface controller: In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises serializer/deserializer (SERDES) circuits. Each SERDES circuit is configured to transmit data on a respective lane to which the SERDES circuit is are coupled during use. The apparatus further comprises a transmit pipe coupled to the SERDES circuits. The transmit pipe comprises stages, and each... Agent: Lawrence J. Merkel Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080298385 - Device and method of supplying power to targets on single-wire interface: A single-wire interface communication system is capable of providing both electrical communication of signals and power between devices coupled to the system. Coupled to the single-wire interface is at least one target device which contains a PMOS transistor, a charge storage device, an inverter controlling the PMOS transistor, and a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner / Atmel

20080298384 - Ruggedized analog front-end for a network communicative device in a railway-like environment: A ruggedized analog front-end for interconnecting a network communicative device to a two-conductor based network operable in a train-like or other harsh environment. The front-end has a coupling circuit having first and second coupling channels providing isolation, impedance matching and energy transfer between a common mode filter circuit connectable to... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080298386 - Polling: A system for mobile device poll creation and conductance disclosed. A poll is created using poll creation software on a mobile device, personal computer or a web-based application. A polling server then validates the poll and publishes the poll to one or more mobile devices. The users of the one... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080298387 - Harq protocol optimization for packet data transmission: The invention relates to a HARQ method using incremental redundancy and providing synchronous retransmissions. Further, the invention relates to a receiving entity and a transmitting entity employing the HARQ method and to a mobile communication system. To optimize conventional HARQ retransmission protocols, the invention introduces a ternary feedback which allows... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080298389 - Intra-body communication network scheduler and method of operation thereof: An intra-body communication network scheduler and method of operation thereof are provided. At a scheduler, network entities of an intra-body communication network are registered, which have raised interrupts to obtain the right to communicate data over the intra-body communication network. The network entities are queued at the scheduler in accordance... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080298391 - Slow-start adaptive mechanisms to improve efficiency of bandwidth allocation: Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to improving the efficiency of bandwidth allocation schemes by adapting to slow-start mechanisms associated with network communications protocols, such as the TCP/IP protocol suite. In one implementation, the present invention scales down the initial target rate assigned to a data flow to a fraction of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080298388 - System and method for configuring media services: A system and method for configuring media services is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a portal having a controller element to detect an installation of an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) media receiver in an IPTV media system and adapt at least... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080298390 - Transmission resource reservation management in wireless network: A flexible transmission resource reservation scheme and data transmission scheme is provided for a wireless network. A source node transmits a data transfer reservation request for a transmission resource to at least one neighboring node including at least one target node of the wireless network. The source node may have... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080298393 - Method for transmitting signal of medium access control sublayer in mobile communication system: A method for transmitting a signal of a medium access control sublayer in a mobile communication system which has mobile and base stations for providing a bearer service. A bearer service profile type is decided according to a bearer service combination type of the bearer service for the provision of... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080298392 - Packet processing: Network devices, systems, and methods are provided for packet processing. One method includes receiving a checking functionality rule set as an input to a distribution algorithm. The method includes bifurcating and providing configuration instructions, as an output from the distribution algorithm, to a first logic plane associated with a first... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080298394 - Compact mpe-fec erasure location cache memory for dvb-h receiver: Location cache memory architectures that only require 32 Kbits or less per frame to store erasure information with simple address mapping to the main MPE-FEC RAM for easy column-wise and row-wise access. Alternative architectures are designed to greatly reduce the size and logic complexity of the MPE-FEC erasure cache memory.... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080298395 - Channel bundling: A method and apparatus for processing message is described. In one embodiment, a channel layer is configured to form a channel with a corresponding process. The channel is associated with a group. A plurality of sockets is formed in a transport layer of a group communication protocol. Traffic of messages... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080298397 - Communication fabric bandwidth management: Methods and apparatus for communication fabric bandwidth management are disclosed. An example method includes receiving data at a first network entity, where the data being received from a second network entity. The example method further includes, at the first network entity, queuing the received data in a data queue associated... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080298396 - Inverse multiplexer with tdm bonding: The present invention discloses one or more network components within a telecommunication network wherein said network is a serial bitstream network and the network components are comprising one or more inverse multiplexers, wherein said multiplexer(s) is/are TDM bonding multiplexers and said multiplexer(s) utilize(s) spare bits and/or FAS bits in a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080298399 - Methods for synchronizing the transmission and the reception of a media stream over a network: The present invention relates to methods for synchronizing the transmission and the reception of a media stream over a network, such as the Internet, comprising of a receiver clock having an adjustable reset value, where the adjustable reset value may be a function of the reference time for a receiver... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20080298398 - Transparent spider: A timing bridge device is used to gain boundary and transparent clock functionality using conventional network components on those network links that require good timing distribution. This timing path is invisible to the network component.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080298400 - Method and system to decommute a variable synchronization pattern using a fixed decommutator: A method for decommutating a variable-synchronization pattern uses a fixed-synchronization decommutator. The method comprises generating N copies of the data stream, receiving one of the N copies of the data stream at a respective one of N fixed decommutator subsystems, receiving synchronized segments of the data stream from each of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.