Multiplex communications inventions 02/09

20090052315 - Method for the transmission of data using self-diagnostic pulse width modulation: In a method for transmitting data between a master control unit and a slave control unit, the master control unit (4) outputs a pulse width-modulated signal (7) at an output terminal (HI_LO_BUS) in order to transmit the same to the slave control unit (5) via a bus (6). The method... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20090052316 - Communication control method, address management node, and mobile node: A technique is disclosed whereby, while a MN (mobile node) is separated from a home network, the status available on a home network is obtained, and a communication path is optimized for a packet to be transmitted between the MN and a CN (correspondent node) via a HA (home agent).... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090052317 - Ring network system, failure recovery method, failure detection method, node and program for node: In a multi-ring network with a plurality of rings to which RPR is applied connected, high-speed failure recovery is enabled when a failure occurs between the rings. The contact nodes 700-1 and 700-3 connected to the living inter-link 505 periodically transmit and receive a KeepAlive signal to/from each other. Then,... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090052318 - System, method and computer program product for transmitting data entities: A method, system and computer program product for transmitting data entities, the method includes: receiving data entities to be transmitted over multiple channels; and preventing a transmission of data entities that are to be transmitted over congested channels while transmitting data entities that are to be are to be transmitted... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090052319 - Reservation based mac protocol: Embodiments describe scheduling communication in an ad hoc multihop network. Included is a reservation based Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol that has resources scheduled along the path from source to destination. Admission control is performed on a per-hop basis and a decision is made, in a distributed manner, if enough... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090052320 - Estimator for end-to-end throughput of wireless networks: The present invention presents an architecture to dynamically measure and estimate the throughput perceived by a user during a connection in real-time in a wireless network system. The architecture system design of the present invention allows for information gathering independent of the mathematical models used and takes into account security... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20090052323 - Managing traffic in a satellite transmission system: Methods and apparatus are described for management of traffic comprising a statistical shaper having a plurality of inputs each for receiving a data stream and a plurality of outputs forming a variable rate bit streams; a multiplexer which combines the bit streams to form an output stream; a modulation stage... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090052324 - Method and apparatus for controlling quality of service in universal plug and play network: A universal plug and play (UPnP) network is provided. In the UPnP network, a QoS policy holder of a UPnP QoS architecture manages information on QoS modes that are previously set, and a QoS manager controls QoS devices by importing traffic policies for a predetermined QoS mode from the QoS... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090052325 - Robot control system: A robot control system has a connection module for a data network and includes a filter module configured to read data out of a data flow of a data network. The filter module identifies real-time data in the data network and extracts the real-time data as required. In addition, a... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090052322 - Selecting channel bandwidth and data error target dynamically based on a determined transmission need: In a mobile communication system having channels with different bandwidths, a channel bandwidth can be dynamically selected for transmitting data over a connection between a radio access network and a mobile station. According to the invention, a channel bandwidth and also a target for a data error rate for the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090052321 - Taxonomy based multiple ant colony optimization approach for routing in mobile ad hoc networks: In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises route management logic. The logic is operable to send a plurality of forward-route packets over a route to a destination node in a mobile ad hoc network. Each one of the plurality of forward-route packets is assigned to a different class of a plurality... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090052326 - Backward congestion notification: In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a network interface system having at least one input port configured for receiving frames and a logic system comprising at least one logic device. The logic system may be configured to perform the following functions: determining a source address and a destination address of... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090052327 - End-to-end considerate link control and routing in a multihop network: By introducing a novel parameter common to all links along the entire multihop route it is possible to more flexibly allocate, for each of a number of the links, a set of three interdependent link transmit parameters representative of link transmit energy, link transmit time or link transmit bandwidth or... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090052328 - Method of determining configuration errors in networks: Configuration errors on interconnected network infrastructure devices are detected in a network where each network infrastructure device supplies information about its own configuration at its own network interface and sends this information to a neighboring network infrastructure device via a discovery protocol. Furthermore each network infrastructure device removes from the... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20090052330 - Anomaly detection method and system and maintenance method and system: A network management apparatus in a mobile communication network holds a communication quality index in a normal operation and periodically receives input of a communication quality measurement result from a radio base station control apparatus. When a connection failure count f with respect to a connection request count a of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090052331 - Device, method, and program for estimating quality-degraded location of communication network, and communication network system: Estimation is carried out with high accuracy based on flow quality information in a situation where, although a set of links that may have a flow passing through is known, which of such links the flow passed through cannot be identified, such as multi-paths routing, load distribution routing, and the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090052332 - Device, system, method and program for collecting network fault information: A network fault information collecting device arranged in a packet network includes a quality degradation detecting unit which monitors packets to be regularly transmitted and received in the packet network, and detects quality degradation of the packets. The device includes a node search unit which searches for nodes on a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090052329 - Event problem report bundles in xml format: A network device may include logic configured to detect that an event has occurred in the network device, determine an XML document structure based on the detected event, and generate an XML document with the determined structure including information relating to the detected event.... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090052335 - Method and apparatus for graphically displaying call signaling flows in a network: A method and system for graphically displaying call signaling flows for a communications network is described. In one example, a call flow alarm indicating an improper call signaling flow for a call is received. A respective projected call signaling flow associated with the call is then obtained. Lastly, the improper... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20090052334 - System and method for detecting a faulty object in a system: A method (and system) for detecting at least one faulty object in a system including a plurality of objects in communication with each other in an n-dimensional architecture, includes probing a first plane of objects in the n-dimensional architecture and probing at least one other plane of objects in the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090052333 - Traffic independent survivability analysis: First-order effects of hypothesized fault conditions are determined by propagating discrete test packets between select nodes and noting the change of path, if any, taken by the test packet under each condition relative to the fault-free path. Tools are provided to create classes of node pairs of interest, and test... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20090052336 - Ethernet switch with configurable alarms: According to one embodiment, an Ethernet switch includes a plurality of ports operable to receive and transmit Ethernet traffic. The Ethernet switch also includes system monitoring software operable to receive an indication from a user of a plurality of fault conditions for which generation of an alarm is desired. The... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090052337 - Responding to change in a data communication network system: A method and system for responding to changes in the system. The system includes two or more routers which are electrically connected together in a network tree structure. Each router includes an electronic connection port and a routing table. A direct current balance exists at the electronic connection port of... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090052338 - Home network optimizing system: A system for optimizing a network having a plurality of network devices. The system includes a network monitoring tool simultaneously executable on at least one of the network devices and configured to diagnose a condition of the network. The network monitoring tool includes an information collection module configured to collect... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20090052339 - Communication system with state dependent parameters: In one embodiment, an apparatus can include: a status detector configured to determine a status associated with an input stream; a parameter controller configured to adjust a parameter in response to a change in the status; and a rendering controller configured to receive the input stream, and to provide a... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090052341 - Mediation system and method for processing event records: A mediation method and a mediation system divided into independent node components that process event records independently of the other components of the system. In addition, the system is provided with at least one node manager component that monitors the functioning of the node components. Each of the independent node... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090052340 - Method and apparatus for requesting a channel measurement report in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for requesting a ChannelMeasurementReport in a wireless communication system are described. A ChannelMeasurementReportRequest message comprising an 8 bit MessageID field set to “0x07”, a 12 bit PilotPN field wherein the PilotPN field is set to the PilotPN of the sector requesting the measurement report, a 2... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20090052342 - Notification information generating apparatus, communication apparatus, notification information generating method and program: To generate notification information for improving accuracy of channel quality information reconstructed based on a difference in notifying using the difference in channel quality information between channels. A notification information generating apparatus 400 has a notification information table 401 that stores a plurality of difference-value candidate values each indicating a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090052343 - Quality-degraded portion estimating apparatus, quality-degraded portion estimating method, and quality-degraded portion estimating program: [CONSTITUTION] A quality-degraded portion estimating apparatus includes: a flow quality collection unit (11); a route information collection unit (12); a flow quality/route link table managing unit (13); a non-degraded link removing unit (15) for deciding a quality-degraded flow and a quality-non-degraded flow according to a degrading threshold value and a... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090052344 - Communication apparatus, communication method, program, and storage medium: A wireless communication method in a wireless communication apparatus, which can exchange data with another wireless communication apparatus via a wireless communication, searches for another wireless communication apparatus, and determines a function of the other wireless communication apparatus. The method selects a communication route required to wirelessly communicate with the... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20090052348 - Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and program product: A disclosed image processing apparatus performs non-contact communication with a mobile terminal, and includes a first communication unit and a second communication unit having different communication areas from one another, and a processing unit. When the mobile terminal is within the communication area of the first communication unit, the first... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090052345 - Method and apparatus for an adapter in a network device to discover its adapter name in a network system: A network system supports multiple network communication protocols. In one embodiment, network device driver software provides a “Fibre Channel over Ethernet” communication capability and methodology. Device driver software manages a Fibre Channel to Ethernet and Ethernet to Fibre Channel address translation in real time for data packet communications in the... Agent: Mark P. Kahler

20090052346 - Method and apparatus for enabling an adapter in a network device to discover the name of another adapter of another network device in a network system: A network system supports multiple network communication protocols. In one embodiment, network device driver software provides a “Fibre Channel over Ethernet” communication capability and methodology. Device driver software manages a Fibre Channel to Ethernet and Ethernet to Fibre Channel address translation in real time for data packet communications in the... Agent: Mark P. Kahler

20090052347 - Neighbor discovery method and apparatus for mobile node in heterogeneous network environment: A neighbor discovery method and apparatus for performing network-transparent neighbor discovery in a heterogeneous network environment is provided. A neighbor discovery method for a multi-mode mobile node includes determining a type of a network, with which a mobile node is in communication, in response to a detection of a request... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090052349 - Node device, recording medium where storage control program is recorded, and information storing method: n

20090052350 - Auto-discovery and management of base station neighbors in wireless networks: Systems and methods are disclosed that include determining a local node configuration for a local network node. The local network node configuration can include a local range and a local location. In addition, these systems and methods can include receiving a remote network node configuration for a remote network node... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090052352 - Method for providing a sound or the like, apparatus for transmitting a sound or the like, and apparatus for receiving a sound or the like: A method for providing a sound or a moving image from a first apparatus to a second apparatus including allocating sample values belonging to the same first time slot among sample values obtained at individual time points by sampling an analog signal of a sound or a moving image to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090052351 - Microphone expansion unit for teleconference phone calls: A portable teleconference phone system includes a plurality of portable computers each having a microphone disposed therein, the microphone configured to receive a plurality of analog audio signals from a plurality of users at a first location, the analog audio signals being converted into one of a plurality of digital... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20090052356 - Method and apparatus for transmitting ack/nack information in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access system based on time division duplexing: A method is provided for transmitting control information by a Base Station (BS) in a Time Division Duplexing (TDD)-based Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system. The method includes determining a TDD ratio value; when a value obtained by dividing a number of consecutive Forward-Link (FL) time slots of a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090052355 - Method and system for transmitting resource allocation information in communication system: A system and method for transmitting resource allocation information by a base station in a communication system is provided. The method includes generating first MAP messages for user terminals, each of which includes an identifier of a corresponding user terminal and corresponds to resource allocation information on a first band,... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090052357 - Method for realizing frequency domain scheduling in the time division duplex system and the system thereof: A method and system for achieving frequency domain scheduling in a time division duplex system is disclosed, the method comprising: a first device transmits a non pre-coded reference symbol to a second device; from the reference symbol, the second device obtains a channel impulse response matrix experienced by the reference... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20090052353 - System and method for transmission timeslot assignment in wireless time division duplex systems: A method and apparatus is provided for assigning transmission slots in a time division duplex system. A time frame overlap determination processor (608) determines (314), based upon consistent observations for a sequence of time periods (220, 222, 224, 226, 228, 230) of a transmitter's time division duplex time frame (210,... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090052354 - Time-space block precoding method in multi-user down link: There is provided a down link multi-user time-space code precoding method including: a step (S401) where a base station acquires channel information on a plurality of user terminals and converts it into a channel matrix; a step (S402) for obtaining a such a conversion matrix that a matrix obtained by... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090052358 - Composite high-frequency component: A composite high-frequency component includes a transmission/reception selection switch. The transmission/reception selection switch includes a first diode disposed in series with a transmission signal line, a second diode disposed in shunt with a reception signal line. A first current route in which a direct current flows through the first diode... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090052360 - Information terminal device: An information terminal device includes a casing, a wireless board, and an antenna arranged to utilize a plurality of radio systems. The antenna includes a power feeding terminal and a plurality of resonant circuits. The plurality of resonant circuits are arranged to radiate radio waves. The plurality of resonant circuits... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090052359 - Mobile carrier capability: A network device and method are directed towards determining whether a carrier gateway is likely to be associated with a mobile carrier service. Content/service providers receive request for content along with a network address of a gateway device providing the request. If the network address is unknown, the content/service provider... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090052361 - Inactivity timer in a discontinuous reception configured system: Systems, methods and wireless devices are provided that utilize a timer to ensure a receiver of a wireless device is on to receive downlink transmissions. In the event the timer runs out without further resource allocation, the mobile device turns its radio off. If a further resource allocation occurs while... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090052362 - Power-save apparatus for 802.11 multicast paging applications: A power-save system for a network with an access point and an associated power-save client. The access point buffers wireless data that includes a unicast frame and a multicast frame. A periodic scheduled beacon message is transmitted with a unicast indication element and a multicast indication element. The unicast element... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090052364 - Mobile terminal controlled service delivery selection for multicast services: The invention relates to method for providing a multicast service from or via an application server to a mobile terminal within a mobile communication system, wherein the mobile communication system provides a downlink multicast or broadcast service (DMBS) that can be utilized for transmitting the downlink multicast data to the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090052363 - Wireless communication system and wireless communication apparatus: Wireless communication is performed between an access point and a plurality of wireless terminals pursuant to standard of wireless LAN communication. The access point transmits a plurality of data frames to the plurality of wireless terminals by one communication of multicast communication and broadcast communication and designates some of the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090052365 - Method and communication node for optimising time sensitive communications: A method for communications and a communications node are provided, wherein when the node (a user terminal or server) subscribes to receive a certain type of notification messages using for example a SIP SUBSCRIBE mechanism. When node later engages in a time sensitive application, such as in a voice communication,... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090052366 - Communication method and wireless communication device: A frame such as a beacon in wireless communication, with a maximum MAC address, hop count, and maximum hop count, described therein is exchanged between nodes. All the nodes measure the number of hops from a node with the maximum MAC address, and exchange the maximum hop count (hmax) out... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090052368 - Radio network expansion method: One objective of the present invention is to determine a location for a relay terminal in a radio network, without preparatory surveying a radio status and to arrange the relay terminal at the location. Another objective is to provide a method for retrieving the arranged relay terminal. When a relay... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090052367 - System and method for retransmissions in a discontinuous reception configured system: Methods of performing retransmissions in respect of communications, uplink and/or downlink, on semi-persistent resources are provided. Various embodiments include: the mobile device keeps its radio on for an additional period immediately following an awake period upon determining there will be a retransmission; the mobile device turning its radio on for... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090052370 - Methods and devices for the transmission and reception of a message to be exchanged between an aircraft and a ground base, and aircraft provided with such devices: A method for emitting a message relating to a determined type of information to be exchanged between an aircraft and a ground base reception method, and corresponding devices. The method determines a level of a securement associated with the determined type by a correspondence table, and emits the message according... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090052369 - Secondary payload interface: A secondary payload interface for payload communications using a primary payload communications channel is provided. The secondary payload interface may include a plurality of input/output couplers which may connect the primary payload communications channel to a secondary payload. The plurality of input/output couplers may establish an isolated secondary payload communications... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090052372 - Dynamic power usage management based on historical traffic pattern data for network devices: Particular embodiments provide power usage management for network devices according to historical traffic pattern data. Network traffic statistics for traffic flowing through a network device may be determined. A traffic pattern for a time period based on the traffic flowing through the network device is then determined. The network device... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090052371 - Method for adusting power at a node: In one embodiment, a method for distributed power control in a network is provided. The method determines a transmit power for a plurality of transmitting nodes such that signals sent from each of the transmitting nodes are received at a receiving node at a signal to interference plus noise ratio... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090052373 - Use of satellites by terminals with small antennas: Methods to improve the efficiency of satellite transmission by coordinating the use of corresponding channels on adjacent satellites. Improvements over the current state of the art range from 130% to 1000%, yielding in the best case full utilization of potential bandwidth.... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090052375 - Hierarchical modulation reverse link interface node: A wireless communication device transmits a hierarchically modulated reverse link (RL) WWAN signal comprising a lower modulation order component and a higher modulation order component. An interface node receives and demodulates the hierarchical modulated signal to recover the extended data sent with the higher modulation order component. The interface node... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20090052378 - Method and apparatus for reliably transmitting radio blocks with piggybacked ack/nack fields: Piggybacked acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (PAN) bits in unreliable bit positions of a modulated symbol are swapped with data bits located in more reliable bit positions. In addition, a power offset value may be applied to the symbols containing the PAN bits.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090052376 - Method and apparatus for supporting paging over an hs-dsch in cell_pch and ura_pch states: A method and apparatus for paging a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) in a CELL_PCH and URA_PCH states are disclosed. A WTRU may send an indication of an enhanced paging channel (PCH) capability of receiving a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) in CELL_PCH and URA_PCH states, for example, in a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090052379 - Method and system for managing mobility in a mobile communication system using mobile internet protocol: A method is provided for managing mobility of an Access Terminal (AT) in a mobile communication system using a Mobile Internet Protocol (MIP). The method includes generating, by an AT that has entered a new network, a Security Parameter Index (SPI) and a security key for mutual authentication with a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090052377 - Mobile communication terminal, communication apparatus, mobile communication method, and communication method: An object of the present invention is to make it possible to appropriately maintain PPP-based communications even in an environment in which the terminal moves and the communication environment continually changes. A mobile communication terminal comprises a plurality of wireless accessing means for establishing PPP-based communication links for respectively different... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090052380 - Mobile media router and method for using same: A mobile media router and a method for using the same receive multimedia data from a first wireless network and reroute the multimedia data in another format without rendering the multimedia. The mobile media router and the method for using the same may reroute the multimedia data over a second... Agent: Patents+tms, P.C.

20090052374 - Wireless communication apparatus, communication routing control apparatus, communication routing control method and communication system: A wireless communication apparatus for performing communication via a plurality of wireless interfaces in a wireless ad hoc network is disclosed. When the wireless communication apparatus receives a request frame via one of the plurality of wireless interfaces, the wireless communication apparatus sends the request frame from at least two... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090052384 - Apparatus and method for signaling in a wireless communication system: A method of signaling in a wireless communication system (300) comprising a first network element (310) serving a wireless communication unit (325) with at least one packet data network (PDN) connection. The method comprises transmitting, by the first network element (310) to the wireless communication unit (325), a signaling message... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090052381 - Efficient channel structure for a wireless communication system: Systems and methodologies are described that provide efficient channel assignment and communication for a wireless communication network. System resources can be allocated for a traffic channel for communication between a base station and a terminal in a physical layer frame, a portion of which can be made available for an... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090052382 - Infrastructure-based enabling indication for dynamic frequency selection in wireless networks: A wireless access point selection system. In particular implementations, a method includes receiving a notification that identifies a wireless access point that detects radar on an operating channel and identifies the operating channel; updating neighbor lists of one or more neighboring wireless access points to remove the wireless access point... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20090052388 - Method and apparatus for performing random access procedure in a mobile communication system: A method for performing a random access procedure by a User Equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system includes transmitting a preamble for identifying the UE, through a first message; receiving a second message from an Evolved Node B (ENB) in response to the first message, the second message including... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090052390 - Method for processing dynamic service flows and network-side service flows and a communication apparatus: The present invention discloses a method for processing dynamic service flows, wherein the UE sends a dynamic service flow processing request carrying a processing indication; and the network side executes a resource processing process and an air interface acknowledgement process. The resource processing process is: The SFM entity sends a... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090052391 - Method for requesting radio resource in mobile communications system: A method for requesting radio resource using a control signal in an evolved universal telecommunications system (E-UMTS) is disclosed. A terminal requests a radio resource for data transmission from a base station by selectively using the control signal or a random access channel (RACH) if data transmission to the base... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090052387 - Method for transmitting and receiving data with superframe structure: A method of transmitting and receiving data using a superframe structure is disclosed. A method for transmitting data through a superframe including a superframe header, includes generating the superframe which includes a data region including user data and includes a dedicated control region including data region allocation information indicating resource... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090052383 - Method of allocating subbands to streams of a multichannel link in a multicarrier modulation communications system: m

20090052385 - Multiple access service convergence: A mobile terminal is anchored in a control subsystem, which will function as the mobile terminal's home service subsystem. Call signaling for an incoming call is routed to the control subsystem, which will provide call processing. The call processing may include determining how to route the call to the mobile... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20090052386 - Radio communication system: In a wireless communication system including a plurality of wireless stations provided in a structure having a radio wave shield arranged at a fixed position, at least one of two wireless stations using an identical wireless channel and two wireless stations using wireless channels adjacent to each other are allocated... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090052389 - System and method for multiple contention access periods: A system and method for multiple contention access periods is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system for wireless communication comprises a coordinator configured to schedule wireless transmissions among a plurality of wireless devices during a plurality of superframes, at least one of the superframes comprising a period during which the... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090052395 - Femto-bts rf access mechanism: Femto cells that extend mobile network coverage into customer premises operate in a frequency band typically assigned to a macro network. As disclosed, to facilitate system discovery and registrations of mobile stations with femto cells, a carrier designates one the channels within the band as a primary channel for its... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090052394 - Hierarchical modulation reverse link interface node providing multiple service levels: A wireless communication device transmits a hierarchically modulated reverse link (RL) WWAN signal comprising a lower modulation order component corresponding to first service level data and a higher modulation order component corresponding to second service level data. An interface node receives and demodulates the hierarchical modulated signal to recover second... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20090052393 - Method for secure transfer of data to a wireless device for enabling multi-network roaming: Disclosed is a method for secure transfer of data for enabling roaming of the wireless device between a plurality of wireless networks. The wireless device data from an authentication server via a first channel. The authentication server sends the request for the data to an information server using a second... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090052398 - Method of performing a handover: The invention concerns a method of performing a handover (1424) of a wireless packet-based connection between a user equipment (4) and a core network (3) from a source radio access network (1) with a first layer two technology to a target radio access network (2) with the same or a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090052401 - Mobile communication system, base station controller, mobile device, handover control method, and program: In the handover in a mobile device 1, an RNC 4 makes a Node-B3 as a handover destination establish an HS-DSCH (step S213) to send the same user data respectively from the Node-B2 as a handover source and the Node-B3 as a handover destination to the mobile device 1 with... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090052397 - Optimizing in-order delivery of data packets during wireless communication handover: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate processing service data units (SDU) in-order during communication handover in wireless networks. In particular, for mobile devices using re-transmission schemes, SDUs can be processed in-order by indicating to a target base station an index of a last SDU received in-order before handing off... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090052400 - Repairing errors in data of mbms service: In order to guarantee service quality for a terminal for a particular point-to-multipoint service, a broadcast or multicast radio terminal system is characterized in that after the corresponding session is complete, information regarding the data that the terminal did not properly receive is informed to the UTRAN, and then the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090052392 - Retransmission control method, base station and mobile station: A base station, a mobile station and a retransmission control method for enabling communication to be more efficiently performed. In a communication system comprising a base station (100) and a mobile station (200), a time period required for the retransmission of a transport packet to complete is determined, and a... Agent: Christensen O'connor Johnson Kindness PLLC

20090052399 - System, method and computer-readable medium for provisioning dual-homed voice call continuity: A system, method and computer-readable medium for concurrent support of Voice Call Continuity (VCC) capabilities in both the enterprise space and the carrier space are provided. The enterprise VCC functionality is used when the user is located in the enterprise domain which does not impact the carrier's network while the... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090052402 - Technique for configuring link layer entities for a handover: A technique of configuring link layer entities for a handover is described. In a method embodiment, the technique includes receiving from a recipient of protocol data units a supplemental status report for an existing ARQ connection in context with an imminent handover, determining service data units corresponding to buffered protocol... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090052396 - Telecommunication system and method for controlling switching of user terminal between two networks: A user terminal is switched between a cellular network and a worldwide interoperability for microwave access radio network within a telecommunication system. An authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) server which is designed for use with both of these networks is disposed in the telecommunication system in such a way that... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090052403 - Cdma-based mobile terminal, cdma-based mobile communication method, and communication quality estimating method: A mobile terminal (100) comprises antenna (102), radio unit (104), signal processing unit (110), signal analyzer unit (120), received signal information storage unit (150), and reception quality storage unit (160). Signal processing unit (110) comprises received signal processing unit (112) and notified information processing unit (114), while received signal information... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090052404 - Method and apparatus for a spectrally compliant cellular communication system: A system for wireless data transmission that uses a channel bandwidth, channel separation, and radio frequency power spectrum which is compatible with existing deployments of wireless voice services. The transmitted waveforms are thus compatible with existing cellular networks. However, the time domain digital coding, modulation, and power control schemes are... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090052405 - Method of transmitting feedback data in a multiple antenna system: A method of transmitting feedback data in a multiple antenna system comprises receiving a request message of feedback data on a downlink channel, the request message comprising uplink scheduling information, selecting a set of M (M≧1) subbands within a plurality of subbands, generating the feedback data, the feedback data comprising... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090052406 - Communication scheduling of network nodes: In one aspect, a method to schedule network communications includes transmitting a node identification associated with a first node joining a network over a first portion of control timeslots based on a first probability, detecting nodes in the network using a second portion of the control timeslots and receiving acknowledgments... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20090052407 - Wireless base station and method for transmitting data common to users: A radio base station transmits user common data provided from a user common data control apparatus connected to a communication network to a plurality of mobile stations by radio. The radio base station includes a frame loss detection unit configured to detect loss of user common data that occurs on... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090052408 - Wireless communication method and apparatus: A method and apparatus are provided for enabling a user to effectively use a wireless network using a contention free channel access service. The wireless communication method includes receiving a contention free channel access request frame from at least one device in a wireless network in a superframe, and broadcasting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090052411 - Adaptive interference control: Systems and methods which control communications in a carrier sense multiple access environment to provide a balance between communication sensitivity and transmission availability are shown. Adaptive interference control techniques of embodiments operate to determine a media error time metric representing the time associated with receiving interfering signals. The media error... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20090052414 - Communication management apparatus, communication control apparatus, and wireless communication system: A 3G authentication apparatus (109) includes: a WLAN communication section (201) which receives a notification of reception of a connection request sent from a WLAN access network in response to the connection request from a mobile unit to connect to a WLAN capable of interworking with a mobile network; an... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090052421 - Distinguishing between devices of different types in a wireless local area network (wlan): A method and system for distinguishing between devices of different types (e.g., mobile and stationary devices) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) in order to provide additional services to one or the other. The method includes obtaining a device type for the terminal, and providing specific services to the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090052418 - Ias-based configuration for umb femto devices: A method and apparatus for configuring Femto Devices in an Ultra Mobile Broadband network system. A Femto Device transmits a Femto pilot signal to an Access Terminal, which is served by a plurality of base stations in the Ultra Mobile Broadband network system. The Access Terminal then transmits to the... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090052413 - Invoking multiple sip based services during a single communication session using resource lists: The present invention discloses use of resource lists to invoke multiple services in an IMS environment. More specifically, SIP clients can exchange XML content with each other and/or with SIP servers that includes an XCAP resource list. A list entry can exist for each service that is to be included... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090052426 - Method and apparatus for enhanced data rate adaptation and lower power control in a wlan semiconductor chip: A method of optimising the operation of a WLAN device which is used in the transmission and reception of a service over a medium, the WLAN device comprising a WLAN chip set and power amplifier, the method comprising the steps of: determining a the value of a collision avoidance metric... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090052420 - Method of transmitting uplink data and buffer status reports in a wireless communications system, wireless device for implementing such method: The method provides buffer status reporting for the transmission of uplink data from a wireless device (10) to a base station (20). User packets (50), each including a respective header, are stored in a first buffer (56) of the wireless device. The user packets taken out of the first buffer... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090052412 - Minimizing packet loss during fast roaming: A packet loss reduction system. In particular implementations, a method includes responsive to indications of roaming intent of a wireless client relative to currently associated wireless access point, determining if a traffic stream associated with the wireless client is to be proactively buffered by one or more potential wireless access... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20090052410 - Mobile communication system, edge router, and transfer control method, program and recording medium used therefor: The present invention aims to provide continuous communication, between mobile terminal, based on edge mobility technology, during hand over a mobile terminal, even if addresses of edge routers before/after movement of the mobile terminal may not be acquired from the mobile terminal. It is configured so that when the mobile... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090052416 - Mobile router, home agent, and terminal position management method: In a mobile network system composed of plural mobile networks and a home agent, the home agent inquires mobile routers in a mobile network whether or not a terminal is connected, if detecting the absence of the terminal, when data addressed to the terminal arrives at a home network of... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090052425 - Packet transfer control device and mobile node: Disclosed is technique for avoiding packet reflection between home agents. According to the technique, a MN 10 includes a home address (HoA1) assigned thereto from a home network 12, and a home address (HoA2) assigned thereto from a home network 14. CoA is further acquired from a foreign network 15.... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090052415 - Radio communication system and radio communication method: A terminal (101) includes interfaces for communication with a mobile network (102) and a wireless LAN (103). A first IMS server (107) performs IMS call control processing relating to terminals located in the mobile network (102) and a second IMS server (111) relays a signal relating to IMS call control... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090052419 - Redirecting data flow of a secondary pdp to a primary pdp before establishing the secondary pdp context: A solution in a telecommunications infrastructure network for creating a secondary PDP context for a time critical application, ensuring that no packets are lost by masquerading a primary PDP context as the secondary PDP context. This may be achieved by for instance sending a fake TEID or including a filter... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090052424 - Sharing of wireless telephone services for a personal wireless telephone and a vehicular wireless telephone: Sharing of wireless telephone services between a subscriber's personal wireless telephone and the subscriber's vehicular wireless telephone. The shared service may be a connectivity service, allowing the subscriber's personal wireless telephone to communicate directly with the subscriber's vehicular wireless telephone. Alternately, or additionally, the shared service may be one or... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090052422 - System and method for providing location information: Disclosed is a method for providing location information of a terminal by using an Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). To this end, a location request and a location estimate are transferred between terminals by using messages used in the SIP. In particular, it is possible to receive location information of a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090052423 - Systems and methods for improved mobility and quality of service in a wireless network: For a mobile node visiting a packet-switched wireless access network, said access network using a tunnelling-type micro-mobility protocol and a Quality of Service (QoS) routing protocol to route packet data to and from said mobile node, and comprising an access router to which said mobile node may attach, a mobility... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: BoxIPDept.

20090052409 - Telecommunications apparatus and method: Systems according to the present invention are arranged to generate an address, which is compatible with a first internet protocol which can be used to communicate internet packet data via a packet radio network which has been arranged to support internet packets data according to a second internet protocol. The... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20090052417 - Wireless communication device, wireless communication method, and wireless communication system: A wireless communication device includes: a detection part detecting presence/absence of a reception of a packet; a judgment part judging whether or not temporal change of presence/absence of the reception of the packet detected in the detection part corresponds to a predetermined identifier; and a power source control unit controlling... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090052427 - Single carrier transmission system, communication device, and single carrier transmission method using for them: A memory 21 of a pilot processing circuit 2 holds in advance a pilot sequence converted into a frequency region signal obtained by subjecting a pilot signal symbol transmitted in one block to Ntx_p-point DFT. The pilot sequence held in the memory 21 is subjected to a series of processes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090052430 - Method and apparatus for mitigating temporary loss of synchronization in a wireless communication system: Techniques for mitigating temporary loss of synchronization in a wireless communication system are described. In an aspect, a cell may periodically broadcast a mode indicator to indicate synchronous operation or asynchronous operation by the cell. The cell may also broadcast its cell identity (ID), which may omit the mode indicator... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090052431 - Method and device for packet based clock recovery: A master clock in a first radio network unit, configured for sending data packets at predetermined time intervals, is synchronized with a slave clock in a second radio network unit. To provide a method for packet based clock recovery being able to achieve the desired accuracy within an acceptable time... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090052428 - Method of providing information of neighbor base station by mobile subscriber station in broadband wireless access system: A method of providing neighbor base station information via a mobile subscriber station in a broadband wireless access system is disclosed. In providing neighbor base station information (S316) to a serving base station from a mobile subscriber station in a broadband wireless access system, the present invention includes the steps... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090052433 - Method of synchronization for packet based, ofdm wireless systems with multiple receive chains: A system for synchronizing a wireless receiver is provided. The system includes a first antenna and a second antenna to receive independent wireless signals containing different combination of data packets. The system includes one or more analyzer components operable to determine correlation metrics based on at least a portion of... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090052432 - Network connection method and apparatus of a mobile station: A network connection method and apparatus for improving network connection performance of a mobile station in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system is provided. A network connection method of the present invention includes checking whether a cell change from a first cell to a second cell is detected while waiting... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090052429 - Synchronizing timeslots in a wireless communication protocol: A method for synchronizing communications in wireless mesh network operating in a process control environment and including a plurality of network devices includes defining a communication timeslot of a predetermined duration, wherein each of the plurality of network devices transmits or receives data only within the communication timeslot generating a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090052436 - Ip telephone system: An IP telephone system according to the present invention includes a plurality of communication devices T1, T2 allowed to mutually communicate through a network (IP network); a server for executing a connection starting process of communication between the communication devices, as well as for controlling communication data transmitted and received... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20090052438 - Method, system and device for processing supplementary services: Method, system and apparatus for processing supplementary services, and MGCF enhanced method and apparatus as well. The method for processing supplementary services is used for supplementary services in packet network when CSI terminal and IMS terminal are interworking. The method includes: after receiving session message relating to supplementary services interworking... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090052434 - Methods and apparatus to select a voice over internet protocol (voip) border element: Methods and apparatus to select a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) border element are disclosed. An example method comprises sending a first session initiation protocol (SIP) protocol message from a first voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) device, the first SIP message comprising an Internet protocol (IP) address shared by at... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Attn. Patent Docketing

20090052439 - Packet telephony appliance: A packet telephony appliance includes a Euphony network processor that integrates networking and DSP functions to provide a low cost and efficient solution in building a networked appliance. In particular, a Euphony ATM Telephone (EAT) is built around the Euphony network processor. The EAT uses a real-time operating system to... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090052435 - Relay device, communication system, and control method and program for them: Relay devices T are installed in opposition to each other across an FW to implement an FW traversal communication between communication addresses such as IP addresses. Each relay unit 11, 21, . . . forwards and mediates a UDP communication performed with a communication address local to the FW beyond... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090052437 - System and method for dynamic telephony resource allocation between premise and hosted facilities: A population of networked Application Gateway Centers or voice centers provides telephony resources. The telephony application for a call number is typically created by a user in XML (Extended Markup Language) with predefined telephony XML tags and deployed on a website. A voice center provides facility for retrieving the associated... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - San Francisco

20090052440 - System and method for facilitating communication between a cmts and an application server in a cable network: A system and method for facilitating communication between a CMTS and a VoIP application server in a cable network. VoIP-enabled customer premises equipment (CPE) generates packets that are sent through a cable modem (CM) to a cable modem termination system (CMTS). A packet is parsed by CMTS and the destination... Agent: Roberts Abokhair & Mardula, LLC

20090052441 - System and method for managing a circuit switched call using alternative signaling at the establishment of a successful session set-up: A method for providing a user agent (UA) with configuration data for a subsequent session is provided. The method includes the UA sending a first setup message over a first control signalling to control a second control signalling. The method further includes the UA sending a second setup message via... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090052442 - Automatically routing session initiation protocol (sip) communications from a consumer device: The present invention discloses a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Message Automatic Routing Technique (SMART) device that includes a unique identifier and a SMART engine. The unique identifier can be used by an SIP based communication server as a communication endpoint, which means that the unique identifier for the SMART device... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. - IBM Lotus

20090052446 - Communications interface: At an access point (1) to the internet (2) a controller (8) reduces the header data received with datagrams to a minimal header for transmission across a Bluetooth interface to a mobile device. This is achieved by establishing a link identity for each communication series between a mobile device (7)... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090052447 - Data transmission apparatus efficiently using network resources: A data transmission apparatus connecting to a network consisted of a plurality of data transmission apparatuses comprises a disconnecting device that disconnects a connection established between a transmission plug of a transmitting node and a reception plug of a receiving node, both nodes being connected to the network, an optimization... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20090052443 - Method and apparatus for managing dynamic filters for nested traffic flows: An apparatus and method of creating and managing dynamic filters while permitting stateful inspections of a hierarchy of nested flows in the dataplane. The method determines if a filter qualifier of a packet flowing in the forwarding data-plane matches a first filter rule. If the filter qualifier of the packet... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090052444 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing multi-service communication networks and related core networks: A network includes a plurality of routers that define a core network. The core network is configured to establish a logical connection between ones of a plurality of physically interconnected network nodes to route data packets therebetween. The core network is configured to establish the logical connection based on a... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090052445 - System and method for synchronizing packet forwarding information: In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a system and method for synchronizing packet forwarding information is provided. In a particular embodiment, the system includes a control processor configured to implement a control plane to generate first forwarding information and transfer the first forwarding information to an active... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090052450 - Apparatus, system, and method for video delivery using dual multicast streams with one being delayed: An apparatus to deliver video over an Internet Protocol (“IP”) network using multicast distribution and unicast correction. The apparatus includes a video receiver module, a multicast module, and a correction signal module. The video receiver module receives one or more videos formatted as IP packets at a first server. The... Agent: HolmanIPLaw

20090052448 - Methods and systems to store state used to forward multicast traffic: Methods and systems are described to store state used to forward multicast traffic. The system includes a receiving module to receive request to add a first node to a membership tree. The membership tree includes a first plurality of nodes associated with a multicast group. The system further includes a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090052449 - Multicast with adaptive dual-state: A method and system are described to multicast with an adaptive dual state. The system receives multicast traffic over a membership tree including a first plurality of nodes connected in a first topology destined for a plurality of multicast members of a first multicast group. Next, the system determines a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090052451 - Access control list management system: An Access Control List management tool for use in distributed communications networks, compares Access Control Entries for conflicts and optimizes the ACE order by frequency of use, thus by detecting errors in the construction of ACLs and reducing the number, on average, of access entries that must be maintained and... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090052457 - Method and apparatus for automatic inter-domain routing of calls: A method and apparatus for inter-domain routing of calls in a network, where the network represents a first wide area network. A routing node of the network advertises its access to a range of addresses in a second wide area network and a cost for access to the range of... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090052453 - Method and apparatus for improving the performance of voice over ip (voip) speech communications systems which use robust header compression (rohc) techniques: A method and apparatus for use in improving the performance of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication systems which use Robust Header Compression (RoHC) techniques for reducing communications protocol overhead. Specifically, having recognized that in VoIP applications (unlike, for example, data services applications), severely late packets cannot be used, a... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20090052454 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for collecting data from network traffic traversing high speed internet protocol (ip) communication links: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for collecting data from network traffic traversing a high speed Internet protocol communication links are disclosed. According to one method, a plurality of packet classification filters is cascaded to form n stages of the packet classification filters connected to series, where n is an... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20090052455 - Mobile terminal and message transmitting/receiving method for adaptive converged ip messaging: A mobile terminal and message transmitting/receiving method are disclosed for adaptive converged IP messaging. The mobile terminal supporting converged IP messaging (CPM) converts a CPM message into an adaptive converged message and transmits the adaptive converged message. Upon reception, a received message is converted into a CPM message according to... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090052456 - Packet-processing apparatus and method: The present invention provides a packet-processing apparatus for receiving and processing N packets in a series, wherein N is a natural number, and each of the packets has a current header. Additionally, the packet-processing apparatus includes an agent, a processing unit, a monitoring unit, a lookup table, and a control... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090052452 - Signaling compression information using routing protocols: An ability to compress packets is announced from a customer edge router (CE) to other CEs through a routing protocol packet. An announcement of that ability is received from another CE through a routing protocol packet. A compression technique is then matched. The CE receives compression information from the other... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20090052458 - Flow state attributes for producing media flow statistics at a network node: A method in one embodiment includes allocating, by a node of a network, a flow label attribute identifying a media flow associated with a Session Description Protocol (SDP) media session. The media flow is between a sender and receiver nodes over a media transmission path of the network. The node... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20090052459 - Methods and apparatus for providing high speed connectivity to a hotel environment: Methods and apparatus are described for providing access to a network via a first one of a plurality of network access nodes in the network. The network access nodes each have a network address associated therewith which is unique on the network, the first network access node having a first... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090052461 - Method and apparatus for fibre channel over ethernet data packet translation via look up table conversion bridge in a network system: A network system supports multiple network communication protocols. In one embodiment, network device driver software provides a “Fibre Channel over Ethernet” communication capability and methodology. Device driver software manages a Fibre Channel to Ethernet and Ethernet to Fibre Channel address translation in real time for data packet communications in the... Agent: Mark P. Kahler

20090052460 - Method of updating core domain information for routing a service, communication device, and communication environment: A method of updating core domain information for use by a communication device (4) for routing a service for the communication device in a communication environment (2) including a core network (8) having a plurality of core domains (9, 11), and a plurality of radio access networks (6), each of... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090052462 - Line-plane broadcasting in a data communications network of a parallel computer: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for line-plane broadcasting in a data communications network of a parallel computer, the parallel computer comprising a plurality of compute nodes connected together through the network, the network optimized for point to point data communications and characterized by at least a first dimension, a... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090052463 - Method of communicating within a mesh network: A method of communicating within a mesh network comprises scheduling a mesh access reservation time period for transmission of one or more frames by the mesh device on a channel. During the scheduled mesh access reservation time period: contention for the channel is performed with one or more other mesh... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090052464 - Method and apparatus for establishing circuit connections over local area networks with frequency selective impairments: A method for establishing a circuit connection over a network. Determining a channel quality profile of a medium connecting a source node and a destination node. Determining a throughput required to support a data rate requirement of an application that sources data. Determining a modulation type and modulation density at... Agent: Jackson Walker (conexant)

20090052465 - Method and apparatus for supporting network communications: One embodiment of the invention includes a method of managing network communications in a network device. The network device includes software components and modules. Some of the components control the interaction between modules, while other components perform specific functions for associated modules. A module manager component controls the creation and... Agent: 3com Corporation

20090052466 - Communication path selection: In an example embodiment, a method for selecting a communication path is provided. The method may comprise receiving data encapsulated in a transport protocol. In addition, a classification type and exit path information associated with the classification type may be received. The data is associated with the classification type and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090052468 - Apparatus and method for moving a receive window in a radio access network: A method of moving a receiving window in a wireless mobile communication system, wherein the AM RLC of the transmitting side sends information of the last discarded SDU regardless of continuity of the discarded SDUs. The AM RLC of the receiving side checks whether all SDUs from the start point... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090052467 - Methods, apparatus and systems configured for heterogeneous secure associations in wi-fi pan: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for heterogeneous secure associations in Wireless Fidelity Personal Area Networks (WiFi PAN), comprising designating as a regular mobile node (MN) a MN which establishes a security association with a PAN Master as it advertised by the PAN Master and designating as... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090052469 - Multiplexing device and multiplexing method, program, recording medium: The present invention relates to a multiplexer, a multiplexing method, a program, and a recording medium, whereby TS packets encoded with different encoding methods can be multiplexed. In the event of multiplexing each TS packet of a BS audio TS 173 wherein a BS audio ES 171 encoded with a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090052470 - Method for transmitting pilot for multiple carrier system: A method of transmitting pilot signals in a system which performs communication using two or more earners comprises transmitting first pilots and second pilots from at least one user equipment to a base station, the first and second pilots, which are transmitted from the at least one user equipment, being... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090052471 - Digital visual interface with audio and auxiliary data: One embodiment of the present invention uses an abbreviated blanking period, in comparison to the standard VESA and CEA-EIA blanking periods, in order to send data, including low bandwidth, non-timing information, over one or more channels of the digital video link. By shortening the blanking period, the amount of time... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090052472 - System and method of providing dsl services on a telephone networks: A system and method for delivering digital subscriber line (DSL) service to a subscriber. In a telecommunications network, the signal passing through a protector field is diverted to a cross connect block that can be selectively configured to establish a communication route between the cross connect block and a splitter... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090052473 - Method and apparatus for circuit buffer-based rate matching and burst multiplexing for packet data transmission in a communication system: A method and apparatus for circular buffer-based rate matching and burst multiplexing for data transmission. According to the method and apparatus, rate matching patterns are efficiently determined according to data code rates in a wireless communication system using CBRM, and burst multiplexing is performed in units of bits without using... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090052474 - Selective build fabric (bf) and reconfigure fabric (rcf) flooding: In one embodiment, detecting an initialization of a synchronization phase of a network device in a fiber channel fabric, performing synchronization phase optimization of the network device to select a predetermined number of interfaces, and transmitting a synchronization request on the predetermined number of interfaces, are provided.... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20090046568 - Communication apparatus and method: Methods and apparatuses for communication are disclosed.... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20090046570 - Eigen-beamforming for wireless communication systems: Techniques for sending multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmissions in wireless communication systems are described. In one design, a transmitter sends a first reference signal via a first link, e.g., a cell-specific reference signal via the downlink. The transmitter receives channel quality indicator (CQI) information determined by a receiver based on the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046569 - Precoding matrix feedback processes, circuits and systems: An electronic device includes a first circuit (111) operable to generate a precoding matrix index (PMI) vector associated with a plurality of configured subbands, and further operable to form a compressed PMI vector from said PMI vector wherein the compressed PMI vector includes one reference PMI and at least one... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090046571 - Method and apparatus for transmitter timing adjustment: A timing adjustment value is received, and from the received timing adjustment value is determined an integer portion and a fractional portion. In the frequency domain, the determined fractional portion is applied by rotating a signal. Optionally, a phase shift may also be imposed with the rotation. In the time... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090046575 - Failure handling system: A failure handling system capable of performing failure notification and shutoff control, thereby improving network operability. When failure is detected, an outgoing frame shutoff controller performs shutoff control on the local device such that the local device stops outputting communication frames to a receiving client device. A failure notifier notifies... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090046573 - Forward handover under radio link failure: System(s) and method(s) are provided for forward handover under radio link failure. A configurable criterion for radio link failure (RLF) is established through a reference threshold for a channel quality metric; the threshold (CQITH) can be determined at least on a quality-of-service basis or a per-terminal basis. A low-overhead indication... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046572 - Shared protection method and apparatus for reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (roadm) based mesh networks: Example embodiments of a method and corresponding apparatus for sharing protection resources in a reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) based mesh network are presented. The use of dedicated 1+1 methodologies for protection in a mesh network is reliable, but requires a large amount of equipment redundancy, as well as a... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090046574 - Virtual circuit connectivity verification insertion for packet loss control in pseudowire: A method includes inserting a virtual circuit connectivity verification packet into aggregated traffic of m packets transmitted over multiple pseudowires in a network path, replying to the transmitted m packets with a virtual circuit connectivity verification packet with a packet loss indication when at least one packet loss is detected... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090046576 - Forwarding data in a data communications network: An apparatus for forwarding data in a data communications network having as components nodes and links there between, the apparatus being arranged to forward data to a receiving node via a primary path the apparatus further having a repair capability of computing a repair path around a failure component in... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090046577 - Resuming an interrupted flow of data packets: A system and method for resuming an interrupted flow of data packets from a sender to an intermediate node in a path between the sender and a mobile device includes a first step 102 of storing a history of data packets sent to the mobile device. A next step 104... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090046578 - Method and apparatus for radio link failure recovery in a wireless communications network: In a wireless network, for example, an LTE network, the context information relating to a mobile terminal UE is transmitted to a plurality of network nodes eNB 2, 3 and 4 from a source network node, eNB 1. One of the eNB 2 is a handover target node and also... Agent: Docket Administrator - Room 2f-192 Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20090046579 - Lesser disruptive open shortest path first handling of bidirectional forwarding detection state changes: A method and apparatus for processing link down events associated with links between adjacent nodes is described. A node receives link down events associated with a link fault protocol for a link between the node and a neighboring node. In response to receiving the link down event, the node removes... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090046580 - System and method for lost packet recovery with congestion avoidance: Devices and techniques for overcoming lost packets and avoiding congestion when conducting media conferences over packet switched networks are described herein. To avoid the problem of lost packets, redundant information is inserted into the media stream that permits the receiver to reconstruct any lost packets from the redundant information. Congestion... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20090046581 - Flow estimator: A system for communication flow estimation and method therefore are described. The system comprises a filter array arranged to receive a packet, an index hash unit, a flow count array, and a global average counter. The index hash unit generates an index based on a received index set. The flow... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090046582 - Beamforming of control information in a wireless communication system: Techniques for sending traffic data and control information in a wireless communication system are described. In one design, a transmitter (e.g., a Node B or a UE) may perform beamforming to send traffic data on M layers based on a precoding matrix, where M may be one or greater. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046583 - Methods and apparatus to control traffic in a packet-switched network: Methods and apparatus to control traffic in a packet-switched network are disclosed. An example circuit manager comprises a probe interface to collect data representative of actual utilization of a network, a usage analyzer to estimate a utilization of the network for a future time interval based on the collected data,... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Attn. Patent Docketing

20090046584 - Personalized page modules: A system, a method, and a user interface for providing content by using several modules for displaying the content within a single page. A first module within the page is for presenting content from a first source and a second module is for presenting content from a second source. The... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20090046586 - Delay management for distributed communications networks: A method for programming the delay for a node in a communication system is disclosed. The node receives a selected delay value and a signal path delay value indicating a delay for signals communicated to the node. The signal path delay comprises an aggregation of transport delays calculated by each... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20090046585 - Determining communications latency for transmissions between nodes in a data communications network: Methods, systems, and apparatus are disclosed for determining communications latency for transmissions between nodes in a data communications network that include: preparing, by an origin node, to receive an acknowledgement message from a target node, the acknowledgement message indicating that the target node is ready to receive a test message... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090046587 - Fast computation of alterative packet routes: A method for communication includes simultaneously computing a shortest path and a backup path through a network between a pair of nodes. Packets are routed through the network using at least one path selected from among the shortest path and the backup path.... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20090046588 - Channel estimating apparatus, cdma receiving apparatus, and channel estimating method: A corrected channel estimating apparatus is disclosed, which is capable of removing side-lobe components mutually leaking into transmission paths from channel estimates to increase the accuracy. A channel estimation unit calculates channel estimates for a plurality of transmission paths due to a signal that arrives through multipath. A channel estimate... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090046589 - Method and apparatus for compensating for performance degradation of an application session: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for compensating for a performance degradation of an application session in a plurality of application sessions associated with a network link. The performance of each application session in the plurality of application sessions associated with the network link is determined. The performance of each... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090046590 - Voice over internet protocol (voip) testing: A method and apparatus for testing a VoIP telephone line are provided, the method including determining which of a plurality of VoIP call control protocols and/or CODECs is compatible with the telephone line, and conducting a series of tests on the telephone line in accordance therewith. The method and apparatus... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090046591 - Ad hoc service provider's ability to provide service for a wireless network: An ad hoc service provider for a wireless network, a method for providing service from a mobile node, and a machine-readable medium are disclosed. An ad hoc service provider includes a processing system configured to support first and second wireless access protocols and to alter the ad hoc service provider's... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046596 - Apparatus and method for handling mobile terminal capability information: A mobile terminal 1 is attached to a first network 2 of a first technology type RAT1. The mobile terminal 1 transmits UE capability information to the first network 2 by a plurality of containers. Each container relates to one type of technology which is supported by the mobile terminal.... Agent: Docket Administrator - Room 2f-192 Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20090046595 - Method and system for content estimation of packet video streams: A method and system for estimating the content of frames in an encrypted packet video stream without decrypting the packets. The method involves comparing the relative sizes of frames within a video stream and estimating the content of the video stream based on the frame sizes and the ordering of... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090046593 - Method for providing dynamic adjustment of frame encoding parameters in a frame-based communications network: Methods and apparatus for data communication are disclosed. An example method includes encoding a first plurality of transmitting frames, where a header segment of each frame is encoded in accordance with a fixed set of header encoding parameters and a payload segment of each frame is encoded in accordance with... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20090046594 - Multiple-input multiple-output (mimo) communication method and system of enabling the method: A Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication method and system, the MIMO communication system including: a first channel quality information (CQI) receiving unit to receive first CQI from a user terminal, the first CQI associated with a beamforming vector selected by the user terminal; and a second CQI generating unit to generate... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090046592 - Wireless communication base station apparatus, wireless communication mobile station apparatus, wireless communication method, and wireless communication system: A wireless communication method and a wireless communication system wherein any communication interruption caused by changing RRB arrangement information can be avoided. In ST301, Node B (100) transmits informative information including the RRB arrangement information and RRB arrangement version. In ST302, UE (200) holds the RRB arrangement information and RRB... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090046599 - Integration apparatus, communication network and method for integrating a network node into a communication network: Exemplary embodiments of integration apparatus, communication network and method for integrating a network node into a communication network can be provided. For example, an integration apparatus for integrating a network node into a communication network may include a monitoring device, a policy device, an identifying manager device, a linking manager... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090046597 - Method and apparatus for generating and accessing metadata in media file format: Provided are a method and apparatus for generating and accessing metadata in a media file format. The method of generating metadata in a media file format includes generating a time-track map composed of a plurality of map nodes that are distinguished according to track and unit time, and generating media... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090046600 - Portable networking interface method and apparatus for distributed switching system: An apparatus and method to provide a portable networking interface for distributed switching systems. Two Application Program Interfaces (APIs) are defined for communication to a Forwarding Database Distribution Library (FDDL). The FDDL sits between network client applications and the switch device driver in order to provide a uniform interface to... Agent: Robert A. Voigt, Jr. Winstead Sechrest & Minick PC

20090046598 - System and method for acquiring or distributing information related to one or more alternate ad hoc service providers: An ad hoc service provider includes a processing system configured to receive information regarding a second ad hoc service provider. The information includes service information of the second ad hoc service provider. The processing system is further configured to support transmission of the information to a server. The processing system... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046603 - Path discovery and message transfer in partially connected mobile ad hoc networks: A method and system is presented for path discovery and asynchronous message transfer in a partially connected middleware communication space comprising mobile ad hoc networks. Embodiments of the present invention use mobile devices to bridge separated islands of networks and store and propagate messages. The system and software architecture supports... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090046602 - Radio frequency local area network: An apparatus and a method for routing data in a radio data communication system having one or more host computers, one or more intermediate base stations, and one or more RF terminals organizes the intermediate base stations into an optimal spanning-tree network to control the routing of data to and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090046601 - Topology controlled discovery for next hop determination: In a particular embodiment of the present invention, a particular node in an ad hoc network is configured with a desirable number of neighbor nodes and equipped with a transmission power level hierarchy. The particular node may adjust a transmission power level to a different level in the transmission power... Agent: Bobby K. Truong Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090046606 - Adaptive frame structure for tdd point-to-point wireless transmission: The present invention relates to an arrangement for point-to-point transmission over links between first and second link (end) terminals in a system implementing time division duplex (TDD) and wherein information is sent over the links in frames divided into time slots. It is adapted to determine the lengths of the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090046605 - Uplink scheduling grant for time division duplex with asymmetric uplink and downlink configuration: Singalling uplink and downlink scheduling grants for a plurality of subframes in a time division duplex frame is addressed. In one aspect the allocated uplink subframes are divided into groups, so the number of groups equals the number of downlink subframes being allocated. Uplink grants for the groups are sent... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090046604 - Wireless communication method, base station apparatus and mobile station apparatus: A wireless communication method for improving the transmission efficiency in an upstream communication in OFDMA-TDD system or the like. An upstream transmission timing control part (108), which employs this method, controls, based on the OFDMA-TDD scheme, the transmission timings of a mobile station (#p) and a mobile station (#M) communicating... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090046607 - Automatic gain control apparatus and method in wireless telecommunication system based on time division duplex: Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for controlling automatic gain in a wireless communication system using a Time Division Duplex (TDD) scheme. The apparatus comprises a power detecting unit for detecting a power of a TDD frame signal on a receive path; an Automatic Gain Control (AGC) synchronizing signal... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090046608 - Method and apparatus for setting headers in a wireless communications system: A method for setting headers in a transmitter of a wireless communications system includes dividing a Radio Link Control Protocol Data Unit into a plurality of segments each including a header, and setting the header to include a field indicating a sequence number of the Radio Link Control Protocol Data... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090046609 - Transaction control system including portable data terminal and mobile customer service station: A mobile customer service station operating within a wireless multi-hop communication network includes a console on a wheeled chassis. The console carries and houses a number of components which are used in merchandising operations to conclude customer purchase transactions. The items supported externally on the console are a printer for... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090046610 - Communication system: A communication system has a sensor node which is driven by a battery, and which is switched in a predetermined cycle from a sleep mode to an active mode to perform data collection, a base station which transmits and receives data to and from the sensor node by wireless communication,... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090046611 - System and method for media access control for a duty cycle network: A system and method for medium access control in a wireless communication network including the use of packets having a header and plural data portions, acknowledgement request features, corrupt packet identification, and adaptive duty cycling.... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20090046619 - Information management method and system: An information management method and an information management system are provided. The method mainly includes the following steps. A first message is sent to a foreign agent (FA) of a mobile station (MS) after a paging controller (PC) is redirected. The first message includes information of a new PC after... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090046617 - Method and apparatus for sending scheduling information for broadcast and multicast services in a cellular communication system: Techniques for supporting broadcast, multicast, and unicast services in a cellular system are described. A Node B may multiplex data for broadcast and multicast services and data for unicast services on radio resources available for transmission. The Node B may periodically send scheduling information used to determine the radio resources... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046614 - Method and system for updating a multicast state of a multicast group: A method and system for updating a multicast state of a multicast group at a first mesh access point as provided improves network efficiency. According to one aspect, the method includes processing a multicast member join request for the multicast group received from a first wireless node. A proxy update... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090046612 - Method for transmitting and receiving packet in mobile communication system: The present invention relates to a packet reception method. In a packet reception method applied to a mobile communication system, in which data transmission is performed by repeating at least two interlaces by a predetermined cycle, the present invention includes the steps of receiving a broadcast/multicast packet from a base... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090046620 - Mobile communication system using a downlink shared channel: A base station comprises a transmitter configured to transmit first data to a mobile station and to transmit second data to a plurality of base stations via a shared channel, wherein the first data includes unicast data and identification information assigned to the mobile station and the second data includes... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090046615 - Network system, network apparatus and transfer apparatus: In order to maintain the reliability of telecommunication by means of the multicast wireless communication when IP multicast is used in the IP broadcast service, the network system includes a transfer apparatus for transferring multicast packets and transfer request packets and a network apparatus for receiving transfer request packets and... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090046616 - System and method for inserting break-in signals in communication systems: A system and method are provided for transmitting signals while facilitating channel-specific signal insertion to local user terminals. In one mode, a communication device may operate to transmit signals from a remote signal source (via a communication network infrastructure) to one or more local user terminals. In a second, the... Agent: Loza & Loza LLP

20090046613 - System and method for multicast/broadcast reliability enhancement over wireless lans: A system comprises a communication engine for transmitting at least one groupcast packet to wireless stations on a wireless network; an ACK leader selection engine for identifying at least one of the wireless stations as a current ACK leader responsible for generating any ACK in response to the at least... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090046618 - Wireless communication system and wireless communication device: An access point transmits data frames to a plurality of wireless terminals by MC or BC communication. When the data frames are transmitted, data to identify the presence of the return of an ACK frame as affirmative acknowledgment with respect to transmitted contents is applied to an MAC header. In... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090046623 - Network repay device, network relay program, and storage medium containing the network relay program: When a communication station receives trigger for a stream to be transmitted or received by the communication station, the communication station determines whether the communication station transmits the stream in a network, and the communication station changes whether the communication station obtains a communications resource of the network from a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090046621 - Relay apparatus, communication terminal, and communication method: A relay apparatus (110) includes a communication I/F (113) that receives an IP packet from a source terminal (120A) via a communication network (101), a broadcast wave interface (114) that transmits the IP packet received via the communication network I/F (113) to a destination terminal (120B) by a digital broadcast... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090046622 - Systems and methods for mobile communications: In on embodiment, messages are delivered in a mobile network by creating a communication route between a source node and a destination node comprised of virtual routers, each virtual router being fixed to a particular geographical area and including a plurality of mobile nodes, each of the mobile nodes being... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090046624 - System and method for inserting break-in signals in communication systems: A system and method are provided for transmitting signals while facilitating channel-specific signal insertion to local user terminals. In one mode, a communication device may operate to transmit signals from a remote signal source (via a communication network infrastructure) to one or more local user terminals. In a second, the... Agent: Loza & Loza LLP

20090046625 - System and method for management of a shared frequency band: A system, method, software and related functions are provided for managing activity in a radio frequency band that is shared, both in frequency and time, by signals of multiple types. An example of such a frequency band is an unlicensed frequency band. Radio frequency energy in the frequency band is... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090046626 - Method and device for reordering data in wireless communication system: A method and a device for reordering data in a mobile communication system are disclosed. The method comprises: receiving correctly decoded transmission blocks and transmitting the blocks to a link control entity by a receiving-end MAC entity; decapsulating the transmission blocks and reordering and reassembling the resulting upper-layer PDUs by... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090046630 - Data-transmitting method for wireless sensor network: A data-transmitting method for wireless sensor network comprises: constructing a wireless sensor network having a plurality of nodes for information sensing and a sink for quest raising and data collecting; clustering the nodes to form a plurality of groups, with one of the nodes in each group being identified as... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20090046633 - Digitally signing access point measurements for robust location determination: In an example embodiment, a wireless client sends a probe request frame and waits for responses to the probe frame. The responses to the probe request from comprise encrypted data representative of the signal strength of the client as measured by the respondent that are digitally signed by the respondent's... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090046632 - Method and apparatus for interference management: In some aspect restricted access nodes are assigned to a designated common channel while access terminals that are in active communication with a macro access node may selectively be assigned to the designated channel. In some aspect an access terminal associated with macro access node may perform a handoff to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046627 - Method and system for control of discontinuous reception (drx) by a mobile device in a wireless communications network supporting voice-over-internet-protocol (voip): A method and system for controlling discontinuous reception (DRX) in a mobile device in a wireless communications network that supports voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) and that uses an automatic repeat-request (ARQ) method, like a hybrid automatic repeat-request (HARQ) method, uses autonomous DRX control after initial VoIP traffic setup. If the mobile device... Agent: Thomas R. Berthold

20090046635 - Mobile node, mobile agent and network system: A mobile node moves from a first IP (Internet Protocol) network to a second IP network in a network system in which the first IP network capable of executing communication in accordance with both first and second kinds of IPs and the second IP network capable of executing communication in... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090046634 - Qos server in mobile communication system: A QoS server comprises a receiving unit that receives a QoS setting request for the communication flow of a mobile terminal; and a transmitting unit that simultaneously transmits a QoS setting instruction based on the QoS setting request to both of a wireless system mobile management node that accommodates the... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090046636 - Routing appratus and session control method in wireless communication system: Provided are a routing apparatus and session control method. The routing apparatus includes: a first processor for performing session control of portable subscriber stations (PSSs); and a second processor for independently performing at least one additional function separated from session control.... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090046629 - Signaling of random access preamble sequences in wireless networks: Transmission of random access preamble structures within a cellular wireless network is based on the use of cyclic shifted constant amplitude zero autocorrelation (“CAZAC”) sequences to generate the random access preamble signal. A pre-defined set of sequences is arranged in a specific order. Within the predefined set of sequences is... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090046628 - System and method for geocasting in a mobile ad hoc network: Disclosed is a wireless terminal that determines whether to retransmit a received packet. The wireless terminal is configured to determine a first distance from the wireless terminal to a point (e.g., the center point) in a geocast region. The wireless terminal is also configured to determine a plurality of distances... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090046631 - Transport of pdcp control pdus within mac frames: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate efficiently communicating a data packet related to a protocol layer within a wireless communication system. The systems and/or methods can provide cross-layer optimization by directly transporting or communicating data to a particular protocol layer. In general, a MAC header can include data that... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046646 - Apparatus and method for allocating code resources to uplink ack/nack channels in a cellular wireless communication system: A method and apparatus are provided for allocating code resources to ACK/NACK channel indexes, when UEs need ACK/NACK transmission in a wireless communication system in which a predetermined number of orthogonal cover Walsh codes is selected from among available orthogonal cover Walsh codes, at least one subset is formed, having... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090046648 - Apparatus and method for generating mac pdu in mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for avoiding waste of resources by dynamically allocating a length of a Logical Channel IDentification (LCID) of a header included in a Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Unit (PDU) are provided. The apparatus includes a header generator for evaluating a MAC Service Data Unit (SDU)... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20090046641 - Long term evolution medium access control procedures: Several medium access control methods are disclosed. One such method is a method for requesting an uplink resource allocation. In this method, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) receives a trigger and sends an uplink resource request to a Node B based on the trigger. The WTRU receives an uplink resource... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090046649 - Mapping of uplink ack in tdd with asymmetric frame structure: For each of at least two ratios of downlink subframes exceeding uplink subframes in a frame is stored a pre-determined grouping of a plurality of downlink subframes that map to one uplink subframe. A frame is scheduled corresponding to one of the ratios. Scheduling grants are transmitted to user equipments... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090046640 - Method and apparatus of transmitting and receiving activesetcomplete in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for transmission of ActiveSetComplete message in a wireless communication system, the method comprising generating a ActiveSetComplete message comprising a 8 bit message ID field and a 8 bit MessageSequence field, wherein the MessageSequence field indicates the MessageSequence field of the ActiveSetAssignment message whose receipt ActiveSetComplete message... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20090046637 - Method of controlling data transmission for mbs in broadband wireless access system: The present invention relates to a method of controlling data transmission for a multimedia/broadcast service (MBS) in a broadband wireless access system. In a data transmission control method for a multicast broadcast service (MBS) in a broadband wireless access system, the present invention includes the steps of receiving information for... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20090046647 - Method of generating channel quality indicator adaptively in downline status and user equipment for the same: A method for generating a channel quality indicator (CQI) in a mobile communication system is presented. The method includes grouping a number of subcarriers to form at least one channel quality indicator subband for generating a channel quality indicator, and generating a channel quality indicator in each channel quality indicator... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090046651 - Networks and methods integrating digital mobile standards: Communications in a wireless communication system based on two or more communication standards are configured for delivery to cell sites or to subscribers using a digital link having channels assigned to the two or more communication standards. A T-1 level can be divided into twenty four channels that are assigned... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20090046650 - Resource scheduling enabling partially-constrained retransmission: The exemplary embodiments of the invention utilize techniques that provide an amount of scheduling flexibility for retransmissions (e.g., downlink HARQ retransmissions) while also limiting the amount of time within which a UE can expect retransmissions. Thus, the network retains scheduling flexibility while the UE can still operate in DRX, for... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090046644 - Service set manager for ad hoc mobile service provider: An ad hoc mobile service provider for a wireless network includes a processing system configured to support a public service set, comprising the ad hoc mobile service provider and one or more mobile clients, and a private service set, comprising the ad hoc mobile service provider and one or more... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046643 - Support of media oriented negotiation acceleration procedures in split architecture: An apparatus is configured to send a message to a controller requesting that a media oriented negotiation acceleration preference message is to be sent repeatedly. The apparatus is further configured to provide the controller with media oriented negotiation acceleration preferences within that message which are to be advertised by the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090046639 - System and method for handling large ip packets during voip session: The application provides a logical channel design in which a first transmitted logical channel and a first received logical channel are used to send and receive compressed VoIP packets and uncompressed VoIP over a wireless link. A second transmitted logical channel and a second received logical channel are used to... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090046645 - Uplink reference signal sequence assignments in wireless networks: Transmission of sequences in wireless networks from a user equipment (UE) includes various types of reference signals, such as a sounding reference signal (SRS) and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) symbol. The UE receives an indication of a reference signal sequence group number u, wherein physical uplink control channel... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090046642 - Uplink requests: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate generating uplink requests that account for bit rates of multiple radio bearers. In particular, one or more radio bearers serviced by a user equipment are assigned priorities. In addition, each radio bearer is assigned a prioritized bit rate and a maximum bit rate.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046638 - Wireless network system and method: Embodiments of the present invention provide a flexible system for providing wireless broadband access. The system can include a gateway that has a plurality of gateway premises equipment (“GPE”) units and a network fuser connected to the plurality of GPE units to coordinate the activities of the plurality of the... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090046652 - Communication terminal apparatus, communication control apparatus, wireless communication system, and communication method: To provide a communication terminal apparatus that efficiently transmits feedback on information regarding the reception quality and transmission form to a communication control apparatus. A communication terminal apparatus (200) has a terminal-side receiving section (218) that receives control information from a communication control apparatus, a reception quality measuring section (214)... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090046653 - System and method for peer-to-peer beam discovery and communication in infrastructure based wireless networks using directional antennas: A system and method for performing a beam discovery between peer stations is disclosed. A channel time message indicating an allocation of a first time period for a peer-to-peer beam discovery (PBD) is received, where the PBD is configured to discover a beam direction to be used for data transfer... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090046656 - Delivery of handover command: A delta configuration is transmitted to a UE requesting a handover wherein the delta configuration details changes that are required for the current UE configuration in order to execute the handover. The handover is initiated via a measurement report transmitted to a currently serving source eNode B from the UE.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046658 - Handoff at an ad-hoc mobile service provider: An ad-hoc service provider is configured to support pre-authentication with a server for the purpose of receiving a handoff of a mobile client from another ad-hoc service provider. The ad-hoc service provider is further configured to enable the mobile client to maintain a session with the server while receiving the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046660 - Handover method and apparatus in a wireless telecommunications network:

20090046661 - Handover method and apparatus in a wireless telecommunications network: In handover in a wireless telecommunications network, dummy packets, or data packets with a last used sequence number indicator are transmitted from a source node eNB 2 to a target node 3. When the target node eNB 3 detects the information, it knows the sequence of data packets being received... Agent: Docket Administrator - Room 2f-192 Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20090046662 - Handover method and apparatus in a wireless telecommunications network: In handover in a wireless telecommunications network, dummy packets, or data packets with an indicator bit, are transmitted from a gateway node MME/SAE GW 4 to a source node eNB 2 when there is no more data being sent to the source node 2. The source node 2 forwards them... Agent: Docket Administrator - Room 2f-192 Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20090046659 - Message transfer for in-band signaling messages in radio access networks: A method and apparatus for handling in-band signaling messages in radio access networks is provided. The method and apparatus may setup a logical channel, where the logical channel provides packet data control protocol in-band signaling for radio bearers, provide a unique logical channel identifier for the logical channel, receive a... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090046657 - Method of transmitting messages in communication networks: A method of transmitting messages for acquisition of information related to a specific network entity or a link network during network selection in a mobile terminal is disclosed. The method of transmitting messages for acquisition of information related to a network entity or a link network during network selection in... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090046663 - Methods and apparatus for wireless network connectivity: Methods and apparatus which allow a wireless terminal (302) to simultaneously maintain connections with multiple base stations (304, 306) are described. Each wireless terminal (302) is capable of supporting multiple separate timing and/or other control loops one, for each base station connection thereby allowing the connections to operate independently and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046655 - Mobility mechanism for service continuity: A system comprising an inter-RAT/inter-network redundancy controller (IRC) is provided. The IRC is configured to communicate with a source gateway in communication with a source radio access network (RAN) using a first radio access technology (RAT). The IRC is further configured to communicate with a target gateway in communication with... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090046664 - Packet transfer control device and mobile node: A technique is disclosed, by which it is possible to perform retransmission control of a packet effective for a mobile node in a home agent. According to this technique, after being intercepted, among the packets encapsulated and transmitted and addressed to MN 10, MN 10 selects a packet to be... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090046654 - Wireless communication apparatus and handover method: A wireless communication apparatus capable of shortening the handover time and preventing the connection from being interrupted during telephone communication. In this apparatus, an HO part (109), when detecting an access point, outputs an handover control signal for performing a handover that is a process of switching from a communication... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090046665 - Capacity optimisation in a cellular wireless network: Embodiments of the invention relate to cellular wireless networks and are particularly suited to networks including different types of base stations. So-called femtocell base stations are typically deployed within a subscriber's premises and operate at low transmit power, providing a very limited area of wireless coverage. A femtocell is typically... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090046667 - Method and apparatus to reduce radio resource overhead associated with intermittent traffic: A method and apparatus for No-TX mode for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and Node B that suspends the transmission of power control updates and associated signaling over dedicated uplink and downlink channels. Triggers and signals between the WTRU and Node B to activate and disable No-TX mode. A radio... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090046669 - Method and arrangement for choosing a channel coding and interleaving scheme for certain types of packet data connections: A method for choosing channel coding and/or interleaving scheme is applied in a communication connection over a radio interface between a terminal and a base station of a cellular packet radio system. A certain decision-making device allocates channel coding and/or interleaving schemes to communication connections. A request message is communicated... Agent: Perman & Green

20090046668 - Method and system for detecting and identifying scrambling codes: A system for detecting and identifying a scrambling code in received signals. According to one aspect of the system, the system is used to perform scrambling code detection of eight (8) primary cells (each scrambling code being spaced sixteen (16) chips apart) in a group. According to another aspect of... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090046666 - Resource control in a wireless communication network: A wireless access network comprises dedicated data channels and at least one shared data channel in at least one cell. At least part of the mobile stations in the cell are capable of communicating alternatively on a dedicated data channel or a common shared data channel. A target bit rate... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090046671 - Method and apparatus for determining cell timing in a wireless communication system: Techniques for determining the timing of a cell in a wireless communication system are described. A user equipment (UE) may obtain received samples that include at least one synchronization signal generated based on a cell identity (ID) of a cell. The UE may correlate the received samples with the at... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046670 - Method for data transmission in a radio communication system: A method for data transmission in a radio communication system, in which data of a plurality of subscribers is combined with the aid of a multiplexing method to form frames, and is transmitted by means of sub-carriers. At least two frame structures are provided for transmission of the frames, with... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090046672 - Rate matching of messages containing system parameters: Systems, methodologies, and devices are described that facilitate transmitting a guard time parameter to a mobile device to facilitate rate matching data around a guard time region associated with a downlink subframe of a radio frame sequence. A base station transmits the guard time parameter via PBCH or DBCH to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046673 - Method and apparatus for improved dual channel operation and access point discovery in wireless communication networks: A method and apparatus of coordinating Time Division Multiple Access operation of wireless communication devices is disclosed. The method comprises an access point announcing a Quiet Period to one or more clients of the access point and transmitting as part of Target Beacons and probe responses an indication to the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090046674 - Method and apparatus for providing channel feedback information: An approach is provided for transmitting channel feedback information. Bandwidth is partitioned into one or more resource groups corresponding to one or more resource units. One or more of the partitions is designated for transmission of a plurality of uplink pilots that specify channel information for the corresponding resource units.... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090046675 - Scheduling communication frames in a wireless network: A method of scheduling communications in a multi-node wireless mesh network which has a first network device and a second network device includes defining a communication timeslot of a predetermined duration, defining a first superframe having a repeating superframe cycle including a first number of the communication timeslots, defining a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090046679 - Access router device, mobility control system, and mobility control method: In a network configuration in which a mobility control node is placed in the network, a packet is forwarded from a communication partner to the mobility control node by a basic IP mobility protocol for supporting movement in a local network managed by the mobility control node, a movement of... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090046676 - Ad hoc service provider configuration for broadcasting service information: An ad hoc service provider includes a processing system configured to enable access by one or more mobile clients to a first wireless network via a second wireless network. The processing system is further configured to assemble service information for broadcasting to one or more mobile clients. The service information... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046684 - Communication apparatus and communication method therefor: A communication apparatus determines a communication mode in a network in which the communication apparatus is to participate. If the communication apparatus determines that the communication mode is the infrastructure mode, it selects a client function. If the communication apparatus determines that the communication mode is the ad hoc mode,... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090046680 - Data transmission system for wireless local area network and method thereof: A station transmit data to another station positioned outside its regulatory maximum transmit power via an access point according to a method defined in an infrastructure mode and directly transmit data to another positioned within a range of its regulatory maximum transmit power according to a method defined in a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090046685 - Method and system for a wireless transmission over gprs communications network: The present invention provides a system and method of wireless transmission in GPRS communications network, comprising a virtual COM utility program for creating virtual COM ports. A GPRS virtual COM gateway server is coupled to the virtual COM ports via LAN or Internet. A plurality of remote electronic device is... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090046683 - Method and system for performing peer-to-peer communications in a communication system: A method and system for performing P2P communications in a communication system are provided, in which a first MS transmits a request signal requesting P2P communications with a second MS and a unique identification number of the second MS to a BS, receives from the BS a CID of the... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090046688 - Method and system for providing broadband multimedia services: A wireless router access point for use with a mesh network employing a mesh protocol and a point-to-multipoint network employing a point-to-multipoint protocol, and a multimedia system employing the same. In one embodiment, the wireless router access point includes a mesh access point subsystem configured to translate between a point-to-multipoint... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090046678 - Method for predicting the mobility in mobile ad hoc networks: Disclosed are methods for determining the neighborhood local view of a mobile node in time which can facilitate the forwarding decision in the design of network protocols. In conventional mobile ad hoc networks nodes set up local topology view based on periodical received “Hello” messages. The conventional method is replaced... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20090046682 - Method for transmitting information in wireless local area network system: A method for transmitting information of a network interworking with a wireless LAN (802.11, Wi-Fi) network or EMID (ESS MAC ID) provided from an EMID server to a wireless user equipment if the wireless user equipment accesses the wireless LAN network is disclosed. A wireless communication system which performs communication... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090046689 - Mobile communication system using a downlink shared channel: A mobile communication system includes a radio network control apparatus having inside a function block for processing a downlink shared channel and table means for storing various setting information related to the downlink shared channel communication and the downlink shared channel multi-cast communication. According to the information, a multi-cast communication... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090046687 - Mobile wimax network system having private network and mobile ip terminal processing method thereof: A mobile Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax) network system having a private network and a mobile Internet Protocol (IP) terminal processing method thereof are provided. A private access control router performs an initial access procedure for a WiMax terminal requesting initial access. When a mobile IP address is set... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090046681 - Multichannel mac in wireless networks: m

20090046677 - Portable cellular enhancer: An apparatus for sharing user-defined media content with a peer. The apparatus comprises a repository for storing media content inputted by a user of the apparatus and a wireless interface for establishing a wireless personal area network (WPAN) with a first communication entity of the peer in a proximity to... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090046686 - Wireless connecting system for connecting network apparatus to wireless network and network apparatus used in wireless connecting system: A wireless connecting system includes a first network apparatus connected to a wireless network and a second network apparatus to be connected to the wireless network. The first network apparatus stores a network wireless setting and an ad-hoc wireless setting. The second network apparatus stores the same ad-hoc wireless setting... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090046690 - High-speed digital interface transceiver and method of supplying bi-directional communication process on high-speed digital interface device: A high-speed digital interface (HSDI) transceiver with bi-directional HSDI function includes a transmitter, a receiver, a first multiplexer, and a controller. The first multiplexer is selectively coupled to the transmitter or the receiver in order to let the HSDI transceiver act as a source device or a sink device respectively.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090046692 - Method for receiving communication signals having differing spreading factors: A method for the simultaneous reception of data from multiple sources having different spreading factors. A plurality of transmission response matrices are generated and grouped together for equal spreading factors. A plurality of spreading factor group matrices are assembled. A base matrix is formed based upon the spreading factor group... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090046691 - Robust scheduling request mechanism in a cellular environment: A sequence restriction method is shown applicable for an uplink (UL) scheduling request in order to increase resistance against frequency error. A cyclic shift restriction is applied to the orthogonal cover codes used in a scheduling request structure. For an uplink scheduling request, the transmitter selects sequences which tolerate high... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090046693 - Method and apparatus for transmit power calibration in a frequency division multiplexed wireless system: The present disclosure describes a method and apparatus for transmit power calibration in a frequency division multiplexed wireless system (100). The method may include receiving (320), at a user equipment (120), a signal from a base station (130) in a frequency division multiplexed wireless system, mapping (330), in response to... Agent: Prass LLP

20090046694 - Radio transmission apparatus, and radio transmission method: Provided is a radio transmission device, which is enabled to improve a reception quality by improving the channel estimation precision of specific data such as control data. In this device, a mapping control unit (109) acquires pilot position information (at ST1010), and determines a resource block or a candidate for... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090046695 - Method and apparatus for triggering a poll function in a wireless communications system: A method for triggering a poll function in a transmitter of a wireless communications system includes triggering the poll function for polling status of a receiver, and a radio link control entity of the transmitter supporting a “Last PDU” trigger and a “Poll retransmission timer” trigger, and not supporting a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090046696 - Dtmf signaling in wireless communications networks: Techniques for transmitting DTMF symbols in wireless communications networks are disclosed. For instance, an apparatus may include a dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) messaging module and a transceiver. The DTMF messaging module generates a layer 3 (L3) DTMF message that represents two or more DTMF digits. The transceiver sends the DTMF message... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC 4500 Brooktree Road

20090046697 - Method and apparatus for selective decoding in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for controlling decoding in a wireless communication system are provided. Data is received in a slot associated with a packet to be received. A threshold is determined according to format information of the packet. It is determined whether to decode the received data by comparing the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090046698 - Method and apparatus for time alignment along a multi-node communication link: A network entity, which comprises an input configured to receive from an upstream network entity a stream of first media data elements; an output configured to release towards a downstream network entity a stream of second media data elements; a processing engine configured to effect processing tasks on the first... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20090046700 - Method and device for managing multi-frames: A device having multi-frame transmission and reception capabilities and a method for transmitting and receiving multi-frames. The device includes a processor, a time slot assigner, connected to a communication line via a physical layer unit. The physical layer unit is adapted to generate a communication line clock signal (LINE_TX_CLK1) and... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090046699 - Method of transmitting and receiving a redirect message in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for entering initialization state in a wireless communication systems. The method comprises selecting a serving access network, obtaining synchronization from access network, determining if a Redirect Message with Channel Record is received, and issuing an InitializationState.Activate command upon entering Initialization State. An embodiment of an embodiment... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20090046701 - Radio communication base station apparatus and synchronization channel signal transmission method: Provided is a base station capable of searching cells of different frequencies without losing a opportunity of data communication by effectively performing SCH data transmission. The base station (100) includes: an encoding unit (101) for encoding SCH data; a modulation unit (102) for modulating the encoded SCH data; a transmission... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090046702 - Secondary synchronization codebook for e-utran: Providing for secondary synchronization encoding utilizing a primary synchronization channel (P-SCH)-related scrambling code is described herein. Scrambled secondary synchronization codes (SSCs) can be assigned to multiple base stations of a radio access network (RAN). By way of example, PSC-based scrambling codes can be created from a plurality of M-sequences generated... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046707 - Apparatus for enhanced information display in end user devices of a packet-based communication network: Method and apparatus for information conveyance in an end user device of a packet-based communication service where the end user device is connected to a PSTN-based communication device includes detecting a power up condition of the end user device connected to the PSTN-based communication device, detecting a packet-based network connection,... Agent: Vonage

20090046706 - Managed wireless mesh telephone network and method for communicating high quality of service voice and data: A telecommunications system includes a managed wireless mesh network capable of transmitting Internet Protocol (IP) packets therethrough, a controller in communication with the mesh network and in communication with the Public Switched Telephone Network, and a communication device in communication with the mesh network. The communication device converts a sound... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20090046705 - Method and system for facilitating establishment of an ip-link in a telecommunications system: A mobile switching center (MSC) 5 is arranged to set up a call with a destination subscriber unit 13 via a public switched telephone network (PSTN) 15. An IP-based communication link between the service control point (SCP) 9 and the destination subscriber unit 13 is established. During a call set-up... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090046704 - Providing effective advertising via synchronized telephone and data streams: Information, such as advertising, is presented to VoIP users (12) via a combination of telephone and data streams during session initiation via an IP phone or a personal computer (18). A proxy server (20) that receives the call request coordinates with a media server (30) to transmit targeted advertising to... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090046703 - Using an ip registration to automate sip registration: In one embodiment, a network device receives an Internet protocol (IP) registration request, such as a mobile IP registration request, from an access terminal. The network device may be a home agent that is configured to register the access terminal for IP services at the network layer. In addition to... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090046708 - Methods and systems for transmitting a data attribute from an authenticated system: A database operable to store at least one digital signature is provided. The database is communicatively coupled to a first system. A first digital signature associated with a data string is received from a second system at the first system. A determination is made regarding whether the first digital signature... Agent: Manisha Chakrabarti

20090046709 - Common protocol and routing scheme for space data processing networks: A method of communicatively coupling network elements supporting multiple network protocol types comprises receiving input having multiple network protocol types from an upper-level of the protocol stack at an endpoint-flexible-interface layer in a network endpoint, mapping the input between the upper-level of a protocol stack and a common-lower-level in the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090046715 - Appliance and a consumable holder with an embedded virtual router: An embedded virtual router is provided for a system comprising a device having a first software component configured to obtain and convey information associated with a consumable and an appliance having a second software component configured to perform a physical cycle of operation on an article using the consumable. The... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20090046711 - Data rate adaptation enhancement: The present invention provides a new and unique method or apparatus for checking if a next packet to be sent from a transmission buffer exceeds a predetermined threshold size when changing from a first mode to a second mode, for example, after a node, point, terminal or device in a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090046713 - Method and apparatus for transmitting non-decodable packets: Acknowledgments (ACKs/NACKs) are suppressed when transmitting non-decodable packets in a communication system that utilizes HARQ. Non-decodable packets are transmitted to save system bandwidth and make the overall spectral efficiency higher. The transmitter and receiver know that in HARQ when the transmitter transmits a non-decodable packet to the receiver, this will... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046710 - Method and device for transmitting signalling data between peripheral appliances of a switching system: A cost-effective transmission of signaling data via a switching system comprising a first mostly highly reliable message distribution system, using at least one other message distribution system is provided. The signaling data is divided in the emitting peripheral appliance, into a data relevant to the switching system and data not... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20090046712 - Predictive routing technique in the ad hoc wireless network: In a particular embodiment of the present invention, a forwarding node in an ad hoc network collects sets of node information pertaining to its neighbor nodes. An example of a type of node information is history information that indicates previous time periods during which a neighbor node has been available... Agent: Bobby K. Truong Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090046714 - Systems and methods for network routing: Systems and methods are provided for routing data through a network. In one system, a first node is enabled to overhear packet transmissions from a second node. The cost of transmitting packets from the first node to the second node is updated based on each overheard packet transmission. In another... Agent: Dilworth Paxson LLP

20090046716 - Fabric generated monotonically increasing identifier: Systems and apparatus are described for fabric generated monotonically increasing transaction identifiers. A method includes usage of an interconnect fabric generated monotonically increasing transaction identifier to coordinate timing of events on an interconnect fabric wherein a) multiple computer elements share the interconnect fabric, b) additional nodes add to total system... Agent: John Bruckner, P.C.

20090046718 - Apparatus and method for policy routing: An apparatus and method for policy routing is provided. The method includes: A. configuring a policy routing to a label switching path and obtaining and saving forwarding information; and B. performing packet forwarding based on the forwarding information. The apparatus includes: a label switching path managing unit, for saving first... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090046719 - Method and apparatus for implementing multiple portals into an rbridge network: Shortest-path spanning trees are created outward from each portal on a Rbridge network with nodes on the network being assigned to the spanning trees. For those nodes equidistant to two portals, an election process is used to determine which tree the node should join. To enable routes associated with nodes... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras, LLP Attn: John C. Gorecki

20090046717 - Methods to improve transmission control protocol (tcp) performance over large bandwidth long delay links: TCP options are provided to address TCP performance problems during data exchanges over large bandwidth long delay communication links. These options address problems such as in sequence tail drops, inaccurate estimations of available bandwidth over a communication link, and slow responses to dynamic changes in link conditions.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090046720 - Gathering traffic profiles for endpoint devices that are operably coupled to a network: Methods and computer program products for gathering a traffic profile for an endpoint device operably coupled to a network. Methods include simultaneously sending a set of numerically sequenced packets to a plurality of endpoint devices on the network including the endpoint device, wherein the plurality of endpoint devices are time... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090046722 - Asynchronous digital subscriber line (adsl) resource planning: Example methods and apparatus to assign permanent virtual circuits (PVC) to subscribers are disclosed. A disclosed example method to assign a PVC to a subscriber comprises obtaining a parameter representative of a port associated with the subscriber, computing a virtual circuit identifier (VCI) for the PVC from the parameter, and... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Attn. Patent Docketing

20090046721 - Merging multiple network data flows: The disclosure presents techniques for merging multiple data flows in a network such as a Passive Optical Network (PON). The PON comprises an interface module and network nodes connected to the interface module via an optical fiber link. Each network node further serves client devices. The client devices request multiple... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20090046723 - Distinguishing between connectivity verification availability and forwarding protocol functionality in a computer network: In one embodiment, a local network device may determine an inability to establish a connectivity verification protocol (e.g., Bidirectional Forwarding Detection, “BFD”) session to a remote network device, such as from unreturned control messages. In response, the local network device may send at least one connectivity verification protocol echo message... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090046724 - Method for compressing route data in a router: A method for a router having a routing table and a forwarding table. In an embodiment, the method includes creating an entry for use in the forwarding table, the entry corresponding to multiple entries of the routing table. The entry may correspond to a set of entries of the routing... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090046725 - Method for processing atm cells and a device having atm cell processing capabilities: A method and a communication device for processing ATM cells. The communication device includes an input interface adapted to receive an ATM cell that is associated with a PHY value and includes a pair of VCI and VPI fields. The communication device is characterized by comprising a search unit, adapted... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090046727 - Routing with virtual channels: An approach to introducing adaptive routing into a communication approach for passing messages between nodes over links between the nodes includes forming virtual channels over the links of the system and defining a deterministic routing function over the virtual channels such that the deterministic routing function is deadlock free. Adaptive... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090046728 - System and method for delivering security services: Systems and methods are provided for delivering security services. According to one embodiment, multiple virtual routers are established within a service processing switch, which is operable to be logically interposed between a public communications network and multiple subscriber sites. Each of the virtual routers has associated therewith a subset of... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20090046726 - Virtual network with adaptive dispatcher: Methods and systems for providing a virtual network are disclosed. At least one layer of abstraction is created between network service applications and conventional network protocols by inserting an adaptive dispatcher between applications and network transport services on each machine in a network. The message protocol in the virtual network... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090046730 - Network switching apparatus for redundancy gateway system: A network switching apparatus which is provided between a redundancy gateway system and a packet network and enables an uninterruptible changeover in a system changeover to be performed. The apparatus includes an up-direction transfer unit and a down-direction transfer unit. The down-direction transfer unit receives a changeover notification packet accompanied... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090046729 - Routing control method and system: A VPN server encapsulates a packet P2 upon receiving the packet and distributes packets P (2-1) and P (2-2) to wireless terminals MN1 and MN2 respectively. The wireless terminal MN1 decapsulates the packet P (2-1) (as packet P2-1) upon receiving the packet and transmits the packet P2-1 to a wireless... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090046731 - Fibre channel credit extender and repeater: The Fibre Channel Credit Extender (FCCE) (600) is a network device that is disposed between and connected to an end node (210) and an optical repeater (220). The FCCE (600) contains as many buffer credits as necessary, to solve bandwidth problems in a network. In a situation where maximum bandwidth... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090046732 - Routing packets on a network using directed graphs: A method of routing a data packet between a first node and a second node on a communication network includes defining a first graph through the first node and the second node and zero or more intermediate nodes, associating several nodes which belong to the communication network with the first... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090046733 - Virtual network architecture for space data processing: An adaptable virtual network system comprises a plurality of network elements and a plurality of virtual links. Each network element is communicatively coupled to at least one other network element via at least one physical link. At least one physical link comprises at least two virtual links. The adaptable virtual... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090046735 - Method for providing prioritized data movement between endpoints connected by multiple logical channels: A data network and a method for providing prioritized data movement between endpoints connected by multiple logical channels. Such a data network may include a first node comprising a first plurality of first-in, first-out (FIFO) queues arranged for high priority to low priority data movement operations; and a second node... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Intellecvate

20090046734 - Method for traffic management, traffic prioritization, access control, and packet forwarding in a datagram computer network: The invention provides an enhanced datagram packet switched computer network. The invention processes network datagram packets in network devices as separate flows, based on the source-destination address pair in the datagram packet. As a result, the network can control and manage each flow of datagrams in a segregated fashion. The... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090046736 - Method and system for keeping a fibre channel arbitrated loop open during frame gaps: A method and system for keeping an arbitrated loop open during a frame gap using a fibre channel switch element is provided. The switch element includes a port control module having a receive and transmit segment, wherein the transmit segment activates a timer whose value determines a duration during which... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20090046737 - Data processing system, transmission apparatus, and band control apparatus: A data processing system that packetizes content, transmits the packetized content via a transmission path, and allocates a transmission path band for transmitting the packetized content includes a packet interval control unit configured to control intervals at which packets of the packetized content are transmitted, an obtaining unit configured to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090046738 - Methods for characterizing optical switches and multiplexers/demultiplexers: A network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising creating a port restriction matrix comprising a plurality of port restrictions, and compressing the port restriction matrix. Included is a method comprising establishing a port wavelength restriction data for an optical component, establishing a port connectivity... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20090046739 - Methods and apparatus for efficient and adaptive transmission of data in data collection networks: Methods and apparatus of adaptively transmitting data are provided. Data for transmission from one or more incoming data streams is determined in accordance with at least one characteristic of a respective one of the one or more data streams and at least one context external of the data stream. A... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090046740 - Systems, methods and computer products for pooling of wireless collection bandwidth: Systems, methods and computer products for pooling of wireless collection bandwidth. Exemplary embodiments include a bandwidth management method, in a wireless device, the method, including querying for additional wireless devices within a communication range of the wireless device, the wireless device and additional wireless devices being in communication with a... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090046741 - Synchronous transport signal mapper with payload extraction and insertion functionality: In a communication system comprising a mapper or other type of physical layer device coupled to a link layer device, the physical layer device comprises payload extraction circuitry and payload insertion circuitry. The payload extraction circuitry is configured to extract a payload from an ingress synchronous transport signal received over... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090046742 - Outlet with analog signal adapter, a method for use thereof and a network using said outlet: An outlet (70, 75, 76, 78, 79) for a Local Area Network (LAN), containing an integrated adapter (21, 25) that converts digital data to and from analog video signal. Such an outlet allows using analog video units in a digital data network (80), eliminating the need for a digital video... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090046743 - Transmission apparatus and transmission method: A transmission apparatus of the present invention includes an encoder unit configured to encode data including plural layers for each of the layers, a packetizing unit configured to generate a packet based on the data encoded by the encoder unit, a determination unit configured to determine transmission intervals at which... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090046744 - Communication control apparatus, communication control method, and computer program: A communication control apparatus includes a packetizing unit configured to generate packets based on coded data; a calculating unit configured to calculate, based on at least one of information regarding the amount of code of the coded data, reception state information indicating a reception state of a reception device serving... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090046745 - Apparatus for transmitting and receiving data with various data capacities at high speed: There is provided an apparatus for transmitting and receiving data with various data capacity at high speed. The apparatus for transmitting and receiving data includes a client signal interface block converting client signals being received through media into a high-capacity electrical signal and selectively interfacing the converted high-capacity electrical signal... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090040918 - Random access preamble detection for long term evolution wireless networks: This invention is a method for preamble detection with estimation of UE timing advance (TA) and channel quality information (CQI) which uses a sliding window to detect the preamble and estimate user timing advance and channel quality information. The window length is set to the cyclic prefix length of data... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090040919 - Transmission using nested ofdma: A transmission of information within a wireless cellular network may include a first and second group of samples. A first group of samples is created comprising at least a first and a last subgroup, wherein the last subgroup is same as the first subgroup. A second group of samples created.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090040917 - Transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus, transmitting method, receiving method, information recording medium and program: In a transmission device 101, a modulation portion 102 carries out modulation of encoded data based on an adaptive modulation command based on feedback information sent from the receiving side, a frequency symbol diffusion block 105 multiplies the plurality of signals outputted by a serial-parallel conversion portion 104 by an... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20090040920 - Byzantine-fault tolerant self-stabilizing protocol for distributed clock synchronization systems: A rapid Byzantine self-stabilizing clock synchronization protocol that self-stabilizes from any state, tolerates bursts of transient failures, and deterministically converges within a linear convergence time with respect to the self-stabilization period. Upon self-stabilization, all good clocks proceed synchronously. The Byzantine self-stabilizing clock synchronization protocol does not rely on any assumptions... Agent: National Aeronautics And Space Administration Langley Research Center

20090040921 - Method and apparatus for fast reroute in a connection-oriented network: A method and an apparatus for rapidly resuming, at times of failures, network traffic in a connection-oriented network by using an alternative route pre-computed and stored locally in nodes along an initial route without requiring signaling of upstream nodes or a master server.... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090040922 - Efficient protection mechanisms in a ring topology network utilizing label switching protocols: Efficient protection mechanisms for ring based label-switching networks are designed to protect point-to-point label switching paths (LSPs) while preventing misconnection and mismerge situations. The protection switching is performed by nodes adjacent to the point of failure. The switching decision is based on a locally detected signal fail condition. The operation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090040925 - Device having quality of service (qos) confirmation and method for configuring qos: A UE is described herein that has a defined QoS database which is used to organize and store various QoS parameter sets which are used to help establish media flows. In one embodiment, the QoS database includes a plurality of tables, where each table is associated with a particular application,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090040924 - Method and system for moving distinctive traffic flows to a different priority service flow: A cable modem termination system (CMTS) is adapted to move particular traffic flows to a different priority service flow. The CMTS includes detection logic, or is coupled to detection logic, to detect the presence of particular traffic, logic to establish a different priority service flow between a cable modem termination... Agent: Fsp LLC

20090040923 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for distributing application or higher layer communications network signaling entity operational status information among session initiation protocol (sip) entities: Systems, methods, and computer program products for distributing application or higher layer communications network signaling entity operational status information among SIP entities are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes determining operational status information for an application or higher layer communications network signaling entity. Further, the method includes identifying... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20090040926 - System and method of traffic inspection and stateful connection forwarding among geographically dispersed network appliances organized as clusters: A peering relationship among two or more network appliances is established through an exchange of control messages among the network appliances. The peering relationship defines a cluster of peered network appliances, and at each network appliance of the cluster traffic flow state information for all the network appliances of the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090040928 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for bi-directional resource allocation to decrease signaling for retransmissions: Methods and apparatus operative in a wireless communications system divide a communications resource available for performing information transmission and retransmission operations into a plurality of communication resource units. The units are ordered in a predetermined order. A first group of communication resource units are selected from the communication resource in... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090040927 - Content server latency determination: A performance of a publisher server, a first content server, and a second content server is determined. Latency time information is determined based on the publisher server performance, the first content server performance, and the second content server performance, the latency time information representing a length of time to load... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090040930 - Data plane aggregation based on route and service type: Methods and systems are operable to aggregate data. A plurality of data units can be received. The data units can be combined based upon a class associated with the data and a next hop associated with the data. A link can be provided for the combined data units based on... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090040929 - Method and apparatus for dynamically managing hierarchical flows: Provided are a method and apparatus for dynamically managing hierarchical flows that more efficiently process packet traffic while maintaining compatibility with an existing packet data network in transferring both circuit traffic and packet traffic in a packet switched network. The method for dynamically managing hierarchical flows includes: receiving data packets,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090040931 - Method and device for determining the length of a shortest path in a network: A computer-implemented method for pre-processing a network, wherein the network comprises nodes and edges, each edge having a length measured according to a given metric, comprises the steps of selecting a source and a target node; determining a transit node for the selection; determining a length of a shortest path... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20090040932 - Methods and arrangement for utilization rate display: An arrangement in a network device for displaying statistical data pertaining to data traffic that traverses the network device is provided. The arrangement includes a power supply arrangement for providing power to circuitry of the network device. The arrangement also includes a set of network ports, which includes a set... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20090040933 - Automaticlly activated quality measurement: According to one aspect of the invention, determination of data that allows conclusions to be drawn about the cause of a disturbance is activated. The cause of the disturbance is then determined by a diagnostic application that takes the data into account. Data determination is automatically deactivated by taking into... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090040934 - Distributed system: In a distributed system having a plurality of nodes connected via a network, each of the plurality of nodes includes: an error monitor unit for monitoring an error in each of the other nodes; a send/receive unit for sending and receiving data for detecting abnormalities in the other nodes, to... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090040935 - Evaluation apparatus of hub unit and evaluating method of hub unit: In an evaluation apparatus of a hub unit, a signal processing unit outputs frequency analysis signals which indicate such a result obtained by that an output signal of an acceleration sensor fixed on a hub unit by a magnet is processed via an A/D converting unit and an envelope detecting... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090040937 - Coexistence of different network technologies: In at least some embodiments, a communication device includes a plurality of network technology subsystems, each subsystem associated with a different network technology. The communication device also includes a controller coupled to the plurality of network technology subsystems. The controller enables coexistence of the different network technologies in accordance with... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090040936 - Method and apparatus for scheduling transmissions in a wireless communication system: Machine-readable media, methods, apparatus and system for scheduling transmissions in a wireless communication system are described. In some embodiments, a base station may comprise a network interface device to receive and process a long-term signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) and a channel quality indicator (CQI) from each subscriber... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090040940 - Off-line broadband network interface: A system for processing a data packet is disclosed and may include at least one processor that enables receiving of a data packet at a station on a network, the data packet having a preamble which includes a destination tag and a training sequence. The at least one processor may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090040938 - System and method for end to end route control: Session independent end to end route control is provided by coordination between a pair of route control devices. Each device determines whether received traffic qualifies for end to end route control and whether the device at the other end supports end to end route control. If so, then the route... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20090040939 - System and method for managing broadband services: A system and method are described for selecting a service state using a configurable abstraction layer. A comparison is made between network parameters of a Network Performance Layer and network services of a Service Layer. Once network parameters are within a threshold for providing a given service, a state change... Agent: Raman N. Dewan Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20090040941 - Method and system for measuring network performance: A method for measuring network performance is provided in the present invention. The method is used to obtain a network address binding relationship of a measured flow from a network address translation (NAT) device between two measurement points, and configure flow description of the measured flow and the network address... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090040942 - Method and system for measuring network performance: A method for measuring network performance is disclosed to solve the problem in active network performance measurement that a measurement point on receiving a packet is unable to determine the source of the packet after the network address translation (NAT). The method includes that a first measurement point constructs a... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090040944 - Method and bypass device of network-based ip allocation: The present invention provides a method and bypass device of IP allocation based on the network, the method comprising: establishing a mapping relation between the parameters of a visitor and an IP address; filing a request for visiting the network using the parameters of the visitor; performing authentication of AAA... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090040943 - Method for controlling routing in a packet network supported by a transport network: A method of controlling routing in a packet network supported by a transport network allowing the dynamic creation/suppression of links for transporting packets of said packet network, said method including a routing step, a step of informing other routers of said network of the metric assigned to each link of... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090040945 - Systems and methods for utilizing global traffic flow parameters for packet-based networks: Embodiments achieve simpler solutions to coexistence problems for wireless network subsystems in a single device. Some embodiments describe systems and methods for determining change in at least one network technology traffic flow, performing mapping functions between network technology-specific parameters of the changed traffic flow and global traffic flow parameters, and... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090040946 - Executing an allgather operation on a parallel computer: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for executing an allgather operation on a parallel computer that includes a plurality of compute nodes organized into at least one operational group of compute nodes for collective parallel operations, each compute node in the operational group assigned a unique rank, that includes: determining... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090040947 - Push and clone configuration management for mobile devices: Embodiments of a method and system for managing configurations on mobile devices are described. A method under an embodiment utilizes one or more advanced commands defined by the OMA DM protocol. One such command is the “Get” command, which can be used recursively to traverse a management tree to access... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090040948 - Speed conferencing: Speed conferencing is facilitated using a speed conference group. A conference server provides a conference room for managing a conference call between conference participants belonging to the speed conference group. The conference server uses the speed conference group to call the conference participants within that speed conference group to invite... Agent: Garlick, Harrison & Markison (alu)

20090040949 - Full duplex asynchronous communication system: [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] (a) Data is transmitted from a primary module PM to a secondary module SM, while data is transmitted from the secondary module SM to the primary module PM independently at the same time. (b) Code words A and B, in which data and color (request signal:... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20090040950 - Time division duplex (tdd): In accordance with the principles of the present invention, a radio system is provided. A master multiplexer is adapted to receiving an input signal. A slave multiplexer is adapted to send an output signal. A timing master radio is connected to the master multiplexer and a timing slave radio is... Agent: Paul E Schaafsma Novusip, LLC

20090040953 - Radio communication system carrying out transmission and reception of multicarrier signal, transmission terminal, and reception terminal: A radio communication system includes a transmission terminal and a reception terminal. The transmission terminal divides and outputs transmission data, modulates the output data to a plurality of subcarriers, converts the modulated data to a temporal waveform of a multicarrier signal, and copies divided transmission data a predetermined number of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090040951 - Systems and methods for defining multi-domain wireless device behavior for two or more calls: A multi-domain device is provided that has a memory component provisioned to store a policy for managing a second call on the multi-domain device when a first call is active on the multi-domain device. The multi-domain device also includes a processor configured to implement the policy.... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090040952 - Systems and methods for microwave tomography: Systems and methods for microwave tomography are described. According to various embodiments, signal strength values or other similar quality indications may be analyzed as they are received with packet data over a wireless network. The analysis may be used to determine the presence of a physical object substantially between communicating... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090040954 - Communication device and communication method: A control unit controls setting of an operating mode. A timer determines a transmission period of a beacon for notifying presence of a network. A beacon transmitting unit transmits a beacon based on the transmission period. When the control unit instructs to switch from a normal operation mode to a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090040955 - Method for adaptive discontinuous reception based on extented paging indicator for improvement of power effective performance at mobile terminal on wcdma: An extended paging indicator-based adaptive discontinuous reception method is proposed so as to improve a power saving performance of a terminal in an asynchronous wideband code division multiple access schemes. To this end, a plurality of terminals for performing power saving receive an extended paging indicator for a discontinuous reception... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090040959 - Method and system for retransmitting data in a communication system: A method and system for retransmitting data in a communication system are provided. In the retransmission method, a BS determines an automatic retransmission number for a multicast data frame according to the number of MSs of a multicast group, transmits the determined automatic retransmission number to the MSs of the... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090040956 - Packet transmission device and packet transmission method: There is provided a packet transmission device capable of receiving an MBMS service packet which could not be received for level measurement of a different frequency in a mobile station device, by using the current scheduling information. In this packet transmission device, an empty section search unit (102) searches how... Agent: Christensen O'connor Johnson Kindness PLLC

20090040957 - Prepositioning data for wireless applications: Provided are methods, systems and devices for pre-positioning data objects on a group or sub-group of mobile communication device which comprises receiving a datagram containing a data object and a multicast address via a multicast by a network node within a mobile communications network and satisfying at least one of... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090040958 - Transmitting rf signals employing both digital and analog components with a common amplifier: Apparatus is presented for broadcasting an RF signal. This includes a signal divider that receives a composite RF signal and provides therefrom first and second signals each having digital and analog components. A phase extractor receives the first signal and provides therefrom a phase modulated RF signal for application to... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20090040961 - Aggregation control method, aggregate node, deaggregate node: A technology is disclosed that provides an aggregation control method, an aggregate node, and a deaggregate node that can quickly and efficiently manage aggregation. Through the technology, a deaggregate node 113 transitions itself to a mode performing a release process for a QoS path within an area between the aggregate... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090040960 - Space frequency block code signal processing system: A space frequency block code signal relaying system is provided. The space frequency block code signal relaying system includes a signal detecting unit which receives, via a radio channel, a source signal sent from a source station and detects the received signal; a relay signal generation unit which generates a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090040962 - Method of generating and demultiplexing an optimized contribution signal, and regionalized data broadcasting system: The invention relates to a method of generating an optimized contribution signal comprising multiplexes. Each multiplex comprises global broadcasting services and its own combination of regional services. Each multiplex comprises stuffing packets and packets transporting signaling tables. The optimized contribution signal is generated by retaining only the global broadcasting services... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20090040963 - Gatelink startup controlled by acars cmu: Methods and apparatus' for operating a communication system between an aircraft and a communication center are provided. One method includes using an aircraft communication addressing and reporting system (ACARS) of an aircraft to control a gatelink communication system of the aircraft.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090040964 - Dynamic internet protocol addressing solutions with network-based mobility: A media access gateway comprises a wireless network interface, an address assignment module, and a proxy mobility agent module. The wireless network interface establishes a wireless link with a wireless terminal. The address assignment module receives an address request message, which includes a mobility signal from the wireless terminal. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20090040969 - Method and apparatus for non-scheduled transmission for packet service in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for non-scheduled transmission for a packet service in a mobile communication system are provided. A plurality of allowed maximum packet sizes are defined for the non-scheduled transmission and a UE selects one of the maximum packet sizes under circumstances and sends packets according to the selected... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090040966 - Method for guaranteeing the quality of services in packet-switching wireless networks: A method for guaranteeing the quality of services in packet-switching radio communications networks. The radio access network (RAN) and the core network (CN) use the quality of service information independently of one another, without signalling individual parameters, in order to guarantee the transmission of packets in the uplink and downlink... Agent: The Maxham Firm

20090040967 - Methods and apparatus for quickly exploiting a new link during hand-off in a wireless network: A way to deliver traffic to a mobile node that is undergoing a hand-off between two Access Routers (AR) is described. The method of the present invention operates to perform some or all of the following. Decrease, e.g., minimize, delays between the time the old link breaks and the first... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090040965 - Wireless communication device: A wireless communication device includes: an analyzing unit for analyzing an MAC header of a received frame; a storage unit for storing a source address when analyzed that the received frame is a suspension signal for suspending an occupancy of a radio channel; a determination unit for determining whether or... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090040968 - Wireless telephone system including voice over ip and pots: A telephone capable of placing or receiving calls over the PSTN or a packet network. The telephone can store multiple telephone numbers for each potential called party along with preferences that govern the order of selecting telephone numbers to service any given outgoing call. Some or all of the telephone... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20090040977 - Apparatus and method for scheduling in consideration of service connection time duration (sctd) in mobile communication system: An apparatus and a method for scheduling in consideration of a Service Connection Time Duration (SCTD) in a mobile communication system. The apparatus includes a User Equipment (UE) for transmitting a Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Unit (PDU) including an SCTD measured by counting a connection time to receive... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090040976 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving packets in a mobile communication system supporting hybrid automatic repeat request: An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving packet data in a mobile communication system supporting Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ), e.g., a method and apparatus for performing HARQ retransmission on a packet received through persistent resources where no HARQ process identifier is transmitted. HARQ soft combining is performed by... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090040971 - Channel selection method for improved wireless communication: A communication system (10) receiving a communication signal from a far communication system (12) has a channel selector, and a number of local transceivers (22) forming a first broadcast array and a second channel searching array. The first broadcast array is configured to receive the communication signal and transmit a... Agent: Ip Legal Department Tyco Fire & Security Services

20090040974 - Combining transmissions of different protocols in a wireless communications: A method and devices for allowing communications between a central station and subscriber terminals along a frequency channel in a wireless network comprising a central station and a plurality of subscriber terminals, out of which at least one uses a scheduled based protocol. The method comprises: providing a plurality of... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090040979 - Methods and apparatuses for reducing interference using frequency division multiple access: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described which are capable of mitigating interference between piconets. Devices on a piconet may detect a certain degree of interference. When this interference is deemed as arising from another piconet, the first piconet may cease transmitting on a set of bands while the interfering piconet... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20090040970 - Multi-user resource allocation and medium access control (mac) overhead reduction for mobile worldwide interoperability for microwave access (wimax) systems: Various embodiments are directed to multi-user resource allocation capable of significantly reducing MAC header overhead and scheduling delay for small payload applications, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and interactive gaming and to increase the capacity of such applications. In various implementations, multi-user resource allocation may be used in... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20090040975 - Peak-to-average power ratio management for multi-carrier modulation in wireless communication systems: Techniques for managing peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) for multi-carrier modulation in wireless communication systems. Different terminals in a multiple-access system may have different required transmit powers. The number of carriers to allocate to each terminal is made dependent on its required transmit power. Terminals with higher required transmit powers may... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090040973 - Radio communication system, radio transmission device, and rach transmission method: Disclosed are a radio communication system, a radio transmission device, a RACH transmission method capable of reducing the important information conflict probability and improve the communication system throughput in a channel transmitted at a random timing such as RACH. In a frame configuration used by the communication system, the number... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090040972 - Radio resource allocation for cellular wireless networks: Embodiments of the invention relate to cellular wireless networks and are particularly suited to networks including different types of base stations. So-called femtocell types of base stations are typically deployed within a subscriber's premises and operate at low transmit power, providing a very limited area of wireless coverage. A femtocell... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090040978 - System and method for using frequency resource in communication system: A system for using frequency resources in a multi-cell communication system is provided. The system includes cells included in a multi-cell communication system, each cell being controlled to use frequency resources based on a preset segment sequence, wherein available frequency bands which can be used by the respective cells are... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090040980 - Wireless local area network channel resource management: A wired Local Area Network (wired LAN) and a plurality of Wireless Access Points (WAPs) coupled to a wired network infrastructure of the wired LAN service wireless packetized communications for a plurality of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) clients. A multi-layer switch of the wired LAN identifies a WLAN client... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090040983 - Apparatus and method for managing quality of service of service flow in wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for managing quality of service (QoS) of a service flow in a wireless communication system are provided. A method of operating a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system includes receiving QoS policy information of mobile stations (MSs) from a network entity including a policy... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090040982 - Handover in a wireless data packet communication system that avoid user data loss: An apparatus, method, processor(s), and computer program product avoids user data loss by network-controlled, user equipment assisted handover in a wireless data packet communication system. A wireless receiver receives radio link control (RLC) packet data units (PDUs) from user equipment (UE) being served by a source node. A wireless transmitter... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090040981 - Methods and apparatus for in-order delivery of data packets during handoff: Methods, apparatus, systems and computer program products are defined that provide for in-order deliver of data packets during hand-off. The aspects provide for in-order delivery at Forward Link Serving eBS/Data Attachment Point (FLSE/DAP) switch and Reverse Link Serving eBS/Data Attachment Point (RLSE/DAP) switch. As such, present aspects provide for significant... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090040984 - Apparatus and method for channel reservation in wireless communication systems: An exemplary method for reserving medium access in an ad hoc network comprises transmitting a reservation request by a reservation owner, the reservation request identifying a reservation allocation, a reservation target, and a reservation type. The reservation type identifies exclusive use of the reservation allocation by the reservation owner and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090040985 - Method and apparatus for supporting ad-hoc networking over umts protocol: A method and apparatus are provided for ad hoc networking over a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS). In the method, if user equipment (40A) (such as a mobile phone) is not within normal cell coverage (20), then in an uplink procedure a message which would normally have not be able... Agent: Adams Intellectual Property Law, P.A.

20090040993 - Apparatus and method for supporting mixed quality of service setup type in a broadband wireless communication system: A broadband wireless communication system is provided. The system includes: an access service network (ASN), consisting of at least one base station (BS) and at least one access service network_gateway (ASN-GW), for supporting a first quality of service (QoS) setup type for a first Mobile Station (MS) and for supporting... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090040987 - Apparatus for reducing signalling data bursts in mobile network: A technology is disclosed for reducing the burst of DAD messages which may be triggered due to the change of the network prefix when using the technique of the neighbor discovery proxy. According to this technology, in roaming from the access network link 101 to the access network link 102,... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090040988 - Avoiding ppp time outs during ipcp negotiations: Methods and apparatus are presented for extending the protocol synchronization period between a PPP client and a PPP server, wherein the PPP server is located on a wireless communication device. In one aspect, the PPP server generates and sends an IPCP Configure-Nak message to the PPP client whenever the PPP... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090040989 - High performance wireless networks using distributed control: A design and proof of concept of a new type of WLAN, complete with simulation and results from the simulation has been described. Each AP Node is implemented as a self-contained embedded OS unit, with all algorithms resident in its Operating system. The normal day-to-day functioning of the AP node... Agent: Cherskov & Flaynik

20090040992 - Method and mobile terminal for acquiring packet service: A method and mobile terminal for acquiring a packet service in a mobile communication system is provided. A mobile terminal of the present invention determines, when it powers on, whether to register with a network on the basis of previously stored packet service usage frequency and updates, when using the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090040995 - Method and system for mobility across heterogeneous address spaces: A mobile node includes a processor, a network interface, and a storage device having computer program code for execution by the processor. The computer program code includes a network layer for transmitting and receiving packets and an intermediate driver that transmits packets to the network layer and receives packets from... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - PhiladelphiaIPDepartment

20090040994 - Method of communication between reduced functionality devices in an ieee 802.15.4 network: In a 802.15.4 network, each reduced functionality device (RFD) is permitted to communicate with only an assigned full function device (FFD). The present invention allows each of the RFDs to communicate with another RFD upon the RFD determining that the local FFD assigned to the RFD is inoperable or unable... Agent: Joseph D. Kuborn Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20090040986 - Method of recovering communication access in dynamic spectrum access wireless systems: A wireless system and method including a medium access control (MAC) layer adapted to recover service in restricted channels.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090040990 - Systems and methods for avoiding avalanche effect in coexisting wireless networks: Systems and methods for avoiding access point transmission rate fall-back mechanism having an avalanche effect when acknowledgements are not received for packets sent during co-existence of WLAN and other wireless network technologies. A receiver comprises at least two dissimilar network technology subsystems. In some embodiments, a transmitter transmits a handshake... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090040991 - Wireless communication device and wireless communication method: An object of the present invention is to realize a distributed autonomous transmission scheduling by using a terminal without the need to observe packets in relation to communication of other wireless terminals in a cell, such as VoIP, in which a plurality of wireless terminals that periodically transmit packets exist,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090040996 - Methods and apparatus for supporting multiple communications modes of operation: Methods and apparatus for supporting multiple modes of communication operation, e.g., with different parameters and/or frequency bands being used in the different modes of operation are described. One or more adjustments are made based on a signal or signals received in a first frequency band from a second communications device,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090041001 - Apparatus and method for moving a receive window in a radio access network: A method of moving a receiving window in a wireless mobile communication system, wherein the AM RLC of the transmitting side sends information of the last discarded SDU regardless of continuity of the discarded SDUs. The AM RLC of the receiving side checks whether all SDUs from the start point... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090040997 - Broadcasting receiver and broadcast signal processing method: A digital broadcasting system which is robust against an error when mobile service data is transmitted and a method of processing data are disclosed. The mobile service data is subjected to an additional coding process and the coded mobile service data is transmitted. Accordingly, it is possible to cope with... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090041000 - Communication apparatus, transmitting method and receiving method: A communication apparatus that performs receiving processing of data transmitted at timings of a predetermined interval, the communication apparatus having a transmitting unit configured to transmit a signal indicating that a data is successfully received when the data transmitted at Mth timing according to the predetermined interval is successfully received... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090041002 - Estimation of interference variation caused by the addition or deletion of a connection: A method for determining whether a connection event between a base station and a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) should be accepted or rejected, comprises measuring the interference level I0 in a candidate timeslot; measuring the path loss L between the base station and the WTRU; measuring the total transmit power... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090040998 - Method of transmitting channel information in wireless communication system: A method of transmitting channel information in a wireless communication system includes generating a channel quality indicator (CQI) including a channel variation indicating temporal changes in downlink channel condition, and transmitting the CQI through an uplink physical channel. Since a modulation and coding scheme is determined by considering changes in... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090040999 - Method of transmitting control information in wireless communication system: A method of transmitting control information in a wireless communication system includes configuring a burst including data symbols and a midamble and transmitting the burst through an uplink shared channel. The data symbols and the midamble carry the same control information. Even if control information is transmitted on an uplink... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090041003 - Synchronization of distributed networks: A system (400), apparatus (300), and method (100) are provided to synchronize distributed (otherwise uncoordinated) networks (400) of independent nodes (401i). Such synchronization can be used in a number of different ways. In the context of cognitive radios, such synchronization can be used to synchronize quiet periods. Quiet periods are... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090041010 - Communication diversion with a globally routable user agent uniform resource identifier system and method: A method for diverting a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message is provided. The method includes using at least one Globally Routable User Agent Uniform Resource Identifier (GRUU) to determine a recipient to which the SIP message is diverted, and concealing an identity present in the SIP message.... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090041008 - Hpna hub: Analog HPNA hub including at least one group of coils, the coils inducing HPNA signals there between, a plurality of filters, each of the filters coupled with a respective one of the coils and further coupled, via respective telephone wiring, with at least a respective HPNA node, wherein each of... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090041004 - Inline power system and method for network communications: An adapter and method for coupling an inline powered communications device to a primary network and to a secondary network, the communications device configured for having an assigned device identification and configurable for using an assigned network address for use in routing data over at least one of the networks.... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20090041009 - Ip telephone terminal, ip telephone system and recording medium: An IP telephone terminal outputs a call request for communication with a prescribed terminal and, if it is determined that connection failed, records the input voice. Thereafter, the IP telephone terminal determines that the prescribed telephone terminal has reached a state connectable through IP network, outputs a call request for... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090041007 - Method and system for obtaining internet radio resources based on session initiation protocol: A method for obtaining Internet radio resources based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is adapted for use between an administrator server and at least one client terminal. The method includes the following steps: (a) enabling the client terminal and the administrator server to set up a tunnel based on the... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20090041006 - Method and system for providing internet key exchange: In a method and system for providing Internet Key Exchange (IKE) during a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) signaling session, the method includes: enabling a caller end node device to send a first SIP request message to a callee end node device, wherein the first SIP request message includes a payload... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090041005 - Method for activating an internet telephony hardware device: Systems and methods for activating an Internet telephony hardware device that is pre-configured with connection information are described. One embodiment of the method of the invention for activating an Internet telephony hardware device (40) for use with a predetermined Internet telephony service provider (30), the Internet telephony hardware device (40)... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20090041011 - Lawful interception of broadband data traffic: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for lawfully intercepting broadband data traffic. According to one aspect, a method for intercepting data traffic in a dedicated enterprise network comprising a range of contiguous Internet Protocol (IP) addresses is provided. According to the method, a plurality of provider edge (PE) routers and... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20090041012 - Method and system for automatically tracking the rerouting of logical circuit data in a data network: A method and system are provided for tracking the rerouting of logical circuit data in a data network. A disclosed example method involves updating reroute information in response to a dropped packet associated with a quality of service parameter having been exceeded. Transmitted data is rerouted to at least one... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090041013 - Dynamically assigning a policy for a communication session: In one embodiment, assigning a policy to a communication session includes facilitating the communication session for an endpoint. Policy data is determined from one or more messages communicated subsequent to communication of a request message requesting a service for the endpoint. A policy is assigned to the communication session in... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090041017 - Hash lookup table method and apparatus: A method includes generating an N-bit generated hash key for an M-bit search key. A data value associated with a matching hash key stored in a content addressable memory is retrieved. The matching hash key is then validated. The content addressable memory supports 2k entries, wherein M>N>k.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090041015 - Method for allocating data packet transmission among multiple links of a network, and network device and computer program product implementing the method: A method for intelligently distributing packets of a data stream to multiple links of a network for simultaneous transmission via the multiple links, and for periodically re-allocating the distribution, achieves higher network throughput. The method has particular application for streaming audio-video traffic on a home local area network that has... Agent: Thomas R. Berthold

20090041016 - Method, system and device to track and record user call experience: A computer-implemented method, system, and device are described for managing user call experiences in a packet network. User devices are grouped into network clusters. A network infrastructure device receives objective quality information for calls on a packet network for each user device in a network cluster in the packet network.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090041019 - Multi-protocol label switching: A multi-protocol label switching network or domain (1), and method of operating the same. Label switching control paths are established for forwarding control packets between routers (E1-E4, C1-C6) according to control labels assigned to the control packets by a label assignment server (2). Control labels are assigned by assigning a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090041014 - Obtaining information from tunnel layers of a packet at a midpoint: In one embodiment, a midpoint obtains information from packets by monitoring a communication session between a subscriber side endpoint and a network side provider. The communication session involves a packet flow comprising one or more packets, where a packet comprises tunnel layers. The midpoint establishes one or more target layers... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090041018 - System and method for configuring and executing communication diversion with a globally routable user agent uniform resource identifier: A method for diverting a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message is provided. The method includes using at least one Globally Routable User Agent Uniform Resource Identifier (GRUU) to determine a recipient to which the SIP message is diverted.... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090041020 - Clock management between two endpoints: Clock correlation can be achieved, for example, utilizing the RTP stream between a sender and receiver by determining a baseline at the start of, for example, a communication. This baseline is derived as a point in time from an arriving packet and represents a point from which subsequent packets deviate.... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20090041021 - Method and computer program product for compressing time-multiplexed data and for estimating a frame structure of time-multiplexed data: A method and computer program product are provided for compressing and, in turn, for estimating the frame structure of time-multiplexed data. The time-multiplexed data may be received without an indication of the frame structure for the time-multiplexed data. As such, the frame structure of the time-multiplexed data may be estimated... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20090041022 - Frame relay switched data service: A new type of data transport service which uses a frame relay layer 2 data link connection identifier (DLCI) to select among various service types, feature sets, and/or closed user groups (CUGs). A layer 3 address may be extracted from a layer 2 frame, and the layer 3 address information... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.,

20090041026 - System for configuring network elements: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network policy manager having a controller element to provision one or more network elements in a communication system with at least one base policy template and at least one atomic policy template retrieved from one or... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090041023 - Method and apparatus for interworking vpls and ethernet networks: To allow seamless interworking between an 802.1ah service instance (ISID) and a VPLS service instance, the AGI value used to signal the setup of the pseudowire portion of the VPLS may carry the ISID value of an associated 802.1ah service instance. This allows the service instance to be identified end-to-end... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras, LLP Attn: John C. Gorecki

20090041024 - Supporting a transmission and a reception of data packets: In order to enable a more efficient use of an available transmission capacity, a transmitting device (10) assigns at least one identifier in common to at least two receiving devices (20, 30, 40). Further, it signals the at least one identifier to each of the receiving devices. A receiving device... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090041025 - Router and method for refreshing quality of service reservation: A method and an associated router in first administrative domain of a telecommunications network wherein the first administrative domain comprises a first end point associated to a reservation for a session transiting through the router between the first end point and a second end point in a second administrative domain.... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090041027 - Layer 2/layer 3 interworking via internal virtual uni: A multi service platform having multiple layer switching includes a layer two switching component disposed within an enclosure of the multi service platform. A layer three switching component is disposed within and integrated together with the layer two switching component within the enclosure of the multi service platform. A connection,... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090041028 - Method and device for reconstructing a data clock from asynchronously transmitted data packets: For reconstructing a data clock from asynchronously transmitted data packets, a control loop is provided which includes a controlled oscillator. An input signal of the control loop is generated on the basis of the received data packets. At least one high-pass type filter is provided in a signal path of... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20090041029 - Method and system for managing traffic in fibre channel systems: Method and system for routing fibre channel frames using a fibre channel switch element is provided. The method includes, inserting a time stamp value in a fibre channel frame that is received at a receive segment of the fibre channel switch element; determining if a timeout occurs after a frame... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20090041031 - Converter and communication control method: A converter for connecting its ATM network with other ATM networks through a LAN, which is provided with an address translation table storing external VPIs, internal VPIs uniquely assigned to the LAN, and opposing MAC addresses for opposing converters in correspondence and a processing unit for performing control for transmitting,... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090041030 - Method for providing content service based on virtual channel in disk media playback apparatus: A method for providing a content service based on a virtual channel in a disk media playback apparatus is disclosed. In accordance with the method of the present invention, an open content service is provided using the disk media playback apparatus to overcome drawbacks of a closed broadcasting service and... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090041033 - Fitness based routing: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for fitness based routing. Embodiments of the invention significantly improve the likelihood that routing nodes contained in routing table have adequate (or even relatively increased) ability to transfer and process messages in an overlay network. Thus, when the node... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090041035 - Information communication system, information communication method, node device included in information communication system and recording medium recording information processing program: The above problem is solved with the information communication system formed by participation of a plurality of node devices mutually connected through the communication network, wherein a node device having a memory means for memorizing an IP address indicative of the specific node device of one or more, and an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090041032 - Method and a node device for transferring a message based on traffic engineering tunnels: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a node device for transferring a message based on MPLS TE tunnels. The main principle of the embodiments is to determine a switching node at which MPLS TE tunnel switching is needed, and to set routing and forwarding information for tunnel... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090041034 - Method and system for characterizing heterogeneous communication nodes: A method of sending data between heterogeneous nodes. The method includes a step of inserting a type indicator into a message (RE(1), I(1)) sent by a user agent in one of said nodes before setting up a communications session between said nodes, said type indicator representing the type of address... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090041044 - method or apparatus for distributing routing information in networks: A method and apparatus is disclosed for distributing routing information between nodes in networks in which routing parameters from subnets are carried in the internal gateway protocol for use in routing decisions in an external gateway protocol.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090041041 - Aircraft data link network routing: A method for routing aircraft data link messages over a plurality of communications networks is disclosed. The method assigns at least one data link message routing service for an aircraft having a first message processing application based on prescribed criteria, the prescribed criteria comprising preferred networks of the plurality of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090041037 - Border router with selective filtering of link state advertisements: An example embodiment of the present invention provides a process relating to the selective filtering of an LSA at a not-so-stubby-sub-area (NSSSA) border router. In one embodiment, the border router receives an LSA from another router inside the NSSSA, which might be in the access layer of the hierarchical network... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20090041043 - Communication system, switching node computer and method for determining a control node: A first communications network and a second communications network are part of a communications system that includes at least one communications terminal and an interface computer, coupled to the first communications network, for mapping a data stream between the at least one communications terminal and the first communications network. The... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090041040 - Hybrid time triggered architecture for dual lane control systems: A network for a dual lane control system is provided. The network comprises at least one hub for a first channel and at least one hub for a second channel. A first plurality of end nodes is in a first lane. Each of the first plurality of end nodes is... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090041036 - Maintaining a content category cache at a gateway on a data path: Maintaining a content category cache includes storing the content category cache at a gateway. The content category cache includes content category mappings, where a content category mapping associates content with one or more categories describing the content. A request requesting content for a user is received. One or more categories... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090041039 - Method and device for routing mesh network traffic: A method and device for routing to a non-mesh network a first data flow received at a first mesh gateway via a wireless link as provided improves network efficiency. According to one aspect, the method includes determining that available bandwidth of a backhaul link to the non-mesh network through the... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090041038 - Scalable virtual private local area network service: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a data link layer packet, such as an Ethernet packet, at a local provider edge node in a provider network from a first customer edge node of multiple customer edge nodes connected directly to the local provider edge node. A tunnel data packet... Agent: Eugene Molinelli Evans & Molinelli LLC

20090041042 - System and method for adjusting compression for computing clients based on a latency level: A system and method for adjusting a level of compression for endpoint devices. Endpoint devices in a network can stream audio/video traffic over a network. Such a connection between the endpoint devices can be reserved with guarantees of latency being obtained. Latency guarantees across multiple intermediary switches can be used... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20090041045 - System and method for providing multicast/broadcast services in a wireless network: A method for allocating a multicast connection identifier (MCID) to a new multicast/broadcast service (MBS) provided in a wireless network including a plurality of base stations. The method includes: calculating, for a new MBS zone and existing MBS zones, coverage area ratios each based on information regarding the new MBS... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090041046 - High performance ethernet netrworking utilizing existing fibre channel arbitrated loop hba technology: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a device which may be used for communication through an Ethernet network. The device may comprise two modules. A first module may be based on an existing Fibre Channel arbitrated loop HBA technology. The second module may be configured to provide a... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090041047 - Test device and a test method: A test device and a test method, the test device comprising a bus controller for the transmission and reception of bus messages, the bus controller having a message memory for offering transmission data for bus messages, the message memory having a memory capacity for a bus message sequence with bus... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090041049 - Load balancing for communications within a multiprocessor computer system: In a system having a N output ports, wherein N is an integer greater than one, a method of distributing packets across the plurality of output ports. A packet having two or more fields is received and a first number is computed as a function of one or more of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090041048 - System and method for personal live television: A system comprising a receiver and a transmitter for sending and receiving audio-video datastreams through fixed IP addresses, which IP addresses are established upon initialization of the transmitter and receiver systems. The transmitter includes an audio-visual capture and encoding subsystems, and the receiver includes an audio-visual decoding and display subsystems.... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20090041050 - Adaptive medium access control for wireless communication system: A method is provided for adapting a contention window for a given node in a wireless communication system. The method includes: defining a target parameter indicative of congestion on a transmission medium; determining a number of transmitting nodes ready to access the transmission medium; and determining a contention window from... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090041051 - Enhanced communication network tap port aggregator arrangement and methods thereof: An arrangement in a network device for facilitating at least one of multiple connection speeds with a network, active response between a monitoring device and an end-device, and power over Ethernet (POE) over a network is provided. As a facilitator of multiple connection speeds, the arrangement includes a plurality of... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20090041052 - Systems and methods for providing unified collaboration systems with user selectable reply format: A communication system provides integrated email, telephone and instant messenger communication including a common address book, a common log of communication history and shared presence information. A user can respond to a communication according to any format, email, telephone or instant messenger, with a response using the same format or... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20090041053 - Time-offset regulated method and system for synchronization and rate control of media data: A method and a device for performing the method, are presented. According to the method at a step a reference time is received. At a further step an offset time using the reference time and a local time is computed. At another step a media data is received. At a... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20090041054 - Method of network communication, and node and system employing the same: A method of network communication includes employing a communication network protocol stack with a plurality of independent communication layers providing a plurality of different corresponding services. A plurality of circular communication buffers are employed. A buffer manager is employed for the circular communication buffers, the buffer manager being independent of... Agent: Martin J. Moran Eaton Electrical, Inc.

20090041055 - Radio apparatus, radio communication system, and radio information notification method: MAC entity produces a single PDU in such a way that two or more SDU's, which are received from RLC entity via logical channels, are integrated, and header H and MAC control information CONT are added. Transmission order information (time stamp TS) is added to the PDU. The PDU including... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090041056 - Radio transmission apparatus, radio receiving apparatus, radio communication apparatus, radio transmission method and radio receiving method: Instead of adding control information that should be passed on to two or more RLC entities or two or more PDCP entities on the counterpart side to data respectively in two or more RLC entities or two or more PDCP entities at the sending end, control information is added in... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090041057 - Performing a recovery action in response to a credit depletion notification: Provided are a method, system, and program for managing communication between a first device and a second device and performing a recovery action at the second device in response to a credit depletion notification from the first device. The second device assigns credits indicating a number of outstanding frames the... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090041058 - Network system and an interworking apparatus: An internetwork arrangement including: a prefix request unit for requesting an IPv6 address prefix from each of one or more first internetwork apparatuses; a prefix generation unit for generating a second prefix required to create an IPv6 address in the user apparatus utilizing a service, the second prefix having a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090041059 - Transmission and reception system and method based on code division: The code division (CDMA) transmission method includes the step of multiplying a signal (a) to be transmitted, represented by a vector, by a matrix (S), whose result is represented by a vector (x), said method being characterized in that: • taking a basic sequence with substantially-ideal periodic autocorrelation; • constructing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090041060 - Cross link multiplexer bus: A cross link multiplexer bus comprising a plurality of cross link multiplexers and a plurality of interconnects. The plurality of cross link multiplexers has a destination port configured to receive a signal and an origin port configured to produce the signal. The plurality of interconnects has a set of interconnects... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090034408 - Apparatus and method of reconstructing amplitude-clipped signal: A wireless data transmission apparatus which transmits a data stream via a plurality of antennas, the apparatus including: a coding unit which Space-Time block codes a first data stream into a plurality of second data streams, the plurality of second data streams being orthogonal to each other; an inverse Fourier... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090034407 - Receiver-site restoration of clipped signal peaks: A method, a computer program, a computer program product, a device and a system are shown for modulation symbol estimation, wherein a block of transmit modulation symbols is processed to obtain a transmit signal, wherein the transmit signal is transmitted over a transmission channel to obtain a receive signal, wherein... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090034409 - Circuit to provide backup telephone service for a multiple service access system using a twisted pair: A subscriber link to a central office which employs data compression, forward error correction, and advanced modulation techniques and to connect subscribers to multiple communications networks to provide an array of services. A device provides normal telephone service in the event of an equipment failure. At the subscriber end, a... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090034410 - Backup system and method for network data communications: A system and method for coupling a communications device to a primary communications network having a first communications format and to a secondary communications network having a second communications format, such that the communications device is configured for having an assigned device identification and configured for using an assigned network... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20090034411 - Automated diagnostics and troubleshooting mechanism for end-users and technicians: A method, apparatus, system, and computer-readable program, for operating a communication network that supports a plurality of types of communication services, such as video, voice, and data services. According to an example embodiment of the invention, the method includes detecting an operating condition affecting any of the communication services within... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090034412 - Packet ring network system, packet transfer system, redundancy node, and packet transfer program: In a ring network to which a plurality of nodes are connected, even though a failure occurs in a link between a node and a client apparatus (a user terminal) or a node itself, communication between the node and the client apparatus can be achieved. Nodes (105a) and (105b) are... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090034413 - Redundancy for point-to-multipoint and multipoint-to-multipoint ethernet virtual connections: A method and system for redundancy in Ethernet Virtual Connections (EVCs) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting continuity check messages from a node in an Ethernet Virtual Connection connecting at least one root node and a plurality of leaf nodes in a point-to-multipoint or multipoint-to-multipoint connection, identifying... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20090034414 - Communications network and management arbitrator: A method, information processing system, and network that expands safety network coverage for first responder safety within a building environment. Activity of at least one independent network (106) is monitored. The independent network (106) includes at least a safety network. An emergency signal is received from the at least one... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090034416 - Method for the transmission of data packets in a tunnel, corresponding computer program product, storage means and tunnel end-point: A method is proposed for the transmission of data packets in a tunnel interconnecting two sub-networks in order to form a general communications network, the tunnel being implemented between two tunnel end-points, each of the sub-networks comprising a distinct tunnel end-point among the tunnel end-points, the tunnel implementing at least... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090034415 - Wireless communications device: A wireless communication device (100) including a high-speed data buffer coupled to a first transceiver by a bus, and an application processor having a data buffer associated with the application processor. The associated data buffer is coupled to a high-speed data buffer and to a second transceiver by the bus,... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090034418 - Method and system of routing in a utility smart-grid network: A wireless network has a server that includes a server controller that controls the receipt and transmission of packets via a server radio. The server controller selects a route to nodes in the wireless network, and provides communication between the wireless network and at least one other network. A plurality... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090034419 - Method and system of routing in a utility smart-grid network: A wireless utility network contains a plurality of utility nodes that communicate within a wireless utility network. A gateway to the wireless utility network communicates with the utility nodes in the wireless utility network, and connects the wireless utility network to at least one other network. A packet is transmitted... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090034417 - Systems and methods for efficiently load balancing based on least connections: Systems and methods for load balancing services based on fewest connections by decreasing granularity of service selection as a number of fewest connections serviced by the services increases may include establishing, by an appliance, a set of identifiers corresponding to a number of connections serviced by a service, the set... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090034420 - Method for the monitoring of transmissions of a bidirectional interface: A method for the monitoring of transmissions in a transmission branch of a bidirectional interface, which besides the transmission branch has a reception branch standing in connection with the transmission branch, has the steps a) sending out of information by means of the transmission branch, and b) evaluation of defined... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090034421 - Diagnosis apparatus: A method and diagnosis apparatus are provided. A velocity measuring section measures a bit length of communication carried out between nodes based upon a communication signal inputted from a communication bus. The measured bit length is input to a control section, which sets a bit length based upon input from... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090034422 - Atm protection system: A protection system for an ATM network (30) having a primary node (11,21) and a secondary node (12,13,14, 22) interconnected through an ATM transport capable network (30) of any topology. For each ATM (VPC/VCC) connection between the primary (11,21) and the secondary node (12, 13,14,22) this interconnecting network (30) makes... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090034423 - Automated detection of tcp anomalies: One embodiment relates to an automated method of detecting transmission control protocol (TCP) anomalies. A TCP connection is selected to be monitored. Packets communicated for the TCP connection are scanned in chronological order of packet communication times. A signature is created for the connection based on the scanned packets, and... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090034424 - Managing architecture and diagnostic method for remote configuration of heterogeneous local networks: Disclosed is a managing architecture and diagnostic method for remote configuration of heterogeneous local networks, which includes at least one sub-network agent, a local area network (LAN) management module and a remote LAN module. Each sub-network agent manages its sub-networks via its own management protocol, and collects the sub-networks' information.... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20090034425 - Call case controlled bler target setting: A method and system are disclosed for call case controlled block error rate (BLER) or bit error rate (BER) target setting in WCDMA and other CDMA technologies for Mobile to Mobile (MTM) and Mobile to Public Switched Telephone Network (MTPSTN) communication systems, whereby first an overall BLER/BER target value is... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090034428 - Method and system for providing qos for mobile internet service: Disclosed are a QoS (Quality of Service) providing system that manages service quality of a mobile Internet system, and an apparatus and method that apply QoS according to the class of a mobile Internet service provided over a mobile Internet network. The QoS providing system includes a service class table... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090034426 - Monitoring quality of experience on a per subscriber, per session basis: A system and method for monitoring quality of experience includes forwarding a data packet flow carrying content between first and second endpoints. The data packet flow is forwarded at an intermediate point between the first and second endpoints so that the first and second endpoints are communicatively coupled over one... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090034427 - Multiple-input multiple-output (mimo) communication method and apparatus using the same: A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication method and apparatus are provided. A MIMO communication apparatus includes a selected beamforming vector determining unit to determine a selected beamforming vector corresponding to a selected user, a performance information generating unit to generate performance information corresponding to where a non-selected beamforming vector is allocated... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090034429 - Packet communication apparatus and communication line quality analyzing method: A packet communication apparatus includes a test packet header generating section configured to generate a header in an enable state. A state machine sets the test packet header generating section to the enable state when a test packet transmission flag is set. An FCS (Frame Check Sequence) calculating section generates... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090034431 - Enterprise network architecture for implementing a virtual private network for wireless users by mapping wireless lans to ip tunnels: An enterprise network is provided which includes a central site, a network and a remote site communicatively coupled to the central site over the network. The central site includes a first termination device in communication with a restricted network segment including at least one server. The remote site includes an... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (symbol)

20090034430 - Infrastructure for mediation device to mediation device communication: Methods and apparatus for providing a mediation device infrastructure that allows a mobile node to be tapped while roaming among and within service providers are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes determining when a node that is tapped by a first mediation device has moved from a first domain... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20090034433 - Method for rebuilding an ad hoc network and the nodes thereof: The invention relates to a method for rebuilding an ad hoc network, in particular a ZigBee-type network consisting (A) in collecting data of the network nodes in terms of quality of connections and non-optimal network trees, (B) in calculating a current optimised structure, (D) in setting optimisation data and injecting... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090034432 - System and method of resource allocation within a communication system: A system and method of resource allocation within a communication system is provided. A communication system comprises a plurality of nodes operating in a first architecture network mode, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of nodes are reconfigured to operate in a second architecture network mode in response... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090034434 - Interior-node-disjoint multi-tree topology formation: A novel decentralized protocol for constructing a tree-based P2P live video streaming network with the Interior-Node-Disjoint (IND) multi-tree structure with the special Link-Level-Homogeneous property. The IND multi-tree structure recycles the wasted uploading capacities of leaf nodes in the tree-based P2P networks. The IND multi-tree structure also enhances the robustness of... Agent: Groover & Associates

20090034435 - Ip telephony network using a configuration map for organizing sites in a tree-like hierarchy: A system and method for managing an IP telephony network that uses a configuration map for organizing sites in a tree-like hierarchy. The system is capable of managing the addition, removal and movement of IP telephony elements within an IP telephony network and locating services and IP telephony elements within... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090034436 - Systems and methods of recording solution interface: Included are embodiments for providing an interface. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving communications data associated with a communications session, the communications session facilitated in an Internet Protocol environment and providing an interface for facilitating recording of at least a portion of the communications session, the interface... Agent: Lawrence A. Aaronson, P.C. Lawrence A. Aaronson

20090034437 - Apparatus and method for canceling interference in relay station in a communication system: A method and apparatus for canceling interference between a transmission signal and a received signal in a full-duplex RS in a communication system are provided, in which an RF/IF signal received from a first node through an antenna is converted to a baseband received signal, demodulated and decoded, a baseband... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090034438 - Method for establishing a parameterized wireless communication channel: A method for establishing a parameterized wireless communication channel comprises the steps of communicating physical profile data between a first communication (10) device and a second communication device (20), and configuring a parameterized wireless communication means (11, 21) in the first and second communication devices in accordance with the physical... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090034439 - Transceiver for bidirectional frequency division multiplexed: The present invention relates to a transceiver for bidirectional frequency division multiplexed transmission, a communication system including one or more transceivers. Optionally, the communication system is a communication system for a digital subscriber line. The transceiver comprises transmission means with a voltage source output or a current source output for... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090034441 - Apparatus and method supporting a redundancy-managing interface between wireless and wired networks: A wireless network includes a leaf node, which generates a data message. The data message is routed through infrastructure nodes to a gateway infrastructure node, which is coupled to a wired network. A wireless interface module is also coupled to the wired network and communicates with the gateway infrastructure node.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090034442 - Digital broadcasting system and data processing method: A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed, which are robust to error when mobile service data are transmitted. To this end, additional encoding is performed for the mobile service data, whereby it is possible to strongly cope with fast channel change while giving robustness to... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090034440 - Distributed network: Systems and methods for a distributed network are provided. In some embodiments, a method includes automatically transmitting a page message for a mobile station to access points in a paging group associated with a first access point, the page message having been received at the first access point, the first... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090034445 - Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in a wireless communication system is described. The monitoring of an access network is ceased by issuing a ControlChannelMAC.Deactivate command, a SharedSignallingMAC.Deactivate command and a ForwardTrafficChannelMAC.Deactivate command. Processing of resources is shut down to reduce power consumption.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20090034444 - Method for transitioning a wide area network modem of a mobile communication device between a power saving mode and a scan mode: A mobile communication device (102) includes a wide area network (WAN) modem (122) for communicating over a wireless WAN. During a voice call, the WAN modem operates in a power save mode (206) but must occasionally scan for handover candidate base stations (208). The modem goes directly from the power... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090034443 - Power saving idle mode algorithm for an access point: A wireless device operating as an access point (AP) uses an idle mode service and an idle mode mechanism to provide the capability of powering down during idle times. The client and the AP may share a cooperative idle mode mechanism to efficiently manage power for all devices operating in... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090034446 - Mobile ad-hoc network providing communication latency reduction features and related methods: A MANET may include a plurality of MANET nodes each comprising a wireless transceiver and a controller cooperating therewith for establishing a wireless communication link with an adjacent MANET node based upon a time division multiple access (TDMA) implementation. The TDMA implementation may use a repeating scheduling of a plurality... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090034447 - Method and apparatus for allocating peer-to-peer resource in relay-based wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for allocating a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) resource in a relay-based wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving relay link resource information, determining whether a current link is a multi-hop link by using the relay link resource information, and if the current link is the multi-hop... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090034448 - Mimo satellite system: A satellite communication system is disclosed that utilizes multiple antenna for subscriber terminals to process streams. A first node relays a first stream between the ground station and the subscriber terminals. A second node relays the second lower information rate signal to the subscriber terminals. Spatial relationships are used to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20090034449 - Finger manager for enhanced dedicated channel (e-dch) applications: A downlink channel receiver operable to implement finger management strategies with fractional dedicated physical channel (F-DPCH) and E-DCH processing within a Rake receiver structure is provided. The downlink channel receiver includes a receiver, a baseband processing block, and a WCDMA processing block, wherein F-DPCH and E-DCH processing is divided between... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090034454 - Hierarchical data collection network supporting packetized voice communications among wireless terminals and telephones: A packet-based, hierarchical communication system, arranged in a spanning tree configuration, is described in which wired and wireless communication networks exhibiting substantially different characteristics are employed in an overall scheme to link portable or mobile computing devices. The network accommodates real time voice transmission both through dedicated, scheduled bandwidth and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090034450 - Methods and devices for transmitting data to a mobile data processing unit: The invention concerns a method for transmitting data to a mobile data processing unit, the method comprising the steps of a. Receiving the data with a digital audio and/or television reception device (100), wherein the data are included in a transport stream of digital audio and/or television signals; b. extracting... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090034453 - Scramble code allocation method, a radio base station, a mobile station, and a mobile communications system: A scramble code allocation method used by mobile communications systems, and a base station and a mobile station that use the method are disclosed. The scramble code allocation method autonomously and optimally sets up a scramble code unique to a target base station. The method includes a step of generating... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090034451 - System and method for handling qos flows in a roaming scenario: A system and method for transmitting a packet in a network is described. The method includes establishing a session with a flow identifier between a mobile station and a roaming wireless access gateway via a radio access network. A communication link is established between a home wireless access gateway and... Agent: Utstarcom, Inc.

20090034452 - System level information for discontinuous reception, cell reselection and rach: A wireless transmit/receive unit is configured to receive system level information, including discontinuous reception (DRX) information, cell selection information, and RACH information. The system level information is received as defined parameters assigned to system information blocks or signaled through dedicated RRC signaling.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090034466 - Arrangement and method for extended control plane signalling in a high speed packet data communication: The present invention relates to a base station arrangement (20) in a communications system supporting high speed packet data communication, comprising a base station protocol entity for a protocol handling high speed control signalling and physical resource allocation for high speed data communication, quality handling means (27) adapted to receive... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090034456 - Communications systems: In a multi user communication system, subcarriers are allocated to subchannels using a quality measurement for each subchannel. An initial sub carrier is allocated to each subchannel, and a quality metric measured. Subsequent subcarriers are allocated in dependence upon the quality measurement for each subchannel. The subchannel with the lowest... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090034460 - Dynamic bandwidth allocation for multiple virtual macs: Communication bandwidth on a single physical interface (PHY) in a wireless device is allocated among multiple virtual media access control layers (MACs) based on need. Excess bandwidth may be aggregated in a single virtual. MAC for power savings.... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC

20090034457 - Dynamic channel-width allocation in wireless networks: Techniques for enhancing throughput capacity and/or bandwidth distribution fairness among APs in a wireless network are described. Specifically, a channel frequency profile which includes a center frequency and channel-width (i.e., channel bandwidth) is dynamically assigned to each of one or more APs in a wireless network. The assigned channel frequency... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20090034459 - Method and device for synchronization in wireless networks: A method and device are provided for synchronizing data transmission of multicasting/broadcasting services (MBS) by a plurality of Base Stations. The method disclosed comprises providing synchronization information to enable all of said plurality of Base Stations to start transmitting MBS data at a synchronized starting time point. Meanwhile, each of... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090034465 - Method and system for dimensioning scheduling assignments in a communication system: A system and method for performing Scheduling Assignments (SAs) for User Equipments (UEs) at a base station of a communication system by accounting for the different operating conditions UEs may experience or for the different data rates or data packet sizes UEs may require. This reduces a total size of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090034463 - Method and system for resource sharing: Systems and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism for resource sharing. In an embodiment, private informational content associated with a single user is accessed. Shared informational content associated with the single user and another user may also be accessed. The private informational content and the shared informational content are... Agent: Research In Motion Corp/slw Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090034458 - Method for scheduling orthogonally over multiple hops: Apparatus and method for providing a relay between uplink and downlink nodes. The relay is provided by simultaneously communicating with the uplink and downlink nodes on a common channel.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090034455 - Method of transmitting/receiving control information of data channel for enhanced uplink data transmission: A method of transmitting/receiving control information of a data channel for enhanced uplink data transmission is disclosed, by which efficient radio resource allocation is enabled. The present invention includes the acquiring control information of data channel for enhanced uplink data transmission; composing a Medium Access control (MAC) Protocol Data Unit... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090034461 - Multiple input multiple output (mimo) mode optimization for low data rates services: A method and an apparatus are provided for efficient transmission of low-data-rate packet services in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) mode of operations in the presence of high-data-rate packet services. Precoding weight information (PWI) is signaled implicitly to a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU). A precoding weight vector is signaled in... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090034464 - Resource management method in wireless communication system: Provided is a resource management method in a communication system, and more particularly, a resource management method based on priority in a wireless communication system. The resource management method in a wireless management network includes: setting a priority factor value with regard to a link flow for which link establishment... Agent: Perman & Green

20090034462 - Tbf bi-directional optimization for tcp: In a data communication network a first and second network site, communicate by sending a first data transmission from the first network site to a second network site and by sending a second data transmission from said second network site to said first network site. Data transmission characteristics of said... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090034467 - Allocation of periodically distributed frames of wireless communication: Methods of allocating a plurality of periodically distributed frames of communication between a first wireless transceiver and a second wireless transceiver are disclosed. One method includes detecting periodic data for transmission between the wireless base station and the wireless mobile unit. A transmission map that maps frequency and time slots... Agent: Beceem Communications, Inc.

20090034468 - Time-sharing of sounding resources: This invention is a method for time-sharing sounding resources. A first embodiment defines one common sounding period for all user equipment and all sounding resources. A second embodiment allows for different sounding periods so long as each individual sounding resource uses only one sounding period. A third embodiment offers the... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090034470 - Forwarding broadcast/multicast data when wireless clients layer 3 roam across ip subnets in a wlan: In a network comprising a first subnet comprising a first WLAN associated with a home wireless switch a second subnet comprising a second WLAN associated with a first current wireless switch and a third subnet comprising a third WLAN associated with a second current wireless switch, methods are provided for... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (symbol)

20090034478 - Method and apparatus for distributing data to a mobile device using plural access points: A system and method for providing connectivity between mobile devices and access points of a network without redundant solicitation of communication by the mobile device at each access point is described. The method involves receiving a data packet at a first access point in a control group; transmitting the data... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090034474 - Method and apparatus for dynamic adjustment of uplink transmission time: Systems and methods for dynamically adjusting the transmission time interval (TTI) for a communications system are presented. The described aspects provide for dynamically adjusting the TTI in a communication session between a base station or nodeB and a wireless device or user equipment between a shorter TTI, which can provide... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090034471 - Method and system for handoff between wireless networks: A method and system for operating a standalone client in a dual-mode mobile communications device to hand off a call between first and second wireless networks operating under different communications protocols, using SIP and ISUP signaling.... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20090034469 - Method and system for searching target cell by using multimode-multiband terminal in mobile communication environment: Disclosed is a method for searching for a target cell by using a multimode-multiband terminal in mobile communication environments, in which a mobile communication system improves a handover success rate and communication quality by reducing time required for searching for the target cell, the mobile communication system including a CDMA-2000... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090034473 - Mobile communication system using mobile terminal and handover control method: A mobile communication system includes a plurality of base station apparatuses; and a mobile terminal configured to perform HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) communication between the mobile terminal and the plurality of base station apparatuses. The mobile terminal has a receiving section configured to receive HS-SCCH (High Speed Shared... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090034476 - Packet data convergence protocol procedures: Method and an apparatus for activating a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) reordering in a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) which receives a handover command message, resets a radio link control (RLC) entity of the WTRU, collects a PDCP sequence number (SN) and a range of the SN of out-of-sequence... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090034475 - Soft handoff using a multi-beam antenna system: A method for providing soft handoff between antennas in a multi-antenna system is provided according to some embodiments of the disclosure. A first packetized digital data stream may be received from a satellite using a first antenna and the data stream may include a plurality of packets that each include... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20090034472 - System and method for handing over sessions between networks: A system comprising a component to assign a unique session identifier to each of a plurality of sessions between a wireless device and a correspondent node.... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090034477 - Terminal device and method for use in media access communication system: Terminal devices F and G store statistical information related to interference from an external communication system, and notify the stored statistical information to a master station E. The master station E determines the terminal device G as a candidate station for a master station capability handover destination based on collected... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090034479 - Network system, control method, and gateway: To prevent a packet loss during hand over, provided is a network system including: a gateway coupled with a wired network; and at least two base stations coupled with the gateway over the wired network and providing a wireless access method, in which the gateway is configured to: calculate, for... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090034480 - Adaptive antenna system signal detection: A system and method for processing signals in a communication system is disclosed herein. The system and method comprises processing steps and processing logic for generating a downlink subframe comprising a preamble and a plurality of data bursts within a predetermined frequency band; embedding first and second sets of downlink... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP - Freescale

20090034488 - Base station apparatus and data retransmission method of the same: A base station apparatus of this invention includes a buffer (10) for temporarily storing data to be transmitted to a mobile station in a data queue (10-1 to 10-N) corresponding to the mobile station, and a controller (50) for performing control of retransmitting data whose retransmission is requested by a... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090034482 - Cell search operations using multibranch psync detection module: A wireless terminal is operable to receive a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) signal from a base station and includes clock circuitry, a wireless interface, and a Primary Synchronization (PSYNC) module. The clock circuitry generates a wireless terminal clock using a wireless terminal oscillator. The wireless interface receives the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090034481 - Code sequence transmission method, wireless communication system, transmitter, and receiver: A code sequence transmission method capable of improving system throughput and user throughput by improving power utilization efficiencies of a control channel and a data channel including a plurality of signals having different required qualities is provided. In a mobile station, a bit sequence of a TFCI is transmitted within... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090034487 - Harq process restriction and transmission of non-scheduled control data via uplink channels: The present invention relates to a method and mobile terminal for performing a data allocation process for scheduled data, non-scheduled user data and non-scheduled control data obeying restrictions on the resource utilization defined by a scheduling grant and at least one non-scheduled grant. Further, the invention relates to a method... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090034485 - Method and apparatus for improving continuous packet connectivity in a wireless communications system: A method of improving CPC for a UE in a wireless communications system includes receiving a reconfiguration message, determining the content of a second information element, abbreviated to IE, included in a first IE when the first IE is included in the reconfiguration message, wherein the first IE is used... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090034483 - Methods for detecting acknowledgement channels using probabilities: A first transceiver determines whether a second transceiver has properly decoded at least one of a received data packet and control information associated with the corresponding data packet based on an estimated probability. The estimated probability is indicative of whether the second transceiver has properly decoded at least one of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090034484 - Synchronization channel noise power estimation: Apparatus and method to process a pilot channel and a synchronization channel to obtain a combined noise estimate of the pilot channel and the synchronization channel that is synchronized to the pilot channel. The combined noise estimation is processed to determine a first noise component for a period when both... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090034486 - Wireless base station, mobile station, wireless communication system, and wireless communication method: The wireless base station 10 includes a multiplexing units 13 generating user data; a channel assignment control unit 14 for selecting subcarrier groups from a plurality of subcarriers on two carriers, forming two wireless frames including subchannels generated from the subcarrier groups, and time-division multiplexes and sets the user data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090034490 - Generation of quality metrics using multibranch psync detection module: A wireless terminal is operable to receive a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) signal from a base station and includes clock circuitry, a wireless interface, and a Primary Synchronization (PSYNC) module. The clock circuitry generates a wireless terminal clock using a wireless terminal oscillator. The wireless interface receives the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090034489 - Long range scheduling for directional antenna manet networks: Method and apparatus for scheduling time division multiple access (TDMA) communications among a plurality of peer nodes arranged to form a wireless ad hoc mobile network. The peer nodes communicate with each other using directional antennas and a TDMA process. The method includes a scheduling process for scheduling at least... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20090034491 - Mobile ad-hoc network providing desired link delay offset without guard times and related methods: A MANET may include a plurality of MANET nodes each including a wireless transceiver, a position determining device, and a controller cooperating with the wireless transceiver and position determining device for establishing a wireless communication link with an adjacent MANET node based upon a time division multiple access (TDMA) implementation.... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090034499 - Method and apparatus for route optimisation in nested mobile-networks: The invention provides a method and apparatus for building a linked binding cache. The method includes storing mobile router entries in a binding cache. The mobile router entries include a first mobile router entry having a prefix and an indication of the prefix's length along with an associated intermediate address.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090034494 - Method for allocating a temporary address to a mobile node of a telecommunication system, equipment and programs for implementing same: The invention concerns a method wherein the mobile node (1) obtains respective temporary addresses with several access routers (3) of a telecommunication system detected by the mobile mode. It also collects data concerning the characteristics of said access routers, and transmits to a manager temporary addresses (6) of a mobility... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090034493 - Methods and apparatus for locationing based nat access in wireless networks: Methods and systems are provided for location-based network address translation (NAT). The system allows an administrator to logically partition an environment into a plurality of spatial regions. The method then includes specifying, for each of the spatial regions, whether network address translation (NAT) is allowed or not allowed for that... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090034496 - Packet data protocol context management method for a mobile station: A packet data protocol (PDP) context management method is provided. The PDP context management method enables a mobile station to manage the PDP contexts of networks integrally by evaluating PDP context capacities of the networks in a proactive manner. A packet service method of the present invention includes creating a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090034498 - Simultaneously maintaining bluetooth and 802.11 connections to increase data throughput: A device for wirelessly communicating between one or more mobile communication devices over a wireless network. A primary mobile communication device is configured to establish one or more connections to one or more secondary mobile communication devices. The primary mobile communication device is further configured to establish a first connection... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun, LLP (marvell)

20090034492 - Supporting idle stations in wireless distribution systems: Supporting idle stations in an IEEE 802.11 wireless distribution system. When a station in an IEEE 802.11 wireless distribution system (DS) enters the idle state, it is not associated with any access points (APs) in the DS, Prior to entering the idle state, a station may establish filters indicating what... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090034495 - System and method for facilitating a persistent application session with anonymity between a mobile host and a network host: System and method for facilitating a persistent application session with anonymity between a mobile host and a network host in a wireless communication environment. The system and method include establishing a first communication session between the mobile host and the network host through a first radio access point; receiving a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090034500 - System and method of unacknowledged network layer service access point identifier (nsapi) recovery in sub-network dependent convergence protocol (sndcp) communication: A system and method of unacknowledged Network Layer Service Access Point Identifier (NSAPI) recovery in Sub-Network Dependent Convergence Protocol (SNDCP) communication are disclosed herein. The disclosed techniques prevent the loss of data which may result from changing between GPRS/GSM modes in a Class B mobile station (MS).... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090034497 - Wireless communication system, wireless terminal and wireless base station: If a WiMAX base station cannot receive a ranging signal from a WiMAX-embedded wireless terminal or if adjustment is not completed even after the WiMAX-embedded wireless terminal adjusts a parameter depending on adjusted value information for a pre-determined number of times, negotiation is performed via a heterogeneous network to establish... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090034502 - Firmware processing for downlink f-dpch: A downlink channel receiver operable to implement fractional dedicated physical channel (F-DPCH) processing within a Rake receiver structure is provided. The downlink channel receiver includes a receiver, a baseband processing block, a WCDMA processing block, wherein F-DPCH processing is divided between a plurality of hardware processing blocks and a plurality... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090034501 - Multiple antenna servicing by multibranch psync detection module: A wireless terminal is operable to receive a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) signal from a base station and includes clock circuitry, a wireless interface, and a Primary Synchronization (PSYNC) module. The clock circuitry generates a wireless terminal clock using a wireless terminal oscillator. The wireless interface receives the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090034504 - High-frequency component: A high-frequency component includes a diplexer in which a high-pass filter and a low-pass filter are connected in parallel with an antenna port, a high-frequency circuit cascade-connected to the high-pass filter, and a low-frequency circuit cascade-connected to the low-pass filter. A filter which causes an impedance mismatch to occur is... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090034503 - Receiver and reception method for estimating channel in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access system: A receiver and reception method for estimating a channel in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system is provided. The receiver includes a delay estimator for estimating, from a signal received from a transmitter through multipaths, at least one of an average time delay of the multipaths and a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090034505 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving different signal types in communication systems: A method and apparatus for multiplexing a reference signal from a User Equipment (UE), not having any other signal transmission in the respective Transmission Time Interval (TTI), with a reference signal from another UE also having data transmission in the respective TTI, or with the control signal and reference signal... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090034506 - Data burst communication techniques for use in increasing data throughput to mobile communication devices: Methods and apparatus for use in increasing data throughput to mobile stations in a wireless communication network, where data is communicated between mobile stations and the wireless network in a plurality of data bursts within time slots assigned to the mobile station. One illustrative method includes the acts of receiving,... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090034507 - High-speed uplink packet access (hsupa) cipher multiplexing engine: A combined data packing, cipher and multiplexing engine operable to support high speed uplink packet access (HS-UPA) within user equipment (UE) is provided. This combined cipher multiplexing engine includes a master port, a radio link control (RLC) data packer, and a cipher multiplexing processing module. The master port couples to... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090034508 - Method and apparatus for spectrum sharing between an incumbent communications system and a cognitive radio system: Efficient frequency spectrum sharing between at least one incumbent communication system(s) (102, 152) and at least one cognitive radio (CR) system (105) is provided. The incumbent system's system parameters and CR system's operational requirements are copied to a mirrored database (106B). The mirrored database (106B) is controlled by a either... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090034515 - Call setup request confirmation: At least one exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a method comprising receiving a call setup request, and automatically providing an indication that the call setup request is being processed. At least one exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a method comprising providing a call setup request to... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090034514 - Integrated mobile computing and telephony device and services: Disclosed is an integrated handheld computer and telephony system. Integration of the handheld computer and telephony system is at the physical and operational level. For example, the integrated handheld computer and telephony system physically integrates a handheld computer with a mobile (e.g., cellular) telephone. In addition, the handheld computer is... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090034513 - Internet based telephone line: A telephone service method that provides subscribers with the functionality of an extra telephone line during data/Internet sessions. Each subscriber has a unique telephone number Dns that can be dialed by anyone with access to the PSTN. When the Dns is dialed the call will be routed via the PSTN... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090034510 - Method and apparatus for securely transmitting lawfully intercepted voip data: A method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for transmitting intercepted VOIP data are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A VOIP call is intercepted in response to a lawful request for intercept by a law enforcement agency. VOIP data associated with the intercepted VOIP call is encrypted. The encryption may... Agent: Ip Department Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090034509 - Method and system for reducing upstream noise in a network using an active multiplexer: An active multiplexer contains a switching mechanism that connects one of a plurality of upstream links from corresponding nodes in a communication network to an upstream output based on information contained in a MAP. The MAP contains scheduling information of the next user stations, which are coupled to the nodes,... Agent: Arris International, Inc

20090034512 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for managing the flow of signaling traffic entering a signaling system 7 (ss7) based network: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for managing the flow of signaling traffic entering a signaling system 7 (SS7) based network having a plurality of gateways for connecting the SS7 network to a non-SS7 network are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for managing the flow of signaling traffic... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20090034511 - Technique for interconnecting circuit-switched and packet-switched domains: A technique for interconnecting circuit-switched (CS) and packet-switched (PS) domains enables network components (302) having a PS network access to make use of CS telephony services. A method embodiment of this technique comprises the steps of receiving PS control information according to a PS control protocol such as SIP, determining,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090034516 - Call transfer with multiple application servers in session initiation protocol-based network: Call transfer techniques between multiple application servers in a SIP-based network or other type of communication network are disclosed. In accordance with one example technique of the invention, it is assumed that a first call is established between a first user device and a second user device via a first... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090034517 - Advanced telecommunications router and crossbar switch controller: The invention relates to a crossbar switch controller including an input terminal configured to receive a set of service request signals from a set of virtual output queues each comprising a set of packets. The invention also includes a matrix circuit coupled to the input terminal and configured to represent... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC- Rmi

20090034521 - Apparatus, method, and program for validating user: Accuracy of user validation is improved without reducing user's convenience. When a authentication request packet is received from a terminal, when the authentication is successful based on a user ID and a password (affirmative in 34), an HTTP header and user-agent (UA) information are extracted from the packet and an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090034523 - Management of network quality of service: In one embodiment, a router is deployed on a local area network (LAN) in addition to any routers deployed on a wide area network (WAN) coupled with the LAN having the router. A service management device is coupled between the two routers. The service management device provides management processing, for... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090034525 - Method for transmitting layer 2 packet and access device thereof: A method for Layer 2 packet transmission is disclosed, where a corresponding relationship between packet attribute information and public MAC addresses is configured in an access device such that the access device could find a corresponding public MAC address in the corresponding relationship when receiving a packet from a user... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090034520 - Method, system and apparatus for reliably transmitting packets of an unreliable protocol: A method for reliably communicating unreliable protocol packets by encapsulating one or more unreliable protocol packets in a packet constructed according to a predefined format. The method further employs an acknowledgement mechanism whereby a receiver of packets acknowledges reception by responding with a packet containing information pertaining to received packets.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090034518 - Multiport switch for cascaded ethernet av device networking: A multiport switch for cascaded Ethernet audio/visual (AV) device networking. AV devices are configured with multiple external Ethernet ports and an internal port. These multiple Ethernet ports enable the AV devices to operate as a terminating AV device or as an intermediary switch. With this functionality, a cascading chain of... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20090034519 - Packet filterting by applying filter rules to a packet bytestream: A packet filtering method, system and article of manufacture are provided which include: employing an instruction set associated with a pseudo-machine in filtering packets received at a network interface card coupled to a host, wherein a set of instructions of the instruction set implements at least one byte-defined filter rule;... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesitti P.C.

20090034524 - System and method for transmitting real-time-critical and non-real-time-critical data in a distributed, industrial automation system: A system and a method provides both for a real-time-critical communication and a non-real-time-critical communication in a switched data network consisting of users and switching units, for example a distributed automation system, by means of a cyclic operation. In a so-called transmission cycle (12), there exists for all users and... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090034522 - Transporting fibre channel over ethernet: Methods and apparatus for the Transporting of Fibre Channel data over Ethernet are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, Fibre Channel data frame and primitive signals are transported over Ethernet instead of using the Fibre Channel FC-1 and FC-0 protocols. This allows less expensive Ethernet equipment and devices to... Agent: Giaccherini

20090034526 - Compressed medium access control (mac) header structure for mac overhead reduction in mobile worldwide interoperability for microwave access (wimax) systems: A packet data structure comprising a compressed medium access control (MAC) header structure capable of significantly reducing MAC header overhead for small payload applications, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and interactive gaming and to increase the capacity of such applications. In various implementations, the packet data structure may... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20090034531 - Host device interfacing with a point of deployment (pod) and a method of processing broadcast data: A host device interfacing with a point of deployment (POD) and method of processing broadcasting data are disclosed. An IP physical interface unit receives a frame including an internet protocol (IP) packet carrying broadcast data through a network modem. A routing engine routs the frame based on a destination information... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090034529 - Method and apparatus for routing packets via header-compression channels: Various embodiments are described for routing packets via header-compression channels. A communication device sends (12, 13) signaling to another device to establish packet classifiers for a first header-compression channel and a second channel, which may or may not be a header-compression channel. Having received (22, 23) this signaling, the other... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090034527 - Method of combating the sending of unsolicited voice information: A method of combating the sending of unsolicited information in a packet transmission network from a sending entity to a destination entity, the unsolicited information being of voice type and being sent during a call that includes a call set-up stage during which a call signaling message is transmitted in... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090034528 - Method of compressing and restoring ip packets transmitted through broadcast network: A method of compressing and restoring an Internet Protocol (IP) packet which is transmitted through a broadcast network is provided. According to the method, by using a characteristic of a transmission structure of a broadcast network, that is unlike ordinary packet switching communication networks, a field value that can be... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090034530 - Packet classification using modified range labels: A method and system for encoding a set of range labels for each parameter field in a packet classification key in such a way as to require preferably only a single entry per rule in a final processing stage of a packet classifier. Multiple rules are sorted accorded to their... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090034532 - Connection routing based on link utilization: A method and system for connection routing based on link utilization. A link utilization limit is accessed at a node of a network. The link utilization limit is compared to a utilization of a link coupled to the node. If the utilization of the link is greater than the link... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090034533 - System and method for providing link, node and pg policy based routing in pnni based atm networks: A system and method for providing link, node, and PG policy based routing in PNNI based ATM networks is disclosed. A computer implemented method signals and routes a call in the network. Upon detecting the call's arrival, its service request is accessed. Upon determining that the service request relates to... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090034534 - System and method for establishing and managing multimedia sessions between terminals: A source communication terminal includes a communication module that initiates a first communication with a first remote terminal via first Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystems (IMS) of a first IP network. The first communication includes X media components. The source communication terminal also includes a media transfer module that transfers... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20090034535 - Data communication apparatus, data communication method, program, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus functioning as a data communication apparatus determines whether data communication with another information processing apparatus in the same local network is carried out using a global network address. If it is determined that the data communication is carried out using a global network address, the information... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090034539 - Address assignment apparatus, address assignment method, and computer product: Upon receipt of a request to connect to an ad-hoc network from an external communication node, an address assigning unit obtains information on an IP address assigned to the external communication node. The address assigning unit determines whether the IP address is already used by any of communication nodes that... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090034536 - Method and system for localising users for services based on sip or h.323 protocols with dynamic ip address allocation: The aim of the invention is to localise a terminal (10) when accessing an IP service (15), by means of an access network (1, 2). To this end, a method for allocating an IP address to the terminal (10) is carried out, a database (8) memorises the IP address allocated... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090034542 - Method of operating a network: An Internet Protocol router device (10) for use in a data network comprising a plurality of nodes (10, 20, 30), wherein packets of data are sent from one node in the network to another on a hop by hop basis. The router includes: a data store (14) for storing a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090034541 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for routing traffic between nodes in a network that are connected by redundant links: A communications network is operated by providing a plurality of redundant links between a first network node and a second network node. A first identifier is associated with a first one of the plurality of redundant links and a second identifier is associated with a second one of the plurality... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090034538 - Node and control method thereof: According to an aspect of the embodiments, a node arranged on a ring network, for transmitting a frame from upstream to downstream, the ring network having a plurality of nodes capable of connecting a network apparatus, respectively, the node comprises: a detector for detecting the frame on the ring network;... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090034540 - System and method for streaming video on demand (vod) streams over a local network: A system and method for streaming numerous video on demand (VOD) streams over a network, such as a local area medium sized network on a vehicle such as an aircraft. The system and method that provides redundant and restricted paths for streaming numerous VOD streams while providing maximum bandwidth for... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090034537 - Temporal affinity-based routing of workloads: Techniques for routing client requests among a group of nodes offering a service are described. A coordinator determines that performance could be improved by using affinity-based routing. In one embodiment, the coordinator calculates a Time-to-Live (TTL) metric whereby clients benefit by returning to the same cache and posts this hint... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090034545 - Multicasting: In one embodiment, a computer system comprises a multicast node to receive a multicast signal indicating a multicast content, in response to the multicast signal, apply a multicast notification signal to at least one remote client managed by the remote computing server, receive, from the at least one remote client,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090034543 - Operating system recovery across a network: A system comprises a first network device and a second network device coupled via a network to the first network device. The first network device initiates a recovery across the network of an operating system of the second network device.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090034546 - Packet routing control method and system: A wireless communication system downloads information from a file server quickly and efficiently by using multiple wireless communication paths. When a destination requests data from a file server through a wireless terminal, the wireless terminal generates an address translation rule that includes source, translation and destination addresses used to route... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090034544 - State-based communication station control system and method: State-based communication stations are capable of operating on two or more “states.” Principles of the present invention are used to allow the functionality that a multi-state communication station is equipped to change as a result of the current state of the station. The functionality of modern communication stations remains much... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20090034547 - Apparatus and method for setting timer and counter in mobile communication system: A method of setting a timer value and a counter value depending on Radio Signal Strength (RSS) information according to a communication protocol is provided. In the method of determining the counter value and the timer value of a Mobile Station (MS) in a protocol negotiation process includes measuring a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090034548 - Hardware queue management with distributed linking information: A network element including a processor with logic for managing packet queues by way of packet descriptor index values that are mapped to addresses in the memory space of the packet descriptors. A linking memory is implemented in the same integrated circuit as the processor, and has entries corresponding to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090034549 - Managing free packet descriptors in packet-based communications: A network element including a processor with logic for managing packet queues including a queue of free packet descriptors. Upon the transmission of a packet by a host application, the packet descriptor for the transmitted packet is added to the free packet descriptor queue. If the new free packet descriptor... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090034550 - Method and system for routing fibre channel frames: A method and system for transmitting frames using a fibre channel switch element is provided. The switch element includes a port having a receive segment and a transmit segment, wherein the fibre channel switch element determines if a port link has been reset; determines if a flush state has been... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20090034551 - System and method for receive queue provisioning: Systems and methods that provide receive queue provisioning are provided. In one embodiment, a communications system may include, for example, a first queue pair (QP), a second QP, a general pool and a resource manager. The first QP may be associated with a first connection and with at least one... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090034552 - In-home coexistence network: Systems and methods for dynamic allocation of network bandwidth. In some examples, a guaranteed interval period, including a guaranteed interval start time and guaranteed interval end time, can be identified based upon policy. Network stations can then identify first interval start times and first interval end times different than the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090034553 - System and article of manufacture for enabling communication between nodes: Provided are a system and article of manufacture performed at a local node to communicate with a remote node. A first communication protocol is used to communicate with the remote node to establish a connection for a second communication protocol. Data structures are created to enable communication with the remote... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090034554 - Adapted method for spectrum management of digital communication systems: Provided is a method of determining a spectrum management of digital communication systems having a plurality of communication lines by determination of the power levels within each band, for each user, assuming a predetermined maximum interference from other users. The spectral management center has a power allocation determinator for receiving... Agent: The Halvorson Law Firm

20090034555 - Apparatus and associated methodology of determining a transmission time per unit of a flow of data packets: o

20090034556 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data: The present invention relates to a digital broadcasting system for transmitting/receiving a digital broadcasting signal and a method of processing data. In one aspect of the present invention provides a method of processing data, the method including receiving a broadcasting signal in which mobile service data and main service data... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090034557 - Method and system for dynamic secured group communication: A system and method directed to carrying out dynamic secured group communication is provided. The method includes obtaining a first packet that includes a first header. The first header includes a first source address of a first source node of a first network, and a first destination address of a... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20090034558 - Method and system for detecting a presence and a start of a zone in a frame: The present invention provides methods and systems for detecting a start symbol of a second zone of a frame. One or more symbol indices corresponding to one or more symbols of the second zone of a frame are derived. One or more codes on pilot sub-carriers corresponding to the one... Agent: Beceem Communications, Inc.

20090034559 - Video apparatus having pvr function and control method thereof: A video apparatus having a personal video recorder (PVR) function and a control method thereof are provided. The video apparatus includes a counter which assigns a timestamp to a transport stream packet, a synchronization unit which extracts time information from the transport stream packet, compares the extracted time information with... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090034560 - Generating and operating a double temporal descriptor for transmitting a synchronizing signal in a packet network: The invention concerns device for transmitting packets in a packet communication network comprising at least two stations, including in particular means for generating a first temporal descriptor from a sampled value of a master counter, means for generating a second temporal descriptor from a sampled value of a second counter... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC