Multiplex communications inventions 03/09

20090080325 - Crosstalk cancellation using sliding filters: A crosstalk cancellation system and method is disclosed for use in a multi-channel communication system. Crosstalk which couples between channels is cancelled through use of an in-line FFE filter and in-line delay. A cross-connect system associated with each channel includes a cross-connect delay and cross-connect filter. The cross-connect system generates... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20090080326 - Rsvp-te enhancement for mpls-frr bandwidth optimization: RSVP-TE Enhancement for MPLS-FRR Bandwidth Optimization is a method of RSVP-TE protocol enhancement for optimizing network resources when FRR is protecting LSP traffic in a topology where the bypass LSP tunnel traverses the original previous hop(s) of the protected LSP. The node providing FRR protection, the PLR, will use the... Agent: Galasso & Associates, Lp

20090080327 - Mechanism and method for non-service affecting aps protection for mlppp bundles on routing systems: A method of non-service affecting APS protection for MLPPP bundles on routing systems, and associated mechanism, including one or more of the following: specifying a working MLPPP bundle and a protection MLPPP bundle; specifying MLPPP parameters; associating the working MLPPP bundle and the protection MLPPP bundle with an APS circuit;... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090080329 - Egress traffic management system for a data communications system: An egress traffic management system for a data communication system is disclosed. The egress traffic management system makes use of a hierarchical queue ID header paradigm that enables data packets to be directed for egress traffic management to either one of a plurality of assignable queues in a main egress... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090080330 - Method for selecting a determinator of priority to access a network: The present invention relates to technology for determining priority when an access to a network, e.g., UPnP-based home network is requested. An illustrative method according to the present invention sets one priority determinator among a plurality of determinators to default one, and asks the default priority determinator priority information on... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090080328 - System and method of communicating a media stream: In an embodiment, a method of allocating media streams includes measuring real-time port usage data related to each of a plurality of physical ports associated with a link aggregation group. The method further includes selecting at least one, but not all, of the plurality of physical ports based on the... Agent: Toler Law Group

20090080331 - Modeling packet traffic using an inverse leaky bucket: An apparatus, method, and computer program of modeling packet traffic in terms of Leaky Bucket parameters. The Leaky Bucket parameters are tested based on conformance of packet traffic. If a result of the testing is nonconformance of the packet traffic, one or more of the Leaky Bucket parameters is modified... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090080332 - Method and system for a fast drop recovery for a tcp connection: Methods and systems for a fast drop recovery for a TCP connection are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include a receiving device on a network receiving an out-of-order data. The receiving device may then signal to a transmitting device on the network, which sent the out-of-order packet, to enter... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090080333 - Method and device for providing an alternative backhaul portal in a mesh network: A method and device for providing an alternative backhaul portal at a mesh access point in a mesh network as provided enables improved backhaul services. The method includes processing a registration of the mesh access point as an alternative backhaul portal in the mesh network. It is then determined that... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090080334 - Method, system, and computer program product for adaptive congestion control on virtual lanes for data center ethernet architecture: Congestion is adaptively controlled in a data center Ethernet (DCE) network. Packets are received over at least one virtual lane in the DCE network. An absolute or relative packet arrival rate is computed over a time period. The absolute or relative packet arrival rate is compared to at least a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090080335 - Multiple packet routing system (mprs): A method and system for Multiple Packet Routing is disclosed. A first endpoint may be connected to a sound input/output device and a network. The first endpoint may be capable of breaking a call signal sent from the input/output device into a stream of packets and sending two or more... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20090080336 - Characterization of network path quality for network applications and services: A service for facilitating a determination of path quality between a first endpoint node and a second endpoint node in a network of nodes is provided. Path quality information is aggregated from across network internet service providers (ISPs), giving authorized endpoints access to path quality information for specified path segments... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090080337 - Method and systems for verifying a connection from a gateway to a network: There are disclosed methods and systems for verifying a connection between a subscriber station and a network wherein a gateway resides intermediate the subscriber station and the network. A method may include receiving instructions from a remote verification host. In response to the instructions, a tester may be introduced into... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20090080338 - Systems and methods for flow mirroring with network-scoped connection-oriented sink: Systems and methods for sinking port mirrored from one or more identified flows of data to any node in a network are provided. Moreover, the network is configured to convey the mirrored data to the sink, without the need for any facilities expressly dedicated for this purpose. The present invention... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20090080339 - Multicast-based inference of temporal delay characteristics in packet data networks: Disclosed are method and apparatus for characterizing the temporal delay characteristics of a packet data network by multicast-based inference. Multicast probes are transmitted from a source node to a plurality of receiver nodes, which record the delays of the multicast probes. From the aggregate data comprising recorded delays of the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090080340 - Multicast-based inference of temporal loss characteristics in packet data networks: Disclosed are method and apparatus for characterizing the temporal loss characteristics of a packet data network by multicast-based inference. Multicast probes are transmitted from a source node to a plurality of receiver nodes, which record the arrivals of the multicast probes. From the aggregate data comprising recorded arrivals of the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090080341 - Wireless communications device: A wireless communications device wirelessly communicates with a communication partner by allocating communication resource areas thereto on a communication resource area basis. The wireless communications device includes a receiving unit for receiving, from the communication partner, communication quality information parts of the communication resource areas allocated to the communication partner... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090080342 - Determining load measure for network element: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for determining (e.g., calculating) a load measure by a network element (e.g., Node B or any other network element) for optimizing information traffic in communication networks (e.g., wireless communication systems). This load measure may represent the amount... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090080344 - Method for configuring 1:n overlay multicast network of multicast agent in wireless lan environment and multicast agent therefor: A method of configuring a multicast agent and a 1:N overlay multicast network considering a wireless local area network (WLAN) environment of the same are provided. The method includes: a session manger generating a first database with entries of multicast agents subscribing to a session and multicast agents that have... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090080343 - Methods and systems for maintaining diversity for telecommunication services: Diversity among telecommunications circuits is maintained by analyzing factors including whether synchronization leads are shared by diverse circuits, whether violations of diversity are brought about by new orders that have been placed, and whether improper personnel have been assigned to monitor diverse circuits. Diversity is further maintained by reporting within... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090080345 - Efficient multipoint distribution tree construction for shortest path bridging: A telecommunications system includes a source node. The system includes a plurality of destination nodes. The system includes a network having links and end stations. The system includes a plurality of switches that create paths along links between the source nodes and the destination nodes where there is 100% efficiency... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Attorney At Law

20090080346 - Base-band ethernet over point-to-multipoint shared single conductor channel: A method for point-to-point ethernet communication over point-to-multipoint shared single conductor channel topology comprises transmitting an ethernet signal upstream over the point-to-multipoint topology from one end point of the topology to the root of the topology, transmitting the ethernet signal downstream over the point-to-multipoint topology from the root of the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090080348 - System for preventing unintended activation of a medical device by a portable remote control console: A network system prevents portable wireless remote control consoles from unintended activation of a medical device by determining if the console is located in a working space within a medical care room. Transceiver locator devices determine the position of the remote control consoles and send information to room control units... Agent: Flynn, Thiel, Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20090080347 - Wireless device and network system: When the destination node is the sixty sixth wireless device D66, the second wireless device D2 determines that there is no destination node among neighboring nodes based on the parent-and-child-node information of the first neighboring node information to transfer the data to the first wireless device D1 as a parent... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090080350 - Mobile radio network: A mobile radio network comprises a plurality of communication points, each of which are capable of communicating with any other communication point. Each communication point has a proximity sensor, a transmitter/receiver (14), which is able to send signals to and receive signals from the other communication points. Means for controlling... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090080349 - Power consumption management in a mimo transceiver and method for use therewith: A mobile communication device includes a first wireless transceiver that receives a first inbound RF signal and that transmits a first outbound RF signal based on a first power supply signal. A second wireless transceiver receives a second inbound RF signal and that transmits a second outbound RF signal based... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090080361 - De-registering a multicast group member from a multicast group within a wireless communications network: Aspects of de-registering a multicast group member from a multicast group within a wireless communications network are disclosed. An access terminal sends a first multicast registration message to an access network, with the first multicast registration message identifying a first set of multicast groups. The access network receives the first... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080365 - Generating multicast flow identifiers: Methods of generating multicast flow identifiers are provided. In an example, a multicast flow identifier (e.g., a broadcast multicast service (BCMCS) flow identifier (ID)) is generated, with the multicast flow identifier including a portion of a multicast Internet Protocol (IP) address and a portion of a port designation number, the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080356 - Managing acknowledgment transmissions from multicast group members of a multicast group within a wireless communications network: Aspects of managing acknowledgment transmissions from multicast group members of a multicast group within a wireless communications network are disclosed. An access network transmits an announce message announcing a multicast session to a plurality of access terminals. One of the plurality of access terminals (i.e., a first responder) sends a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080353 - Method and apparatus for transmitting multiple multicast communications over a wireless communication network: Apparatus and method for allocating bandwidth for multicast communications in a wireless communication network. The base station allocates certain bandwidth for handling multicast communications through a multicast communication channel. When a new multicast communication arrives, the base station assigns a predefined number of bandwidth to the multicast communication channel according... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080351 - Method of controlling data transmission for multimedia and broadcasting services in a broadband wireless access system: The present invention relates to a method of controlling data transmission for a multimedia and broadcasting service in a broadband wireless access system. As an aspect of the present invention, a base station receives feedback information including burst profile information with which a terminal can receive MBS data without errors... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090080363 - Mobility management within a wireless communications network: Aspects of mobility management within a wireless communications network including a plurality of sectors are disclosed. In an example, the wireless communications network includes a first cluster of sectors with at least one target sector and at least one supporting sector. The multicast communication session is carried within both the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080357 - Multicast messaging within a wireless communication system: Methods and systems for sending multicast messages are disclosed. A multicast message is received to be transmitted to a plurality of access terminals at a radio access network (RAN), the received multicast message having a first format. The first format may correspond to a conventional multicast message format. The RAN... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080354 - Multimedia broadcast multicast service providing system and method thereof: The present invention relates to a multi-media broadcast and multicast service (MBMS) providing system and a method thereof. The MBMS providing system provides an MBMS to a terminal having an MBMS function. The MBMS providing system includes a service center and a radio access network. The service center provides MBMS... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090080352 - Packet relay method and home agent: The present invention is to reduce consumption of band resources and delay in communication as a whole. A functional configuration of a home agent according to the present invention will be described as follows. A Mobile IP protocol process portion 902 has a function of receiving/transmitting a registration request message/registration... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090080360 - Reducing an occurrence of false grants for a multicast session within a wireless communications network: Aspects of reducing an occurrence of false grants for a multicast session within a wireless communications network are disclosed. For example, an access network receives an announce message to be transmitted to a plurality of access terminals, the received announce message configured to announce a given multicast session. The access... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080362 - Regulating broadcast overhead messages within a wireless communications network: Aspects of regulating broadcast overhead messages within a wireless communications network are disclosed. In an example, an access network periodically sends a message advertising an announced multicast session on each of a plurality of carriers, the message indicating that the announced multicast session is being carried on a target carrier... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080355 - Responding to an intractive multicast message within a wireless communication system: Wireless communication systems and methods of scheduling access terminal responses to an interactive multicast message are provided. A radio access network (RAN) generates an access control message (ACM), the ACM indicating feedback instructions for a plurality of access terminals (ATs) belonging to a given multicast group. The feedback instructions of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080364 - Supporting a multicast session within a wireless communications network: Methods of supporting a multicast session within a wireless communications network are provided. An access terminal adjusts a monitoring rate of a downlink control channel either (i) after transmitting a multicast registration message in a sector that is not supporting a given multicast session or (ii) after receiving an announce... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080358 - Terminating a multicast session within a wireless communications network: A wireless communication system and methods thereof are disclosed. A server (e.g., a push-to-talk (PTT) server) determines a multicast message to be a final multicast message for a multicast session having an indeterminate end time. The server inserts a flag into the multicast message, the inserted flag indicating that the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080359 - Tracking locations of multicast group members within a wireless communication system: Apparatuses and methods related to tracking locations of multicast group members within a wireless communication system are disclosed. An access terminal sends a group member report to an access network, the group member report indicating a location of the access terminal and at least one multicast group, the group member... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080366 - Method and system for alternate wireless channel selection for uplink and downlink data communication: A method and system for alternate wireless channel selection for uplink and downlink data communication, is provided. In a wireless communication network including a wireless relay node, a communication path is established via the relay node for transmission of the data. A wireless channel is selected as an uplink channel... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20090080368 - Method and apparatus for bi-directional data services and live television programming to mobile platforms: A system for bi-directional data content transfer between a plurality of mobile platforms, such as aircraft or cruise ships, and a ground-based control segment. The system includes the ground-based control segment, a space segment and a mobile system disposed on each mobile platform. The ground-based control segment includes an antenna... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20090080367 - Method and device for efficient dissemination of information in a satellite navigation system: A system and method for the efficient dissemination of information in a satellite navigation system is provided. The system includes a satellite system comprising a plurality of satellites, a network of observation stations for observing the signals of the satellites, one or more redundant central processing center(s) for evaluating the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090080372 - Base station device, and mobile station device: Provided are a base station device and a mobile station device, which can lighten a cell-search processing. The base station device (100) includes a frame constitution unit (130) for forming a frame, in which a pilot symbol multiplied by a base station scrambling code assigned to that device and a... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090080371 - Contextually-based local selective communications device: A local communications device comprises a station (9, 25) for communicating with mobile terminals (11) and a controller (3) for transmitting a message of the mobile terminal (11). The inventive device comprises a beacon (19, 21) interacting with a portable passive object (17) for obtaining at least one code word.... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090080374 - Method of creating and deleting service flow for robust header compression, and wireless communication system supporting the same: A method of creating a service flow for ROHC in a control station is disclosed, which can establishes a ROHC channel between ROHC entities, the method comprising obtaining a first ROHC parameter from a ROHC entity of the control station, upon receiving a subscriber profile to which ROHC is applied;... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090080370 - Methods and apparatus for home agent discovery in mobile ip using link state advertisements: In one embodiment, an apparatus receives an advertisement from each of one or more Home Agents, the advertisement including a first set of information associated with a corresponding one of the Home Agents, each advertisement being in a first protocol. The apparatus obtains the first set of information associated with... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090080373 - Multicast communications within a wireless communications network: Methods of providing multicast communications within a wireless communications network are provided. In an example, an access network forms a target sector group, the target sector group including at least one target sector from among a plurality of sectors, each target sector expected to have one or more access terminals... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080369 - Radio scheduler and data plane interface: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a MAC layer architecture for a base station may comprise a radio scheduler disposed in a control plane separate from the data plane modules of a data plane.... Agent: Cool Patent, P.C. C/o Cpa Global

20090080379 - Communication equipment: Communication equipment that allocates a communication resource region which is used for communication with equipment of a communicating party performs scheduling satisfactorily. A data classification unit classifies data, which is an object of communication in communication with equipment of a communicating party, into small-volume RTD, large-volume RTD, or nRTD. Based... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090080377 - Distributed channel management based on channel hopping in uncoordinated 802.11 based wlan: In accordance with the invention, a method includes i) obtaining first for each AP hopping sequences of other interfering APs; and ii) determining for the AP a respective hopping sequence that maximizes each APs throughput. Preferably, the step of determining comprises for each slot AP choosing a channel that minimizes... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090080375 - Method and apparatus for network wide adaptive resource allocation for ofdma/tdma networks: Another embodiment of the invention proposes resource sizing along with load balancing scheme. Resource sizing is defined as determining the size of the resources allocated for each Block. This is adaptable and can change over time according to topology. Another embodiment of the invention proposes a handover method for some... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20090080380 - Method of effectively transmitting radio resource allocation request in mobile communication system: A method allowing a terminal with data to be transmitted in an uplink direction to transmit a radio resource allocation request message to a base station by effectively using radio resource(s) to its maximum level is disclosed. In particular, the method allows the terminal to select a radio resource allocation... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090080378 - Methods and apparatus for rf channel switching in a multi-frequency network: Methods and apparatus for RF channel switching in a multi-frequency network. In an aspect, a method includes identifying a local area operations infrastructure (LOI) in the multi-frequency network, generating a channel description message that associates at least one descrambling sequence identifier with each RF channel associated with the LOI, respectively,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080376 - Power control and channel selection in a multi channel communication system: A method for allocating power and channels to connections in a multi-channel access based wireless communication system in which each connection is acting independently of the other. The quality of each channel of a connection is measured at successive time steps (n, n+1). The measurements from a previous time step... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090080382 - Method and apparatus for inter-technology handoff of a user equipment: In order to facilitate a handoff of a communication session between a legacy circuit switched network and a packet data network such as a 3GPP LTE, 3GPP2 UMB, or WiMAX network, which communication session is anchored in an IMS Voice Call Continuity Application Server (VCC AS), a Circuit Switched Proxy... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090080381 - Packet communication roaming method and system: A method of roaming in a packet communication system during a call is disclosed. The method of roaming has a scanning process and a connection process. During the scanning process, one or more available access points (AP's) are scanned-for. The one or more available AP's are prioritized into a prioritized... Agent: Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP

20090080383 - Symbol interleave for wireless communications: A receiver includes a plurality of de-spreading correlators that are programmed to only correlate a specific portion of the full spreading code according to an interleave factor. Each correlator may be associated with a different symbol. The received signal may be received at all correlators and is multiplied by a... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090080385 - Cell search method, forward link frame transmission method, apparatus using the same and forward link frame structure: Provided are a cell search method, a forward link frame transmission method, an apparatus using the methods, and a forward link frame structure in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing cellular system, wherein the time it takes to perform a cell search and the complexity of the cell search can be... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090080384 - Interference mitigation in a wireless communication system: Techniques for mitigating interference on the reverse link in a wireless communication system are described. Terminals interfering with one another and communicating with different sectors on the reverse link may be identified. The terminals may be scheduled in time intervals selected to mitigate interference. For example, each terminal may be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080386 - Interference management employing fractional time reuse: Interference that occurs during wireless communication may be managed through the use of fractional reuse and other techniques. In some aspects fractional reuse may relate to HARQ interlaces, portions of a timeslot, frequency spectrum, and spreading codes. Interference may be managed through the use of a transmit power profile and/or... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080392 - Communication terminal device and communication transmission method: A communication terminal device is provided. The communication device includes a control unit, a WLAN module, a WMAN module and a VoIP module. The control unit provides a drive module for driving the WLAN module, the WMAN module and the VoIP module, and provides a real-time kernel module for achieving... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090080398 - Hierarchical communication system providing intelligent data, program and processing migration: A 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. Copies of data, program code and processing resources are migrated from their source toward... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090080387 - Method and system for controlling operation of a communication network, related network and computer program product therefor: In a network wherein nodes request services adapted to be provided via a plurality of home agents, a system includes nodes configured for having associated a service identifier identifying a service requested by the at least one node, the system being configured for selecting the home agents to provide the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090080397 - Method of allocating resource region to reduce map overhead: A method of allocating a radio resource in a wireless access system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a control message associated with radio resource allocation for transmitting uplink data to the base station, wherein the control message comprises a first persistent uplink allocation information element comprising first resource allocation... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090080390 - Method of discovering devices located in different wireless networks: The invention discloses a method of discovering devices located in different wireless networks, a wireless network being built up for a device, wherein network is identified with a wireless network identification (Service Set Identification (SSID)) having an array for identifying device types, a correspondence between the array for identifying the... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090080389 - Method, system and a data frame for communication in a wireless communication system: A means for determining a channel for communication in a wireless communication system is provided. A method includes receiving one or more sub-frames of a beacon signal on a beaconing channel until a legitimacy condition of the beacon signal is met. The beacon signal is transmitted by a beaconing device.... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090080399 - Methods and apparatus for supporting proxy mobile ip registration in a wireless local area network: Methods and apparatus for enabling mobility of a node that does not support Mobile IP are disclosed. When an AP receives a data packet, the AP may compare the data packet (e.g., source address) with the AP information for one or more APs to determine whether to send a registration... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090080395 - Mobile communication system, base station device, and mobile communication method: In a mobile communication system including a plurality of communication terminals each equipped with a wireless communication device for performing wireless communication between the local station and the secondary station and a base station apparatus wirelessly connected to the plurality of communication terminals, the communication terminal comprises identification information regarding... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090080391 - Network interworking system and method for negotiating qos in network interworking system: A 3GPP-WLAN interworking system to which WLAN user equipment is accessed includes a WLAN access network including a WLAN access point, a 3GPP packet-switched service network including terminal equipment, a 3GPP core network connecting the WLAN access network and the 3GPP packet-switched service network, and a packet data gateway relaying... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090080400 - Radio gateway system and method for interfacing a radio system and an ip network: A radio gateway system and method for interfacing one or more radio systems and a packet network. The system comprises a plurality of gateways, each gateway including a radio interface port, a protocol converter and packet interface. The gateways convert audio and signaling from the radio system into packet signals... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090080396 - Selective review of bundled messages from a wireless communication device: A system, method, and computer device that allow a wireless communication device to selectively bundle messages in an access channel communication packet being sent to another computer device on the wireless communication network, such as a base station are disclosed. The bundled messages are typically sent in response to a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080394 - Wireless control system: The invention realizes a wireless control system capable of reducing loads on a wireless network and gateway nodes and improving reliability of the system. The wireless control system for collecting data from a plurality of wireless nodes constituting a wireless network to a supervisory node via gateway nodes, wherein said... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090080393 - Wireless data communication system: A communication system which includes first to third terminals which belong to a first network, and the first and the third terminals belong to a second network. The first terminal transmits a first packet generated by the first terminal to a second terminal through the first network. When the second... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090080388 - Wireless local area network and access point for a wireless local area network: Embodiments related to Wireless Local Area Networks and access points for a Wireless Local Area Network are described and depicted.... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag Patent Department

20090080401 - Flexible starting time scheduling algorithm for bitmap coexistence protection: A flexible start time (FST) scheduling algorithm operable at a base station is disclosed, to allocate resource in the time domain based on coexistence period bitmap (CBP) feedback gathered from multi-radio user terminals. The algorithm analyzes traffic load distribution in the wireless neighborhood and determines an optimum starting time of... Agent: Carrie A. Boone, P.C.

20090080402 - Wireless receiver: A wireless receiver receiving a signal from a wireless transmitter which includes a plurality of transmission antennas and transmits data to which first phase rotation for controlling the maximum delay time between the plurality of transmission antennas is added and pilot channels corresponding to the plurality of transmission antennas which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090080403 - Wireless lan data rate adaptation: A WLAN communication system and algorithm that adaptively changes the data transmission rate of a communication channel based on changing channel conditions. The WLAN communication system or algorithm has two modes being a searching mode and a transmission mode. Furthermore, the WLAN communication system or algorithm incorporates an additive increase,... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20090080404 - Active profile selection: In a network enabling a communication between different devices, a network element may receive an indication of an active profile for at least one device. The indication of the active profile may then be used as a criterion for an operation in the network element. Moreover, a device may use... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090080405 - Digital broadcasting system and data processing method in the digital broadcasting system: A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. In an aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides a data processing method including receiving a broadcast signal in which main service data and mobile service data are multiplexed, demodulating the received broadcast signal, outputting demodulation time... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090080407 - Secondary synchronization signal mapping: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmitter, a receiver and methods of operating a transmitter or a receiver. In one embodiment, the transmitter is for use with a base station and includes a primary module configured to provide a primary synchronization signal. The transmitter also includes a secondary mapping... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090080406 - System and method for multicast and broadcast synchronization in wireless access systems: In a method for multicast and broadcast synchronization a data payload frame is generated from a data payload. A frame number is assigned to the data payload frame, wherein the frame number includes a generating time of the data payload frame. The data payload frame is distributed to a plurality... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090080408 - Healthcare semantic interoperability platform: A system and method for efficiently linking local databases having different data formats or standards into a network, wherein a content based router is provided between each of the databases and a network “party line” bus and translates data from the respective database into a common canonical form or format... Agent: Client 21058 C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090080412 - Communication apparatus and communication control method: A communication apparatus for dividing voice data into a plurality of packets and transmitting the packets to a destination communication apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect one of predetermined events which are triggers of change processing of a packet division length used for the dividing, a determination unit... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greely, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090080413 - Ip telephone system: An Internet Protocol (IP) telephone has a constant impedance filter that is capable of being continuously attached to the physical layer of a computer chip in the IP telephone. The constant impedance filter is located outside the physical layer and is connected to a relay on the physical layer. The... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090080415 - Late frame recovery method: Method of processing a transmitted encoded media data stream is received. If a data element arrives prior to, or at, a predetermined playout deadline, the data element is decoded, the media represented by the decoded data element is played, and the data element is provided to a decoder state machine... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090080414 - Method of propogating multiple ip telephony routes, and a corresponding location server and computer program: A method is provided for propagating routes between a first location server of a first IP telephony domain and a second location server of a second IP telephony domain. The method includes the following stages: the first location server receives a first propagation message from at least one neighboring location... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090080409 - Method, computer program product and apparatus for providing non-intrusive voice over internet protocol (voip) monitoring and recording: An apparatus for non-intrusively monitoring and recording data (e.g., speech data) associated with a call(s) as well as addition and/or removal of a user(s) to/from a communication may include a processor capable of receiving speech data generated by a user of a device that subscribes to a network(s). The processor... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090080410 - Speech processing peripheral device and ip telephone system: There are provided with an IP telephone system having both convenience of the softphone and durability of the hardphone, and a speech processing peripheral device (10) for the IP telephone system. The speech processing peripheral device as a peripheral device of an information processing device (20) is connected to the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090080411 - System and method for providing carrier-independent voip communication: Systems and methods for seamlessly providing carrier-independent VoIP calls initiated using an existing carrier-issued telephone number are provided. In exemplary embodiments, the existing carrier-issued telephone number to be called is received. Subsequently, a status regarding if the existing carrier-issued telephone number is a registered telephone number stored in a carrier-independent... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090080416 - Mechanism for protecting h.323 networks for call set-up functions: In a network in which to set up a call to a called endpoint a calling endpoint sends (4) the called endpoint a call set-up message including a source information element identifying the calling endpoint and a destination information element identifying the called endpoint, the call is set up on... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090080421 - Data flow mirroring: A network switch having flow-mirroring capabilities. A first port is provided for communicating data items, each associated with a particular data flow, over a network. A number of data ports are switchably connected to the first port for enabling the data items to be communicated between the first port and... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20090080420 - Device and method to detect applications running on a local network for automatically performing the network address translation: The present invention concerns an interconnection device comprising a first interface to a first network, a second interface to a second network, routing means for routing a packet between the first interface and the second interface, means for detecting a device connected to the first network, the device comprising at... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090080422 - Header-compression packet processing method, mobile station, base station, and control station in wireless communication system: A header-compression packet processing method in a wireless communication system is disclosed, which can transmit a header-compression packet through a packet transmission path mapped to a service flow, the method comprising, when a service flow of a downlink packet is mapped to a header-compression transmission channel, obtaining a second packet... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090080417 - Method and system for data transmission between a local area network and a main network authorizing format adaptation of said data: In the event of an overload the invention automatically reduces the size of data packets in transit through the local area network without recourse to systematic and discriminatory elimination of a particular type of data.... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090080424 - Packet communication system with qos control function: A packet communication system of the present invention has first mode, second mode and third mode to apply to input packets. The first mode is a mode that decides priority of the packet by at least one of the address information and the application information, the second mode is a... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090080419 - Providing consistent manageability interface to a management controller for local and remote connections: Methods and apparatus relating to providing a manageability interface to a management controller for local and/or remote connections are described. In one embodiment, a network adapter of a host computing system may forward a packet transmitted by the host computing system to a management controller based on a determination that... Agent: Caven & Aghevli LLC C/o Cpa Global

20090080423 - Systems and methods for adaptively adjusting codec rates for communication networks: The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for adaptively controlling codec rates based on a quality of a communication link such that the codec rate used for data communicated over the communication link automatically changes as the quality of the communication link changes. In one exemplary embodiment, a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090080418 - Tunneling apparatus and tunnel frame sorting method and its program for use therein: The present invention provides a tunneling apparatus which can perform tunneling without requiring the network to be suspended or requiring the existing configuration of a local network to be modified. The frame sorting part 11 determines whether or not a frame input from a local network through a physical interface... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090080427 - Multicast accounting control system and broadband access server: A listening-or-viewing charge is differentiated with bit rates depending on distributed programs. A broadband access server for holding user channels by PPP and replicating and transferring multicast packets have a counter for counting the number of distributed multicast packets and the number of distributed bytes at each multicast group address.... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090080426 - System, method, and computer-readable medium for synchronizing multicast customized content to facilitate dslam complexity reduction: A method, computer readable medium, and system for advertisement and content distribution are provided. Supplementary content is synchronized with advertisement slots, or commercial intervals, of a program stream and distributed via separate multicast group addresses. The program content is distributed via an alternative multicast group address during commercial intervals. Ports... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20090080425 - Systems and methods for port mirroring with network-scoped connection-oriented sink: Systems and methods for sinking port mirrored data to any node in a network are provided. Moreover, the network is configured to convey the mirrored data to the sink, without the need for any facilities expressly dedicated for this purpose. The present invention removes the requirement to collocate the sink... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20090080431 - Edge devices for providing a transparent lan segment service and configuration such edge devices: A transport LAN segment service is provided over a transport network. The transport network will include edge devices configured to support one or more transparent LAN segments. Configuration is simplified by advertising TLS-port-label information, layer 2 address learning, and multicasting when the needed configuration information has not yet been learned... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20090080430 - 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 a method of processing a 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 transforms the frame to an IP... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090080429 - Packet-based processing system: A packet-based processing system suitable for various applications, such as for a base station or a terminal in a wireless communication system, is described. The packet-based processing system may include multiple processing modules and at least one transport module. The processing modules may send packets to one another via a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080428 - System and method for scalable switch fabric for computer network: A system and method are provided for processing storage commands between a host and a target. The system includes a first line card, a system card, and a second line card. The storage command that is issued from the host is received by the first line card. The first line... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20090080433 - Method and system for power consumption reduction by network devices as a function of network activity: A method and system may provide power consumption reduction by a network device. A device on a network and its components each may capable of operating in a low-power state and a high power state. The device may include a host to run an application and a network controller to... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090080432 - System and method for message sequencing in a broadband gateway: A system and method for message sequencing in a broadband gateway comprising a receiver to receive two or more messages, a data storage system to store the two or more messages, an identifier to identify a processing sequence for the two or more messages, and a retriever to retrieve the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090080436 - Protection of transit links in a network: A router identifies transit links and non-transit links. Only the non-transit links are advertised as routes to adjacent routers, thereby protecting the transit links from edge traffic which terminates on a network on one of the transit links. In another aspect of the invention, an administrative whitelist supplements the routes... Agent: Jay Chesavage

20090080437 - Service selection in a shared access network using virtual networks: The present invention discloses a method and architecture for enabling multiple services or service providers to share the facilities of an access network infrastructure that provides physical connectivity to subscribers.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090080435 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system: A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. A receiving system of the digital broadcasting system comprises a baseband processor, a management processor and a presentation processor. The baseband processor receives a broadcast signal including mobile service data and main service data, wherein the mobile service data... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090080434 - Ima automatic cell scrambling detection: IMA Automatic Cell Scrambling Detection is a method for automatic IMA cell scrambling detection and configuration. The preferred embodiment of the invention utilizes a method whereby upon detection of a LIF condition on an IMA link, the edge services extender card periodically toggles the configuration of ATM cell payload scrambling... Agent: Galasso & Associates, Lp

20090080438 - Method for accessing virtual private network, virtual private system, virtual private network and provider edge device thereof: A method for accessing VPN using PW Emulation Edge-to-Edge Virtual Leased Line includes: configuring a first PW ID in a first Provider Edge Device that hosts a VSI, and an IP address of a second Provider Edge Device that hosts a PW Emulation Edge-to-Edge Virtual Leased Line associated with the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090080442 - Conserving power in a multi-node environment: A coordinated mechanism to conserve power in a multi-node environment is disclosed. A multi-node environment may comprise multiple individual computer systems coupled by a network or, a shared memory architecture multiprocessors, or many-core computers. The power management features of the processor, platform elements, and the devices may be used to... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090080440 - Method and apparatus for establishing and managing diameter associations: The invention includes a method and apparatus for establishing DIAMETER associations between nodes of a network. The invention uses a DIAMETER application server disposed between DIAMETER nodes in order to establish DIAMETER associations between nodes and, further, to provide DIAMETER traffic load balancing using established associations. A method includes receiving... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20090080439 - Simple, reliable, correctionless communication mechanism: A server interconnect system includes a first server node operable to send and receive messages and a second server nodes operable to send and receive messages. The system further comprises a first interface unit in communication with the first server node and a second interface unit in communication with the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Sun / Stk

20090080441 - Traffic localization with proxy mobility: A method and nodes are provided for localizing traffic between communication nodes receiving service from a same network. A local mobility anchor informs media access gateways providing access to two communication nodes of each other's addresses. Traffic exchanged between the two communication nodes connected to the same network via these... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090080446 - Mechanism for efficient endpoint discriminator allocation for aps protected mlppp bundles on distributed routing systems: A mechanism and method for efficient endpoint discriminator allocation for APS protected MLPPP bundles on distributed routing systems, including one or more of the following: specifying working and protection MLPPP bundles; retrieving an endpoint discriminator for the working bundle and updating an endpoint discriminator of the protection bundle based on... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090080448 - Media streaming device with gateway functionality: Various methods and devices provide place shifting of a media stream to a remote device while also providing network functionality for a local area network (LAN) and/or a wide area network (WAN). The gateway includes a media interface for receiving audio/visual (A/V) signals from the media source, as well as... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (es)

20090080449 - Method and device for controlling media resources, method and system for establishing calls: The present invention discloses a media resource control method, including indicating source attributes of locally transmitted and/or received media to a first media gateway. An operation on source attributes of media can be performed concurrently with or separately from that on destination attributes of media. The invention further provides a... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090080447 - Relay device, communication system, communication method, and computer program: An IP address and a MAC address of each of communication devices connected to a plurality of communication ports provided in a switching hub device are associated in an ARP table. Also, priority information representing the communication priority of each communication device is received, and the received priority information is... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090080444 - System and method for message processing in a broadband gateway: A system and method for message processing in a broadband gateway comprising at least one receiver to receive one or more inbound messages, wherein the one or more inbound messages correspond to one or more senders, at least one module to process the one or more messages and to provide... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090080445 - System and method for message retry in a broadband gateway: A system and method for message retry in a broadband gateway comprising a receiver to receive one or more messages, a module to create an interface watch in the event one or more communications for processing the one or more messages cannot be established with one or more interfacing systems,... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090080443 - System and method for remotely administering and synchronizing a clustered group of access control panels: The present invention advantageously provides a system and method for remotely administering and synchronizing a clustered group of access control nodes using a gateway node. A device, such as a network browser, submits an update for one node of the cluster of nodes to a web server in the gateway... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090080450 - Method and apparatus for interaction among resource reservation protocol nodes: A RSVP node apparatus and interaction method thereof are provided. The method includes transmitting a first message to a neighboring node of a RSVP-based first node when the RSVP-based first node disables the RSVP HELLO mechanism. When the neighboring node receives the message, it sets a sign indicating that the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090080451 - Priority scheduling and admission control in a communication network: Techniques for performing priority scheduling and admission control in a communication network are described. In an aspect, data flows may be prioritized, and packets for data flows with progressively higher priority levels may be placed at points progressively closer to the head of a queue and may then experience progressively... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080452 - Packet processing apparatus and method codex: A packet processing apparatus and method are provided. The packet processing apparatus changes a size of an input packet, analyzes the input packet to perform a second layer associated process, generates basic delivery headers of the input packet, processes the input packet to which the basic delivery headers are inserted... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090080453 - Context aware ipv6 connection activation in a upnp remote access environment: Systems and methods are provided to achieve remote access for Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) devices with Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) connectivity. Local discovery messages are monitored and it is determined when UPnP devices join or leave a UPnP network. It is also determined whether the joining devices utilize... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090080454 - Signal generating apparatus and signal generation method: A signal generating apparatus, which is adapted for outputting a multicarrier signal where data are multiplexed with respect to a plurality of subcarriers, includes: a rotation sequence selection signal generator for generating a plurality of rotation sequence selection signal sequences which vary the phase relationship between subcarriers on the basis... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090080455 - Systems and methods for reducing data collisions in wireless network communications: The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for reducing data collisions in wireless networks. In one exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a node of a wireless network monitors traffic from at least one foreign network. The node attempts to identify patterns of communication in the foreign network.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090080456 - Token passing data transfer mechanism for reservation based protocols: Establishing communication between a first device and a second device participating in a reservation based communication protocol over a communication network and sharing the reservation to allow for data to be transmitted from both devices during the reservation.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20090080457 - System and method for resolving contention among applications requiring data connections between a mobile communications device and a wireless network: A mobile communications device (30) includes a wireless transceiver (34) operable to conduct at least two data connections between the mobile communications device (30) and a wireless network (12) wherein each of the data connections is associated with a connected application operating on the mobile communications device. A processor (32)... Agent: The Danamraj Law Group, P.C.

20090080458 - Host device, a point of deployment (pod), and a method of identifying an operation mode: A host device, a point of deployment (POD), and a method for recognizing an operation mode are disclosed. The host device interfaces with a point of deployment (POD), and checks an operation mode of the POD. The interface unit includes CD1#, CD2#, VS1#, VS2#, VPP1, VPP2, and ISIO16# ports. The... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090080459 - Long-reach ethernet for 1000base-t and 10gbase-t: A physical-layer device (PHY) having corresponding methods comprises: a data rate module to select a data rate divisor N, where N is at least one of a positive integer, or a real number greater than, or equal to, 1; and a PHY core comprising a PHY transmit module to transmit... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20090080461 - Frame alteration logic for network processors: Packet switching node in a communication system includes apparatus for receiving incoming information packets or frames which contain header portions with formatting control blocks. Information in the frame's header contains frame alteration commands for modifying the information in the frame. The modifications include adding new information, deleting information, and overlaying... Agent: Ibm Rp-rps Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090080460 - System and method for providing bandwidth signaling across cryptographic boundaries in a network: The use of Protocol Enhancing Proxies (PEPs) and HAIPE encryption has traditionally been mutually exclusive. IP-layer encryption renders the upper layers, such as TCP, unavailable to the PEP. By integrating the IP layer encryption into the modem and using additive or multiplicative increase and decrease signals as bandwidth notification, signaling... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20090080463 - Method, apparatus and system for detecting sequence number of packet for transmission of multi-units: The present invention discloses a method for detecting sequence number of the packet during multi-units sending process, wherein all of the sequence numbers of the packets are pre-divided into non-overlapping subsets, the number of the subsets being at least equal to the number of units comprised by the sending party,... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090080462 - System and method for transferring data packets through a communication system: A communication system, network, interface, and port architecture are provided for transporting data across a network. The network can be arranged by connecting the ports in a daisy chain fashion to achieve a ring architecture or topology. The network forwards data according to a specific network protocol. A first port... Agent: Daffer Mcdaniel LLP

20090080464 - Multimedia data synchronization method and system: A multimedia data system comprising a synchronization unit. The synchronization unit receives a demodulated bitstream, checks whether a FAW pattern corresponding to a candidate of the bitstream exists, checks whether an additional information corresponding to the candidate of the bitstream is valid when the FAW pattern exists, determines a hit... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090080465 - Multiplexer circuit: Disclosed herein is a multiplexer circuit. The multiplexer circuit includes a first differential output unit, a second differential output unit, and a selection unit. The first differential output unit receives NRZ input signals (D1, and D1) and a clock signal (CLK), and generates differential RZ-mode outputs (R1 and R1). The... Agent: Adam K. Sacharoff Much Shelist Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein

20090073867 - Determining of coupling coefficients in a vector transmission system: Embodiments related to determining of coupling coefficients in a Vector transmission system are described and depicted.... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag Patent Department

20090073868 - Device and associated method for measuring crosstalk: The present invention relates to a crosstalk estimation device for estimating crosstalk between disturber communication lines and victim communication lines. The crosstalk estimation device is able to change the power spectral density PSD on the victim communication lines and/or the disturber communication lines. The crosstalk estimation device further receives measured... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090073869 - Novel receiver architecture for pilot based ofdm systems: The invention relates to a novel methodology and apparatus for clock-offset compensation and common-phase offset correction in Frequency Division Multiplixing based wireless local area network (WLAN) environment, such as an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) environment. A curve fit, such as a threshold-based, least mean squares (LMS) fit of phase... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090073870 - Automatic re-connection of a previously lost connection in a frequency hopping communication system: This disclosure relates to frequency hopping (FH) communication systems, such as Bluetooth. In particular, it relates to a substantially automatic recovery procedure for re-establishing a previously lost link or connection between a master unit and a slave unit in a frequency hopping communications system. Some embodiments of the disclosed invention... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090073871 - Communication apparatus and network search method thereof: A network search method for a communication apparatus connected to a network is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps. The communication apparatus enters a sleep mode when the communication apparatus loses signals from the network. Then, power status of the communication apparatus is detected. A trigger signal is automatically... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090073872 - Method of operating a mobile radio network: A method of operating a mobile radio network for adjusting the counter states of the packet data units to be transmitted in the convergence protocol layer protocol units of network entities of the mobile radio network. User data is transmitted from a first network entity of the mobile radio network,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090073873 - Multiple path switch and switching algorithms: A data switch (14) for transferring data includes an A port group (34A), a B port group (34B), and an AB connector (52). The A port group (34A) includes an A interface (44), a first A port (36) that is electrically connected to the A interface (44), and a second... Agent: Roeder & Broder LLP

20090073874 - Ring-shaped redundant communication path control method: In a ring redundant communication path control method, each of transfer apparatuses periodically transmits an inspection frame for inspecting a communication path, detects a failure of the communication path when the inspection frame is not received for a fixed time, transmits a non-arrival notification frame for notifying that the inspection... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090073875 - Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing mutual failover and load-balancing between interfaces in a network: A method, apparatus and program storage device for providing mutual failover and load-balancing between interfaces in a network is disclosed. An active virtual interface and a passive virtual interface are provided for each of a first and a second computer interface. The active virtual interface of the first computer interface... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20090073876 - Adaptive coding and modulation aware network load balancing: Methods, systems, and devices are described for determining a preferred routing path for communicating source data from a data source to a data terminal over a network having multiple routing path options. Embodiments include receiving a source dataset at a network node; determining multiple routing path options for routing the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20090073877 - Packet processing apparatus, communication system, packet processing method and program that executes this method: For a system that comprises an information processing apparatus that repetitively transmits a packet and a server apparatus that receives the packet, a packet processing apparatus that can reduce a packet processing load imposed on the server apparatus, a communication system and a packet processing method are disclosed. This packet... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090073878 - Usage based queuing with accounting for wireless access points: One embodiment of a queuing mechanism using an Accounting component 220 that applies previous state of a flow, along with usage policies, to determine if a packet is dropped or enqueued for transmission to an output interface. The decision process is done independent of the congestive state of the output... Agent: Kenneth Carlberg

20090073882 - Directional and priority based flow control mechanism between nodes: A node uses a two dimensional array of transmit queues to store frames to be transmitted from the node to another node. The size of the array is governed by the number of directions to which the other node may forward frames once received from the node, and the number... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090073879 - Method of managing an interface comprising means for controlling remote terminals: A method is provided for transmission within a telecommunication system, which includes a plurality of terminals that can exchange data flows therebetween. The method includes at least: a step of comparing a maximum throughput value offered by an interface with a cumulative value of the throughputs of flows that are... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090073883 - Methods and apparatus for controlling wireless network operations associated with flow control process: Methods and apparatus for controlling wireless network operations associated with a flow control process which terminates data communications to a mobile station based on an out-of-coverage condition between the mobile station and a wireless communication network. In the wireless communication network, an indication is identified which indicates whether a mobile... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20090073881 - Multi-queue flow control method, system and apparatus: A multi-queue flow control method, a multi-queue flow control system, and a multi-queue flow control apparatus, applicable to a full-duplex Ethernet, are suitable for customizing a flow control frame reflecting buffer statuses of a plurality of queues. A receiving device informs a current buffer status of each queue of itself... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090073884 - Network receive interface for high bandwidth hardware-accelerated packet processing: Disclosed is a system and methods for accelerating network packet processing for devices configured to process network traffic at relatively high data rates. The system incorporates a hardware-accelerated packet processing module that handles in-sequence network packets and a software-based processing module that handles out-of-sequence and exception case network packets.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090073880 - System and method for controlling congestion in a dedicated short range communication system: A system and method is disclosed for controlling congestion in communications between an RSE and multiple OBEs in a DSRC system. In certain embodiments, a system and method for controlling congestion in communications between an RSE and multiple OBEs includes determining a priority level for each of multiple OBEs with... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090073885 - Method, system and apparatus for tracking user behavior in a wireless communication network: A method, system, and apparatus for tracking user behavior in a wireless communication network are provided. The method includes monitoring one or more data packets communicated between one or more devices and one or more data servers at an anchor datapath gateway in the wireless communication network. The method further... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20090073886 - Methods and computer-readable media for testing a network connection at a computing device: A computer-readable medium is provided, comprising a set of instructions for execution by a processor of a computing device at a subscriber premises. The processor is operable to execute a software application that enables the computing device to participate in a media connection over a data network. Execution of the... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20090073887 - System for testing ethernet paths and links without impacting non-test traffic: A system for testing Ethernet paths or links without adversely impacting non-test traffic. The system includes a test traffic generator that includes a scheduler that determines when a new test packet is generated. The test traffic generator includes a packet creator that builds a test packet and a transmitter for... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090073888 - Determining quality of communication: A method, computer-readable medium, and system for providing a quality measurement based on communications within a communication application. Communication attributes that include information associated with a user's communications are obtained. In embodiments, such communication attributes may pertain to communication duration and communication frequency. Upon obtaining communication attributes, a quality measurement... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090073892 - Measurements in communications systems: A communication system comprising a network element, a mobile station, and a plurality of radio access means. The plurality of radio access means is configured to provide communication services to the mobile station. A radio access means of the plurality of radio access means includes a plurality of cells. The... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090073890 - Method and system for uplink establishment in a wireless cellular communication: The present invention relates to wireless communications. More especially it relates to wireless packet data communications. Particularly it relates to latency reduction by distinguishing connection initiation of circuit switched and packet switched connections, respectively.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090073891 - Methods and apparatus for space efficient adaptive detection of multidimensional hierarchical heavy hitters: The present invention develops an efficient streaming method for detecting multidimensional hierarchical heavy hitters from massive data streams and enables near real time detection of anomaly behavior in networks.... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20090073889 - Phy bandwidth estimation from backpressure patterns: The present invention provides a system and method of determining available bandwidth at a physical layer (PHY) device at a server on a broadband network. A link layer controller of a master administrator adaptively polls a PHY device over a set of time intervals. During polling, the controller places a... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP

20090073893 - Routing method in an ad hoc network: A routing method in an ad hoc network between a source node (S) and a destination node (M). In order to guarantee a required quality of service level between the source node and the destination node, the method comprises the steps of, in a preliminary step, evaluating at each node... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090073894 - System and method for multicast transmission: A system and method for multicast transmission are disclosed. In one embodiment, a virtual exchange network including interconnected nodes is embedded within a network. A sender is disposed in communication with a root node and receivers are disposed in communication with a set of edge nodes. The sender publishes a... Agent: Scott T. Griggs

20090073896 - Arrangements for auto-merging and auto-partitioning processing components: In some embodiments, a method for auto-partitioning a scalable processing system is disclosed. The method can include establishing connection data, identifying a primary node and automatically transmitting partitioning commands to other nodes to configure them as secondary nodes. The partitioning commands can adjust the basic input output settings of the... Agent: Ibm Coporation (rtp) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090073895 - Method and apparatus for dynamic switching and real time security control on virtualized systems: In some embodiments, the invention involves securing network traffic to and from a host processor. A system and method is disclosed which utilizes a second processor on a virtualization technology platform to send/receive and triage messages. The second processor is to forward suspect messages to a virtual appliance for further... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090073897 - Detection of duplicate packets: A packet is received from a network. The packet includes a field. The content of the field is compared to each element of a list. If the content of the field fails to match any element in the list, the packet is accepted and the content of the field is... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090073898 - Method and apparatus for code division duplexing: A method and apparatus for providing a bi-directional communication in a mobile communication system by a Code Division Duplexing. In the Code Division Duplexing, the data to be transmitted is incorporated with unique codes having an orthogonal property to designate a forward and reverse direction communication, thereby allowing a bi-directional... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20090073900 - Bi-directional packet data transmission system and method: A bi-directional packet data transmission system for a packet data transmission between a terminal and a radio access network includes an uplink resource and a downlink resource which are independently set. Memory resources can be effectively managed even in a packet data transmission service with the asymmetrical structure such that... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090073901 - Bi-directional packet data transmission system and method: A bi-directional packet data transmission system for a packet data transmission between a terminal and a radio access network includes an uplink resource and a downlink resource which are independently set. Memory resources can be effectively managed even in a packet data transmission service with the asymmetrical structure such that... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090073899 - Common mixer methods and circuits in mobile communication devices: GPS functionality is added to a wireless communication device in an efficient and cost effective manner. Disclosed is a wireless communications device that has a common mixer constructed to be used for a GPS signal and another signal, a common IF filter constructed to be used for a GPS signal... Agent: Attn: Patent Department Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20090073902 - Subframes in a cellular communications system: S

20090073903 - Echo cancellation: Embodiments related to echo compensation have been described and depicted.... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag Patent Department

20090073906 - Bi-directional packet data transmission system and method: A bidirectional packet data transmission system for a packet data transmission between a terminal and a radio access network includes an uplink resource and a downlink resource which are independently set. Memory resources can be effectively managed even in a packet data transmission service with the asymmetrical structure such that... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090073905 - High level instruction convergence function: A convergence engine may provide a high level message for a high level engine representative of multiple messages received by a network interface or other physical layer transmission device. The high level engine may access one or more high level messages via functions describing the state of a non-network-portal station.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090073904 - Power for uplink acknowledgment transmission: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for defining/setting a power of a dual acknowledgement signal provided in an uplink by a user equipment to a network element (e.g., Node B) for acknowledging two transport blocks, e.g., comprised in one TTI, transmitted in a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090073907 - System and method for discontinuous reception control start time: Methods of combining semi-persistent resource allocation and dynamic resource allocation are provided. Packets, such as VoIP packets, are transmitted on the uplink and downlink using respective semi-persistent resources. For each mobile device, awake periods and sleep periods are defined. The semi-persistent resources are aligned with the awake periods so that... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090073911 - Feedback method for multicast service in wireless communication system, and a system implementing the method: A method for providing multicast service by a base station in a wireless communication system and a system implementing the method are provided. The method includes receiving one or more multicast service request messages including downlink channel state information from one or more mobile stations, determining the number of mobile... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090073908 - Indication of multicast control information: A method for indicating a structure of control information for a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) is provided. The method comprises separating a multicast control channel (MCCH) of an MBMS transmission into a first portion and a second portion and arranging the separated MCCH into either a first structure wherein... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090073912 - Method and system for digital communication through infrastructure network with receiving stations according to their geographical status: The present invention relates to a method and system of computer communication through an infrastructure multicast IP network, between one or several determined central stations and undetermined groups of receiving stations, especially mobile stations. According to the invention, every mobile station sends its geographical status, e.g. its position, in an... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090073909 - Multimedia broadcast multicast service channel mapping and multiplexing: A system is provided for mapping multimedia broadcast multicast services. The system includes one or more processors programmed to map a plurality of multicast transport channels (MCHs) to a plurality of multicast/broadcast single frequency networks (MBSFNs) such that any one of the MBSFNs has only one MCH and further where... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090073910 - Radio multi-hop network, node, multicast route control method, and program thereof: In a node 11, a unicast route control information acquirer 103 acquires unicast route control information from the multicast information and a TC message received from another node respectively. A relay node set calculator 104 uses the information to calculate a sender relay node set that covers every multicast receiver... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090073915 - Apparatus, system and method for implementing mobile communication: An apparatus, system and method for implementing mobile communication are described. The apparatus includes: a transmitter, a receiver, a duplexer, and an antenna. The apparatus further includes: an uplink data processing module, configured to process data transmitted from a terminal to a base station and received by the receiver, and... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090073914 - Message coding in a relayed communications network: A method for relaying a signal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises receiving in at least one of a base station and a relay station information regarding a mobile station group (MSG) of a mobile station, scheduling within a given duration uplink information to be transmitted... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090073916 - Ranging regions for wireless communication relay stations: One embodiment of the present invention provides a unique ranging technique in wireless communication environments that employ relay stations associated with a base station. Each relay station, and optionally the base station itself, can be allocated a unique ranging region having unique ranging resources that may be used by a... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20090073913 - Direct link relay in a wireless network: Disclosed herein are exemplary techniques for power conservation in a wireless network. A wireless device identifies another wireless device suitable to act as a relay node. Uplink information is transmitted to the other wireless device, which is in turn relayed to an access point for transmission to its destination. Downlink... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090073917 - Feeder link configurations to support layered modulation for digital signals: Systems and methods are disclosed for feeder link configurations to layered modulation. One feeder link system employs feeder link spot beam to antennas in distinct coverage areas to enable frequency reuse. Another system employs narrow beam width feeder link antenna to illuminate individual satellites also enabling frequency reuse. Yet another... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090073918 - System for extending bi-directional satellite radio communications in tunnels: The invention consists of a communication system that relays a satellite signal inside railway tunnels and relays the signals transmitted inside said tunnels towards the satellite, in such a way as to assure to vehicles transiting inside the tunnels a perfect transmission and reception quality even in the absence of... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20090073923 - Communication device, communication system thereof, and communication setting method thereof: A communication device is disclosed. The communication device includes a radio communication section and a switching section. The switching section switches a function between a station function and an access point function. In a state that the function of the communication device has been switched to the access point function,... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090073921 - Data forwarding in hybrid mesh networks: A system and method are disclosed for forwarding data in hybrid wireless mesh networks. The method includes configuring a number of mesh network nodes as Potential Relay Nodes (PRNs) in an overlay network associated with a hybrid wireless mesh network, streaming data packets from a source node to a destination... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090073920 - Method and device for incorporating different phy mode wireless communications: In a wireless communications network comprising at least two subscriber terminals each operative to communicate with the same base station using a different PHY mode transmissions than the other, a method and apparatus for allowing communications with these subscriber terminals along a single frequency communication channel is provided. The communication... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090073924 - Method of discovering an ad-hoc on-demand distance vector route having at least a minimum set of available resources in a distributed wireless communications network: In a wireless communication network (300) comprising a plurality of devices (100), a method of discovering a route for transmitting data from a source device (110A) to a destination device (110D) via multi-hop relay, includes broadcasting from the source device (110A) a route discovery request for transmitting data to the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090073922 - Multiplexing and transmission of traffic data and control information in a wireless communication system: Techniques for transmitting traffic data and control information in a wireless communication system are described. In an aspect, traffic data and control information may be multiplexed at a coded data level. A user equipment (UE) may encode traffic data to obtain coded traffic data, encode control information to obtain coded... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090073919 - Telecommunications apparatus and method: Embodiments of the present invention provide a facility for generating a link local address, which can be routed according to the first internet protocol to a server. As such the link local address can be used to acquire an internet protocol address from an address allocation server according to the... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20090073925 - Channel hopping method of interference avoidance for a wireless communication network and wireless communication system employing the same: A wireless communication system includes a wireless master node having a plurality of channels, and a number of wireless slave nodes having a plurality of the channels. The master node and the slave nodes are structured to wirelessly communicate over a particular channel. The master node and the slave nodes... Agent: Martin J. Moran

20090073927 - Communication control apparatus and communication control method: A communication control apparatus (30, 10) used in a mobile communication system includes: means (32, 12) that derives a second target communication quality Q2 for TFs other than a reference format from a first target communication quality for the reference format in a plurality of TFs provide for communicating with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090073928 - Communication systems: A signalling method for use in a multiple-access communication system, the system comprising a first communication apparatus and a plurality of second communication apparatuses, the second communication apparatuses being operable to communicate with the first communication apparatus using respective parts of a shared communication frame and each using an available... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090073930 - Efficient data transmission by data aggregation: To efficiently transmit data on a wireless network, small packets that might otherwise be sent individually are aggregated into a “superframe”. This superframe can then be transmitted as a single, larger packet. To form this superframe, a plurality of tagged data packets can be aggregated into a packed aggregation block... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20090073929 - Frequency diverse transmissions in a wireless communication system: Techniques for dynamically mapping assigned resources to physical resources are described herein. In one design, a resource assigned for communication may be mapped to a first physical resource based on a first mapping function and to a second physical resource based on a second mapping function. The assigned resource may... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090073931 - Packet communication system, packet communication method, base station, mobile station, control device, and packet communication program: The present invention improves a system capacity and satisfaction rate with a quality of service in packet communications performed through a radio link established between a transmitting station and a receiving station by dynamically limiting transmission power of packets in the transmitting station and keeping an increase of an interference... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090073926 - Systems and methods for assigning physical resource blocks: A method for assigning physical resource blocks (PRBs) is described. A first PRB is assigned to a first device from a plurality of devices. The first device maximizes a proportional fair algorithm on the first PRB. A second PRB is assigned to a second device from the plurality of devices.... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20090073932 - Method and apparatus for associating a packet with an h-arq channel identifier: A method in a base station of transmitting control information to a mobile station includes transmitting a persistent assignment to a mobile station, wherein the persistent assignment includes a plurality of ACID indications; and transmitting a subsequent assignment to the mobile station including an ACID derived from the plurality of... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090073935 - Apparatus and methods of pmipv6 route optimization protocol: A network component is provided. The network component is configured to receive a handover context from a first access network device. The network component is capable of sending a first proxy binding update message to a second access network device to initiate a proxy care-of test; receiving a care-of keygen... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090073934 - Dynamic compensation for resource stealing in communication systems: A scheduler associated with a base station of a wireless communication network dynamically compensates for uplink bandwidth that has been re-assigned (stolen) by a mobile station (MS) to transmit a control message. The scheduler allocates a preset amount of bandwidth to the MS for data transmission. The scheduler detects bandwidth... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090073933 - Inter-system handoffs in multi-access environments: Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for methods and systems for handing off user equipment between different access systems, e.g., a high rate packet data (HRPD) system and a long term evolution (LTE) system. Resources to be used in the target system can be allocated prior to... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090073936 - Method and apparatus for inter-technology handoff of a user equipment: In order to facilitate a handoff of a communication session between a legacy circuit switched network and a packet data network such as a 3GPP LTE, 3GPP2 UMB, or WiMAX network, which communication session is anchored in an IMS Voice Call Continuity Application Server (VCC AS), a Circuit Switched Proxy... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090073937 - Method, apparatus and system for obtaining mih service information: A method, an apparatus and a system for obtaining a Media Independent Handover (MIH) service information. The method including: receiving an MIH service information request message from a mobile node; obtaining the MIH service information requested by the mobile node; and sending a response message to the mobile node, with... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090073938 - Method, system and apparatus for optimizing call anchoring in voice call continuity: The present invention provides a method and system for optimizing call anchoring in VCC, a VCC anchoring optimization function entity, and a routing control entity, with a view to correlating the call anchoring with the processing of a service potentially influential in anchoring a call. The method includes: the VAO... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090073939 - Method for the assignment of scrambling codes to cells of a cdma cellular mobile communications network: A method for assigning scrambling codes in a code division multiple access cellular radio communications network includes a plurality of network cells cove ring a geographic area, including: determining, for each of the cells, a respective set of adjacent cells by: taking a first set of cells that are neighbors... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090073940 - Efficient use of persistent scheduling with ofdma wireless communications: Various embodiments of the invention may take advantage of persistent scheduling in a wireless network to achieve efficiencies of operation. One embodiment dynamically adjusts the duration of persistent scheduling based on changing channel conditions. When mobile stations are grouped together for persistent scheduling, another embodiment uses a bitmap to indicate... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090073945 - Direct link setup procedure in tunneled direct link setup wireless network and station supporting the procedure: Provided are a Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS) establishment procedure for a TDLS initiator and a station supporting the establishment procedure. In the establishment procedure, a requesting Non-AP QSTA transmits a TDLS setup request frame via an access point(AP) to an intended peer Non-AP QSTA. And, the requesting Non-AP QSTA... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090073943 - Heterogeneous wireless ad hoc network: A heterogeneous wireless ad-hoc network includes a server and a number of ad-hoc service providers that provide connectivity to a network for mobile clients. The mobile client is configured to search for ad-hoc service providers with wireless backhauls to the network and associate with one of the ad-hoc service providers... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090073941 - Mesh network connecting 3g wireless routers: A communication routing arrangement includes two or more wireless routers coupled to a communication network, and a user device adapted to couple with the communication network through a communication path including at least one of the two or more wireless routers. The communication path between the user device and the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090073948 - Method and apparatus for processing packets originating from local and neighboring basic service sets: A method and apparatus for efficiently processing packets from neighboring basic service sets (BSSs) to characterize the traffic within a wireless local area network (WLAN), mesh network, or similar wireless communication system is disclosed. The apparatus may be an access point (AP) in a BSS which includes a measurement period... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090073944 - Restricted cyclic shift configuration for random access preambles 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

20090073942 - System and method for device discovery in a wireless network of devices having directional antennas: A system and method for wireless communication are disclosed. One aspect of the system includes a plurality of wireless devices forming a wireless network. The plurality of wireless devices are configured to wirelessly communicate with one another. Each of the wireless devices includes a device table including a list of... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090073947 - Wireless communication system: A network controller for facilitating roaming of a mobile wireless communications device between access points communicates with at least one access point over a wired network which, in turn, communicate with a mobile wireless communications device over a wireless network. The network controller includes a data processing system including a... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090073946 - Wireless transmission system: The wireless LAN terminal registers getting off reservation information and its own specific recognition code in advance. When a vehicle approaches a stopping point, the recognition code is verified and the getting off reservation information is notified to the wireless LAN terminal. By doing this, it is possible for the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090073949 - Filtered antenna assembly: An antenna assembly for a wireless communications device has an antenna, a filter circuit, and a connector constructed to engage a wireless communications device. A filter circuit includes a band-pass filter and a first notch filter disposed in serial electrical communication with the band-pass filter, the band-pass filter operable to... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090073950 - Wireless audio gateway headset: A wireless, multi-function audio gateway device provides communication between the headset and at least one audio gateway. The headset includes a housing having at least one multifunction button, and a first and a second microphone. The first microphone is located closer to a user's mouth than the second microphone. The... Agent: Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC Intellectual Property Department

20090073951 - System and method for using cdma pn offset to maintain instrument timing reference: A system and method is provided enabling identification of different PN offsets values for CDMA signals without access to a GPS signal, such as when making measurements within indoor environments. When a timing reference, such as that provided by a GPS signal, is lost, the frame boundary timestamp of the... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20090073952 - Method and apparatus for retransmitting data in wireless lan system using visible light communication: A method for retransmitting data when data transmission/reception has failed in a wireless LAN system using visible light communication. A mobile node searches a received frame for a fast feedback slot allocated for retransmission information when momentary data transmission/reception failure has occurred. One mini-slot from among the plurality of mini-slots... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090073953 - Reconfiguration of fractional dedicated channel slot format: During a radio link setup or reconfiguration or addition procedures, a serving radio network controller SRNC sends a request or prepare message to a drift radio network controller DRNC with a slot format information element IE, to which the DRNC sends a reply. During a physical channel reconfiguration process the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090073954 - Techniques for wireless personal area network communications with efficient spatial reuse: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for communicating in a wireless personal area network (WPAN), comprising using Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA) in said WPAN network by exploiting directional antennas.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090073955 - Multiplexing of sounding signals in ack and cqi channels: A resource block can include all symbols in a slot for each, generally a multiple of 12, sub-carrier in the resource block. A slot is typically 0.5 milliseconds (ms) and includes 7 symbols for short cyclic prefix (CP) and 6 symbols for long CP. The resource block can include a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090073956 - Path search processing circuit, path search method, and control program: A CDMA mobile communication demodulator circuit has a path timing comparison part 4 operable to compare a difference between path timings of adjacent paths with a predetermined threshold value, a path level comparison part 5 operable to compare power correlation values of the path timings of the paths determined to... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090073957 - Apparatus and methods for data distribution devices having selectable power supplies: A network apparatus includes an independent power supply providing a first power signal, and a data distribution device which is operably coupled to the independent power supply and a remote data distribution device, where the remote distribution data device exchanges data and provides a second power signal to the data... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090073960 - Bridging phone networks using voip to preserve in-network calling advantages: A call may be accomplished from a first mobile network to a second mobile network by bridging the first and second mobile networks using VoIP. A first communication is initiated from a first mobile device to a first Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) server circuitry emulating a mobile phone. The... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20090073966 - Distribution of identifiers in serverless networks: A method for assigning identifiers in a distributed system involves establishing a circle as a locus of all identifiers, with the value of any point on the circle being the portion of one complete revolution in a first direction around the circle to the point, measured from a first zero... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20090073963 - Method and network unit for setting up a connection in a second network: Method and network unit for setting up a connection in a second network (16) from a first user terminal (21) to a second user terminal (22), when a connection in a first network (15) is present between the first user terminal (21) and at least the second user terminal (22).... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090073958 - Method and system for transmission of channel quality indicators (cqis) by mobile devices in a wireless communications network: A method and system for optimizing channel quality indicator (CQI) transmissions by mobile devices in a cellular network allows transmission of CQIs at a slower rate and with fewer bits during voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) sessions than during non-real-time (NRT) data transmissions. A VoIP transmission typically includes “talkspurt” periods, during which VoIP... Agent: Thomas R. Berthold

20090073959 - Method and system for voice-over-internet-protocol (voip) transmission in a wireless communications network: The invention is a method and system for reliably detecting the start and/or end of silence periods during voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) sessions in a wireless communications network. A VoIP session typically includes “talkspurt” periods, during which VoIP packets are transmitted, and silence periods, during which silence indication (SID) packets are transmitted.... Agent: Thomas R. Berthold

20090073961 - Method, computer program product, and apparatus for providing automatic gain control via signal sampling and categorization: An apparatus for detecting and adjusting volumes levels may include a processor capable of receiving data from a carrier(s). The processor is also capable of receiving trigger control signals from a trigger control and arranging the data into frames that are stored in a buffer. The processor is also capable... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090073965 - Methods, smart cards, and systems for providing portable computer, voip, and application services: A smart card is used with a network based system to providing portable telecommunication and computing services. In an exemplary embodiment the smart card holds user application programs and/or user data such as a calling list, account information, a list of local or remote application programs, and user interface configuration... Agent: Robert A Westerlund

20090073962 - Modular messaging log application on an ip phone: Presented is a method for selectively retrieving voice messages. The method includes accessing a list of received calls, and accessing a subset of the list of received calls. Each of the calls in the subset has an associated stored message. The method further includes selectively accessing information associated with a... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090073964 - Providing services in case of call diversion in a communication system: The present invention relates to an S-CSCF receiving a terminating request associated with a called user and executing services for the called user. The S-CSCF determines an indication in Session Case indicating originating services handling in call forwarding situation, and based on this executes a subset of services for the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090073967 - High-bandwidth interconnect network for an integrated circuit: A bus structure providing pipelined busing of data between logic circuits and special-purpose circuits of an integrated circuit, the bus structure including a network of pipelined conductors, and connectors selectively joining the pipelined conductors between the special-purpose circuits, other pipelined connectors, and the logic circuits.... Agent: Peter Su

20090073968 - Device with modified round robin arbitration scheme and method for transferring data: A device (212) that transfers data includes a destination (216), a first data source (216), a second data source (216), a connector (220), and a control system (214). The first data source (216) can have first data to send to the destination (216). The second data source (216) can have... Agent: Roeder & Broder LLP

20090073972 - Address management method and message transmitting and receiving method in network control system: The present invention relates to an address management and message transmitting and receiving method in a network control system. The present invention, for example, enables a user in the inside or outside of house to control the operation or monitor the operation status of various appliances such as refrigerator, laundry... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090073975 - Communication method and communication device: A communication method includes steps of: transmitting a plurality of packets to a network according to a window specifying a data amount of the packets to be transmitted to the network; receiving ACK related to the packets transmitted to the network, and detecting whether or not packet discard occurs; measuring... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090073969 - Communication system, information processor, intervening server, identification information transmitting server, communication method and program: A first information processing equipment transmits, to a mediating server, the first transmission information which is the information containing the relay server identification information for identifying the relay server employed in the data relay between information processing equipments, and executes the data relay with the second information processing equipment through... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090073974 - Method and apparatus for predicting characteristics of incoming data packets to enable speculative processing to reduce processor latency: A system for processing data packets in a data packet network has at least one input port for receiving data packets, at least one output port for sending out data packets, a processor for processing packet data, and a packet predictor for predicting a future packet based on a received... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090073971 - Per-packet quality of service support for encrypted ipsec tunnels: A method for performing an IPSec tunneling operation is disclosed, which enables the ToS parameter of the QoS parameter in an inner packet to be copied to an outer packet before transmission across an un-trusted network. The QoS parameter is part of an IP header of the inner packet being... Agent: Carrie A. Boone, P.C.

20090073973 - Router having black box function and network system including the same: A router having a black box function capable of storing a data block of a specific node or node group in a network, and a network system including the router are provided. The router includes: a black box memory storing node data; at least one packet preprocessor selecting and processing... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090073977 - Routing traffic through a virtual router-based network switch: Methods and systems are provided for routing traffic through a virtual router-based network switch. According to one embodiment, a flow data structure is established that identifies current packet flows associated with multiple virtual routers in the virtual router-based network device. When an incoming packet is received by the virtual router-based... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20090073976 - Secure mechanism for transmitting counter value in the context of transmission of a synchronizing signal in a packet network: t

20090073970 - System and method for parsing frames: A system for parsing frames including a first cell extraction circuit (CEC) configured to identify a first cell from a first frame, a first parser engine operatively connected to the first CEC, where the first parser engine is configured to generate a result based on the first cell, and a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090073978 - Low latency multicast for infinibandr host channel adapters: A low latency multicasting receive and send apparatus and method comprising low latency receive and send queues, in an InfiniBand® network each destination group of nodes (recipients) is identified by a unique Global ID (GID)+Local ID (LID). Each node whose ports are part of a multicast group identify themselves via... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090073979 - Protection method for data signal transmission and communication network: A protecting method for data signal transmission includes that the source node transfers the same data signal along each path between the source node and the destination node; in at least one path, the data signal is copied to multipath data signals at least one time, and one path data... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090073980 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus and information processing method: An information processing apparatus (10) includes a reception portion (11) which accepts transmission information which is information to be transmitted; a plurality of tunnel communication portions (13, 14, 15) which perform tunnel communications, for encapsulating and transmitting packets, with different terminal devices, respectively; and a transmission portion (12) which transmits... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090073983 - Method and apparatus for providing gateway to transmit ipv6 packet in a wireless local area network system: A method and apparatus for providing a gateway for IPv6 packet transmission in a WLAN system are provided, in which a gateway takes over a TCP/IP protocol stack from a legacy 6LoWPAN node for providing a gateway for IPv6 packet transmission in a WLAN system. One or more service request... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090073981 - Methods and apparatus for network packet filtering: Software and methods are disclosed for reducing the computational cost involved in network packet filtering The technology provides user level network packet filtering without incurring a context switch and minimizes the copying of data during packet filtering. The technology reduces or eliminates the need for expensive operating system data locks... Agent: Michael Molins Molins & Co.

20090073982 - Tcp packet communication device and techniques related thereto: A protocol processing unit processes a packet used for connection establishment according to TCP/IP based on management information on the connection establishment and processes a packet used for payload transmission. A payload packet transmission/reception processing unit having a hardware configuration performs transmission/reception processing on the packet used for the payload... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090073984 - Packet generator for a communication network: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for distributing data packets on an aircraft data network having a plurality of end systems. The systems and methods include retrieving a configuration module, retrieving a payload description module, selecting a network interface component, selecting a port rate for the network interface component,... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid, LLP

20090073987 - Methods and systems for network address translation management: A method for network address translation (NAT) includes providing a first and a second NAT table. The method further includes receiving a network packet and classifying the network packet based on a type of network traffic. Additionally, an entry is added to the first NAT table based on the classification... Agent: At&t Legal Department, Attn: Patent Docketing

20090073986 - Method, apparatus and system for guaranteed packet delivery times in asynchronous networks: A method and apparatus for guaranteeing packet delivery times in an asynchronous network includes generating a global timing schedule to synchronize the communication between the terminals of a network and, in response to at least one trigger, transmitting and receiving data according to the generated global timing schedule. To optimize... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20090073985 - Network connection device: A network connection device bridges a first network that uses a first packet delivery scheduling scheme and a second network that uses a different packet delivery scheduling scheme. The network connection device translates a request to communicate over the first network into a request to communicate over the second network,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090073989 - Redundancy at a virtual provider edge node that faces a tunneling protocol core network for virtual private local area network (lan) service (vpls): In one embodiment, a method includes receiving configuration data at a particular node of a first set of multiple nodes. The configuration data includes data that indicates a particular zero or more instances for which the particular node is primary among multiple virtual local area network (VLAN) instances to be... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20090073988 - Systems and methods for a self-healing carrier ethernet topology: Systems and methods for self-healing Ethernet topologies which are compatible with PBT, which use standards-based protocols, which do not self-configure, and which use Ethernet OAM are provided. Interconnected nodes are configured with a primary and secondary path which is determined by VLANs, MPLS label, Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE)... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20090073990 - Method of replacing a router in a layer 3 network: An apparatus and method of replacing a router in a Layer 3 network, includes configuring a new router to accept a data packet having, as a destination address field, a first media access control address of a replaced router. The method further comprises setting the destination address field of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090073991 - Dynamic pairing of patients to data collection gateways: Systems, devices and methods transmit data from a patient device to a location, for example a remote location, where the patient is monitored. The system may comprise a server system, for example a backend server system, a gateway and the patient worn device. The gateway can be configured to communicate... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090073992 - System and method for providing proxy and translation domains in a fibre channel router: A Fibre Channel router used to join fabrics. EX_ports are used to connect to the fabrics. The EX_port joins the fabric but the router will not merge into the fabric. Ports in the Fibre Channel router can be in a fabric, but other ports can be connected to other fabrics.... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20090073995 - Devices and methods for local breakout in a gateway of an access service network: In an embodiment, an apparatus is configured to receive traffic of different traffic types, and to route the different traffic types to different paths or networks, the different traffic types comprising internet service domain traffic and operator's service domain traffic. The apparatus may for example be a gateway of an... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090073996 - Interior gateway protocol summarization preserving internet protocol reachability information: In one example embodiment, a system and method is illustrated that includes receiving connectivity data for at least one network device, the connectivity data describing a connection to the at least one network device within an area. The system and method further includes processing the connectivity data to obtain a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090073998 - Interworking point to point protocol for digital subscriber line access w/ethernet connections in the aggregation network: Methods and apparatus for enabling the establishment of a Point to Point Protocol (PPP) session to a broadband network gateway through an access node of a packet-switched wireline aggregation network and methods and apparatus for enabling Ethernet frame data to be transported through an access node of packet-switched wireline aggregation... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090073994 - Method and apparatus for distributing dynamic auto-summarization of internet protocol reachable addresses: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing addresses in a network. In one advantageous embodiment, a computer implemented method is used to managing addresses for a plurality of destinations in a network. Addresses assigned to a plurality of gateways are summarized to form summarized addresses... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090073993 - Method and apparatus for network routing between a tactical network and a satellite network: A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing networks. In one advantageous embodiment, a computer implemented method processes routing information. The process collects updates to the routing information in a first network. Responsive to an event, a cost of reaching each address in the first network from each... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090073997 - Method and system for establishing hierarchical network with provider backbone bridges: A method for establishing a hierarchical network with Backbone Provider Bridges includes: dividing the network into a plurality of layers, and partitioning each layer into at least one domain; each domain assigning a service tag for itself; a local domain sending a mapping request including a user type ID to... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090073999 - Adaptive low latency receive queues: A receive queue provided in a computer system holds work completion information and message data together. An InfiniBand hardware adapter sends a single CQE+message data to the computer system that includes the completion information and data. This information is sufficient for the computer system to receive and process the data... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090074000 - Packet based switch with destination updating: A switch (14) that transfers a packet (264) includes a plurality of ports (28) and a switch control system (63) that is electrically connected to the ports (28) and that controls the flow of data through the switch (14). The packet (264) includes a destination vector (215) having one or... Agent: Roeder & Broder LLP

20090074001 - Switch assembly having multiple blades in a chassis: A switch assembly having multiple blades in a chassis and a method of using that assembly to switch data is disclosed. A network switch assembly for network communications includes at least one fabric blade and a plurality of port blades. The at least one fabric blade has at least one... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090074002 - Method, apparatus and system for optimizing packet throughput for content processing systems on chips: An apparatus and system provide an optimizing content processing throughput for systems on chips (“SoCs”). A Packet Processing Memory Controller Cache (“PPMCC”) on an SoC according to an embodiment of the present invention may enable the SoC to store content packets within the SoC, thus eliminating the need to write... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090074004 - Back-off-state assignment for channel throughput maximization of wireless networks: A method, system and computer program product for maximizing throughput by assigning nodes to the states of a given back-off level non-uniformly when experiencing channel contention. The back-off-state assignment process of the present invention can provide a novel and non-obvious assignment method, system and apparatus for assigning a node at... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20090074003 - Method and system for consolidating tcp ports: A system for consolidating TCP ports. In response to initiating a connection to a hidden port via a network, a TCP in TCP packet is created. Then, the TCP in TCP packet is sent to the hidden port via the network via a network visible port.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090074005 - High-capacity packet-switched ring network: A packet-switched WDMA ring network has an architecture utilizing packet stacking and unstacking for enabling nodes to access the entire link capacity by transmitting and receiving packets on available wavelengths. Packets are added and dropped from the ring by optical switches. A flexible credit-based MAC protocol along with an admission... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.,

20090074006 - Method and apparatus for providing a common acknowlegement channel: An approach is provided for sharing a common acknowledgement channel. A coding and modulation scheme is selected, wherein the coding and modulation scheme utilizes a plurality of sub-carriers associated with a common acknowledgement channel serving a plurality of stations. A plurality of error control-enabled connections is mapped to the common... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090074007 - Managing communications over a shared medium: Systems and methods for allocating network bandwidth between a plurality of networks. Requests for bandwidth allocation from other networks can be received. A coexistence frame requesting an allocation of bandwidth for a local network can be generated based upon the bandwidth allocation requests received from other networks. The coexistence frame... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090074008 - Multiple packet udp data transfers: A method and computer program produce provide the capability to use UDP to send messages that include more data than can be handled by a single UDP packet. A method for performing data transfer implemented in a computer system comprises transmitting a request for data, receiving a response to the... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20090074009 - High speed packet processing in a wireless network: A method is provided for processing a packet (300) at an egress end user node (110). The method includes a decoding step and a concurrent writing step. The concurrent writing step is performed subsequent to the decoding step. The decoding step involves decoding a packet having a plurality of headers... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20090074010 - Method and apparatus for generating data frame: Provided is a method and apparatus for generating a data frame. The method includes: generating a plurality of subframes by using at least one medium access control (MAC) service data unit (MSDU); generating at least one field of an unequal error protection (UEP) field indicating whether UEP is applied to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090074011 - Communication device, communication system, control method and storage medium: The present invention provides a communication system that can suppress the crosstalk of a communication device installed in a remote terminal. The communication system according to the invention is the communication system configured so that a first communication device (401) and a second communication device (202) are connected via a... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090074012 - Buffering a media stream: An apparatus and method of buffering a media stream is provided. The method may comprise receiving a plurality of IP packets of the media stream, each packet providing a fragment of a portion of the media stream. Thereafter, the portion of media stream may be buffered in a jitter buffer... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090067318 - Systems and methods for designing a reference signal to be transmitted in a multiplexed cellular system: A method for designing a reference signal to be transmitted in a multiplexed cellular system is described. A first set of matrices that comprises a plurality of matrices is selected. An optimal partition of the first set of matrices is determined. A third matrix is formed. The third matrix represents... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20090067319 - Systems and method for orthogonal frequency divisional multiplexing: Systems and methods for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing are provided. In one embodiment, a method for ranging comprises: receiving at a host a plurality of upstream symbols transmitted from a plurality of remote units, the upstream symbols transmitted on a plurality of orthogonal carriers modulated using an inverse Fourier transform;... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20090067320 - Method and system for assigning a plurality of macs to a plurality of processors: A bank of processing units is connected to a number of LANs via a bank of MAC controllers. An interconnect switch allows any of the processing units to access any of the MAC controllers. A housekeeping processor periodically detects faults in the connectivity of the processing units to the LANs.... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20090067321 - Method, computer program product, and network node element for more quickly detecting faults on transmission paths and/or in nodes: A communication between network node elements (routers), according to which the routes communicate with one another using a link-state protocol, e.g. IS-IS or OSPF and the failure of a network node element can be identified more rapidly than by the evaluation of hello messages disclosed in prior art is provided.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090067323 - Duplicate transmission path switching device: In switching by failure, no switching is performed when a packet of IP packet is lost or a packet has not arrived even when a predetermined time has elapsed, which are not recognized as a failure. There is provided a duplicate transmission path switching device for data packets having the... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20090067322 - Forwarding data in a data communications network: In an embodiment, an apparatus for forwarding data in a data communications network having as components nodes and links therebetween comprises a network interface configured to couple to a data communications network having as components nodes and links therebetween; first logic which when executed is operable to receive a repair... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090067324 - Resilient data communications with physical layer link aggregation, extended failure detection and load balancing: Rapid channel failure detection and recovery in wireless communication networks is needed in order to meet, among other things, carrier class Ethernet channel standards. Thus, resilient wireless packet communications is provided using a physical layer link aggregation protocol with a hardware-assisted rapid channel failure detection algorithm and load balancing, preferably... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090067325 - Receiving and transmitting devices for providing fragmentation at a transport level along a transmission path: The present invention provides receiving and transmitting devices for providing fragmentation at a transport level along a transmission path. The transmitting device comprises an interface and a control unit coupled to the interface. The control unit is adapted to negotiate a packet size with a remote device. The control unit... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20090067327 - Method for managing network resources and network management device: The invention relates to a method for managing network resources in a network with a network management device (M), a network component (A), and a further network component (B), and a network management device (M), the method comprising the following steps: transmitting a request for an advance reservation of a... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090067326 - Method to prioritize videos distributed in a wireless lan and device implementing the method: The invention concerns method to distinguish between streams received by an access point from a distribution network and transmitted to stations and a way to give better priority to some of them towards others. In a system where streams are transmitted with a level of priority corresponding to there type,... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090067328 - Automatic adaptive network traffic prioritization and shaping: A local area network includes computers and peripherals networked in a high-speed LAN with access to a WAN through a slower connection via a broadband modem. A LAN gateway device manages data traffic between the local computers and peripherals and between the LAN and the WAN. The LAN gateway device... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090067329 - Line quality report method, base station device, and communication terminal: There is provided a base station device for suppressing increase of current consumption at a communication terminal by a line quality information report used for resource allocation of a downstream line and increase of interference of the upstream line traffic. The base station device reports whether a terminal performing communication... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090067333 - Apparatus and method for controlling traffic flow in backhaul link in wireless communication network: A method, system, and apparatus for controlling traffic flow in one or more backhaul links in a wireless communication network is provided. Each backhaul link of the one or more backhaul link includes a backhaul uplink and a backhaul downlink. The method includes analyzing one or more backhaul uplinks and... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20090067330 - Computing path information to a destination node in a data communication network: Approaches for computing path information to a destination node in a data communications network are described. A data communications network comprises as components nodes and links therebetween and comprising a core subdomain of components and a plurality of non-core subdomains of components and having a common identifier for each non-core... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090067332 - Packet forwarding device: A packet forwarding device reads each packet from a common buffer at a predetermined band velocity and transfers the readout packet; detects passage of a re-transmission request packet requesting re-transmission of a packet having been transmitted, from a receiving terminal to a packet transmission source; and limits a writing band... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090067331 - Routing network packets based on electrical power procurement arrangements: In general, this disclosure describes techniques of selecting routes for network packets through a computer network based, at least in part, on electrical power procurement arrangements of devices in the computer network. As described herein, there may be a plurality of routes through a computer network from a first device... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20090067336 - Broadcast receiver and method of processing data: A broadcast receiver and a method of processing data are disclosed. The broadcast receiver includes a signal receiving unit, a position information module, and a navigation unit. The signal receiving unit receives broadcast signal multiplexed mobile broadcast service data including traffic information and main broadcast service data. The position information... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090067335 - Congestion control in a transmission node: Packets are selectively marked or dropped when congestion of the radio resources is experienced, the selective marking/dropping being related to or dependent on the probability that a packet will be marked with the relative efficiency of usage of the radio link by the receiver, e.g., dependent upon radio resource usage... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090067334 - Mechanism for process migration on a massively parallel computer: Embodiments off the invention provide a mechanism for process migration on a massively parallel computer system. In particular, embodiments of the invention may be used to update process state data for a migrated compute node, such as MPI (or other communication library) state data, across a full collection of compute... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090067338 - Determination of channel latency within a round-trip path: The present invention provides a system, apparatus, and method for determining latency differences in channels within a link at a single test site. In particular, the method allows for a single transmitting device to determine distinct latency differences on both transmitter and receiver-side paths without requiring a terminating node on... Agent: Infinera Corporation

20090067337 - Testing a circuit using a shared bandwidth test bus: According to one embodiment, a method for testing a circuit includes receiving a test access session request, where the test access session request indicates that a test session is to be performed on a circuit path. A reservation message is sent to a test bus, where the reservation message reserves... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090067339 - Method of controlling cell coverage and system of enabling the method: A system of controlling a cell coverage is provided. The system includes: a state information generation unit to generate state information by considering at least one of a cell coverage and a traffic load of a target cell; an adjacent state information identification unit to identify adjacent state information which... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090067340 - Mobile communication system and a mobile station, a base transceiver station and a method for use therein: A mobile communication system (100) includes an infrastructure (121) including at least a first base transceiver station (123) and a plurality of mobile stations (101, 103), wherein each of the mobile stations is operable to detect interference by jamming to a signal sent on a downlink channel by the first... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090067341 - System and method of voice over internet protocol communication: Systems and methods of Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) communication are provided. A particular system includes a VoIP endpoint. The VoIP endpoint is adapted to monitor a packet loss measure between the VoIP endpoint and a second VoIP endpoint during a VoIP communication using a first CODEC. The VoIP endpoint... Agent: Toler Law Group

20090067342 - H.248.1 topology descriptor: A new H.248.1 topology descriptor (T1, T2 onewayexternal) is described herein which can be used by a media gateway controller (100) to instruct a media gateway (110) to set-up an internal connection between termination T1 and termination T2 that allows a monitoring center to use termination T2 to monitor media... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090067343 - Method for the synthesis of optimal asynchronous on-chip communication networks from system-level constraints: The invention provides chip designers a means to take advantage of ANoC interconnect, the combination of the two technologies, asynchronous circuits and Network on Chip (ANoC), enabling them to design large chips more easily and quickly than before. The designer develops a table of interconnect requirements, specifying the desired connections... Agent: Michael W. Caldwell

20090067346 - Method, apparatus, and system for controlling network entry of portable internet terminal, and portable internet terminal: Disclosed is controlling entry of a portable internet terminal into a network, in which provided is a method and a system for processing a network entry request received from a portable internet terminal, and then controlling a network entry operation of the portable internet terminal, and is the portable internet... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20090067345 - Radio terminal, radio system, and program: A radio terminal managing slave terminals and forming a network together with the slave terminals, includes unit receiving, from a slave terminal, one of a secession request packet and a join request packet, first storage unit storing first identifiers of the slave terminals, second storage unit storing second identifiers to... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090067344 - System, apparatus, and method for assigning node addresses in a wireless network: A significant label is associated with at least one node of a wireless network through the use of a handheld wireless transceiver. A user passes the transceiver near a network node, causing the transceiver to read the unique address of the node. The user then enters a label holding significance... Agent: Law Offices Of Eugene M. Cummings, P.C.

20090067347 - Communication apparatus and communication method: A storage unit stores therein setting information and history information on a communication established by the setting information. When an information receiving unit receives new setting information, a judging unit judges whether the setting information stored in the storage unit reached a predetermined value. A determining unit compares the history... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090067348 - Dynamic update of a multicast tree: In an example embodiment, a multicast tree is accessed. The multicast tree defines one or more destination label switch routers and paths from a source label switch router to the destination label switch routers. Multicast addresses are then transmitted to the destination label switch routers. In an example embodiment, upon... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090067349 - Method and apparatus for virtual auditorium usable for a conference call or remote live presentation with audience response thereto:

20090067350 - Method and arrangement for virtual meeting: The present relates to a method and arrangement for controlling streams of participants of a virtual meeting, wherein at least a first participant and a second participant are located in a first location and at least a third participant is located in a second location. The arrangement comprises means for... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090067351 - Power detector radio frequency multiplexer: Implementations related to systems and devices that make use of a power detector multiplexer are presented herein.... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag Patent Department

20090067352 - Methods and apparatus for including mode informationin a frame for system acquisition: Methods and apparatus for including mode information in a wireless transmission frame, which is useful for system acquisition. In particular, a first information bit is provided in a preamble of a transmission frame, where the bit is configured to indicate that a wireless communication system is operating according to either... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090067353 - System and method for detecting anomalies along telecommunication lines: An anomaly detection system comprises an echo canceler and anomaly detection logic. The echo canceler has a plurality of taps respectively associated with a plurality of tap coefficients. The anomaly detection logic is configured to determine a difference between a new tap coefficient associated with one of the taps and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090067354 - Apparatus and method for controlling channel switching in wireless networks: The invention provides apparatus methods for avoiding channel collisions in Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRAN), A medium access controller (MAC) for switching a base station (BS) of a WRAN from a first channel to a second channel at a time t is provided. The MAC includes a switch time delay... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090067355 - Power-aware link adaptation in a wideband cdma system: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for reducing mobile terminal energy consumption during data transmissions by allocating link resources and adapting link parameters in an energy-aware manner, based on throughput requirements and prevailing channel conditions. A combination of transmit parameters that includes a transmit channelization scheme and is designed to minimize... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090067356 - Wireless communication device and wireless communication system: A wireless communication device includes: a packet 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 packet detection part corresponds to a predetermined identifier; and a power source control... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090067360 - Method and apparatus for allocating multicast connection identifier used for ip multicast packet transmission over portable internet network and transmitting packet using the multicast connection identifier: Provided is a method and apparatus for allocating a multicast connection identifier (MCID) for Internet protocol (IP) packet transmission over a portable Internet network and transmitting packets using the MCID. More specifically, there is provided a method of defining and allocating an MCID for transmitting an IP version 6 (IPv6)... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090067359 - Method and mobile communication network for providing multicast and/or broadcasting services: Disclosed are methods and systems for providing multicast and/or broadcast services in a mobile communication network. In particular, the disclosed methods and systems optimize resource utilization and signaling in packet-based networks.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090067358 - Method and system for multicast retry in a communication network: Aspects of a method and system for multicast retry in a communication network may include an originator station device within a multicast group that enables transmission of one or more PDUs via a network utilizing a multicast address. The transmitted one or more PDUs may be associated with an identified... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090067357 - Method and system for multimedia messaging service (mms) to video adaptation: A method and system are disclosed for adapting the media contained in a multimedia messaging service (MMS) message, which may include a presentation, into a single media format such as an audio/video file or stream by creating a logical timeline from information found in the presentation, creating an adaptation pipeline... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20090067364 - Apparatus and method for determining time to response of retransmission in a multihop relay wireless communication system: A multihop relay wireless communication system is provided. A Base Station (BS) includes a calculator for calculating an ACKnowledge (ACK)/Non ACK (NACK) transmission time of at least one Relay Station (RS) using retransmission parameter values, and a transmitter for transmitting the ACK/NACK transmission time information to the at least one... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090067361 - Cellular phone signal enhancement apparatus: A method for guiding radio frequency (RF), this apparatus aids an RF signal for receiving incoming and outgoing RF cellular signals is described. This apparatus facilitates an improved communications link between an outside cellular signal source and a receiving indoor hand held cellular device. This apparatus improves existing communication links... Agent: Joseph N. Califano

20090067362 - Control signaling techniques for wireless networks: Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to wireless networks, such as relay networks or multi-hop networks, and also relating to control signaling techniques for wireless networks. In an example embodiment, a method or technique may include transmitting (e.g., data or control) frames in a downlink direction and control frames in... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090067363 - System and method for communicating information from wireless sources to locations within a building: A system provides radio frequency signals devices inside a building. The system includes one or more receivers, each receiver configured to receive one or more radio frequency signals from at least one source. The system further includes a device configured to receive the signals from the receiver or receivers. The... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090067365 - Method and system for switching to an engineering signal processing system from a production signal processing system: A system and method for transitioning to a back-up or engineering signal processing system includes a remote facility having multiplexers and a primary signal processing system generating a first output signal, an IP network, and a plurality of local collection facilities generating a plurality of channel signals through a plurality... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090067370 - Cell search method in ofdm cellular system, frame transmission method thereof, and forward link frame structure: Provided are a cell search method, a frame transmission method thereof, and a forward link frame structure thereof. The cell search method used by a terminal to search a target cell using reception signals received from a plurality of base stations, each base station transmitting a frame of its cell,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090067373 - Deep sleep mode for mesh points: Disclosed herein is an apparatus, method and computer program embodied in a computer-readable memory medium. The method includes transmitting a beacon or a directed transmission from a first device to inform at least one second device in a wireless communication network that the first device will be active only during... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090067371 - Gateway equipped with a multi-antenna transceiver system with miso architecture for wi-fi communications: There is described a gateway including an electronic card (4) and a multi-antenna system integrated in the electronic card for transmitting/receiving radiofrequency signals from and to a Wi-Fi communication system in radiofrequency; the multi-antenna system includes two reception antennas fixed permanently to the electronic card, in which the first antenna... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20090067372 - Host-based quality of service for wireless communications: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate providing quality of service (QOS) functionality on a host device or tethered processor to conserve resources on a network device. In particular, the host device/tethered processor can classify QOS data and manage QOS flows, transmitting data by flow to the network device. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090067368 - Method and apparatus for selecting a radio access technology for communication: A method and apparatus for communicating data between a mobile communication device and a communications node via an appropriate radio access technology. In one embodiment, the method comprises identifying at least one characteristic associated with data pending for communication, identifying a set of radio access technologies available for communication and... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090067367 - Method for configuring a radio terminal through a radio communication network, related network and computer program product therefor: A method for configuring a re-configurable radio terminal through a communication network operating according to a communication system, wherein the radio terminal is configured for exchanging information with at least one node of the communication network by using the communicating system. The method is characterized by the steps of associating... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090067366 - Multi-hop communication setup subject to boundary values: A method controls the setup of multi-hop communications. For this purpose, boundary values for the multi-hop communications are determined, actual values of the multi-hop communications are detected and multi-hop communications to subscriber terminals are only established if the actual values do not exceed the determined boundary values.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090067369 - Routing in a mesh network: Apparatus and method for associating with any one of a plurality of access points in a mesh network including estimating a plurality of metrics for the access points, the estimated metrics being related to throughputs provided by the access points, and selecting one of the access points to associate with... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090067375 - Beamforming with nulling techniques for wireless communications networks: Beamforming with nulling techniques for wireless communications networks are disclosed. For example, an apparatus may include a beamforming module and a weight determination module. The beamforming module applies beamforming weights to a downlink user channel with a first mobile station. The weight determination module determines the beamforming weights based on... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20090067378 - Blind decoding in a mobile environment: Providing for modified rate-matching of modulated data to convey mobile network system information is described herein. By way of example, a rate-matching state, such as a data offset, can be introduced into a coded data stream that is modulated to resources of a wireless signal. The state can further be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090067377 - Medium access control frame structure in wireless communication system: A wireless communication infrastructure entity configured to allocate radio resources, in a radio frame, to a wireless terminal compliant with a first protocol and to a wireless terminal compliant with a second protocol. The radio frame including a first protocol resource region and a second protocol resource region. The radio... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090067374 - Method for traffic indication and channel adaptation for sleep mode terminals, and an apparatus thereof: The traffic indication and channel adaptation apparatus for a subscriber station in a sleep mode according to the present invention includes: a channel resource allocator for generating resource allocation information allocating an uplink channel resource to the subscriber station; a traffic indication and channel adaptation controller for generating a traffic... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090067380 - Mobile communication system using a downlink shared channel: A mobile station used in a mobile communication system having a base station, the mobile station comprises a receiver which receives first identification information and second identification information, and receives first information using the first identification information and second information using the second identification information, wherein the first information includes... Agent: Hanify & King, P.C.

20090067376 - Packet transmission control device, and packet transmission control method: A disclosed packet transmission control apparatus that controls packet transmission to plural radio terminals includes a priority determination portion that determines a packet assignment priority in accordance with at least one of presence/absence of retransmission data and the number of data transmissions, and a radio terminal selection portion that selects... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090067379 - System and method for allocating resources in a communication system: A method and system for allocating feedback resources in a communication system are provided, in which a Base Station (BS) allocates a first feedback resource area for ACKnowledgment/Negative ACKnowledgment (ACK/NACK) messages for general packets and a second feedback resource area for ACK/NACK messages for fixed packets, transmits the general packets... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090067381 - Transport efficiency optimization for mobile ipv6: The present invention concerns a method and system for optimizing transport efficiency between a Mobile Node and a Correspondent Node in a Mobile IP network. A short Mobile Node Identifier is assigned to the Mobile Node. A Mobile Node Identifier Destination Option header comprising the assigned Mobile Node Identifier is... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090067383 - Method and apparatus for a frequency division duplex communication using a time division duplex modem: The present invention is directed to an communication unit an antenna and at least two modem cards. The first modem card is coupled to the antenna so that the first modem card transmits a first transmit signal at a first frequency during a first period and receives a first received... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090067384 - Method and system to enable simultaneous reception of plurality of services in dvb systems: A method comprises dividing a time frequency frame into a plurality of slots, the frame having one or more radio-frequency (RF) channels, determining a maximum slot length, and scheduling service data in symbols such that all service data symbols are within the maximum slot length of symbols corresponding to at... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090067382 - Methods and apparatus for improved utilization of air link resources in a wireless communications system including a multi-antenna element base station: Methods and apparatus are described for improved utilization of air link resources. A base station includes at least one of a plurality of receive antenna elements and a plurality of transmit antenna elements for communicating with a wireless terminal. The base station generates channel estimation vectors corresponding to wireless terminals... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090067385 - Apparatus and method for obtaining information on neighbor network for vertical handover in a wireless communication system: A wireless communication system supporting Media Independent Handover (MIH) is provided. The system comprises an MIH Function (MIHF) for receiving an MIH query message requesting Layer-2 (L2) information from an MIHF of a neighbor network, and extracting the contents of the query from the MIH query message, a converter for... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090067386 - Method and apparatus for cell reselection enhancement for e-utran: A framework for the cell reselection and associated measurement behavior is proposed based on a state in which a UE is camped on the cell. If the UE is ‘camped in any cell state’, inter-frequency and/or inter-RAT measurements are prioritized over intra-frequency measurements. The proposed scheme helps the UE to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090067388 - Method and system for mobile receiver architecture for us band cellular and vhf/uhf broadcasting: In a video processing system, a method and system for a mobile receiver architecture for US Band cellular and VHF/UHF broadcasting are provided. Received channels may be processed in at least one radio frequency front end (RFFE) in a mobile terminal and may comprise at least one of a VHF/UHF... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090067387 - Wireless user equipment for use in reducing cross cell interference: A method for reducing cross cell interference in a wireless time division duplex communication system using code division multiple access, the system having at least one user equipment (UE) and a base station (BS) is disclosed. The method begins by measuring an interference level of each timeslot at the BS.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090067390 - Method for specifying transmitting times for cyclically sending out data messages, and subscriber device therefor: A method for specifying transmitting times for cyclically sending out data messages (3) in a data transmission network (1) is disclosed, which has a plurality of subscriber devices (2) containing transmitting and/or receiving units networked together, comprising allocating a message counter to the individual data messages (3) of a transmitting... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20090067389 - Radio communication system, radio communication apparatus and radio communication method for uwb impulse communication: Provided is a radio communication system for ultra wideband (UWB) impulse communications and a radio communication apparatus and method thereof. The present patent provides a radio communication system that can minimize power consumption by eliminating a need for carrier detection and sharing transmission/reception time information in UWB impulse communications. The... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090067391 - Separate rank and cqi feedback in wireless networks: A transmission of information within a wireless network may include a first and second type of feedback information, wherein the second type of feedback information is derived based on the first type of feedback information. The first type of feedback information is embedded in a configured frame every T1 frames.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090067393 - Concentric rings wireless network architecture: A wireless network includes access points arranged in concentric rings and grids of concentric rings. At low network loads, only access points in the center are on to reduce power consumption. As network loads increase, access points in concentric rings are turned on. As network loads decrease, access points in... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC

20090067392 - Floor determination for a wireless device: An apparatus configured to acquire received signal strength intensities (RSSIs) for a wireless device from a plurality of access points (APs) located on a plurality floors. The apparatus is configured to determine which floor the wireless device is on by analyzing the RSSIs. In an example embodiment, the RSSIs are... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090067398 - Implementing location awareness in wlan devices: A set of global location signals, an SBAS (Satellite Based Augmentation System), or an ACI (ambient country identifier) signal can be used to automatically provide location awareness for a WLAN device. If one of the set of global location signals, the SBAS signal, or the ACI signal is detected, then... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20090067396 - Method and system for bluetooth (bt) delayed acknowledgement (ack): A method and system for Bluetooth (BT) delayed acknowledgment is presented. Aspects of the system may include an initiator device, such as a WLAN access point (AP), which enables transmission of a protocol data unit, such as a BlockAckReq frame, to a responder device, such as a Smartphone, via a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090067399 - Method and system for imposing air interface service level: A method and system for providing services in communications networks. A gateway layer determines information about a communication session and responsively sends a signaling message to a session manager, providing the information. The session manager may then send a signaling message to a service agent, also providing the information. The... Agent: Sprint

20090067400 - Method of supervising at least one tunnel set up for routing packets between a mobile router and a referring equipment item in a home network of the mobile router: A method supervises at least one tunnel set up for routing packets between a mobile router and a referring piece of equipment in a home network of the mobile router. The method detects a change in an availability state of the tunnel and sends notification of the change in the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090067394 - Mobile network user terminal status monitoring: A system (1) allows a client (3) to enquire about the current network status of a user terminal (5), and it allows a client to register the fact that the client is waiting for a network status change notification for a particular user terminal (5). It interfaces with a number... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090067397 - Procedure for wireless network management and station supporting the procedure: There is provided a procedure for wireless network management and a station supporting the procedure. In the procedure, non-AP station which wants to us a traffic filter service (TFS) transmits a TFS request message including one or more TFS request elements for defining information about the requesting traffic filters to... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090067395 - Routing network requests based on a mobile network signature: Disclosed are systems and methods for responding to a web page request from a mobile device by providing the network address of a server hosting content formatted for the mobile device. The systems and methods include means and ways for redirecting a request for URL resolution from a DNS server... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20090067401 - Method and device for recognizing a synchronization message from a wireless telecommunication device: A method of recognizing a synchronization message from a wireless telecommunications device comprising the steps of: dividing a series of known identification codes into a plurality of sections; processing and storing the sections of the known identification codes; dividing a signal received from the wireless telecommunications device into a plurality... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090067403 - Selecting wider bandwidth channels in a wireless network: Techniques are provided for selecting channels for a wider bandwidth operation mode of a wireless network, such as wireless network that operates in accordance with the IEEE 802.11n amendment. Alignments of so-called primary and secondary channels are selected to mitigate interference. Interfering sources, such as other transceivers or external interferers,... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090067402 - System and method for distributed input-distributed output wireless communications: A system and method are described for dynamically adapting the communication characteristics of a multiple antenna system (MAS) with multi-user (MU) transmissions (“MU-MAS”). For example, a method according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: transmitting a training signal from each antenna of a base station to each of a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090067404 - Apparatus and method for random access in wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for random access in a wireless communication system are provided. In the method, a random access response message is received. The random access response message is analyzed to determine a status of a random access process. A count variable value is updated according to the status.... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090067405 - Communication of control information in wireless communication systems: A wireless system has a high rate data channel for time multiplexed communications to multiple mobile stations (MSs). Control channels include a forward link common power control channel and reverse link feedback channels for pilot, forward channel quality, and data acknowledgements from each MS. An MS can have an active... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20090067406 - Method for branching data in mobile communication terminal: A method for branching data in a mobile communication terminal to perform data communication between a mobile station and a network which have media access control sublayers. In a data sending mode, each of the media access control sublayers of the mobile station and network attaches logical channel types based... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20090067408 - Centralized call log and method thereof: The present invention relates to a method and system thereof, which comprises a communication network having at least a serving session network node, through which communication initiation requests of the communication network are routed. The system further comprises an application services providing network node, which interfaces with the serving session... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20090067407 - Keep-alive for wireless networks: A transmitting device transmits data to one or more receiving devices. At least one of the receiving devices transmits a keep-alive to the transmitting device. The keep-alive is transmitted at a reduced rate relative to the data transmission rate. In some implementations multiple receiving devices may transmit keep-alives. In these... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090067411 - Call forwarding in an ip multimedia subsystem (ims): A method and Serving Call/State Control Function (S-CSCF) for handling a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) communication within an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), wherein the communication is subject to a call-forwarding operation handled by a SIP Application Server (AS). An INVITE is received at the S-CSCF, which serves a user equipment... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090067410 - Detection of spit on voip calls: A method for packet telephony includes receiving over a packet communication network (22) a first message originating from a first end-user (32A) in a first aggregating organization (28) to place a call to a second end-user (32D) in a second aggregating organization (30). Responsively to the first message, respective values... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090067412 - Method for supporting multiple devices from a broadband connection: A method adds a MAC address per line for a multiline EMTA. After the EMTA initializes, the method creates “Virtual MTA” instances corresponding to each analog line/MAC address. The method facilitates MTA emulation of each of the Virtual MTA instances. For each virtual EMTA line, the emulation method includes acquiring... Agent: Arris International, Inc

20090067413 - Packet network based emergency backup telephone system: In an emergency backup telephone system, members of an enterprise use their personal computers to log into an emergency communications web page. Upon logging in, software that enables the personal computer to act as a webphone is automatically downloaded. This software allows a person to initiate a call from personal... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us) Attn: Patent Group

20090067409 - System for communicating between internet protocol multimedia subsystem networks: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a Telephone Number Mapping system operating in a first IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) communication system having a controller adapted to receive first contact information of a communication device registered through a terminating Serving Call Session Control Function... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090067414 - Systems and methods for communicating documents: A system includes telephone and packet-switched network interfaces and a translator. The translator receives messages. Outgoing messages originate from a multiple-function peripheral (MFP) and are received via a transfer agent (TA). Outgoing e-mail messages include an attached file in an image file format. The translator removes and delivers the attachment... Agent: Robert A. Blaha Smith Frohwein Tempel

20090067415 - Optical network terminal with integrated internet protocol private branch exchange: Internet Protocol (IP) private branch exchange (IP-PBX) functionality may be provided on existing optical network terminal (ONT) hardware without support of an IP-PBX device by using a method of managing an IP-PBX that includes identifying IP configuration data on downstream network communications associated with at least one private IP branch... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090067416 - Allowing tcp ack to pass a gateway while queuing data for parsing: In one embodiment, a method for providing an ACK packet while queuing data is provided. One or more packets in a series of packets may be received from a client at a gateway. The gateway determines that a packet in the series of packets has not been received. The one... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090067417 - Method and apparatus for supporting sip/ims-based femtocells: A femtocell is integrated into a core network so as to securely and efficiently deliver one or more mobile services to an end user on an existing mobile device over a broadband connection. This integration can be into a basic Internet Protocol (IP)-based network, or an IMS-based network. In an... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20090067418 - Systems and methods for communicating documents via an autonomous multiple-function peripheral device: A multiple-function peripheral device includes a packet-switched network interface and an autonomous application programming interface. The application programming interface requests image information from a remote server via the packet-switched network interface in a first mode of operation. The application programming interface sends image information to a remote device via the... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20090067422 - Communication system and method: A communication system and method include an intermediate router arranged to facilitate communication between any of a plurality of communication nodes over a data communications network. The intermediate router receives communications over the data communications network from a transmitting communication node for a receiving communication node. The communication includes a... Agent: Leason Ellis LLP

20090067420 - Location determination for a packet-switched device for providing location-based services: A device is operable to determine location of a packet-switched device, and the location is used to provide location-based services for the packet-switched device. The device includes an interface receiving a message. The message includes a tag inserted by an access point between the packet-switched device and the device. A... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090067424 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a data block in a wireless communication system: The invention provides methods and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a source data block in a wireless communication system using hybrid automatic retransmission request protocol. According to the scheme provided by the invention, at transmitting side, the source data block or part of source data block that is not decoded... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090067421 - Method and device for transferring digital information: A device and method for transmitting digital information, where the Transmission takes place from an information-providing entity (71) to a final destination entity (81). It is significant that the digital information to be sent from the first data communication device (70) to the second data communication device (80) is divided... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090067423 - System and method for service assurance in ip networks: A system and method for providing service assurance in a data network is provided. Resource control points are positioned throughout a data network, such as an IP data network. The resource control points obtain network topology information and correlates that information with information associated with a particular service session. The... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090067419 - Transmission control apparatus and method: A transmission control apparatus capable of controlling the transmission of actual data from the beginning of the data transmission. Attribute information indicative of the attribute of data to be transmitted is notified by a transmission request source, which requests the transmission of the data, to a transmission request destination prior... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090067426 - Join message load control system and method in network using pim-ssm: A Join message load control system in a network using a Protocol Independent Multicast-Source Specific Multicast (PIM-SSM) protocol, the Join message load control system including a source access hop router creating a SOURCE-INACTIVE message and transmitting the created SOURCE-INACTIVE message when a multicast traffic is not received from the multicast... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090067425 - Switching source device, switching destination device, high speed device switching system, and signaling method: A session mobility for moving a session held between a switching source device and a communication counterpart to a switching destination device other than the switching source device. The switching source device transmits media data relating to a session by multicast or broadcast prior to device switching. The switching destination... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090067428 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing high performance communication bus having preferred path source routing, multi-guarantee qos and resource reservation, management and release: Disclosed are methods, apparatus and computer program products, in accordance with exemplary embodiments of this invention, that provide a communication network having an enhanced data packet source routing procedure, that provide enhanced QoS functionality in a communication network where a first network protocol layer implements QoS with relative guaranties and... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090067429 - Packet forwarding apparatus suitable for forwarding extended frame: A packet forwarding apparatus (L2SW) having a frame segmentation function of converting a extended Ethernet frame such as a MAC-in-MAC frame into a plurality of fragment frames when a payload length of the received frame exceeds a standard MTU size communicable in an Ethernet network to be a forwarding destination,... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090067427 - Routing device, routing module and routing method for an access network: The invention relates to a routing device for an access network, a routing module therefor and a routing method for an access network. The routing device comprises forwarding means able to determine a destination device for a message sent by a sending device. The message contains an anycast address being... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090067431 - High performance network adapter (hpna): A high performance network adapter is provided for forwarding traffic and providing adaptation between packetized memory fragment based processor links of multiple CPUs and multiple switch planes of a packet switching network. Low latency for short and long packets is provided by innovative packet reassembly, overlapping transmission, and reverse order... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.C. Alan W. Young

20090067430 - Partial build of a fibre channel fabric: In one embodiment, a technique for performing partial build fabric operations when merging two or more Fibre Channel fabrics is provided. By maintaining a Principal Switch already assigned for one of two merging fabrics, a limited “partial build” may be performed for the other merging fabric. As a result, the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20090067434 - Atm communications system and method: Traffic from a number of different service type users is multiplexed into minicells for transmission over an ATM link. Service type information is transmitted in a service specific field and is stored. This stored information is used to derive length information to delineate the different length user minicells. The technique... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090067432 - Method and system for controlling a back-up multiplexer in a local collection facility from a remote facility: A system and method suitable for processing television signals includes a remote facility and a local collection facility in communication with the remote facility. The local facility has a plurality of receivers receiving a plurality of channel signals and a plurality of encoders generating a plurality of encoded signals from... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090067433 - Method and system for controlling a back-up network adapter in a local collection facility from a remote facility: A system and method suitable for processing television signals includes a local collection facility that has a plurality of receivers receiving a plurality of channel signals a plurality of encoders generating a first plurality of encoded signals from the plurality of channel signals, a multiplexer multiplexing the first plurality of... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090067435 - Systems, methods and computer products for a tcp/ip stack to notify an application of a state change made to all routes over a single ipv4 interface: Systems, methods and computer products for a TCP/IP stack to notify an application of a state change made to all routes over a single IPV4 interface. Exemplary embodiments include a including creating a master socket to the TCP/IP stack, obtaining all IPV4 active and inactive home interfaces from the TCP/IP... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090067437 - Methods, systems and computer program products for managing atm ethernet flows: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for associating multiple Ethernet flows between a transceiver/uplink endpoint and a subscriber endpoint over an underlying ATM VCC including generating an ATM VCC record having a first endpoint identifier corresponding to a subscriber device such as a passive optical network (“PON”) or... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (tellabs)

20090067436 - Network assignment based on priority: Systems and methods for network assignment based on priority are described in this application. In one aspect, a technique for network assignment based on priority relates to establishing a connection between a client and a virtual local area network (VLAN), based on an explicit or implicit network priority preference of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090067439 - Data communication system: The session management server is provided with means for conducting, in parallel, processing to issue processing requests for respective functions required for establishing a session (such as making a decision regarding whether to permit or deny provision of a service, or generating a session key) and processing to forward a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090067438 - Method, apparatus and program for transferring data: A method, apparatus, and program for allowing a first transmitting apparatus among a plurality of transmitting apparatuses connected to a network to transmit data packets to the network. The method includes: receiving a control packet transmitted from a second transmitting apparatus among the plurality of transmitting apparatuses, judging whether the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090067442 - Method and system for managing multiple networks over a set of ports: A system has a switch that allows virtual private networks to be created dynamically. The system includes at least one network. The system also includes a computer having an address. The system also includes a plurality of ports for coupling to the computer. The system also includes a switch that... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20090067441 - Multi-interface wireless adapter and network bridge: Among other things, a wireless device is disclosed for enabling communication with a gateway device within a user premises. The wireless device includes a wireless local area network transceiver for bidirectional wireless data communication at the premises, an interface for wired communication, a processor for converting data between the wireless... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090067440 - Systems and methods for bridging a wan accelerator with a security gateway: The solution described herein provides systems and methods for the interoperability of network processing programs that process network packets at different levels of the network stack. This solution bridges the communications of a network packet between a first network processing program operating at a first level of a network stack... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090067443 - Method for network visualization: A method of visualizing network data includes parsing a collection of packets in accordance with a set of categories related to characteristics of the collection of packets, the categories including listings of categorical elements, wherein at least some of the categorical elements are selectable by a user. When a categorical... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090067446 - Multi-part parsing in a network device: A network device for processing data on a data network includes a plurality of ports configured to receive data from a data network and to send processed data to the data network, and a multi-part parser configured to parse the data received. The multi-part parser comprises several parsing blocks configured... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090067445 - Router and routing network: A router in which each of the input/output ports is associated with identifiers enabling each of the other input/output ports to locate it according to a code specific to each of them, comprising means for identifying in an incident packet a routing instruction indicating a forward identifier of the desired... Agent: HowardIPLaw Group

20090067444 - Virtual networks in a communication system architecture: A method may include assigning to one or more I/O channels masks of message types that may pass through the channels, and when a message is sent or received, assigning to the message a channel having a mask that matches a type of the message.... Agent: Fsp LLC

20090067447 - Wireless channel selection techniques and devices: Techniques for locating wireless channels usable for transmitting media signals from personal media players that are adequately separated from wireless channels used for other purposes. One technique involves identifying a target channel and at least two additional channels within a certain proximity of the target channel, and evaluating a channel... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090067448 - Contention-based communication: For an example embodiment, a method for a communication device operating in a synchronous communication system is described. The method includes performing a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure prior to the start of a downlink subframe of a synchronous frame and determining if a transmission from another communication device of another communication... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090067449 - Integrated system and method for interactive communication and multimedia support in vehicles: An integrated system for interactive communication and multimedia support in a vehicle. The system includes a plurality of peripheral devices and a central control unit. Each of the peripheral devices is configured to be installed in the vehicle. The central control unit is also configured to be installed in the... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090067450 - Method and system for encoding or decoding a sequence of digital data: A method is provided for encoding and decoding a sequence of digital data, according to which a portion of the sequence of digital data corresponds to a data block that includes several data packets, at least two data packets per data block containing an identifier. The position of the data... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20090067451 - System and method for extending dsl transmission range: A system and method is provided to extend transmission range of a digital subscriber line (DSL). In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an input signal including a broadband data signal having a first signal strength and a telecommunication signal. The broadband data signal may be separated from the telecommunication... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090067452 - Synchronization using multicasting: A process to synchronize information transmitted from an information provider to a plurality of network elements is provided. The process determines a temporal difference between related network elements and compensates for this difference by dilating an information signal provided to at least one of the network elements to resynchronize the... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090059781 - Method and apparatus for ici cancellation in communication systems: An apparatus capable of inter-carrier interference (ICI) cancellation in a communication system, the apparatus comprising a detecting module configured to detect an ISI-free region free from inter-symbol interference (ISI) in a guard interval (GI) of a symbol in time domain, a windowing module configured to provide a windowing function in... Agent: Akin Gump LLP - Silicon Valley

20090059780 - Method and apparatus for self-tuning precoder: Techniques are disclosed for compensating for crosstalk using adaptation of data signals transmitted over respective channels of a communication system. For example, a method includes the following steps. A first set of estimated measures of crosstalk is obtained for at least a selected portion of a plurality of communication channels... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090059782 - Method and apparatus for extending the transmission capability of twisted pair communication systems: A closed loop feedback system is employed in a receiver to automatically compensate the communication signal from twisted pair cables for AC and DC losses. This is accomplished through the use of a reference pulse signal which is sent along with other digital information. At the receiver, the reference pulse... Agent: The Hecker Law Group

20090059783 - Communication system and method of receiving high priority signals and low priority signals: A communication system and method of communicating signals to a plurality of different types of receivers is provided. The communication system includes at least one transmitter that transmits a high priority signal and a low priority signal that are hierarchically modulated and transmitted as a single frequency network. At least... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090059784 - Data and voice messaging system: A data messaging system includes a first Internet Protocol (IP) switch that includes a processor. The data messaging system also includes a first gateserver coupled to the first IP switch and coupled to a second IP switch. The data messaging system includes a second gateserver that is coupled to the... Agent: Toler Law Group

20090059787 - Apparatus and associated methodology of processing a network communication flow: The disclosure relates to an apparatus and associated methodology for processing flows. Data packets belonging to various flows are received by a device of a communications network and stored in a queue so as the device retransmits them. In order to re-transmit a data packet, a flow is selected, to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090059786 - Method and apparatus for dynamic assignment of quality of service parameters in a communication network: A method includes identifying a condition associated with a communication network and/or an industrial control and automation system. The method also includes selecting, based on the identified condition, one or more quality of service (QoS) parameters used to route data through the communication network. In addition, the method includes communicating... Agent: Kris T. Fredrick Honeywell International Inc.

20090059785 - Policy-based resource management: In one embodiment, a network device receives a request from a client in association with a connection, where the request indicates an amount of one or more resources that is requested to support the connection. The network device determines whether the amount of the resources is available. The network device... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090059790 - Cellular communication system, apparatus and method for management of backhaul resources: A communication network element comprises traffic scheduler logic capable of scheduling transmission of a first category of queued traffic across a backhaul interface in accordance with a rate control value. The communication network element further comprises traffic manager logic capable of scheduling transmission of a second category of queued traffic... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090059788 - Method and apparatus for dynamic adaptation of network transport: An intermediate device of a network includes network and transport layers, a dispatcher, a splitter and a connections database. The splitter intercepts a message packet in the network layer and modifies the network routing header and transport header of the message packet to form a modified message packet. The dispatcher... Agent: Leveque Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090059794 - Method and apparatus for wifi long range radio coordination: A method and apparatus for WiFi long range radio coordination is described. In one embodiment, a method for facilitating radio coordination in order to prevent simultaneous exchanges of data includes processing status information associated with a first radio and a second radio within a node and scheduling signal communications of... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20090059789 - Method and system for providing user configurable differentiated service: An approach is provided for specifying class of service (CoS) information. A wireless device is configured to connect to a wireless access point that communicates with a data network. The wireless device generates a message including a header that specifies class of service information for establishing a communication path over... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090059791 - System and method for bandwidth control: A method for bandwidth control includes maintaining priority rules for IP traffic. The method further includes determining current traffic characteristics associated with at least a portion of the IP traffic. The method also includes modifying a priority level based in part on the current traffic characteristics. In one embodiment, the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090059793 - Traffic engineering method, system and computer program product for managing traffic over dynamic networks during both normal and unexpected traffic scenarios: A network traffic engineering method, system and computer program cope with dynamic and unpredictable changes in traffic demands and in the availability and quality of interdomain routes by monitoring traffic over a network having nodes and links, calculating a routing utilizing a convex-hull-based optimal traffic engineering algorithm with penalty envelope... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090059792 - Wireless communication device, wireless communication system, wireless communication method, and program: A bandwidth-reservation wireless communication device that performs communication with a communication destination node connected thereto via a wireless communication network includes a traffic amount estimation unit configured to estimate an amount of traffic involved in receiving response data from the communication destination node, and a media resources reservation unit configured... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090059795 - Method and system for transitioning between a distributed ad hoc network architecture and a cluster ad hoc network architecture: Techniques are provided for detecting an increase in congestion in a distributed ad hoc network architecture and transitioning from the distributed ad hoc network architecture to a cluster ad hoc network architecture when a sufficient increase in congestion is detected based on one or more congestion level indicator values (CLIVs).... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090059796 - Method, system, and computer program product for identifying common factors associated with network threshold violations: Disclosed are a method, system, and computer program product for identifying one or more common factors or causes which explain the one or more network threshold violations. In one embodiment, the method or the system identifies one or more network components within a network and then identifies which of the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20090059797 - Ensuring physical locality of entities sharing data: A method and system for ensuring that data is only distributed within a certain physical area are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method provides that data is distributed only if the distance between a source and a sink is within a distance threshold. Under this system, the distance between the... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090059798 - Apparatus for and method of monitoring qos metrics of voip voice traffic using sip/rtp: An apparatus for measuring QoS metrics of VoIP voice traffic using SIP and RTP in a router or a network, not in a user terminal, and a method of measuring QoS metrics of VoIP voice traffic using the apparatus.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090059800 - Method and apparatus for managing the interconnection between network domains: A control protocol is run in the interconnect region between network domains so that the interconnect region may be managed using a separate control plane. According to an embodiment of the invention, a spanning tree protocol is used to establish a separate spanning tree within the interconnect region. To avoid... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras, LLP Attn: John C. Gorecki

20090059799 - Scaling oam for point-to-point trunking: A shared (proxy) OAM session is performed in a packet-based network on behalf of a plurality of connections. First and second connections are each routed between respective nodes of the network for carrying data traffic. The second connection shares a portion of the routing of the first connection. The shared... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090059802 - Device, system and method for diagnosing interworking fault of x digital subscriber line transceivers: A device, system and method for diagnosing an interworking fault of x Digital Subscriber Line (xDSL) transceivers are disclosed. The xDSL transceivers in the system include an xTU-C and an xTU-R. The system further includes: a message collection module adapted to collect and save the interaction messages transmitted between the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090059801 - Managing storage of harq packets: Methods of managing storage of HARQ packets are disclosed. One method includes a wireless device receiving variable length HARQ packets. The wireless device performing an error check on each received variable length HARQ packet, and storing within HARQ memory the HARQ packets that fail the error check. Each failed HARQ... Agent: Beceem Communications, Inc.

20090059803 - High resiliency network intrastructure: A resilient interface architecture may include at least two interface switches and at least two interface routers. The at least two interface switches may provide connectivity between a subnetwork and a main network. If one of the switches fails, the connectivity otherwise provided by the failed interface switch may be... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090059804 - Methods and apparatus for generating simulated network traffic: In some embodiments, the specification may specify an interframe gap for each frame in the sequence of frames. This information may be used to determine the relative transmit time of each frame to be transmitted. Because the specification identifies an interframe gap for each frame in the sequence, in some... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090059805 - Base station and mobile station for processing wireless communication with each other, and method for controlling the same: A base station and a mobile station for processing wireless communication with each other, and a method for controlling the same are provided. The method for controlling a base station which performs radio communication with a mobile station includes starting radio communication via at least one arbitrary mobile station and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090059811 - Communications networks: In order to keep a pathway for time critical data packets (for example for VoIP calls) a dummy flow of data packets is established between a home hub router (20) and a broadband remote access server (25) being the first gateway to the IP network. Should a call be made... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090059808 - Memory access optimization: A method and an apparatus for memory access optimization are disclosed. Data unit information may be accumulated for a plurality of data units. Partial network statistics for the plurality of data units may be read sequentially in round robin fashion from each of a plurality of memory banks of a... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20090059806 - Method, system and apparatus for providing signal based packet loss concealment for memoryless codecs: In a method, apparatus and system for transmitting packet loss concealment (PLC) information, a subscriber device divides a voice sample into a plurality of packets, each including a plurality of successive frames having portions of the voice sample. The subscriber device determines if a predetermined look ahead time duration from... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090059810 - Network system: A network system includes: a monitored node (300) which is connected to a network (50) for isochronous transfer and asynchronous transfer and has a utility function; and a monitoring node (200) which monitors an operating state of the monitored node. The monitored node cyclically transmits a command (KA) representative of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090059809 - System and method for detecting and reporting cable network devices with duplicate media access control addresses: The detection of devices with duplicate media access controller (MAC) addresses in a cable network. A cable network device (CND) having a MAC address is connected by the cable network to a cable modem termination system (CMTS) having a gateway interface address. A centralized storage of historical cable modem MAC... Agent: Roberts, Mardula & Wertheim, LLC

20090059807 - Systems and methods to monitor a network: Systems and methods to monitor a network are provided. A particular method includes determining a data packet delivery rate between a first edge switch and a second edge switch coupled to a network. The method also includes sending the data packet delivery rate to a user device, operably coupled to... Agent: Toler Law Group

20090059812 - Adaptive method and apparatus for adjusting network traffic volume reporting: An adaptive method and apparatus for accurate network traffic volume limit reporting including receiving a network traffic volume limit for each subscriber based on the subscriber's level of service and reporting the network traffic volume on a more frequent basis for subscribers who are approaching their network volume limit.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090059814 - Configuring and optimizing a wireless mesh network: An interactive software-based network design tool that may be used to simulate and view the operation of a wireless mesh device network used in a process plant, such as a wireless HART device network, allows a user to create a model of a wireless network, input several design requirements, and... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20090059813 - Integration of external location engine using switch: An RF switch is provided. The RF switch includes a processor adapted for communication with an external location engine. The processor is configured to receive notification regarding a status of a wireless asset, receive a plurality of input variables associated with the wireless asset, determine whether the wireless asset is... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (symbol)

20090059815 - Self- organizing multi-channel mesh network: A system for self-organizing and auto-configuring mesh networks is disclosed. Special nodes (deemed special for their topological significance) are used as a starting point for forming clusters of fully connected nodes. Here, all nodes can communicate directly with one another and links are scheduled to meet the traffic requirements as... Agent: Alexander L. Cheng

20090059816 - Topology aware manet for mobile networks: Systems and methods provide adaptability in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET), based on an existing protocol, such as adaptive hybrid domain routing (AHDR). The systems and methods are especially suited for fast changing topologies that may change after a reactive route discovery has been completed.... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20090059817 - Method and apparatus for assigning and provisioning voip services: A method, system, and computer usable program product for assigning and provisioning VOIP services are provided. A data processing system receives an order for the VOIP service and information about virtual inventory. The data processing system may create a provisioning command including provisioning information for provisioning a telecommunication line according... Agent: Ip Department Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090059818 - Systems and methods for providing configurable caller id iformation: Systems and methods for providing voice communications using a computing system associated with a first user are disclosed. A communications service is provided that manages packetized voice communications between a plurality of users including the first user. A voice communications configuration software application executing on the first computing system configures... Agent: Loudermilk & Associates

20090059819 - System and method for transmitting/receiving signal in a communication system: A system and method for transmitting and receiving signals in a communication system are provided, in which a BS communicates with a first MS located within an inner area of a cell during first and second time periods in TDD and communicates with a second MS located within an outer... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090059820 - System and method for using frequency and time resources in a communication system: A method and system for using frequency resources in a communication system are provided. In the method and system, a total frequency band is divided into at least two frequency subbands and there is a guard interval between frequency subbands. A first frequency subband includes a TDD UL frequency subband... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090059821 - Acoustic echo cancellation based on noise environment: A method (200) of cancelling echo in a duplex communication device (100). The method can include detecting a level of noise present on an uplink signal path (104), generating a noise classifier (194) based on the detected level of noise, detecting whether uplink audio is present on the uplink signal... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20090059824 - Network allocation: Included are embodiments for network allocation. More specifically, one embodiment of a method includes receiving, at a first communications device, without a prior RTS signal being sent, a first clear to send (CTS) signal from a second communications device, addressed to the first communications device, the CTS signal indicating a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, L.L.P.

20090059823 - System and method of edge caching when communicating data: A communication system and method for communicating data is provided. The communication system includes at least one base station that transmits common data within a range of the at least one base station and a plurality of nodes. The plurality of nodes include at least a first node in communication... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090059822 - Universal femto cell: A universal femto cell, method, and computer usable program product for using the universal femto cell are provided such that the femto cell is configurable according to the user's choice of wireless carriers. A user configurable component of the universal femto cell enables a user to configure the universal femto... Agent: Ip Department Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090059828 - Intermittent operation communication device and communication system using beacon and sleep mode: An intermittent operation communication device periodically repeats beacon transmission, data reception or data reception wait, and sleep to transmit data to any of reception side communication devices. The intermittent operation communication device includes a data transmitter for performing transmission when receiving a beacon from any of the reception side communication... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090059826 - Power saving techniques based on coverage conditions: Techniques for managing power consumption are disclosed. For instance, an apparatus may include a first network interface module, a second network interface module, and a power management module. The first network interface module may communicate with wireless networks of a first network type, and the second network interface module may... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC 4500 Brooktree Road

20090059829 - Sleep-state for mobile terminal and service initiation for mobile terminals in sleep-state: The invention relates to the initiation of a service to a mobile terminal capable of communicating via at least a first and second access network. Further, the invention relates to a reduction of power consumption of mobile terminals supporting connectivity to at least two access networks. The invention also relates... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090059827 - System, method and apparatus for asynchronous communication in wireless sensor networks: The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for asynchronous communication in wireless sensor networks. Each sensor includes a transmitter normally operating in a sleep mode, a low power receiver having a memory, a sensing module, and a processor normally operating in a sleep mode communicably coupled to the... Agent: Chalker Flores, LLP

20090059825 - Transmit power management based on receiver parameter and method for use therewith: An RF transceiver includes an RF receiver that receives a received signal from an external device, the RF receiver having an AGC module that generates an automatic gain control (AGC) signal based on a strength of the received signal, and a low noise amplifier that amplifies the received signal based... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090059835 - Central node, base station, mobile station, and data transmission method: A disclosed base station includes a grouping unit configured to categorize mobile stations that are in the coverage area of the base station and in a multicast group into groups; and a content transmission unit configured to determine radio parameters for content based on at least supported frequency bands or... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090059832 - Method and system for utilizing commonality in data streams: A device (132) for dynamically selecting a wireless communication mode for wirelessly communicating information to at least two wireless communication devices (104, 106) includes a packet data comparator (324) adapted to compare data packets in multiple data streams, each stream designated for transmission to a different one of multiple destination... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090059831 - Method of communicating a multi-user packet to a group of users: A disclosed method of communicating includes using a group identifier within a multi-user packet (MUP) to indicate at least one packet within the MUP is intended for a plurality of members of a group corresponding to the group identifier. In a disclosed example, the group identifier comprises a group MAC... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C./alcatel-lucent

20090059830 - Method of signalling, a communication system and a communication equipment: First and second data is transmitted simultaneously by modulating a first set of signal constellation points, corresponding to the first data, with second data thereby creating a second set of constellation points. The second set of constellation points comprises two subsets corresponding to two values of the first data. The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090059834 - Multiple receiver aggregation: A technique for multiple receiver aggregation that allows for multiple immediate responses of acknowledgements or block acknowledgements. The technique uses a spoofed network allocation vector (NAV) implemented within an aggregate's PLCP header to protect the aggregate and all of the immediate responses from multiple receivers. The immediate responses are scheduled,... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090059833 - Wireless multiple connections and method thereof: The present invention provides a method for wireless transmission of a single packet flow from a network element. The method comprises establishing a first logical connection to a first wireless terminal for transmission of said single packet flow, determining at least one traffic parameter, establishing at least a second logical... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090059836 - Portable voice and data radio base station: Various embodiments are directed to a portable voice and data radio base station to couple to a mobile computing device. When coupled, the portable voice and data radio base station and the mobile computing device may cooperatively form a wireless access point to enable communications among a network and other... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC 4500 Brooktree Road

20090059838 - Methods and apparatuses for efficiently using radio resources in wireless communication system based on relay station (rs): Methods and apparatuses for efficiently using radio resources in a wireless communication system based on a relay station are provided. An operating method of a relay station (RS) for efficiently using radio resources in a wireless communication system based on the RS. The method includes setting a call with a... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090059837 - System and method for management and administration of repeaters and antenna systems: A system for remote control of a remote network element of a wireless network is provided including an administration unit, a virtual private network implemented on a base network connecting the administration unit and the remote network element. An element manager application executes on the administration unit and is operable... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP (commscope/andrew)

20090059839 - Broadband satellite system and method: Implementations of broadband satellite systems may comprise systems implementing embodiments of one, two or all of the aspects of distributed leadership, distributed bandwidth allocation and distributed timing. In systems implementing distributed leadership aspects, the control and administration of the network can be effectively performed by any site. In systems implementing... Agent: Booth Udall, PLC

20090059849 - Communication apparatus and communication method: A communication means which allocates a terminal identifier to a destination communication apparatus and carries out communication with the destination communication apparatus by use of a plurality of functions including an identifier generation section 152 for generating different terminal identifiers corresponding to a function used and an identifier allocation section... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090059845 - Method and apparatus for efficient selection and acquisition of systems utilizing ofdm or sc-fdm: Techniques for performing system selection and acquisition are described. In one design, a terminal may obtain at least one system record for at least one system utilizing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) or single-carrier frequency division multiplexing (SC-FDM). Each system record may include system identification information for an associated system... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090059848 - Method and system for supporting large number of data paths in an integrated communication system: Some embodiments provide a method and system for supporting a large set of data paths in a first communication network through a smaller set of data paths over which data services of a core network are accessed. Some embodiments provide such functionality by mapping identifiers associated with the larger set... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20090059844 - Method of transmitting data in multiple antenna system: A method of transmitting data in a wireless communication system comprises receiving feedback data on an uplink data channel, the feedback data comprising a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), wherein the value of the PMI corresponds to an index in a codebook, transmitting a precoding scheme for downlink data on a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090059846 - Peer-to-peer protocol for cellular basestations: A novel method for coordinating the operation of cellular basestations through the use of direct communication among those basestations. This is a departure from the current use of “radio network control” (RNC) elements such as the basestation controller (BSC) and mobile switching center (MSC) of the GSM standard and functionally... Agent: David Burgess

20090059843 - Systems, methods and computer products for providing a gradient driven mesh-network establishment: Systems, methods and computer products for establishing a mesh-network consisting of wireless personal area network (WPAN) having a large number of nodes. Exemplary embodiments include a gradient-driven mesh-network establishment method, including switching on a plurality of nodes in a vicinity of the wireless personal area network, detecting an acknowledgment signal... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090059842 - Systems, methods, and devices that dynamically establish a sensor network: A wireless sensor network includes a network sink node and a plurality of cluster nodes. The cluster nodes are configured to pass communications upstream and downstream. Each cluster node has a communication range, or coverage area. A cluster node is configured to communicate with sensor nodes within the coverage area... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090059847 - Unsolicited grant service class of ieee 802.16/wibro system: Provided is a traffic class of an IEEE 802.16/WiBro system. The unsolicited grant service (UGS) scheduling method with regard to a subscriber station (SS) and a base station (BS) that are disposed in a network wherein an IEEE 802.16/WiBro system is realized, the method includes: when the SS requires 1... Agent: Perman & Green

20090059841 - Wireless communication methods and apparatus using beacon signals: Methods and apparatus supporting peer to peer communications are discussed. A base station, serving as an access node for wireless terminals also communicates information supporting peer to peer communications. A base station transmits a beacon signal conveying information about a peer to peer frequency band and also receives user data... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090059840 - Wireless communication system and method for managing service flow identifier in the same: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and a service flow identifier management method thereof. The wireless communication system includes a plurality of RASs for controlling a plurality of PSSs in a radio network, and a plurality of ACRs for providing wireless communication services to the PSSs through... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090059859 - Communication device: In a communication apparatus, a grouping unit determines an adaptability based on a reception quality notified by a mobile station located in a cell, and groups mobile stations or connections by each of adaptabilities; an adaptability-based frame-occupancy-rate determining unit determines a data-mapping amount (an available capacity) by each of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090059855 - Distributed hierarchical scheduling in an ad hoc network: An ad hoc network with distributed hierarchical scheduling is disclosed. In one aspect, stations in a network mesh detect interfering neighbor stations and form interference lists. Stations transmit their interference lists. Scheduling stations schedule allocations for child stations in response to interference lists, received remote allocations, or a combination thereof.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090059852 - Method and apparatus for allocation of radio resources: An estimate of a cost of allocating radio resources available for allocation to the at least one radio link within a cell is generated in dependency 5 of which radio resources have been used within the cell at previous times. This cost estimate can be compared to a quality gain... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090059857 - Method and apparatus for load balancing in broadband communication system: An apparatus and method are provided for load balancing in a broadband communication system. In an initial network entry/network reentry/handover, whether to allow a user terminal and whether to allow each service flow are checked. The channel state and load state of candidate frequency assignments and subcells are detected. The... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090059853 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving packets in a mobile communication system: A method for transmitting a packet over a radio channel in a mobile communication system. The method includes receiving first packets from an upper layer; checking a number of and a size of the first packets to be bundled in a second packet; generating the second packet using the first... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090059850 - Method and system for transmitting resource allocation information in a communication system: A method and system for transmitting and receiving resource allocation information in a communication system are disclosed, in which an Relay Station (RS) receives a resource allocation information message from a Base Station (BS), detects a first resource allocation information from the resource allocation information message, and detects a second... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090059851 - Mitigation of uncoordinated interference of a wireless access node: An apparatus and method of a wireless node mitigating the effects of uncoordinated interference is disclosed. One embodiment of a method includes the wireless node monitoring uncoordinated interference affecting transmissions of the wireless node, and evaluating a plurality of wireless links, the evaluation influenced at least in part on the... Agent: Tropos Networks

20090059854 - Radio communication base station apparatus and radio communication method: Provided is a base station capable of searching cells of different frequencies without losing a chance of data communication by effectively performing SCH data communication. The base station (100) includes: an encoding unit (101) for encoding SCH data; a modulation unit (102) for modulating the encoded SCH data; encoding units... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090059856 - Spectrum sharing: Disclosed herein are various example methods and apparatuses. According to one example, a method may include determining, by a first wireless node in a first wireless network, that spectral resource needs for the first wireless network exceed spectral resources currently available for the first wireless network. The method may further... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090059858 - System and method for requesting bandwidth allocation and allocating bandwidth in communication system: Disclosed is a method of requesting bandwidth allocation by an MS having at least two CIDs in a communication system, the method including the steps of detecting at least one CID needing the bandwidth allocation; when a plurality of CIDs are detected, generating a grant management subheader including a region... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090059860 - Scheduler and method for allocating time and frequency dimensions of downlink bursts in broadband wireless access networks: Embodiments of a scheduler and a method for assigning frequency and time dimensions of downlink bursts in broadband wireless access networks are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, the frequency and time dimensions of downlink bursts are assigned to each of a plurality... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/intel

20090059861 - Blind handover using load compensated measurements: A method of initiating handover in a cellular radio system with CDMA access technology. A mobile station is present in a serving cell and handover should be made from a serving cell to a target cell. Before the handover is made the signal quality from the target cell is estimated.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090059864 - Method and system for managing mobility in a mobile communication system using proxy mobile internet protocol: A system is provided for managing mobility of an Access Terminal (AT) in a Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol (PMIP) communication system. As the AT performs a handoff, a target Signaling Radio Network Controller (SRNC) delivers session information of the AT, acquired from a source SRNC of a source network, to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090059863 - Method and system of wireless communication for mobile voice data: The present invention relates to a method and a system of wireless communicating voice data. When wireless communicating voice data, there is no need to collect the related information of the voice data into a multiple voice packet. Therefore, the ratio of the voice data in the multiple voice packet... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090059862 - Method for efficient delivery of clustered data via adaptive tcp connection migration: The present invention relates generally to a method for efficient I/O handling in a cluster-based architecture. According to one aspect, the invention enables efficient scheduling of TCP connection migrations within a cluster. According to another aspect, the invention enables I/Os performed as TCP handoff operations to coexist on the same... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090059866 - Method, system and apparatus for implementing fast handover: A method, a system and an apparatus for fast handover, and relates to the field of mobile communication. The method is to create a fixed tunnel relationship between the PAR and the NAR, where a current host route of an MN at the access routers PAR and NAR is created;... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090059865 - Seamless handover method and system: The present invention provides a communication system for performing the seamless handover of a mobile station between at least a first wireless access point and a second wireless access point within wireless LAN. The mobile station is in the coverage of at least the first wireless access point for receiving... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090059867 - Cell base station neighbor list self configuration: A code division multiple access telecommunications network including an underlay base station in a private premises and a plurality of overlay macro base stations. The underlay base station includes a GPS receiver and a mobile unit receiver. The underlay base station uses its geographic location to obtain information identifying macro... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090059868 - Cell base station radio frequency channel selection: A code division multiple access telecommunications network including an underlay base station in a private premises and a plurality of overlay macro base stations. The underlay base station includes a GPS receiver and a mobile unit receiver. The underlay base station uses its geographic location to obtain information identifying base... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090059870 - Method to filter unauthorized mobile devices in code division multiple access networks: A method for managing an attempted connection between a home base station (HBS) and a device not registered with the HBS is provided. The method includes transferring the connection when the attempted connection can be transferred to a traditional base station. When the attempted connection cannot be transferred to a... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090059869 - Pseudorandom noise selection method for mobile communication sites: A method for allocating a pseudorandom noise identifier (PN) to a home base station (HBS) is provided. The method includes determining the location of the HBS, determining the PNs in use adjacent to the HBS, and using the location of the HBS and the PNs in use to select a... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090059871 - Time-to-trigger handling methods and apparatus: Time-to-trigger (TtT) time periods are usually fixed. A better TtT parameter is adapted based on the signal quality that a receiver perceives from its surrounding area. For example, the lower the value of a first signal quality at the same time that the value of a second signal quality is... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090059876 - Apparatus and method for updating mac table of layer-2 switch in a broadband wireless communication system: A broadband wireless communication system is provided. An apparatus for a Base Station (BS) comprises a controller for determining whether to accept an entry of a mobile terminal (MT) by handover from an adjacent BS, a handler for generating a message to get an L2 switch to update a Media... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090059873 - Characterizing uncoordinated interference of a wireless network: An apparatus and method of a wireless access node within a network characterizing uncoordinated interference is disclosed. One method includes the wireless node collecting air-time usage history as perceived by the wireless access node. The wireless access node receives air-time usage history as perceived by at least one neighboring wireless... Agent: Tropos Networks

20090059875 - Node fault identification in wireless lan access points: A wireless access point array having a plurality of access point radios, a monitor radio and an array controller. The array controller includes processes, methods and functions for verifying the operation of the access point radios. The access point radios may be verified by attempting to establish a data connection... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20090059874 - Wireless access systems: The invention provides method of, apparatus capable of, and computer software for, providing a user with access to a communications system including a plurality of wireless access points, said method comprising providing set of functions for use on a user terminal, said functions including functions for: storing a plurality of... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20090059877 - Wireless communication device and method for controlling wireless communication device: A wireless communication device includes: a determination unit that determines a selected first and second numbers based on relationship information; a calculation unit that calculates the number of frames transmittable through the first channel within a time period as a first frame number based on the selected first number, and... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090059879 - Wireless communication system for communicating via wireless lan: Provided is a wireless communication system, comprising: a base station providing communication by a plurality of communication methods; and a mobile node for communicating with the base station by the plurality of communication methods. The mobile node calculates a first distance between a wireless LAN access point and the mobile... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090059880 - Wireless communications system, wireless communications apparatus, wireless communications method and computer program for wireless communication: In performing SVD-MIMO transmission, a set-up procedure is simplified while assuring a satisfactory decoding capability with a reduced number of antennas. A transmitter estimates channel information based on reference signals sent from a receiver, determines a transmit antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the channel information, calculates a weight to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090059872 - Wireless dynamic rate adaptation algorithm: A wireless switch is provided. A processor is adapted to set a radio frequency (RF) transmission speed for a wireless client based on a location of the wireless client and a signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) of a radio frequency signal received by the wireless client.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090059878 - Wireless lan access point: A wireless LAN (Local Area Network) access point includes: a housing; and a plurality of sub-access points provided in the housing. The plurality of sub-access points being operable independently of one another.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090059881 - Wireless network self-adaptive load balancer: A load balancer is provided for balancing distribution of wireless clients among wireless access points. The load balancer includes a tracking implementation for tracking at least one telemetry parameter of each wireless client's wireless link with each respective wireless access point. A goal implementation is included for comparing one or... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090059882 - Multi-carrier spread spectrum device using cyclic shift orthogonal keying, transmitter, receiver, and communication system thereof: A multi-carrier spread spectrum device using cyclic shift orthogonal keying includes: a modulation unit for receiving a first part of data bits and transforming the first part of data bits to a modulation symbol di by modulation; a cyclic-shift unit for receiving a base code c(0) and a second part... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090059883 - Radio base station and method of receiving physical control channel: Provided are a radio base station and a method of receiving a physical control channel which are capable of achieving enhanced data-transmission efficiency of an uplink physical channel when a code division multiple access scheme is used. The radio base station includes: a correlation unit configured to determine a degree... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090059884 - Transmission methods for downlink ack/nack channels: A method from transmitting data via multiple antennas. In this method, four information bits to be transmitted are multiplexed by using either one of a code division multiplexing scheme or a second code division multiplexing scheme combined with a real and imaginary multiplexing scheme, to generate a code division multiplexed... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090059885 - Adaptive time-domain interpolation for ofdm scattered pilot symbols: A receiver for use in a pilot-aided OFDM system and a method of performing channel length estimation of a channel in a wireless communication system includes using transmitted and received wireless signals to estimate a channel carrier function vector at continuous and scattered pilot positions of consecutive OFDM symbols; performing... Agent: Rahman LLC

20090059886 - Apparatus for a beacon-enabled wireless network, transmission time determination method, and tangible machine-readable medium thereof: An apparatus for a beacon-enabled wireless network, a transmission time determination method, and a tangible machine-readable medium thereof are provided. The apparatus is located within the coverage area of the first equipment. The second equipment is located within the coverage area of the apparatus. The apparatus comprises a receive/transmission module... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090059887 - System and method for scheduling and transferring data through a transmission system: A system and method for dynamically dividing the capacity of a fixed time division multiplexing (TDM) frame between physical channels for data transmission. According to various embodiments, a time frequency frame is divided into a plurality of subframes, and each of the plurality of subframes are divided into a plurality... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090059888 - Apparatus, system, and method for implementing failover in a polling adapter without support from an application server: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for implementing failover in a polling adapter without support from an application server. A priority list is stored as part of an adapter configuration that specifies the server names that will participate in a group cluster. Adapters associated with the servers, in addition... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090059889 - Rtps class of ieee 802.16/wibro system: Provided is a real-time polling service (rtPS) class of an IEEE 802.16/WiBro system. An rtPS scheduling method of the IEEE 802.16/WiBro system includes subscriber station (SS) located in a network where the IEEE 802.16/WiBro system is realized inserting a timestamp indicating time information when uplink data is transmitted from an... Agent: Perman & Green

20090059890 - Spatial reuse in directional antenna systems: In directional antennas, spatial reuse involves enabling two communications to occur on the same link at the same time. The communications may be in the same or opposite directions. If no link of sufficient bandwidth is available that does not already have an active communication, a link with an active... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090059891 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication device and wireless communication method, and computer program: If the RTS/CTS procedure is used together, CTS information is transmitted in response to the reception of RTS information, and data is transmitted in response to the reception of CTS. The CTS transmitting station measures the quality of RTS receive signal, and thereby determines a transmission rate at which it... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090059892 - Method and apparatus for accommodating higher order modulation in wireless communication: A method and apparatus for reconfiguring a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) are directed to receiving an active set update message indicating that a mode of operation allowing a certain modulation scheme is enabled or disabled and performing at least one of: performing a MAC reset procedure, updating a set of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090059893 - Configuration of overhead channels in a mixed bandwidth system: A method and apparatus for transmitting broadcast information in a multi-carrier communication system. The Sync Channel of the multi-carrier system is transmitted a 1.25 MHz channel bandwidth (i.e., over a single carrier), and to specify the preferred channels for the Sync Channel transmission instead of the preferred channels for the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090059900 - External system access to telephone line through voip telephony device: A telephony device is configured to provide VoIP service at a customer premises and is also configured to provide an external system connected to the telephony device with the ability to seize a telephone line at the customer premises when needed. The telephony device includes an embedded MTA (EMTA), a... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090059903 - 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

20090059897 - Identity-based interactive response message: A system that can deliver a tailored message based upon characteristics surrounding an incoming communication. In one aspect, the system is a targeted voice-mail system that has the capability to provide a unique voice-mail depending upon the communication characteristics which include the identity of caller or the initiator of the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090059902 - Ip telephone terminal and computer readable storage medium: An IP telephone terminal and a method for controlling IP telephone terminal capable of performing IP telephone communication upon receiving information from a conversation application through a user interface provided with a microphone and a loud speaker when a conversation is to be performed with the microphone and the laud... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090059898 - Method and apparatus for signaling the subscriber type of ip and non-ip subscribers using the hostpart of the sip uri: To identify a subscriber type of IP and non-IP subscribers with SIP without adding additional signaling elements to existing SIP headers, a method for identification of subscriber type with SIP makes use of the originating subscriber URIs are in form of userpart@hostpart. The userpart uniquely identifies the originating subscriber. A... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090059895 - Methods and apparatus to dynamically select a peered voice over internet protocol (voip) border element: Methods and apparatus to select a dynamically peered voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) border element are disclosed. An example method comprises collecting data representative of a dynamic performance of a voice over Internet protocol network, prioritizing a selection of a peered border element based on the collected data, and modifying... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Attn. Patent Docketing

20090059894 - Methods and apparatus to select a peered voice over internet protocol (voip) border element: Methods and apparatus to select a peered voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) border element are disclosed. An example method comprises receiving a session initiation protocol (SIP) message that includes an identifier representative of a location of a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) access border element, querying a telephone number mapping... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Attn. Patent Docketing

20090059899 - Optimized packet processing architecture for battery powered mobile communication device: A transceiver includes a peripheral device, a first processor configured to control an operation of the peripheral device, at least one second processor configured to transport data between the transceiver and at least one wireless network, and a third processor connected between the first processor and the at least one... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20090059904 - Providing a network node with service reference information: Service reference information is added to an IP telephony signaling protocol message and the IP telephony signaling protocol message is then sent to the network node in order to provide a network node using the IP telephony signaling protocol, e.g., SIP, with service reference information needed for billing purposes.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090059896 - Remote connection to a telephone line via internet: A device receives a request from an Internet Protocol (IP)-based device to create a virtual extension of a plain old telephone service (POTS)-based telephone line, authenticates the IP-based device for association with the POTS-based telephone line, and creates the virtual extension of the POTS-based telephone line to the IP-based device... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090059906 - Routing of telecommunications: A gateway (11) is arranged to control the routing of a telecommunications call such that it may be handled in one of two or more alternative modes (3, 4). The gateway (11) identifies the intended routing of a call by way of the PSTN, for example from the dialed digits,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090059905 - System and method of providing a high-quality voice network architecture: Embodiments of the invention include a system and method for providing high quality voice/sound communications over a local loop of a telephone network. The method aspect of the invention comprises receiving a voice signal, digitizing the voice signal into a high quality voice signal, utilizing sampling rates greater than 8000... Agent: At & T Legal Department

20090059901 - Voip network phone forwarding device and application thereof: A VOIP network phone forwarding device is used to forward a call of an extension to a dual-mode mobile terminal. The VOIP network phone forwarding device comprises a wireless network module, a network interface, a phone connection interface, and a processor. The wireless network module connects to a wireless network... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090059907 - System, method and device for docking station for communication device: A docking station provides fixed mobile convergence and includes a docking interface for a communication unit, a transceiver for a fixed packet network, and/or a telephone interface to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) telephone. The method includes detecting if the communication unit, fixed packet network, and/or PSTN telephone is... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090059908 - Routing protocol with packet network attributes for improved route selection: A node for routing of calls in a network has an interface coupled to the network and at least one processor operable to route a packet-based call to a telephony destination in accordance with a protocol that includes a set of attributes that describe packet-network routing characteristics of one or... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20090059909 - Method and system for loan application non-acceptance follow-up: An interface system (100) configured for interaction between a client browser portal (105) and a server-based information handling system (102) includes an interaction controller (110) and a workflow processor (115). The interaction controller (110) and workflow processor (115) operate to transfer, deliver, operate upon, and manage data objects flowing to... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20090059910 - Integrated circuit with internal communication network: An integrated circuit comprises a plurality of data processing circuits (10) and a communication network (12) coupled between the data processing circuits (10). The communication network (12) comprises connections (122) and router circuits (120) coupled between the connections (122). Memory is provided to store definitions for respective data streams, of... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090059911 - Fast tv channel changing in iptv network: A router and method are described herein that provide a “fast leave behavior” by instantly aging out group and source records that are associated with the IGMPv3/MLDv2 protocols. In one embodiment, the router and method are part of a triple play service network including a bandwidth-limited Internet Protocol Television (IPTV)... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20090059918 - Intelligent call routing: A call routing decision for connecting a call between source and target devices is based on the traffic type (e.g., facsimile, modem, voice). In some implementations, the traffic type is determined and stored (e.g., in a billing record). The traffic type can be used to connect, block or reroute subsequent... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090059913 - Method and switch for routing data packets in interconnection networks: The invention falls within the technology of multistage interconnection network such as fat-trees, comprising at least one switch located at a stage (s) and configured to send, through an output port from a number (k) of output ports forming an ordered list, at least a data packet containing a destination... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20090059920 - Method for processing lmp packets, lmp packet processing unit and lmp packet processing node: The present invention discloses a method for processing LMP packet carrying a control message, which includes: receiving the LMP packet carrying a control message from a peer LMP node, determining whether a state of a control channel is an available state according to the LMP packet, and updating or resetting... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090059916 - Method, system, and apparatus for reliable data packet recovery in a link layer of a data center ethernet network: Dropped packets are recovered in a link layer of a Data Center Ethernet (DCE) network. Data packets for transmission are stored in a replay buffer. Each data packet includes a header having a field including data indicating that the data packet is formatted for reliable recovery at the link layer.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090059914 - Methods for the secured interconnection of vnet sites over wan: One embodiment provides a method to interconnect virtual network segments (VNETs) defined for a local-area network (LAN) infrastructure separated by a wide-area network infrastructure. The technique involves the routing device at the LAN-WAN interconnection points to impose or dispose the VNET-shim, which encodes the VNET-id information in a Layer 4... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20090059912 - Methods, systems and computer products to incentivize high speed internet access: Temporary increased broadband bandwidth services for high speed access and download of Internet websites are provided to end user DSL subscribers by a system and method to increase speed of accessing certain Internet websites to incentivize the end user DSL subscribers to purchase higher speed broadband services and to incentivize... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090059915 - System and method of automating use of a data integrity routine within a network: A system and method of automating use of a data integrity routine within a network. In one form, a method of managing network communication can include initiating a first network quality inquiry within a packet-based communication protocol network using a network quality check routine of a packet-based communication protocol. The... Agent: Larson Newman Abel & Polansky, LLP

20090059919 - System and method of zigbee communication for selecting and gaining access to zigbee network: A system and a method of Zigbee communication for actively selecting and accessing a Zigbee network. The Zigbee communication system includes multiple Zigbee coordinators forming multiple Zigbee networks for transmitting information on services of end-devices currently accessing each of the formed multiple Zigbee networks; and an end-device for receiving the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090059917 - Systems and methods for reliable message delivery over digital networks: Systems and methods reliably transmit a message from a sender to a receiver via a network. A reliability module is configured to determine a probability of delivering a packet from the sender to the recipient via the network. Mode selection logic determines transmission mode from a number of options based... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gd)

20090059923 - Multicast method and multicast routing method: A multicast method includes joining a multicast group and forwarding a multicast data packet; during joining the multicast group, establishing multicast forwarding instruction information identified by a MFEC, on a network node of a distribution tree or a distribution sub-tree to which the MFEC pertains; and during forwarding the multicast... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090059924 - Packet transmitting method, relay node and receiving node: A packet transmitting method wherein an explicit multicast packet can be transmitted with the consumption of communication bands of broadcast media being suppressed. According to this method, a link level multicast is used to transmit an explicit multicast packet only to next hop nodes that, even when receiving the explicit... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090059921 - Replicating and switching multicast internet packets in routers using crosspoint memory shared by output ports: Multicast traffic is expected to increase in packet networks, and therefore in switches and routers, by including broadcast and multimedia-on-demand services. Combined input-crosspoint buffered (CICB) switches can provide high performance under uniform multicast traffic. However this is often at the expense of N2 crosspoint buffers. An output-based shared-memory crosspoint-buffered (O-SMCB)... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090059922 - Systems and methods for multicast communication: Embodiments of multicast messaging systems and methods are disclosed for facilitating the multicasting of messages and/or other content to a group of users such that users may send messages to a group. One embodiment includes a method of transmitting multicast messages, including receiving a first multicast message and an indication... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090059925 - Evaluation of network data aggregation: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving topology data that indicates multiple communication links and multiple intermediate network nodes in communication based on the communication links. The intermediate network nodes include multiple leaf nodes that terminate communications and multiple transit nodes that facilitate the passage of information between leaf nodes.... Agent: Eugene Molinelli Evans & Molinelli PLLC

20090059927 - 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 a method of processing a broadcasting data are disclosed. A broadband interface unit received a MPEG transport packet through a cable. A demodulator demodulates the received MPEG transport packet. An IP physical interface unit for received a frame including... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090059926 - Method for determining transmission path of router system: Disclosed is a method for determining a transmission path of a router system, in which a forwarding table of the router system is managed with a dualized address system including an absolute address indicating a physical port and a relative address indicating the place of the absolute address. Only the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090059928 - Communication apparatus, communication system, absent packet detecting method and absent packet detecting program: Any packet loss is detected very quickly by means of only a series of sequence number in a multi-path environment where a transmitter and a receiver are connected to each other by way of a plurality of networks when no inversion of sequence arises in any of the networks. A... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090059929 - Scheduling method and apparatus for high speed video stream service in communication system: A scheduling method and apparatus for providing a high speed video stream service in a communication system are provided. The method includes receiving power information for ensuring a minimum data rate from a Radio Network Controller (RNC) through Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling, receiving power information for a variable data... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090059930 - System and method for managing virtual local area networks: A method for identifying VLANs associated with a network includes gathering actual network element configuration data from a plurality of network elements in the network, wherein the actual network element configuration data identifies one or more VLANs that at least some of the plurality of network elements are actually allocated... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20090059932 - Method of data transmission in communication system: A communication system includes a source node for transmitting data and general nodes that function as relay nodes for relaying the data or destination nodes for receiving the data. Data encoding is performed in each node of the communication system. The source node is linked to the general nodes by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090059931 - Method, system and use thereof for controlling real time contiguous data in a packet switched data system, real time contiguous data service provided using said method: The present invention relates to a method of controlling real time contiguous data in a packet switched data stream comprising data packages. Controlling of said real time contiguous data is performed by retaining data packages of said packet switched data stream for disturbing contiguousness of said real time contiguous data... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090059935 - Colored access control lists for multicast forwarding using layer 2 control protocol: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by an access node, multicast control parameters for white, black, and grey lists of multicast groups. The access node applies the multicast control parameters to an IGMP process running on a port associated with a subscriber. In response to receiving an IGMP message... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20090059938 - High security backplane-based interconnection system capable of processing a large amount of traffic in parallel: An inter-network connection system is provided with a plurality of interface boards capable of processing traffic in a lower layer, an upper layer processing board capable of processing traffic in an upper layer, and an inter-board connection board capable of intervening in information transfer between the interface board and the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090059934 - Method and device for providing a bridge in a network: A method and device for providing a bridge between a distribution system and a wireless network device as provided increases network availability. According to one aspect, the method includes assigning a first wireless network device to a first wireless distribution system port in response to processing a first identification message... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090059940 - Network address translation gateway for local area networks using local ip addresses and non-translatable port addresses: A network address translation gateway provides normal network translation for IP datagrams traveling from a local area network using local IP addresses to an external network, but suspends source service address (port) translation when the port is reserved for a specific protocol, such as the ISAKMP “handshaking” protocol that is... Agent: Michael C. Cesarano Bienstock & Clark

20090059937 - Network system for guarantee qos: Provided is a network system which is coupled to first and second computers including: at least one network node; a network device; and a resource management server. In the network system, QoS requirements are set for a communication between the first and second computers; the second computer measures QoS of... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090059936 - Process for manging resource address requests and associated gateway device: The invention concerns a gateway device comprising means for connection to a first device and means for connection to a second device for obtaining a network address as a function of a network resource identifier provided by the second device, and means for providing a false network address in response... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090059939 - System, method and computer program product for residential gateway monitoring and control: A system, method and computer program product is provided that allows an end user to monitor and/or control various data streams appearing on one or more customer premises equipment (CPE) interfaces of a residential gateway, even where the data streams are of different types such as voice, video or computer... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090059933 - Validating customer in-home network connectivity using moca bridge mode: A network terminal includes a bridge to interface the network terminal to a data channel linked to a central office, a first interface of a first type, and a second interface of a second type that is different from the first type of interface. A processor controls the network terminal... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090059941 - Dynamic data filtering: Networks, systems and methods for dynamically filtering data are disclosed. Streams of data may be buffered or stored in a queue when inbound rates exceed distribution or publication limitations. Inclusive messages in the queue may be removed, replaced or aggregated, reducing the number of messages to be published when distribution... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Attorneys For Client No. 006119

20090059942 - Method and apparatus for scheduling packets and/or cells: A system and method of scheduling packets or cells for a switch device that includes a plurality of input ports each having at least one input queue, a plurality of switch units, and a plurality of output ports. There is generated, by each input port having a packet or cell... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090059943 - Data processing system: A data processing system enabling an outstanding-based variable flow control is provided. The data processing system includes a first semiconductor integrated circuit possessing an initiator and a second semiconductor integrated circuit possessing a target. The initiator transmits a request packet to the target, the target transmits a response packet to... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090059944 - Distributed processing system, method of distributed processing, terminals and storage media: A distributed processing system includes a first information processing device, two or more second information processing devices connected with the first information processing device via a first network, and the second information processing devices being connected with each other via a second network, wherein the first information processing device includes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090059945 - Ip device, management server, and network system: An IP device (for example, network cameras 3a, 3b, and 3c) connectable to a router (for example, a router 2) makes a request to the router for assignment of a port number when a predetermined operation is performed, and notifies a management server 6 connected to a wide area network... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090059946 - Method for selective backward routing in a workflow system: Techniques for selective backward routing in a workflow system are provided. For example, one technique includes obtaining workflow processing history information, obtaining one or more conditions for selection of the one or more valid return destinations, wherein the one or more conditions are defined in advance, and combining the workflow... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090059947 - High-availability communication system: There is described a communication system for reliable communication between communication stations, wherein there is at least one communication connection between the communication stations, wherein the communication connection features at least two channels for transmitting payload data telegrams, wherein only one channel acts as primary channel for the communication at... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090059948 - Low current method for detecting presence of ethernet signals: A signal detection circuit for an Ethernet physical layer transceiver (PHY) device includes a first capacitor AC coupling a signal on the first receive terminal of the Ethernet PHY device to a first node; a second capacitor AC coupling a signal on the second receive terminal to a second node;... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20090059949 - Method and system for data packet communication in wireless communication systems: The present invention provides a method and system for data packet communication in wireless communication systems. One embodiment involves determining if one or more data blocks pending transmission in a current transmission opportunity period over the channel will expire before the start of another transmission opportunity period, and if a... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20090059950 - Information polling method, apparatus and system: The invention provides an information polling method, apparatus and system thereof, wherein a message gateway receives an information polling request from an application in an application client, and according to the received information polling request, the message gateway acquires at least one message requested by the application and calculates a... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20090059951 - Program control device: Provided is a program control device which switches, per timeslot, between threads to be executed. The program control device includes: a first interrupt creation unit which creates a first interrupt signal which designates a timeslot as a destination; and a first receiving unit which [i] does not receive the first... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090059952 - Apparatus and method for managing access to one or more network resources: An apparatus is provided that includes a processor configured to receive a captured traffic unit (CTU) intended for a network service, the CTU being one into which incoming traffic has been assembled based on a filter describing which incoming traffic to capture and how to assemble the respective incoming traffic... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090059953 - Communication system, computer, and method for determining a communication protocol to be used in a communication system: The invention relates to a communication system comprising at least one first communication network designed for communication according to a first protocol, at least one second communication network designed for communication according to a second protocol, and at least one third communication network designed for communication according to the first... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090059954 - Method and system for setting alternative device classes within the mtp protocol: An MTP/PTP extension may enable MTP/PTP devices to determine which protocol and/or which protocol version to utilize for impending communication. For example protocol and/or protocol version may be requested with a MTP/PTP SetDeviceClass operation that may comprise DeviceClass and/or RequestedVersion parameters. A response to the request may specify a protocol... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090059956 - Network protocol converter: An arrangement includes an input to receive DTMF tones, logic to convert the DTMF tones to SMPP protocol, and an output to provide the SMPP protocol.... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090059955 - Single chip protocol converter: A single chip protocol converter integrated circuit (IC) capable of receiving packets generating according to a first protocol type and processing said packets to implement protocol conversion and generating converted packets of a second protocol type for output thereof, the process of protocol conversion being performed entirely within the single... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090059957 - Layer-4 transparent secure transport protocol for end-to-end application protection: Techniques for providing layer 4 transparent secure transport for end-to-end application protection are described herein. According to one embodiment, a packet of a network transaction is received from a client over a first network, where the packet is destined to a server of a data center having a plurality of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090059958 - Communication method, communication system, nodes and program: In the present invention, when packets are transferred from a transferring node 101 to a transferring node 102, control information stored in each of data packets 301 is compiled together into a leader packet 302 located in the front position of a packet block 300-1, and then, transmitted from the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090059959 - Method and arrangement to increase the data transmission flow rate in a communication system: A method and apparatus to transfer data cells having an overhead section and a payload section via a communication medium from a transmitter to a receiver. Before transfer of a data cell, the overhead section of the data cell is translated into a shortened overhead section, known both on the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090059960 - Voice and data exchange over a packet based network with timing recovery: A signal processing system which discriminates between voice signals and data signals modulated by a voiceband carrier. The signal processing system includes a voice exchange, a data exchange and a call discriminator. The voice exchange is capable of exchanging voice signals between a switched circuit network and a packet based... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090059961 - Mobile channel estimation algorithm for dvb-h cofdm demodulator: A mobile channel estimation algorithm is disclosed, for use in a DVB-H coded OFDM demodulator. The mobile channel estimation algorithm estimates the mobile channel transfer function, overcoming many of the delay spread limitations without using time filtering and without having to collect many OFDM symbols. Once the channel estimate has... Agent: Carrie A. Boone, P.C.

20090059963 - Line terminal for determining operational status of a u interface: A line terminal for determining operational status of a U interface includes a time presetting module, a current detecting module, a cycle selecting module, a timer, and a synchronization determining module. The time presetting module is for presetting a plurality of time cycles. The current detecting module is for detecting... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090059962 - Synchronizing related data streams in interconnection networks: A method and apparatus for synchronizing related data streams in interconnection networks. Some embodiments of an apparatus include a transmitter to transmit a data stream to a second apparatus, where the transmitter transmits a data packet to the second apparatus. The apparatus further includes a clock, with the apparatus providing... Agent: Silicon Image/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090059964 - Apparatus and method for synchronizing time information using key re-synchronization frame in encryption communications: Provided are an apparatus and method for synchronizing time information of both transmitting and receiving side using a key re-synchronization frame in encryption communications that require algorithm synchronization. The apparatus for synchronizing time information using a key re-synchronization frame includes: a transmitter including an input unit for receiving a voice,... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090059965 - Method and system for supporting network sharing and data synchronization simultaneously: A method and a system for simultaneously supporting network sharing and data synchronization are provided for a first operating system (OS) and a second OS, wherein the first OS is connected to a network. The present method establishes a virtual network between the first OS and the second OS. Then,... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office