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Multiplex communications April category listing, related patent applications 04/09

20090109834 - Network apparatus with shared coefficient update processor and method thereof: A network apparatus with a plurality of transport ports and a shared coefficient update processor is proposed. Each of the plurality of transport ports includes a PHY module. The coefficient update processor is coupled to each PHY module and is shared by the plurality of transport ports. The coefficient update... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090109835 - Techniques to generate constant envelope multicarrier transmission for wireless networks: Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus for use in a wireless transmitter may include a continuous phase modulation (CPM) sample generator configured to generate a group of constant envelope CPM modulated signal samples, a Fourier transform block configured to perform a Fourier transform... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090109836 - Method and system for controlling redundancy of individual components of a remote facility system: A remote facility and method for operating the same includes a signal processing system including a primary multiplexer multiplexing IP signals to form a multiplexed signal, a primary modulator a primary transport processing system forming a transport stream signal from the multiplexed signal, a primary modulator modulating the transport stream... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090109838 - Method of handling random access procedure failure and related communication device: A method of handling random access procedure failure for a user equipment in a radio resource control connected state in a wireless communication system includes initiating a random access procedure corresponding to uplink or downlink data arrival, and then, when the random access procedure fails, determining that a radio link... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090109837 - Scalable connectivity fault management in a bridged/virtual private lan service environment: A method and apparatus that proxies connectivity check messages and sends fault state changes messages across an MPLS/VPLS network is described. A network element proxies connectivity check messages for remote maintenance endpoints based on a local database. The network element updates the database based on received fault state change message... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090109839 - Apparatus for realizing soft-switch allopatric disaster recovery based on packet network: The present invention provides a device for realizing disaster recovery of soft-switch based on packet network, comprising at least two core control devices located in different places which provide control service for their respective access equipments; wherein said core control devices further include a process unit, a database unit, a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090109840 - Fault-resistant digital-content-stream av packet switch: An AV packet switch comprises a multiplexer system having multiple multiplexer input terminals and multiple multiplexer output terminals, a particular multiplexer input terminal capable to receive an input stream synchronized with a first clock signal, a particular multiplexer output terminal capable to receive the input stream from the particular multiplexer... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20090109841 - Layer-2 redundancy protocol interconnection device: Interconnection devices and interconnect a network running a redundancy protocol and another network running a redundancy protocol. The interconnection devices controls the redundancy protocol of a lower level network via virtual ports and by a virtual link, to redundancy-connect the lower level network to a higher level network. When a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090109842 - Device manager having authoritative process relations for conforming state data upon failover: A device has first and second instances of a computer-executable manager. When a failure is detected in the first instance while it is active, the second instance is activated. During activation of the second instance, a conforming first process of the second instance conforms its state data to an authoritative... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090109843 - Service protecting switching method, system and device in a connectionless network: A method for service protection switching in a connectionless network is provided. The method includes detecting if there is any failure which may have occurred on the respective path in the working flow domain and protection flow domain, coupled between the protection switching point and each of the at least... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090109845 - Packet flow optimization (pfo) policy management in a communications network by rule name: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving packet flow optimization (PFO) configuration data that associates each rule name of multiple PFO rule names with a corresponding method for processing a data packet in a communications network based on data in a payload of a layer 3 protocol of the data... Agent: Eugene Molinelli Evans & Molinelli PLLC

20090109844 - Terminal of portable internet system and method of transmitting uplink data in terminal: A terminal of a portable Internet system comprising a medium access control (MAC) layer and a physical layer, the MAC layer comprising: a classifier classifying packets into classes; a delayer calling queue operating functions when a predetermined period of time is passed after the packets are classified by the classifier;... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20090109846 - Priority-aware hierarchical communication traffic scheduling: Priority-aware hierarchical communication traffic scheduling methods and apparatus are disclosed. Communication traffic is scheduled by schedulers. Each scheduler supports a multiple priority scheduling function to schedule communication traffic having any of multiple priorities. The communication traffic scheduled by the schedulers is further scheduled based on the priorities of the communication... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20090109847 - Bi-directional policer for data rate enforcement over half-duplex mediums: A bi-directional policer especially suitable for application in, but not limited to, wireless networks or other shared access or half-duplex communication mediums. In a particular implementation, bi-directional policers measure a flow of frames (L2) or packets (L3) in both directions and apply policing actions accordingly.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090109848 - Flooding reduction method: In receiving a MAC (media access control) frame whose destination address is any of a broadcast address, an unknown multicast address and an unknown unicast address, the flooding is reduced by broadcasting the received MAC frame to all the other ports than one that has received the MAC frame. An... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090109853 - Method for the optimization of the payload of a multispot telecommunication satellite: A Method for the optimization of the payload of a multispot telecommuncation satellite is disclosed. This type of satellite allows the use of several antenna spots on board the satellite to cover contiguous geographical zones, instead of a single broad spot. The method uses the division of an amplification unit... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090109850 - Methods and apparatus related to controlling traffic in a wireless communications system using shared air link traffic resources: A peer to peer communications system implements scheduling of traffic intervals in a distributed manner utilizing connection priority and interference information. A peer to peer timing structure includes a user scheduling interval, with ordered transmission request and response intervals, and an associated traffic interval. The priority associated with a request... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090109851 - Methods and apparatus related to scheduling traffic in a wireless communications system using shared air link traffic resources: Methods and apparatus for use in a wireless communications system in which traffic air link resources may be, and sometimes are, shared are described. Various described methods and apparatus are well suited for use in a peer to peer communications system in which transmission control decisions are made in a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090109849 - Selective performance enhancement of traffic flows: In an example embodiment, a method for selective performance enhancement of traffic flows, such as a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) flow, on devices where enhancement of a limited number of concurrent flows is supported, or where a limited number of TCP accelerated or IP (Internet Protocol) compressed flows are supported.... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090109852 - Statistics based forwarding information base repopulation: A method and apparatus for repopulating a forwarding information base at a network device are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a routing information base, forwarding information base, memory for storing performance data based on packets forwarded from the network device, and a processor configured to prioritize routes stored... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20090109855 - Channel assignment for a multi-channel dual-radio mesh backhaul: In an example embodiment, a method for determining backhaul channel assignments for multi-channel dual radio mesh nodes. The method comprises acquiring collision domain data for each access point of an associated mesh network. A cost function is calculated for each access point of the associated mesh network, the cost function... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090109854 - Multi-factor optimized routing: A multi-factor optimized routing can select a computing device, from among multiple computing devices associated with a domain, to receive communications and thereby optimize one or more factors associated with such communications. Such multi-factor optimized routing can likewise specify a particular route, such as through the specification of one or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090109856 - System and method for reducing switching overhead in a communication network: A system and method for reducing switching overhead in a communication network and a web-based server incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) an optimization engine configured to receive input data describing trunks, switches and traffic demands in at least a portion of the... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Alcatel-lucent

20090109857 - Resource connection monitor utility: A connection monitor utility may monitor the availability of various resources, display a status, and provide various optimization functions for each resource. Performance data may be collected and displayed, and the performance data may be used to optimize, troubleshoot, and notify administrators or users for each connection. Some embodiments may... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090109858 - Communication quality determining apparatus, communication quality determining method and its program: A communication quality determining apparatus for receiving or intercepting data sent from a transmission side to a reception side en route of its transmission, and determining its communication quality. The apparatus includes a deciding unit for making a decision on whether an input packet is to be acquired. The apparatus... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090109859 - Method and system for detecting a fault condition based on failed igmp join attempts: A fault condition is detected based on determining that a number of failed Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) join attempts from at least one end device is greater than or equal to a threshold.... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lnap Attn: Patent Docketing

20090109860 - Method and system for identifying faults in communication networks: In order to locate malfunction in a communication network, the elements therein are configured for generating alarm and to propagate a malfunction signalling to at least one other element in said set. Those elements in the network to which the malfunction signalling was propagated, are excluded, preferably by way of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090109862 - Method for reducing fault detection time in a telecommunication network: A method for reducing fault detection time in a network includes routers configured to exchange messages via at least one switch to check mutual reachability, each message including a list of routers reachable from the sending router. The method includes snooping, by the switch, a message from a router to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090109861 - Scalable connectivity fault management in a bridged/virtual private lan service environment: A method and apparatus that proxies connectivity check messages and sends fault state changes messages across an MPLS/VPLS network is described. A network element proxies connectivity check messages for remote maintenance endpoints based on a local database. The network element updates the database based on received fault state change message... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090109863 - Interactivity with a bus interface card: A system and method are provided for testing the bus interface assembly in order to determine if the bus interface assembly is configured to interface with a data bus between an aircraft and a store. If the bus interface assembly is determined not to be properly configured, a troubleshooting routine... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20090109864 - Network card testing system: A network card testing system includes a network card testing set, a network card, and a network card testing software. A plurality of twisted pairs in the network card testing set is connected with one another to form a loop. When the network card testing set is connected to the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090109866 - Method for balancing quality of wireless communication channel and wireless communication apparatus using the same: Disclosed herein are a method for balancing the quality of a wireless communication channel wherein the quality of the wireless communication channel can be more accurately estimated and adjusted on the basis of the combination of observation results of the number of data frames failed to be transmitted in the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090109865 - Methods of providing digital data services including comparing predicted and measured levels of performance and related systems and computer program products: A method of providing digital data services between a communications service provider and a customer site over a communications loop may include predicting a level of performance of the communications loop without coupling a modem to the communications loop at the customer site to provide a predicted level of performance... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Mb Attn: Patent Docketing

20090109867 - Wireless communication apparatus and method: The wireless communication apparatus, which performs a wireless communication by using one of switchable communication rates, includes quality assurance level specifying means for specifying a quality assurance level that is the minimum communication rate for assuring transfer quality of a streaming data of specified transfer rate; communication rate setting control... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090109869 - Circuit bundle for resiliency/protection of circuits: A device having circuit bundles and a method of configuring the network device to provide resiliency and protection for network circuits. A circuit bundle provides the ability to group multiple circuits of the same type for resiliency/protection. There is an active virtual circuit that is selected based on a user... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090109868 - Communication network topology determination: A communication network topology is determined by evaluating costs of states each representing a possible assignment of hubs and remote nodes to nodes of the communication network. The hubs connect to a central network, the remote nodes connect wirelessly to the hubs and obtain connectivity to the central network through... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090109871 - Configuration techniques for wireless communications devices: Techniques for configuring wireless communications devices are disclosed. For instance, an apparatus may include a storage medium to store one or more configuration files, and a configuration module. Each of the one or more configuration files may correspond to a network carrier. The configuration module selects one of the configuration... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC 4500 Brooktree Road

20090109874 - Identifying nodes in a network: A method of secure mutual identification of nodes (Nn) in a communications network comprising for each node a file (Fn) containing parameters descriptive of the node, each parameter being indexed by a cryptographic identifier of the node and an identifier of the parameter. An interface (IR) broadcasts from the node... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090109872 - Method and an apparatus for analyzing a communication network: The invention provides a novel method and apparatus for analyzing a communication network such as a computer network or a social network comprising nodes communicating with each other by means of messages. A topic discovery unit is provided for performing a topic discovery on the basis of a message content... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090109870 - Method for intelligent merging of ad hoc network partitions: A method for merging of ad hoc network partitions within an ad hoc network, the method includes forming a plurality of network partitions by forming a security association among each of a group of partitioned nodes. Each network partition includes a Network Identifier. A node operating within one of the... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090109875 - Network topology management system, management apparatus, management method, management program, and storage media that records management program: A network topology management system includes information processing units, storage units, connection units that control connection switching between the information processing units and the storage units, a management unit that manages a network topology consisting of the information processing units, the storage units and the connection units, and an emulator... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090109873 - Selective rank cqi and pmi feedback in wireless networks: Within a wireless network, feedback information is used to determine channel quality. A node in the network receives a configuration message indicating at least a first type of feedback information and a subset S1, wherein S1 is a subset of S0, and wherein the set S0 comprises all possible values... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090109876 - Network system supporting spanning tree protocol, relay apparatus thereof, and method of creating spanning tree topology thereof: Provided are a network system supporting a spanning tree protocol (STP), a relay apparatus thereof, and a method of creating a spanning tree. Proposed is a method of creating a tree topology, between AVB bridges, using a STP message including a group MAC address which is different from that used... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090109878 - Method for informing that the network supports the mobile ip enhancement capability: A method for informing that the network supports the mobile Internet Protocol (IP) enhancement capability includes the network sending a message indicating the mobile IP enhancement capability of the network to a mobile station (MS). If the MS supports the mobile IP enhancement capability, the MS requests the enhanced mobile... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090109877 - Methods and systems for presenting online content elements based on information known to a service provider: Methods and systems for presenting online content elements based on information known to a service provider. One of the methods is a method for presenting online content at a communication apparatus, the communication apparatus being assigned an identifier. The method comprises: obtaining information that pertains to a profile associated with... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20090109879 - Managing a packet switched conference call: The invention relates to a method for managing a packet switched, centralized conference call between a plurality of terminals 13. In order to enable an enhancement of the user comfort, it is proposed that the method comprises at a conference call server 12 receiving data packets from all terminals 13.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090109880 - Impedance control apparatus and method for portable mobile communication terminal: An impedance control apparatus and method for portable mobile communication terminal is disclosed capable of accurately adjusting impedances relative to environment when the portable mobile communication terminal is being used, wherein an impedance of a first variable impedance matching part is varied to receive a reception impedance correction signal transmitted... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090109881 - Voice and data exchange over a packet based network: 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

20090109882 - Push-to-communicate session associating: A method (400) and a PTC associating server (116) for handling a push-to-communicate (PTC) communication session. A PTC session initiation request identifying a first PTC address as a destination address can be received (402). The PTC session initiation request can be automatically associated with at least a second PTC address... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090109884 - Method and apparatus for generating acknowledgement frame: Provided are a method and an apparatus for generating an acknowledgement (ACK) frame. The method includes: receiving a data frame; first determining whether sub-frames included in the received data frame are coded in an unequal error protection (UEP) mode; and based on the determination of the first determining, generating the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090109883 - Method and system for monitoring and encoding signals in a local facility and communicating the signals between a local collection facility and a remote facility using an ip network: A system and method for collecting signals includes an IP network, a remote facility and a local collection facility in communication with the local collection facility through the IP network. The local collection facility receives channel signals, encoding the channel signals into respective IP signals, communicating the respective IP signals... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090109885 - Method and apparatus for reducing energy consumption in nodes by adjusting carrier sensing thresholds: Energy consumption in a network is reduced by a first node transmitting a message at a first power level and determining if the message is received by a neighboring node of the network. The message is retransmitted at a higher power level if the message is not received by a... Agent: Leveque Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090109887 - Method and system for reducing battery consumption in wireless transmit/receive units (wtrus) employed in a wireless local area network/wireless wide area network (wlan/wwan): Method and system for reducing battery consumption during an active session wherein an access point (AP) transmits a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) a packet information regarding packets in a queue waiting for transmission to the WTRU and when the packets are to be decoded, whereby enabling the WTRU to enter... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090109888 - Method, system and device for a network side to enable an mss to enter the idle mode in a wireless man: The present invention provides a method as regards how a network side gets a MSS into the idle mode in a wireless MAN, including: the PA/BS sends a DREG_CMD to the MSS; the MSS sends a DREG_REQ message to the PA/BS, according to the DREG_CMD message, requesting to enter the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090109886 - Wireless communication apparatus and method of controlling the same: A wireless communication apparatus in a MIMO communication system which simultaneously transfers different data at the same frequency using a plurality of antennas is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of receiving units corresponding to the plurality of antennas, respectively. A control unit of the wireless communication apparatus acknowledges a... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090109890 - Enhanced wimax mbs service on separate carrier frequency: A system and method for supporting multicast and broadcast service (MBS) on one or more separate carrier frequencies are provided. The system includes carrier frequency information to indicate that data in an MBS zone resides on a separate carrier, and to direct the subscriber stations to receive MBS data on... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090109889 - System and method for providing simultaneous connectivity between devices in an industrial control and automation or other system: A system, apparatuses, and methods support simultaneous connectivity between devices in an industrial control and automation or other system. For example, a data publisher can publish or provide data to multiple data subscribers. This can be done using a multicast group associated with the multiple data subscribers. The data publisher... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090109893 - Cross-layer optimization of voip services in advanced wireless networks: A cross-layer optimization is presented between the MAC and Network layers to enhance the performance of VoIP services in advanced wireless networks. Among the factors considered in the optimization are the characteristics of the originating source and the network path. This information is relayed using the Network layer to provide... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090109892 - Harq supported client relay protocol: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, in a HARQ supported client relaying wireless network, if the intended client subscriber station is able to decode the transmission from the base station, an allocated data zone otherwise allocated for relay transmission and acknowledgment zones in the uplink subframe can be... Agent: Cool Patent, P.C. C/o Cpa Global

20090109891 - Method and system for distributed admission control in mobile ad hoc networks (manets): Techniques are provided for distributed admission control (AC) in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET). When the source node transmits a new communication stream (NCS) toward a destination node, other nodes allow transmission of the NCS during a temporary admission period even though the NCS has not yet been admitted.... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090109894 - Pseudo hub-and-spoke wireless audio network: An apparatus induces a first wireless device to transmit audio-related data to both the apparatus and a second wireless device by providing the first wireless device with a false indication of the apparatus being capable of performing an audio function that the apparatus is incapable of performing so as to... Agent: Bose Corporation C/o Donna Griffiths

20090109895 - Satellite communication bandwidth cross layer allocation system and related methods: A satellite communications system may include a satellite, a first ground based satellite transceiver, at least one second ground based satellite transceiver, and at least one ground based terminal coupled to the at least one second ground based satellite transceiver and classifying uplink data into different uplink data classifications, determining... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090109896 - Session establishment in multi-carrier data transmission systems: An access terminal acquires a multi-carrier radio network on an acquisition channel, receives a list of available channels from the network, and hashes to a channel on which the access terminal attempts to establish a session. If the access terminal fails to establish the session, the access terminal selects a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090109899 - Communication system, parameter setting control apparatus and control method: This invention has as its object to implement dynamic processing according to processing loads on access points in a wireless communication local network system including a plurality of independent wireless cells. According to this invention, a communication control method for a communication control apparatus, which controls a wireless communication in... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090109897 - Legacy support for wi-fi protected setup: Techniques and systems for automatically configuring devices to interact with “legacy” wireless access points (“WAPs”) are disclosed. According to one technique, a user programs a WPS-enabled WAP with the configuration information of a “legacy” WAP. This makes the WPS-enabled WAP “aware” of the “legacy” WAP. When any other user brings... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090109902 - Method and arrangement in a communications system: The object of the present invention is to provide a mechanism for a more efficient carrier search. The object is achieved by a method for sending a signal in a first node. The first node communicates with a second node via radio communication, which radio communication is performed by multi... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090109900 - Radio controller, radio base station, radio communication system, call admission control method, program and recording medium: The radio controller conducts call admission control for data communication between a radio terminal and a radio base station using a shared channel and includes a transceiver section for receiving, from a core network, a call admission request for a new call of data communication using the shared channel and... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090109898 - System and method for selecting a message transport for a multi-mode communication device: The present disclosure relates to a system and method for selecting a network for use by a communication device to process a data transmission is provided. In the method, the following actions are conducted: tracking transmission characteristics of networks used by the device; maintaining a set of options for the... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20090109901 - Wireless device which selects routes excluding loop routes and a mesh network including the same: In wireless communication using links with neighbor wireless devices, a wireless device calculates ratios of throughput to maximum throughput for the links and calculates the costs of the links using the calculated ratios. Then the wireless device finds, for each destination, a route in which the sum of such calculated... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090109906 - Allocating downlink acknowledgement resources in wireless communication networks: A wireless communication system (100) including a scheduling entity that transmits scheduling messages to first and second wireless terminals having different scheduling characteristics, wherein each scheduling message includes a reference signal cyclic shift indicator and a resource assignment. The assignment of the downlink feedback resource to the first wireless terminal... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090109909 - Differential cqi for ofdma systems: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a feedback generator, a feedback decoder and methods of operating a feedback generator and decoder. In one embodiment, the feedback generator is for use in user equipment and includes a CQI profile module configured to provide a differential channel quality indicator, wherein the differential... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090109905 - Dynamic/static transport channel to physical channel mapping in broadband wireless access systems: Embodiments of the present invention provide for transport and logical channels to be used in wireless transmissions to and from mobile stations. In some embodiments, a mapper may be used to dynamically or statically map the transport channels to the physical channels. In some embodiments, physical layers may receive bearer... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20090109915 - Method and apparatus for handling random access channel responses: A method and apparatus for supporting a random access using a random access channel (RACH) are disclosed. Each of a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) sends a random access request to a base station on an uplink RACH preamble. A RACH Response, sent by the base station, is received... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090109912 - Method and apparatus for pre-allocation of uplink channel resources: A method and apparatus for pre-allocating uplink resources in CELL-FACH are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) in CELL_FACH or CELL_PCH states may be pre-allocated with an uplink resource when a downlink transmission is transmitted. The WTRU may then use the pre-allocated uplink resource for channel quality information or hybrid... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090109916 - Method and apparatus for providing a shared reservation acknowledgement channel: An approach is provided for resource allocation within a network. A request is generated for resource allocation from a neighboring node within a network. The request is inserted in a beaconing subframe of a transmission frame. The transmission frame includes a reservation subframe that provides acknowledgement signaling relating to a... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090109914 - Method and apparatus for transmitting control information in a system with new and legacy mobile stations: A method of transmitting control information to new and legacy mobile stations in a wireless communications system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method and apparatus for the base station to transmit control information in a system with new and legacy mobile stations is disclosed. In another embodiment, a method... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090109903 - Method and node of controlling the allocation of transmission resources to wireless terminals within a radio access network: A method of controlling the allocation of transmission resources to wireless terminals within a radio access network, which resources are required for the provision of an IP Multimedia service to the terminals. The method comprises, in the event of a requirement to change the allocation of transmission resources to a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090109913 - Method for transmitting/receiving data while supporting scalability in communication system: A method for transmitting/receiving data between first and second terminals in which data can be transmitted flexibly in each particular situation, i.e. according to the network environment of terminals between which visible light communication occurs, including the type and characteristics of transmitted data. The method includes the steps of: (a)... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090109907 - Multiplexing multiple unsolicited grant service (ugs) users onto a same radio resource: The technology in this application multiplexes transmission associated with multiple users onto the same unsolicited grant service (UGS) radio resource(s) in a packet-based, radio communications system. Normally, the radio resources in a packet-based communications system are dynamically scheduled in response to radio resource requests associated with specific user devices, and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090109911 - Obtaining channel feedback from users in a wireless communication system: Subchannel feedback is provided from a plurality of mobile devices to a base station in a communication system, in which a channel is divided into available subchannels. The base station first requests channel information from the mobile devices, and then receives the channel information, for example in the form of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090109917 - Providing improved scheduling request signaling with ack/nack or cqi: In accordance with the exemplary embodiments of the invention there is a method, executable computer program, and apparatus for determining that an acknowledgment is to be sent, and for the case where there is also a scheduling request to be sent, combining the acknowledgment with the scheduling request on a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090109910 - System and method for assigning a sub-channel in a bwa communication system: A method for requesting a Base Station (BS) to assign sub-charuiels to a Subscriber Station (SS) in a communication system, The mnethod includes determining a channel quality of sub-channels assigned using a normal sub-chatnnel assigunent scheme, transmitting, to the BS, a first codeword of a Channel Quality Indicator CHannel (CQICH)... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090109904 - System and method for burst channel access over wireless local area networks: A system comprises a medium access engine operative to contend for access to a channel and to control transmission of data packets onto the channel on behalf of a particular data stream, the particular data stream belonging to a particular access class of a plurality of different access classes, the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090109908 - Transmission of sounding reference signal and scheduling request in single carrier systems: A transmission of information from a secondary to a primary node occurs in a plurality of transmission instances which are logical time durations. A secondary node receives an allocation of periodic transmission instances for a scheduling request indicator (SRI) and an allocation if periodic transmission instances for a sounding reference... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090109919 - Random access cyclic prefix dimensioning in wireless networks: User equipment (UE)-initiated accesses within a cellular network include non-synchronized random access requests when the UE is not synchronized with a base station that is serving a cell occupied by the UE. The random access request is formed by generating a set of samples at a selected sample rate, such... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090109918 - System and method for improved scheduling for time-frequency slicing: A system and method for improved scheduling for time-frequency slicing. According to various embodiments, slot allocations are made so as to guarantee time for tuning between slots. When scheduling services for multiplexes covering multiple radio frequency (RF) channels, time is provided for the receiver to tune to another radio-frequency channel... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090109920 - Wireless communication system, base station and transmitting method: A wireless communication system in which a terminal selects a signal from a plurality of known signals and transmits the signal to the base station by any region in a region specified by the base station. The wireless communication system includes a setting unit that sets a region by a... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090109923 - Base station of mobile communication system: A base station of a mobile communication system which allocates a bandwidth for handover ranging or bandwidth request ranging in response to a code transmitted from a mobile station that is selected by the mobile station from a plurality of codes includes a ranging allocating unit configured to allocate, to... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090109925 - Communication system and gateway apparatus: A relay gateway apparatus HO-GW is provided between heterogeneous access networks (a WiMAX access network and a UMB access network). The HO-GW performs conversion of a movement control signal (an Inter-AGW handover control signal) and relay of communication data. When the relay is performed, user data from a CN reaches... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090109921 - Content-based handover method and system: A handover of a wireless communication device is performed between a first wireless band and a second wireless band when a detected feature occurs within a content stream being communicated with the wireless communication device.... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lnap Attn: Patent Docketing

20090109928 - H.323 user, service and service provider mobility framework for the multimedia intelligent networking: The present invention provides a method and system for assuring H.323 alias address portability to an H.323 user in real-time H.323 multimedia communications where the H.323 user is registered with a home gatekeeper for the home zone of the H.323 user. Alias address portability may be obtained using a central... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090109927 - Method and apparatus for updating network information using mobile terminal: An apparatus for updating network information in wireless networks includes a control module for, when a media independent handover (MIH) mobile terminal connects to an access network in the wireless networks, judging whether the access network is managed by a media independent handover information service (MIIS) server. The apparatus further... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090109922 - Method of integrating femtocells in a packet cable multimedia architecture: The present invention provides a method for implementation in a cable modem termination system that is communicatively coupled to a first wireless access device configured to provide wireless connectivity to at least one mobile unit. The method includes receiving a request to allocate resources to the first wireless access device... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20090109926 - Methods and systems for in-order delivery during handoff using a timer in mobile communications: Systems and methods for managing packetized data handoff between base stations in a mobile communication system are described. In one aspect, a timer is utilized to decide when to perform path switch from serving traffic forwarded by the source station to traffic received by the serving gateway, and to preserve,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090109924 - Packet communication method, packet communication system, wireless terminal, and packet communication device: A packet communication system having a wireless terminal, a plurality of wireless access networks, and a packet communication device connected to the respective wireless access networks, that includes a unit controlling handover processing for handover of the wireless terminal to a different wireless access network. Also included is a unit... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090109929 - Media access method performed by reader in dense reader environment: Provided are a media access method and a reader for performing the media access method in a dense reader environment. The media access method divides an air time between the reader and a tag into a plurality of time slots, and operates in each of the plurality of time slots... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090109930 - Method for supporting quality of service in heterogeneous networks: A method is related to support a QoS service at a handed over network in heterogeneous networks. A serving network requests the mobile terminal to offer demand QoS information, when there is a need of handover. The mobile terminal sends a response message containing the demand QoS information to the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090109935 - Adaptive uplink/downlink timeslot assignment in a hybrid wireless time division multiple access/code division multiple access communication system: A method of adaptive uplink/downlink timeslot assignment includes determining at least one of a potentially interfering cell which potentially interferes with a particular cell. A timeslot for uplink communication is eliminated, if a first one of the potentially interfering cells uses that timeslot for downlink communications. A timeslot for downlink... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090109933 - Base station apparatus, communication method and mobile communication system: To provide a technology capable of reducing a processing load on a base station controller and restraining a traffic quantity within a mobile communication system. A base station apparatus connected to a base station controller has a first establishing unit establishing a first logic communication path between the base station... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090109932 - Fast urgent services support over 802.16 air interface: Among the proposals of the present application is a method that includes receiving a bandwidth request with a code division multiple access code from a first network node to a second network node. The method also includes processing the bandwidth request at the second network node. The method further includes... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090109934 - Identical puncturing of ue identification data and load data in the hs-scch channel: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting data via a physical channel in a communication system, the channel being used by at least one first communication device and one second communication device and transmitting data with a defined bit rate. According to the present invention, the data to... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20090109931 - Method for coding additional information in a media access protocol (map) message: Disclosed is a method for reducing number of bits in a Media Access Protocol (MAP) message. The MAP message comprises a plurality of information elements grouped into one of a first set of information elements and a second set of information elements. The first set of information elements are arranged... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Cpa Global

20090109937 - Selecting transmission parameters for contention-based access in wireless systems: A method and apparatus are disclosed for selecting a channel for uplink communication includes determining whether a cell supports transmission over an enhanced random access channel (E-RACH) and selecting whether to send uplink communications over the E-RACH or a random access channel. A method for selecting a transmission time interval... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090109936 - Terminal control apparatus and radio lan system: When prohibiting data transmission by a radio communication terminal, such as a radio communication terminal L-STA, a terminal control apparatus generates radio data including information about a data transmission prohibition time interval in an L-SIG which is a header region which each radio communication terminal can recognize in common, and,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090109938 - Method and system for medium access control in communication networks: A method and a system for medium access control among devices in a communication system is provided. One implementation involves selecting a contention-based control period for access to a shared communication medium; dividing the contention-based control period into multiple time slots, wherein each slot has a duration that is a... Agent: Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20090109939 - Pilot report based on interference indications in wireless communication systems: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate employing interference-overload indications to generate pilot strength reports that can be leveraged to mitigate reverse link interference. An affected base station can send interference-overload indications when experiencing a strong interference/jamming scenario due to reverse link transmission by an offending access terminal. The offending... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090109940 - Headphone with enhanced voice communication: A headphone having ability to communicate using Internet Protocol (IP) standard. The capability may be used as a basis to facilitate a user to conduct voice calls using voice over IP (VoIP). The headphone may also facilitate voice calls with users connected via cellular networks (e.g., GSM, CDMA, etc.). In... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20090109944 - Method and apparatus for generating data frame in wireless personal area network: Provided is a method of generating a data frame used in a wireless personal area network (WPAN). The method of generating a data frame used in a wireless personal area network (WPAN), the method including: generating a plurality of sub frames by using one or more MAC service data units... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090109945 - Method and apparatus for improved data demodulation in a wireless communication network: A wireless network uses an improved frame structure to increase timing acquisition capabilities as well as reduction of spectral lines. In one aspect, the frame packet can be used to communicate the different modes of operation under which the packet was created.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090109942 - Methods and apparatus for use in controlling discontinuous transmission (dtx) for voice communications in a network: In one illustrative example, a mobile communication device receives, via a generic access network (GAN) from a GAN controller, a message having a discontinuous transmission (DTX) indication. For a voice communication session, the mobile device causes a connection to be established with the GANC, via the GAN and over a... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090109946 - Open-host wireless access system: An “open-host” wireless access system includes a wireless access point (AP) that identifies the SSID from a WLAN connection request. A wireless service provider (WSP) is associated with the SSID. The AP is coupled to a demarcation switch within the access system. The demarcation switch includes a series of ports,... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090109943 - Radio network system, radio communication method, and radio communication device: A wireless network system including a first terminal for sending a request-to-send signal including information on a medium use period to a second terminal before sending data, receiving a clear-to-send signal from the second terminal, and sending data to the second terminal during the medium use period; the second terminal... Agent: Ratnerprestia

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20090109947 - Techniques for frequency-domain joint detection in wireless communication systems: A technique of operating a wireless communication device includes receiving, at a first wireless communication device, respective signals transmitted from multiple second wireless communication devices. Respective channel matrix blocks for each block of the received respective signals are then generated. Finally, respective channel equalizer matrix blocks for each of the... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090109948 - Radio communication device for generating and transmitting data, radio communication device for receiving and decoding data, method for transmitting data and method for receiving data: In various embodiments of the invention, a radio communication device for transmitting data, a radio communication device for receiving data, a method for transmitting data and a method for receiving data are provided. In an embodiment of the invention, a radio communication device for generating and transmitting data is provided,... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090109951 - Method and apparatus for counting transmission times of a pdu: A method and apparatus for counting transmission times of a protocol data unit (PDU) in a wireless communications system is disclosed, so as to trigger a specific operation of the PDU. The method includes performing a first transmission of the PDU and configuring a counter corresponding to transmission times of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090109950 - Methods and apparatus for communicating information using different types of symbols: Methods and apparatus implementing communications using different types of symbols, e.g. different characteristic OFDM symbols, at different times for different purposes are described. A first type of symbol is used for control signaling including conveying transmission request signals and/or transmission request response signals. A second type of symbol is used... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090109949 - Methods and apparatus related to signaling request to transmit traffic in a wireless communications system: Methods and apparatus related to the communication of traffic in peer to peer communications are described. A peer to peer communications system includes traffic slots, and for a pair of devices having a connection a first transmission request resource and a second transmission request resource are associated with a traffic... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090109952 - Method and apparatus for signaling transmission characteristics in a wireless communication network: A wireless network uses an improved frame structure to increase timing acquisition capabilities as well as reduction of spectral lines. In one aspect, the frame packet can be used to communicate the different modes of operation under which the packet was created.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090109955 - Method and apparatus for improved frame synchronization in a wireless communication network: A wireless network uses an improved frame structure to increase timing acquisition capabilities as well as reduction of spectral lines. In one aspect, the frame packet can be used to communicate the different modes of operation under which the packet was created.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090109954 - Method and arrangement for transferring a time of day value between network elements: The invention relates to transferring of a time of day value between network elements of a data transfer network. It has been surprisingly detected that the phase reference signals available to various network elements can be utilized in the synchronization of time of day values between these network elements. In... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090109953 - Robust timing synchronization for mb-ofdm frequency hopping systems in a sop environment: System and methodologies for timing synchronization in a wireless communication system are provided herein. The provided systems and methodologies can utilize various timing synchronization algorithms and an associated state machine to reduce the down time of a wireless communication system due to the presence of simultaneously operating piconets (SOP) and/or... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090109956 - System and method for clock distribution and synchronization and radio location: A system for locating a client in a wireless network. The system includes at least three access points. Each access point is adapted to wirelessly communicate with a client having a location using packeted data, be placed in wired data communication within a selected data network; and to share a... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090109964 - Apparatus and method for playout scheduling in voice over internet protocol (voip) system: A method and an apparatus for playout scheduling in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system are provided. The method includes acquiring Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) samples by decoding a received packet; setting a first scale ratio according to a length of PCM samples stored in a playout buffer based... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090109963 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for registering user address information: The storage unit stores therein authentication IDs that are used for authentication of users and address information in association with one another. The authentication processing unit receives from a PC an authentication message that includes an authentication ID and is used for the authentication of the user of a communication... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090109957 - Content delivery during call setup: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for enabling a caller terminal to establish a call with a callee terminal over a communications network such that usable communications may be entered into between users of each terminal, wherein prior to the call being established... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090109958 - Identifying phone calls for internet telephony feature handling by routing the phone calls to a softswitch via a dedicated trunk: A communication system includes a plurality of time division multiplexed (TDM) public switched telephone network (PSTN) trunks, a Signal Control Point (SCP), a Softswitch, and an Internet telephony call controller. The SCP a plurality of phone numbers for time division multiplexed TDM PSTN lines with an Internet telephony feature group... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Mb Attn: Patent Docketing

20090109960 - Method and apparatus for a virtual circuit data area within a packet data frame: A method and apparatus for a virtual circuit data area within a packet data frame is disclosed. The method may include operating (320) in a multiple connections sharing packet data frame structure with a packet oriented switching wireless access point and a related network for providing data to a wireless... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090109962 - Method and apparatus for dynamically allocating and routing telephony endpoints: A client application sends a message to an endpoint server. The message contains parameters including allocation constraints. The endpoint server allocates an endpoint, such as a PSTN number, according to those constraints. The endpoint server maintains the state of the endpoint in a database. Various authentication and credentialing information is... Agent: Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro

20090109961 - Multiple simultaneous call management using voice over internet protocol: Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for more effectively managing multiple call situations using voice over internet protocol. In one illustrative embodiment, the computer implemented method comprising, responsive to receiving a request to monitor a call from among multiple simultaneous calls using voice over... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090109959 - System and method for providing requested quality of service in a hybrid network: Telephone calls, data and other multimedia information is routed through a hybrid network which includes transfer of information across the internet. A media order entry captures complete user profile information for a user. This profile information is utilized by the system throughout the media experience for routing, billing, monitoring, reporting... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090109965 - Method of providing voice over ip at predefined qos levels: The present invention is a technique for provisioning and assessment of voice quality in Internet Protocol (IP) voice applications. A predetermined quality of service (QoS) is received from a user in the form of an acceptable packet loss. The technique measures current packet loss and delay in the network and... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090109966 - Method and apparatus for performing synchronous time division switch, and ethernet switch: A method for performing a synchronous time division switch is provided, and the method includes: dividing, by using a time period for transmitting one byte as a unit, a time period for receiving and sending an Ethernet frame with a constant length by an Ethernet port into input time slots... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090109967 - Method and system for remotely configuring an ethernet switch using ethernet packets: The disclosed systems and methods relate to remote configuration of an Ethernet Switch. Aspects of the present invention may reduce the time and cost associated with configuring and maintaining one or more Ethernet Switches in a network.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090109971 - After transmission return signal: A method includes transmitting a next transmission after an inter-frame period after a previous transmission, wherein the inter-frame period is long enough to allow a return signal responding to the previous transmission. A network device includes a receiver to receive a transmission from a source device and a transmitter at... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20090109969 - Dynamic routing of wideband and narrowband audio data in a multimedia terminal adapter: A multi-media terminal adapter includes a narrowband SLIC and a wideband SLIC. A DSP circuit is configured to encode a VoIP data stream and to transmit the encoded VoIP data stream to the wideband SLIC or the narrowband SLIC. A processor determines whether the VoIP data stream includes narrowband audio... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090109968 - Grid router: A grid router includes a plurality of external interface units to receive packets of services from one point and to provide packets of services to another point and a second plurality of mailbox units to store and forward the packets associated with mailboxes, one per service. Each mailbox unit is... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20090109970 - Network system, network management server, and access filter reconfiguration method: Provided is a network system, comprising: a plurality of network devices; a network constructed from the plurality of network devices; and a management server managing the network. The plurality of network devices include a first network device in which a filter assigned as a target of reconfiguration is set and... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090109972 - Forwarding loop prevention apparatus and methods: Forwarding loop prevention apparatus and methods are provided. After a communication traffic block such as a packet is received, a determination is made as to whether the packet is to be broadcasted to a number of communication devices. If the packet is to be broadcasted, the packet is modified to... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20090109974 - Hardware based parallel processing cores with multiple threads and multiple pipeline stages: A pipelined out-of-order process and system for handling data packets in a network device. The process and system are scalable to support throughput in excess of 10 Gbps. The system includes a set of processing cores that offload the table look up operations and similar operations from the central processing... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090109973 - Programmable passive probe: A configurable probe takes advantage of inter-dependent probe control elements that pass data control signals from one control element to the other for controlling data extraction. The control elements operate in parallel on one word at a time, based upon a state established by one of the control elements. The... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20090109975 - Separation of data and control in a switching device: A method and apparatus for switching a data packet between a source and destination in a network. The data packet includes a header portion and a data portion. The header portion includes routing information for the data packet. The method includes defining a data path in the router comprising a... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090109977 - Method and apparatus for providing call admission control for voip over wireless local area networks using a transparent proxy agent: The invention includes a method and apparatus providing call admission control for a wireless local area network (WLAN). A method includes extracting call signaling information from call signaling messages exchanged between a first user terminal and a second user terminal for establishing a voice call, where the second user terminal... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20090109976 - Method and device for supporting access of point to point protocol over atm terminal: A method for supporting access of a Point to Point Protocol over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (PPPoA) terminal including: the PPPoA terminal initiates a Point to Point Protocol (PPP) negotiation to a broadband access device based on an Internet Protocol (IP) architecture; the broadband access device assigns a Media Access Control... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090109978 - Application interface for global mobile message delivery: A device, system, and method are directed towards communicating mobile information over a network. A mobile message (MM) is generated by an Internet Protocol (IP) enabled application interface. The MM may include advertising information. The MM is received at a routing server and comprises a destination phone number and/or advertising... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090109979 - System and method for a mobile access femtocell: A system and method for wireless communication indoors includes a femtocell base station coupled for operable interaction with an in-building router having a virtual private network server client connection embedded therein. A user equipment unit within range of the femtocell base station for interaction therewith cooperates with a virtual private... Agent: Adam K. Sacharoff Much Shelist Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein

20090109980 - Method and system to use, share and manage digital content by assigning mac and ip adress to each device and peripheral: The invention shows a method for connecting and sharing content over a plurality of devices, and over a plurality of networks public and private while respecting the content's Digital Rights by implementing a software layer (software alternately integrated into hardware component) that will assign a mac address and an ip... Agent: Patrick Joseph Zuili

20090109981 - Out-of-band management for broadband over powerline network: A management system for broadband over power lines is disclosed, using wireless communications interfaced with broadband over power lines management components to establish a wireless out-of-band system management network.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090109987 - Enhanced media gateway negotiation: A method and system of negotiating Media Gateways (MGs) between a plurality of call control nodes (CCNs). The system includes an originating CCN which builds an original list of configured Media Gateways capable of being used in a call by the originating CCN. The first CCN associates an identifier and... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090109985 - Packet forwarding device: A power-saving packet forwarding device realizing electric power that accords to the number of lines in which communication is performed and a traffic volume inputted from the lines. A header processing unit with which the packet forwarding device is equipped has a plurality of packet processing circuits for performing a... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed P. Smith LLP

20090109982 - System and method for associating an end user for billing in a network environment: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving one or more packets of a communication session from one or more interfaces, such that the interface is a subscriber interface or a network interface. The method further includes associating the communication session to an end user with a source Internet Protocol (IP)... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090109983 - System and method for billing end users in a peer-to-peer transaction in a network environment: A method for billing end users in a peer-to-peer transaction in a network environment is provided that includes a client services packet gateway operable to communicate with a first end user and a second end user in order to facilitate the peer-to-peer transaction and a flow manager element operable to... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090109986 - System and method for reselection of a packet data network gateway when establishing connectivity: A network control module includes an access module that determines whether a first packet data network gateway communicating with a first packet data network also communicates with a second packet data network. The network control module also includes a selection control module in communication with a mobile wireless terminal. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20090109984 - Wireless device with flash cache and boot from dock: A device is docked to a docking station. The docking station is coupled to a wired network. Code is obtained through the wired network. The code is executed on the device to enable the device to couple to a wireless network.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090109988 - Video decoder with an adjustable video clock: A method, an apparatus, and logic encoded in a computer-readable medium to carry out a method. The method includes receiving packets containing compressed video information, storing the received packets in a buffer memory, timestamping the received packets according to an adjustable clock; and removing packets from the buffer for decoding... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20090109989 - Linking cross bar controller: A method for transferring data includes connecting N ports of a crossbar to N devices, respectively, where N is an integer greater than one. Inbound data is received at one of the N ports from a respective one of the N devices. Dedicated connections are provided between an input buffer... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20090109992 - Contention slots in a shared robust scheme: A method includes receiving a schedule of transmission start slots on a network node, the slots representing reserved and/or nonreserved opportunities for initiating data transmission by at least one network device in a network, the reserved opportunities associated with specific network devices, and the non-reserved opportunities available for non-reserved use... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20090109990 - Cooperative csma mode identification in clustered networks: In one embodiment, a sensing device (200) can include a transceiver (202) to monitor a communication signal, and a controller (203) communicatively coupled to the transceiver to receive from a Cluster Head (140) a schedule comprising a listening period and an active sensing period. During the listening period, the sensing... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090109991 - Null indication in a shared robust scheme: A method implemented on a network node includes receiving an adjustable schedule of transmission start slots, the slots representing opportunities for initiating data transmission by at least one network device on a network, transmitting an expected duration indication in each slot associated with the network node as per the schedule,... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20090109994 - Floor control in a communication system: A method (400) of implementing floor control in a communications system (100). The method can include receiving a random symbol from each of a plurality of communication devices (104, 106, 108, 110, 112) or network nodes (204, 206, 208, 210, 212). From the plurality of random symbols, a random symbol... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090109993 - Method and device for resolving collision in a wireless telecommunications network: This contention resolution method can be used in a station having a data packet to send in a wireless telecommunications network, which packet is sent (F100) after a predetermined maximum number of selection rounds preceding said sending, said method including, on each of said rounds (k), a step (F20) of... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090109995 - Ad hoc wireless networking: A software architecture providing ad hoc wireless networking capabilities. The software architecture may be compatible with wireless devices, such as UWB devices operating according to the WLP communication protocol. The software architecture may include user mode and kernel mode modules, and may include a multiplexing driver framework to enable system... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090109996 - Network on chip: A network on chip (‘NOC’) that includes integrated processor (‘IP’) blocks, routers, memory communications controllers, and network interface controllers, with each IP block adapted to a router through a memory communications controller and a network interface controller, where each memory communications controller controlling communications between an IP block and memory,... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20090109997 - Channel bonding receiving apparatus and method for expanding channel bonding receiving band: Provided is a channel bonding receiving apparatus and method for expanding a channel bonding receiving band in a cable modem. The channel bonding receiving apparatus includes a channel bonding dividing unit for dividing a channel bonding broadband signal into a plurality of band signals and extracting a corresponding channel bonding... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090109998 - Facilitating self configuring link aggregation using link aggregation control protocol: A switch discovers active neighboring peer devices of a switch. Such discovery includes facilitating communication of Link Aggregation Control Protocol Data Units (LACPDUs) for identifying a unique peer identifier assigned to each one of the neighboring peer devices. In response to discovering the active neighboring peer devices, the switch automatically... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20090109999 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method: Provided is a wireless communication apparatus by which the maximum throughput can be obtained while satisfying required reception qualities in multicarrier communication. In the apparatus, a coding section (101) performs error correction coding to all of the plurality of resource blocks at a same coding rate, modulating sections (103-1 to... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090110000 - Apparatus and a method for distributing bandwidth: A method and an apparatus for distributing bandwidth, on one or more first ports having a maximum bandwidth, the bandwidth usage being monitored and compared to a percentage of the maximum bandwidth. If the bandwidth usage at the first port(s) exceeds the percentage, a bandwidth of data received on the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090110001 - Method, network agent and bandwidth broker for managing the available bandwidth for connections between terminals of a packet-oriented communication network: A respective number of terminals are managed by network agents. When initializing a connection between two terminals, the network agent initializes the connection if the relevant terminals are arranged in the same bandwidth-uncritical area. If one of the terminals is arranged in a bandwidth-critical area, the network agent ascertains the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090110002 - Broadcast reception apparatus, ts packet reproduction apparatus, broadcast reception method and program: According to one embodiment, a broadcast reception apparatus includes a reception unit which receives a broadcast signal, and outputs a transport stream, a first determination unit which receives the transport stream as TS packets, and determines whether a PES header exists in each TS packet, a second determination unit which... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090110003 - Handling ip datagram fragments: Problems caused by Internet Protocol datagram fragmentation are solved by creating a session context for the datagram fragments without actually reassembling the datagram from its fragments. The session context enables treatment of the datagram without actually reassembling it. Processing fragments can be followed by forwarding the processed fragments to another... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090110004 - Time-domain gated filter for rf communication systems: A time domain filter receives a double sideband (DSB) input in the frequency domain and compresses this input into a time domain signal filtered by a time gate for providing a time filtered signal that is then expanded back into the frequency domain as a single sideband (SSB) output with... Agent: Carole A. Mulchinski, M1/040 The Aerospace Corporation

20090110005 - Switching circuit and switching method: Timing control means receives a plurality of data that have been input in parallel and adjusts the timings of a plurality of the data so that data having the same destination do not exist at the same timing. Multiplexing means generates a multiple signal by multiplying the data whose timings... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090110006 - Method, apparatus and system for sending and receiving notification messages: A method, apparatus, and system for sending and receiving notification messages to synchronize notification messages with program streams accurately. The method for sending notification messages includes obtaining a notification message and a synchronization timestamp that are synchronous with a program, encapsulating the notification message into an RTP/RTCP packet corresponding to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090110007 - Seamless multiplexing of embedded bitstreams: A “seamless multiplexer,” as described herein, provides a flexible and efficient system and method for multiplexing embedded coded bitstreams. Further, unlike the conventional JPEG 2000 standard, the seamless multiplexer is capable of decoding multiplexed encoded bitstreams without the need to use a demultiplexing aide as overhead in the encoded signal.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20090103427 - Code channel management in a wireless communications system: Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to communications. The systems and techniques involve dividing a plurality of subscriber stations into a plurality of groups, assigning a different plurality of orthogonal codes to each of the groups, the number of the orthogonal codes assigned to one of the groups being less... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090103428 - System for generating space frequency block code relay signal and method thereof: A method and system for generating a space frequency block code relay signal includes a signal detection unit which detects a received signal by receiving a first and second source signals transmitted from a first and second source nodes, a relay signal generation unit which generates a relay signal cooperating... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090103429 - Method and system for remote power feeding of a dsl communication device: The invention relates to a method and system of remote power feeding of a DSL communication device. The system for performing the method comprises a central DSL system connectable to a plurality of DSL communication devices via a plurality of associated subscriber lines. A subscriber line provides a plurality of... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090103430 - System and method of managing failover network traffic: A system and method of managing failover network traffic is disclosed. In one form, a method of managing network traffic can include accessing a failover policy of a plurality of network interface controllers, and detecting a failover event of at least one of the plurality of network interface controllers. The... Agent: Larson Newman Abel & Polansky, LLP

20090103431 - Method of estimating restoration capacity in a network: A method for estimating restoration capacity for a communication network includes a specified number of restoration paths, which can be maximally diverse from each other.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090103432 - Non-disruptive data path upgrade using target mobility: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for non-disruptive data path modification using target mobility. A management server is in communication with a switching fabric. The switching fabric is in communication with a host and a data storage element. The management server creates a takeover target based... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20090103433 - Telecommunication and multimedia management method and apparatus: A method for reliably transferring media over a network from a sending node to a receiving node. The method includes ascertaining at the sending node if the media to be transmitted is either time-sensitive or not time-sensitive. For media ascertained as non time-sensitive, the media is transmitted by adjusting the... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP / Rebelvox

20090103435 - Dynamic rate adaptation for distributed wireless network: A control strategy and/or method by which (1) a network device may reduce energy consumption though the use of lower-rate mode(s) without affecting spectrum opportunities for other network devices, which may as a result increase energy efficiency in a networked device; and (2) a network device may reduce unnecessary use... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20090103434 - Ingress traffic flow control in a data communications system: Embodiments of the invention provide flow control of incoming data packets to data processing resources via a controller that can receive and react to advanced backpressure messages. These advanced backpressure messages are used to rate limit the data packets based one or more of the following factors: traffic class, traffic... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090103438 - Grant based adaptive media access control scheduling: Methods and Apparatus are disclosed for grant based adaptive media access control scheduling. According to an embodiment, a method for MAC scheduling of a plurality of data flows for downlink transmission of data bytes is disclosed. The method enables determining a data flow to be scheduled amongst the plurality of... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090103439 - Method and device for realizing content flowing on p2p network: This invention relates to a method and device for realizing content flowing continuously on P2P network, which is used for dividing the content to be transmitted into a plurality of blocks; detects connection state of all nodes performing the content transmission, calculates an upload rate coefficient of each node, determines... Agent: GlobalIPServices

20090103437 - Method of transmitting/receiving data in sensor network for reducing overhearing of sensor nodes: Provided is a method of transmitting/receiving data in a sensor node for reducing overhearing of sensor nodes, and a sensor network which implements the method. A sender node having transmission data from among a plurality of nodes which perform a low power listening (LPL) operation in an asynchronous manner at... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090103436 - System and method for reducing traffic in a wide area ethernet network: A system and method retrieves device forwarding information from switching devices and installs it as static device forwarding information on other switches to prevent multiple copies of communications being sent from those switches.... Agent: Innovation Partners

20090103440 - Collision avoidance for uplink voip transmission: Disclosed is a method the includes determining if a collision will occur between a transmission from a first user equipment that uses a persistently assigned uplink resource (such as for VoIP packet transmissions) and a retransmission from a second user equipment that uses a synchronous non-adaptive automatic repeat request procedure... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090103441 - Communication apparatus and switching device: A CRC calculating unit calculates a DCS code for a DA field to a DATA field and an FCS code for the DA field to a DCS field. A DCS checking unit outputs a DCS check result with a calculated DCS code and a DCS code in the DCS field... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090103442 - Communicating risk information within a multi-domain network: C

20090103443 - Loopback configuration for bi-directional interfaces: An interface for implementing a loopback configuration which offers improved calibration and/or testing of an electronic system is disclosed. More specifically, embodiments provide a bi-directional interface with at least two portions or partitions capable of communicating data in opposite directions and implementing a loopback configuration between components of an electronic... Agent: Murabito Hao & Barnes LLP

20090103446 - Apparatus and method for estimating noise and interference on ranging channel in a broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for estimating a noise/interference power value of a ranging channel in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. An apparatus for a base station in a broadband wireless communication system includes an operator, an estimator, and an adder/subtractor. The operator calculates the receive (RX) power... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090103445 - Method and apparatus for enhancing various pdcp and layer 2 operations: Method and apparatus for enhancing interactions between layers in a wireless communications system. A PDCP layer sublayer provides a delivery confirmation service to at least one upper layer above the PDCP layer.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090103444 - Method and apparatus for power throttling of highspeed multi-lane serial links: A method for managing the power consumption of an information handling system including a multi-lane serial link having a lane setting that identifies the number of active lanes in the multi-lane serial link. The method may include determining a number of lanes required for the multi-lane serial link based on... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20090103447 - Radio communication method and radio base station apparatus based on variable tti length control: A controlling method and a radio base station apparatus capable of variably determining a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) length in accordance with a communication environment of a mobile terminal is disclosed. The radio base station apparatus includes a receiving section receiving information via an uplink channel; and a scheduler variably... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090103448 - Apparatus, method and computer-readable storage medium for calculating throughput requirements of a network: An apparatus, method and computer-readable storage medium are provided for calculating an estimated throughput requirement of a network, such as to facilitate selecting the minimum bandwidth, maximum bandwidth or some other appropriate bandwidth for providing network services to a customer accessing that network. In this regard, a method of calculating... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090103449 - Virtual responder for the auto-discovery of a real responder in a network performance test: Particular embodiments provide a virtual responder that can be contacted by any number of senders. When a sender wants to perform a measurement test with a real responder, the sender sends a control message to a virtual responder. The virtual responder is configured to determine a real responder based on... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090103450 - Voip performance optimization for e-dch power limitation: User equipment in a wireless communication system monitors scheduling information and locally detects a change in link data rate of the uplink channel based on the monitored scheduling information. In this way, a change in link data rate can be detected directly without significant delay. This direct or early detection... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090103452 - Ad-hoc secure communication networking based on formation flight technology: An ad-hoc secure communication network and methods of communicating with a fleet of vehicles using the ad-hoc communication network is provided. The method includes communicating relatively long range communication signals to a fleet router. The fleet router is a select one of the vehicles in the fleet. The method further... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090103451 - Method and system for topology discovery in an sip network: A method for discovering topology in an SIP network is disclosed. According to the method, the SIP network is divided into domains governed by corresponding SIP proxies. A management system creates a topology agent for each SIP-domain and registers it with the governor proxy of each SIP-domain. Each topology agent... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090103455 - Methods and apparatus for mobility support and ip multimedia subsytem (ims) registration in a multimode network environment: Described aspects provide for improving the mobility of wireless communication devices between one network domain and another network domain, specifically, but not limited to, between a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and a cellular network and the like. Present aspects provide for services to be moved seamlessly and in a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090103453 - Network planning and optimization of equipment deployment: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, devices and methods for improving the efficient deployment and configuration of networking equipment within a network build-out. In certain embodiments of the invention, an iterative analysis of inter-node equipment placement and connectivity, and inter- and intra-node traffic flow is performed to identify a... Agent: Infinera Corporation

20090103456 - Protocol for reliable, self-organizing, low-power wireless network for security and building automation systems: A method to wirelessly network a sensor/actuator node is described. The sensor/actuator node is installed in a sensor/actuator node network and arranged in a hierarchical manner with a plurality of node levels and a cluster head network. A unique node identifier is assigned to the sensor node and the sensor... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090103454 - Wireless communication system and method for assuring communication quality of packet flow: A base station or packet control apparatus, constituting a wireless access network system to be connected to an IP network via a node apparatus, includes a QoS authorization and admission control function for verifying a first communication quality request received from a wireless mobile station based on communication quality level... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090103458 - Avoidance of incorrect classification of desired messages as spam-over-internet-telephony messages: The subject matter of the invention is a method and an apparatus for avoiding incorrect classification of desired messages as spam-over-Internet-telephony messages, SPIT messages for short, and accordingly a connection request is forwarded within communication networks from a terminal belonging to a first subscriber to a terminal belonging to a... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20090103457 - Method and apparatus for providing notification of an attempted communication: Method and system for providing notification of attempted voice communication between a calling party and a called party in a voice communication system includes the called party receiving a voice communication attempt, sending notification of the voice communication attempt to a registration device associated with the called party, forwarding notification... Agent: Vonage

20090103459 - Internet phone system and directory search engine using same: An Internet compatible dialer pad is used to dial into an Internet server to provide services similar to those found on the Plain Old Telephone System (“POTS”). The dialer pad has an integrated modem set, an extended keypad with alphanumeric entry keys and function keys, display screen and display electronics... Agent: Ditthavong, Phouphanomketh

20090103460 - Method for transmitting signal and method for receiving signal:

20090103462 - Determining presence of radio frequency communication device: A RF data communication device operates in at least two states. In a first state, the device transmits a response to an RF transmission if specific data therein represents an inquiry as to the presence of one or more RF data communication devices and if specific data therein corresponds to... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20090103461 - Hierarchical application programming interface for communication middleware in partially connected mobile ad hoc networks: An application programming interface and related system is presented for a middleware communication space that provides asynchronous message delivery service for partially connected mobile ad hoc networks. Embodiments of the present invention use mobile devices to bridge separated islands of networks and store and propagate messages. The system and software... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090103463 - Multinode arrangement: The present invention provides a multinode arrangement that utilizes a plurality of nodes that communicate with each other by RF transmissions and hardwire communications. The use of both hardwire and RF transmission provides the advantages obtained with both forms of transmission.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090103464 - Wireless network node: A communication procedure has been developed that allows even a low-rate CPU to perform stable communication so as to realized wireless network nodes, which have a long communication distance and also have a long battery life. Each wireless network node decides its own time slot number by use of random... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090103466 - Mcbcs mapping and delivery to support mcbcs services: A method and system for multicast and broadcast system (MCBCS) mapping and delivery to support MCBCS services is provided. Media content flows are assigned a media content identifier grouped into one or more multicast and broadcast system (MBS) services, wherein each MBS service is assigned an MBS service ID. An... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090103468 - Multicast packet transfer device, multicast packet management device, and multicast packet reception device: A technology is disclosed that can reduce delay time and multicast packet loss occurring when a reception side communication device using radio communication performs a handover, and actualize multicast technology taking into consideration mobility (particularly PIM-SM taking into consideration mobility). Based on the technology, when a reception side communication device... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090103467 - Synchronization and macro diversity for mcbcs: A method and system for multicast and broadcast system (MCBCS) synchronization and macro diversity is provided. In an embodiment, an MBS Proxy creates the necessary messages with synchronization rules embedded therein. The messages are provided to an MBS Distributed DPF and a base station, which performs a final PHY frame... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090103465 - Synchronized multi-bs mbs for improved idle mode power savings in higher-order frequency reuse networks: A method for providing a multicast and broadcast service (MBS) in a wireless network, the method comprising: establishing an MBS MAC connection between a mobile station (MS) and a first base station (BS) in an MBS zone; sending a first MBS_MAP message in a first frame, wherein the first MBS_MAP... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090103472 - Method and device for cooperative relay with multiple relay stations in wireless telecommunication network: The invention provides a method and device for cooperative relay with multiple relay stations in the wireless telecommunication network. To be specific, according to the invention, in single-hop or multi-hop relay telecommunication link, the relay device and other relay devices within the same hop select space diversity or space multiplexing... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090103469 - Method for establishing a telecommunications network for patient monitoring: A wireless network having an architecture that resembles a peer-to-peer network has two types of nodes, a first sender type node and a second receiver/relay type node. The network may be used in a medical instrumentation environment whereby the first type node may be wireless devices that could monitor physical... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20090103470 - Revocation management: A method of carrying out wireless video communication involves at a wireless receiver (WR) device, providing a digital certificate, the digital certificate containing a High-Bandwidth Digital Copy Protection (HDCP) Key Source Vector (KSV), a device identifier for the WR device, and a digital signature cryptographically binding the identifiers; at the... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20090103471 - Wireless video communication: A method of managing revocation when an alternate transmission method, using an alternate transmitter identity and an alternate receiver identity, is juxtaposed into an original transmission system, the original transmission system having its own original transmitter and receiver identities that communicate via an original transmission method involves at an alternate... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20090103473 - Method to establish and maintain an aircraft ad-hoc communication network: An ad-hoc communication network including at least two vehicles such as at least two aircraft. Each vehicle includes surveillance equipment, a surveillance transmitter, a surveillance receiver, a communication management function (CMF), a communication transmitter, and a communication receiver. The surveillance equipment is configured to generate at least position and ID... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090103476 - Graceful degradation for voice communication services over wired and wireless networks: A method for gracefully extending the range and/or capacity of voice communication systems is disclosed. The method involves the persistent storage of voice media on a communication device. When the usable bit rate on the network is poor and below that necessary for conducting a live conversation, voice media is... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP / Rebelvox

20090103477 - Graceful degradation for voice communication services over wired and wireless networks: A communication device for gracefully extending the range and/or capacity of voice communication systems. The communication device includes a persistent storage device configured persistently store the voice media either generated when using the communication device or received over the network at the communication device. When the usable bit rate on... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP / Rebelvox

20090103480 - Hybrid arq schemes with soft combining in variable rate packet data applications: A system and method for transmitting high speed data on fixed rate and for variable rate channels. The system and method provides the flexibility of adjusting the data rate, the coding rate, and the nature of individual retransmissions. Further, the system and method supports partial soft combining of retransmitted data... Agent: Nortel Networks Limited

20090103478 - Method and apparatus for pcdp discard: A method and apparatus for discarding a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) service data unit (SDU) are disclosed. A PDCP layer sets a timer and discards a PDCP SDU upon expiration of the timer. The timer may be set upon receiving the PDCP SDU from an upper layer or upon... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090103479 - Radio communication system, radio communication method, base station and radio terminal: A radio terminal 10 transmits, to a base station 100, uplink scheduling information including at least a transmission power ratio (UPH) indicating a ratio of a maximum transmission power to a transmission power of a DPCCH. The base station 100 transmits, to the radio terminal 10, transmission rate decrease data... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090103474 - System and method for improving bluetooth performance in the presence of a coexistent, non-bluetooth, wireless device: The disclosed systems and methods relate to improving the coexistence of Bluetooth devices and devices that use other wireless standards. Aspects of the present invention may enable a higher level of data throughput by reducing the retransmission rate. Aspects of the present invention may minimize design cost by allowing manufactures... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090103475 - Telecommunication and multimedia management method and apparatus: The present invention is directed to a node for transmitting data over a network. The node includes a first ascertaining element configured to ascertain the need to transmit one or more data streams from the node to a second node over the network, the one or more data streams including... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP / Rebelvox

20090103484 - Designing power sequences: The invention relates to the design of power sequences for use in a group of sub-areas of a wireless communication system. Each power sequence defines for one of the sub-areas transmission power values for transmissions using a respective one of a plurality of medium access units. For each of the... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090103481 - Maintaining multiple, simultaneous wireless network connections using a single radio: A method and apparatus for managing simultaneous virtual connections with multiple wireless networks. A plurality of ports in a hardware driver may be each associated with a corresponding wireless network and maintain a unique MAC state relative to other ports. Each port may have a corresponding virtual NIC that communicates... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090103487 - Method and apparatus for allocating resources in a wireless communication system: A method for allocating resources by a Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes determining use/nonuse of each of a plurality of Resource Blocks (RBs), which are allocated using a persistent allocation scheme, and transmitting resource allocation information indicating use/nonuse of each of the... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090103486 - Mimo wireless communication system: A wireless communication method in a MIMO OFDMA system in which users in each of multiple adjacent cells are served by a base station of the cell, the base station having a transmission link to each user in the cell on a respective MIMO channel. The method involves the base... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090103483 - Radio resource assignment method for physical channel in uplink, and transmitter for mobile apparatuses: A radio resource assignment method for a physical channel in an uplink directed from a mobile apparatus to a base station in a radio communication system, includes: assigning a contention-based channel and a scheduled channel according to one of a time division scheme, a frequency division scheme, and a hybrid... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090103485 - System and method for wireless data communication having multiple checksums per frame: A system and method for wireless communication of video data are disclosed. One embodiment of the method includes providing a header and a payload. The payload contains audiovisual data. The method also includes generating a first checksum for the header; generating a second checksum for substantially the entire portions of... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090103482 - Systems and methods for using a format of an uplink control channel to transmit a channel quality indicator: A method for using a format of an uplink control channel to transmit a channel quality indicator (CQI) is described. The uplink control channel is provided in a first format. The uplink control channel in the first format carries either the CQI or acknowledgment/non-acknowledgment (ACK/NAK) information. The CQI or the... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20090103488 - Practical method for resource allocation for qos in ofdma-based wireless systems: A data communication resource allocation for OFDMA based wireless systems supporting heterogeneous traffic is provided by allocating the rates to users subject to power/bandwidth constraints, according to a user selection metric and rate allocation based on traffic requirements and channel conditions. Thus, a proportionally fair rate allocation with minimum rate... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090103489 - Arrangement and method for dual mode operation in a communication system terminal: An arrangement and method for discontinuous software FDD monitoring during TDD call allows removal of a conventional external notch filter in a dual mode WCDMA and PCS/DCS handset. The WCDMA RX frame is allowed to have a few slots corrupted by the PCS/DCS transmitter noise during DCS transmission, and a... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090103490 - Forwarding data path optimization in a distributed environment for achieving micro-mobility: A method and apparatus of updating a forwarding plane of a network element in response to receiving a mobility event is described. The network element receives a mobility message indicating a mobile node has coupled to a new access port associated with the network element. The message further indicates that... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090103491 - Link layer quality of service parameter mapping: A detailed QoS parameter mapping of 3GPP QoS parameters to IEEE 802.21 MIH link QoS parameters. The detailed mapping includes an IEEE 802.21 Supported Number of Class of Service (CoS) parameter to indicate supported 3GPP QoS classes (conversational, streaming, interactive, and background). IEEE 802.21 MIH capable networks may use the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090103493 - Method and apparatus of handling data decryption for a packet data convergence protocol layer in a wireless communication system: The present invention provides a method of handling data decryption for a Packet Data Convergence Protocol layer of a user equipment upon handover in a wireless communication system for increasing the validness of deciphering packages in the wireless communication system, which includes using a security variables corresponding to a source... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090103495 - Method and system for user initiated inter-device, inter-system, and inter-internet protocol address handoff: Apparatus and method by which Internet Protocol (IP) traffic can be transferred (i.e. handoff) between two different terminals operating according to two different technology standards in two different systems with two different IP addresses. For example, a session handoff can be made between a terminal in Wireless Local Area Network... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090103494 - Soft handoff for ofdm: The present invention relates to soft handoffs in an OFDM system. Each mobile terminal measures pilot signal strengths of transmissions from adjacent base stations. If the pilot signal strength for a base station exceeds the defined threshold, that base station is added to an active set list. Each mobile terminal... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20090103492 - Wireless communications network base station extension: Apparatus and methods to permit the deployment of wireless base stations, where a deployed remote base station is backhauled to the core network over a wireless connection to an operatively attached donor base station using protocols that encapsulate backhaul communications within standard subscriber communication protocols.... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090103496 - Bi-directional handover method and apparatus: Apparatus for bi-directional handover are disclosed. An apparatus configured to perform handover from a wireless code division multiple access (WCDMA) to a wireless broadband (WiBro) network is disclosed. An apparatus configured to perform handover from a WCDMA network to a WiFi (IEEE 802.11x) network is disclosed. An apparatus configured to... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090103497 - Transmission structure supporting multi-user scheduling and mimo transmission: Techniques for transmitting data in a manner to support multi-user scheduling, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission, and interference cancellation are described. A base station assigns multiple time segments of a transmission time interval (TTI) to at least one terminal, maps data for each terminal to at least one time segment assigned... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090103498 - Adaptive receiver method and apparatus: Receiver resources are allocated based on how subframes are allocated within in a frame between downlink and uplink transmissions and how often the receiver is expected to report feedback information associated with the downlink transmissions. Additional time is available for processing received data blocks if the feedback information derived from... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090103499 - Beacon and mobile terminal synchronization and method thereof: The invention relates to a method of optimizing measurement duration in a telecommunications network, said telecommunications network comprising a first base station connected to a first radio network, at least a second base station connected to a second radio network, a core network connected to said first and second radio... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090103500 - Re-transmission capability in semi-persistent transmission: One or more hybrid automatic repeat request process identifications are configured for scheduling without associated control signaling. A particular HARQ process ID to be assumed for a given subframe is determined based on at least one of: a) system frame number; b) number of hybrid automatic repeat request processes that... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090103501 - Decentralized media access control for ad-hoc mobile wireless network: A method of operating a decentralized ad-hoc wireless network including wireless stations, comprises establishing a common time reference which is used by the wireless stations to share access to a common wireless channel, the common time reference having a periodic superframe structure including a Scheduled Beacon Period, a Contended Beacon... Agent: The Johns Hopkins Universityapplied Physics Labora Office Of Patent Counsel

20090103503 - Location aware background access point scanning for wlan: Respective distances between a communication device and a plurality of wireless local area network (WLAN) access points are determined. One of the plurality of WLAN access points with which the communication device is to associate is selected based on the determined distances... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun, LLP (marvell)

20090103505 - Method and apparatus of selectively tying the opening and closing of evdo and ppp sessions: Method, and associated apparatus, for operating a hybrid access terminal operable in a CDMA 1x/EVDO hybrid communication session system. The hybrid access terminal is operable to communicate pursuant to an EVDO communication session and to a PPP communication session. The opening and closing of the communication sessions are independent of... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090103504 - Multiplexed communication system and multiplexed communication method: A transmission processing apparatus selects, based on flow control information, user packets to be multiplexed, stores the user packets in the payload of a multiplexed packet based on the position order of multiplex flags corresponding to destination users, stores a multiplex flag group in which only the multiplex flags of... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090103506 - Separating control and data in wireless networks: Wireless communication techniques are described in which control and data are separated. In an implementation, a method is described which includes sending data packets on a first wireless channel and sending control data relating to the data packets on a second wireless channel having a data rate that is lower... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090103502 - Wireless communication system and wireless communication apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus selects one of multiple wireless communication apparatuses and activates the selected wireless communication apparatus as a second access point of a second group. The activated wireless communication apparatus establishes the second group including multiple wireless communication apparatuses. After the second group is thus established, the transmission power... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090103508 - Automatic power control system for a code division multiple access (cdma) communications system: A receiver receives signals and noise over a frequency spectrum of a desired received signal. The desired received signal is spread using code division multiple access. The received signals and noise are demodulated to produce a demodulated signal. The demodulated signal is despread using a code uncorrelated with a code... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090103507 - Method, apparatus and computer program product to provide enhanced reverse link medium access control in a multi-carrier wireless communications system: A method determines whether information corresponding to one of a number of carriers indicates the one carrier is loaded or unloaded, wherein the carriers are used for transmission of a MAC flow by the access terminal over a reverse link. Responsively, the transmission resource allocation corresponding to the MAC flow... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090103509 - Enhanced wireless packet data communication system, method, and apparatus applicable to both wide area networks and local area networks: A cellular wireless packet data communication system containing transmit-only endpoint devices which transmit to receive-only base stations. The system is configured to allow for large area coverage (e.g., a metropolitan area) with far fewer number base stations than are required with conventional two-way cellular systems. The base station coverage areas... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090103511 - Method and apparatus for selecting a radio link control protocol data unit size: A method and apparatus are used to create RLC PDUs in advance of the E-TFC selection for the MAC PDU that will include this or these RLC PDU(s). The apparatus may be configured to pre-generate RLC PDUs for transmission in a later TTI. This approach avoids the large peak processing... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090103510 - Time slot control method, communication system, communication apparatus, and storage medium: It is an object of the present invention to make it possible to obtain an appropriate receiving environment in a communication system using a slot connecting transfer system. A mobile communication system (1) includes a transmitting part (13) sequentially transmitting time slots containing communication signals, an S/N ratio acquiring part... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090103512 - Method of performing polling procedure in a wireless communication system: A method of generating a data block for performing a polling procedure in a wireless communication system, a method of transmitting data and a method of performing a polling procedure are disclosed. A protocol layer performs the polling procedure for requesting a receiving side to transmit status report if there... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090103513 - Communications terminal, a system and a method for internet/network telephony: A communication terminal for Internet telephony is provided that handles and control communication of data in accordance with a standardized network protocol and exchanges data with a connecting unit connected to the Internet where the resulting data exchanged between the terminal and a connecting unit consist of packets in a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090103514 - 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

20090103516 - Synchronization detecting circuit and multimode wireless communication apparatus: Multimode wireless communication apparatus supports plural wireless communication methods and includes synchronization detecting part. Digital signals output from first A/D part and second A/D part are combined by synchronization detecting part. Synchronization detecting part converts sampling frequencies of respective digital signals and performs other processes when combining digital signals. Synchronization... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090103515 - System and method for preserving socket connections over a wireless network: A system, apparatus, and method for maintaining a socket connection over a wireless network. For example, one embodiment of the invention is a wireless data processing device for emulating a socket connection comprising: a wireless radio for establishing a wireless communication channel with a wireless service provider over a wireless... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, P.s.

20090103517 - Acoustic signal packet communication method, transmission method, reception method, and device and program thereof: According to the present invention, the amount of delay of acoustic signal corresponding data with respect to an acoustic signal is contained in an acoustic signal packet as delay amount control information. Furthermore, the conditions of a communication network are detected from the number of packets lost in a burst... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090103518 - Call origination by an application server in an internet protogol multimedia core network subsystem: A system and method for call origination by an application server in an internet protocol multimedia core network subsystem includes a first step of providing a public user identity for a user. A next step includes storing a service parameter in a service profile of the user, the service parameter... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090103526 - Method and apparatus for providing disaster recovery using network peering arrangements: The present invention enables network providers to create peering arrangements with other providers that allow them to fail over to other networks in the event of a site failure. This invention would lower the cost to provide site diversity within a provider's network by allowing cost sharing between the provider's... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20090103519 - Method and computer product for switching subsequent messages with higher priority than invite messages in a softswitch: A method for switching invite messages and subsequent messages in a softswitch directing the invite messages to a first list, and the subsequent messages to a second list. The method processes the subsequent messages of the second list with a higher priority than the messages of the first list.... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20090103525 - Release link trunking for ip telephony: Methods and systems are provided that use resources more efficiently for calls originating and terminating in a first address space that use services in an IP address space. A call is established from an originator in a first address space to an IP device within an IP address space. The... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090103524 - System and method to precisely learn and abstract the positive flow behavior of a unified communication (uc) application and endpoints: A system and method to precisely learn and enforce security rules for Unified Communication (UC) applications and endpoints is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a behavioral learning system learns and abstracts positive flow behaviors of UC applications and endpoints. The properties of previously received messages from the endpoints and learned... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20090103521 - Telecommunication and multimedia management method and apparatus: An improved communication method for sending media between a sending node and receiving node during a conversation. When network bandwidth is insufficient to transmit a full bit rate representation of time-sensitive media, then a reduced bit rate representation of the media is transmitted for the purpose of increasing the ability... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP / Rebelvox

20090103522 - Telecommunication and multimedia management method and apparatus: An apparatus for transferring a complete copy of media designated as time sensitive over a network. The apparatus includes a sending node including a network ascertaining element configured to ascertain if conditions on the network are adequate to transmit a full bit rate representation of media designated as time-sensitive at... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP / Rebelvox

20090103523 - Telecommunication and multimedia management method and apparatus: A method for transferring a complete copy of media designated as time-sensitive over a network. The method involves transmitting media designated as time-sensitive from sending node to a receiving node and receiving the media designated as time-sensitive at the receiving node. At the receiving node, any missing media designated as... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP / Rebelvox

20090103520 - Transparent signal relay system for packet transmission services: A system for sending a data packet from a first communication network (255) to a second communication network (270) is disclosed in which the second communication network (270) is directly unreachable by the first communication network (255). The system comprises a transmitting device for transmitting the data packet to the... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20090103527 - Telecommunication and multimedia management method and apparatus: An method for improving the ability of a recipient to review time-sensitive media upon receipt when network conditions are poor. The method includes ascertaining if media to be sent from a sending node to a receiving node is time-sensitive and ascertaining if there is sufficient bandwidth for transmitting a full... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP / Rebelvox

20090103528 - Telecommunication and multimedia management method and apparatus: An apparatus for improving the ability of a recipient to review time-sensitive media upon receipt when network conditions are poor. The apparatus includes a media ascertaining element configured to ascertain if media to be sent from a sending node to a receiving node is time-sensitive. A bandwidth-ascertaining element ascertains if... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP / Rebelvox

20090103529 - Telecommunication and multimedia management method and apparatus: A method for transferring a complete copy of media designated as time sensitive over a network. The method involves ascertaining if conditions on the network are adequate to transmit a full bit rate representation of media designated as time-sensitive at a first bit rate and a first packetization interval between... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP / Rebelvox

20090103530 - Method and communication system for selecting a transmission mode for transmitting payload data: A transmission mode selection for packet-oriented transmission of useful data between a first and a second communication device is provided, where lists of transmission modes for the communication devices are transmitted to a quality-of-service device. The quality-of-service device uses available transmission resources to select one or more transmission modes from... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090103531 - Method and system for real-time synchronization across a distributed services communication network: A system for progressively synchronizing stored copies of indexed media transmitted between nodes on a network. The system includes a transmitter at the sending node configured to progressively transmit available indexed media to a receiving node with a packet size and packetization interval sufficient to enable the near real-time rendering... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP / Rebelvox

20090103533 - Method, system and node apparatus for establishing identifier mapping relationship: The invention discloses a method for establishing an identifier mapping relationship, in which a end node of a service allocates its ingress identifier, generates an identifier mapping relationship of the end node, and sends a signaling message that carries the ingress identifier of the end node to upstream nodes along... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090103532 - Packet network system with session changing function and implementation method and device thereof: The present invention provides a method for session changing. The method for session changing is designed for session changing during interworking between a first UE and a second UE in a packet network, and includes: reserving, during setup of an initial session between the first UE and the second UE,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090103534 - Method and system for transmitting a multicast stream over a data exchange network: The invention concerns a method for transmitting a multicast stream in a data exchange network, at an access point (AP). It consists in analyzing (A) the multicast stream by data frames to detect the multicast address at the link (MUAx, x=2) of the multicast stream {MUF{T[MUA]}), substituting (B) in each... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090103538 - Communication device: A communication device is, in an MPLS network including a first area and a second area, the first area being notified of aggregate route information into which pieces of route information on a plurality of routes are aggregated, and using an LDP for generating an LSP, located in the first... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090103536 - Method and system for reducing look-up time in packet forwarding on computer networks: A method and system for reducing the lookup time in packet forwarding on computer networks. A first lookup is performed in a memory tree to find a first protocol forwarding entry in the memory tree. The forwarding entry includes first protocol (e.g., EGP) information and cached associated second protocol (e.g.,... Agent: Ibm Rp-rps Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090103540 - Method for address translation device traversal for sip signaling messages through temporary use of the tcp transport protocol: m

20090103541 - Method, system and apparatus for filtering packets: The present disclosure discloses a method, system, and apparatus for filtering packets. The method includes setting packet filtering information that uniquely identifies the basic characteristics of a media stream in an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)-based packet header. As an apparatus for filtering packets, a media gateway (MG) uses the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090103539 - Probe insertion for one or more network address translated addresses: In various embodiments, one or more methods and/or systems described may provide probing and/or data replication capabilities for monitoring a user's computing device and the data the user's computing device transmits and/or receives to and/or from one or more networks. In some embodiments, an authorization signal may be intercepted, where... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090103535 - Software architecture system and method for communication with, and management of, components within an appliance utilizing functionality identifiers: A network system comprising a system of devices having a plurality of nodes defining a communications network. At least one identifier from a pre-determined group of identifiers is associated with each of the nodes and identifies the functionalities that are applicable to that node or device associated with that node.... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20090103537 - System for switching between communication devices, switching method, and switching program: A switching system in which a unique additional address is used for each session, and session information is transferred as it is without rewriting the session information when a communication device such as a server is switched, a switching method, and a switching program are disclosed. The switching system comprises... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090103542 - Efficiency improvement for shared communications networks: A technique for providing data unit concatenation in a shared communications network is disclosed. The technique establishes a distinction between a first address space and a second address space within one or more shared communications networks, such as a wireless local area network, in a telecommunications system. At a transmitter... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090103543 - Recovering from a link down event: The present invention is directed to recovering from (e.g., surviving) a link down event in a link having a two-way serial-connection (e.g., a peripheral component interface express (“PCI Express”) link). Rather than resetting a sequence numbering and control flow credits of the two-way serial-connection link when a link down event... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090103544 - Method and system for provisioning and maintaining a circuit in a data network: A method and system are provided for provisioning a circuit in a data network without manual intervention. A network management module receives an order for provisioning the circuit and then, based on the order, transmits a request to a legacy logical element module to configure a logical circuit in one... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090103545 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing quality of service in a passive optical network: Quality of Service (QoS) can be managed in a network that uses time division access, such as a Passive Optical Network (PON), by supporting provisioning of at least two scheduling precedence levels in the PON, none of the at least two precedence levels being associated with a fixed or assured... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Mb Attn: Patent Docketing

20090103546 - System and method for providing services through an integrated digital network: A system and methods for providing services through an integrated digital network. The present invention embodies a system and methods for providing telecommunications services through an integrated digital network that provides the superset of all previous network types, and can continue to support being the core for existing networks—now used... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20090103547 - Automatic configuration of wireless device for router: A user of a wireless device connects a cable to a router and is given the option of manually or automatically creating a user profile to configure the wireless device for subsequent wireless communication with the router when the user removes the cable.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090103548 - Method for transmitting data in a communications network and transmit device and receive device for a communications network: According to the invention, data are transmitted by means of a data frame in a communications network from at least one subscriber connected to a communications network to at least one other subscriber similarly connected to the communications network, wherein the data are prepared for transmission in such a way... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20090103550 - Ip network system: There is provided an IP network system. The IP network system includes: a plurality of relays making up a ring network; a source host for transmitting a packet and connected to the ring network; and a destination host which conducts a packet communication with the source host through the ring... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090103549 - Telecommunication and multimedia management method and apparatus: The present invention is directed to a method for transmitting data over a network. The method includes ascertaining at a first node the need to transmit one or more data streams from the first node to a second node over the network, the one or more data streams including time-based... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP / Rebelvox

20090103551 - Media gateway and packet filtering method thereof: A media gateway (MG) and a packet filtering method thereof are provided to enhance the adaptability of the packet filtering mechanism on the MG. The packet filtering rule for a service instance may be changed dynamically, namely, the MG analyzes the currently transmitted packets of a service instance, obtains the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090103552 - Method, apparatus and system for a media gateway controller to deliver a resource provision decision to a media gateway: A method for a media gateway controller (MGC) to deliver a resource provision decision to a media gateway (MG) includes: the MGC receives a decision request from the MG and makes a resource provision decision according to service requirement information and/or resource status information, and delivers the resource provision decision... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090103553 - Method, system and device for instructing media gateway to set up termination connections: A method for instructing a media gateway to set up termination connections is disclosed in embodiments of the present invention. The method comprises: acquiring by a media gateway controller, MGC, information on connection capability, of a media gateway, MG, for various types of terminations; and when a calling connection is... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090103554 - Data transfer device for ring protocol high speed switching and method for the same: The present invention provides a data transfer device. This data transfer device comprises a number n (where n is an integer equal to 2 or greater) of transfer resources functioning as nodes of ring networks and connection lines connecting a number m (where m is an integer equal to 2... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090103556 - Data switch: A data switch for an integrated circuit comprising at least one link for receiving input data packets from an independently modulated spread spectrum clock (SSC) enabled source having predetermined spread spectrum link clock frequency characteristics, and at least one output for transmitting the data packets after passage through the switch,... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20090103555 - Label and exp field based mpls network device: A network device receives a label-switched-path (LSP) labeled data packet, maps the LSP labeled data packet to an input queue, maps a data packet in the input queue to an output queue based on a received LSP label value and a received exp label value, and transmits the LSP labeled... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090103557 - Method and apparatus for allocating upstream channel resource in hybrid fiber coaxial network: A method and apparatus for allocating upstream channel resources in a hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) network are provided. A cable modem termination system (CMTS) previously provides cable modems (CMs) with a plurality of burst profiles through an extended interval usage code (IUC) of an upstream channel descriptor (UCD) message, and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090103558 - Hybrid contention-based and schedule-based access to a communication link: One or more embodiments taught herein provide a hybrid access arrangement using a contention-based channel and a scheduled channel on a communication link. As a point of significant efficiency, given users transmit autonomously on the contention-based channel, without need for scheduling overhead. However, if a contention overload occurs on the... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090103559 - Method and apparatus for communicating data over a data network: A management device for automatically provisioning a Broadband Remote Access Server (BRAS) for use in connecting Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) to an Internet Protocol (IP) network via a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexor (DSLAM) and the BRAS, the management device comprising: a first interface for... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090103560 - Telecommunication and multimedia management method and apparatus: An improved communication apparatus for transmitting media between a sending node and a receiving node during a conversation. When network bandwidth is insufficient to transmit a full bit rate representation of time-sensitive media, the sending node generates and transmits a reduced bit rate representation of the media for the purpose... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP / Rebelvox

20090103561 - Cyclic bandwidth allocation method with harq enabled: A method is described which includes allocating transmission resources for transmitting data packets. The allocation of transmission resources includes a periodic allocation of the transmission resources that is applicable to a plurality of frames. The allocation of transmission resources includes an allocation of transmission resources for a first transmission of... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090103562 - Signaling limitation of multiple payload sizes for resource assignments: Introducing a set of limitations on where different payload sizes are allowed in a control channel element aggregation ‘tree’ is shown. Following these limitations, the network element (e.g. Node B) will have a large flexibility for scheduling users, while the terminal (e.g. User Equipment) will have an option for still... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090103563 - Packet transmitting method and device: A packet transmission device of a physical layer receives a plurality of packets from a media access control layer that is an upper layer of the physical layer, and detects a packet including a sync message from the packets. The packet transmission device receives first time information for synchronization from... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090103565 - Data transmission system, transmitter, and data transmission control method: A first transmitter transmits input data through a plurality of paths belonging to a path group. A second transmitter receives the data transmitted from the first transmitter through the plurality of paths, temporarily stores an amount of the data corresponding to a phase difference between the plurality of paths in... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090103564 - Method and apparatus for controlling media access in sensor network: Provided are a method and apparatus for controlling media access in a sensor network and a method of managing traffic information. Since traffic information is exchanged between nodes and data is transmitted by using a dynamic long preamble according to receiver nodes, data transmission efficiency can be improved, energy consumed... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090103566 - Switch port analyzers: Methods and devices are provided for non-disruptive monitoring of network traffic through one or more ports of a Fibre Channel network device. Preferred embodiments of the invention are used in conjunction with the switched port analyzer (“SPAN”) and/or remote SPAN (“RSPAN”) features. SPAN mode operation allows traffic through any Fibre... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090103567 - Code division multiplex transmitting and receiving apparatus and method: A code division multiplex transmitting and receiving apparatus has a transmitting apparatus with two coders per channel and terminal units with two matched filters each. One coder and one matched filter employ one spreading code; the other coder and the other matched filter employ another spreading code. The two coded... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090103568 - Method and system for non-gaussian code-division-multiple-access signal transmission and reception: The present invention relates to a method and system for non-Gaussian code-division-multiple-access signal transmission and reception. Input probability data indicative of a non-equiprobable channel input probability mass function are determined based on received channel data indicative of characteristics of a CDMA transmission channel. The input probability data are determined such... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20090103569 - System and method for transmitting/receiving signal in a communication system: A system and method for transmitting/receiving a signal in a communication system are provided, in which a transmitter determines to change a transmission time of a superframe header, when a structure of a superframe is changed, determines the transmission time of the superframe header according to a result of the... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090103572 - Crosstalk minimization in serial link systems: Described are methods and circuits for reducing the error-inducing effects of crosstalk. Communication circuits in accordance with some embodiments adjust the phase of transmitted “aggressor” data to misalign transmitted signals from the perspective of “victim” channels. This misalignment moves the noise artifacts cross coupled to the victim channel away from... Agent: Silicon Edge Law Group, LLP

20090103570 - Time synchronization in serial communications: A real-time clock (151) for electronic equipment is synchronized by supplying a time signal (4-1) to a serial communications circuit (11) with the data transmission rate adapted so that one character of the time signal can be read into the serial communications circuit as one character. The serial communications circuit... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090103571 - Under sampled clock signal synchronization aid device and device for reconstructing undersampled clock signals, for a packet-switched network: A synchronization aid device is part of receiving communication equipment of an IP network, having a primary clock signal consisting of primary clock pulses spaced apart by a first period. This device comprises i) a required to increment its value by one unit on each primary clock pulse and reset... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090103573 - Voice and data exchange over a packet based network with dtmf: 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

20090097394 - Method and apparatus for canceling channel interference: An apparatus for channel interference cancellation includes a first interference-cancellation module and a first cancellation-signal generating circuit. The first interference-cancellation module comprises a first processing circuit including a grouping circuit and a first transforming circuit. The grouping circuit divides received data into a plurality of groups of first sub-data. The... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090097393 - Method and system for dynamically determining when to train ethernet link partners to support energy efficient ethernet networks: Training, refreshing and/or updating Ethernet link partners for silent channels and/or silent directions of channels may be determined based on control parameters. This may be used to improve energy efficiency in Ethernet communication. Control parameters may comprise a default value and/or may be determined based on prior training, refreshing and/or... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090097392 - Method and system for monitoring activity of a remote link partner to trigger training of ethernet channels to support energy efficient ethernet networks: It may be determined via monitoring whether a first link partner and/or a second link partner coupled via an Ethernet link has trained or refreshed circuitry and/or has updated at least one parameter. Based on the determination, a corresponding link partner may be trained, refreshed and/or updated. One or more... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090097391 - Method and system for monitoring and training ethernet channels to support energy efficient ethernet networks: An Ethernet link may comprise a plurality of active and/or silent channels. Training of one or more link partners for one or more silent channels may be triggered based on monitoring training parameters for an active channel. The link partners may be trained for the silent channels and link partners... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090097389 - Method and system for training an ethernet channel based on an active channel to support energy efficient ethernet networks: An Ethernet link may comprise silent and active channels and may support energy efficient Ethernet communication. Training parameters from the one or more active channels may be utilized for determining and/or adjusting training parameters for silent channels prior to activation. Training parameters for silent channels may be determined based on... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090097390 - Method and system for triggering training for ethernet channels to support energy efficient ethernet networks: An Ethernet link may comprise one or more link partners that may be communicatively coupled via one or more silent channels. One or more circuits and/or parameters corresponding to silent channels may be retrained, refreshed and/or updated based on various triggers, for example, fixed times, periodic or aperiodic time intervals,... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090097388 - Method and apparatus for co-location of two radio frequency devices: A method for avoiding signal interference between a first RF device and a second RF device is provided. The first and second RF devices are co-located and the first RF device is configured to operate within a semi-stationary range of a frequency band. The second RF device is configured to... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090097395 - Beamforming using predefined spatial mapping matrices: Systems and methods for transmitting packets to a receiver. In an implementation, the method includes storing, in a memory, a plurality of predefined spatial mapping matrices for use in a transmission of one or more packets to a receiver; sequentially transmitting one or more packets to the receiver, in which... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, Ps

20090097396 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a continuous pilot code in a multi-carrier system: The present invention provides a method for transmitting/receiving a continuous pilot code in a multi-carrier system. The method for transmitting comprises: performing a time-frequency domain two dimensional encoding on an information bit stream to be transmitted; mapping the encoded bit stream to obtain a continuous pilot carrying encoding information; multiplexing... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090097398 - Failure recovery in an ip multimedia subsystem network: A method and apparatus for facilitating recovery from the failure of a Serving Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF) within an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network. A Proxy Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF) receives a SIP request sent by a User Equipment (UE) having an identity previously registered with the IMS... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090097397 - Fault tolerance framework for networks of nodes: In some implementations, a first message handler may be configured to receive first network-related data associated with a first network of nodes, the first network of nodes using a first communications protocol. A second message handler may be configured to receive second network-related data associated with a second network of... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090097399 - System and method for path failure recovery in a communications environment: Provided are a system and method for recovering from failure of a path connecting first and second nodes in a communications network. In one example, the method includes identifying that the path has failed. Contexts affected by the path failure are deleted on the first node, and the second node... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090097400 - Method of restoring a ring system: In a system comprising nodes linked in a ring structure where data flows between the nodes, a method of operating the system after a link has become broken, comprising recovering the broken link and the system treating the recovered link as still broken and operating the system so as to... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090097401 - Method and system for configurable data rate thresholds for energy efficient ethernet: Aspects of a method and system for programmable data rate thresholds for energy efficient Ethernet are provided. In this regard a data rate for communicating over a network link may be selected from a list of permissible data rates, where the list of permissible data rates may be determined based... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090097402 - Automatic quality of service class management: To enhance quality of service management in support of application sessions running on top of bearer services, according to the present invention it is suggested to, firstly, execute a bearer service analysis in support of automatic quality of service class management. Heretofore, a bearer service carrying packet switched service traffic... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090097403 - Method and apparatus for a reservation reflector function in routers: A method and corresponding apparatus establish a reservation in a segment of an end-to-end path between a data sender and a data receiver, up to a point in the end-to-end path; attempt to establish another reservation in an adjacent segment of the end-to-end path, beyond the point in the end-to-end... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090097404 - Oversubscribing bandwidth in a communications network: A system and computer readable medium for oversubscribing bandwidth in a communication network, is disclosed. The system and computer readable medium includes policing a first data flow and outputting a first output data flow from the first meter, in relation to a first Committed Information Rate (CIR) and a first... Agent: Ibm Rp-rps Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090097406 - Method and apparatus for achieving dynamic capacity and high availability in multi-stage data networks using adaptive flow-based routing: Methods and systems for determining paths for flows within a multi-stage network made up of clusters of processing nodes. The flow paths may be determined without knowledge of whether or not packets of a particular flow will actually traverse specific ones of the clusters within the multi-stage network. In various... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090097405 - Method for setting output bit rate for video data transmission in a wibro system: A method for setting an output bit rate for video data transmission in a WiBro system in which an uplink state value for a predetermined unit time is calculated to determine an uplink network state of the predetermined unit time. An average of uplink state values for a predetermined number... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090097407 - System and method for policing multiple data flows and multi-protocol data flows: A system and method for policing one or more flows of a data stream of packets associated with differing transmission protocols. The current capacity level for each flow is determined, as is the packet protocol associated with each packet. A packet parameter in the packet that is indicative of the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090097408 - Voice over internet protocol network test device and method: The invention includes a device and a method for testing a communication network that includes an Internet Protocol (VoIP) network. The inventive device includes a user interface for communicating results of a test, a transceiver for allowing the test device to communicate with a telecommunications network, and a digital signal... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20090097411 - Communication quality diagnostic unit: The invention achieves a communication quality diagnostic unit capable of detecting an omen phenomenon of a communication trouble early in a stage prior to actual emergence of the communication trouble due to a noise, thereby issuing a warning. The communication quality diagnostic unit for diagnosing quality of communication for transmitting... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090097409 - Dynamic selection between active and passive probing in computer network: In one embodiment, during network operation, it is dynamically determined whether to change from passive probing of communication path metrics to active probing of communication path metrics.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090097410 - Method and apparatus for reporting cqi in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for reporting CQI in a wireless communication system, the method comprising determining the value of (RL PHYFrame Index-CQIPilotReportPhase)mod CQIPilotReportInterval, determining if DLFSS is not equal to FLSS and transmitting R-CQICH on the Control segment.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20090097412 - System and method for rate assignment: A method and apparatus for determining the data rate of a reverse link communication. An embodiment includes transmitting at a null rate on the communication channel only when the station is not transmitting voice, signaling, or data. An embodiment includes determining a maximum requested rate based on the normalized average... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090097413 - System and method for analyzing the performance of multiple transportation streams of streaming media in packet-based networks: A packetized streaming media delivery network carries many “streams” of differing media content. They often are from multiple sources and of different media types. The invention consists of a scalable hardware and/or software computing element resolving the network traffic into its individual streams for focused, simultaneous, and continuous real-time monitoring... Agent: Richare L. Sampson Sampson & Associates, P.C.

20090097414 - Communication device and method of providing location information therein: A communication device, computer program product and method of providing location information therein are disclosed. The communication device includes a wireless communication unit configured to receive location information concerning the communication device, a display, a memory and a controller operatively connected to the wireless communication unit, the display and the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090097416 - Method and system for addressing and routing in coded communications relationships: The invention relates to a method and system for addressing and routing in coded communications relationships in at least two different network levels of a network with different routing levels, which are separated from one another. A first network level with the associated first routing level is demarcated from a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090097415 - Wireless architecture and support for process control systems: A wireless communication system for use in a process environment uses mesh and possibly a combination of mesh and point-to-point communications to produce a wireless communication network that can be easily set up, configured, changed and monitored, thereby making a wireless communication network that is less expensive, and more robust... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20090097417 - System and method for improving spoke to spoke communication in a computer network: Various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide methods and systems for improved efficiency in spoke-to-spoke network communication. Embodiments provide systems and methods for registering a spoke with a hub, updating at least one database with spoke registration information at the hub, and advertising the spoke registration information to other... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090097418 - System and method for network service path analysis: Systems and methods for network service path analysis analyze and manage the delivery of applications over a network. A program running on a computer utilizes a Layer 3 topology of a computer network to create a directed graph representing deliverability of packets across the network. By analyzing access control lists... Agent: Anthony Edw. J Campbell

20090097419 - Communication node, and token issuing method and token-ring communication method in ring communication system: A communication node includes a token-start-right acquisition processor that issues a token-start-right acquisition frame containing specific information, determines a priority based on predetermined reference using specific information for other communication node and the specific information for the own communication node upon reception of a token-start-right acquisition frame from the other... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090097420 - Method and system for lawful interception of value-added service in ip multimedia subsystem: A method and a system for lawfully intercepting a value-added service in an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) are provided. In the present method, a service subscription information is sent to a first information delivery module when a suspect is registered to an IMS network. A service triggering information is sent... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090097421 - Ip-based interworking methods and apparatus for voice and data communications: Method and apparatus for call interworking between user equipments (UEs) located in domain using different communication protocols. The methods and apparatus receive a call request for establishing a call between a first UE and a second UE, the call request including a list of addresses corresponding to the second UE.... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090097423 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving resource allocation information in a communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving resource allocation information in a communication system are provided. In the method of transmitting resource allocation information, at least one of a plurality of FDD UL FA resources is divided into a plurality of segment regions, and first resource allocation information is transmitted to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090097422 - Method for scheduling simultaneously terminals in a common frequency band, and corresponding base station: The present invention relates to a method for scheduling simultaneously terminals belonging to two radio communication systems in a common frequency band, a base station of said first communication system having knowledge of said second radio communication system, both systems using an OFDM resource allocation mechanism on the air interface,... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090097425 - Radio link control operations and enhanced duplicate detection in a wireless receiver: A radio link control (RLC) entity selectively stores part or parts of a received protocol data unit (PDU) or re-segmented PDU and selectively discards other parts of the received PDU, rather than simply either discarding the whole received PDU or storing the whole received PDU. The receiving RLC entity performs... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090097424 - Radio-transmission system and method of operation: The invention relates to a radio transmission system comprising a plurality of processing layers for the transmission of data packets between various radio appliances in a radio channel. A first functional unit in a physical radio transmission layer analyses the radio channel and determines the quality (QoC) of the radio... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090097428 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product providing improved power management in wireless networks: There are a plurality of power saving modes for a device in a wireless network. It is determined that the device is using one of the power saving modes on a peer-specific link, a state is set to indicate that the device is using that specific power saving mode, and... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090097427 - Method and system for managing an energy efficient network utilizing audio video bridging: Aspects of a method and system for managing an energy efficient network utilizing Audio Video Bridging are provided. In this regard, an Audio Video Bridging timeslot may be designated for handling an energy efficient networking (EEN) transaction and the EEN transaction may be performed during the designated timeslot. Exemplary EEN... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090097426 - Method for improving power efficiency of subscriber stations: Disclosed is a method for improving power efficiency of subscriber stations in a communication network. A subscriber station is uniquely identified by a base station using a connection Identifier (CID). The method includes splitting CIDs of subscriber stations to form a plurality of first parts and a plurality of second... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Cpa Global

20090097429 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system: A digital broadcasting system and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. A method for controlling a digital broadcast receiving system includes the steps of receiving a broadcast signal having mobile service data and main service data multiplexed therein, extracting transmission parameter channel (TPC) signaling information and fast information... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090097430 - Selective service method in multicast system: A multicast service of a 3GPP Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is disclosed. A multicast service stream identifier is provided so that each multicast area can receive different information for one service or one multicast service can be provided with different QoSs to areas. In addition, the multicast service stream... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090097431 - Automatic weather information downloading and displaying system: The system for downloading and displaying information utilizes a computer with an Internet connection. The computer runs a program that causes it to access a weather information server with a pre-determined address, upon start-up and periodically thereafter, and to receive weather information for a given place or given places from... Agent: Epstein Drangel Bazerman & James, LLP

20090097434 - Frame constructing and frame processing methods, device and system in multi-hop access network: The present invention discloses a frame constructing method for use in a multi-hop wireless access network, the method comprising the steps of: determining Relay Stations (RSs) and Mobile Stations (MSs); setting a DL sub-frame; setting an UL sub-frame; and constructing a completed frame based on the UL sub-frame and the... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090097432 - Method for setting packet transmission path in ad hoc network, and network apparatus using the same: A method of setting a packet transmission path in a wireless communication network and a network apparatus using the same are provided. A method of setting a packet transmission path includes setting N−1 routing regions including at least one node between a source node and a destination node based on... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090097433 - Relay method of wireless access systems and base station, relay device and replay system thereof: The present invention is directed to provide a relay method in a wireless access system, including comprising the following steps: in downlink direction, receiving downlink data from a base station, wherein the downlink data include control information for relay operation; constructing downlink data to be retransmitted; retransmitting the constructed downlink... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090097435 - Method and apparatus for controlling transmissions in communication systems: In a bandwidth allocation protocol for a mobile communications network, mobile terminals indicate the total quantity of data awaiting transmission, the maximum delay time of the most urgent portion of the data, and the maximum delay time of the least urgent portion. If a collision occurs between transmission by two... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090097441 - Method and apparatus for selecting mbms radio bearer type: A method and apparatus for selecting a radio bearer type for providing a service to a plurality of mobile terminals according to a count of mobile terminals obtained through responses to a service response request message from a network is provided. An MBMS radio bearer type is selected according to... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090097437 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving an accessparameters group message in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting an AccessParameters group message in a wireless communication system, the method comprising generating the AccessParameters group message comprising a 2 bit AccessCycle Duration field wherein the AccessCycle Duration field determines the duration of the access cycle in units of Control Segment Periods (as defined... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20090097439 - Method of controlling broadcasting in a wireless sensor network: The present invention relates to a method of controlling broadcasting in a wireless sensor network. The method includes performing broadcasting from an upper node to a lower node for a predetermined number of times, transmitting a time offset calculated according to the broadcasting from the lower node to the upper... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090097436 - Methods for access control in femto system: In a method for controlling access to wireless resources provided by femto cells within a femto subnet a femto management system or radio access network may control access to femto cells within the femto subnet by assigning at least one hashing class mask of a first-type or hashing class mask... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090097438 - System and method for transmissions in power save mode: System and method for power saving transmission in a wireless communications networks. In one embodiment, a communications device includes a transceiver configured to transmit or receive frames over a peer communications link to or from another communications device in a wireless communications network. The communications device also includes a controller... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090097440 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method and computer program: In order to solve problems arising when a communication system such as a wireless LAN is constructed as a decentralized distributed type network without a relationship of control station and controlled stations such as a master station and slave stations, in a wireless communication system composed of a plurality of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090097443 - Hierarchical network operating mode in a wireless communications network: A system and method for a hierarchical network operating mode in an ad hoc wireless communications network. In one embodiment, a communications node includes a controller and a transceiver. The controller is configured to create a bandwidth allocation request for other communications nodes in an ad hoc wireless communications network.... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090097442 - Method and system for utilizing a reserved channel to manage energy efficient network protocols: Aspects of a method and system for utilization of a reserved and/or out of band channel for managing a data rate of an Ethernet channel are provided. In this regard, a data rate of a network link may be managed via traffic communicated over a reserved and/or out of band... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090097444 - Overhead reduction of uplink control signaling in a mobile communication system: The present invention relates to a method and mobile terminal for transmitting data on uplink within a mobile communication system. Further the invention relates to a network entity for allocating uplink resources to such a mobile terminal. When a user equipment is transmitting uplink (UL) data according to allocated resources,... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090097445 - System and method for interference identification and frequency allocation: A system for interference detection and identification, as well as frequency allocation is described. It contains interference detection means for detecting interference on wireless radio frequencies. The interference detection means comprising discrimination means (1330,1340) for discriminating between interference caused by a Wireless Local Area Network and interference caused by other... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090097447 - Method and apparatus for allocating resources of a control channel in a mobile communication system using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing: A method is provided for allocating resources of a control channel in a mobile communication system using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). The method includes, when a time index and a frequency index of available Resource Elements (REs) are defined as l and k, respectively, dividing the available REs in... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090097446 - Method and system to guarantee service reception within broadcast system: A system and method is provided for ensuring that time for tuning to another RF channel between two TF frames in TF slicing exists while reception with a single hopping-tuner is enabled, and reception for terminals can be guaranteed when transmitting and receiving common services. An additional time for tuning... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090097452 - Femto cell synchronization and pilot search methodology: A system, a method and computer product for synchronizing of a femto cell with a macro cell, the method comprising: placing a forward link receiver into the femto cell; receiving by a micro cellular network the femto cell transmission timing; and synchronizing the femto cell transmission timing with the macro... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090097451 - Identification of target node for wireless handoff: Identification of an access point to which an access terminal is to be handed-off involves, in some aspects, identifying one access point of a set of access points that may have been detected by an access terminal. For example, an access terminal may receive a signal having an identified characteristic... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090097453 - Method and system for fast handovers using dynamic router advertisements: The invention relates to a method for managing the movement of a mobile node from a first router in a first network to a second router in a second network, wherein the mobile node communicates with a corresponding node. In order to enable seamless communication between the mobile node and... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090097449 - Method for handover using relay station: A method for controlling handover using a Relay Station (RS) whose coverage includes at least one mobile station is provided. In the method, the RS monitors an uplink band allocated to a mobile station and obtains a Connection ID (CID) and a Medium Access Control (MAC) address the mobile station.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090097448 - Methods for idle registration and idle handoff in a femto environment: In a method for configuring a wireless network, a radio access network establishes a first color code for a femto subnet and a second color code for a macro subnet. The femto subnet includes a plurality of femto cells, and the macro subnet includes at least one macro cell. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090097450 - Providing voice call continuity: The present disclosure includes a system and method for enhanced voice call continuity. A method includes receiving a request to handover a call session from a radio access network to an IP-CAN. The method further includes handing over the call session to the IP-CAN independent of an Internet Protocol Multimedia... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090097454 - Apparatus and method for estimating cell load in wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for estimating a cell load in a wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a ranging response counter, a load estimator, an FA handover determiner, a data rate determiner, and a handover determiner. The ranging response counter counts the number of ranging response messages that... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090097455 - Access channel structure for wireless communication system: A technique for efficient implementation of pilot signals on a reverse link in a wireless communication system. An access channel is defined for the reverse link such that within each frame, or epoch, a portion is dedicated to sending only pilot symbols. Another portion of the frame is reserved for... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090097456 - Method for achieving fairness in a network: Disclosed are a method and a computer program product for achieving fairness in utilization of a channel in a network. The network includes plurality of stations such that at least one station of the plurality of stations includes at least one radio. The at least one radio may fail to... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Cpa Global

20090097457 - Repeating transmissions of signals in communication systems: Methods and apparatuses for a User Equipment (UE) to transmit an acknowledgement signal over multiple Transmission Time Intervals (TTIs). The acknowledgement signal is in response to a data packet reception and is transmitted in a different resource in each of the multiple TTIs, if the data packet reception is through... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090097462 - Deployable cellular communication extension system: Embodiments of systems and methods provide deployable cellular telecommunication base stations capable of sending, receiving, and extending telephone calls in areas where commercial cellular communications are unavailable. The deployable base station can send and receive cellular telephone calls via cellular communication transceivers, and relay such calls to a distant teleport... Agent: The Marbury Law Group, PLLC

20090097461 - Method and apparatus for providing content in wireless communication network: A method and apparatus for providing one or more contents to one or more devices in a wireless communication network. The method includes associating the one or more contents with one or more headers corresponding to one or more data packets transmitted for the one or more devices at an... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20090097458 - Method and system for agent redirecting the terminal request: A method and system for agent redirecting the terminal request is provided. Firstly a uniform service address is preset for each service in the terminals. The terminal initiates a service access request. The agent gateway queries the service subscribing information of the user. The agent gateway determines the type of... Agent: Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd.

20090097460 - Method for contention-free npd periodic updating: Methods and apparatus for a next-in-line protecting device to periodically broadcasting its existence in a communication system. A next-in-line protecting device periodically transmits the next-in-line codeword to inform a primary protecting device and a plurality of secondary devices that the next-in-line device still exists in a communication system. The NPD... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090097459 - Method for wan access to home network using one time-password: A mobile device is configured to securely access a trusted network over of wide area network. The mobile device includes a communication interface, a processor, and a memory. The mobile device connects to the trusted network via a local access point in the trusted network at a first point in... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20090097463 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method and computer program: In order to solve problems arising when a communication system such as a wireless LAN is constructed as a decentralized distributed type network without a relationship of control station and controlled stations such as a master station and slave stations, in a wireless communication system composed of a plurality of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090097464 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method and computer program: In order to solve problems arising when a communication system such as a wireless LAN is constructed as a decentralized distributed type network without a relationship of control station and controlled stations such as a master station and slave stations, in a wireless communication system composed of a plurality of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090097465 - Pilot signal transmission method and radio communication apparatus: In a radio communication system, transmission of CAZAC sequences as the pilot signal sequences by using code division multiplexing as at least one of user multiplexing schemes, is done by dividing a system band as a frequency band usable in the system into frequency blocks B1 and B2 having bandwidths... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090097466 - Method for transmitting uplink signals: A method for transmitting uplink signals, which include ACK/NACK signals, control signals other than the ACK/NACK signals, and data signals, is disclosed. The method comprises serially multiplexing the control signals and the data signals; sequentially mapping the multiplexed signals within a specific resource region in accordance with a time-first mapping... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090097467 - Radio communication system and communication method: A radio communication system of a frequency hopping system, which carries out time division multiplex by TDMA and carries out communications while changing over two or more frequencies with respect to a radio link, wherein radio resources are efficiently utilized by establishing a plurality of radio links. A first communication... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090097468 - Wireless networks for highly dependable applications: A wireless communication system comprises one or more control units operable to transmit control signals, a plurality of actuators responsive to the control signals, and a plurality of sensors operable to transmit sensor data used by the one or more control units in generating the control signals. Each of the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090097469 - Method and apparatus to protect wireless networks from unsolicited packets triggering radio resource consumption: A wireless communication method and wireless gateway device are provided for wireless communication between a wireless mobile station and a remote device. An unsolicited data packet is received from a remote device in which the data packet is addressed to the wireless mobile station. A determination is made as to... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20090097470 - Methods and systems for communicating data: A method for communicating data is provided. The method includes transmitting a first request from a first device to an embedded device via a first network using a first protocol, wherein the first request includes a second request formatted according to a second protocol. The method also includes transmitting the... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090097475 - Codec automatic setting system of iad and control method thereof in dsl network: A codec automatic setting system of an IAD in a DSL network includes a codec table, a codec negotiator, a codec detector, and a codec selector. The codec table stores at least one codec list. The codec negotiator incorporates an applicable codec list from the codec table into a call... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090097473 - Functional extended system of network communication device and its method: A functional extended system of network communication device and its method are disclosed according to the present invention. The functional extended system of network communication device and its method are applicable to a network communication function extended equipment that is connecting to a network communication device that has universal communication... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090097471 - Method and apparatus for call processing for sip and isup interworking: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to adjust a call processing logic for Session Initiated Protocol to Integrated Services Digital Network User Part (ISUP) calls based at least in part on interworking profiles assigned to ISUP trunk groups... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090097472 - Method and apparatus for optimizing telephony communications: There is provided a method and apparatus for determining and optimizing a transmission route for a phone call. The phone call may be either local or long distance. For a local phone call the voice data is transmitted via known local methods. For a long distance phone call, middleware determines... Agent: David Giglio, Attorney At Law

20090097476 - Method and apparatus for supporting voice communications: An apparatus comprises two processors (105, 107) for supporting a remote terminal in a packet and circuit switched mode of operation respectively as well as two interfaces (113, 117) for interfacing to an external circuit and packet switched network (111, 115) respectively. A first selector (109) can select a remote... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090097477 - Method and system for realizing media stream interaction and media gateway controller and media gateway: A method and system for realizing media stream interaction are provided. The method includes the following steps: the MGC obtains the public network address corresponding to the media gateway MG in the private network, and the public network address is used as the remote address of the opposite side of... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090097474 - System and method for providing location information to a public safety answering point during an emergency 911 call from a softphone: A system and method for providing location information to a public safety answering point from a softphone may include receiving, at a network access point, an emergency 911 call from the softphone. The emergency 911 call may be communicated to a public safety answering point. In response to a call... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090097478 - Techniques to access messaging services for branch offices: Techniques to access messaging services for branch offices are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include a network interface for a packet-switched network, a private branch exchange for a circuit-switched network, and a gateway to couple to the network interface and the private branch exchange. The gateway... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090097479 - Services convergence among heterogeneous wired and wireless networks: A system and method for heterogeneous network communication including wired, and wireless communication mediums for seamless data, voice, as well as multimedia applications independent of the actual communication medium, type of device, and protocols running over such communication channels. The devices are structured to operate over both wired and wireless... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090097483 - Method and device for transmitting data: In embodiments, in case a variation is detected in estimated available rate greater than a first predetermined value and before the step of detecting an increase in the round trip time, a step (307) is carried out of transmitting packets of lower importance level than the average of said importance... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090097481 - Method and system for configurable data rate via inter-packet gap adjustment to support energy efficient networks: Aspects of a method and system for programmable data rate thresholds for configurable data rate via inter-packet gap adjustment to support energy efficient networks. In this regard, an inter-packet gap may be adjusted to control a data rate on an Ethernet link. An IPG may be adjusted such that a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090097482 - Out-of-box services cascading: The invention discloses an efficient approach to the cascading of out-of-box services. System comprising a packet router with out-of-box interfaces and more than one out-of-box servers performing out-of-box services, characterized in that the packet flow comprises an identifier that defines the order of out-of-box services.... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20090097480 - Parallelizing the tcp behavior of a network connection: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that parallelizes the TCP-related actions of a network connection between two computer systems during a data transfer between the two computer systems. During operation, the first computer system partitions the data into two or more data segments, and assigns the data... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090097485 - Data distribution apparatus, data distribution method, and distribution control program: Disclosed is a data distribution apparatus delivering multicast data to a terminal belonging to a multicast group, including: a table generating unit to generate a table including a source address (SA) of the terminal and a destination address (DA) for requesting the multicast data in association with port information of... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090097484 - Method and system for distributing labels: A method, system and apparatus for distributing labels for multicast services. The method deploys a primary controller in the network to manage the label space on a centralized basis; the primary controller distributes a label for the multicast service upon obtaining a request for a label from the multicast service... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090097486 - Common checksum computation for internet protocol version 4 and version 6 transmissions: Checksums for internet protocol transmissions of certain transport layer messages are generated using IPv6 pseudo-headers for both IPv4 and IPv6 internet protocol transmissions. For IPv4 transmissions, IPv4 information is mapped into an IPv6 pseudo-header, and the checksum is computed using the IPv6 pseudo-header. Among other things, embodiments of the present... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090097487 - Method and system for transmission of digital audio in spdif format to one or more receivers: Methods and systems for transmission of digital audio in SPDIF format to one or more receivers may include packetizing at least one decoded SPDIF data frame to generate at least one SPDIF packet. The at least one SPDIF packet may be transmitted, via one or more networks supporting packet based... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090097488 - Method for filtering packets coming from a communication network: A method of filtering packets coming from a communication network (1) comprising, after successful registration of a terminal (20) with a service platform (32): a step of associating a registration context with the terminal, the context comprising registration information transmitted between the terminal and the service platform during registration; a... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090097489 - Method for tracking transmission status of data to entities such as peers in a network: A method for tracking a transmission status of one or more data elements to one or more devices. In one example, the method includes providing a list including one or more devices and one or more data elements; processing the list to determine a data element of the one or... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090097490 - Communications network with converged services: A communications network provides one or more shared services, such as voice or video, to customers over a respective virtual private network (VPN). At the same time, each customer may have its own private data VPN for handling private company data. The shared service VPN permits users from different customers... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20090097491 - Network connection service providing device: The present invention aims to provide a network connection service providing device capable of making not only a connection to the Internet, but also, if necessary, a connection to a private network, by a so-called hotspot service for providing a network connection service wirelessly at a station, an airport, a... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20090097492 - Support of triple play services in user devices: Several services offered by distinct service providers can be accessed from a single user device, through one or more gateways. To ensure quality of service control, each service provider allocates a distinct address to the user device. Distinct forwarding information bases and service mappings are defined at the user device,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090097494 - Packet forwarding method and device: A packet forwarding mechanism using a packet map is disclosed. The method includes the packet map storing a packet forwarding information of each packet, where the packet map uses a single bit to indicate whether a packet is forwarding through a specific output port. In this way, the packet forwarding... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090097493 - Queuing mixed messages for configurable searching: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for forming a queue that enables a real time search of a first and a second plurality of messages which enter the queue in a linear order. The method comprises providing a sequential data structure to populate the queue with the... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20090097495 - Flexible virtual queues: Flexible virtual queues of a switch are allocated to provide non-blocking virtual output queue (VOQ) support. A port ASIC has a set of VOQs, one VOQ per supported port of the switch. For each VOQ, a set of virtual input queues (VIQs) includes a VIQ for each input port of... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20090097496 - Video signal switching system: A video signal switching system wherein existing network components and the like are used to perform a switching process, thereby reducing the costs and improving the versatility as well. As a solution, a video signal switching system is provided which comprises a plurality of input port components that acquire non-packet... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20090097497 - Flexible bandwidth allocation in high-capacity packet switches: A method and apparatus for flexible sharing of bandwidth in switches with input buffering by dividing time into a plurality of frames of time slots, wherein each frame has a specified integer value of time slots. Counters associated with the input-output queues of the switches are loaded with a negotiated... Agent: At & T- Legal Department - Brendzel

20090097498 - Communication method, communication apparatus, and integrated circuit: A communication apparatus for communicating by commonly sharing a transmission channel with another communication apparatus which performs a data transmission, comprising: a transmitting unit which transmits first data at first timing and second data at second timing subsequent to the first timing to the transmission channel; and an information adding... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090097499 - Multi-purpose switching network interface controller: A network interface controller includes a plurality of scatter gather circuits (104a-104d) connectable to a host via a bus (101). A packet buffer (112) is configured for communication with the scatter gather circuits (104a-104d). A plurality of access circuits (110a-110d) are configured to access external network connections. An optional forwarding... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090097500 - Method and system for utilizing a reserved and/or out of band channel for maintaining a network connection: Aspects of a method and system for utilization of an reserved and/or out of band channel for maintaining a network connection are provided. In this regard, information relating to training of one or more link partners communicatively coupled to an Ethernet link may be exchanged via a reserved and/or out... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090097501 - Method and device for processing frames: A device and a method for processing a frame, the method includes: receiving a frame; retrieving a lookup key parse command that includes an instruction field and an bitmap representative of selected frame fields to be searched in the frame; generating a lookup key by extracting at least one frame... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090097502 - Field equipment control system: A field equipment control system including: a plurality of field equipments installed in a field; and a control device for controlling the plurality of field equipments, wherein each of the field equipments has a wireless communication section for transmitting/receiving data between the field equipments, and at least one field equipment... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090097503 - Method and system for transmission of decoded multi-channel digital audio in spdif format: A method and system for processing multi-channel audio data may include selecting one or more SPDIF data frames from a plurality of decoded multi-channel audio data frames. The selected one or more SPDIF data frames, header information corresponding to the one or more SPDIF data frames, and/or one or more... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090097504 - Method for exchanging information among digital units in a distributed system: Method for exchanging information among digital units in a distributed system, with digital units being defined by at least a master node and slave nodes, comprising the step of transferring information references from said master node to said slave nodes, said information references being sampled with sampling time corresponding to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090097505 - Multiplexing network system and digital information transferring method: In a multiplexing network system in which media devices are interconnected through a digital transmission path, during system startup, a device that is used as a master device holds management information for recognizing bands used by media devices connected to the digital transmission path and management information for recognizing what... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20090097506 - Multiservice system and method for packet and time division multiplexed transport: A system and method are presented for providing packet and time division multiplex (TDM) services in a data communication interface. The method accepts packets at a first rate over a packet interface, and transfers time-sensitive data in the packets as packet data units (PDUs) having a smaller number of bits... Agent: Gerald W. Maliszewski

20090092036 - Method and apparatus for estimating crosstalk: P

20090092037 - Wireless interactive system and method: In a wireless broadband system comprising a base transmitting to a plurality of subscribers, means for achieving an interactive bi-directional system comprising transmitter means in the subscriber system for transmitting signals which are orthogonal to the signals transmitted from other users arriving at the base station. A method for achieving... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20090092039 - Method and system for formation and communication of information frames in wireless communication systems: A method and system for wireless transmission of information is provided. Such wireless transmission of information involves constructing a payload unit for data, appending a preamble to the payload unit, wherein the preamble comprises a PHY preamble including a MAC header for the payload unit, and transmitting at least the... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20090092040 - Methods and systems for selecting modulation in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system: Methods and systems for selecting modulation in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system are provided. In one embodiment, a method for a remote unit of an OFDM multipoint-to-point communications system comprises: establishing communication between a first remote unit and a host unit, the first remote unit and a plurality of... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20090092038 - Timing-offset estimation in modulated signals using weighted correlation values: In one embodiment, a timing-offset estimator calculates a correlation value for each sample of an OFDM signal having a cyclic prefix for each OFDM symbol. The correlation value is provided to a tapped delay line that applies a separate weight to each of 2V correlation values, where V is the... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20090092041 - Apparatus and method for performing a scan procedure and mobile station comprising the same: An apparatus for performing a scan procedure according to an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) signal and a mobile station comprising the same are provided. The characteristic of the apparatus is that it comprises two FIT input buffers. In a first period of a downlink subframe, the first FFT... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20090092042 - Navigation device and navigation system: The present invention provides a navigation device which performs communication with an information-providing server device. The navigation device (3) includes a communication section (11) which transmits a message to the server device for a response confirmation, and receives a response message with respect to the message from the server device;... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090092043 - Providing an abstraction layer in a cluster switch that includes plural switches: In a communications network, a cluster switch is provided, where the cluster switch has plural individual switches. An abstraction layer is provided in the cluster switch, such that an interface having a set of ports is provided to upper layer logic in the cluster switch. The set of ports includes... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090092044 - Selector in switching matrix, line redundant method, and line redundant system: There is provided a line redundant method for implementation of line switching in a switching matrix, including the bridge step of outputting a data signal to a plurality of redundant lines in the switching matrix, and the selector step of selecting only a data signal, of a plurality of data... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090092045 - Method and system for network logout for a mobile station in idle mode: A method for network logout for a mobile station (MS) in IDLE mode. The method includes performing network logout upon the MS by a network side, releasing the resources associated with the MS and deleting the context of the MS. A system for network logout for a mobile station in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090092046 - Method for congestion management of a network, a switch, and a network: A switch for connection in a network of other like switches and includes memory for storing data packets, a control system arranged to control the switch to, upon receipt at one of the ingress or egress ports of notification of congestion at a downstream congested port, either store at said... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090092048 - System and method for context-based hierarchical adaptive round robin scheduling: A system and method which provides for efficient data transmission between multiple microprocessors in a computer system is disclosed. A physical data path is divided into a plurality connection queues. The connection queue size is compared to thresholds. Bandwidth allocation weights associates with the queues can be progressively refined based... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090092047 - System to manage multilayer networks: A system includes a capacity management tool. The capacity management tool is configured to be coupled to one or more of an application layer, a physical layer, and a transport layer of a processor-based network. In a particular embodiment, the capacity management tool is further configured to extract data from... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090092049 - System, method and computer readable medium for communicating with a zigbee device from a peripheral network: In order to minimize traffic on a Zigbee network, a gateway of the Zigbee network represents end devices in communications with peripheral networks. The gateway receives messages, such as status request messages, from the peripheral network intended for an end device on the Zigbee network. The Zigbee network generates a... Agent: Rg & Associates

20090092052 - Method and apparatus for flooding link state packets to achieve faster convergence: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for flooding link state packets or packet data units (LSP's) from a first node to one other LSP receiving node, where the LSP's are flooded in an order that is related to relative costs of various paths emanating from the first node. That is, the... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090092050 - Open federation security techniques with rate limits: Open federation security techniques with rate limits are described. An apparatus may include a network interface operative to communicate messages, and a secure open federation (SOF) module operative to manage a message rate between multiple federated networks. The SOF module may comprise a peer authentication module operative to determine whether... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090092051 - Packet transfer system: A gateway selector and a load distribution management device are provided between a user terminal and plural gateway devices. Of response packets received from the plural gateway devices, the gateway selector selects a response packet from a gateway device with a higher priority, according to the priority in a load... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090092053 - Apparatus and method for testing a wireless transceiver: An apparatus for testing a communication circuit includes a dynamic range module. The dynamic range module includes signal strength adjustment module and a control module. The signal strength adjustment module adjusts a peak signal strength of test packets transmitted according to a predetermined test sequence. The control module selectively controls... Agent: Vedder Price P.C.

20090092054 - Method for providing notifications of a failing node to other nodes within a computer network: A method for providing failure notifications to dependent nodes within a computer network is disclosed. A first node monitors data traffic within a computer network. If the data traffic includes data exchanged between the first node and a second node, the first node adds the second node to a list... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20090092059 - Interference measurement mechanism for frequency reuse in cellular ofdma systems: Under adaptive frequency reuse technique, mobile stations in a cellular orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system are served by different radio resource regions with appropriate frequency reuse patterns to mitigate inter-cell interference and improve system capacity. In a first novel aspect, the mobile stations measure interference statistics and obtain... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20090092056 - Methods and apparatus for managing measurement behavior of drx mode ue: Systems and methods that manage measurement behavior of a UE in connected mode and while in discontinuous operation. The UE is enabled to autonomously (e.g., independent of instructions from network) enter a state of measurement, and generate a measurement report for the network, when quality of serving cell falls below... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090092057 - Network monitoring system with enhanced performance: A data packet inspection and/or filtering system monitors packet traffic across an interface. In the case of monitoring incoming traffic, the incoming packets are directed to a packet capture process associated with a kernel of an operating system. The packets are then stored in shared memory of the kernel for... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20090092058 - Non-data-aided channel estimators for multipath and multiple antenna wireless systems: Novel non-data-aided maximum likelihood estimators for the delays and the attenuations in an ultra-wide bandwidth channel are proposed. Numerical results show that these new estimators outperform the previous non-data-aided maximum likelihood channel estimators derived in the literature. Moreover, in some cases, the performances of the new non-data-aided estimators approach those... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090092055 - Triggering multi-carrier requests: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate triggering multi-carrier requests at a mobile device and granting or denying the request at the access point. The mobile device can determine when to request additional carriers from the access point based on communication parameters, such as buffer levels, inflow/outflow data rates, PA... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090092061 - Assignment of a serving entity in a communication system: The present invention relates to assigning an S-CSCF to an un-registered user in an IMS network. A HSS maintains information about a registration state of users and about assignments of S-CSCF to the users. HSS determines if S-CSCFs are available to serve the users. When receiving a request associated with... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090092060 - Communication apparatus and communication parameter configuration method thereof: A communication apparatus functioning as a master device denies participation by new communication apparatuses in a network in communication parameter configuration mode based on participation statuses of communication apparatuses functioning as slave devices in the network. The communication apparatus functioning as a master device establishes the network in communication parameter... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090092062 - Critical resource notification system and interface device: A system and device that communicates critical resource information is described. The resource notification system comprises a resource distributor, a resource notification server, and a networked interface device. The resource distributor generates a demand response action that is associated with a particular resource. The resource distributor is also communicatively coupled... Agent: Virtual Legal, P.C. Michael A. Kerr

20090092063 - Method and apparatus for providing link-local ipv4 addressing across multiple interfaces of a network node: Embodiments of the present invention provide link-local IPv4 addressing across multiple interfaces of a network-node. During operation, the network-node broadcasts an address resolution protocol (ARP) request packet on multiple interfaces which asks for the hardware address of a network node whose link-local IPv4 address is Y. In response, the network-node... Agent: Pvf -- Apple Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090092064 - Routing switch detecting change in session identifier before reconfiguring routing table: An automatic network topology identification technique is described herein. Each node in the network periodically or constantly transmits its unique address to its neighboring node. Once a node receives a different message from its neighbor, the node identifies a topology change in the network. In one embodiment, a current topology... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090092065 - Telephone communication system and method over local area network wiring: A method and apparatus for enabling a local area network wiring structure to simultaneously carry digital data and analog telephone signals on the same transmission medium. It is particularly applicable to a network in star topology, in which remote data units (e.g. personal computers) are each connected to a hub... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090092066 - Techniques for link utilization for half-duplex and full-duplex stations in a wireless network: Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus may include a controller, and a wireless transmitter coupled to the controller, the wireless transmitter configured to the wireless transmitter configured to transmit at least a portion of a frame via wireless link to one or more... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090092067 - Flexible frame structure in wireless communication system: The disclosure relates to a frame structure that can be flexibly configured to serve to half-duplex users or a mixture of half- and full-duplex users based upon the grouping of user terminals according to one or more criteria. The disclosure also relates to the switching of users from one group... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090092068 - Communication system, communication apparatus, and communication method: In an ad hoc mode based on IEEE802.11 standard, when a wireless terminal performs a power save operation to create a network, and a network identifier identical to that of the network to be created is present, the wireless terminal does not join the network. When the wireless terminal is... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20090092069 - Network protocol: A system includes wireless network devices and a terminal device. The wireless network devices include a base station and plural repeater devices for routing data. The terminal device runs a network protocol to establish a presence in a wireless network that includes the wireless network devices. The terminal device enters... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090092070 - Radio frequency local area network: An apparatus and a method for routing data in a radio data communication system having one or more host computers, one or more intermediate base stations, and one or more RF terminals organizes the intermediate base stations into an optimal spanning-tree network to control the routing of data to and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090092071 - Method and apparatus for encoding subscriber station identifications and connections in wireless communication networks: A method and apparatus for encoding an identification of a subscriber station and its connections in a data frame for transmission in a wireless communication network comprising at least one base station and at least one subscriber station is disclosed. The method comprises specifying a subscriber station identification in the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090092072 - Communication relay apparatus and communication relay method: A communication relay apparatus wherein the error rate characteristic of a relay destination is improved to raise the throughput, while reducing the given interference power to prevent the reduction of the throughput of the whole communication system. In the apparatus, a signal addressed to a base station is received (ST1010),... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090092073 - Cooperative relay system enabling simultaneous broadcast-unicast operation with efficient automatic repeat request functionality: A wireless node, such as a relay node, has different operating modes for unicast and broadcast/multicast subchannels. For unicast services the phase offsets of those relay nodes engaged in a cooperative transmission are optimized for the subchannels used for unicast services. Alternatively, when no feedback is available and an open... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090092074 - Aeronautical ad-hoc networks: A communications network architecture (200) enabling a first aircraft (102) to establish a communication path with a second aircraft (105) is disclosed. The architecture comprises a satellite network layer (111) enabling the first aircraft (102) to establish the communication path with the second aircraft (105) via a satellite, a terrestrial... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090092078 - Automatic provisioning of admission policy for femtocell: Automatic provisioning of an access point base station or femtocell. The method may include the femtocell transmitting first information (e.g., location information, signal measurement information, capability information, etc.) to a service provider (e.g., over an IP network). The femtocell may receive second information from the service provider, where the second... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20090092080 - Centralized mobile access point acquisition: Providing for centralized access management to diverse types of mobile network access points is described herein. By way of example, network components can generate a system determination list (SDL) for a user terminal (UT) that is customized to access capabilities of the UT and/or current position of the UT. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090092081 - Distributed mobile access point acquisition: Providing for distributed access point management for access to a mobile network is described herein. By way of example, an interface application maintained at a Femto cell base station (BS) can facilitate initial power up and/or acquisition for a Femto user terminal (UT). Upon start-up, a bootstrap process is utilized... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090092082 - Maintaining information facilitating deterministic network routing: In a wireless network that includes a plurality of nodes, a method of maintaining, by a first node, information regarding communications links between nodes in the wireless network includes: for each communications link that is established with another node, recording an identification of the other node; and for each message... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20090092079 - Method and apparatus for supporting uplink protocol changes: A method and apparatus for supporting uplink (UL) protocol changes includes reconfiguring a medium access control (MAC) protocol. A hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process is flushed, and a MAC-e/es reset is performed.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090092076 - Method and apparatus to reduce system overhead: System throughput is improved by decreasing the system overhead by reducing the size of control packets and data packet headers. A connection identifier (CID) is divided into a CID part 1 carried on a MAP IE and a CID part 2 carried on the generic MAC-PDU headers of one or... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090092075 - Methods and apparatus for establishing communications between devices with differing capabilities: Methods and apparatus for establishing communications between devices, e.g., mobile communications devices in an ad hoc network, with differing capabilities are described. A device which is capable of supporting multiple protocols in addition to a protocol used to communicate device capability information forms communications links with first and second devices... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090092083 - Multi-hop wireless network system: A source terminal measures characteristics of the path at the source terminal itself, produces a characteristics-measurement packet, and transmits the produced characteristics-measurement packet to a relay terminal. Upon receiving the characteristics-measurement packet, the relay terminal measures characteristics of the path at the relay terminal itself, renews the characteristics of the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090092077 - System and method for improving reordering functionality in radio communications: The definition and use of an additional timer for the MAC-hs reordering function in a user equipment. The timer counts transmission time intervals and is reset each time that the user equipment receives a data packet. If the timer reaches a set value, indicating a sufficiently long period of inactivity,... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090092086 - Apparatus for transmitting data on contention based resource in radio communication system and method thereof: An apparatus and method for transmitting data on a contention based resource in a radio communication system. A base station broadcasts a definition of uplink contention based resource groups and a criterion for a User Equipment (UE) to use for selecting a group. The UE selects an uplink contention based... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090092084 - Channel management method and channel selection method for wireless node in wireless ad-hoc network: Provided are a channel management method and a channel selection method for a wireless node in a wireless ad-hoc network. The channel management method includes the steps of: (a) when a current mode is a first mode, performing channel selection using a method for evenly distributing a channel within an... Agent: Sherr & Vaughn, PLLC

20090092091 - Inactivity-based multi-carrier allocation in wireless networks: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate adjusting allocation of carriers based on inactivity in wireless communications. An inactivity and dormancy timer are provided to allow carrier deallocation in periods of communicative inactivity (after expiration of the inactivity timer) without terminating the connection until expiration of the dormancy timer. Upon... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090092092 - Method and apparatus for transmitting broadcast data and method and apparatus for receiving broadcast data: Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting broadcast data and a method and apparatus for receiving broadcast data so as to provide a broadcast service. The method of transmitting broadcast data includes: receiving at least one Internet Protocol (IP) packet group, the IP packet group classified based on a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090092087 - Multi-antenna transmission for spatial division multiple access: An uplink channel response matrix is obtained for each terminal and decomposed to obtain a steering vector used by the terminal to transmit on the uplink. An “effective” uplink channel response vector is formed for each terminal based on its steering vector and its channel response matrix. Multiple sets of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090092089 - Radio communication terminal and data transmission/reception circuit: A radio communication terminal includes a transmission/reception unit performing transmission/reception of data, and a channel control unit controlling a communication channel in the transmission/reception unit. The transmission/reception unit is formed of a physical layer protocol processing unit processing a protocol of a physical layer in the transmission/reception of the data.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C. Citigroup Center

20090092088 - Synchronous two-phase rate and power control in wlans: A method for operation of a node operating in a wireless network comprising the steps of during an initial phase, setting transmission power and data transmission rate to initial settings and transmitting the initial settings to the wireless network in order to initiate communication with said wireless network during a... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090092085 - Telecommunications frame structure accomodating differing formats: A radio access network (RAN) (20) comprise a base station (28) and a wireless terminal (30). The base station 28 comprises a transceiver (38) and a frame handler (40), the wireless terminal (30) comprises a transceiver (48) and a wireless terminal frame handler (50). The frame handlers (40, 50) handle... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090092090 - Wireless communication systems: A signalling mechanism in an OFDMA-based wireless communication system in which the number of bits used to indicate the 2-D resource allocation in each frame are reduced, and optimised for the particular frame configuration. The numbers of bits within the MAP-IEs in at least the DL_MAP and optionally also the... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090092096 - Automatic provisioning of femtocell: Automatic provisioning of an access point base station or femtocell. The method may include the femtocell transmitting first information (e.g., location information, signal measurement information, capability information, etc.) to a service provider (e.g., over an IP network). The femtocell may receive second information from the service provider, where the second... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20090092095 - Communication method, mobile agent device, and home agent device: In a communication system including a MN, a MFA connected to the MN, and a HA connected to a home network of the MN, the HA holds a layer 3 address of the HA and a source layer 3 address of a registration request by associating them with each other.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090092093 - Handoff of dual mode mobile device between an ip network and a plmn: A device and a method for handoff of a VoIP internet telephone call from an IP network to a cellular network and for hand-back of the call to the IP network, in which during or after hand-off of the call an identifier of the hand-off call is obtained and stored... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20090092094 - Method and apparatus for identifying mobile network protocol capabilities: A method and apparatus for improving handover in an IEEE 802.21 compliant communication network. A query is transmitted from a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to a media independent handover (MIH) server (MIHS). The WTRU includes a target point of attachment (PoA) and/or a preferred mobile inter protocol (MIP) method. The... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090092099 - Method and apparatus of shifting functional entity in wimax network: A method and apparatus for shifting functional entity in WiMAX network is disclosed. A functional entity at the network side is set to be master functional entity or slave functional entity. The method includes: setting a binding relationship between a master functional entity and at least one slave functional entity;... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090092097 - Method and arrangement in a telecommunication system: The described technology generally relates to method(s) and arrangement(s) for access control during relocation of a user equipment (UE) into a femto base station (FBS) and dynamic triggering of the relocation into the FBS. A white list is maintained in the UE. The white list includes information on a list... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090092098 - System and method for updating neighbor base station information in a communication system: A method is provided for updating neighbor base station (BS) information by a serving BS in a communication system. The method includes acquiring a neighbor BS list from a base station controller (BSC); sending a request message for requesting an update of information on a neighbor BS to the at... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090092100 - Method for operating frame in mobile communication system and system thereof: An apparatus and method for indicating a zone by a base station in a mobile communication system, in which a frame consists of an uplink sub-frame and a downlink sub-frame, and each of the uplink and downlink sub-frames includes a plurality of zones, are provided. The method includes identifying at... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090092101 - Wireless lan with channel swapping between dfs access points: The present invention enhances the dynamic frequency selection 9DFS) algorithms used in Wireless LANs by adding a channel swapping mechanism. The aim of the traditional DFS algorithm is to dynamically select channels in a wireless LAN in such a way that the best performance is achieved. However, not always the... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20090092102 - Method and apparatus for scan mode selection during an evdo traffic state: A method and apparatus for user data traffic handling for an EVDO enabled hybrid mode mobile device, the method having the steps of: blocking a system selection at the mobile device until no EVDO traffic state exists, the blocking step includes either monitoring whether a user changes a scan mode... Agent: Moffat & Co

20090092103 - Method and apparatus for a coordinated scheduling method to avoid multiplexing of control and data for power limited users in the lte reverse link: A system and method for coordinated scheduling of a telecom device to avoid multiplexing of control signaling and data signaling is disclosed. The method includes defining a round trip time for signaling transmissions. The method further includes allocating the signal transmissions and signal retransmissions for uplink transmissions which are directed... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090092104 - Radio communication system, radio communication method and base station: In a radio communication system in which a radio terminal 10 transmits, to a base station 100, uplink user data via an enhanced dedicated physical data channel, the base station 100 includes a base station side transmitter unit (scheduling unit 120a) configured to transmit, to the radio terminal 10, transmission... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090092105 - Method of reserving resources with a maximum delay guarantee for multi-hop transmission in a distributed access wireless communications network: In a communication network (100), a method (400) of reserving X slots (610) for transmitting data from a source device (110A) to a destination device (110D) via multi-hop relay includes sending a first hop reservation request from the source device (110A) to a second device (110), for transmitting data from... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090092115 - Apparatus and methods for central control of mesh networks: A method and a wireless communication device that implements a control node for a mesh network. Preferably, the device and method are used in an 802.11 LAN.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090092111 - Control of wireless transmission based on node status: Transmission by a first node may be controlled based on a status of a second node. The status of the second node may indicate, for example, whether the second node will be communicating with the first node. Thus, if it is determined based on the status of the second node... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090092113 - Graphical display of status information in a wireless network management system: Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to, or facilitating, the graphical display of status information in wireless network management systems. In one implementation, the present invention provides a graphical user interface that allows a network administrator to readily ascertain the overall status of a wireless network, and quickly identify the network... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090092109 - Method and apparatus for enabling discovery within a home network: A method and Home IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Gateway for enabling a non-IMS enabled device within a home network to discover the availability of the Home IMS Gateway. The Home IMS Gateway is interposed at a control plane between a remote network and the non-IMS enabled device. The Home IMS... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090092107 - System and method for inter-radio access technology signal measurement: A multi-mode user equipment is provided. The multi-mode user equipment includes a processor configured to promote measurement of a signal strength of a microtechnology-based network during a portion of a macrotechnology-based communication from a network component to the multi-mode user equipment. The signal strength of the microtechnology-based network is measured... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090092108 - System, method and computer readable medium for re-connecting to a zigbee network: An end device on a Zigbee network exits a power saving mode and transmits a wake notification message to the network. The network retrieves a cached status flag indicating whether the end device is defined on the Zigbee network and transmits the status flag to the end device. If the... Agent: Rg & Associates

20090092110 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method using variable transmission rate: A wireless communication apparatus includes a transmission section and a control section. The transmission section transmits data using wireless communication. The control section controls a transmission rate for the transmission section. The control section limits data size of data to be transmitted to at most a prescribed value and requests... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090092106 - Wireless lan setting system in an image forming apparatus, and a wireless lan setting method: A wireless LAN setting system mounted on an image forming apparatus that performs network connection through a wireless LAN and used for performing wireless communication with plural terminals, the wireless LAN setting system including a mode for checking, before setting is performed, existing setting contents (setting items and setting states)... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090092112 - Wireless sensor network system and cluster management method thereof: A wireless sensor network system and a cluster management method thereof. The wireless sensor network system includes at least one cluster having at least one sensor node for collecting sensing data, and a cluster head for aggregating the sensing data from the at least one sensor node. A sink node... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090092114 - Wlan and wired mobile communication and location finding system: Wired and mobile cascaded communication systems and processors used in wired and wireless local area network (WLAN) and mobile systems with touch screen generated communication and control signal and position finding signals. Systems with distinct modulators for wired, WLAN and mobile systems operated in separate network and systems. The WLAN... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20090092116 - Trunking system for cdma wireless communication: Methods and systems for implementing trunking techniques in CDMA systems for handling group calls and push-to-talk services.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090092117 - Method and device for transferring multi-standard radio service data: The embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and a device for transferring radio service data. The method includes: designing a radio service frame timing mechanism and/or a rule of filling IQ data for a plurality of standards; configuring frame timing mechanisms corresponding to various services according to... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090092118 - Interleave apparatus and interleave method: An interleave apparatus and an interleave method for preventing an increase in the number of retransmissions to improve the throughput. In a wireless communication apparatus having the interleave apparatus, a data holding part (1021) two-dimensionally arranges and holds bit sequences. A first index calculating part (1022) sequentially calculates first indexes... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090092119 - Blind-slot radio with non-blind-slot scanning mode: The present invention relates to a transceiver device and a method of controlling a time-division multiplex frame structure with time slots in active mode in which a bearer is established, and time slots in an idle mode in which no bearer is established. Adjacent first and second time slots are... Agent: Venable LLP

20090092120 - Radio communication system, radio communication method and base station: A radio communication system includes: a serving cell (for example, cell A functional unit 120) configured to transmit, to a radio terminal 10, an AG for directly specifying an uplink user data transmission rate and an RG for relatively specifying the uplink user data transmission rate; and a non-serving cell... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090092121 - 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

20090092123 - Communication apparatus and communication method for the same: In a communication system in which a plurality of communication apparatuses form a wireless network and communicate with each other, a communication apparatus establishes timing synchronization by transmitting and receiving a beacon to and from other communication apparatuses. The communication apparatus determines whether or not beacon slots for transmitting the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090092122 - Time synchronization of femtocell: Time synchronization of an access point base station. The method may include receiving an assignment message from a service provider comprising a plurality of parameters. The plurality of parameters may include an access point base station frequency assignment, a network identifier, an access point base station identifier, a neighbor list,... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20090092125 - Method and apparatus for providing customer controlled traffic redistribution: A method and apparatus for providing customer controlled traffic redistribution are disclosed. For example, the method determines one or more states of one or more Customer Premise Equipments (CPEs) at one or more customer sites periodically, wherein the one or more states are configured by a customer. The method then... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090092124 - Network routing of endpoints to content based on content swarms: Using location-independent names to identify content, a service for mapping endpoint requests to requested content. Content requested by an endpoint of the network is mapped to a dynamic “swarm” of server, peer, or other endpoints capable of supporting the content download. Content names are mapped to a dynamically generated content... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090092129 - Data driven configuration of call management applications: A call manager uses a call management application in conjunction with a live dial database to control routing of calls for managed devices. To generate the live dial database, the call management application accesses configured route patterns and enters these patterns into the live dial database. Upon identifying an expansion... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090092128 - Ip telephone system and computer readable storage medium: The invention provides an IP telephone terminal. An IP telephone terminal includes an identification data receiving unit, a communicating unit, an IP telephone function controlling unit, a determining unit, a terminal data acquiring unit, and a terminal data acquiring unit. The identification data receiving unit receives, over an Internet, identification... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090092126 - Method and system for retrieving log messages from customer premise equipment: An approach is provided for retrieving a system log. Packets that are destined for a predetermined network address and network port are detected and captured. The packets represent a log file corresponding to a customer premise equipment (CPE) for troubleshooting. A data file is generated to contain the log file,... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090092127 - Method for establishing a communication connection and communication devices: A method for establishing a communication connection includes transmitting an identification for identifying a first communication device to the first communication device or a second communication device via a packet-switched first communication connection between the first communication device and the second communication devices and using the identification to establish a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090092130 - Network switching system with asynchronous and isochronous interface: To provide a switching system with telephone switching function mainly on the basis of hardware processing by using isochronous channel which is a real time communication channel. The switching system comprises a gateway node connected with ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) and PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network), and one or... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090092131 - Method and device for rejecting redundantly retransmitted sip messages: A method for rejecting received SIP messages which are redundantly retransmitted used in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) application architecture. In one embodiment, the method comprises: forwarding all the messages transmitted from a SIP application server to a SIP terminal, and dropping all the received SIP messages redundantly retransmitted from... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090092132 - Method and device for translating internet protocol addresses inside a communications network: A private IP address is converted into a public IP address in a communications network without adapting a client software. The conversion of the private IP addresses into the public IP addresses is carried out via a network address translation. The private IP address of each terminal included in a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090092134 - Method for geolocation based on the unique identifier information of an electronic device detected by the first router in a network connection: p

20090092133 - Method, apparatus and system for network mobility of a mobile communication device: A method, device and system for allowing a mobile communication device, such as a DLNA/UPnP device, to continue to communicate with its local network, even when the mobile device leaves or loses contact with the local network. The method includes providing information to a remote access server to create a... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090092135 - System and method for router data distribution: Employing an asymmetric protocol, multiple sources reliably broadcast dynamically changing routing tables incrementally across multiple consumers from a single distributor. Each of multiple sources send current tables to the distributor using a snapshot mechanism. Message are buffered, segmented, paced by timers, and broadcast to the consumers repetitively at the distributor.... Agent: Foundry Networks, Inc. Legal Department

20090092138 - Apparatus and method for generating and parsing mac pdu in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for generating and parsing a MAC PDU in a mobile communication system are provided in which LCIDs of MAC SDUs to be multiplexed are checked, the length of an LF is determined for each of the MAC SDUs, referring to LF lengths predetermined for the LCIDs,... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090092136 - System and method for packet classification, modification and forwarding: A system may include a processor that is arranged and configured to receive initial data packets from a data stream, to classify the initial data packets from the data stream and to populate one or more tables with information based on the classification of the initial data packets from the... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Cpa Global

20090092137 - Virtualized application acceleration infrastructure: In one example embodiment, a system and method is illustrated that includes processes a first data packet using a first operating system, the first data packet received from a first network. A second operation is shown that processes a second data packet using a second operating system, the second data... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090092140 - Method and apparatus for providing a hierarchical structure for routing: A method and apparatus for providing a hierarchical structure for routing over packet networks are disclosed. The method first receives one or more packets from at least one customer endpoint device with a Customer Edge (CE) functionality, wherein said one or more packets are destined for a destination node. The... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090092139 - Time sensitive scheduling data delivery network: Communications network based passive delivery of time sensitive scheduling data to an entity is described. Specific time sensitive scheduling data streams are created from aggregating time sensitive scheduling data from multiple originating organizations, affiliated groups of individuals, and individuals. Specific time sensitive scheduling data from originating organizations, affiliated groups of... Agent: David Lewis

20090092141 - Switch with virtual network identifier re-write capability: A switch includes a processor, an ingress port having ingress port logic, and an egress port. It may also include a virtual network identifier rewrite component for rewriting a virtual network identifier in a data frame received the ingress port with a new virtual network identifier. Also included is a... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090092142 - Methods, systems and computer program products for dynamic communication data routing by a multi-network remote communication terminal: Methods, systems and computer program products of dynamic communication data routing by a multi-network remote communication terminal across a plurality of networks are provided. The multi-network remote communication terminal is delivered to a locality to receive communication services. The terminal is communicatively connected to a first network, a second network,... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Mb Attn: Patent Docketing

20090092144 - Communication network, a method of routing data packets in such communication network and a method of locating and securing data of a desired resource in such communication network: A communication network comprising a plurality of network nodes is provided, wherein the network nodes are logically arranged to form a plurality of concentric rings, all rings except the outermost ring being with high probability fully constructed; the number of nodes on each fully constructed ring being dD, wherein d... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090092143 - Mesh network communication systems and methods: A mesh network communication system including one or more mesh networks and a plurality of remote subscriber users employing wireless, spread spectrum type communications for communicating with an access node in one of the mesh networks. The remote subscriber units can be mobile and can use handover to change nodes... Agent: Epstein & Gerken

20090092145 - Network system: A network system includes a switch device and a plurality of communication terminals. The switch device has a plurality of ports. The switch device receives a packet at its one port and transmits the packet from another port corresponding to the packet's destination. The communication terminals are connected to the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090092146 - System, method and computer readable medium for communication on a zigbee network: In a Zigbee network, reliable communications are provided by maintaining messages transmitted from a device in a message queue in the device. If no successful acknowledgement is received for a transmitted message, the message is re-transmitted when the message queue executes. Messages are deleted from the queue when the message... Agent: Rg & Associates

20090092147 - Packet communication device, packet communication system, packet communication system, packet communication module, data processor, and data transfer system: A transmit packet generated by a CPU 1 is held in a buffer 100a (100b). From among packets received from Ethernet 820a (820b), a packet, a destination of which is a communication device 800, is held in the buffer 100a (100b). A packet which should be transmitted is transmitted from... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090092148 - Resource remapping and regrouping in a wireless communication system: Methods and apparatus for remapping and regrouping transmission resources in a wireless communication system. First, a set of new permutation algorithms based on Galois field operation is proposed. Then the proposed algorithms and the known Pruned Bit Reversal Ordering (PBRO) algorithm are applied to several of various resource mapping schemes,... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090092149 - One-good-pair operation in dual-pair mode: A communication system comprising at least one communication unit. Each communication unit includes an interface port, a first-digital-subscriber-line port, a second-digital-subscriber-line port, and a central processing unit. The central processing unit is communicatively coupled to receive information indicative of the operability of the first-digital-subscriber-line port and the second-digital-subscriber-line port. The... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20090092150 - Hybrid cross-link: A communication system comprises a first communication unit having a plurality of application ports; and a second communication unit having a plurality of application ports and coupled to the first communication unit; wherein the first communication unit is configured to extract timeslots from a first signal having a first interface... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20090092151 - Method for the management of bandwidth in a communications network, corresponding computer-readable storage medium and devices: A method for managing bandwidth in a synchronous communications network comprising a plurality of nodes, the network implementing a first clocking which defines a data-processing cycle comprising a determined number of virtual channels, the data-processing cycle being defined by a current data-processing frequency, said plurality of nodes comprising at least... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090092152 - Method and system for dynamically adjusting forward error correction (fec) rate to adapt for time varying network impairments in video streaming applications over ip networks: Certain aspects of a method and system for dynamically adjusting forward error correction (FEC) rate to adapt for time varying network impairments in video streaming applications over IP networks may be disclosed. At a server side of a client-server communication system, a rate of transmission of forward error correction (FEC)... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090092153 - Downstream synchronous multichannels for a communications management system: Downstream synchronous multichannel (DSSM) communications are provided among a plurality of carriers, each being a completely DOCSIS™ 2.0-compliant downstream. The synchronous multichannels support communications with both DSSM-capable communications nodes and non-DSSM-capable communications nodes (e.g., legacy cable modems). Non-DSSM packets are transmitted on a single channel. DSSM packets are split into... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090092154 - Method, system, and apparatus for extended rate/range communication over a communication network: A technique for communicating multimedia data between nodes over coaxial cable, wherein the nodes are connected via a coaxial cable network, is disclosed. In an embodiment, the technique involves establishing a primary channel for communicating between first and second nodes of the coaxial cable network, establishing a secondary channel for... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090092155 - Method and apparatus for controlling access to a communication channel: A method and an apparatus provide for controlled access to a shared communication medium. Time slots on a forward channel include information regarding status useful for remote units to determine whether a reverse channel is available for seizure. Additionally, information along the forward channel provides guidance to the remote units... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20090086618 - Amplitude attenuation estimation and recovery systems for ofdm signal used in communication systems: This disclosure relates to amplitude correction for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signals received by a communication device. An amplitude attenuation estimation is performed for amplitude correction on received OFDM signals.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090086619 - Ultra-wideband communication protocol: A communication protocol for ultra-wideband communications is provided. The present invention provides compatibility and interoperability between ultra-wideband communications devices within various types of networks. In one embodiment, combined, or interleaved data frames having both high and low data transfer rate capability are provided. The low data transfer rate may be... Agent: Pulse-link, Inc.

20090086620 - Method and apparatus for preventing network conflict: A resiliency-link having a master node and slave nodes may be used to automatically avoid network conflicts due to failure of a node stack. Any stack stub formed as a result of the failure of a stack node or link may use the resiliency-link to determine whether the stack Master... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090086621 - Correlating label switched paths of a pseudowire: In one embodiment, correlating label switched paths of a pseudowire includes receiving a first message at a second label switching router. The first message is sent from a first label switching router and includes a pseudowire identifier and a first label switched path identifier. The pseudowire identifier identifies a pseudowire,... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090086622 - Method and apparatus for performing a graceful restart in a nsf-capable router without enhancing link state routing protocols: A graceful restart is provided in a NSF capable router. When a switchover to a standby controller is required, the standby controller receives replicated link state message headers from an active controller. The standby controller generates a link state request (LSR) message from the link state message headers and transmits... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090086623 - Method, system and device for processing failure: A method, a system, and a device for processing failure is provided; the method is applicable to a label switched path (LSP) including a first node, a second node, and at least one third node. The first node and the second node are adjacent nodes suffering communication breakdown. The first... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090086624 - Multiple packet routing system (mprs): A method and system for Multiple Packet Routing is disclosed. A characteristic of a network may be monitored. Based on the characteristic, a network path of two or more redundant call streams sent from a first endpoint to a second endpoint may be controlled.... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20090086625 - Method and apparatus for providing a distributed control plane for a mobility home agent: The invention includes a method and apparatus for providing a distributed control plane for a mobility home agent by enabling multiple home addresses associated with multiple home agents to be assigned to a mobile node contemporaneously. A first home agent assigns a first home address to the mobile node. The... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20090086626 - Methods and systems for automatically rerouting logical circuit data from a logical circuit failure to a dedicated backup circuit in a data network: A method and system are provided for automatically rerouting logical circuit data from a physical circuit failure in a data network. When a failure in a logical circuit is detected, a label or services name associated with the logical circuit is automatically associated with a logical circuit identifier utilized for... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20090086627 - System and method for handling or avoiding disruptions in wireless communication: A wireless communication method comprises selecting a cause of a disruption from two or more potential causes of disruptions by associating at least one characteristic of a communication with a device with the selected cause of a disruption and changing a data rate for the communication from an existing data... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090086629 - Admission control based on qos performance in a wireless communication network: Techniques for performing admission control based on quality-of-service (QoS) performance in a wireless communication network are described. QoS performance (e.g., delay or throughput performance) of admitted data flows may be determined. Whether to admit or reject a new data flow may then be determined based on the QoS performance of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090086628 - Apparatus and methods for scheduling packets in a broadband data stream: A packet scheduler includes a packet manager interface, a policer, a congestion manager, a scheduler, and a virtual output queue (VOQ) handler. The policer assigns a priority to each packet. Depending on congestion levels, the congestion manager determines whether to send a packet based on the packet's priority assigned by... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090086630 - Network monitoring system and method capable of reducing processing load on network monitoring apparatus: A network monitoring system capable of effectively monitoring the behavior of traffic through a network is provided with an aggregation apparatus which is connected to access networks which is connected to a telecommunications network. The aggregation apparatus includes: a receiving unit distinctively receiving input side communication data which is input... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090086631 - Voice over internet protocol marker insertion: A watermark is inserted or overwritten into a packetized voice stream in a VoIP environment to characterize the voice data stream for various functions, such as providing certain in-band audible information or markers for detection. A visual type of marker can be inserted to measure delay for various applications, such... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090086632 - Using a link attribute to inform nodes of the availability of traffic management resources: In one embodiment, informing nodes of traffic management resource availability includes establishing whether there is an available traffic management resource at a first node, where a traffic management resource tracks usage of bandwidth by a tunnel at the first node. Whether there is an available traffic management resource is recorded... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090086633 - Using a link-state advertisement to inform nodes of the availability of traffic management resources: In one embodiment, informing nodes of traffic management resource availability includes determining a number of available traffic management resources at a first node, where a traffic management resource tracks usage of bandwidth by a tunnel at the first node. The number of available traffic management resources is recorded in a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090086634 - Method and system for packet rate shaping: Aspects of a method and system for packet rate shaping may include an MMU that enables classification of one or more packets based on a CoS and/or an egress port, and transmission of the packets in accordance with a specified packet rate based on the classification.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090086636 - Method for communicating backpressure messages in a data communications system: A method for communicating backpressure messaging over a serial encoded link is disclosed. Embodiments of the invention enable advanced backpressure signaling to be retrofitted into legacy systems to achieve performance improvements and support new or enhanced services. Specifically, such signaling enables per-context and per-priority backpressure signaling information to be conveyed... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090086635 - Method, system, and apparatus for flow control management in a data center ethernet network over an extended distance: Flow control in a data center Ethernet (DCE) network is managed between a source node and a destination node separated by an extended distance. An initiation sequence between the source node and the destination node is intercepted. The imitation sequence is for determining buffer credits available for receiving packets in... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090086637 - Method, system, and apparatus for accelerating resolution of network congestion: The response time for resolving network traffic congestion is accelerated in a Data Center Ethernet (DCE) network. A data packet is received at a node in the network. Congestion of the data packet at the node is detected, and a backward congestion notification signal for the data packet is generated.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090086638 - Method and system for wireless communication of data with a fragmentation pattern and low-density parity-check codes: A method and system for wireless data communication is provided, which involves constructing a data payload containing data, partitioning the data payload into fragments, performing LDPC encoding on each fragment, and transmitting the data payload including encoded fragments over a wireless channel.... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20090086639 - Testing dynamically addressed network devices: A method may include receiving, at a first network device, a message from a second network device. The method may include determining whether the message is a test setup message, where the test setup message includes a network address associated with the second network device. A test sequence may be... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090086640 - Uncovering the differences in backbone networks: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that discover comparative differences in performance of Internet Service Provider networks. The system can include devices, components, and/or processes that partitions measurement processes into cycles and measures at least one Internet Service Provider network every cycle, develops and distributes to interrogation nodes... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090086641 - Method and apparatus for detecting support for a protocol defining supplemental headers: Various methods and systems for detecting whether a network device supports a protocol, which defines a supplemental header, are disclosed. One method involves detecting a value within a preamble generated by a sending device and verifying that a header format of a header, also generated by the sending device, conforms... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090086642 - High availability path audit: In one embodiment, an apparatus identifies two or more network devices in a path between a first endpoint and a second endpoint. The apparatus obtains a measurement of one or more metrics pertaining to functionality of the two or more network devices in the path between the first endpoint and... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090086644 - Detecting data plane liveliness of a label-switched path: Detecting if a label-switched path (LSP) is functioning properly. To test that packets that belong to a particular Forwarding Equivalence Class (FEC) actually end their MPLS LSP on an label switching router (LSR) that is an egress for that FEC, a request message carrying information about the FEC whose LSP... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20090086643 - Path testing and switching: A method may include forming a first path from a first node to a second node and transmitting data via the first path. The method also includes measuring a performance parameter associated with transmitting data via the first path and determining whether the measured performance parameter meet a required performance... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090086645 - Apparatus and method for passively analyzing a data packet delivery path: A packet transmission diagnostic system transmits diagnostic packets during a communications session in which data packets are transmitted between a source and destination. The diagnostic packets elicit responses from routers along a path between the source and destination. The elicited responses, in the form of packets, are used by the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090086647 - Method of measuring transmit quality in a closed loop diversity communication system: In a method for determining channel quality information in a high speed packet access communication system with closed loop transmit diversity, power and variance related to a common pilot channel (CPICH) are determined for a rake receiver to obtain a closed loop transmit gain adjustment and to determine the CPICH... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090086648 - Rank adaptation for an open loop multi-antenna mode of wireless communication: To perform rank adaptation for a mobile station in a wireless network, it is determined whether the mobile station is fast moving. In response to determining that the mobile station is fast moving, an open loop multi-antenna mode is selected to perform wireless communication between the mobile station and a... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090086646 - Status report method in a wireless communication system: A method for reporting missing data of a re-segmented data transmission in a wireless communication device is disclosed. The method comprises determining that a last re-segmented protocol data unit (PDU) segment of a re-segmented PDU has not been received. In response to determining that the last PDU segment has not... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090086649 - System, tool and method for network monitoring and corresponding network: A system, method and tool for monitoring switching events in a network with at least two nodes, and a corresponding network, the system, method and tool including means for representing the events originated from different nodes as data in a uniform format, and means for counting the occurrence of events... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090086651 - Intelligent collection and management of flow statistics: A system and method for collecting packet flow statistics within a network node includes forwarding packet flows received at the network node between subscribers of one or more network services and one or more providers of the network services. The flow statistics related to each of the packet flows passing... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090086650 - Method and system for conserving power by degrading network connection speed: In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a method for conserving power. The method includes determining a first network connection speed for a network interface card (NIC), configuring the NIC to operate at the first network connection speed, processing, after the configuration, packets received by the NIC, obtaining... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090086652 - Model and method for computing performance bounds in multi-hop wireless networks: Disclosed is a general model and method for computing performance bounds in multi-hop wireless networks. Rather than focusing on computing asymptotic performance bounds under assumptions of homogeneity or randomness in the network topology and/or workload, the present invention accommodates any given network, technology, interference model, routing paradigm, and workload. Using... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090086653 - High-integrity self-test in a network having a braided-ring topology: In one embodiment, a node comprises an interface to communicatively couple the node to a plurality of independent communication links. The node changes the mode in which the node operates when the node receives an indicator on a plurality of the independent communication links.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090086654 - Single stack coupled resonators having differential output: An acoustic resonator and a communication device with an acoustic resonator are described.... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20090086655 - Portable wireless repeater system for indoor wireless coverage enhancement of residential, small office, and vehicular applications: A portable wireless signal repeater module having embedded integrated patch antennas is installed on a window of a house or office or the interior surface of a vehicle's windshield. The module has two sets of embedded patch antennas, which, when mounted on a window, one set faces outdoors and another... Agent: Raymond J. Werner

20090086658 - Bidirectional frequency mixer, radiofrequency transceiver system including such a mixer: The present invention relates to a bidirectional frequency mixer, as well as a radiofrequency transceiver system including at least such a mixer. The mixer includes two ports separated in intermediate frequency FI, one for the reception, the other for the emission and a common port in frequency RF both for... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20090086657 - Hybrid automatic repeat request buffer flushing mechanism: A novel and useful buffer flushing mechanism for use in a communications link. Using hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol mechanisms, network elements in a radio access network initiate a HARQ buffer flushing operation. Network elements on both ends of a communication link can autonomously initiate coordinated or uncoordinated flushing... Agent: Zaretsky Patent Group PC

20090086659 - Method and apparatus for layer 2 processing and creation of protocol data units for wireless communications: Enhanced MAC-es PDUs are created by concatenating enhanced MAC-es service data units (SDUs) based on higher layer PDUs and segments thereof, where segmentation information is included in the enhanced MAC-es headers. An enhanced MAC-e header is generated for each enhanced MAC-es PDU to describe information about the enhanced MAC-es PDU.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090086656 - Status report triggering in wireless communication system: A method for status report triggering in a wireless communication entity is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a data unit segment wherein the data unit segment is a portion of an original data unit that has been re-segmented for transmission into a plurality of data unit segments. Then, determining that... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090086662 - Information-communication terminal having function of controlling electric power consumption: A terminal connected to a wireless communication network includes a BU processor used in wireless communication. An operation mode of the BU processor is switched to one of a sleep mode, a standby mode, and an active mode in a state in which an electric power is supplied to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c Citigroup Center

20090086661 - Mobile computer with unattended online content processing: A system, method and program code are disclosed for the unattended monitoring, retrieval and storage of online content by a mobile information processing system operating in a low power mode. An intelligent wireless modem is activated when a mobile information processing system is operating in a low power state. The... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP - Amd

20090086660 - Power saving operation of always-connected wireless roaming: Methods and apparatuses enable maintaining wireless connectivity while the wireless client device is in a power save mode. The system includes a host operating system (OS) that handles wireless connections while the device is executing in normal operation, and an embedded agent that handles the wireless connections when the device... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090086668 - Method and apparatus for a dual-stack mn to roaming in an ipv4 network: The disclosure provides a method and apparatus for a dual-stack Mobile Node (MN) to roam in an IPv4 network. The apparatus mainly includes a Foreign Home Agent (FHA). The method mainly includes: acquiring, by the MN, a temporary IPv4 address THOA that the FHA assigns to the MN, and registering... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090086665 - Method and apparatus for requesting pilotreport in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for transmitting PilotReportRequest message in a wireless communication system is described. A PilotReportRequest message comprising an 8 bit MessageID field and an 8 bit ReportFormat field is generated, wherein the ReportFormat field indicates the format of the PilotReport being requested from an access terminal. The PilotReportRequest... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20090086666 - Method for arq-enabled pre-transmissions in multicast and broadcast services of relay networks utilizing the idle periods: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for transmitting data in a network (e.g., a relay network). In one embodiment, the method comprises performing pre-transmission of a packet to hops to enable the base station and the plurality of hops to transmit the packet synchronously to one or more mobile... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090086667 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for preserving a signalling connection: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for preserving a signaling connection after a network has indicated that the signaling connection can be closed, such as by selection of a no follow on proceed mode during routing area updates or attach procedures. By preserving the signaling connection, subsequent... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090086664 - Packet forwarding in multi-radio multi-hop wireless networks: A packet forwarding technique is presented that forwards data packets through a multi-hop wireless network employing multi-radio nodes. In each multi-radio node, an output buffer is shared among the radios. Outgoing packets are stored in this buffer. Whenever there is a transmission opportunity on the radios sharing the output buffer,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090086663 - Selecting aggregation nodes in a network: In one embodiment, a method includes determining, at a local node in a network of multiple nodes, a first neighbor node of one or more neighbor nodes with which the local node is in direct communication based on a first number of nodes with which the first neighbor node is... Agent: Eugene Molinelli Evans & Molinelli PLLC

20090086672 - Equivalent home id for mobile communications: Facilitating user terminal (UT) access to wireless networks having disparate types of base stations (BSs) is described herein. By way of example, a distinct identifier (ID) can be reserved for a particular type of network access point (e.g. restricted or general access, full or fractional re-use, transmit power, cell size,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090086671 - Method and apparatus for terminating transmission of a message in an enhanced random access channel: A method and an apparatus is provided for terminating an enhanced random access channel (E-RACH) message in an E-RACH transmission. Triggers for terminating the E-RACH message are provided. The actions upon termination of the E-RACH messages are provided to release enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) resources while in cell forward access... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090086673 - Method and device for allocating common channel resources: A resource allocation method and device are provided that can achieve uniform loads on and stable quality of a common channel available to mobile stations having no dedicated channels. A method for allocating common channel resources in a system in which a plurality of first radio communication devices transmit data... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090086669 - Techniques for reducing a cell identification falsing rate in a wireless communication system: A technique of operating a wireless communication device includes selecting, from a primary sequence group that includes respective primary sequences, one of the respective primary sequences as a first portion of a cell identification (ID). In this case, the respective primary sequences are each associated with respective secondary sequence subgroups... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090086670 - Wireless communication system: A signalling method in a frame-based wireless communication system allowing a base station (BS) to inform fixed or mobile subscriber stations (MS) of resource allocations without excessive signalling and processing overhead. In one embodiment, in addition to normal resource allocation information such as a DL-MAP or UL-MAP, IDs of MSs... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090086679 - Apparatus and method for supporting vertical handover on a wireless communication system: A broadband wireless communication system is provided. An apparatus for an information server (IS) comprises an event module for determining whether updating the network information of at least one access network (AN) is needed, a generator module for generating at least one Information_Get_Request packet for requesting the network information of... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090086675 - Handover processing system in mobile communication system: A handover processing system in mobile communication system, implemented in gateway connected to subscriber network including base station in the mobile communication system, public network and IP network and accompanied by movement of radio terminal in the mobile communication system, wherein the gateway comprises line exchanger performing line exchange processing,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090086678 - Method and device for feeding back link parameter configuration result: A method for feeding back a link parameter configuration result includes the following steps. After receiving a configuration request for at least one link parameter from the higher layer to the lower layer, a media independent handover layer instructs the lower layer to perform link parameter configuration, and the lower... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090086674 - Method and system for providing voice call continuity: A method and system for providing circuit-switched to IP Multimedia Subsystem voice call continuity with a single radio are provided. The exemplary embodiment takes advantage of a standard RANAP signaling procedure called “directed retry” to perform a much better coordination between the change in radio mode and the transfer of... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090086676 - Methods for intra base station handover optimizations: The method and apparatus as described are directed toward techniques and mechanisms to improve efficiency in wireless communication networks through optimization of handover scenarios. Determining whether an intra-base station or inter-node-B handover is too performed, and determining the protocol layers to reset during the handover based at least in part... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090086677 - Systems and methods for in-order delivery in downlink during handover: Systems and methods that manage effects of discarded SDUs during handover. Aspects of the subject innovation maintain order for arrival of PDCP SDUs when a UE encounters a lost PDCP, which has resulted from a dropped SDU at the source eNB—before assignment of an associated PDCP SN. By initially assigning... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090086681 - Device and method for maintaining a communication session during a network transition: Provided are a device and method for maintaining a communication session during a network transition. In one example, the method includes monitoring, by a client, a connection with a first network to determine whether a signal strength of the connection falls below a threshold value. The client establishes a connection... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20090086680 - Multi-detection of heartbeat to reduce error probability: A communications system improves performance of detecting a signal having an indication of a request to change communications states by making at least two positive identifications of the request in a given time frame. The system may further improve performance by applying a difference in power levels for a non-request... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090086682 - Downlink out of sync detection in continuous packet connectivity: Out-of-sync and in-sync detections and downlink power control by UTRAN user equipment are improved in Continuous Packet Connectivity mode featuring discontinuous UL DPCCH transmission by requiring all F-DPCH transmissions from a base station to the user equipment to be valid during a UL DTX gated period. Additionally, the user equipment... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090086683 - Method and system of piconet groups: A set of piconets and corresponding methods and computer programs may reduce contention time between piconets. In one embodiment, a seven-length code architecture may be used with group(s) of bands so that contention time cannot exceed 1/7 of the time. Up to seven different bands can be used within each... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20090086685 - Method and apparatus for time-based fast ack/nack response operation with enhanced general packet radio service 2 uplink: A method and apparatus for time-based fast positive acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) reporting (FANR) operation with enhanced general packet radio service 2 uplink (HUGE) are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) configures downlink FANR operation and EGPRS-2 mode uplink transmission not to be in conflict. A modulation and coding scheme... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090086684 - Method for preventing co-channel operation with radar systems: A method for preventing co-channel operation with a radar system includes the steps of setting a state of a first communication channel to active, connecting to a first wireless access point on the first communication channel, passively scanning at least a second communication channel for communication from a second wireless... Agent: Mayback & Hoffman, P.A.

20090086686 - Method to simplify uplink state flag (usf) decoding complexity for redhot a and b wireless transmit/receive units: A method and apparatus allow for reliable and low-complexity decoding of EGPRS2 communication bursts when RTTI and BTTI equipment operate on the same timeslot(s). Various configurations for the Uplink State Flag (USF) mapping employ adjustable bit swapping of some or all USF channel-coded bits in communication bursts. Configurations that allow... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090086692 - Apparatus and method supporting wireless access to multiple security layers in an industrial control and automation system or other system: A method includes receiving a message at a first wireless node. The first wireless node is associated with a first wired network, and the first wired network is associated with a first security layer. The method also includes transmitting the message over the first wired network when at least one... Agent: Anthony Miologos Honeywell International Inc.

20090086689 - Capwap/lwapp multicast flood control for roaming clients: A method, an apparatus, a system, and logic encoded in one or more computer-readable tangible medium to carry out a method. The method includes maintaining the state of clients of an access point controlled by a controller in the controller of the access point, including multicast group information, and updating... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20090086687 - Configurable and flexible wireless link adaptation method and device: A method and apparatus for implementing user defined Link Adaptation solutions in a wireless system.... Agent: Cool Patent, P.C. C/o Cpa Global

20090086697 - Information communication terminal having wireless communication function: A terminal includes a communication unit. The communication unit determines which one of an AP mode and an ST mode is set as an operating mode of the terminal. In the ST mode, the communication unit accepts a received frame, and then outputs the accepted frame to a host system.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c Citigroup Center

20090086695 - Mechanism for communication with multiple wireless video area networks: A device is disclosed having a first radio component to enable the device to communicate with devices in a first wireless network via a first wireless communication protocol and a second radio component to enable the device to communicate with devices in a second wireless network via a second wireless... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090086698 - Method and apparatus for managing a collision in common e-dch transmissions: A method and apparatus for managing a collision in random access channel (RACH) access transmissions are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) transmits WTRU-dependent information to confirm that a detected acquisition indicator (AI) is intended to the WTRU. The WTRU-dependent information may be transmitted separately after detecting the AI, may... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090086690 - Method for selecting antennas and beams in mimo wireless lans: A computer implemented method selects antennas in a multiple-input, multiple-output wireless local area network that includes multiple stations, and each station includes a set of antennas. Multiple consecutively transmitted sounding packets are received in a station. Each sounding packet corresponds to a different subset of the set of antennas. A... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090086694 - Multimedia communication gateway for hospitality and convention facilities: The present invention may be used for interfacing disparate forms of communication media and networks in hospitality and convention facilities. A gateway unit that may be used in a guest room may have a front panel, a connector panel and at least one antenna. A computing device, multiple memory elements... Agent: Dennis W. Beech (law Office Of Dennis W. Beech)

20090086688 - Remote access to a customer home network: A wireless application server may receive, from a wireless device, information identifying an application residing on a network device in a home network. The wireless application server may further cause a connection to be established to the application and transfer traffic between the application and the wireless device.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090086693 - System and method for rf space protection and control: A system and method of controlling the operation of the wireless communications between a mobile device and access point by monitoring and modifying the communications.... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20090086691 - System and method to facilitate handling of access terminals camped onto an access point base station: Devices and methods are provided for handling a visitor access terminal (AT) associated with a macro network, in response to the visitor AT entering a coverage area of an access point (AP) base station. In one approach, the method involves allowing registration of the visitor AT with the AP base... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090086696 - Wireless transmission device, wireless transmission method, wireless communication system, and program: A wireless transmission device according to the present invention includes a packet transmission portion, a Block ACK receiving portion, a retransmission control portion, and a transmission rate revision portion. The packet transmission portion transmits a plurality of packets to a receiving terminal. The Block ACK receiving portion receives a Block... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090086699 - Method and system for unequal error protection with block codes for wireless transmission: A method and system for wireless data communication is provided, which involves constructing a data payload containing data, partitioning the data payload into fragments, performing block code encoding on each fragment, wherein at least one fragment is encoded at a different coding gain than another fragment, and transmitting the data... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20090086700 - Systems and methods for communicating control data using multiple slot formats: Systems and methods for communicating control information in slots that use at least two different slot formats. In one embodiment, a method implemented in a wireless communication system includes providing at least two different slot formats, formatting control data in the slots of a control frame according to the at... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090086701 - Method and device for performance optimisation of a data distribution network: A method for scheduling the delivery of a plurality of data portions to respective recipients in a data distribution network, wherein the recipients are commonly utilizing a bottleneck element limiting the performance of the data distribution network. A proportion of recipients automatically requesting a respective data portion is determined upon... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090086703 - Method and system for utilizing undersampling for crystal leakage cancellation: Methods and systems for utilizing undersampling for crystal leakage cancellation are disclosed and may include undersampling a composite signal comprising a desired signal and leakage signals due to one or more clock signals. Measured DC signals generated by each of the undersampled signals may be reduced by adjusting the phase... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090086702 - Randomization of periodic channel scans: An apparatus and method for wireless communications supports a periodic scan for wireless devices. The periodic scan includes a plurality of scans spaced apart in time. The phase of the periodic scan is changed in response to one of the wireless devices being detected in one of the scans.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090086704 - Acknowledge mode polling with immediate status report timing: A wireless network avoids delays in receiving status reports by having transmitters make sure that any outstanding Hybrid Automatic Repeat-reQuest (HARQ) processes in progress are all finished before sending the polling request. Thus, the receiver can respond to any polling request of the transmitter immediately without delay. Since the transmitter... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090086705 - Apparatus and method for scheduling in a wireless communication system: A method of scheduling an uplink (UL) data packet on a packet data network (PDN) connection of at least one radio bearer by a wireless communication unit comprises receiving, by the wireless communication unit, a signalling message comprising at least one scheduling priority parameter assigned to at least one uplink... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090086706 - Cross-layer multi-packet reception based medium access control and resource allocation: A cross-layer multi-packet reception media access control and resource allocation technique is provided for wireless networks having receivers with multiple antennas. User devices on the wireless network access the network for data transmission by making a request to send (RTS) request after a random backoff time. In response to a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090086709 - Method and apparatus for enhanced transport format combination selection in wireless communications: Efficient enhanced transport format combination (E-TFC) selection methods and apparatus support flexible radio link control (RLC) packet data unit (PDU) size and medium access control (MAC) layer segmentation. Methods for filling an enhanced medium access control (MAC-e) packet data unit (PDU) with data from logical channels as part of E-TFC... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090086710 - Method and apparatus for implementing lte rlc header formats: Systems and methodologies of reducing overhead by designating various fields in an optimized Radio Link Control header. Depending on communication type (e.g., VoIP, non-VoIP) such fields include a combination of a Segment Indicator (SI—which indicates presence of a whole SDU at beginning or at an ending), a Sequence Number (SN),... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090086708 - Method and apparatus for supporting segmentation of packets for uplink transmission: A method and apparatus for segmenting medium access control (MAC) service data units (SDUs) creates enhanced MAC-es PDUs in the enhanced MAC-e/es sub-layer by concatenating MAC SDUs received from the logical channels. An enhanced transport format combination (E-TFC) selection entity controls the concatenation of MAC SDUs into enhanced MAC-es PDUs.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090086707 - Robust header compression/decompression methods and systems: A method for a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes communicating a packet of network profile information, where the packet is communicated across a network in association with application data. The method also includes automatically reporting capability parameters of a terminal in order to process the network profile... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090086714 - Apparatus and method for estimating uplink transmission timing in wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for estimating UpLink (UL) transmission timing in a Mobile Station (MS) of a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes tracking DL timing by using a DL preamble signal received for each frame; estimating a time offset between a previous frame and a current frame... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20090086711 - Correlation of access code for bluetooth synchronization: A circuit for processing a packet based signal received over a Bluetooth radio link has a correlator to detect at least part of the access code. A correlator controller, reconfigures the correlator according to a timing of the access code, to detect at least part of the EDR synchronization sequence,... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090086713 - Method and apparatus for using an unique index set for psc sequence in a wireless communication system: Systems and methods are provided to generate a set of synchronization channel sequences that optimize time and frequency acquisition. A set of root indices of Zadoff-Chu sequences in a first domain (e.g., time domain) that optimize a performance metric or merit factor are identified. An optimal index is determined that... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090086712 - Minimizing mutual interference for multi-radio co-existence platforms: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method that includes selecting an offset between start of communications of a first radio in a multi-radio platform (MRP) and start of communications of a second radio in the MRP. Synchronizing clocks of the fist radio and the second radio to... Agent: RyderIPLaw C/o Cpa Global

20090086722 - Communication apparatus and terminal registration method for use in communication system: According to one embodiment, a communication apparatus includes an agent server module configured to connect to the telephone terminal connected to the public network, while bypassing the public network and the private network, and configured to receive a registration request including the terminal ID of the telephone terminal from the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090086719 - Dynamic initiation of i1-ps signaling in ims centralized services: A device is described which comprises a sender and a receiver configured to perform a circuit switched session, wherein the sender and the receiver are capable to also send and receive session control messages according to a session control protocol, and a controller configured to receive a specific session control... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090086720 - Identity association within a communication system: A system is disclosed that combines social network linkage information with a caller's phone number or identity. This linkage enables communication systems, such as Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone systems, to provide rich caller-ID information. The system can also combine other contextual and mobility-based information to provide rich information to a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090086718 - Method and apparatus for facilitating telecommunication network selection: A method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for facilitating a selection of a telecommunication network are provided. A request for a type of network associated with a called identifier is received from a calling communication device. A repository of information about caller identifiers is searched. Information corresponding to the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090086715 - Method and system for implementing dynamic signaling routing: A method for implementing dynamic signaling routing includes: A. sending a register request from a Terminal Element (TE) to Service Elements (SEs) via a Network Element (NE); B. upon receiving the register request, determining one of the SEs which will provide signaling service for the TE in accordance with association... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090086725 - Method and system for transmitting message service data: This invention discloses a method for transmitting message service data, which includes: adding, at a message sender, the message service data into a Session Initiated Protocol message or a Message Session Relay Protocol message, and transmitting the message service data to a message receiver through the Session Initiated Protocol message... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090086723 - Method for setting up a communication connection and private branch exchange for carrying out the method: A communication connection between a calling communications terminal and a further communications terminal, the connection setup being initiated through the exchange of an invite message and a number of acknowledgment messages between the calling communications terminal, the further communications terminal and a higher-ranking communication-management module, the connection modalities relevant for... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20090086724 - Method of selecting a telephony route within an ip telephony domain, and corresponding apparatus and computer program: A method is provided for selecting a telephony route for at least one digital stream serving a telephony destination. The method is performed within a first location server belonging to a first IP telephony domain deployed on at least one autonomous system. The autonomous system exchanges IP routing information with... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090086717 - Methods and apparatus for bandwidth management within a media over internet protocol network based on a session description: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to establish at least a portion of a media session between a session exchange device and a network entity based on at least a portion of a session description. The session exchange device and the network entity being associated with a... Agent: Honnappa Nagarahalli

20090086716 - Real time measurement of network delay: Delay is measured associated with the transfer of voice signals involving a telephone connected to a PSTN carrier (e.g., non VoIP based) where the call is terminated by an operator agent using a workstation connected to a VoIP based network. A test tone is provided to the telephone causing a... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090086721 - System and method to determine a location associated with an internet phone: An Internet phone may be physically located based on its credential. The credential is related to a MAC address of the Internet phone. The MAC address is related to a port identifier of a network switch in communication with the Internet phone. The port identifier is related to a physical... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Sun / Stk

20090086731 - Broadcast receiver and channel information processing method: A broadcast receiver and a channel information processing method are disclosed. A network interface transmits and receives an Internet Protocol (IP) packet. A controller detects broadcast data included in the IP packet received by the network interface and parses the detected broadcast data to obtain virtual channel information and physical... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090086733 - Compact packet switching node storage architecture employing double data rate synchronous dynamic ram: A two-chip/single-die switch architecture and a method for accessing a DDR SDRAM memory store in a switching environment are presented. The two-chip/single-die architecture includes an internal memory storage block on the single-die, an external memory storage interface to a Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (DDR SDRAM), an... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, L.L.P.

20090086727 - Intelligent routing in a hybrid peer-to-peer system: Intelligent routing may be provided. First, a second peer via home relay may receive presence information indicating that a first peer is connected to a first foreign relay. Then the second peer may update, in response to the presence information, a routing table to indicate that a primary place to... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090086730 - Method of making a router act as a relay proxy: The present invention is to provide a method of making a router act as a relay proxy, which is applied to a network system comprising a server of an Internet service provider, at least a router, the Internet and at least two network devices, wherein the router and network devices... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090086728 - Methods and apparatus for managing addresses related to virtual partitions of a session exchange device: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an IP packet associated with a first virtual partition defined at a session exchange device. The first virtual partition is associated with a first IP address space. The method also includes receiving an IP packet associated with a second virtual partition defined at... Agent: Aman Gulati

20090086732 - Obtaining a destination address so that a network interface device can write network data without headers directly into host memory: A Network Interface device (NI device) coupled to a host computer receives a multi-packet message from a network (for example, the Internet) and DMAs the data portions of the various packets directly into a destination in application memory on the host computer. The address of the destination is determined by... Agent: Mark A Lauer

20090086726 - Service advertisement framework (saf) in a communications network: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first update message at a first forwarding node from a second forwarding node of the communications network. The first update message includes forwarded service type data that indicates a type of service available via the second forwarding node, and forwarded cost data... Agent: Eugene Molinelli Evans & Molinelli PLLC

20090086729 - User datagram protocol (udp) transmit acceleration and pacing: Methods and apparatus relating to User Datagram Protocol (UDP) transmit acceleration and/or pacing are described. In one embodiment, a data movement module (DMM) may segment a UDP packet payload into a plurality of segments. The size of each of the plurality of segments may be less than or equal to... Agent: Caven & Aghevli LLC C/o Cpa Global

20090086734 - Method and apparatus for providing a distributed forwarding plane for a mobility home agent: The invention includes a method and apparatus for providing a distributed forwarding plane for a mobility home agent. The invention provides a method for controlling routing of packets for a mobile node in a network comprising a network domain including a plurality of forwarding elements being controlled by a control... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20090086735 - Method of skipping nullified packets during mass replay from replay buffer: In PCI-Express and alike network systems, back-up copies of recently sent packets are kept in a replay buffer for resending if the original packet is not well received by an intended destination device. A method for locating the back-up copy in the retry buffer comprises applying a less significant portion... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20090086736 - Notification of out of order packets: Methods and apparatus relating to notification of out-of-order packets are described. In an embodiment, data such as a sequence number and a flow identifier may be extracted from a packet. The extracted data may be used to check the extracted sequence number against an expected sequence number and indicate that... Agent: Caven & Aghevli LLC C/o Cpa Global

20090086737 - System-on-chip communication manager: A Queue Manager (QM) system and method are provided for communicating control messages between processors. The method accepts control messages from a source processor addressed to a destination processor. The control messages are loaded in a first-in first-out (FIFO) queue associated with the destination processor. Then, the method serially supplies... Agent: Law Office Of Gerald Maliszewski

20090086738 - Method and system for utilizing a single pll to clock an array of ddfs for multi-protocol applications: Methods and systems for utilizing a single PLL to clock an array of DDFS for multi-protocol applications are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include generating a first signal for use in generating a plurality of local oscillator (LO) signals. The first signal may be communicated to a plurality of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090086739 - Broadcast messaging in peer to peer overlay network: Broadcast messages are efficiently directed to nodes of an overlay network. Broadcast messages include an End ID parameter specifying the range of key values for nodes that should receive the broadcast message. Each node of an overlay network maintains a list of finger nodes and their respective key values. Upon... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090086740 - Customer premises gateway providing user devices with access to internet protocol multimedia subsystem (ims) services and non-ims services: A customer premises gateway includes a connection manager, a registration manager and data storage. The registration manager registers the user devices connected to the gateway at the customer premises and stores information for the registered user devices, including identities for the user devices, at the gateway. The connection manager is... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090086743 - Method for the organization of network nodes in a packet-switched network: There is described a method to organize a network, wherein if for a first router set up as the default gateway an inaccessibility of an assigned network element is detected at an interface of the first router a second router is set up as the logical default gateway. In this... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090086744 - Method, system and device for selecting edge connection link across different management domain networks: A method, system and device for selecting an edge connection link across different management domain networks. A plurality of links is provided between a first management domain network and a second management domain network. The method includes: determining, by a first resource management and control function entity in the first... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090086742 - Providing virtual services with an enterprise access gateway: Systems and methods to virtually and securely extend voice, data, and video services as well as applications on communication networks is provided. An access gateway device is used to provide interworking and extension of services from an enterprise network or a hosted enterprise network to a public network such as... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20090086741 - Uncovering the differences in backbone networks: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that uncovers detailed differences in the performance of different Internet Service Provider ISP) networks. The system can include components, devices, and/or processes that utilize a list of target Internet Service Provider (ISP) networks to create a list of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090086745 - Method and a system for matching between network nodes: A multi-node network that comprises a plurality of nodes, at least one of the nodes comprises a local cache for storing a plurality of matching indications at least some of which associated with a potential node. A receiving node of the plurality of nodes that is configured for receiving a... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090086746 - Direct messaging in distributed memory systems: A system and method for sending a cache line of data in a single message is described. An instruction issued by a processor in a multiprocessor system includes an address of a message payload and an address of a destination. Each address is translated to a physical address and sent... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc C/o Marsh Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20090086747 - Queuing method: A method of queuing data packets, said data packets comprising data packets of a first packet type and data packets of a second packet type. The method comprises grouping received packets of said first and second packet types into an ordered series of groups, each group comprising at least one... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090086748 - Multi-function queue to support data offload, protocol translation and pass-through fifo: A multi-port serial buffer having a plurality of queues is configured to include a first set of queues assigned to store write data associated with a first port, and a second set of queues assigned to store write data associated with a second port. The available queues are user-assignable to... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20090086749 - Methods and apparatus for stimulating packet-based systems: In one embodiment, a packet-based system having a number of buses is stimulated using apparatus having 1) a hardware interface configured to provide data packets to the buses; 2) a plurality of hardware-based queue schedulers, each configured to schedule data packets received from a respective one of a plurality of... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20090086750 - Non-random access rapid i/o endpoint in a multi-processor system: A system and method for using a doorbell command to allow sRIO devices to operate as bus masters to retrieve data packets stored in a serial buffer, without requiring the SRIO devices to specify the sizes of the data packets. The serial buffer includes a plurality of queues that store... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20090086751 - Adaptive interrupt on serial rapid input/output (srio) endpoint: A serial buffer is configured to transmit a plurality of received data packets through a data packet transfer path to a host processor. A doorbell controller of the serial buffer monitors the number of data packets transmitted to the host processor through the data packet transfer path, and estimates the... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20090086752 - Communication scheduling of network nodes using fair access and weighting techniques: In one aspect, a method to schedule network communications in a network having nodes connected by links includes sending a bandwidth value of a first node for each link connected to the first node to neighbors of the first node, receiving bandwidth values from the neighbors of the first node;... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20090086753 - Method and system for exploiting spare link bandwidth in a multilane communication channel: A system for encoding data in a multilane communication channel may include at least one processor operable to generate, from existing control characters in a character set, expanded control characters utilized for controlling the data in each lane of the multilane communication channel. Each lane of the multilane communication channel... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090086754 - Content aware connection transport: A network comprising an ingress layer processor (LP) coupled to a connection carrying a composite communication comprising a plurality of component communications, a composite connection coupled to the ingress LP and comprising a plurality of parallel component connections, wherein the composite connection is configured to transport the component communications using... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20090086755 - Systems and methods for correlation of burst events among data streams: Systems and methods for the identification of correlated burst events among two or more data streams, given one or more specific query time spans are disclosed. Also broadly contemplated is the act of finding, from one or more data streams, those streams that have correlated burst events with another given... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20090086757 - Call control using a layered call model: An aspect of the present invention provides a method of controlling a multi-layer transport network. In accordance with the invention a determination is made as to whether a connection supporting a performance requirement of a call can be established within a first layer of the network. If the connection cannot... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090086756 - Method and apparatus for improving reset of evolved media access control protocol entity in a wireless communications system: In order to enhance system efficiency, a method of improving reset of an evolved media access control (MAC-ehs) protocol entity for a user equipment in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The MAC-ehs entity includes a first reset function and a second reset function. The first reset function is activated... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090086758 - Method and apparatus of transmitting and receiving connectionclose message in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving ConnectionClose message in a wireless communication system, the method characterized in that generating a ConnectionClose message characterized in that a 8 bit messageID field, a 3 bit CloseReason field, a 1 bit SuspendEnable field, a SuspendTime field and a 4 bit RegistrationRadiusFlag... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20090086759 - Retransmission in data communication systems: Embodiments related to retransmission in data communication systems are described and depicted... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag Patent Department

20090086760 - System and method for providing status reports of transmitted data packets in a data communications system: A digital communications system for delivering data blocks includes at least one transmit/receive unit (TRU). The TRU includes a storage element for receiving transmit data packets and retransmit data packets from a sending unit and a processing element communicatively coupled to the storage element. The processing element is configured for... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090086761 - Dynamically and on-demand selected ancillary data over compressed multimedia packets without bandwidth expansion: A system and method for providing ancillary data over compressed multimedia packets. Ancillary data may be added to encoded or compressed packets without increasing the bandwidth required to transmit the packets over a transmission medium. After transmission, the ancillary data can be recovered and the packets restored to their original... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090086762 - Method for the compressed transmission of data packet header fields in a packet-oriented data stream, method for compressing data packet header fields in a packet-oriented data stream, method for decompressing data packet header fields in a packet-oriente: s

20090086763 - Time-controlled secure communication: The invention relates to a method for transmitting messages via a time-controlled communication system (ZK) between a number of IP cores, with each IP core having an information-processing subsystem (IVS) and a network controller (NK), with each NK having at least two interfaces, an interface for the ZK and a... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090086766 - Method for transmitting synchronization messages in a communication network: There is described a method for transmitting synchronization messages in a communication network, the communication network comprising a plurality of network nodes communicating with one another, each containing an internal clock, which is timed with a node clock frequency assigned to the respective network node. The synchronization messages transmitted in... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090086765 - Synchronization system, synchronization signal transmitter, clock supplier, and synchronization method: A synchronization system for establishing synchronization between a first communications device and a second communications device connected through a communications line transmitting an xDSL signal is disclosed that includes a clock extraction part configured to extract, from a synchronous network connected to the first communications device, the synchronization clock signal... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090086764 - System and method for time synchronization on network: A system and method for time synchronization on a network is provided. According to the system and method for time synchronization, a slave clock device does not continuously receive a time synchronization message periodically transferred from a master clock device and thus does not correct its time upon all such... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090086767 - Method and apparatus for clock recovery: A clock recovery method and apparatus is provided. The high-order demultiplexing-demapping unit (102) demultiplexes and demaps the high-order OTN frame (101) into N low-order ODTUjk frames (103), and transmits the N low-order ODTUjk frames (103) to the low-order demapping unit (104); the low-order demapping unit (104) respectively demaps the N... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090086768 - Communicating signals between semiconductor chips using round-robin-coupled micropipelines: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for transferring data between a receiver chip and a transmitter chip. The system includes a set of data path circuits in the transmitter chip and a set of data path circuits in the receiver chip coupled to a shared data channel. In... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP