Multiplex communications inventions 06/09

20090161527 - A method for uplink collaborative sdma user pairing in wimax: A method, system, and communication network for grouping a pair of independent information signals on the same time-frequency orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) resources for uplink (UL) collaborative SDMA, in a wireless communication system. An uplink scheduling (ULS) utility employs an estimated channel gain associated with the transmission path(s) of... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090161528 - Method for extending ranging region in an ofdma system: A method for uplink synchronization, in a wireless communication device, with a base station in a wireless communication system based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) is disclosed. The method comprises selecting (440), by the wireless communication device, at least one ranging slot randomly from ranging slots in at... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090161529 - Transmitter and receiver: A description is given of a transmitter including a baseband chip, a radio frequency chip and an interface unit coupling the baseband chip and the radio frequency chip. The radio frequency chip includes a modulation unit configured to modulate multiple data streams, wherein each of the data streams is assigned... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20090161531 - Intelligent database exchange for ospf: The present invention relates to systems and methods for eliminating unnecessary link state database exchanges and processes when two OSPF routers are forming a full adjacency. In particular, the invention provides methods and mechanisms for deducing information about unreachable routers from link state changes received, recording the information about the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090161530 - Method and system of addressing a problem associated with a network including a video access ready device: A method can be used to detect a problem, isolate the cause of the problem to a particular device in which the cause resides, and potentially repairing the particular device. In one embodiment, the method can be fully automated using a system. In another embodiment, the method may be partly... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lnap Attn: Patent Docketing

20090161532 - System and method for troubleshooting broadband connections: A method is disclosed that includes detecting a problem with a broadband connection at an end device and determining whether the problem can be resolved at the end device. The method also includes requesting that a data network connection device remotely connected to the end device attempt to determine a... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20090161533 - Active fault management for metro ethernet service over mpls network: In one embodiment, a technique for detecting a break in a pseudowire and automatic shutting down user network interface (UNI) ports affected by the break is provided. In response to the loss of connectivity on the shut down ports, customer edge devices may automatically switch over to redundant circuits (e.g.,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20090161534 - Network relay apparatus: A network relay apparatus receives sub data different from main data by data transmission/reception processing units of a working system and a spare system, and when communication paths of the working system and the spare system are both working normally, makes the sub data flow through the communication path of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090161535 - Resilient ppp/ml-ppp services over multi-chassis aps protected routers: A system and method for resilient communication services under multi-chassis APS protected routers, including one or more of the following: an add-drop multiplexer; a working chassis; a plurality of working lines of communication between the add-drop multiplexer and the working chassis; a protection chassis; a plurality of protection lines of... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090161536 - Self-fault isolation in transparent p-cycle networks: Span protection has advantages in speed, locality of action and simplicity but requires that the failed span be located in real time. Recent work proposed rapid fault-localization via monitoring cycles (m-cycles). Span-protecting structures (such as p-cycles) operate and are designed separately from the monitoring cycles in this architecture. We have... Agent: Lambert Intellectual Property Law

20090161537 - Network data routing protection cycles for automatic protection switching: A computer network processes data packets in the event of a network link failure. The network includes a plurality of routers that deliver data packets to the network via a plurality of links. At least one router includes a protection cycle manager. The protection cycle manager has a protection cycle... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras LLP

20090161538 - Client/server adaptation scheme for communications traffic: A communications system in which carrier Ethernet conveys a plurality of differing types of client signals encapsulated with a generic framing procedure adaptation layer. The client signals are adapted for encapsulation within the carrier Ethernet frames by mapping said client signal within an generic framing procedure adaptation layer signal and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090161540 - Quality of service management for a wireless local area network: A method for managing quality of service (QoS) in a wireless local area network begins by receiving a traffic flow. The traffic flow is mapped to a traffic class (TC), based on QoS requirements of the traffic flow. A transmission budget of an access class (AC) is calculated, each AC... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090161539 - Signal transmission method and base station in mobile communication: A signal transmission method checks, when detecting an occurrence of a communication request, whether the communication request is a high speed communication (step S302). In the case of the high speed communication, it checks whether the number of current high speed communications (m) plus one is greater than the upper... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090161541 - Resource allocation plan in a network: A method and Resource Allocation Manager Entity for obtaining an improved resource allocation plan for the network. Traffic requests currently exist in a network, each of which having a source, a destination and at least one Quality of Service (QoS) requirement being represented by a QoS value. For each traffic... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090161542 - Resource availability information sharing (rais) protocol: The present disclosure provides a technique for propagating resource availability information in a network. The technique generally includes storing resource availability information indicating end to end bandwidth availability on multiple paths between the apparatus and a destination in a network and calculating the end to end bandwidth availability based on... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20090161544 - Categorizing, classifying, and identifying network flows using network and host components: Network flows are identified by analyzing network traffic and network host information. The network host information may be collected by network host monitors associated with network hosts. Network traffic and network host information are evaluated against network flow profiles to identify network flows. If a network flows are identified with... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090161543 - System and method for multi-channel data-adaptive thresholding for shared channels with time-varying rate constraints: A system and method allocates bandwidth for a plurality of data sources within a communications network. The data sources each generate data and transmit the generated data along communications channels in a shared communications link of the communications network. Each data source includes a data sensor for sensing data generation... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090161545 - Downlink flow control: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate providing flow control feedback for controlling downlink data transmission rates. Various schemes can be utilized to send the flow control feedback from an access terminal to a base station. For example, a control PDU (e.g., MAC control PDU, PDCP control PDU) can be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090161547 - Compression mechanisms for control plane-data plane processing architectures: Methods, apparatuses, and systems directed to efficient compression processing in system architectures including a control plane and a data plane. Particular implementations feature integration of compression operations and mode selection with a beltway mechanism that takes advantage of atomic locking mechanisms supported by certain classes of hardware processors to handle... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090161546 - Methods and systems for alleviating network congestion: Methods and systems for detecting and predicting congestion patterns from network feedback are described. In the inventive embodiments, network feedback in the form of binary feedback messages is received. The network feedback can comprise any suitable feedback messages and, in the illustrated and described embodiments comprise packet loss events or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090161548 - Methods and apparatus for event distribution in messaging systems: Methods and apparatus for distributing events among a set of traffic processor in a telecommunication network. The methods and apparatus determines a traffic processor from the set of traffic processors with the lowest traffic load, the traffic load is determined for each traffic processor of the set of traffic processors... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090161553 - Apparatus for analyzing ubiquitous sensor network protocol: An apparatus for analyzing a USN protocol includes a packet analyzer and a protocol analyzer. The packet analyzer collects packets communicated between USN sensor nodes through at least one or more channels. The protocol analyzer processes/displays the collected packets using an XML schema defined according to the USN protocol. Thus,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090161554 - Cooperative diagnosis of web transaction failures: A client-based collaborative approach called WebProfiler is used for diagnosing Web transaction failures. The WebProfiler leverages end-host cooperation to pool together observations on the success or failure of Web transactions from multiple vantage points. These observations are utilized by a collaborative blame attribution algorithm to identify a suspect network entity... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090161549 - Diagnosing problems associated with route groups in a network: A system and method directed to diagnosing a problem associated with a route group in a network are disclosed. A problem associated with a route group is diagnosed by comparing inventory information associated with a route group to current route information associated with a router, where the router is associated... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hb Patent Docketing

20090161550 - Home phoneline network alliance responder for iptv installations: A device for testing a home phoneline network alliance performance of a local network is disclosed. The device includes a first network interface, a second network interface, a test module, and a processor. The first network interface is adapted to connect with the local network through a first type of... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lnap Attn: Patent Docketing

20090161551 - Internet protocol service level agreement router auto-configuration: Once the user has configured which call paths to monitor, VOIP automatically creates all the required IP SLA operations, including turning on the responder on the destination side. When these operations disappear, either due to their periodic expiration or due to a router reset, so the service dynamically recreates the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090161552 - Method for testing a communication network by means of a terminal: The invention relates to a method for testing a communication network by means of a terminal, which is provided with a screen and is used for exchanging information via a telecommunication network. The inventive method comprises the following steps: a step for periodically totally or partly retrieving values of the... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20090161555 - Radio access station apparatus and method of controlling call in portable internet system: Provided are a radio access station (RAS) apparatus and a method of controlling a call in a portable Internet system, that are capable of dispersing traffic concentrated in an access control router (ACR). According to the apparatus and method, an operation, administration and maintenance (OAM) task for operation and management... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090161559 - Error identification in a computer-based network: A method for identifying possible error causes in a network having a plurality of computer-based nodes is provided. The method comprises proceeding from a control node, the execution of a test module in each case running locally on all or on selected nodes that are to be tested is triggered... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090161557 - Method and system for performing network diagnostics utilizing a secondary communications medium: A method, comprising detecting a problem associated with a network communications link of a primary communications medium, performing one or more actions on a first network element communicatively coupled to the network communications link in response to detection of the problem, and transmitting data associated with the problem from the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090161556 - Methods and apparatus for fault identification in border gateway protocol networks: Systems and techniques for fault analysis in a data communication system. A fault analysis console in a provider network serving one or more customer networks responds to a reported loss of connectivity in the customer network by analyzing traffic statistics for a router serving the customer network. If traffic statistics... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Pg

20090161560 - Node, method and system of fault localization in multicast mpls networks: A multicast MPLS networks node in network communication field and a method and a system for fault localization are provided. The method includes a step that a leaf node judges the connectivity of a multicast path; a root node generates a fault localization message to perform fault localization for a... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090161558 - Routing loop detection control apparatus: There is disclosed a technique which can detect a packet routing loop (in particular, a nesting loop formed by MRs (mobile routers). According to this technique, an MR 114 connected as a subordinate to an MR 110 transmits a BU (Binding Update) message, to which added is an ARO (Access... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090161561 - Method and system for determining characters of channels: The present invention relates to cis-1,2-substituted stilbene derivatives, or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, glucosides or solvates, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound, and use of said compound for preparation of a drug for treatment and/or prevention of diabetes or improvement of diabetic complications.... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20090161562 - Systems and methods for scalable and rapid ethernet fault detection: The present invention provides scalable and rapid Ethernet fault detection which eliminates the requirement to contiguously send heartbeat frames at regular intervals to detect connectivity faults for each Ethernet Path. The present invention generates Continuity Check Message (CCM) frames only when a fault occurs, continues generating CCM frames while the... Agent: Clements Bernard PLLC

20090161563 - Redundancy method and switch apparatus: A redundancy method in which a network is made redundant with a working path and a protection path. The method includes transmitting a working system supervising frame and a protection system supervising frame from a switch apparatus on transmission side to the working path and the protection path; passing, by... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090161564 - Transmission apparatus and alarm control method: A transmission apparatus having a function of establishing a connection of a path that is a signal communications channel in a communications network includes a masking part configured to mask an alarm detected after the connection of the path is established in the transmission apparatus; an alarm status detection part... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090161565 - System and method of remote testing in loopback mode using mgcp/ncs: This invention relates to a system and method of monitoring, by establishing end to end loopback testing across one or more networks with dissimilar transport technologies. The system allows for connection in loopback mode from a standard interface on a test device to a media adaptor located on an IP-based... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20090161572 - method and a device for acknowledging data received by a communication device in a communication network: sends (E504, E505, E511, E512, E515), for the data packet, a piece of information at packet level representing the number of data blocks whose data can be processed correctly if the number of data blocks whose data can be processed correctly is lower than the first threshold or higher than... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090161567 - Detection of routing loops based on time-to-live expiries: A method and system for detecting routing loops and time-to-live (TTL) expiry attacks in a telecommunications network are disclosed. The detection of routing loops and TTL expiry attacks can be achieved based on the comparison of TTL expiries occurring on two or more routers in the network. A quantity of... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hb Patent Docketing

20090161571 - Method and apparatus for triggering radio link control packet discard and radio link control re-establishment: A method and apparatus for triggering radio link control (RLC) re-establishment and/or protocol data unit (PDU) discard are disclosed. An RLC entity maintains a state variable for counting a total number of transmissions and/or retransmissions of an RLC PDU and its PDU segments. If the state variable reaches a threshold,... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090161574 - Method and system for establishing a communications connection: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for establishing a communications connection is provided. The method includes transmitting, by a digital subscriber line access multiplexer to a communications device, a plurality of parameters each representing a different indication of a same feature of the digital subscriber line access... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090161566 - Network management system and method for performing scalable loss measurements within an access network: A network management system and a method are described herein that determine if one or more devices (e.g., consumer premises equipment(s)) are experiencing an unacceptable packet loss for downstream multicast traffic in an access network. In one embodiment, the network management system performs the following operations: (1) cause a trigger... Agent: Law Office Of William J. Tucker

20090161573 - Network system, edge node, and access device: In order to specify a data discarding point in a network, provided is a network system for collecting, in the network including an access network and a transport network, pieces of statistical information including a traffic amount of the network, including: an access terminal coupled to the access network; and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090161570 - Optimal combination of sampled measurements: Two regularized estimators that avoid the pathologies associated with variance estimation are disclosed. The regularized variance estimator adds a contribution to estimated variance representing the likely error, and hence ameliorates the pathologies of estimating small variances while at the same time allowing more reliable estimates to be balanced in the... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20090161569 - System and method for facilitating carrier ethernet performance and quality measurements: An Ethernet metric system and methodology which provides comparable measurements over a data link layer for use in network engineering and Service Provider (SP) performance monitoring. The Ethernet metric system of the present invention utilizes a measurement appliance known as a nodal member for measuring various Ethernet and IP metrics.... Agent: Bruce B. Brunda Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20090161568 - Tcp data reassembly: Method and apparatus for processing computer network data. An embodiment of the invention comprises a first device for receiving a stream of data, said stream comprising at least a first data frame, said first data frame having been sent from a second device 101 to a third device 201, the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090161581 - Address autoconfiguration method and system for ipv6-based low-power wireless personal area network: An IP address autoconfiguration method and system of an IPv6-based Low Power WPAN for reducing network traffics is applicable for an Internet Protocol (IP) based network including a plurality of devices. The address autoconfiguration method generates and broadcasts, at a first device, a beacon frame containing an adaptive router advertisement... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090161578 - Data routing method and device thereof: A method for routing data through a network of devices is disclosed. Each device using the information provided by immediate neighbors 1013 dynamically determines which immediate neighbor 1013 should be the next hop to the destination 1018. The method includes the steps of (a) broadcasting by each device an outgoing... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090161575 - Long term evolution user equipment multi-packet data network connectivity control: A system is provided for controlling user equipment connectivity to packet data networks. The system includes a profile maintaining information related to connectivity of the user equipment to one or more packet data networks. The system also includes one or more processors programmed to accept a user selection of one... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090161577 - Method and system for de-sychronizing link state message refreshes: A node having a memory storing a network topology and a routing table. The node also having a processing device programmed to generate a link state message and during the generating of the link state message, set a value of an age field of the link state message to a... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Fkm

20090161582 - Method for intelligently selecting wireless access point: A method and system for selecting and connecting to an access point in a wireless network of devices, such as a Bluetooth network. Initially, an initiator device is preconfigured with a list of available access point addresses. The initiator device broadcasts an inquiry message that is received by available wireless... Agent: Palm C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20090161579 - Method, system, and apparatus for implementing network capable input devices: Interaction with network capable input device involves advertising, from a mobile device coupled to an Internet Protocol (IP) network, a user input service via an ad-hoc peer-to-peer protocol of the IP network. The user input service is established with a controlled device via the ad-hoc, peer-to-peer protocol. User input events... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20090161576 - Methods and systems for sending information to a zone included in an internet network: Methods and systems are described for sending information to a zone included in an internet network. In one embodiment, zone address information identifying a connected region of topology of a given scope included in an internet network is received. The scope is a topological span within which a network address... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20090161580 - Self-service terminal: A self-service terminal comprises a plurality of devices, each device providing management information. A management agent is installed in the terminal and adapted to monitor the plurality of devices. In the event that management information from a device indicates that there is a fault, the management creates and transmits a... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20090161583 - Creating multipoint-to-multipoint mpls trees in an inter-domain environment: In one embodiment, a method is provided. A first root node of a first Multipoint-to-Multipoint (MP2MP) Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) tree, advertises to a second root node of a second MP2MP MPLS tree a first label for the second root node to use to send multicast traffic to the first... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20090161584 - Method for a root path calculation in a shortest path bridge: A method for root path calculation in a shortest path bridge, including: in the case that there are a plurality of equivalent paths whose total path cost to a root bridge is equal, determining a root path corresponding to the root bridge based on the minimum/maximum value of bridge ID... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090161585 - Voip music conferencing system: A system is disclosed and includes a network interface to receive a first Internet Protocol (IP) message within a first Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call over a network, where the first IP message carries a first Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) signal. The system also includes a processor to... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20090161586 - Transmitter-receiver: There is provided a transmitter receiver apparatus in which a directional coupler and single pole double throw (SPDT) switches are includes on the reception side. In the directional coupler, a reception signal is inputted and split into two signals having phases different from each other by 90° and the two... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090161587 - Mobile communication system, base station, mobile station, and power-saving transmission and reception method used in them: There is provided a mobile communication system that can prevent a situation in which, although there is no occasion to receive packets for a mobile station, the reception processing is continued and useless power is undesirably consumed. The mobile communication system includes a base station that repeats a transmission period... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090161588 - Systems and methods for controlling the voltage of signals used to control power amplifiers: A method for controlling the voltage of signals used to control power amplifiers is described. A first multiplexer and a second multiplexer are set to an enabling signal. The first multiplexer is on a first integrated circuit and the second multiplexer is on a second integrated circuit. A command is... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090161589 - Wake-up in class-based networking: A method for communicating to a recipient transceiver from a plurality of transceivers located within the broadcast range of the recipient transceiver includes: transmitting a communication at a first power level such that only a first group of transceivers receive the broadcast, the communication including a command causing each of... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20090161594 - Hybrid multicast routing protocol for wireless mesh networks: A method of multicast routing in a wireless mesh network is provided. One implementation involves maintaining a multicast logical tree having a structure establishing parent-child connectivity relationships between wireless station nodes, wherein each node has access to local connectivity information for its local nodes; and a wireless station node joining... Agent: Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20090161592 - Method and system for establishing disparate connection paths from a mobile user device to a base station through a mobile peer-to-peer (ptp) network: A system and method for establishing and/or maintaining one or more disparate connection paths from a originating mobile user device to a base station via a mobile peer-to-peer (PTP) network including an originating mobile user device configured to broadcasting at least one of a path establishment request signal and one... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090161596 - Method and system for transmitting multimedia broadcast/multicast service: A method for transmitting multimedia broadcast/multicast service includes: checking whether packet loss occurs during a transmission process of the multimedia broadcast/multicast service; and notifying, upon checking a packet loss, a physical layer not to transmit any data over a time and frequency resource used for transmitting the lost packet. A... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090161590 - Multicast data stream selection in a communication system: An apparatus and method for multicast data stream selection in a communication system includes a first step 300 of providing an intermediate server between a service entity and mobile clients. A next step 302 includes receiving a join request from a mobile client. A next step 304 includes deriving subgroups... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090161595 - System and method for broadcasting application-specific information in wireless local area networks: A system and method for a novel broadcasting scheme (NBS) in a wireless local area network are described, which can operate with or without a network connection. The system permits transmission of application-specific data through a specific field in a beacon frame, the Service Set Identity (SSID). By implementing a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090161591 - Transmission of system configuration information in mobile wimax systems: The particular frame in a super-frame using orthogonal frequency division multiple access techniques will contain system configuration information in the super-frame header. This super-frame header may be located at a fixed offset from the initial preamble of the frame. In some embodiments, the system configuration information may be located in... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090161593 - Wireless multicast for layered media: The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for optimizing data rates in communicating multicast data, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining available data rates corresponding to a user station; computing optimal data rate within each access network cell; and controlling the data rate for each data packet... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090161597 - System and method for a next generation wireless access via a conditional enablement: A system and method for a next generation wireless access via a conditional enablement is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of providing data communication access in an Internet Protocol (IP) network system includes enabling a first link connecting an access device to an Internet source, and enabling a second... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20090161598 - Partial mesh communication in hub based system: A partial mesh link channel is established within a satellite communication system by allocating return link channel resources to the partial mesh link channel.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20090161599 - Method, user equipment and radio base station for random access in a cellular telecommunications system technical field of the invention: The present invention relates to a random access process in a cellular communications system and to a user equipment (UE) and a NodeB adapted for performing the process. A problem with the random access is that the time slot for receiving a random access request (RA-request) has a long unused... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090161605 - Cooperative mimo in multicell wireless networks: A method and system for cooperative multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) transmission operations in a multicell wireless network. Under the method, antenna elements from two or more base stations are used to from an augmented MIMO antenna array that is used to transmit and receive MIMO transmissions to and from one... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20090161601 - Method and apparatus for detection of network having multiple ip-address capability: A method (200) and apparatus for determining whether a network (111) associated with a foreign agent (104) is multiple IP address interface compatible in a mobile node (101) is provided. The foreign agent (104), upon detection of the mobile node (101), composes an agent advertisement (400) that includes one or... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20090161604 - Method, system, and device of packet routing for localized mobility management network: A method of packet routing for an LMM network includes: by an LMA, determining that both a sending end node and a receiving end node are located in an LMM domain controlled by the LMA, and starting a route optimization; directly forwarding, by an access device attached to the sending... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090161603 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method: A wireless communication apparatus is capable of improving communication efficiency by reducing the amount of control information transmitted. A channel quality information extraction section extracts CQI's from a received signal. An allocation control section allocates subcarriers every communication terminal apparatus and selects a modulation scheme in such a manner that... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090161602 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method using bluetooth: A wireless communication apparatus which is capable of communicating with a first wireless terminal holding a first data packet by Bluetooth includes a search unit, a first transceiver transmitting, a first controller, and a scheduling unit. The search unit reserves a search, and executing the search. The first transceiver transmits... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090161600 - Wireless slave unit: In a network area of a wireless network managed by a wireless master device, a wireless slave device performs wireless network communication with another wireless slave device connected by wire to a terminal, and wired network communication with a terminal connected by wire to the wireless slave device. The wireless... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090161609 - Automatic busy status notifications in wireless packet services sessions: A method and system provide automatic busy status notifications to parties to wireless packet services sessions in the event of temporary suspension of the sessions. In one aspect, a first wireless communication device comprises a wireless interface and a processor communicatively coupled with the wireless interface, wherein in response to... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20090161608 - Broadcast system interference protection method and apparatus: A method and transceiver in a secondary system for utilizing channel bandwidths allocated to a primary system. A secondary system transceiver receives a primary system signal, re-transmits a delayed version of the primary system signal, and communicates with secondary system equipment utilizing secondary system signals within at least part of... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20090161621 - Communication method and radio communication apparatus: A communication method for a radio communication system in which a second radio communication apparatus transmits a radio signal with a transmission radio resource designated by a first radio communication apparatus, the communication method includes designating, by the first radio communication apparatus, a transmission radio resource for data and a... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090161617 - Communication systems: A spectrum-assignment method for use in a wireless communication system, wherein the system comprises at least a group of communication apparatuses, and wherein each such communication apparatus has a portion of communication spectrum pre-assigned to it for communication, and wherein one of the communication apparatuses of the group is a... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090161623 - Frame structure for an adaptive modulation wireless communication system: A method of simplifying the encoding of a predetermined number of bits of data into frames including adding error coding bits so that a ratio of the frame length times the baud rate of the frame times he bit packing ratio of the data divided the total bits of data... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090161606 - Method and apparatus for improving performance of erasure sequence detection: Attributes of access terminals are employed in determining durations for erasure sequences. Transmissions from access terminals are analyzed to determine different attributes are based at least ont these attributes traffic models are estimated. Those terminals whose traffic models tend towards more frequent occurrences of longer erasures are assigned longer erasure... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090161618 - Method and arrangement in a telecommunication system: The downlink control channels in a control region of each downlink subframe in a telecommunication system are divided into at least one common subset of the downlink control channels and a plurality of group subsets of the downlink control channels, such that the common subset or each common subset will... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090161613 - Method and system for constructing channel quality indicator tables for feedback in a communication system: Aspects of a method and system for constructing channel quality indicator tables for feedback in a communication system are provided. A user terminal may receive a signal transmitted by using a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) from a base station. The user terminal may assess channel quality information by accessing... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090161612 - Method and system for subcarrier allocation in relay enhanced cellular systems with resource reuse: A method and system for assigning subcarrier frequency resource for a relay enhanced cellular communication system including a base station, one or more mobile stations and one or more relay stations, is provided. Subcarrier assignment involves allocating subcarriers to one or more relay communication links between the base station and... Agent: Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20090161610 - Method of frequency channel assignment using effective spectrum sensing in multiple frequency assignment system: Provided is a method of assigning a frequency channel using efficient spectrum sensing in a multiple Frequency Assignment (FA) system. The method includes a channel sensing process, wherein abase station (BS) of a secondary user classifies multiple frequency channels licensed to a primary user into a plurality of channel states... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090161619 - Radio communication control device, radio communication control system, radio communication control method, radio communication control program and recording medium: The present invention provides a radio communication control device, a radio communication control system, a radio communication control method, a radio communication control program and a recording medium, which control radio resource appropriately when an interference notification signal is received. The radio communication control device according to the present invention,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090161611 - Radio communication method, radio communication system, base station, and mobile station: A radio communication method is provided for reducing the overhead of radio resources (transmission power, transmission time, frequency band) caused by the transmission of a control signal to a mobile station in a poor propagation environment and thus enabling an improvement of throughput of the entire system. A base station... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090161622 - Radio communication system, device and method for radio communication, and computer program: A radio communication device which manages a network defines a predetermined transmission frame cycle, allocates in the frame specific access slots as timing with which the individual radio communication devices in the network concerned receive a transmission, puts the information of the allocation in a beacon signal, and transmits the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090161616 - Ranging procedure identification of enhanced wireless terminal: A communications network comprises a base station (28) and a wireless terminal (30) which communicates over an air interface (32) with the base station (28). The base station (28) makes an identification or categorization of the wireless terminal (30) during a ranging procedure. The identification or categorization concerns whether or... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090161614 - Resource exchange discovery in a cellular communication system: A cellular communication system comprises a set of base stations (201,203) which transmit downlink resource exchange discovery messages to remote terminals in resource allocations of a Media Access Control, MAC, frame structure. The discovery messages may indicate that a base station has resource available for reallocation to another base station... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090161615 - System and method for traffic routing: The present invention provides a system and method for traffic routing. An embodiment includes an engine for identifying groupings of subscriber stations within a particular ISP. The engine can also obtain a block of contiguous addresses for assignment to the subscriber stations. The addresses are assigned from the block to... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20090161620 - System and method for uplink resource utilization: A system and method are disclosed for providing efficient uplink resource utilization wireless communication system. The system and method for use with a network access equipment in scheduling uplink transmissions to ensure that a user equipment is not transmitting unnecessary information at inconvenient times.... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090161607 - Wireless system with reduced effect of iq imbalance: In a wireless communication system, information is exchanged between a base station and a client station. The base station grants at least one allocation unit to a client station. The base station receives data from the client station using the allocation unit over the wireless link. The allocation unit substantially... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090161631 - Broadband telecommunication service with personalized service capability for terminals: Embodiments of a system and method of providing broadband telecommunication services over a packet-switched network enable enhanced personalization. A mobile terminal is registered in a first remote environment, where the mobile terminal has a home environment and a home service capability. The telecommunication services are provided to the mobile terminal... Agent: Mr. Brian S. Mudge Kenyon & Kenyon

20090161628 - Communication system and information management method: An integrative radio base station holds station data required for operation including information on the cell managed by itself and the information on the cells managed by an adjacent integrative radio base stations. If information on the cells of the destination of a mobile terminal is not held at the... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090161629 - Media independent handover for smart phone architecture: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include two or more modems, each configured to link to a different network, and a media independent handover (MIH) client. An application programming interfaces (API) may provide the MIH client with mechanisms to receive information about links, control the modems for handover, discover a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090161624 - Registering a mobile communication device with an access network: A method (500, 600, 700) of registering a mobile communication device (102, 104, 106, 108) with an access network (112) can include receiving a request for a client mobile internet protocol (IP) registration from the mobile communication device. The method can also include performing a proxy mobile IP registration on... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090161625 - Seamless mobility for non-mobile internet protocol capable wireless devices in a time division duplex system: A method, base station, and wireless communication system provide seamless mobility in a time division duplex system. The method includes determining a mobility capability of the wireless communication device (104). In response to determining that the mobility capability of the wireless communication device (104) may involve a network address change... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090161627 - Switching communication networks in a mobile device: Methods and corresponding systems in a mobile station for switching communication networks include scheduling an alternate network period during a first communication session between a mobile station and a first network transceiver in a first network, wherein the first network uses a first protocol. During the alternate network period the... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20090161626 - System and method for dual-mode handoff: Exemplary embodiments include methods and systems for a deterministic facilitating for a dual-mode handoff between a local area network (LAN) and a wide area network (WAN). The hand-off method may include associating identification information with a mobile user device and locating the mobile user device within a local area network... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090161630 - Wireless communication system, communication apparatus and communication method: A communication apparatus holds information concerning a second network reported from a specific wireless terminal that has left a first network. In accordance with predetermined criteria, the communication apparatus decides a wireless terminal that is to be allowed to join the second network and notifies this wireless terminal so as... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090161634 - Method and apparatus for enabling subscriber stations to process a synchronization channel in a spread spectrum communications system: During initiation procedure between subscriber stations and access network adhering to CDMA standards, (e.g., IS-95 and IS-2000) the subscriber station receives a Sync Channel Message. Due to a design/manufacturing error, certain subscriber stations adhering to the IS-95 fail to ignore a portion of the Sync Channel Message, intended for a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090161633 - Method and apparatus to establish a communication connection: Various embodiments are directed to a mobile computing device having a communication management module. The communication management module receives connection information from a destination device, the connection information representing at least one communication mode accepted by the destination device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC 4500 Brooktree Road

20090161632 - Power-efficient enhanced uplink transmission: A method and arrangement in a mobile terminal such as a UE for selecting a transport format for an uplink transmission to a base station, wherein the selector selects a transport format from a set of transport formats which are generated based upon parameters of a radio connection established with... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090161635 - Rach-ramp-up acknowledgement: A disclosed code-division-multiple-access (CDMA) system has a base station (BS) and remote stations (RSs). A BS-spread-spectrum transmitter broadcasts a common-synchronization channel having a chip-sequence signal common to the remote stations served by the BS, and a frame-timing signal. A RS-spread-spectrum receiver receives the broadcast common-synchronization channel, and determines frame timing... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090161637 - Communication apparatus and method in wireless sensor network: Provided are a communication method and apparatus of a wireless sensor network which uses at least one channel and has a tree structure. The method includes: generating windows, where a beacon interval is divided, according to each channel; selecting a window, which is not assigned to nodes that exist within... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090161636 - Flexible control channels for unplanned wireless networks: A wireless node configured to communicate with a remote node using a timeslot structure. The timeslot structure includes a plurality of data channels and a plurality of control channels, wherein each of the control channels comprises a plurality of control units. The wireless node is further configured to assign any... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090161638 - Telecommunications network: A basestation of a telecommunications network is able to acquire timing information by sending a single time request message over a computer network to a time server, with the time request message specifying a number of time response messages, said number being greater than one. Based on the received specified... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090161642 - Automatic and dynamic changing of class in class-based networks: A wireless radio frequency data communication device includes memory in which is stored a common designation; a radio frequency transmitter component and receiver component for wirelessly sending and receiving data packets; and electronics for processing data. The device is configured to filter a wireless communication received by it for an... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20090161639 - Method and system for evaluating proximity to a wlan for a uma/gan compatible electronic device: A method and system for evaluating proximity of the electronic device to a wireless local area network (WLAN) involves generating a location where the location is defined by a list of cellular communication access points that is sorted based on signal strength for each access point. The list may be... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090161641 - Method and system for rate selection algorithm to maximize throughput in close loop multiple input multiple output (mimo) wireless local area network (wlan) system: Aspects of a method and system for rate selection algorithm to maximize throughput in closed loop multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless local area network (WLAN) system are provided and may comprise computing a maximum number of binary bits to be, simultaneously transmitted via an RF channel based on signal... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090161640 - Mobile wireless access router for separately controlling traffic signal and control signal: A wireless access router for separately controlling a traffic signal and a control signal is provided. In a mobile communication access network structure, in order to optimally support a mobile communication terminal, a control signal and a traffic signal of a base station are divided, and a router is controlled... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090161643 - Radio communication system, radio communication apparatus and method, and program: A radio communication system and apparatus is disclosed wherein setting necessary for communication with a desired radio communication apparatus with which a user wants to communicate can be performed with certainty by an operation system familiar to the user and a high security level can be assured for the communication... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090161644 - Wireless resource allocation control system, road-side unit, wireless resource allocation control method and storage medium storing program thereof: A wireless resource allocation control system for allocating and releasing wireless resource used for communication between vehicles in a predetermined area is provided. The control system includes a unit mounted on a vehicle, and the unit includes a transmitter for transmitting first information associated with the vehicle. A station receives... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090161645 - Method of realizing smart antenna based on software radio and system therefor: A method of realizing smart antenna based on software radio and system therefore in IMT-2000 CDMA system. Channel conditions are classified according to the features of wireless communication channel conditions, covariance matrix of array receiving signals is step-by-step dimension-reduced and decorrelated using special smoothing differential processing method, obtaining the structure... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20090161650 - Radio communication mobile station apparatus and radio communication method: Provided is a mobile station capable of effectively reporting control information in RACH. In the mobile station, a signature selection unit (111) selects one of different code sequences as a signature according to inputted control information and a modulation unit (112) modulates a signature (code sequence). In a table provided... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090161646 - Recursive reduction of channel state feedback: Feedback bandwidth may be reduced in a closed loop MIMO system by Householder transformations and vector quantization using codebooks.... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC

20090161647 - Td-scdma uplink processing: A wireless system has an uplink chip rate processing architecture in which at least two groups of registers are provided, each group of register storing a set of time slot configuration parameters. A storage stores a sequence of time slot configuration set identifiers each identifying one of the groups of... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090161648 - Td-scdma uplink processing: A wireless device has a BRP-CRP interface that includes a dual-port frame memory having a first access port and a second access port in which data can be written to the dual-port frame memory through the first access port at the same time that data is read from the dual-port... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090161649 - Td-scdma uplink processing: A wireless system includes a TTI memory architecture in which encoded data are stored in a memory at a rate of one block of encoded data per transmission time interval (TTI), TTI being selected from a set of predetermined values, the memory including memory lines each having a predetermined number... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090161651 - Method of transmitting broadcast message in a mobile wireless communication system: A method of transmitting a broadcast message using a Forward Common Control Channel (F-CCCH) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, a base station determines whether a periodic enhanced broadcast page is enabled or disabled, and then transmits at least one broadcast message via a first slot of... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090161652 - Apparatus for generating down link signal, and method and apparatus for cell search in cellular system: The invention provides a method of generating a downlink signal and searching a cell on the basis of the downlink signal in an OFDM-based cellular system. The downlink signal includes a plurality of synchronization blocks each having a plurality of sub-frames, and a synchronization pattern composed of a combination of... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090161653 - Method and system for efficient synchronization in a wireless communication system: Embodiments herein provide a method and system for synchronization in a Wireless Communication Network using a new frame, Synchronization Frame (SF), and a configurable length of the same that is transmitted from a Network Controller (NC) to the Network Elements (NEs) in the network. The periodicity of the SF could... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090161654 - System and method for uplink timing synchronization: A system and method are disclosed for providing uplink timing synchronization in a wireless communication system. The uplink timing synchronization may be provided via a specific message sent from the user equipment to a network access device, or may be calculated based upon data received at the network access device... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090161655 - Umb cell site modem architecture and methods: An apparatus and method for sample synchronization comprising receiving a return link (RL) timestamp from a radio frequency front end (RFFE); receiving a system time second from a navigation and timing system; generating a forward link (FL) timestamp based on the RL timestamp and the system time second; and including... Agent: Qualcomm. Incorporated

20090161657 - Method and apparatus for assuring voice over internet protocol service: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for assuring Voice over Internet Protocol service. In one embodiment, a system for assuring Voice over Internet Protocol service includes a performance management platform for collecting performance management data from a plurality of sources in a Voice over Internet... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20090161656 - Method and system for frame size adaptation in real-time transport protocol: A system and method for adapting circuit-switched payload transport between a mobile station, MS, (30) and an unlicensed-radio access network utilizing the Real-Time Transport Protocol, RTP. The MS (30) and an access network controller (103) negotiate the number of speech/data frames per RTP packet during the assignment of a traffic... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090161663 - Method and system for serverless voip service in personal communication network: Method and system for supporting serverless VoIP service are provided. Network information of a first device and a second device is exchanged through a telecommunication network. A VoIP connection between the first and second devices can be established through an internet based network according to the exchanged network information. The... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090161658 - Method for selecting voip call path to monitor: The disclosed invention enables a user to select a Voice over IP (VOIP) call path to monitor. In particular, a user interface presents data regarding nodes within a VOIP network. The user may select between different possible configurations to monitor, including fully meshed whereby every site including a test probe... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090161661 - Method, system and software for establishing a communication channel over a communications network: The establishment of a VoIP connection between first and second telecommunication devices (109,110) comprises receiving user input data at an input terminal remote (100) from the telecommunications devices (109,110). The input data comprises a user identifier (102) and an identifier associated with one of the telecommunications devices to be called... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090161659 - On-chip apparatus and method of network controlling: An apparatus and method of controlling an on-chip network is provided. An apparatus for controlling a network includes an arbiter which generates a switch control signal based on first route information received from a first router, and a switch which receives from the first router a first data packet associated... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090161662 - Power management systems and methods for electronic devices: Power management systems and methods for use in an electronic device are provided. The system comprises a baseband processing unit, a wireless communication module, and an application processing unit. The baseband processing unit connects to a base station via a communication network, thereby enabling the electronic device equipped with a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090161664 - System and method for instant voip messaging: There is provided an instant voice messaging system (and method) for delivering instant messages over a packet-switched network, the system comprising: a client connected to the network, the client selecting one or more recipients, generating an instant voice message therefor, and transmitting the selected recipients and the instant voice message... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090161665 - System and method for instant voip messaging: There is provided an instant voice messaging system (and method) for delivering instant messages over a packet-switched network, the system comprising: a client connected to the network, the client selecting one or more recipients, generating an instant voice message therefor, and transmitting the selected recipients and the instant voice message... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090161660 - System, method, and recording medium for scheduling packets to be transmitted: A system for scheduling packets to be transmitted is provided. The system includes a soft delay bound calculator module and a frame determination module. The soft delay bound calculator module calculates a soft delay bound for a non-real-time packet based on a packet size of the non-real-time packet and a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090161666 - Methods and apparatus to enable call completion in internet protocol communication networks: Methods and apparatus to enable call completion in Internet protocol communication networks are disclosed. An example method of processing a voice over Internet protocol call disclosed herein comprises failing to receive a response to a request for a numeric Internet protocol (IP) address of a destination device from a domain... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20090161668 - Dynamic classification of internet protocol packets based on measured characteristics and internet protocol address prefix: In an example embodiment, a method is provided where a characteristic of a flow of Internet Protocol (IP) packet is measured. Here, the flow is associated with an IP address prefix. Further, an attribute of a routing protocol is associated with the IP address prefix based on the characteristic. An... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090161669 - Evolution of ethernet networks: An Ethernet network comprises nodes which support a plurality of different forwarding modes. A range of VLAN Identifiers (VIDs) are allocated to each of the forwarding modes. Connections are configured between a source node and a destination node of the network using different forwarding modes. Packets carrying data traffic are... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20090161670 - Fast multicast convergence at secondary designated router or designated forwarder: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a network device designated as a secondary designated router or forwarder, an indication that a receiver wants to join a multicast group, transmitting a multicast join message in response to the received indication, and receiving multicast data from a source at the... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20090161672 - Frame transferring method and frame transferring device: A frame transferring device includes a storing unit in which whether an output port of the device is to terminate a maintenance frame or transfer the maintenance frame to a different output port of the device is set, the output port being a maintenance point; and a termination deciding unit... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090161667 - Remotely booting computing nodes in a switching domain: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for remotely booting computing nodes in a switching domain, the switching domain capable of connecting to other switching domains through a network switch, that include: receiving, in the switch, a wakeup request packet that requests activation of one or more computing nodes in the... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090161671 - System and method for driving a step motor: A system for driving a step motor is provided. The system receives a data packet from a computer, wherein the data packet comprises a header data and a main data. An identification of the main data is determined according to the header data. A selected magnification level of a lens... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090161673 - Method and system for computing multicast traffic matrices: A system and method for receiving, from one or more ingress routers, a first set of records including data corresponding to network traffic, receiving, from one or more egress routers, a second set of records including data corresponding to network traffic and creating a multicast traffic matrix using at least... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Fkm

20090161674 - Method and tool for ip multicast network address translation (mnat): The present invention permits translation of SM addresses (*, G1) and (*, G2) to configurable SSM addresses (S0, G0). IGMPv2 group membership queries from the receiver subnet are translated to IGMPv3 membership queries for processing in a SSM network. In the preferred embodiment, packets travel via a connection to the... Agent: Galasso & Associates, Lp

20090161675 - Mpls traffic engineering for point-to-multipoint label switched paths: A method and apparatus for providing point-to-multipoint label switch paths (LSPs) in a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network is described. In one embodiment, a point-to-multipoint LSP is built in a MPLS network by using Resource Reservation Protocol Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) to signal the point-to-multipoint LSP as separate point-to-point LSPs and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090161677 - Communication proxy method, device and system: A communication proxy method, device and system are provided, including: after receiving a packet communicated between a provider device and the access device, performing a conversion process between the physical port and the logic port to physical port information or logic port information in the packet received according to the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090161676 - Multi-layered packet security: Methods and media for multi-layered packet security control are described. In one embodiment, a header of a packet is modified to include an identifier that identifies a manner in which the packet should be subject to a particular set of a plurality of sets of rules. The particular set of... Agent: Sprint Communications Company L.p.

20090161678 - Method and apparatus of transmitting data via a multi-protocol single-medium network: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus of transmitting data via a multi-protocol single-medium network. The method includes initializing a network; transmitting messages in the network; setting up the size and the protocol of the messages and assigning the messages to a multi-protocol stack of the PHY... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090161679 - Method and apparatus for customer-controlled routing management: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for customer-controlled routing management. In one embodiment, a system for managing routing in a virtual private network includes a configuration management system for receiving settings from a user of the virtual private network, the settings specifying at least one... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20090161680 - Gateway apparatus, packet forwarding method, and program: The present invention provides a gateway apparatus and a packet forwarding method for rewriting the AP header of a forwarded packet without terminating a TCP connection between a client and a server. For that purpose, the gateway apparatus in accordance with the present invention uses the conversion section 116 of... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090161683 - Communication method in a network comprising a primary network and a secondary network: e

20090161682 - Managing bandwidth during a contention free period in a lan: Bandwidth for a contention free period in a LAN is managed using an access control list. A request for bandwidth during the contention free period is received. A determination is made as to whether to grant the request for bandwidth based on the access control list.... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090161681 - System and methods for connections using automatically switched optical network control planes: Systems and methods for connections on an Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) network including an ASON database and path computation algorithm, mechanisms for Ethernet connections over ASON, and mechanisms for label negotiation for SNCs are provided. Advantageously, the present invention provides mechanisms for ASON path computation and virtual topology management,... Agent: Clements Bernard PLLC

20090161685 - Method, system and node for backpressure in multistage switching network: The present invention provides a backpressure method, system, and intermediate stage switching node of a multistage switching network and an intermediate stage switching node. The method includes: (i) the intermediate stage switching node receives a first backpressure information; and (ii) the intermediate stage switching node sends at least part of... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090161684 - System and method for dynamically allocating buffers based on priority levels: Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide dynamic buffer allocation to a plurality of queues of differing priority levels. Each queue is allocated fixed minimum number of buffers that will not be de-allocated during buffer reassignment. The rest of the buffers are intelligently and dynamically assigned to each... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

20090161686 - System and method of processing data flow in multichannel, multi-service environment by dynamically allocating a socket: A method and system for processing a data flow in a multi-channel, multiservice environment is described. In one embodiment, a socket is dynamically allocated, the socket including a dynamically allocated service. Further, the server processes the data flow based upon the type of data being processed.... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Cpa Global

20090161687 - Medium access control method for data transmission through catv access network: The present invention relates to a medium access control method for data communication through CATV access network over coaxial cable, wherein the method comprises transmitting downstream data frames from a central device to network terminals in downstream time slots of super frames and receiving upstream data frames from said network... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090161688 - Methods and apparatus to allocate shared resources of a high speed packet access channel in a communication network: Methods and apparatus to allocate shared resources of a high speed packet access channel in a communication network are disclosed. An example method to allocate shared resources of a high speed packet access channel disclosed herein comprises providing information to a user device describing a plurality of service options for... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20090161689 - Pluggable module with integrated data analysis function: The invention relates to a network comprising at least one host device having an interface card connected to a backplane of said host device, wherein said interface card comprises at least one cage for receiving a pluggable module which performs a traffic management of data transported via at least one... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090161690 - Method and system for channel estimation in a single channel (sc) multiple-input multiple-output (mimo) system comprising two-transmit (2-tx) and multiple-receive (m-rx) antennas for wcdma/hsdpa): In a wireless system, a method and system for channel estimation in a single channel MIMO system comprising two-transmit and multiple-receive antennas for WCDMA/HSDPA are provided. A first receive antenna and at least one additional receive antenna may receive a plurality of SC communication signals transmitted from a first and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090161691 - Method for determining multiturn modulo master axis data: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting multiturn modulo control axis data which includes at least one control axis position value (600°-604°; 245°-248°) and an associated control axis modulo value (720°; 360°) in one communication system which includes at least two participants, at least one real-time data transmission... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20090161692 - High performance ethernet networking utilizing existing fibre channel fabric hba technology: This is directed to providing Fibre Channel over Ethernet communication. For example a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) enabled device (such as a computer) may include a Fibre Channel over Ethernet Adapter (FCoEA). The FCoEA may include an HBA module. The HBA module may be configured to communicate over the... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090161693 - Method and system for programmable bandwidth allocation: The disclosed systems and methods relate to allocating bandwidth to a plurality of ports that access a shared resource. An exemplary system may comprise a multiplexer, a table, and a scheduling circuit. The table may define when a port has access to the shared resource. The table entries may be... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090161694 - Packet processing using a multi-port memory: A packet processing method for exchanging packet data through a plurality of layers is disclosed, that comprises the steps of storing the entire packet to a packet memory; and storing part of each packet of the packet data used in processes of a layer 2 processing portion and a layer... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090161695 - Method of processing a signal and apparatus for processing a signal: A method and apparatus for signal processing which enable data compression and recovery with high transmission efficiency are disclosed. Data coding and entropy coding are performed with correlation and grouping is used to increase coding efficiency. A method for signal processing according to this invention, the method includes decapsulating the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090161696 - Method, apparatus and system for complex flow classification of fragmented packets: The disclosure discloses a method and system for complex flow classification of fragmented packets. The method includes determining whether a received fragment is an initial fragment, if the received fragment is an initial fragment, storing the initial fragment information and processing it, otherwise, looking for the matched initial fragment information,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090161697 - Method and system for interleaving video and data for transmission over a network at a selected bit rate: A StatMux system and method are provided for efficiently allocating time slots on the transmission channel between bit streams representing video and bit streams representing data. By providing such a system and method, when a decreased number of data bits need to be transmitted, a decreased number of time slots... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090161698 - Method and apparatus for data processing: A data processing apparatus, having an overhead branching unit configured to branch a signal data into an overhead and signal data; a control unit configured to retain the overhead; a time slot interchange unit configured to perform time slot interchange on the signal data; and an overhead insertion unit configured... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090154333 - Orthogonal code division multiplex cck (ocdm-cck) method and apparatus for high data rate wireless lan: Orthogonal Code Division Multiplexing (OCDM) transceiver system with Complementary Code Keying (CCK) and method for baseband OCDM-CCK encoding and decoding are provided. The OCDM-CCK method comprises a serial-to-parallel data converter converting a stream of M*n-bit serial data to n-bit parallel data in ‘M’ parallel baseband paths, and encoding each n-bit... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090154334 - Qr decomposition apparatus and method for mimo system: Provided are a QR decomposition apparatus and method for a MIMO system. The QR decomposition apparatus includes: a norm calculator for calculating a vector size norm for a channel input; a Q column calculator for calculating a column value of a unitary matrix Q by multiplying a delayed channel input... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090154335 - Receiving apparatus and method for single carrier frequency division access system: A receiver and a receiving method for a Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) system are provided. The receiver includes a matrix selector for selecting a constant channel matrix according to a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) reception scheme, a channel equalizer for equalizing a multi-path channel to a specific path... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090154336 - Continuous phase modulation processing for wireless networks: Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, a method may include receiving a plurality of data symbols, generating a continuous phase modulated waveform based on the data symbols, generating a plurality of coefficients which represent the continuous phase modulated waveform, and wirelessly transmitting the plurality of... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090154338 - Network, node device, network redundancy method and recording medium: There is provided a network capable of coping with occurrence of failure including a plurality of autonomous networks. The network includes an existing network A including a plurality of autonomous networks AS1 to AS6 in which the same routing protocol is employed and an additional network B added to the... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090154337 - Protection switching method based on change in link status in ethernet link aggregation sublayer: An Ethernet protection switching method based on a change in link status in a link aggregation sublayer is disclosed. If an Ethernet link aggregation sublayer is present on an Ethernet connection path, a link aggregation sublayer Management Entity Group (MEG) end point is assigned to the Ethernet link aggregation sublayer... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090154339 - Method for switching the serving services of virtual private lan and a system thereof: A method and system for switching the serving services of virtual private LAN is provided. When a fault occurs on a normal service transmission path, a PE device on the secondary path transmits a message including an information of the failure device on the normal service transmission path to the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090154340 - Fast ospf inactive router detection: A fast OSPF inactive router detection technique is provided that detects the failure of a router and switches routing to an alternate router. The alternate router provides a message to the other routers in the Wide Area Network (LAN) that informs of the router failure.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090154341 - Method and apparatus for providing network redundancy: According to one embodiment, providing network redundancy includes configuring a session registrant database to have one or more virtual standby states. Each virtual standby state corresponds to an active router. The session registrant database receives session information from the active router(s) and determines that an active router has failed. A... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090154342 - Systems and methods for redundant switch fabric and switch controller: The present invention combines switching and control functions on a single module while avoiding requirements to synchronize working and standby switch configuration information. The present invention eliminates the idea of redundant working and standby control/switching modules and instead, distributes the switching/control functions across two (primary and secondary) modules, where in... Agent: Clements Bernard PLLC

20090154343 - Apparatus and method for adapting to failures in gateway devices in mesh networks: Various embodiments provide an apparatus and method for adapting to failures in gateway devices in mesh networks. An example embodiment is configured to provide a plurality of interconnected nodes in a mesh network, at least one node of the plurality of nodes being designated a primary node, the primary node... Agent: Bradley P. Heisler Heisler & Associates

20090154344 - Wireless communication system, communication terminal and storage medium storing wireless communication program: A wireless communication system comprises a control terminal and a controlled terminal, the control terminal comprises a control information transmitter transmitting the control information, a response information receptor receiving response information, a selector selecting the controlled terminal to become a new control terminal, a request information transmitter transmitting request information,... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090154346 - Method and apparatus for providing a multicast service with multiple types of protection and recovery: A multicast service method and apparatus for providing multicast service with various types of protections and recoveries. The method includes splitting a multicast service into a plurality of unidirectional point-to-point services from a source node to each sink node, where a signaling message of each unidirectional point-to-point services is independent... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090154345 - Method and network nodes for reporting at least one dropped-out connection path within a communication network: A network node in the communication network is a target network node, connected by a first communication path with at least one first and one second network node, connected to each other by means of a further communication path. A routing table is held in each network node. The direct... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090154347 - Pacing of transport stream to compensate for timestamp jitter: De-jittering a transport stream, at least some transport packets of the transport stream carrying audio-video data and at least some of the transport packets of the transport stream containing Program Clock References (PCRs). A data buffer receives the transport packets and stores the transport packets. Pacing counter clock circuitry produces... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090154348 - Method for configuring acls on network device based on flow information: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for using network flows records exported from network routers to provide information about the traffic entering/exiting the device. Network routers or hubs can be configured to authorize or deny various types of network traffic between two network devices whose traffic... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090154349 - Method and apparatus for managing traffic flow of forwarding entries through a virtual forwarding database of a network node: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for supporting a virtual forwarding database in response to telecommunications network service demands and standard Media Access Control learning processes to support an overall forwarding database greater than the size supported in hardware. An example embodiment of the present invention provides a possible... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090154350 - Method and system for controlling a clock frequency in a network device based on aggregate throughput of the device: Aspects of a method and system for controlling a clock frequency in a network device based on aggregate throughput of the device are provided. In this regard, for a network device comprising one or more network ports, a limit on aggregate throughput of the device during a time interval may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090154351 - Network scheduler for selectively supporting work conserving mode and network scheduling method thereof: Provided are a network scheduler and a network scheduling method capable of effectively managing network bandwidths by selectively supporting a work conserving mode to network entities by using an improved token bucket scheme. The network scheduler selectively supports a work conserving mode to network scheduling units (NSUs) serving as network... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090154352 - Network scheduling: A method of scheduling transmission between a base station (2) and a plurality of mobile stations (4, 6, 8, 10, 12), comprise determining at least one transmission threshold, transmitting the at least one transmission threshold to the plurality of mobile stations (4, 6, 8, 10, 12), comparing, at each mobile... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090154354 - Proxy reaction engine in a congestion management system: An apparatus comprising a managed network interface configured to receive data from, and transmit data to, a managed network, wherein the managed network comprises a plurality of managed devices configured to queue and transmit data; an unmanaged network interface configured to receive data from, and transmit data to, an unmanaged... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Cpa Global

20090154353 - System and method for distributed cross-leyer congestion control for real-time video over wireless lan: A method for controlling congestion for real-time video transmission in a wireless network includes receiving a packet loss rate of a video camera in a wireless network, receiving an estimated maximum throughput of the video camera from the camera to a server, decrementing a bit transmission rate when the packet... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090154356 - Flow control mechanism using local and global acknowledgements: A method of sending data units from a sending node to a receiving node via at least one intermediate node, where: the data units are arranged in a sequence and each data unit is associated with a sequence position identifier; the intermediate node forwards received data units towards the receiving... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090154355 - Method and system for duty cycling portions of a network device based on aggregate throughput of the device: Aspects of a method and system for duty cycling a network device based on aggregate throughput of the device are provided. In this regard, a limit on aggregate ingress and egress data of a network device during a time interval may be determined. Processing of data by the network device... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090154358 - Automatic adjustment of logical channels in a fibre channel network: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates automatic adjustment of logical channels in a Fibre Channel (FC) network. During operation, the system receives FC data frames. A respective data frame is associated with a logical channel. The bandwidth on an FC link can be allocated into... Agent: Pvf -- Brocade Communications Systems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090154357 - Method and system for providing default route advertisement protection: A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include detecting connectivity of a core network element to an internal network. In addition, the system and method may halt advertisement of a default route from the core network element to a network element external to the internal network in... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090154360 - Employing parallel processing for routing calls: A least-cost path between a pair of nodes A and B of a network is realized by segmenting the network into three or more segments, with nodes A and B being in different ones of the segments, with the third or more other segments being interposed between the segments to... Agent: At & T- Legal Department - Brendzel

20090154359 - Method for calculating service redundancy of a wireless network: A method for calculating service redundancy of a wireless network is provided. The method comprises determining one or more of a plurality of routes through which a node can communicate to reach a destination. A routing metric is calculated for each of the plurality of routes. Using the calculated routing... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090154362 - Method and apparatus for monitoring of a network device: A method and apparatus for monitoring of a network device are disclosed. For example, the method receives a monitoring record from a network device, and determines whether the network device is listed in an active pool of monitored network devices. The method then automatically enables the monitoring of the network... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20090154361 - Method and system for using protocol checksums to convey data: The present invention provides a system and method for transmitting data, including transmitting a first data packet having at least one checksum value across a network, generating a second data packet substantially similar to the first data packet, the second data packet having a checksum value, modifying the checksum value... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20090154363 - Method of resolving network address to host names in network flows for network device: The present invention provides a system and method for using network flows records exported from network routers to provide information about the traffic entering/exiting the device. Network flow information exported from network devices identify the network devices involved in the flow using their network address. An application displays a user... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090154364 - Carrier ethernet with fault notification: A method of fault notification in a carrier Ethernet having the capability of generating and transmitting OAM packets having flag fields, comprises inserting a bit in one of the flag fields to indicate the presence of service-affecting information in the OAM packets, detecting the presence of the inserted bit at... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090154365 - Method and system for simplex or duplex transmission mode of an ethernet link in an energy efficient network: Ethernet link partners within an Ethernet network, coupled via an Ethernet link comprising one or more channels may be configured to operate in simplex mode based on determined condition(s) during communications via the one or more channels. The determined condition(s) may comprise utilization or load, current/past conditions and/or link statistics... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090154369 - Digital-channel-monitor unit: A digital-channel-monitoring unit (DCMU) suitable for use in a coaxial-broadband network. The DCMU monitors quality, and integrity of digital and analog Radio Frequency (RF) channels from one or more remote locations in the network. These remote locations include one or more strategic locations between the headend, and a subscriber's premises,... Agent: Montgomery, Mccracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP

20090154371 - Estimation of position using wlan access point radio propagation characteristics in a wlan positioning system: A method for estimating position using WLAN access point radio propagation characteristics in a WLAN location based service is provided. A location-based services system has a plurality of Wi-Fi access points in a target area. The Wi-Fi access points are positioned at geographic locations and have signal coverage areas. A... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090154366 - Exchange of processing metric information between nodes: Method and nodes are provided for propagating between the nodes information about processing capacity of peer nodes. Two types of signals are sent from propagating nodes towards their peer nodes. A propagating node sends first signal type at a constant rate and a second signal type at a variable rate.... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090154368 - Method and apparatus for measuring qoe guaranteed real-time ip-media video quality: A method and apparatus for measuring the quality of a video provided in an IP network based media service is provided. The apparatus for measuring Quality of Experience (QoE) guaranteed real-time Internet Protocol (IP)-media video quality, includes: a receiver receiving a transmission video provided through an IP network service platform... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090154367 - Method and apparatus for relating to quality of service in wireless networks: Quality of service is provided, for applications using a wireless network, by adapting the operation of the application to changes in operation of the wireless network, instead of attempting to command the wireless network to adapt to the application. Adaptation is accomplished by collecting pertinent RF data concerning operation of... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Pk Attn: Patent Docketing

20090154370 - Mobile communication device and reception quality information creation method: When a processing delay detection unit (27) detects that an end timing (F) of measurement of the reception quality of a common pilot signal transmitted from a wireless base station has delayed from a creation start time limit for reception quality information, approximate reception quality information (k) is created on... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090154372 - Method and apparatus for resolving blinded-node problems in wireless networks: Techniques for resolving blinded-node problems are described herein. One aspect operates on the physical (PHY) layer only, which a second layer operates on the medium access control (MAC) layer. Both aspects involve having a node stop processing a data packet that is not destined for it so as to be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090154373 - Tracking customer edge traffic: In one embodiment, data from a first device is received. A second device is identified. A data flow is between the first device and the second device. A third device is identified as a function of at least one label of the data flow.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090154374 - Communication of configuration management notifications in a packet-switched network: A method and devices are provided for communicating configuration management notifications from a network element to a network manager in a packet-switched network. The configuration information of the network element is stored at different time instants having a time interval therebetween. Two sets of configuration information are compared in order... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090154375 - Efficient detection of relay node: Whether or not a node is a relay node may be determined by, for each of a plurality of active flows, assigning a random number to the flow, wherein each of the random numbers is drawn from a distribution. Then, for each of a plurality of time slots, any incoming... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20090154376 - Information analysis apparatus and computer readable medium: An information analysis apparatus includes: a storage that stores data values while respectively correlating the data values with plural nodes; a first setting unit that, for the nodes, sets a first virtual link that is directed oppositely to a predetermined directed link; a second setting unit that adds a virtual... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090154377 - Wireless communication apparatus: A wireless communication apparatus includes an RF front-end unit constituting reception and transmission systems, a digital baseband signal processor, and a bias current circuit. The digital baseband signal processor performs a process of a digital baseband receive signal received from a reception system and performs a process of a digital... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090154378 - Base station, mobile terminal, and communications method: A base station, to which Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing/Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access is applied, communicates with a mobile terminal according to Time Division Duplex, in which a transmission frame includes a downlink subframe and an uplink subframe. The base station includes multiple antennas; a radio communications part configured to... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090154379 - Radio resource allocation system and roadside equipment: A radio resource allocation system in which equipment placed on a road allocates a radio resource to in-vehicle equipment that exists in a given area is provided. The radio resource allocation system includes the in-vehicle equipment mounted on a vehicle that communicates with another in-vehicle equipment by using the radio... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090154381 - Adaptive electronic transmission signal cancellation apparatus for full duplex communication: An adaptive electronic transmission signal cancellation circuit for separating transmit data from receive data in bidirectional communication system operating in full duplex mod is disclosed. The output of a main transmitter responsive to a first bias current is connected to the output of a receiver through an internal resistor. A... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090154380 - Echo cancellation for a packet voice system: An apparatus and methods supporting improved echo cancellation in a packet network is disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention may permit a split-band communication system operating in a narrowband mode to provide improved suppression of hybrid echo generated by the conversion of signals from a packet network to a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090154382 - Medium access control device for processing data at high speed and method thereof: Provide are a medium access control MAC device for processing data at a high speed and a method thereof. The MAC device includes a packet receiving and processing unit for receiving packet data transmitted from a physical layer device and extracting data and data information from the received packet data... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090154383 - Wireless transmission system and a method thereof: A wireless transmission system and a method thereof are disclosed. The wireless transmission system comprises a control unit, a first transmission unit, a second transmission unit, a plurality of switches, and a plurality of RF ends. The first transmission unit comprises a first transceiver module and a first MAC module.... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20090154385 - Dynamic adjustment of setup time based on paging performance: Techniques for dynamically determining a target setup time based on paging performance are described. A UE in an idle mode may be assigned paging occasions, which are specific time intervals in which the UE might receive paging messages. The UE may wake up a setup time prior to each paging... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090154384 - Resource allocation and outage control for renewable energy wlan infrastructure mesh node: A mesh node of an infrastructure wireless local area network ‘WLAN’ is coupled to a battery which is coupled to a device that is able to harness energy from a source of renewable energy. Energy management of the mesh node includes conducting simulations of a system comprising the mesh node,... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20090154386 - Wimax multicast broadcast services (mbs) efficient handover and power saving support for intra and inter-mbs zones: A broadcast management message includes MBS Zone Neighbor information to associate different MBS Zones which transmit the same MBS contents over a single frequency or a different frequency. An MBS Zone Service Group contains a group of MBS Zones that transmit the same MBS content over the same frequency or... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090154387 - Distributing digital video content to mobile terminals using primary and secondary communication networks: A system for broadcasting digital information includes a digital video front end processor configured to process a digital video signal for broadcast by a digital video transmitter. The digital signal includes a plurality of sequential datagrams and the digital video front end processor may be configured to generate a digital... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20090154388 - Link adaptation of a broadcast system: A method and apparatus of link adaptation of a broadcast system is disclosed. The method includes a base station adaptively determining a signal quality threshold. The base station broadcasts a signal, wherein the signal includes the signal quality threshold. A plurality of subscribers receives the signal, and measure a signal... Agent: Beceem Communications, Inc.

20090154389 - Multi-channel mesh network: A method of selecting at least one routing path between an access node and a gateway is provided. The method includes the access node receiving over a plurality of channels, indicators from at least one upstream access node, the indicators providing information of selected upstream paths between each of the... Agent: Brain R. Short Tropos Network Patent Department

20090154390 - Local area network translating bi-directional packet repeater: A translating bi-directional packet repeater includes a first antenna and a second antenna for receiving a wireless signal, amplifying it, and retransmitting it on a different channel. The channel associated with each of the antennas is separated in frequency sufficiently to ensure good isolation between the wireless signals that are... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090154391 - Surface-space managed network fabric: A managed surface-space network fabric is presented. The surface-space network fabric can include a spaced-based network fabric and a surface-based network fabric integrated together to form a single fabric managed by a global fabric manager. The global fabric manager cooperates with other fabric managers local to each fabric to establish... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20090154399 - Apparatus and method for detecting a ranging signal in a wireless communication system: An apparatus for a base station of a wireless communication network includes a detector to detect an access code received from a mobile station in each of a plurality of time durations and to detect a timing offset of the access code detected in each of the plurality of time... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090154394 - Call control method for seamless mobility service: A call control method for an Internet Protocol (IP)-based mobility service is provided. The call control method for ensuring service continuity in a mobile communication service environment, includes: receiving a call signal message including permanent IP addresses and transport IP addresses from a transmitter terminal and a receiver terminal, and... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090154392 - Coding block based harq combining scheme for ofdma systems: A method and apparatus for combining retransmitted hybrid automatic repeat-request (HARQ) messages divided into coding blocks in an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)/orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) receiver are provided. According to such a coding-block-based HARQ combining scheme, the quality of each coding block may be compared to a threshold to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090154393 - Data transmission method and communication system using the same: A data transmission method suitable for a communication system is provided. The communication system includes a plurality of first stations which uses an 802.11 protocol and a plurality of second stations which uses an 802.11e protocol and supports Quality of Service (QoS). The data transmission method includes following steps. One... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090154396 - Mobile communication management system: When a mobile terminal 181 which exists on a home link 111 hands over to an external link 112, an upper location managing means 121 deprives a right to perform packet proxy-receiving processing from a lower location managing means 141 and confers it to a lower location managing means 142,... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090154397 - System and method for providing quality of service enablers for third party applications: System and method for providing quality of service enablers for third party applications are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises user equipment (“UE”) establishing a communications session with a third party application server hosting a selected third party application and receiving from the third party application server QoS information... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090154398 - Wireless communication device, communication state notification method, wireless communication system and program: There is provided a wireless communication device forming an autonomous distributed wireless network by intermittently transmitting and receiving a predetermined communication management signal, which includes a reception portion to receive the communication management signal, an evaluation portion to evaluate a communication state of the wireless communication device in the wireless... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090154395 - Wireless sensor network having hierarchical structure and routing method thereof: A network having a hierarchical structure includes a plurality of clusters. Each of the clusters includes a plurality of nodes and a cluster head connected to the nodes in a mesh format. Each of the nodes is connected to other clusters via the cluster head.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090154413 - Apparatus and method for admission control considering multiple service providers in a broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for Admission Control (AC) in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a classification unit for determining a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), from a plurality of MVNOs, that provides services for a generated resource request, a manager for evaluating a resource occupation... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090154418 - Apparatus and method for dynamic resource allocation in broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for dynamic resource allocation in a wireless communication system are provided. A method of operating a Base Station (BS) includes configuring a bitmap to indicate whether radio resources are allocated to respective Access Terminals (ATs) according to resource scheduling, generating a resource allocation message including at... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090154406 - Dynamic address allocation method for mobile ad hoc network: A dynamic address allocation method includes allowing a new terminal that desires to participate in the ad hoc network to broadcast an address block request message to neighbor terminals in order to be allocated with an address; allowing the new terminal to receive a plurality of address block reply messages... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20090154412 - Enhanced dynamical fast-feedback channel allocations: A method includes allocating channels in a fast-feedback channel region for a plurality of devices, and transmitting to the plurality of devices at least one bitmap defining fast-feedback uplink channel allocations for individual ones of the plurality of devices. In one embodiment a plurality of bitmaps are transmitted, the plurality... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090154414 - Equipment and method for improving worldwide interoperability for microwave access (wimax) network capacity: The invention relates to a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WIMAX) network comprising at least one base station and at least one terminal. Said at least one base station, to send a signal to said at least one terminal, is able to split said signal into a plurality of WIMAX... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090154405 - Medium access control method and data transmission method using the same in wireless local area network: Provided are a MAC method and a method for transmitting data using the same in a WLAN. The MAC method includes: transmitting a bandwidth scheduling report frame for informing information on downlinks and uplinks allocated to a terminal by including the bandwidth scheduling report frame in one of the downlinks... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090154408 - Method and apparatus for transmitting sip data of idle mode ue in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message by a User Equipment (UE) in an idle mode in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) system. The UE transmits one combined message of an AS control message and a NAS control message including information indicating... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090154402 - Method for controlling resources in network elements of a telecommunication network: The invention relates to a method for controlling resources in network elements of a communication network, in particular a data network such as the Internet or a mobile data network. The idea of the invention is the use of a data packet inspection for the QoS control in telecommunication networks.... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090154409 - Method for evaluating spectrum utilization efficiency in radio system sharing frequency: Provided is a method for evaluating spectrum utilization efficiency in a radio system sharing frequency. The method for evaluating spectrum utilization efficiency of a frequency sharing radio system in a radio environment having a first radio system using at least one specific frequency in an allocated frequency band and a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090154407 - Method of performing routing and allocating resources in wireless sensor network: Provided is a method of performing a routing and allocating a resource in a wireless sensor network. The method includes electing one or more cluster heads, each representing each of one or more clusters comprised of a plurality of sensor nodes, selecting a routing path between the cluster heads and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090154401 - Methods and systems for initial ranging: A method is provided for allocating initial ranging opportunities in a series of frames. According to the method, a number of initial ranging opportunities are allocated in frame N that occurs after a triggering event, and k frames after frame N the number of initial ranging opportunities is selectively reduced.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090154403 - Mobile station and communications method: In order to define uniquely a transmission control operation of a mobile station in accordance with the present invention at the time of a E-DCH transmission and to increase the efficiency of the operation of a communications system, the mobile station includes a transmission control means for, for each of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090154404 - Packet communication method, mobile station, and radio base station: A packet communication method includes: transmitting, from a mobile station to a radio base station through a random access channel, a random access request; allocating, at a radio base station, a packet access request transmission radio resource for transmitting, at the mobile station, a packet access request for requesting an... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090154400 - Radio network controlling method, radio communication system and radio network controller: When determination is made that a channel for high-speed downlink packet transmission is short in power by the calculation of power assigned to a downlink shared channel and an activity ratio of the power assigned to the downlink shared channel from transmission power of all the channels and transmission power... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090154410 - Resource allocation method and apparatus in distributed mac for wireless personal area networks: A method for allocating distributed Medium Access Control (MAC) resources in a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) includes calculating an acknowledgement overhead; calculating a Medium Access Slot (MAS) overhead depending on a payload length of a frame; calculating a transfer rate; calculating a number of frame bits to be transmitted;... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090154415 - Scheduling apparatus and method for proportional resource allocation among mobile virtual network operators: A scheduling apparatus and method for proportional resource allocation among Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) are provided. The method includes, for each MVNO, allocating a dedicated resource of each MVNO to Quality of Service (QoS) traffic in consideration of priorities, for each MVNO, determining a presence or absence of unscheduled... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090154417 - System and method for resource scheduling: A component in a telecommunications system is provided. The component includes one or more processors configured to promote semi-persistent scheduling of a resource and to send a release message. The release message informing the user equipment to cease attempting to process data from the downlink portion. Also provided is user... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090154411 - Terminal apparatus, base station, radio communication method and program storage medium: A terminal apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive a signal from a base station; a channel estimation unit configured to estimate a state of a channel based on a received signal; a storage configured to store a codebook including channel state values; an index of search number acquisition... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090154416 - Wireless terminal device and method of establishing communication connection with an access point: A mobile terminal device includes a detector, a transceiver, an analyzer, an execution module, and a connection module. The detector generates a probing request signal. The transceiver receives signals sent from a plurality of access points (AP). The analyzer retrieves a plurality of Received signal strength Indications (RSSI) of the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090154419 - Scheduling method for multi-user mimo: A priority computation process computes a priority of each user for each RB (Resource Brock) using a reception SINR. A maximum priority user selection/RB allocation process selects a user with the maximum priority for an unallocated RB and allocates the RB to the user. A frequency axis/space axis unallocated RB... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090154424 - Method for controlling a handover that switches connection from a source base station apparatus to a destination base station apparatus, and control apparatus and terminal apparatus utilizing the same: An interface unit receives a scheduled timing with which to execute a handover and a transmission delay time present in a communication with a terminal apparatus, from the terminal apparatus via a source base station apparatus. A switching control unit sorts out original data, to be transmitted to the terminal... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090154421 - Method for handover between heterogeneous networks using link trigger signal in multi-interface mobile router: Provided is a method for handover between heterogeneous networks using a link trigger signal in a multi-interface mobile router. The method includes: maintaining a state of a second network access interface in a sleep state, activating a first network access interface, receiving and transmitting the first network service to a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090154423 - Method of accessing optimal access network using access gateway in mobile terminal: Provided is a method of causing a mobile terminal to access an optimal access network using an access gateway. By searching for neighboring access network nodes periodically to select an optimal access network node when the mobile terminal accesses a serving access network node or when the mobile terminal performs... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090154420 - Method of and apparatus for managing neighbor node having similar characteristic to that of active node and computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon program for executing the method: A method and apparatus for managing a neighbor node having a similar characteristic to that of an active node, the method including: generating a neighbor list containing information about at least one neighbor node; selecting at least one parent node from among the at least one neighbor node; determining fitness... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090154422 - Method of providing seamless qos guarantees in internet protocol (ip) network when ip-based mobility service is provided: Provided is a method of providing an Internet Protocol (IP)-based mobility service, particularly, a method of providing seamless quality of service (QoS) guarantees when an IP-based mobile service is provided. The seamless QoS management method includes: a method of providing seamless QoS guarantees when an Internet Protocol (IP)-based mobility service... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090154426 - Handover based on a quality of service metric obtained from a mac layer of a received signal: o

20090154425 - Methods and apparatus for making handoff decisions in access terminals capable of operating at different times in best effort and qos modes of traffic operation: Methods and apparatus for making handoff decisions in an access terminal which can support both best effort and QoS traffic, e.g., when operating in a best effort and QoS mode of operation, respectively, are described. The access terminal receives an indicator indicating the fraction of communications resources not utilized for... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090154428 - Method of mobile communication and apparatus therefor: In order to accomplish efficient communication of data between a base station and a plurality of mobile terminals, particular orthogonal codes are transmitted from the mobile stations to the base station as alert signals indicating the presence of data to be transmitted. The base station checks whether particular orthogonal codes... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090154427 - Transmitter and receiver for high throughput wireless communication system using multiple antenna, method thereof, and digital intermediate frequency transmission signal processing method for the same: Provided are a transmitter and receiver for a high throughput wireless communication system using a multiple antenna, a method thereof, and a digital intermediate frequency (DIF) transmission signal processing method for the same. The transmitter, includes: a baseband transmitting unit for processing a transmission signal by performing a Media Access... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090154429 - Method and system for managing communication between a base station and subscriber stations: A method and system for managing a communication between a base station (102) and plurality of subscriber stations (104, 106, 108 and 110) is disclosed. The method includes determining (504) whether a Round Trip Delay (RTD) component is greater than the duration of a data slot for at least one... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090154430 - Method of radio resource allocation and related communication apparatus: A method of radio resource allocation in a wireless communication system includes allocating radio resource to a plurality of logical channels according to a grant, and allowing the plurality of logical channels to use the remaining grant when the grant remains and the plurality of logical channels having data available... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090154439 - Communication system, information processing device, connection device, and connection device designation method for designating connection device for communication device to connect to: When connecting a wireless LAN terminal to a specific wireless access point, an inquiry is made to a server about the specific wireless access point, via the wireless access point which the wireless LAN terminal is connecting to, and then connection information for connecting to the specific wireless access point... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090154432 - Computer radio with pre-defined configuration set: A computer with a software defined radio that can be configured based on a wireless technology specification. The computer may negotiate with a second computer that also includes a software defined radio to define a set of wireless technology specifications and trigger events indicating when each of the wireless technology... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090154433 - Local area wireless communication apparatus and method: An apparatus and method for local area communication between Bluetooth and MBOA-MAC devices is provided. A new Bluetooth Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL) is implemented to adapt a Bluetooth host module and an MBOA-MAC to each other so as to enable use of conventional legacy Bluetooth applications in a wireless network... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090154431 - Medium access control for xor-ed packets: Various example embodiment are disclosed. An example embodiment may include sending, by a relay node in a wireless network, a ready to send message to a plurality of wireless nodes. The ready to send message may indicate access channels for each of the wireless nodes to send clear to send... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090154436 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data over wireless lan mesh network: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting data over a WLAN mesh network. Transmission sections of priority frames and general frames are initially set, and the priority frame transmission section is varied step-by-step within a specific range. Thus, QoS with respect to data requiring the real-time... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090154438 - Packet transmission method for wireless personal area network: A packet transmission method for a WPAN that for alleviating traffic concentration in an active period and improving network throughput by controlling packet transmission timing in the active period. A packet transmission method for a wireless personal area network including a coordinator operating with a specific duty cycle and a... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090154435 - Portable internet radio access station including multiple management processors and method of controlling the multiple management processors: The present invention relates to a portable internet radio access station, and more particularly, to a portable internet radio access station including a plurality of management processors and a method of controlling the plurality of management processors. A first management processor of a portable internet radio access station according to... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - PhiladelphiaIPDepartment

20090154434 - Wireless communication system and method for facilitating wireless communication: In a system and method for facilitating wireless communication between agents in a wireless network, each agent is equipped with an agent's device using a main wireless infrastructure and a separate auxiliary wireless infrastructure. Initial contact between any first agent's device and any other agent's device is made within the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090154440 - Wireless communications systems and wireless communications methods: Wireless network access methods, communication device configuration methods, configuration devices, communications systems, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one aspect, a wireless network access method includes providing a communications device, providing a wireless network including access to a service, storing wireless network access data and service access data... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090154437 - Wireless sensor network and method for performing communication therein: A method for performing communication in the wireless sensor network is disclosed. The upper node transmits a beacon message to the lower nodes, wherein the beacon message distinguishes an indirect transmission interval, in which the upper node transmits downlink data to the plurality of lower nodes, from a direct transmission... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090154441 - Optimizing code utilization regarding a secondary scrambling code: The present invention relates to a method, arrangement and computer-readable medium for optimizing code utilization in a code division multiple access (CDMA) communication network comprising a first communication network entity (10), a second communication network entity (15) connected to said first communication network entity over a communication interface and one... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090154442 - Method and apparatus for reducing digital to analog conversion (dac) bits in frequency division multiple access (fdma) system: A method and an apparatus for reducing Digital-to-Analog Conversion (DAC) bits at a transmitter of a Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) system reduces a number of the bits for conversion so as to save power and reduce the cost of operation. The method can include generating a digital signal gain... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090154443 - Method and arrangement for transferring information in a packet radio service: A method and an arrangement for transferring information including delay sensitive data, such as speech and video data, in a packet radio service is provided. Data blocks are transmitted from a mobile station to a radio resource entity during a first active data transfer period using an uplink temporary block... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090154444 - Voice channel control of wireless packet data communications: A data session with a wireless device ordinarily cannot be initiated from the network side because the wireless device has no predetermined IP or other network address. Methods are disclosed for instead causing the wireless unit to initiate a data session with a target destination, thereby obviating the IP addressing... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090154445 - Method and system for adaptive transmission of smoothed data over wireless channels: A method and system that reduces the impact of packet loss on video data quality. Packet selection is performed by the method and system to selectively drop low priority packets so that the overall quality of the received video data may be improved. In one exemplary embodiment, the probability of... Agent: Law Office Of Peter V.d. Wilde

20090154447 - Absolute time recovery: A method includes receiving from a server, information that is based on an offset between a boundary of a synchronous capsule in a control channel cycle occurring at an access point and a boundary of a periodic pseudo-noise sequence, and synchronizing an access point to an absolute time based on... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090154446 - Data frame, telegram, method for controlling an rf-transceiver and mobile communication system: The invention is related to a data frame, particularly to a data frame configured to be received and processed by an RF-transceiver and a data frame structure. The invention is also related to a method for controlling an RF-transceiver.... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20090154450 - Service delivery method, service execution method, pc and switch: The present invention provides a Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications (CSTA) protocol-based service delivery method, which includes: obtaining a switching function service that carries voice parameters; and sending the switching function service that carries voice parameters down to the switch side. The present invention also provides a CSTA-based service execution method,... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090154449 - Telephone system, and main unit and terminal registration method therefor: According to one embodiment of the invention, there is provided a telephone system comprises a plurality of telephone terminals and a main unit. The main unit comprises an authentication processing unit performs login authentication MAC address authentication, and a mode specification unit receives specification of a plural terminal registration mode.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090154448 - Terminal equipment of communication system and method thereof: Disclosed is a transmitting and receiving apparatus and method in a communication system. The transmitting and receiving apparatus and method can provide a data service for exchanging user data including characters, images, computer files, messages, etc. as well as voice over a voice physical channel for providing a voice service... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090154456 - Dynamic buffer pool in pciexpress switches: In a first embodiment of the present invention, a method for handling a Transaction Layer Packets (TLPs) from devices in a switch is provided, the method comprising: subtracting a first number of credits from a credit pool associated with a first port on which a first device is connected; determining... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090154455 - Method and system for near continuous data rate limit adjustment via a plurality of link variables in an energy efficient network: Aspects of a method and system for near continuous data rate limit adjustment via a plurality of link variables in an energy efficient network. In this regard, power consumption of a network device may be controlled by enabling and/or disabling one or more components in the network device based on... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090154451 - Method and system to provide contact services in a communication network: A communication system includes an application server that includes logic to recognize that preference data in each of a plurality of data record entries of a subscriber record has a common value. Each data record entry includes a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), and the subscriber record is stored in a... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20090154452 - Method and system to provide contact services in a communication network: A communication system includes an application server including logic to receive preference data for each of a plurality of data record entries of a subscriber record from a telephone number mapping (ENUM) server, and to determine a contact sequence including a plurality of Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). The contact sequence... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20090154454 - Secure communication through a network fabric: Methods of providing a secure communication over a network fabric are presented. A network fabric preferably comprises multiple interconnected network elements. Devices connect to the fabric through one or more ports and communicate with each other over the fabric by exchanging communications. A port-to-port session can be established within which... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20090154453 - Systems and methods for pseudowire-in-pseudowire to transport pseudowire payload across packet switched networks: The present invention provides systems and methods which create an infrastructure/transport Pseudowire (PW) a priori between two Provider Edge (PE) devices. Accordingly, other PWs can be mapped to this transport PW. In an exemplary application, the transport PW (which is a MS-PW by itself) can start and end between two... Agent: Clements Bernard PLLC

20090154457 - Enhancing reliability of multicasting and broadcasting services (mbs) over broad band wireless access (bwa) networks: A broad-band wireless access (BWA) network may support high bandwidth, which may allow video multicast and broadcast services (MBS) over the BWA networks. The BWA network may comprise a base station and mobile subscriber stations provisioned in each wireless cell. The base station may select feedback leaders, which includes a... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090154459 - Manipulating data streams in data stream processors: Techniques for performing user-configurable traffic management functions on streams of packets. The functions include multicasting, discard, scheduling, including shaping, and segmentation and reassembly. In the techniques, the functions are not performed directly on the packets of the stream, but instead on descriptors that represent stored packets. A packet's descriptor includes... Agent: Larson Newman Abel & Polansky, LLP

20090154458 - Repetition apparatus and method for repeatedly transmitting and receiving data packet using different puncturing patterns: Provided are repetition apparatus and method for repeatedly transmitting and receiving a data packet using different puncturing patterns to overcome signal attenuation and fading in a high speed mobile environment by repeatedly transmitting the duplicated information bit sequences with parity bits having a different puncturing pattern after channel-encoding the duplicated... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090154464 - Method and system for simulating network address translation: A system for simulating NAT (network address translation) performed in an internet protocol (IP) sharing device to be selectively operated in one of different network address translation (NAT) schemes includes a first network interface linking the IP sharing device with an internal network and a second network interface linking the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090154460 - Method for recovering lost header: A method is disclosed that includes sending (304) a first full header from a source compressor (106) to a destination decompressor (112) wherein the source compressor and the destination decompressor are a part of a symmetrical configuration. An IP packet including the full header is compressed into a first compressed... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090154461 - Network switching system: A handling address range is pre-assigned to each of switching devices consisting a network switching system. The switching device has a data receiving unit, an assigned data transport unit, an unassigned data transport unit, and a lower transport layer transport unit. The data receiving unit receives data including a destination... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090154462 - Switch and packet forwarding method: A switch that performs packet forwarding processing based on a label for a connection in which a communication path is specified by the label, includes a receiving unit that receives loopback information with a label of a first layer used for packet forwarding for a first connection, and a packet... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090154463 - System and method for providing network services over shared virtual private network (vpn): A method includes tagging core routes of a core network service node associated with the core network service with an assigned core service specific route target, and distributing the core routes tagged with the assigned core service specific route target to one or more customers subscribing to the core network... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20090154465 - Method and system for asymmetric operation in a network node in an energy efficient ethernet network: An Ethernet network comprising multi-rate link partners that may be operable to communicate symmetrically and/or asymmetrically via any of a plurality of channels. The multi-rate link partners may monitor one or more factors that may affect their power consumption and/or energy efficiency. During operation, an uplink and/or downlink communication rate... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090154466 - Techniques for migrating a point to point protocol to a protocol for an access network: Techniques for managing a persistent session associated with a particular Media Access Control (MAC) include determining at a broadband remote access server whether an elapsed time since a data packet is received with the particular MAC address exceeds a threshold time. If so, then point-to-point protocol (PPP) control data is... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090154468 - Method and system of providing differentiated services: A method for combining Internet protocols in a Differentiated Services model environment is described. The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Common Open Policy Service (COPS) are combined together to provide methods of setting up a session and tearing down a session, while maintaining Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) policies. The... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090154467 - Method and system for asymmetric transition handshake in an energy efficient ethernet network: Multi-rate link partners coupled via an Ethernet link may be configured to implement an asymmetric handshake wherein a change of rate in a first direction may be independent of delay that may occur when implementing a change of rate in a second direction. A rate change may be delayed based... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090154469 - Ethernet switching of pci express packets: A method for emulating Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) behavior over an Ethernet switching fabric which includes encapsulating a PCIe packet within an Ethernet packet to provide an Ethernet encapsulated PCIe packet, and routing the Ethernet encapsulated PCIe packet within the Ethernet switching fabric via information included within the Ethernet... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090154471 - Method of and apparatus for processing virtual local area network tag frame: Provided are a method of and apparatus for processing a virtual local area network (VLAN) tag frame. The apparatus includes a filtering data base (FDB) for storing a VLAN tag frame which is created by a gigabit passive optical network (GPON) master; an uplink processing unit for removing by referring... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090154470 - Using q-in-q-in-q to implement ethernet service unit ring: In another embodiment, a third VLAN tag is stripped from a Q-in-Q-in-Q packet prepended with first, second, and third VLAN tags to result in a Q-in-Q packet when the Q-in-Q-in-Q packet is forwarded from a first port to a second port. The second port has output connected to input of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090154472 - Packet forwarding apparatus and method for virtualization switch: Disclosed is a packet forwarding apparatus and method for virtualization switch, applicable to switch environments built by Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) connections. The packet forwarding apparatus comprises a header extractor, a dispatcher, and a forwarding unit. After completion of the authorization for iSCSI session connections, the header extractor... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20090154473 - Method and system for indicating a transition in rate and/or power consumption utilizing a distinct physical pattern on one or more idle channel(s): An Ethernet network may comprise multi-rate link partners that may be coupled via an Ethernet link. The Ethernet link may comprise a plurality of channels wherein one or more may be silent and/or idle channels set to a low(er) power that may enable energy efficiency. Silent channels may be utilized... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090154477 - Method for forwarding packets a related packet forwarding system, a related classification device and a related popularity monitoring device: The present invention relates to a method and related system and related devices for forwarding packets of a plurality of multimedia streams where the packets of the plurality of multimedia streams being forwarded from a multimedia source towards a plurality of multimedia endpoints over a communications network, where the method... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090154476 - Overlay network system which constructs and maintains an overlay network: An overlay network system comprises an overlay network composed of a plurality of nodes and a plurality of sub-overlay networks each of which is composed of a subset of the plurality of nodes and which are hierarchized. The overlay network is managed as a 0th-level sub-overlay network at the highest... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090154474 - Server apparatus: A server apparatus of the present invention is comprised of: a connection information transmitting unit, when specific information of a second terminal apparatus connected via a router to an IP (Internet Protocol) network is received from a first terminal apparatus connected via the IP network to the connection information transmitting... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090154475 - Transport of aggregated client packets: The invention relates to a method for transmitting one or more client signals via a packet transport network. According to the method, packets of the one or more client signals are received at an ingress node of the network. Timing information characterizing the timing of the received packets is determined... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20090154479 - Apparatus for matching gigabit ethernet (gbe) signals with optical transport hierarchy (oth): Provided is an apparatus for matching Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) signals to an Optical Transport Hierarchy (OTH). The apparatus real-time records a source address and input port information of GbE Ethernet frames in a memory, compares a destination address of the Ethernet frame which is a payload of a GFP frame... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090154480 - Communication control method and system: A switch 1 having a tag VLAN function includes a plurality of physical ports P1, P2 . . . , and adds an ID tag unique to each physical port to the header of a packet received by the physical port and sends the packet, and on the other hand,... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090154478 - Scalable ethernet oam connectivity check in an access network: An access node (e.g., Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer) and a method are described herein that proactively monitor the connectivity of one or more end devices (e.g., residential gateways). In one embodiment, the access node performs the following: (a) receives continuity check messages from at least one of the end... Agent: Law Office Of William J. Tucker

20090154481 - Apparatus and method for adaptive data packet scheduling in mesh networks: Various embodiments provide an apparatus and method for adaptive data packet scheduling in a mesh network. An example embodiment is configured to divide a time period into a plurality of frames; subdivide each of the plurality of frames into a plurality of slots, each of the plurality of slots providing... Agent: Bradley P. Heisler Heisler & Associates

20090154482 - Routing method in sensor network: Provided is a routing method capable of expanding a conventional tree routing to perform the efficient and safe key management in a sensor network environment that requires the symmetric key based key management. Each sensor node transmits a Route Reverse message to a sink node to set a reverse tree... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090154483 - A 3-level queuing scheduler supporting flexible configuration and etherchannel: In one embodiment, a scheduler for a queue hierarchy only accesses sub-groups of bucket nodes in order to determine the best eligible queue bucket to transmit next. Etherchannel address hashing is performed after scheduling so that an Etherchannel queue including a single queue in the hierarchy is implemented to guarantee... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20090154484 - Scaleable voip telephone line circuit: A telephone subscriber line device for providing an interface between a legacy telephone circuit based on circuit-switched technology and a packet network has a legacy interface for connection to telephone circuit; a packet interface for connection to a packet network, processing circuitry for converting between legacy telephone signals and packet... Agent: Marks & Clerk

20090154485 - Apparatus and method for controlling multi-channel access: Provided is an apparatus and method for controlling multi-channel access in USN-based MAC. The multi-channel access control apparatus includes a channel scanner, a control channel preoccupier, and an available channel exchanger. The channel scanner scans at least one or more available channels among the N data channels in a Tx... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090154487 - Managing communications over a shared medium: Communicating between stations over a shared medium includes: monitoring the shared medium for signals received at a first station that is identified with a local network; storing information at the first station that represents characteristics of the signals received at the first station associated with capacity of the shared medium;... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090154486 - Tracking network contention: Methods, apparatus, and product for tracking network contention on links among compute nodes of an operational group in a point-to-point data communications network of a parallel computer are disclosed. In embodiments of the present invention, each compute node is connected to an adjacent compute node in the point-to-point data communications... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090154488 - Methods and apparatus for service protected ranging in a pon: In various example embodiments, a system, method and apparatus are provided for assuring that a ranging process on a PON does not affect real-time services. In an example embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes designating a real-time frame every R frames in a communications system. The method also... Agent: Tips Group C/o Intellevate LLC

20090154489 - Method for distributing contention among terminals in contention access period of superframe: Disclosed is a method for distributing contention among terminals in a Contention Access Period (CAP) of a superframe in regard to a Medium (or Media) Access Control (MAC) layer employing a beacon-enabled mode in IEEE 802.15.4 standard. The method includes: dividing the CAP or the superframe into a plurality of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090154492 - Method and system for a distinct physical pattern on an active channel to indicate a data rate transition for energy efficient ethernet: Aspects of a method and system for a distinct physical pattern on an active channel to indicate a data rate transition for energy efficient Ethernet. In this regard, one or more distinct physical patterns may be transmitted on one or more active channels of a network link during an inter-packet... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090154490 - Method and system for duty cycling a network port based on duty cycling of a link communicatively coupled to the port: Aspects of a method and system for duty cycling a network port based on duty cycling of a link communicatively coupled to the port are provided. In this regard, in a network node communicatively coupled to a network link which operates at a plurality of data rates, one or more... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090154491 - Method and system for negotiating multiple data rate transitions on an ethernet link: An Ethernet network may comprise multi-rate link partners coupled via an Ethernet link wherein a pattern, over time, of offered data rates may be determined. Link partners may establish a communication policy for modifying transmission rates to mimic offered data rates and may vary rates accordingly. The communication control policy... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090154493 - Method and a system for transporting of data with integrated protocol mapping function: The invention relates to a network comprising at least one host device having an interface card connected to a backplane of said host device, wherein said interface card comprises at least one cage for receiving a pluggable module which performs a traffic management of data transported via at least one... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090154494 - Method and system for service application and service application control agent: A service application method and system, and a service application control agent (SACA) for reducing the delay of service application are provided. The method includes the following steps. An SACA receives service application information sent from a customer premises equipment (CPE). The SACA queries for Quality of Service (QoS) parameters... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090154496 - Communication apparatus and program therefor, and data frame transmission control method: A communication apparatus including a physical layer processing unit that transmits data to a communication medium and a lower-layer processing unit that performs transmission control is provided. The transmission control includes at least one of aggregated-frame transmission control in which a data frame is supplied to the physical layer processing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090154495 - Scalable error detection and cross-session timing synchronization for packet-switched transmission: A system and method for providing improved scalable error detection and cross-timing synchronization for packet-switched transmission. In one embodiment, checksum error detection is applied for the core layer and for enhancement layers of the scalable payload in such a way that dropping one or several enhancement layers from the payload... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090154499 - Data multiplexing/demultiplexing apparatus: In generation of a system header included in an program stream of extended MPEG-2 Systems, when a basic stream ID is an extension ID and basic buffer size information represents 0 byte, extension buffer size information expressed by a total of 24 bits of an extension ID, a marker bit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090154497 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding: The present invention relates to a multimedia data encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The encoding method includes generating a data area comprising a plurality of media data areas; generating a plurality of track areas corresponding to the plurality of media data areas, respectively; and generating a meta area comprising a first... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090154498 - Method and apparatus for reassembling docsis mac frame in cable modem including plural receiving channels: A Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) frame reassembling apparatus and method in a cable modem including a plurality of receiving channels is provided. A method of controlling reassembling of a Media Access Control (MAC) frame, the method including: receiving a signal and outputting a packet signal through demodulation... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090154500 - Method and system for energy efficient signaling for 100mbps ethernet using a subset technique: Aspects of a method and system for energy efficient signaling for 100 mbps Ethernet using a subset are provided. In this regard, a network device enabled to communicate over a network link at 1 Gbps or faster may be configured to communicate over the network link at, or approximately at,... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090154501 - Method and apparatus for transporting network management information in a telecommunications network: Network management information (NMI) contained in a first set of byte locations of a received frame is relocated to a second set of byte locations of another frame. The NMI is then transported through network elements using the second set of byte locations until the NMI is to be transported... Agent: Paul E. Lewkowicz Skjerven Morrill Macpherson LLP

20090154502 - System(s), method(s), and apparatus for accurate detection of the end of stream: A multimedia presentation system for presenting multimedia data comprising a demultiplexing unit and at least one processing unit. The demultiplexing unit demultiplexes a plurality of streams of data. At least one presentation processing unit provides the plurality of stream of data for presentation according to predetermined timing and detecting an... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090147666 - Method, system and device for xdsl crosstalk cancellation: A method and system for xDSL crosstalk cancellation is provided. The method includes dividing xDSL signals into a plurality of signal sets; and connecting signals from a same signal set to a same processing unit to be processed. A digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) includes a line switching control... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090147667 - Apparatus and method for detecting packet of zero-padded ofdm signal: Provided is an apparatus and method for detecting a packet of a zero-padded OFDM signal, which are capable of determining if a packet exists in a reception (RX) signal by comparing a cross-correlation value of an OFDM signal delayed by a predetermined sample time, e.g., a zero-padded sample time, with... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090147668 - Orthogonal pilot code construction: A method, system and apparatus for communication in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication system is provided. The method includes allocating a plurality of sequences to a plurality of sectors in the OFDMA communication system. The plurality of sequences are orthogonal to each other. The method further includes communicating... Agent: Beceem Communications, Inc.

20090147669 - Continuous phase modulation encoder 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 phase encoder adapted to generate a continuous time signal based on a symbol and a corresponding modulation index for a current symbol interval and one or more previous... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090147670 - Method, system and device for recovering invalid downlink data tunnel between networks: Described herein is a method for processing an invalidation of a downlink data tunnel between networks. The method includes the following steps: (1) a core network user plane anchor receives an error indication of data tunnel sent from an access network device, (2) after deciding that the user plane corresponding... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090147671 - System for testing the upstream channel of a cable network: A system for testing a portion of a cable network provides a pattern generator, Addresser, forward error corrector, and comparator. The system is particularly adapted to testing the upstream channel in a cable network. The pattern generator generates a test signal. The addresser addresses the signal to a known server... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20090147674 - Loop prevention techniques using encapsulation manipulation of ip/mpls field: In one embodiment, an edge device communicates with a neighboring routing domain. A failure that prevents communication between the edge device and the neighboring routing is detected. When the edge device thereafter receives a data packet that is directed to the neighboring routing domain, it determines if the received data... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090147672 - Protection switching method and apparatus for use in ring network: A protection switching method and apparatus for use in a ring network are provided. At least two switching request signals are received from a network device neighboring a link in which a failure occurs. A switching operation is performed in response to a first received signal of the at least... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090147675 - Ring switchover method: A fast ring switchover is enabled in packet level processing at the time of ring configuration, and as a result, a system switchover function can be implemented in an Ethernet switch or the like by a ring switchover method in a network constituted of layer 2 switches connected in a... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090147673 - Storage system and route switch: A storage system includes a route switch, connected to at least two different communication lines different in path between each of switches and the route switch. Upon detecting a fault on a communication line extending to the switch, the route switch converts a destination address of a frame into a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090147676 - Communication system, communication terminal, relay node, communication method used therein, and program thereof: In a terminal (1), when a connection is established, a packet generated by a data generating part (11) is outputted from a packet transmitting part (13). In the terminal (1), an ACK receiving part (14) receives an ACK packet transmitted as a receipt acknowledgement response to the foregoing transmitted packet.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090147677 - System, method, and apparatus for load-balancing to a plurality of ports: A system, method, and apparatus for load balancing to a plurality of ports is presented herein. A miniport driver is adapted to multiplex and demultiplex traffic workload across the ports. The miniport driver classifies outgoing packet streams and distributes each packet stream to a communication ring, such as an Ethernet... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090147680 - Method of flow control for iub-interface, apparatus and base station: A method of flow control for an IUB-interface, an apparatus, and a base station are disclosed. The method includes the following steps: a frame loss rate of a service is acquired according to the number of lost frames in a predetermined period. A congestion condition at the IUB-interface is determined... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090147679 - Network device and method for operating network device: A network device including at least one rate-limited-queue and multiple timer modules, the network device being operable to receive and/or transmit data flows from and/or to a communication network. Each data flow includes multiple data packets. The network device being further operable to limit the predetermined transmission rate of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090147678 - Systems and methods for traffic flow based rate adaptation in packet-based networks: Embodiments provide systems and methods for traffic flow based rate adaptation in packet-based networks. In some embodiments, a communications system comprises at least one receiver and a transmitter able to control transmission to the at least one receiver of a packet among a plurality of traffic flows, each traffic flow... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090147682 - Bandwidth managing router and system: A system for managing network and internet access provides a combined router and bandwidth management unit (BMU) in communication with a client server. The client server contains account information for clients and automatically communicates with the BMU to transmit changes in access setting based on changes to the clients account... Agent: BatemanIPLaw Group

20090147683 - Flow based data packet processing: Flow based data packet processing is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for processing a data packet in a flow comprises identifying a flow Identification (ID) of the data packet, where the flow ID is based on one or more portions of control information for the data packet. The method... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes, LLP

20090147681 - Method and apparatus of downstream service flow control in hfc networks: A method and apparatus of controlling a downstream service flow is provided. A method of controlling a downstream service flow, the method including: receiving a control request with respect to a service flow; generating classifier information for identifying a Quality of Service (QoS) classification standard of the service flow for... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090147685 - Controlling congestion in a packet switched data network: A method of controlling congestion in a packet switched network includes transmitting a pause message to a node upstream of a congested node to instruct it to cease sending for a period of time. The congested node also sends information to the upstream node informing it of the buffer size... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20090147684 - Dynamic, integrated, multi-service network cross-layer optimization: This invention optimizes the utilization of resources & spectrum of the network, the quality of the experience of the users of the network, the quality of the applications and services delivered by the network to the users, the economics of the network & its operation by optimal utilization of the... Agent: Reza Majidi-ahy

20090147686 - Media gateway and statistic reporting method: The present invention relates to the communication field, and discloses an MG and a statistic reporting method thereof. The statistic reporting method includes: judging whether the current statistic parameter value meets the reporting condition when the statistic parameter value changes; if the value meets the reporting condition, reporting the current... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090147687 - Change collision calculation system and method: A method of performing a change collision calculation and corresponding system are described. The method comprises: determining a collision information change based on receipt of a change request. For each determined collision information change, the method comprises determining a cause of a collision based on the collision information and the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090147688 - Radio communication terminal device, radio communication base station device, and radio communication method: It is possible to provide a radio communication terminal device, a radio communication base station device, and a radio communication method capable of improving the resource use efficiency and the throughput in synchronous random access. A resource control unit (111) has a table correlating a combination or resources used by... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090147689 - Method, network apparatus and computer readable medium thereof for detecting the defect of the network: Method, network apparatus and computer readable medium thereof for detecting the defect of the network are provided. The network apparatus comprises a controlling module and a relaying module. The controlling module comprises a generating module for generating a plurality of sub-detecting packets; and a first combining module for combining the... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20090147690 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for providing automated backup to tdm network connections over an ip network: An automated telecommunications backup system includes a first system operable to monitor a primary time division multiplexing (TDM) link on a TDM network for a failure condition and a second system operable to back up at least a portion of the telecommunications traffic of the TDM link over a backup... Agent: Venable LLP

20090147691 - Relay device, computer readable medium storing test program and a method for testing relay device: A relay device for relaying transfer data to be transmitted between the devices has a plurality of testers. Each of the testers determines whether received transfer data is normal or not, and discards the transfer data that is determined abnormal. The relay device also has a counter that counts a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090147696 - Apparatus and control method for energy-aware home gateway based on network: An energy-aware home gateway based on a network protocol includes a network matching module for performing a physical network interface function on a home and an external network; a processor module for performing an operation and a control function of a system in a active state in which service traffic... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090147692 - Collecting network performance data from multiple autonomous systems: A computer apparatus comprises first Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) logic comprising BGP route table data; a network interface to communicatively couple to a first autonomous system; data collection logic in computer-readable storage media when executed operable to perform discovering an address prefix of a data collector that is communicatively coupled... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090147693 - Method and apparatus for monitoring other channel interference in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for monitoring other channel interference in wireless communication system are described. An OSI Monitor Set (OSIMonitorSet) is updated at the beginning of every superframe of a reverse link (RL) serving sector. A list of Pilot PN's (PilotPN's) of the sectors whose pilot strength (PilotStrenth) is larger... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090147694 - Method and apparatus for setting reverse link cqi reporting modes in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for setting Reverse Link CQI Reporting Modes in an access terminal is provided, comprising determining a value for CQIReportingMode and setting reporting modes of the access terminal based on CQIReportingMode value.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20090147695 - Sub-symbol rate cable tester: Aspects of the present disclosure provide for a cable tester that tests a cable to determine the cable length. The cable tester can include a clock generator that generates a clock that has clock period that is a multiple of the data symbol period and a signal generator that injects... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090147697 - Associating a wireless computing device with a different access point: In a network comprising a wireless computing device and a wireless switch coupled to a plurality of access points, techniques are provided for determining a particular one of access points that the wireless computing device is to be associated with and associating the wireless computing device therewith. According to one... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090147700 - Configuring a wireless router: A method for configuring a wireless router includes electronically reading information that is unique to the wireless router. A code is automatically generated from the information. The generated code is automatically set as one or more of a network name and a device password for the wireless router.... Agent: Zarian Midgley & Johnson PLLC

20090147701 - Method of configuring a network infrastructure: A method of configuring a device forming part of a network infrastructure. The method has the steps of storing outside the network application- and user-specific configuration data for each device, and inputting to the device the respective configuration data. The data can be stored on, for example, a flash drive... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20090147699 - Method of supporting node portability in sensor network: Provided is a method of supporting node portability in a sensor network, wherein data transmission to a portable node can be guaranteed since even when the portable node is assigned with a different address by being associated with another network, the newly assigned address is transmitted to a parent node... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090147698 - Network automatic discovery method and system: An automatic network discovery method and device enables network peer nodes to discover one another. A node entering a network has the burden of initiating a connection to peers potentially existing on the network. The incoming node and potential peer nodes each keep a persistent list of at least one... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090147702 - Method and apparatus for forming and configuring a dynamic network of mobile network nodes: The invention includes methods for forming, configuring, and managing a dynamic wireless network. A dynamic wireless network may be formed from at least one wireless node. The dynamic wireless network uses a Role Assignment Protocol (RAP) adapted for assigning one or more roles to each of the at least one... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20090147703 - Method for efficiently retrieving topology-specific data for point-to-point networks: Network topology codes are computed and used as keys to retrieve topology-specific information for isomorphic networks.... Agent: James Eppa Hite, Iii

20090147704 - Method for ringcasting with improved reliability: A method of ringcasting with improved reliability, in which a participant who is the source of content saves the signal in which the content is found, and compares received signals with the signal in which the content is found to ensure that the content has made it completely around the... Agent: Edward M. Weisz, Esq. Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090147705 - Method for determining at least one user terminal for a telecommunication conference session, telecommunication conference arrangement and telecommunication conference session server: In a method for determining at least one user terminal for a telecommunication conference session with a multiplicity of telecommunication conference session user terminals, wherein a predefined telecommunication conference session participation condition is allocated to the at least one telecommunication conference session user terminal, the predefined telecommunication conference session participation... Agent: Viering, Jentschura & Partner

20090147706 - Frame structures, method and apparatus for resource allocation in wireless communications system based on full duplex replay: Frame structures, a method and an apparatus for resource allocation in a wireless communication system based on a full duplex relay are provided. The method for a centralized resource allocation in the wireless communication system based on the full duplex relay includes receiving channel information from a plurality of mobile... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090147707 - Demultiplexer and communication device: Provided is a demultiplexer capable of improving attenuation characteristic and isolation characteristic of a filter having a lower transmission frequency band among two filters having different transmission frequency bands, outside the transmission frequency band of a high-frequency side. A communication device using the demultiplexer is also disclosed. A first spiral... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090147708 - Time shared bi-directional serial signaling system: A time shared bi-directional serial signaling system providing a differential signal with apparent duplex signal operation for higher and lower bandwidth data signals in a forward direction and another lower bandwidth data signal in a return direction.... Agent: Vedder Price/nsc

20090147711 - Dedicated device for automatically accessing wireless internet network and supplying wireless packet data-based indoor-capable gps locations: A dedicated device and method for connecting between a packet-data-capable wireless modem and a high sensitivity indoor-capable Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, and is able to access a commercially available cellular or PCS band wireless Internet network for supplying indoor and outdoor GPS locations to a designated remote Internet server,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090147710 - Gateway apparatus for providing multi-channel functionality in sensor network, and method and apparatus for interfacing using serial peripheral interface in the gateway apparatus: Provided are a gateway apparatus for providing multi-channel functionality in a sensor network, and a method and an apparatus for interfacing using serial peripheral interface (SPI) in the gateway apparatus. The SPI interfacing apparatus is connected to a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units, and receives a data frame via an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090147709 - Receiver channel feedback through beacons: According to various embodiments a receiver may include information elements in its beacon. The information elements can then be used to send feedback information about packets received during the previous superframe(s). This feedback information may contain some acknowledgement information. For example, the feedback information may include information elements that include... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090147715 - Energy saving method in wireless network: c

20090147713 - Method and apparatus for entering and processing in access state in wireless communication systems: A method of entering and processing in Access State, the method comprising, issuing a ControlChannelMAC.Activate command, issuing a SharedSignalingMAC.Activate command, issuing an AccessChannelMAC.Activate command, issuing a ForwardTrafficChannelMAC.Activate command, issuing an OverheadMessages.Activate command, issuing an ActiveChannelMAC.AttemptAccess command, issuing an ActiveSetManagement.SendPilotReport command, setting a state timer for TIDPATSetup seconds, generating a ConnectionOpenRequest... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20090147712 - Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in a wireless communication system is described. Sending of unicast packets to an access terminal is ceased. It is determined if a ReverseTrafficChannelMAC.UATIReceived indication is received, wherein MAC is medium access control and UATI is unicast access terminal identifier. The access network... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20090147714 - Method and system for reducing power consumption in wireless sensor networks: The present invention provides a method and system for reducing power consumption in a Wireless Sensor Network. The Wireless Sensor Network includes a plurality of nodes forming a tree structure. The nodes send data towards a root node via parent nodes. The nodes adaptively control the wake-up schedules of radio... Agent: Cermak Kenealy Vaidya & Nakajima LLP

20090147721 - Broadcast/multicast service method based on user location information: A method and device for receiving a broadcast/multicast service as discussed. According to an embodiment, the invention provides a method of receiving a broadcast/multicast service by a terminal, the method comprising: receiving a service guide from a network including a broadcast/multicast server, the service guide being used by a user... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090147718 - Method and apparatus for reliably delivering multicast data: A method and apparatus are described including mapping a multicast connection to a unicast uniform resource identifier, establishing a state for a multicast-to-unicast conversion, allocating ports, receiving multicast addressed data packets and converting the multicast addressed data packets to unicast addressed data the packets.... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090147719 - Method of transmitting data to multi destinations in wireless lan system: There is provided a method of transmitting data to multi destinations in a wireless LAN system. In the method, a transmitting device generates a media access control protocol data unit (MPDU) for each of a plurality of destination devices, and the transmitting device generates an aggregated-MDPU (A-MPDU) by sequentially adding... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090147720 - Methods and devices for scalable reception in wireless communication systems: Methods and apparatuses for reception of point-to-multipoint (PTM) transmissions in a wireless communication system including a set of receiving devices. The method includes receiving location information respectively associated with each of a plurality of PTM data versions, and retrieving the plurality of PTM data versions using the location information. The... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090147717 - Multicast broadcast single frequency network data scheduling and handling: A system is provided for scheduling for a multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN). The system includes a central control configured to promote a plurality of enhanced node Bs (ENBs) transmitting one or more multicast traffic channels (MTCHs). The one or more MTCHs are provided during a variable scheduling period... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090147716 - Wireless communication receiver, system, and method for loading firmware: A wireless communication system comprises a plurality of antennas, a plurality of tuners, a plurality of receiver ends, a bus, and a processor. Each of the tuners is connected to one of the antennas and one of the receiver ends. Each of the receiver ends has a corresponding address. A... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090147725 - Cross-layer routing method in wireless sensor network: Provided is a cross-layer routing method in a wireless sensor network including: locating a destination node which is a final destination of data by a source node which generates the data; and determining an optimal relay node among one or more neighboring nodes using their position information for each hop... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090147724 - Method and appratus for rate matching within a communication system: A method and apparatus for rate matching is described. During operation of a transmitter, multiple data streams are received and individually interleaved with a permutation of a same length KΠ. A permutation (πp0) of a second stream is the same as a permutation (πsys) of a first stream and a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090147723 - Method and device for data routing and bandwidth reservation in small scale distributed networks: A data routing and/or bandwidth reservation method for small scale distributed network in which each member has a topological view of the whole network. Route selection is performed at a source member and bandwidth reservation is conducted along the selected route. Upon start up or joining the network each member... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20090147722 - Method and device for transmitting a data packet in a wireless communication network using bandwidth occupancy cost factors: A method for transmitting a data packet from a source node to a destination node in a wireless communication network as provided enables bandwidth aware path selection. The method includes determining a first link metric using a first bandwidth occupancy cost factor for a first multi-hop path between the source... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090147726 - Method for improving discontinuous reception for a wireless communication system and related communication device: A method for improving discontinuous reception for a user equipment of a wireless communication system includes separately managing retransmission reception time limits of a plurality of downlink hybrid automatic repeat request (DL HARQ) processes when the discontinuous reception is used in the plurality of DL HARQ processes.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090147727 - Method for improving discontinuous reception for a wireless communication system and related communication device: A method for improving discontinuous reception for a user equipment of a wireless communication system includes separately managing retransmission detecting timings of a plurality of downlink hybrid automatic repeat request (DL HARQ) processes when the discontinuous reception is used in the plurality of DL HARQ processes.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090147728 - Wireless cooperative relay network transmitting data using imperfect csi: A method, system and network transmit data from a base station, via relay stations, to user stations. Imperfect channel state information (CSI) for downlink channels from the base station and the relay stations to the user stations is acquired. For each candidate transmission strategy of a set of candidate transmission... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090147733 - Apparatus and method for allocating preamble index to self configurable base station in a broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for allocating a preamble index to a self configurable base station in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus comprises a first selector for selecting a segment IDentifier (ID) to be allocated to a Self Configurable-Base Station (SC-BS) by using a per-segment ID Received... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090147731 - Enhancement of path quality of service in multi-hop packet communication networks: Techniques and systems for enhancing quality of service (QoS) in communication networks, including wired and wireless communication networks. Implementations of described techniques and systems can be used to provide path-based QoS with distributed per-hop scheduling for carrying traffic over a multi-hop packet communication network.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090147729 - Method and apparatus for processing open state in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for processing Open state is provided, the method comprising receiving a Control Channel and a Forward Traffic Channel, requesting a MultipleInputMultipleOutput(MIMO) mode on the Forward Traffic Channel by sending a MIMORequest message, monitoring overhead messages and determining if the access terminal receives a ConnectionClose messages.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20090147732 - Method for adjusting transmission speed of wireless network: A method for adjusting a transmission speed of a wireless network comprises the steps of: setting a transmission mode, wherein the transmission mode is either an idle mode or a traffic mode; setting an environmental case, wherein the environmental case is either an ideal case or a corner case; determining... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090147730 - Method of transmitting and receiving a redirect message in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and method of transmitting a Redirect message in a wireless communication system is described. A Redirect message is generated comprising an 8 bit MessageID field, a 16 bit StayAwayDuration field wherein the StayAwayDuration field indicates the units of second for which an access terminal will not make an... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20090147743 - scheduling in a cellular system:

20090147747 - Apparatus for scheduling transmission of data unit in base station: According to the present invention, there is provided a transmission controlling apparatus comprising a receiver to receive mobile station status information from a mobile station connected with a base station, a schedule managing unit to determine transmission priority of a plurality of data units to be transmitted to the mobile... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090147734 - Communication system, and communication device: A communication system which can control a data transmission properly and to which a Delayed Block ACK mode is applied, and a communication device constituting the communication system. A radio LAN base station (100) as the communication device comprises a transmission control unit (115) for transmitting a block ACK request,... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090147740 - Harq and bandwidth request method in wireless access system: The present invention relates to a resource reallocation and bandwidth request method in a wireless access system. The present invention uses the synchronous HARQ mode together with the asynchronous HARQ mode according to scheduling by the HARQ retransmission burst. Therefore, a resource allocation overhead for a retransmission burst is reduced... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090147742 - Interlacing wireless communication frames: Mechanisms to interlace multiple legacy frames to enhance radio resource utilization are described. Also described are mechanisms to modify a low-latency frame structure to appear as legacy frames. In one aspect, partially blanked-out legacy frames are interlaced with time offsets so that they complement each other to leave no idle... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090147737 - Latency-aware adaptive bandwidth request mechanism for real-time communication in wimax: A method and apparatus for requesting bandwidth in a subscriber station is disclosed. The method dynamically changes the size of the bandwidth request based on the prediction of the number of packets needed to be transmitted. The average delay experienced by packets in a queue is measured, and this information... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090147739 - Method and apparatus for decrementing assignments in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus of decrementing access terminal assignments in a wireless communication system is provided, comprising determining if a MACID other than the MACID of an access terminal with an assignment for a particular interlace is received and decrementing the access terminal assignments according to the MACID, if the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090147738 - Method and arrangement for coding and scheduling in packet data communication systems: The method and arrangement according to the present invention relates to of scheduling and coding in communication systems utilizing automatic repeat request (ARQ) and/or multihop scheduling and forwarding. According to the inventive method the receiving nodes selectively stores received information, also overheard information, as a priori information and feed back... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090147741 - Parallel data services and spectrum sensing with cognitive channel switching in a wireless area network: Data service transmission interruption is minimized by initially setting up a cluster of channels to transmit data services. As the need arises to switch channels due to the detection of an incumbent signal, the data services can be switched with substantially no delay. A group of channels from those available... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20090147745 - Radio communication system, radio communication method and base station: A base station 100 includes: a specifying unit 125 configured to specify a decrease target TTI that indicates the TTI in which a sum of already assigned transmission rates is larger than an allowable receiving transmission rate; a selecting unit 126 configured to select, as a decrease target radio terminal,... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090147744 - Scalable control channel design for ofdm-based wireless systems: Overhead is kept small by a scalable control channel design suitable for OFDMA-based systems with many resource elements and many active users. For instance, optimization of control information in a wideband OFDMA-based radio system with up to 200 resource elements and multiple spatial layers and up to 1000 active users... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090147735 - System and method for non-standard wireless bandwidth communications: A wireless communications method and device including a transmitter (130) configured to transmit according to an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing transmission standard (300), such as the WiMAX standard. The wireless communications device (120) includes a transmission bandwidth controller (136) adapted to configure the transmitter (130) to adjust a transmitted bandwidth... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090147736 - Uplink scheduler algorithm for orthogonal division multiple access systems: The present invention provides a method of scheduling uplink transmissions from at least one access terminal to an access network. The method includes estimating, at the access network, at least one signal-to-noise ratio associated with each access terminal and determining, at the access network, a format for the packet based... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P. C.

20090147746 - Video multicast, such as layered video multicast for example, using relay devices defined by a channel quality parameter hierarchy: Improved distribution of video information in an infrastructure-based wireless network is provided. A wireless channel condition between the video server node and each of the plurality of receiver nodes is measured (or accepted, or otherwise determined). Each of the plurality of receiver nodes are assigned into one of a first... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20090147749 - Combined frequency-time domain power adaptation for cdma communication systems: Practical transmission power adaptation in multicarrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) communications is using either a frequency domain technique or a time domain technique or a combined frequency and time domain technique in response to channel variations. With frequency domain power adaptation, the transmission power is allocated over the N′... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090147748 - Transmission apparatus, reception apparatus, mobile communications system and transmission control method: A disclosed transmission apparatus comprises a switching portion that switches radio access methods; a frequency domain signal generation portion that allocates a radio resource to a spread chip sequence on which one of a fast Fourier transformation and a series/parallel conversion is performed in accordance with the switched radio accessed... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090147750 - Handover process and information support for communication transfer between telecommunication networks: “Convenience information support” thereby means inter alia that this PTCP-SUBC has not necessarily requested this HOCIS, but he nevertheless as a rule regards this then unasked-for support as convenient or helpful, such as for example a passenger on a flight regarding associated announcements/references/measures (=convenience information support) at the departure or... Agent: Novak Druce Deluca + Quigg LLP

20090147751 - Method of applying fast mobile ipv6 for mobile nodes in mobile networks, mobile router therefor, and mobile network therefor: Provided are a method of applying fast mobile IPv6 (FMIPv6) to a mobile node in order to prevent loss of packets transmitted during a handover of a mobile router from a first access router to a second access router, and a mobile router and a mobile network therefor. Specifically, the... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090147752 - Method, apparatus and system for assigning internet protocol address in communication system based on media independent handover: Provided is a method, apparatus and system for assigning an IP address in a communication system based on a Media Independent Handover (MIH). In the method, information about a neighbor network is obtained through an MIH service. In the event of a handover to a heterogeneous network, one or more... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090147753 - Mobile communication system, gateway, concentrator, and handover control method: According to this invention, there is provided a method applicable to the system which comprises a plurality of base stations each forming radio zones and storing a mobile terminal, and a gateway being connected to a packet communication network and relaying packet communication between the packet communication network and the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090147754 - User equipment, call continuity application server, and network handover method: A network handover method applicable to network handover in ringing/ring back tone (RBT) or call hold is provided. According to this method, in ringing/RBT, one party performs a session negotiation with an Other End Point (OEP) via a call continuity application server, and then sends an off-hook signal to the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090147755 - Method and apparatus for data-centric multiplexing: An apparatus and method for data centric multiplexing in a wireless communication system with a plurality of channels comprising assigning a first resource to a first of the plurality of channels; assigning a second resource to a second of the plurality of channels wherein the second resource is not the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090147757 - Base station device and mobile station device: There are provided a base station device and a mobile station device for increasing the speed of cell search by introducing identification of TTI timing into the cell search. In the base station device (100), a frame configuration unit (120) forms a frame by arranging a TTI synchronization sequence (SCH1... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090147756 - Coordinating communications among wireless personal area network devices: Embodiments of a multi-radio wireless communication device having two or more radio modules are generally described herein. In some embodiments, an initiating link manager may generate and transmit messages to a responding link manager. The messages may include a desired slot offset value and a desired point in time to... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20090147760 - Method and apparatus for routing in wireless sensor network: Provided are a method and apparatus for efficiently performing routing in a wireless sensor network having a tree-hierarchical structure, the method and apparatus reducing the number of hops required for transmitting data. According to the method and apparatus, a node is determined as a proximal node from among nodes within... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090147759 - Method and apparatus for supporting mobility of node using layer 2/layer 3 addresses: Provided is a network-based mobility supporting method for supporting mobility of a node not having a mobility supporting function. The network-based mobility supporting method which is performed by a plurality of agents that connect a plurality of access networks to an Internet protocol core network integrating the plurality of access... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090147758 - Mobile internet device with detachable wireless module: Mobile computing systems are provided having an ultra-mobile PC and a detachable wireless communications module operable as phone and a short range and long range wireless data link. In one embodiment, the wireless communications module is capable of synchronizing data with the ultra-mobile PC. Another embodiment provides parasitic charging of... Agent: Kuware, Inc.

20090147761 - Wireless communication system and wireless station: A station determines the presence/absence of directional beam control in an access point, on the basis of received power measured when data transmitted from the access point are received, and the type of the received data. In accordance with the result of this determination, the station controls transmitting power to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090147762 - Transmitter and data transmission method: A method and apparatus for data transmission are provided. Data values of a plurality of channels are transformed into a transmission signal. An enhanced shaping filter is provided to shape a binary stream of only single digits and generate a shaped signal. A weighting unit is coupled to the output... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090147763 - Method and system for multi-radio coexistence and a collaborative interface: Aspects of a method and system for multi-radio coexistence and a collaborative interface may include exchanging information between a plurality of radio transceivers integrated within a single device to enable coexistence, and coordinating sharing of transmit and receive resources between the plurality of radio transceivers by controlling access to the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090147764 - Method for encoding data blocks: Prior to transferring to a radio communication system, at least one data block is encoded according to predetermined quality-of-service requirements with the aid of a first code. Subsequently, the data block, encoded by the first code, is further encoded according to the radio transmission properties of a usable radio transmission... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090147765 - Air-time fair transmission regulation without explicit traffic specifications for wireless networks: A system and method are provided for non-transmission specification fair air-time, NT-AirFair, allocation control by tracking the transmission time (308) consumed by each link to detect any increase and enforcing air -time allocation (309) based on the pattern of usage derived therefrom.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090147766 - System and method for setting a data rate in tdma communications: A mobile ad-hoc network includes a plurality of N mobile nodes and wireless communication links connecting the mobile nodes, which each include a communications device for transmitting and routing data packets wirelessly to other mobile nodes via the wireless communication links in accordance with a time division multiple access (TDMA)... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090147767 - System and method for locating a mobile node in a network: Disclosed is a system and method for locating a mobile node in a network. The system comprises a plurality of beacon nodes, at least a router, a location host, and at least a mobile node. Each beacon node broadcasts at least a beacon signal at a first channel. A mobile... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20090147768 - Synchronizing wireless local area network access points: In a wireless local area network, a first and second access point in which the RF coverage areas overlap are synchronized by positioning a monitor station within the overlap area. The monitor station receives beacon frames from both access points and records the arrival times. A manager in communication with... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20090147769 - Systems and methods for synchronizing audio signals of a communication device: A method for synchronizing audio signals of a communication device includes determining whether a downlink thread or a uplink thread is running, pausing the downlink thread or the uplink thread, and executing the downlink thread or the uplink thread by directing a scheduler. A system and storage medium with instructions... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090147770 - System and method of routing voice communications via peering networks: A method of routing voice communications is disclosed and includes receiving network event data at a telephone number mapping (ENUM) server of an originating network from a plurality of peering border elements associated with a plurality of peering communication networks. The network event data indicates a health status of each... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lnap Attn: Patent Docketing

20090147775 - Ancillary data support in session initiation protocol (sip) messaging: A SIP ancillary data server provides host to auxiliary data for an emergency SIP session (call) uniquely referred to in a transported SIP header. In a manner similar to how location is represented in an emergency call, a SIP header is extended. The extended SIP Header contains one of two... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC 7th Floor

20090147773 - Intelligent end user devices for clearinghouse services in an internet telephony system: Clearinghouse services architectures that support the use of end user devices, such as personal computers, Internet Protocol (IP) phones, cable multimedia terminal adapters, and residential gateways, in an Internet telephony system. The innovative architectures include a proxy-based system model, a direct communication model, and a hybrid proxy/direct communication model. A... Agent: King & Spalding

20090147771 - Mobile communication device providing integrated access to telephony and internet: Provided are devices, methods, communication managers and user interface solutions that enable access to multiple services from a mobile communications device. A mobile communication device that provides telephony services via a PSTN also includes multiple communication channels that exploit packet data transfer via an IP network, for example enabling VoIP,... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20090147774 - Multimedia interactive telephony services: In a multimedia interactive telephony system, a voice service server generates dynamic content intended for consumption by a communication device. The dynamic content is sent to a gateway where it is transformed from to an intermediate content format appropriate for rendering at the communication device. The user may interact with... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090147772 - Systems and methods for providing presence information in communication: A method for facilitating communication between at least a first user who uses a first device and a second user who uses a second device. The method may include associating possible device states with possible presence states. The possible device states pertain to the first device, and the possible presence... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20090147776 - Integrated switch and switching method for simultaneously processing voice and ip data in the same channel: Provided are an integrated switch and a switching method for simultaneously processing IP data and voice signals using silent periods during communication. The integrated switch provides a function of transmitting data packets using the silent periods during the communication of an existing switch subscriber, so that an existing frequency band... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090147783 - Buffering architecture for packet injection and extraction in on-chip networks: o

20090147782 - Electronic device for communication within a network and method for operating an electronic device:

20090147781 - Method and apparatus of multicast service flow processing for headend cable modem:

20090147778 - Method and system for targeted advertising in a communication system for mediating voice and text communications: A method and system for targeted advertising in a communication system for connecting voice calls is provided. In accordance one embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for targeted advertising in a communication system for connecting a voice call, the method comprising: receiving a request to connect... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20090147779 - Methods, iptv (internet protocol television) terminal, and iptv control server for iptv bandwidth management: An IP Television (IPTV) terminal, an IPTV control server, and methods for used therein are provided for delegating the service admission control from the network to the terminals. As an IPTV terminal initiates a new IPTV service (e.g. linear TV, Video-on-Demand), a bandwidth balance available for use by IPTV terminals... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090147780 - Priority-based data message publishing method and system according to a data message chain: A priority-based data message publishing method according to a data message chain can be implemented by receiving a data message, wherein the data message has an original priority. Then, judge whether there is a corresponding data message chain corresponding to the data message. When there is a corresponding data message... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090147777 - Reverse notification tree for data networks: Recovery time upon the failure of a link or switching system in an asynchronous data network can be minimized if downstream data switches provide upstream messages indicating to upstream switching system that the downstream traffic arrived in tact and was properly handled. Upon this loss or failure of the upstream... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090147784 - Field network system: A field network system is provided. The field network system includes a plurality of field devices and a plurality of tunneling units. The field devices are coupled to each other through an IP network. The IP network is divided into a plurality of subnetworks. Each of the tunneling units is... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090147786 - Multicast service processing method and access equipment: A multicast service processing method and access equipment are disclosed. The method includes: receiving multicast program request message from terminal device, inquiring about program rating parameters according to said multicast program request message, wherein the program rating parameter includes multicast group IP address and multicast program rated priority, generating multicast... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090147785 - Separability control device, tree-type delivery system, node device separation control method, memory medium memorizing separability control program, memory medium memorizing information process program: a separation permission notification means for sending a separation permission notification of permitting the node device being a separation request information sending source when the number of the node devices currently under the separation process does not reach the simultaneous separation process upper limit number.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090147787 - Method and apparatus for rtp egress streaming using complementary directing file: A hardware accelerated streaming arrangement, especially for RTP real time protocol streaming, employs a directing file determining the pointers, header lengths and offsets of a block of one or more data packets to be sent out through a network accelerated streaming system. The directing file is established by a control... Agent: Ip Legal Services

20090147788 - Method and apparatus of downstream service flows classification for headend cable modem: A method and apparatus of classifying downstream service flows for a cable modem is provided. A method of classifying downstream service flows, the method including: classifying a service flow based on a Quality of Service (QoS) using a destination address of an inputted packet; composing an internal header including corresponding... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090147789 - Network element apparatus and intermediate router apparatus: As an apparatus itself moves, its access section gets access to a router using a temporarily assigned global address when making a roaming connection to a different network from a network to which the apparatus belongs currently. A message generating section generates a binding update message, which contains a global... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090147791 - Ip network service quality management by distributed admission control based on a signalling protocol: Procedure and device for managing the quality of service hop-by-hop in a packet-based communications network comprising several arteries linked together by a router, the network supporting a signalling protocol. The procedure comprises at least at each router a step of reserving the resources on the arteries gradually and a step... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20090147792 - Systems, methods and computer program products for managing quality of service, session authentication and/or bandwidth allocation in a regional/access network (ran): Quality of Service (QoS) and/or bandwidth allocation is managed in a Regional/Access Network (RAN) that provides end-to-end transport between a Network Service Provider (NSP) and/or an Application Service Provider (ASP), and a Customer Premises Network (CPN) that includes a Routing Gateway (RG). A first subsystem is configured to manage QoS... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Mb Attn: Patent Docketing

20090147790 - Packet transmission scheduling method in wireless network and packet transmission method using the same: Provided are a packet transmission scheduling method in a wireless network and a packet transmission method using the same. The packet transmission scheduling method, includes storing location information and a path loss exponent of each node on a multiplexing path; calculating a Signal-to-Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR) between nodes on... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090147794 - Method and system for serving multi-media data between hetero upnp networks: Provided is a method and system for streaming multimedia data between hetero UPnP networks configured of a private network. The method comprises establishing a communication channel with a relay peer; establishing a virtual communication channel with a specific extensible home connector selected from a plurality of extensible home connectors connected... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090147793 - Packet communication network and packet communication method: A packet communication network is connected between a first external network and a second external network. The packet communication network includes a classifier, a parallel network that includes a plurality of physically or logically independent networks, and a multiplexing router. The classifier classifies a packet input from the first external... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090147795 - Tcp traversal through network address translators (nats): A network address translator (NAT) can be provided as part of a gateway between a private network and a public network. In situations where an entity in a private network requires establishment of a TCP connection to another entity in a separate private network, it is often the case that... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090147796 - Input/output buffer controller for optimized memory utilization and prevention of packet under-run errors: To avoid under-run conditions that result in corrupt packets at I/O interfaces, a FIFO buffer controller monitors key aspects of the contents of FIFO buffers of I/O interfaces. The FIFO buffer controller initiates transmission of data from the FIFO buffer when at least one complete packet is stored in the... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090147797 - Apparatus and methods using a linear memory model for encoder output buffers: Apparatus and methods for using a linear memory model for encoder output buffering are disclosed. The apparatus and method effect linear memory output buffering by dividing an encoder operation having N sequential frames to be encoded by an encoder into N encoder operations each designated for a single frame transmission,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090147798 - Method and apparatus for disassociation of wireless station in a wireless network: A wireless network (100) includes a plurality of first wireless stations (101) and a plurality of second wireless stations (102). The first wireless stations are adapted to receive a frame (202, 401), which includes a duration value (207, 403) identifying a contention period (203, 402). The first wireless devices are... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090147799 - Circuit and method for transmitting data stream: A circuit including a first data selection circuit and a second data selection circuit for transmitting a data stream is provided. The first data selection circuit having first controllable channels turns on a first operating channel being one of the first controllable channels in an odd-numbered period and turns off... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090147800 - Transmitting apparatus and transmission rate control method: A wireless communication apparatus (10) includes: a transmission data acquisition unit (21) that acquires transmission data; a control data judging unit (24) that judges whether or not the acquired transmission data is control data for causing an apparatus that receives the transmission data to perform a predetermined communication control process;... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090147801 - Communication control method, communication apparatus, and communication system: Disclosed herein is a communication control method employed by a communication apparatus that includes a primary communication interface and a plurality of relay communication interfaces and has a communication interface coupling function of transferring a transmission/reception frame of the primary communication interface through one of the plurality of relay communication... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090147802 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving selected interlace acknowledgement messages in wireless communication systems: An apparatus and method of acknowledging transition to SelectedInterlacesOff state in a wireless communication system are described. A SelectedInterlaceAck message comprising an 8 bit MessageID field, a 12 bit PilotPN field wherein the PilotPN field is set to the PilotPN of the sector to which the message is directed, an... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20090147803 - Communication apparatus, communication method, and program: A communication apparatus capable of using near field communication from various protocols, a communication method for use therewith, and a program for use therewith are provided. NFC communication apparatuses 1 to 3 capsulize an LLC packet of an LLC layer of a data link layer in an MAC packet of... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090147804 - Header compress/decompress framework: Machine-readable media, methods, and apparatus are described. In some embodiments, a header policy for a packet to be transmitted through the network is defined based upon characteristics of the network and a header of the packet is compressed based upon whether the header policy indicates the header of the packet... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090147805 - Multiplexing circuit and designing method therefor: The present invention includes two or more bandpass filters, for passing signals of mutually different frequency bands therethrough, including one or more stages of units having coupling devices and resonance circuits coupled, in a tap type, to the coupling device, one end of each bandpass filter is directly connected to... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090147806 - Synchronization of network nodes: A method and apparatus are provided to achieve frequency synchronization between a first clock at a first node and a second clock at a second node of a packet-carrying communications network. At the first node: a property of packet transmission through the network between the first node and the second... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20090141620 - Apparatus and method for time-varying cyclic delay diversity in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for Time-Varying Cyclic Delay Diversity (TV-CDD) in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes, if there is a signal of an antenna path to be transmitted, determining if a current time corresponds to a preamble zone within a frame and, if the current time... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090141621 - Bandwidth reservation reuse in dynamically allocated ring protection and restoration technique: The disclosed network includes two rings, wherein a first ring transmits data in a clockwise direction, and the other ring transmits data in a counterclockwise direction. The traffic is removed from the ring by the destination node. During normal operations (i.e., all spans operational), data between nodes can flow on... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090141622 - Pinning and protection on link aggregation groups: A device may assign a virtual local area network (VLAN) to one or more specific links in a link aggregation group (LAG), and send traffic from the VLAN on the assigned one or more specific LAG links. Traffic from the same VLAN may be sent on one link in the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090141623 - Central antenna management system with centralized database: An antenna management system is disclosed for managing cellular communications network antennas remotely in response to traffic demands and environmental factors, including a packet switching network, antennas, base transceiver stations, tilt controllers, air interface modules, a management database, and a control network. In the exemplary embodiment, the system utilizes feedback... Agent: Storm LLP

20090141626 - Empirical scheduling of network packets using a plurality of test packets: A method of transmitting packets over a network includes steps of transmitting a first plurality of test packets during a first plurality of time locations that are coarsely spaced apart in time; determining which of the first plurality of time locations corresponds to favorable network traffic conditions; transmitting a second... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090141627 - Method and apparatus for managing flow control in a data processing system: A method in a data processing system for managing transmission of pause frames. In response to detecting an overflow condition during a receipt of data from a network, enabling flow control in response to detecting the overflow condition. The flow control is enabled as long as the overflow condition is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090141624 - Method and system for a novel flow admission control framework: One of the key inventions of the patent is the solution for the signaling/data path divergence problem inherent in a session layer FAC scheme. The solution consists of two components. First, we keep the paths in the network symmetric (i.e. the forward and the backward path are the same) so... Agent: Elizabeth Chien-hale

20090141625 - System and method for reducing latency in call setup and teardown: Systems and methods for reducing latency in call setup and teardown are provided. A network device with integrated functionalities and a cache is provided that stores policy information to reduce the amount of signaling that is necessary to setup and teardown sessions. By handling various aspects of the setup and... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20090141628 - Quality of service for iscsi: A system adapted to provide quality of service (QoS) for an iSCSI environment including one or more initiators and one or more targets. Each initiator includes an iSCSI initiator and a TCP layer. The iSCSI initiator includes a QoS shaper for shaping one or more iSCSI PDUs according to QoS... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090141629 - Circuit emulation service method and telecommunication system for implementing the method: It is disclosed a method for implementing a circuit emulation service through a packet-switched network, wherein the packet-switched network cooperates with a first interface and a second interface suitable to connect a first user and a second user, respectively, to the packet-switched network. The method comprises: a) at the first... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090141633 - Method for adapting link weights in relation to optimized traffic distribution: The invention relates to a method which is used to adapt link weights or, link costs, for optimized traffic distribution within a communication network. According to said method, a loop is circulated until an interruption criterion is met. The individual iterations comprise the following steps: Routing of traffic within the... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090141630 - Method for monitoring data congestion in a computer network with multiple nodes and method for controlling data transmission in the computer network: A method for monitoring data congestion in a computer network with multiple nodes and for controlling data transmission in the computer network. The method includes generating a congestion notification by the node which detects a data congestion and transmitting the congestion notification to the data source which is involved in... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090141632 - Systems and methods for network routing in a multiple backbone network architecture: Embodiments of a network architecture include a backbone node having a plurality of independent routers or switches connected in a matrix, wherein the matrix includes a plurality of stages of routers or switches, to form a node having a node switching capacity that is greater than the node switching capacity... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20090141631 - Voice adaptive gateway pacing methods and systems for wireless multi-hop networks: In accordance with aspects of the present principles, the quality of voice traffic and bandwidth utilization for data communication over a wireless multi-hop network may be improved. In an implementation of the present principles, a data packet transmission rate over a wireless multi-hop network may be controlled at an interface... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090141634 - Adaptive network traffic classification using historical context: Adaptive network traffic classification using historical context. Network traffic may be monitored and classified by considering several attributes using packet filters, regular expressions, context-free grammars, rule sets, and/or protocol dissectors, among other means and by applying a variety of techniques such as signature matching and statistical analysis. Unlike static systems,... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090141635 - Using status inquiry and status response messages to exchange management information: A status inquiry message is received at a first machine via a network, wherein the status inquiry message is directed to one of the first machine or a service operating on the first machine. A status response message is generated at the first machine, the status response message indicating that... Agent: Daniel E. Ovanezian Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090141636 - Enhancing routing optimality in ip networks requiring path establishment: A system and related method for enhancing routing optimality in IP networks requiring path establishment, including one or more of the following: first and second network clouds including a plurality of communication elements, ones of the plurality of communication elements in the network clouds being first and second communication element,... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090141637 - Valley-free shortest path method: A method of calculating a valley-free shortest path between two autonomous systems having a first graph representing an autonomous system topology and comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of links interconnecting the nodes, each link linking a first and a second node of the plurality of nodes. The... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20090141638 - Method for partitioning network flows based on their time information: To organize flows records into buckets and optimize their indexed access to/from storage medium, a bucket identifier is associated with each flow record. The bucket identifier is derived from some other characteristic of the network flow, such as a timestamp or source identification associated with the network flow. In this... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090141639 - Managing oam packets in a communications network: Management of an Operation and Maintenance (OAM) packet in a communications network is provided. According to one embodiment, a network device in a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network for providing a uniform distribution of OAM is provided. The network device comprises of a memory unit and a hardware unit. The... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090141641 - Communication device, communication system, and communication fault detection method: The communication device has a frame transfer unit that executes frame transfer via the first communication link and the second communication link, a link confirmation frame sending unit, and a return link confirmation frame monitoring unit. The link confirmation frame sending unit causes the frame transfer processing unit to send... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090141643 - Identification of the configuration topology, existing switches, and miswires in a switched network: An exemplary method of identifying configuration topology, existing switches, and miswires in a given network is provided. Given a number of switches, which may be less than the maximum possible for the actual configuration and some ports of which may be miswired, generate a hypothesis for the supported topology of... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090141640 - Port failure communication in cross-connect applications: Systems and methods for communicating faults across a communications network cross-connect are provided. In one embodiment, a method for communicating an alarm condition in a cross-connected network is provided. The method comprises providing a cross-connect having a first side and a second side, wherein the first side includes a plurality... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20090141642 - System, apparatus and method for devices tracing: A system for devices tracing includes multiple devices that are connected in a network, a configuration management module, and a tracing management module. The configuration management module is adapted to store and maintain tracing configuration information. The tracing management module is adapted to obtain the tracing configuration information, determine different... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090141644 - Twisted pair cable plant cross talk coupling simulator: Example embodiments are directed to a system for simulating far end crosstalk (FEXT). The system includes digital subscriber lines coupled to a FEET matrix which simulates the FEXT environment. The FEXT matrix simulates the FEXT environment using filters disposed in disturber lines. Signals output from the filters are added to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090141647 - Acknowledgment of media waveforms between telecommunications endpoints: An apparatus and method are disclosed that enable a first telecommunications endpoint to ensure that a second endpoint is receiving the first endpoint's packet stream transmissions with a satisfactory waveform quality. When the second endpoint receives the packet stream, it decodes the media waveform from the stream, encodes the waveform... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20090141646 - Apparatus and method for determining timing for transmissions: A communication network element (536) comprises a transmitter (535) for transmitting at least one timing data packet to at least one further network element (524) over both a first communication link and a second communication link and a receiver (537) for receiving two timing data packets from the at least... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090141649 - Communication system and method: Activate switch commands comprise two bytes, a high byte including a pointer (18) pointing to the start of a block of STM channels (11) and a low byte that includes a pointer (19) that points to the channel within a block of STM channels (11) to which the switch command... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090141650 - Method for congestion detection in packet transmission networks: A method for measuring degree of packet congestion on a channel of a packet communication network. The method includes: during a training mode, generating an mathematical relationship between the degree of packet congestion on the channel and a plurality of measurable features of the network over a plurality of network... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090141648 - Multicarrier communication system, multicarrier communication apparatus and cqi reporting method: Provided is a multicarrier communication apparatus by which information quantity of CQI reporting can be reduced. In the apparatus, each CQI is recorded in a CQI table section (122) by being classified into a plurality of CQI groups by following a certain rule. A CQI selecting section (123) estimates fluctuation... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090141645 - Stealth network: Described herein are systems and methods in which taps, which mirror or provide a copy of network traffic, are connected to monitoring equipment through shadowing units, which pass data to the monitoring equipment but block outbound data transmissions from the monitoring equipment. Aggregation/dissemination units are provided to aggregate and/or disseminate... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20090141656 - Bandwidth reservation reuse in dynamically allocated ring protection and restoration technique: The disclosed network includes two rings, wherein a first ring transmits data in a clockwise direction, and the other ring transmits data in a counterclockwise direction. The traffic is removed from the ring by the destination node. During normal operations (i.e., all spans operational), data between nodes can flow on... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090141651 - Determining an optimal route advertisement in a reactive routing environment: In an example embodiment, a method is provided. In this method, a network address query is received. A first network address of a known apparatus is retrieved from a routing table, in response to the network address query. A second network address may be determined based upon the network address... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090141653 - Enhancement of node connectivity in a wireless communications network with changing topology via adaptive role changing: A process and system for enhancing connectivity among nodes of a wireless communications network by adapting to changes in the network topology. Nodes of the network are configured to operate according to either (i) an ad hoc protocol wherein a given node assumes a role of a mesh node capable... Agent: Bae Systems

20090141657 - Fibre channel switch that enables end devices in different fabrics to communicate with one another while retaining their unique fibre channel domain_ids: A Fibre Channel Switch which enables end devices in different Fabrics to communicate with one another while retaining their unique Fibre Channel Domain_IDs. The Switch is coupled to a first fabric having a first set of end devices and a second fabric having a second set of end devices. The... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090141652 - Methods for spreading or preventing spreading of information in a network: A method for improved spreading of information in a network is described, together with corresponding methods with the opposite aim, namely to hinder the spreading of harmful information in a network. The harmful information may be (for example) a data virus. The first method includes as its characterizing feature to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090141654 - Multi-processor architecture for a device: Aspects of the invention provide apparatuses and methods for composing a device with different types of multi-processor subsystems based on expected latency times and processing bandwidths. An apparatus may include multi-processor subsystems with different performance characteristics that interact with each other through bridge modules and a central packet network. Different... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090141655 - System and method for monitoring head end cable modem in cable network: Disclosed are a system and method for monitoring a headend cable modem on a digital cable network, which may monitor a headend cable modem using a configuration management message capable of controlling the headend cable modem. The system includes a message header unit for monitoring the headend cable modem by... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090141659 - Method and apparatus for concurrent topology discovery: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for discovering the topology of a network by using multiple discovery agents operating in parallel. A NodeList containing information about known nodes in a target network is received. The number (‘K’) of discovery agents to be used is determined, where 1<=K<=TotalNumberOfNodes). The... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Austin

20090141658 - Network processing: m

20090141660 - Policy enforcement for multi-radio transmission and reception: A process for controlling radio transmission and/or reception to enforce certain constraints with either single or multiple radio communication is disclosed. In one embodiment, the enforcement control may be by the corporate administrator (such as an Information Technology (IT) department) that is responsible for the company's wireless devices. In other... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090141662 - Method and apparatus for operating a node within a mobile ad hoc cognitive radio network: A method and apparatus for operation of a node within a mobile ad hoc cognitive radio network is provided. The method includes sensing at least one assigned communications channel. Sensing at least one assigned communications channel includes measuring a value of at least one parameter corresponding to the communications channel.... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090141661 - Residual traffic state for wireless networks: Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. In an example embodiment, an apparatus may include a controller, a memory coupled to the controller and a wireless transceiver coupled to the controller. The apparatus may be configured to detect a residual traffic pattern associated with a mobile station in a wireless network,... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090141663 - Transfer then sleep: A second communication device is detected in proximity to a first communication device engaged in a call. A substantially uninterrupted transfer of the call is provided from the first communication device to the second communication device. At least a part of the first communication device is placed into a sleep... Agent: Iv - Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090141665 - Broadcast/multicast service method based on user location information: A method and device for providing a broadcast/multicast service are discussed. According to an embodiment, the invention provides a method comprising: receiving, by a client module, a service guide including contents information with respect to one or more contents from a broadcast/multicast server; transmitting, by the client module, a broadcast/multicast... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090141664 - Device and method for synchronizing radio access logic entities of a wireless communication network: A device is dedicated to synchronizing radio access logic entities each having a local clock and forming part of a wireless communication network capable of broadcasting and/or multicasting content-defining data packets between a broadcast and/or multicast source and mobile communication terminals, via logic entities. This device includes a calculation unit... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090141668 - Media access control protocol for multi-hop network systems and method therefore: A method and system for wireless communication in which a plurality of media access control (“MAC”) packet data units (“PDUs”) corresponding to a plurality of wireless communication connections are received. The plurality of MAC PDUs is grouped into a relay packet and the relay packet is transmitted. Such grouping and... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20090141667 - Method for routing message in wireless network based on relay probability: Provided is a method for routing a message in a wireless network based on relay probability. The method allows dynamic delivery of a message by calculating the relay probability of each node for message transmission, measuring the strength of a beacon signal received from a destination node, and determining a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090141666 - Wireless sensor network using dynamic message routing algorithm and method of controlling the wireless sensor network: Provided is a wireless sensor network using a dynamic message routing algorithm and a method of controlling the wireless sensor network. Therefore, a network system can be provided, in which each sensor node calculates a relay probability, periodically updates the relay probability, and dynamically determines a node for relaying a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090141673 - Apparatus and method for rate control in a broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for rate control in a wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a preprocessor, a rate controller, a determiner, and a transmitter. The preprocessor determines feedback information on a physical layer packet using a feedback message of MAC ARQ. The rate controller updates a CQI... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090141670 - Medium access control header format: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate employing a variety of medium access control (MAC) header formats in wireless communications. The MAC header formats can be specialized for a particular type of data included in a protocol data unit (PDU). In addition, the MAC headers can have a variable length... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090141672 - Method for transmitting data using downlink dummy control block and system using the same: A method for transmitting data using a downlink dummy control block and a system using the same. The method includes receiving, by a Base Station, data to be broadcast to Mobile Stations (MSs) from a mobile communication service provider server, and inserting, by the BS, the received data into a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090141671 - Packet communication network and subscriber-associated-information delivery controller: In a packet communication network comprising an MNO network, and an MVNO network including an application server for providing an information service to wireless terminals via the MNO network, the MNO network includes a subscriber-associated-information delivery controller for delivering subscriber associated information of each wireless terminal, which is connected to... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090141669 - Travel characteristics-based ad-hoc communication network algorithm selection: A method of operating an ad-hoc communication system is provided. The method comprises determining a pattern type relating to mobile node travel characteristics over a defined traveling region. Based on the pattern type, selecting a neighbor discovery and route determination algorithm. Implementing the neighbor discovery and route determination algorithm on... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090141681 - Apparatus and method for assigning subchannels in an ofdma communication system: An apparatus and method for assigning subchannels of a transmitter in a communication system. The method includes dividing an entire frequency band into m subcarrier groups; mapping each of the m subcarrier groups to a subcarrier group index, wherein a subchannel includes n subcarriers selected from each of the m... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090141674 - Communication path switching system and method: A communication path switching system comprises a wireless base station (21) having a function of wireless communication with a mobile station (11) and a function of relaying data transmitted from the mobile station over a wireless communication path; and plural transmission apparatuses (41, 841) having a function of wired communication... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090141678 - Device, system and method for implementing multi-carrier high speed downlink packet access service: The invention discloses a device and a system for implementing a multi-carrier high speed downlink packet access service, thereby accomplishing multi-carrier high speed downlink packet access service transmission by means of multi-carrier high speed downlink packet processing devices provided in a base station and a user equipment in the system... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20090141680 - Flexible assignment of scheduled and request transmissions: Methods and apparatus are presented for conducting communications using a shared communication medium. A first request is sent over the shared communication medium. The shared communication medium is organized to include a signal space comprising request signal space and transmission signal space. The request signal space and the transmission signal... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20090141676 - Method and apparatus for providing an error control scheme in a multi-hop relay network: An approach provides an error-control scheme within a multi-hop relay network. A determination is made of a first node that failed to transmit a packet generated according to an error-control scheme, wherein the first node is among a plurality of nodes configured to operate in a multi-hop network. Resources of... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090141679 - Method for forming frame in wideband wireless communication system using multi-antenna: A method for forming a frame in a wireless communication system is provided. In the method, a plurality of preamble symbols are disposed. Then, a signal symbol is disposed at a predetermined position among the plurality of preamble symbols. At least one of data symbols is disposed after the plurality... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090141675 - Retransmission process control method: This invention relates to signalling of control information related to retransmissions in a wireless communication network. According to one aspect of the invention, a method for controlling transmission over a wireless communication link is provided. The method comprises the step of indicating on a transmission resource control channel whether a... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090141677 - Techniques for handling service flows in wireless communication systems: A technique for handling service flows in a wireless communication system includes receiving a first packet over a first service flow. In this case, the first service flow has a first quality of service. Next, a packet classifier associated with the first packet is determined. A second service flow with... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090141682 - Method and apparatus to control audio switch during call handoff: A method and system of controlling an audio switch at a receiving unit during handoff is disclosed herein. The method can include the step of—at a receiving unit with an audio call active on a first network supporting a first audio protocol—setting up a second audio call on a second... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090141687 - Method and system for mobile communications: When a network pages the temporary user mobile identifier of a mobile station, the mobile station sends a response to the network. Next, the network checks the authenticity of the user using a ciphering key, corresponding to the temporary user mobile identifier and a random number. If the temporary user... Agent: Ntt Mobile Communications Network I/bhgl

20090141683 - Method of best effort handoff to maintain radio bearer and mip session continuity for multi-mode mobile units: The present invention provides a method of best effort hand off that is implemented in a mobile unit capable of communicating with a network according to multiple wireless access technologies. The method includes performing a handoff of the mobile unit from a first wireless communication link established according to a... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20090141688 - Methods and apparatus for securing proxy mobile ip: An invention is disclosed that enables proxy Mobile IP registration to be performed in a secure manner. Various security mechanisms may be used independently, or in combination with one another, to authenticate the identity of a node during the registration process. First, an Access Point receiving a packet from a... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090141686 - Mobile communication method and mobile communication apparatus: A mobile communication apparatus includes a registration request part (47) requesting a correspondent node to make location registration, a BU list memory (45) keeping a list of the correspondent nodes which have made the location registration, a handover detection part (41) detecting the start of a handover, and a registration... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090141684 - Mobile communication system: A mobile communication system has a plurality of nodes, hierarchically connected to each other, including a source base station and a target base station. A U-plane management station includes detecting unit detecting a handover for the mobile terminal, and a Bi-casting unit redundantly transmitting, when detecting the handover for the... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090141685 - Mobile station handover using transferrable virtual access point address for wireless networks: Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus may include a wireless transceiver, memory and a controller. The apparatus may be configured to assign, by a first physical access point (AP), a unique transferrable virtual AP address to one associated mobile station address; and perform,... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090141689 - Tune-away protocols for wireless systems: Systems and methods are provided for processing wireless signal components for a mobile wireless access broadband service. This can include processes for defining a protocol that controls whether to invoke a tune away component to determine an alternative wireless communications path. This can include defining one or more tune away... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090141690 - Method and apparatus for uplink control signaling: A transmitter in a wireless network transmits joint channel quality indicator (CQI) and data packet acknowledgement (Ack) or just CQI within the same subframe without uplink data transmission that can be readily detected at a receiver. When a short cyclic prefix (CP) is appropriate, a first approach utilizes a pilot... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090141691 - Access point for wireless local area network: Embodiments of an access point for an expanded wireless local area network are described and depicted.... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20090141694 - Method for configuring and managing access point and access controller: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for configuring and managing access points AP and an access controller AC. The method includes: creating at least one virtual radio interface, each of which is assigned a standard Management Information Base (MIB) interface index, wherein each of the at least one... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090141695 - Method of creating incentives for using wireless hotspot locations: A system and method of distributing incentives for wireless hotspots is provided. The method includes providing an access point to a wireless hotspot for wireless devices to wirelessly connect to a larger network in a publicly accessible location, evaluating use statistics of the access point of the wireless hotspot by... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090141692 - Optimized ad hoc networking: Method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed to improve network performance for ad hoc WLANs save power in service discovery phase and provide service availability information quickly and independently from the wireless channels used in the WLAN ad hoc networks. The embodiments perform link-local addressing, Multicast Domain Name... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20090141693 - Technique for achieving connectivity between telecommunication stations: A technique for enabling a secure, point-to-point wireless connection between a secondary computer (e.g., a personal digital assistant, etc.) and a primary computer (e.g., a notebook, a desktop, etc.) is disclosed. The primary computer is associated with an extended infrastructure through an access point. The present invention enables the secondary... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090141698 - Binary-tree multiplexing scheduling: Multiplexed scheduling of information blocks from multiple sources on a single communication channel divided into multiple address positions is performed. The information block from each source has a repetition period and is divided into a number of segments. A bandwidth adequacy verification is performed for expected information blocks to be... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090141696 - Method for bandwidth recovery of communication system: A bandwidth recovery method for a communication system includes: transmitting a first uplink scheduling message to at least a first communication node and a second communication node of a plurality of communication nodes in the communication system; detecting if a communication channel is in an idle state after a first... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090141697 - Transmission of a data stream using ofdm symbols at two carrier frequencies having overlapping superframes of a commensurable time duration: b

20090141701 - Concluding validity of uplink synchronization parameter: Concluding the validity of an uplink synchronization parameter, such as a timing advance, in a packet-switched radio system. The method includes: detecting (802) an uplink synchronization parameter; measuring (804) an interval from the detection of the uplink synchronization parameter; and comparing (806, 808) the measured interval with a predetermined threshold... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090141699 - Synchronization of nodes on a network: A method for synchronizing at least two nodes on a network including one network node acting as a master node, the master node setting a base time T0,master, and sending elapsed time since T0.master to at least one other node acting as a slave node, and the at least one... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090141700 - Technique for performing a random access procedure over a radio interface: The invention relates to a technique for performing a random access procedure over a radio interface, for example between a mobile terminal and a radio base station of a mobile network, A method aspect of the invention comprises the steps of transmitting a synchronization request for synchronization information; receiving synchronization... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090141702 - Access link aggregator: One or more virtual access nodes manage multiple physical links connecting a digital subscriber line access multiplexer and an intelligent network interface device by logically bonding physical ports together into a group. Physical ports bonded in a logical group have equal priority with respect to one another. Thus, no master-slave... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Gb Attn: Patent Docketing

20090141705 - Device and method for address-mapping: To perform address mapping, a configuration client determines port numbers required for a network service and a network address conversion unit converts external network addresses into internal network addresses and vice versa. A configuration server requests required port numbers from the network address conversion unit which directly provides the network... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090141704 - Hybrid protocol voice over the internet calling: A click to talk system for use in a data network is disclosed. In response to a user selection on a browser, a click to talk server bridges an IP capable voice device to the browser by translating between data network protocols. Additionally, a media server may be manually or... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20090141709 - Method for initiating internet telephone service from a web page: A direct telephone dialing scheme for initiating internet telephone service from a web page is provided. The scheme allows a caller, using an internet telephone service, to place telephone call to a telephone number appearing on any web page directly from that web page. In one embodiment, a caller navigates... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090141706 - System and method for the automatic provisioning of an openline circuit: A system and method for the automatic provisioning of an openline circuit, specifically for use with a network management system, the system comprising a web GUI (Graphical User Interface) and middleware, wherein the middleware may be synchronized with and instructs a prior art network management system is disclosed. The GUI... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20090141703 - Systems and methods for carrier ethernet using referential tables for forwarding decisions: The present invention utilizes specific referential tables for forwarding decisions while maintaining current mechanisms of Ethernet addressing and QoS marking. The referential tables are utilized for forwarding decisions based on any and/or multiple fields within the packets simultaneously, such as, for example, incoming port number, incoming MAC, incoming VLAN, outgoing... Agent: Clements Bernard PLLC

20090141707 - Systems and methods for providing emergency service trust in packet data networks: A method and apparatus for providing in a packet data telecommunication network serving one or more end terminals and/or Mobile Stations (MSs), a method for establishing, managing, modifying, and terminating an End-to-End (E2E) Emergency Service (ES) Chain-of-Trust (CoT) from an Access Serving Network (ASN) and Connectivity Service Network (CSN) to... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20090141708 - Voip analog telephone system: A multi-port VoIP telecommunications system that allows the user to gain access to telephone connectivity through the Internet by connecting directly to the Internet or by connecting to the Internet through the existing Internet connection of a computer or cell phone device.... Agent: Malin Haley And Dimaggio, Pa

20090141710 - Access system, method, and device: An integrated access system and method and an integrated access module are provided. The system includes a broadband service interface module (310), a narrowband service interface module (320), and a main control switching interface module (10). The main control switching module (10) includes a broadband service switching module (110) providing... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090141711 - Interleaved multistage switching fabrics and associated methods: An interleaved multistage switching fabric includes Y multistage switching fabric panels, where Y is an integer greater than one. Each panel has primary inputs for receiving cells to be routed, local outputs for outputting routed cells, primary outputs for outputting non-routed cells, and reentry points for introducing non-routed cells into... Agent: Lathrop & Gage LLP

20090141714 - Caching remote switch information in a fibre channel switch: A network of switches with a distributed name server configuration and caching of remote node device information is disclosed. The network preferably comprises a first switch coupled to a second switch. Each of the switches directly couple to respective node devices. The first switch maintains a name server database about... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20090141717 - Dynamic building of vlan interfaces based on subscriber information strings: Techniques are described that allow a network device, such as a router, to dynamically build VLAN interfaces based on subscriber information strings included within packets. In particular, the network device comprises an interface controller and a forwarding controller, where the forwarding controller receives the packet over an Ethernet port and... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20090141716 - Method and apparatus for packet rule matching: This invention discloses method and apparatus for packet rule matching. The method includes: creating multiple levels of storage tables, storage table other than final-level storage table records corresponding relation between value index and value range number, and final-level storage table records corresponding relation between packet rule number and combination index... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090141715 - Method for transmitting packet data in communication system: A method and apparatus for a transmitter having a radio protocol with an upper layer and a lower layer therein used for management of full header packet transmission when transmitting data packets to a receiver are provided. If the upper layer receives from the lower layer, information of a successful... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20090141713 - Remote message routing device and methods thereof: A message routing method includes receiving a plurality of messages at a routing node. The routing node is configured to route each received message based on the message type. Accordingly, the routing node is able to establish a peer-to-peer connection between the message source and a destination node for a... Agent: Larson Newman Abel & Polansky, LLP

20090141712 - Router device: The present invention provides a router device capable of performing routing processing on each received packet at high speed by an IP routing accelerator without the interchange of transmission order of each packet in the same session. The router device registers a packet transmission destination and a session type obtained... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20090141720 - Apparatus and method for link duplication in mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for enabling duplication between line cards of between physical links when Internet Protocol (IP) packet data of a backbone network is transmitted through a physical link (T1/E1/J1) in an IP-BSS system is provided. The apparatus includes a scheduler for examining a queue depth of queues stored... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20090141718 - Communication device and communication system: The present invention includes: a program distribution unit (100) for distributing a program using the Multicast communication; a first communication path (Y1) for transmitting the program distributed from the program distribution unit (100); first communication units (102a, 102b); user terminals (105a to 105h); and a second communication path (103) which... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090141719 - Transmitting data through commuincation switch: Methods, systems, and apparatuses related to a communication switch are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the communication switch may be configured to transmit TDM, ATM and/or packet data from an ingress service processor, through a plurality of switch elements, to an egress service processor. Other embodiments may be described and... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20090141721 - Deterministic multiprotocol label switching (mpls) labels: Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, computer-readable media, mechanisms, and means for deterministically determining MPLS labels as functions of addresses of Forwarding Equivalence Classes (FECs), and using these determined labels in the forwarding of packets. By each packet switching device in a network deterministically determining the same MPLS label to... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20090141723 - Frame aggregation: A packet network employs frame aggregation to reduce the number of physical-layer frames employed to transfer a given amount of user data. A packet network might employ physical (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) layers of a wireless local area network (WLAN) operating in accordance with one or more IEEE... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20090141725 - Line-timing in packet-based networks: In a packet-based (e.g., Ethernet) network, such as the network of central offices and base stations of a wireless telephone system, a node receives one or more incoming packet-based signals from one or more other nodes of the network and recovers a clock signal from each incoming packet-based signal. The... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20090141724 - Method and apparatus for vitual circuit routes: A method and apparatus for virtual circuit routes is described. A method in a network element comprises associating a virtual circuit to a layer 3 next hop, the virtual circuit being associated with a layer 2 protocol specific logical circuit, receiving a packet on the logical circuit, processing the packet... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090141722 - Transparent network service enhancement: Embodiments of the invention may be used to optimize communications between a first routing device and a second routing device. The first routing device may receive a packet for forwarding towards a destination. The first routing device may modify the packet to announce the presence of the first routing device... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20090141726 - Network address assignment method and routing method for a long thin zigbee network: A network address assignment method and a routing method for a long thin ZigBee network are provided. The routing method includes the following steps. A network address is assigned to each node of the ZigBee network, wherein each network address includes a cluster ID and a node ID. The cluster... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090141727 - Method and system for infiniband over ethernet by mapping an ethernet media access control (mac) address to an infiniband local identifier (lid): A method of providing a converged InfiniBand over Ethernet (IBOE) network. An IBOE switch receives a data packet. If the data packet is received by the IBOE switch from the InfiniBand network, a translation utility generates an Ethernet media access control (MAC) address corresponding to an InfiniBand Local Identifier (LID)... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090141728 - Method and system for providing visibility of ethernet components to a subnet manager in a converged infiniband over ethernet network: A method of providing visibility of Ethernet components to a subnet manager in a converged InfiniBand over Ethernet (IBOE) network. If a port of an IBOE gateway corresponds to one or more InfiniBand devices, the subnet manager sends fabric management packets (FMPs) to discover the InfiniBand network and assigns physical... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090141729 - Multiplex method of vlan switching tunnel and vlan switching system: A multiplex method of a virtual local area network (VLAN) switching (VS) tunnel includes the following steps. An ingress edge node of the VS tunnel maps a received customer data unit onto one virtual channel (VC) borne by the VS tunnel, and encapsulates the customer data unit into a VS... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090141730 - Method and system for forwarding data between a plurality of provider ethernet networks: The present invention discloses a method and a system for forwarding data between provider Ethernet networks, wherein a first provider Ethernet network is the first provider Ethernet network in a path through which a first data packet is transmitted, and a second provider Ethernet network is the last provider Ethernet... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090141731 - Bandwidth admission control on link aggregation groups: A device may receive a bandwidth (B) available on each link of a link aggregation group (LAG) that includes a number (N) of links, assign a primary LAG link and a redundant LAG link to a virtual local area network (VLAN), set an available bandwidth for primary link booking to... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090141732 - Methods and apparatus for differentiated services over a packet-based network: Methods and apparatus for the provision of differentiated services in a packet-based network may be provided in a communications device such as a switch or router having input ports and output ports. Each output port is associated with a set of configurable queues that store incoming data packets from one... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20090141733 - Algortihm and system for selecting acknowledgments from an array of collapsed voq's: A method for selecting packets to be switched in a collapsed virtual output queuing array (cVOQ) switch core, using a request/acknowledge mechanism. According to the method, an efficient set of virtual output queues (at most one virtual output queue per ingress adapter) is selected, while keeping the algorithm simple enough... Agent: Ibm Coporation (rtp) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090141734 - Method and system for a converged infiniband over ethernet network: A method of providing a converged InfiniBand over Ethernet (IBOE) network. An IBOE switch receives a data packet. If the data packet is received by the IBOE switch from the InfiniBand network, a translation utility looks up an Ethernet media access control (MAC) address corresponding to an LID of the... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090141735 - Multicast control: A method and arrangement for optimizing bandwidth usage in a Multicast Services Control System (MSCS), which transports digital information in a multicast stream from a broadband network to a Set Top Box (STB) connected to a terminal TV. When the terminal TV is disabled, and can no longer utilize the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090141736 - Contention-based communications: Methods and apparatus are presented for conducting communications using a shared communication medium. A message is sent over the shared communication medium. The shared communication medium is organized to include an allocation of node identification signal space and an allocation of data transmission signal space. The allocation of node identification... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20090141737 - Systems and methods for prioritized channel access hardware assistance design: Systems, networks and methods are provided that are operable for network communication among devices that have a medium access control (MAC) sublayer operable to build and forward at least a frame for network communication, a physical (PHY) layer operable to transmit at least a frame received from the MAC sublayer,... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090141738 - Reservation-based distributed collision avoidance channel access for wireless local area networks: Each station on a wireless network comprises memory indicating whether it is in an IN or an OUT state; a reservation store storing reserved time slots of other stations on the network; a backoff counter (BC) value determination engine for selecting an unreserved time slot in the reservation store as... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090141739 - Method and apparatus for processing bandwidth-allocation information in cable modem with multiple transmitting and receiving channels: A method and apparatus for processing bandwidth-allocation information in a cable modem (CM) with multiple transmitting and receiving channels is provided. A method of processing bandwidth-allocation information in a CM with multiple transmitting and receiving channels, the method including: receiving, by a Mini-slot Allocation Packet (MAP) pre-processor, MAP data from... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090141740 - Multiple protocol cross layer customized qos propagation and mapping: Techniques for multiple protocol cross layer customized QoS propagation and mapping are described herein. In one embodiment of the invention, a first QoS code of a packet is determined, the packet having a first encapsulation layer and a second encapsulation layer, the first QoS code being included within the first... Agent: Kevin Shao Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090141741 - Method and apparatus for connecting sensor network to heterogeneous network: Provided are a method and apparatus for connecting a sensor network to a heterogeneous network, in which an external network connected to the sensor network functions as a virtual personal area network (PAN) so that the same PAN address system is used between the sensor network and the external network... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090141742 - System and method for changing duration of talk burst control timer: A system and method for changing a value of a talk burst control timer, are provided. According to an embodiment, there is provided a method of controlling talk burst timer operations for a terminal that communicates with a network, the method performed by the network and comprising: receiving at least... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090141743 - Advanced clock distribution mechanism for circuit emulation applications: A clock distribution mechanism for circuit emulation applications, and related method, including one or more of the following: a plurality of digitally controlled oscillators, each of the plurality of digitally controlled oscillators receiving one or more Ethernet packets and generating a recovered clock from the one or more Ethernet packets;... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090141744 - Autocratic low complexity gateway/ guardian strategy and/or simple local guardian strategy for flexray or other distributed time-triggered protocol: A special node is used in a distributed time-triggered cluster. The special node comprises protocol functionality to establish a time base to use in communicating with a plurality of end nodes and to source timing-related frames to the plurality of end nodes in accordance with the distributed time-triggered communication protocol.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090141745 - Network apparatus and network signal processing method: A network apparatus, for processing a network signal and outputting an output signal, includes an asynchronous signal processing module, a sampling rate converter and a synchronous signal processing module. The asynchronous signal processing module operates in an asynchronous domain, and is utilized for receiving and processing the network signal to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation